International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The art market rolls on in a seemingly endless boom regardless of subject, period or medium. On Monday night Christie's sold 48 works of contemporary art for £86.24 million, or $171.87 million.
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Wallspace Gallery 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-594-9478 Chelsea April 4 - May 10, 2008 Opening: Friday, April 4, 6 - 8PM Web Site Christopher Williams / Nan Goldin Sherrie Levine / Walker Evans / Thomas Ruff Martha Rosler / Jan Groover Gillian Wearing Paul Outerbridge / Eliot Porter Robert Bechtle / Jeff Wall Thomas Struth / Rodney Graham Sharon Lockhart / Charlie White Bruce Nauman / Barbara...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
Paula Cooper (534 West 21st) 534 West 21st Street, 212-255-1105 Chelsea April 5 - May 3, 2008 Web Site The exhibition will include two new bronze sculptures cast from found objects: one, False God, a cast of the skeleton of conjoined twin calves, the other, Dada , a cast of a rocking horse. Also on view will be postcard collages from 2000. Since the late 1970s, Levine has produced work that challenges...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
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Material Interest (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, opening today at London's Barbican Art Gallery, presents contemporary art the way, well, Martians might see itthat is, stripped of context and considered solely as enigmatic sociological detritus. What, for example, did the Earth people...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
PICK Carriage Trade 94 Prince Street, 2nd Floor, 718-483-0815 Soho February 28 - March 30, 2008 Opening: Thursday, February 28, 6 - 8PM Web Site Bill Owens, Reagan on TV , 1972 featuring work by: Yasser Aggour Jennifer Dalton Vitaly Komar Bill Owens Sherrie Levine Paul McCarthy Ligorano/Reese Muntadas and Reese Karen Yama Julia Wachtel As the U.S presidential campaign kicks into high gear, the exhibition...
43(B)log (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Questions for the panel: Ginsburg: Is there a difference between “purpose” and discursive communities? Heymann: In the way we might approach the question, perhaps. A focus on purpose makes the author into a hero or a villain. It's too easy to say we disbelieve an artist's purpose, as in Koons v. Rogers . Me: In the folk art/fan art tradition, creators are readers and vice versa – I wouldn't separate...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Paula Cooper (521 West 21st) 521 West 21st Street, 212-255-1105 Chelsea February 2 - March 1, 2008 Web Site The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of wood sculptures by Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt and Jackie Winsor. The works will be on view throughout the month of February. Jackie Winsor’s Fifty Fifty, the earliest piece in the exhibition (1975), is a...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
Jean-Michel Basquiat... Untitled (Skull) (1982, Acrylic, oilstick, colored pencil on paper). From the exhibition I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art at Cheim & Read in New York, NY. "...a group exhibition of more than thirty works which incorporate the skeleton as subject. Curated in part by the James Ensor scholar Xavier Tricot, the wide range of artists include Francis Alÿs, Donald Baechler,...
