Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I’ve been waiting for this for a while – Rene Daalder’s documentary concerning the disappearance at sea of Bas Jan Ader, one of the most poignant, incisive performance artists of the 1970s. His career was short and his output minimal, but his influence on recent art practice has been huge. The documentary, Here is Always [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
The Prospect 1 New Orleans art biennial has been in the media a bunch recently, with most agreeing that its non-institutional deployment is both appropriate and refreshing, saving the event from becoming yet another formally-indistinguishable global art event.
Participating gallery KK Projects, which is housed in a dilapidated house located in the Katrina-ravaged quarters of [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
Kwun Tong is an industrial neighborhood on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbor — a long way from the galleries clustered near Hong Kong’s Hollywood Road. I have a feeling that this choice of location was intended to put both physical and symbolic distance between Osage Gallery and the oft-underwhelming work on display across the [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Daito Manabe makes innovative use of sounds, software and circuitry. Par exemple:
There have been several welcomed additions to Berlin’s retail offerings in the past couple of weeks. One is the Image Mouvement video art space and DVD shop on Oranienbergerstrasse; another is the international magazine boutique Do You Read Me? Their website features highlights from current issues of some of the magazines they stock (and employs [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Design Observer has posted an interview with recent MacArthur Grant recipient Tara Donovan.
Untitled, 2003, styrofoam cups and glue
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Enjoying Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s animated “play” Drama Queens. This artworld send-up stars work by Alberto Giacometti, Ulrich Rückriem, Barbara Hepworth, Sol LeWitt, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol and features the voices of well-knowns like Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and Kevin Spacey. Gives new meaning to the notion that a work of art “speaks.” [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Kent Henricksen has a solo exhibition—titled Absence of Myth—up at Torino’s Galleria Glance. Kent’s work was included in our By Hand book, so it’s been great to see how his work has developed over the past few years. Here are a few images from the show:
Devious Delight, 2008, 26.5 x 23.5 in. - 67.3 x [...]
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sounds like a good topic to open up The Building’s monthly art talks series. Berlin-based critic Jan Verwoert is at the helm, and all are welcome.
Friday, October 3rd, 730 PM
the building
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14a
Berlin, 10249 DE
T: 030 28 04 79 73
How have the basic conditions of art practice changed and what words and models [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
Luis Gispert, Knight Rider, Chromogenic print, 60 x 96 inches (152.4 x 243.84 cm), 2008
Our good friend Rob Wynne is in a group show at Otero Plassart Gallery in LA.