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Installation shot at the Saatchi Gallery of the new exhibition The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today

And here is the weekend/near future guide for cities other than Los Angeles.  This week it includes:

New York

• The Gagosian located at Madison Avenue is opening Damien Hirst’s new show End of an Era.  I don’t know if it will be good, but it will probably be flashy. So that’s something, right?
• You only have about one more week to go take in some pretty epic Keith Sonnier’s at Mary Boone Gallery.  It comes down on February 6.
• A little more than half way through it’s show is Anish Kapoor: Memory at the Guggenheim. Something to do to keep you out of the cold, right?*

London

• The Saatchi is opening it’s newest exhibition (pictured above) entitled The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, looks to be a promising show.
• Ed Keinholz at The National Gallery is certainly a must see!  If you haven’t had a chance to go by yet, hurry up because it’s only on through February 21st.
• The Unilever Series by Miroslaw Balka is halfway through its run at the Tate Modern.

Paris

• Palais Tokyo is closing Bertrand Dezoteux this Sunday. Last chance!
• Herman Diephuis: Ciao Bella is at the Centre Pompidou this weekend. Buy tickets here.
• L’interprétation des rêvesat is opening at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian this weekend. Looks surreal.

*You’re right, I don’t know how cold it is there. It’s sunny and warm. Sorry for trying to pretend like I understand.

January 29, 2010, 2:55pm  

Markus Vater The Cave has been moved, 2008

This exhibition showing at The Drawing Room seems right up my alley:

The animations in Shudder tap into the cartoon tradition of anthropomorphism, shocking violence and deep psychological impulses but resist its narrative impulse. The artists are interested in using animation to develop characters and to investigate personal states of mind or interpersonal relationships. The medium provides the necessary capacity for metamorphosis and startling juxtapositions.

Intrigued yet?

On a separate note, this particular still has me craving Halloween/Tim Burton at MoMA.  I think This year (I have to start early) I am determined to actually have a Halloween costume that is pretty kick ass.  Getting my motivation started early.

January 21, 2010, 12:11pm  

Philip Taaffe Spectral Mandala, 2007

I have decided to start doing a weekend/near future guide for places other than Los Angeles as well!

New York:

• Philip Taaffe is opening at Gagosian’s 555 West 24th Street location.  The official opening is this Saturday the 16th from 5-7pm and the show will showing through February 20.  This is the first show ever based solely on Taaffe’s graphic work so it should be interesting.
• Christian Hellmich just opened at Lehman Maupin and will also be up through February 20.
• I don’t even want to type this because you should have already seen it.  But JUST IN CASE you haven’t seen the Zhang Huan show at Pace Wildenstein, you only have about 2 more weeks to see it. It closes January 30.
• Frank Stella is showing a collection of aluminum reliefs at L+M Gallery for two more weeks.

London:

• Daphne Wright opened at Frith Street Gallery yesterday and will be showing through February 27.  Her sculptures look pretty epic and dare I say fun? I would definitely stop by some time before this closes.
• You have 2 more weeks to stop by White Cube to see some of Hirst’s new paintings.
• Sunday is the last day to see Pop Life, Art in a Material World at Tate Modern. It’s a veritable who’s who of pop artists, if anything the colors will be a nice change of pace from the outside weather.

San Francisco:

• SFMOMA has a few exhibitions opening, b ut the ones that are peaking my interest are Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection and The View From Here which is a photography exhibit focused on California and San Francisco.

January 15, 2010, 2:47pm  

Here is a lovely photograph of Michael Landy in a trash bin.

Michael Landy, one of the most acclaimed and respected British artists of his generation, transforms the South London Gallery into Art Bin, a container for the disposal of works of art. Over the course of the sixweek exhibition the enormous 600m³ bin will gradually fill up as people discard their art works in it, ultimately creating, in Michael Landy’s words, “a monument to creative failure”. via…

My anglophilia is really acting up today.  Must be the change in weather?

December 08, 2009, 12:25pm  

Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, “The Hoerengracht” (detail), 1983 - 1988

LONDON.- “The Hoerengracht” (1983–8), by American artists Ed Kienholz (1927–1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (born 1943), will transform the National Gallery’s Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

It will be the first time an installation of this kind has been exhibited at the National Gallery. The Hoerengracht is one of the most significant pieces of installation art made by the Kienholzes before Ed’s death in the mid-1990s. Intense and often shocking, the ground-breaking installations – developed by Ed in the 1960s and continued in collaboration with his wife Nancy from 1972 – connect both to the art of the past and to more contemporary developments. via…

I wish I was in London-town to see this in person.

November 18, 2009, 12:57pm  

LONDON.- The V&A today announced that visitors to its website can now find online over one million records detailing objects in its collections ranging from well known treasures such as Tippoo’s “Tiger” to less familiar paintings and ceramics. People using Search the Collections, at collections.vam.ac.uk, will find images of more than 100,000 objects with more images and details to follow as they become available.

The online records vary from detailed studies written by curators to more basic inventory information which might include the maker, provenance, production technique and style. Visitors can also look up whether an object is on display and where in the Museum it can be found. via…

There goes any chance of me being productive.

October 27, 2009, 11:58am  

» Shonibare off the fourth plinth

As the last person in Antony Gormley’s One & Other stepped off the Fourth Plinth yesterday, it emerged that a more traditional statue of the Battle of Britain hero Sir Keith Park is to be erected in Trafalgar Square on 4 November. The work, by Les Johnson, will remain for six months, taking the place of Yinka Shonibare MBE’s scale replica of Nelson’s ship in a glass bottle, which will now not be erected until spring. London Mayor Boris Johnson pledged to erect a statue of Park as part of his election campaign. Julie Lomax, head of visual arts at Arts Council England and a member of the Plinth Commissioning Group, said: “We wrote a strong letter opposing the statue but we were over-ruled.”

That being said, I don’t know who this Sir Keith Park fellow is, however, I would rather see Shonibare’s piece.  I didn’t write a strong letter of opposition though, maybe I should have? Hindsight is 20/20.

October 15, 2009, 10:07am  

One of Damien Hirst’s paintings that is up at the Wallace Collection now.

I had the hardest time finding an article that didn’t have a picture of Hirst with the paintings. How telling.

Very dark paintings are difficult to read in pictures (especially over the internet) but my first reaction is too Bacon-y.  It reminds me of when Julian Schnabel trys to be Cy Twombly, kind of depressing and lacking.

October 14, 2009, 2:32pm  

Glenn Brown, New Dawn Fades, 2000, oil on panel #

I received the UGLIEST invitation from Gagosian for the upcoming show in London in the mail yesterday, and for once, I wasn’t jealous that I didn’t live in the good ole UK…Now I am again. Thanks.

via iheartmyart

October 06, 2009, 10:35am