Today’s video is from our friends at ArtStars*, a traveling show about the contemporary art world, out to uncover the 7 Unsolved Mysteries of the Art World — one art scene, one country at a time. In this video, host, Nadja Sayej, stawks famed artist duo Gilbert and George as she asks them the rules of the art world. And, they deliver. Don’t miss ArtStars*[…..]
The title for Takeshi Murata’s current show—Get Your Ass To Mars—is a command, stolen from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hauser/Quaid character in Total Recall, based on Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” For the Hauser/Quaid character, what awaits him on Mars is textbook Dick: a conspiracy based on money and greed; instability in memory and identity, or in discerning reality; plus our own[…..]
This Sunday, From the DS Archives reminds us of London-based photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten. Fullerton-Batten is currently included in the group survey Heroines, a comprehensive exhibition focused on depictions of strong female protagonists in work from the Renaissance to present-day, at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid through June 5th. This article was originally written by Julie Henson on September 23, 2008. On September 13th, Julia Fullerton-Batten opened her[…..]
How does meanwhile effect an artwork? British artist Anthony McCall’s exhibition at Luciana Brito in São Paulo suggests a retrospective of an artist who returned to art-making in the last decade after an over-20 year hiatus. McCall’s reemergence is marked by revisiting and further developing what began as his “solid light” films made in the early 1970s: installations of hazy, darkened rooms with slow-moving beams[…..]
This Sunday, From the DS Archives remembers the beloved artist Louise Bourgeois who passed away a year ago this month. On view now through June 25th at Cheim & Read in New York is Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, a selection of fabric “drawings” created from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from the artist’s personal collection. This article was originally written by Aimée[…..]
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Most good artists moonlight as social historians at least some of the time. Often, they’re as bad at it as real-deal historians are (just think what sort of voluptuously erroneous textbook Gauguin would’ve written on the Polynesians, or what might have happened if Damien Hirst gem-encrusted skull had launched a scholarly inquest[…..]
Early video is so lovable. Hidden in the low-contrast images and lost political references are rebellious experiments to find a way to express the vibrant importance of the moment. The more than 40 videos of Record > Again! at the Goethe Institute are a time capsule that hold an insight into some of the struggles and hopes of the German artists who made them. These[…..]
