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Trenton Doyle Hancock, "Smoked," 2010. Photo courtesy of Dunn and Brown Contemporary. In this week’s roundup, Cai Guo-Qiang at MFA Houston, Julie Mehretu at the Metropolitan Opera, Oliver Herring at...
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Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
Enrique Chagoya, “Return to Goya No. 9,” 2010. Intaglio with letterpress in two colors on Revere Ivory. Plate: 8 ½ x 6 in.; Sheet: 14 5/8 x 11 in. Published by Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay...
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Richard Serra, "Dreiser," 2010. Paintstick on handmade paper. © Richard Serra. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Robert McKeever. In this week’s roundup, Richard Serra’s elemental drawings, Laurie...
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Kalup and Franco, "Turn It Up" EP, 2011. Courtesy Dutty Artz. In this week’s roundup, NYCU’s Kalup Linzy teams up with James Franco, Barry McGee is featured, Trenton Doyle Hancock does all he can in...
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Martha Colburn, "Triumph of the Wild (Part I + Part II), 2008–2009," 2011. © Martha Colburn, Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai. In this week’s roundup, Martha Colburn animates war, Jeff...
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Jessica Stockholder, "Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood" installation at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. In this week’s...
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Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Amy Sillman, Untitled (object on table), 2007; courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for...
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Trenton Doyle Hancock. “Plate of Shrimp,” 2012. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery. In this week’s roundup, Trenton Doyle Hancock’s work is featured in the magazine Beautiful/Decay, Cindy...
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Ai Weiwei. “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,” 2012. Photo courtesy the artist. © 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In this week’s roundup Ai Weiwei’s Chinese zodiac heads, Erin Shirreff’s...
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Teachable Moments in 2012
Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce. Image:marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a...
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John Baldessari. “Learn to Dream,” 2013. Courtesy of Arts Matter and the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education. Photo by Victor Treato. In this week’s roundup, John Baldessari’s artwork covers L.A....
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Ai Weiwei. “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995. Photo by Melina Mara for the Washington Post. Courtesy the artist and the Newseum. In this week’s roundup, Ai Weiwei’s work is part of the celebration of...
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William Kentridge. “Untitled (You Are Lying),” 2010. Courtesy the artist and Volte Gallery, Mumbai. In this week’s roundup, a one-day conference is devoted to the work of Yinka Shonibare MBE, William...
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Kara Walker. “The Theater” from “Rise Up Ye Mighty Race,” 2012. Courtesy the artist and the Art Institute of Chicago. In this week’s roundup, Kara Walker exhibits in Chicago, Ann Hamilton shows new...
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Lynda Benglis. “Scarab,” 1990. Stainless steel mesh, aluminum. 52 x 75 x 16 in. In this week’s roundup, Lynda Benglis manipulates metal, Julie Mehretu and Matthew Ritchie explore diagrams, Shahzia...
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Exclusive | Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ten Years Later
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. Production still from the series Exclusive. © Art21, Inc. 2013. Cinematography by Rafael Salazar Moreno. “I went through a breakup. There were births. There were deaths....
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Trenton Doyle Hancock Busts Out
Trenton Doyle Hancock, The Former and the Ladder or Ascension and a Cinchin’, 2012. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas; 84 x 132 x 3 inches. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery “I’m always going...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dioramas (Alaskan Wolves), 1994; gelatin silver print; 47 × 73 inches. Private collection. © Hiroshi Sugimoto. Hiroshi Sugimoto has a retrospective exhibition in Korea, Julie Mehretu...
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David Altmejd, The Flux and The Puddle, 2014. Plexiglas, quartz, polystyrene, expandable foam, epoxy clay, epoxy gel, resin, synthetic hair, clothing, leather shoes, thread, mirror, plaster, acrylic...
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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Sunrise Filmset Sunset, 2012. Diptych, 43.5 x 54.5 inches each. Edition of 6 + 2AP. Hubbard & Birchler film forgotten and decaying sites, Trenton Doyle...
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“Exclusive” Curated (Part 2 of 3)
Yesterday, we published the first Exclusive playlist in a three-part series that continues through Thursday. In today’s playlist, a conservationist, an educator, a musician, and a few other friends of...
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Mika Tajima. Furniture Art series, 2011-present. Installation view at Eleven Rivington, 2014. Five Art21 artists exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mika Tajima gets a solo show in New York,...
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Trenton Doyle Hancock. Self-Portrait with Tongue, 2010. Acrylic, mixed media on paper; 16 x 13 1/2 inches. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Trenton Doyle Hancock has a major...
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Mary Mattingly. Pull, 2013. Chromogenic dye coupler print; 30 x 30 inches. Edition of five. Courtesy the artist and Robert Mann Gallery. Featured in the New York Close Up film Mary Mattingly Owns Up....
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Mel Chin. The Elementary Object, detail, 1993. Corsican briarwood, steel, plastic, concrete/vermiculite, excelsior packing material, flannel, paper tag, fuse cord, triple F blasting powder; 3 1/2 x 12...
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Lynda Benglis, Raptor, 1995–96. Stainless steel, wire mesh, silicone, and bronze. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read. Lynda Benglis in the UK, Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo, Trenton Doyle Hancock in...
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Mark Bradford. Sexy Cash, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and Murals of La Jolla, CA. New and recent goings-on featuring Mark Bradford, Paul Pfeiffer, Mary Reid Kelley, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Ann...
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The Walker Curates the News: 04.06.15
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Self-Portrait with Tongue, 2010 A “messy, wild, irreverent joy,” Trenton Doyle Hancock’s traveling retrospective at the Studio Museum Harlem, Skin and Bones, pulls viewers into...
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This Week in Art: 4.4-4.10
Raymond Pettibon. Left: No Title (President.), 1985. Right: No Title (Kennedy would die …), 1987. From the newly released book Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books. Last...
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This Week in Art: 10.17-10.23
A group of people participate in an artistic intervention lead by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo in Bogotá last Tuesday. Photograph: Leonardo Muñoz/EPA. Courtesy of the Guardian. This week was a...
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This Week in Art: 10.24-10.30
Mark Bradford’s logo for the new ICA LA. Image via the LA Times. A new space called for a new logo at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, now the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, or ICA LA. The...
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This Week in Art 5.8-5.14: The 57th Venice Biennale Opens Saturday
Mark Bradford. Go Tell it on the Mountain, 2017. A mixed-media work on canvas that will be on view at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy of The Baltimore Sun. This Saturday the 57th...
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This Week in Art 9.25-10.1: Theaster Gates Wins Nasher Sculpture Prize
Theaster Gates. Courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center. On Tuesday the Nasher Sculpture Center announced Theaster Gates as the winner of this year’s $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture. This is the...
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This Week in Art 10.16-10.22: Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Trevor Pagan, 2017 MacArthur Fellow. Credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Last Wednesday the MacArthur Foundation announced artist Trevor Paglen as a 2017 fellow. Paglen joins the...
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This Week in Art 10.30-11.5: Performa 17 Starts Wednesday
Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa. On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting...
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This Week in Art 1.22-1.28: Abigail DeVille and Pepón Osorio Awarded United...
Abigail DeVille, MidSummer Event Horizon, 2014. Credit: United States Artists. The United States Artists, a Chicago-based foundation devoted to supporting the arts across nine disciplines, has named...
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