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[…..]
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.[…..]
The tenuous/fluid/confusing relationship between art works and the art market have been on my mind a lot lately. So for today’s dip into the DS Archives we take another look at the 2011 exhibition, Next to Nothing: On the Price of Nothing and the Value of Everything at SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow and compare it to the upcoming exhibition I Can’t Work Like This at Casco in[…..]
Jeff Koons continues to refuse being anything but his audacious self. Today from the DS Archives we look back at his exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in 2009. Koon’s work will be on view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt between June 20–September 23, 2012. The following article was originally published by Catherine Wagley on November 28, 2009: Jeff Koons, November 14-January 9th, Gagosian Gallery “To live[…..]
