Review: Mira Schendel at Hauser and Wirth
Watch ARTINFO video on Mira Schendel show HERE. In the first show of postwar Brazilian artist Mira Schendel at Hauser and Wirth since the gallery took on her estate in October 2013, private dealer...
View ArticleMarilyn Minter, Betty Tompkins, and Others Gauge George W. Bush's Work
DALLAS — It’s useful to consider “The Art of Leadership,” former President George W. Bush’s solo painting debut, as a kind of sprawling installation that begins with the metal detector at the George W....
View ArticleVIDEO: "Post-Op, Perceptual Gone Painterly" at Galerie Perrotin in Paris
PARIS — Galerie Perrotin Paris is home to a dynamic show titled “Post-Op, Perceptual Gone Painterly. 1958 – 2014.” “The title is ambiguous,” curator Matthieu Poirier tells Blouin ARTINFO. “’Post-Op’...
View ArticleVIDEO: Xu Zhen and His Ironic Supermarket in ShanghART Singapore
SINGAPORE — Imagine picking up a pristinely-sealed can of Coca-Cola, only to be shocked upon realizing it’s empty. That is the experience Xu Zhen wants shoppers to have in his parody of a supermarket...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York
Thursday night sees a slew of openings in New York, but before you make the rounds this evening, check out these five stellar exhibitions currently on view, before it’s too late.“Particular Pictures”...
View ArticleTake a Seat in Chelsea: Artists Dabble in Furniture Design
Contemporary artists are known for being relentlessly multi-disciplinary, toggling between sculpture, painting, video, and any other media they can wrap their brains around. Furniture has often been a...
View ArticleShows That Matter: Steven Naifeh Exhibitions in NYC and Jersey City
WHAT: “Steven Naifeh: Found in Translation”WHEN: March 27-April 26 in New York; March 6-August 31 in New JerseyWHERE: Leila Heller Gallery, 568 W. 25th St., New York City; Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark...
View ArticleVIDEO: Ricardo Mazal Brings “Kailash” to Sundaram Tagore Singapore
SINGAPORE — For his debut solo show in Singapore, Ricardo Mazal brings a series of new paintings inspired by his journey to Tibet’s holiest summit, Mount Kailash. “Kailash: Black Mountain” is Mazal’s...
View ArticleRethinking Bronze, With Jeff Koons and Dead Rabbits
Dr. David Ekserdjian wants you to forget what you think you know about bronze. As co-curator of “Casting Modernity,” a survey of 20th-century sculpture opening tonight and on view through June 7 at...
View ArticleOscar Murillo's Assembly Line Art at David Zwirner
“I’m used to opening exhibitions, but I’m not used to opening factories,” joked gallerist David Zwirner, standing before the entranceway to the candy production facility that is the heart of Oscar...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Jaimie Warren, Robert Longo, and More
Jaimie Warren, “That’s What Friends Are For” at the Hole, through May 4Orbiting in a web-obsessed space somewhere between Alex Bag, Ryan Trecartin, Cindy Sherman, and John Waters, Warren’s practice is...
View ArticleTim Barber’s Slippery Narratives at Capricious 88
“I’m interested in the slippery narratives that my photos can communicate, and a good narrative always involves relationships of some kind,” said Tim Barber, whose exhibition “Relations” opens tonight...
View ArticleReview: Matthew Brandt at Yossi Milo
Since his first solo show five years ago, Matthew Brandt has made a major impact on the avant-garde photography scene. The son of a successful commercial photographer, Brandt rebelled by pursuing...
View ArticleMika Rottenberg Games the System
“It was the icebergs, the moon, Bingo, the hotel, the clothespin guy,” said Mika Rottenberg, pondering the eclectic assortment of characters, objects, and spaces that inform her new installation of...
View ArticleVIDEO: The NY Times Reinterpreted by Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan
The front page of the New York Times gets a psychedelic touch in Fred Tomaselli’s new exhibition “Current Events” at James Cohan Gallery.Tomaselli is most well-known for his psychotropic mixed-media...
View ArticleVIDEO: Guillermo Kuitca, Passages to “This Way” at Sperone Westwater
Guillermo Kuitca once again immerses himself into a world of cartography and geometrics. To mark more than 20 years of collaboration with Sperone Westwater, the Argentinean artist installed a...
View ArticleA Royal Court, Of Sorts, At José Lerma’s “European Mixed Masters”
“It’s half a tennis match, and half a play,” said José Lerma of “European Mixed Masters,” his show on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York through June 14. The painting-based installation has some...
View Article5 Must-See Gallery Shows: Lauren Seiden, Michael Berryhill, and More
Lauren Seiden at Denny Gallery, through June 8Crumpled, graphite-laden masses of paper assume the appearance of marble or stone in Seiden’s debut solo show in New York. They’re simultaneously delicate...
View ArticleVIDEO: Adriana Varejão, Defining Color as Language with “Polvo” at Lehmann...
Adriana Varejão, one of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists, continues to tackle questions of cultural identity in her multi-disciplined approach to art. This time, she illustrates Brazil’s 1976...
View ArticleReview: Jessica Mallios at Artpace San Antonio
In “Sight Lines,” Jessica Mallios’s contribution to the Spring 2014 International Artists in Residence exhibition at Artpace San Antonio (through May 18), the artist continues to delve into the...
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