Archive Art News from Elsewhere
1608 Items
AD
Art News from Elsewhere
Bending Light
Via architectmagazine.com
May 24
“The Skyspaces, perhaps, best embody Turrell’s affinity to architecture: of the way space can be molded to heighten emotion and bend light,” writes Carolina Miranda of artist James Turrell’s work, which is on view in shows in LA, NY, and Houston this summer.
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
Republican Romance
Via theatlanticwire.com
May 24
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has inspired an “old-fashioned bodice ripper romance,” Tréy Sager’s Fires of Siberia, due out as an e-book June 1. The hook: It’s published by Badlands Unlimited, contemporary artist Paul Chan’s publishing venture.
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
Koshalek Resigns
Via washingtoncitypaper.com
May 23
Hirshhorn Museum Director Richard Koshalek has resigned after an inconclusive board vote over an inflatable architectural pavilion for the museum. He reportedly didn’t feel his vision, both for “the Bubble” and for the museum, had support.
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
Schimmel Goes Gallery
Via latimes.com
May 23
Paul Schimmel, who resigned as chief curator at MOCA last year, is getting into the gallery biz: He’ll be heading up a new LA branch of Hauser Wirth (& Schimmel). Expect shows that “feel more museum-like in terms of scale, scholarship and complexity.”
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
“International Disco Latin”
Via e-flux.com
May 23
In the new issue of e-flux journal, artists Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl respond to “International Art English,” Alix Rule and David Levine’s discussion-provoking essay on contemporary art’s penchant for artspeak.
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
Dumbass
Via guardian.co.uk
May 23
Ai Weiwei has released the first single from the metal album The Divine Comedy (due 6/22), along with the Christopher Doyle-directed video “Dumbass.” With music by Zuoxiao Zuzhou, the song served as “a kind of self-therapy,” the dissident artist says.
EC
Art News from Elsewhere
A Bubble Backer
Via washingtonpost.com
May 20
“Greenlighting the Bubble,” writes critic Philip Kennicott of the Smithsonian’s inflatable public programs space, “will require faith in the power of ideas and culture, in the proposition that art has something to say, that its voice needs to be heard in Washington.”
