Originally Published on May 22nd, 2008. 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 feature of Assume Vivid Astro Focus’s 2008 exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York City. If you have a favorite feature that you think should be published again, simply email[…..]
Originally published: October 31, 2007 Performance artist Andrea Fraser has long been acclaimed as provocateur, leading a unique style of performance art coined as “institutional critique.” The artist has conducted many famous performances, such as the 1989 work “Museum Highlights,” where the artist posed as a Museum tour guide under her stage name Jane Castleton at the Philadelphia Museum. During the piece the artist walked[…..]
Opening tomorrow evening at James Cohan Gallery in New York City is an new exhibition by American artist Erick Swenson, simply titled A Selection of Works. The collection marks the third solo show for the artist at the Cohan Gallery and will include a new large-scale sculpture, titled Ne Plus Ultra, alongside several other works dating from 2001 through today. Ne Plus Ultra is an[…..]
The Kitchen in New York City is currently showing On Beauty, Objects, and Dissonance, a Leslie Hewitt solo exhibition curated by Rashida Bumbray. The exhibition features new and recent work by Hewitt in photography, sculpture and film installation. The Kitchen writes that in this exhibition Hewitt’s ‘…long-standing interest in non-linear perspective merges with W.E.B. Dubois’ theory of double consciousness, to create visually elegant and thoughtfully[…..]
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 review of Willie Doherty’s 2009 exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. If you have a favorite feature that you think should be published again, simply email us at info@dailyserving.com and include DS Archive in the[…..]
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Some Other Spring, the title of Jack Pierson’s current exhibition at Regen Projects, is also the title of a characteristically sultry but otherwise unremarkable Billie Holiday single. In it, Holiday mourns lost love in a way that’s lushly comfortable and totally unmotivated, clinging to “faded blossoms” that have been “crushed and torn.”[…..]
Katharina Grosse’s solo exhibition, Hello Little Butterfly, I Love You What’s Your Name, is occurring until November 7th at ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, in Ishøj, Denmark, within breath of Copenhagen. Grosse makes canvas of architecture, erecting varicolored walk-abouts by using hundreds of litres of spray paint; mounds of earth; mammoth, leaning discs; and other big, wadded-up shapes. Viewers are not allowed any of the[…..]
