Originally built as a fruit and vegetable market in 1938, The Fruitmarket Gallery has been operating as a visual arts space since 1974. Rescued by the Scottish Arts Council from threatened demolition, the building was initially shared between the Scottish Arts Council, the New 57 Gallery and the Printmakers Workshop. At the end of 1983 the Scottish Arts Council relinquished management of the building, and in Spring 1984, The[…..]
Berkeley Art Museum‘s MATRIX series presents two new exhibitions by Lutz Bacher and D-L Alvarez. Since Lutz Bacher’s first MATRIX exhibition in 1993, the artist has become a leading figure in contemporary art. D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition presents a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. The artist focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collides. Today from the DS Archives we take[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring you many things Brazil. First we point you to the huge group exhibition Art of Contradictions. Pop, Realisms and Politics. Brazil – Argentina, 1960 on view at Fundación Proa from July 14–September 2012 and features 100 works by 58 artists. Next we revisit the 2011 article We Operate in the Vacuum, and Other Tales which discusses temporary art spaces[…..]
As part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, Daily Serving is sharing Matt Stromberg‘s article on Made in LA 2012, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. On the heels of the sprawling Pacific Standard Time (PST) series of exhibitions comes the Hammer Museum’s inaugural Los Angeles biennial. Whereas the PST programming sought to recuperate, re-contextualize, and, in a sense, canonize, five decades of Southern[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we take another look at Walead Beshty’s 2011 exhibition at Regen Projects. Beshty’s work is currently on view in Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions at the Zabludowicz Collection in London along with an all-star line up: Francis Alÿs, Yael Bartana, Ethan Breckenridge, Gregory Crewdson, Helene Kazan, Avi Mograbi, Miri Segal, Caragh Thuring, Trisha Baga, Shi Jin, Haegue Yang. The exhibition will be[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring you two examples of Feminist art, past and present. First, revisit a past edition of L.A. Expanded, and then buy your plane ticket to Goteborg, Sweden and check out Chitra Ganesh’s current exhibit at Goteborgs Konsthall, She: The Question featuring a psychadelic mash up of Hindu, Greek and Buddhist myths with sci-fi, fanzines and comics. As if you need any more[…..]
The human race has been pursuing various utopias probably since we started walking upright. It’s the easiest thing to do, imagine how things could be better. Today from the DS Archives we bring you examples of a personal utopia, Friedrich Kunath’s 2011 exhibition at the White Cube in London, in comparison to a collective utopia as demonstrated by the current exhibition, Utopia is Possible at MOCBA.[…..]
