Today on DailyServing, we have gone to our wonderful friends at the Huffington Post for a brilliant article on the Baldessari retrospective, Pure Beauty, at LACMA. LA-based arts writer, Rebecca Taylor, eloquently lists some of the lessons learned from the work on view. 1. It’s all relative, especially Beauty I can’t imagine a more fitting title for Baldessari’s current retrospective (on view at LACMA through[…..]
This year, there has been a laundry list of artist curated group shows, from David Salle’s exhibition, Your History is not our History, at Haunch of Venison, to Jeff Koon’s Skin Fruit at the New Museum and the upcoming Walead Beshty curated show, Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), at Regen Projects. Each exhibition has its hits and misses in terms of content, style and[…..]
For this Sunday’s edition of From the DS Archives we hope to offer a little edification to accompany our readers’ 4th of July festivities. While we should certainly celebrate, it is also important to think about what it is to be American. Taking another look at this previously published feature on Brian Jungen’s Strange Comfort, allows us to do just that. For Strange Comfort, Jungen[…..]
Each Sunday we reach deep into the DailyServing Archives to unearth an old feature that we think needs to see the light of day. This week we found a post featuring a review of Chicago-based new media artist Kurt Hentschlager, writen by DailyServing’s Benjamin Bellas. If you have a favorite feature that you think should be published again, simply email us at info@dailyserving.com with you[…..]
Each Sunday we reach deep into the DailyServing Archives to unearth an old feature that we think needs to see the light of day. This week we found a post featuring a review of SoCal native Doug Aitken and his recent video Migration, writen by DailyServing’s Catherine Wagley. If you have a favorite feature that you think should be published again, simply email us at[…..]
As we conclude our week of exploring the role of myth in contemporary society, we have taken a close look at the myth of art and art materials as seen by Mike Kelly, the myth of artistic boundaries as undermined by Maurizio Cattelan, the Mad Man Myth as displayed by the late Dennis Hopper, and the global spread of myth that is perpetuated by Disney[…..]
Over the next 7 days, DailyServing will be bringing you the first installment of a new series that considers a selection of new international artists through one central topic. This week, our writers tackle the concept of Myth through the work of a variety of artists by way of features, articles, reviews and interviews. Check back every day this week to see how our artists[…..]
