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SARAH PALIN’S HOMETOWN IN DEBATE OVER PUBLIC SCULPTURE Sarah Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, is back in the news — but not for anything the former vice presidential candidate has said or done. A public sculpture at the town’s high school is causing a ruckus for what some claim to see as a depiction of the female genitalia. The artwork in question is an outdoor...
DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM CLOSURE Various European publications have weighed in on the Deutsche Guggenheim’s revelation that it will close its doors by the end of the year, reported earlier this week on artforum.com. Officials announced the decision, which seemed puzzling to many, without offering any concrete reasons, but Monopol pointed out that Deutsche Bank is currently in a difficult position in...
ABRAMOVIC SIGNS WITH KOOLHAAS FOR PERFORMANCE CENTER Performance queen Marina Abramovic is teaming up with architect Rem Koolhaas’ firm OMA to design an $8 million Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, N.Y. And, as Alexandra Peers reports at NYmag.com, the focus of the new institution will be on long-form performance art, ranging from six-hour-minimum works to those lasting...
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI’S ETERNAL FILM SERIES French multimedia artist Christian Boltanski is trying out an unusual business model for his long-term new art project, Storage Memory — a series of films he plans to make every month for the rest of his life. The scheme calls for the artist to shoot 10 one-minute movies on a small high-def camera every 30 days, upload them to the internet and make...
DUTCH ARTIST’S WORKS FOUND IN BRITISH WAREHOUSE Karel Appel, who died in 2006, with his 1984 painting Orage Annociateur. Over 400 artworks, stolen in 2002, have been found in a British warehouse. Photograph: Nico Delaive/AP More than 400 works of art by a celebrated 20th-century Dutch artist have been found in a British warehouse a decade after they disappeared, leaving the artist...
FEAR HEIGHTENS APPRECIATION OF ABSTRACT ART Are you puzzled by Picasso? Perplexed by Pollock? Do you feel you’re missing out on something profound when friends discuss their intense reaction to abstract art? You could do some research to better understand what you’re looking at. Or you could turn off the lights and watch a DVD of Psycho. A newly published study finds people are more likely to be...
Yayoi Kusama THE LAST WORD by Rachel Corbett Yayoi Kusama, translated by Ralph McCarthy, Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 239 pp., $35. At 82, Yayoi Kusama is still licking old wounds. In her new memoir, she recounts the insult of a photographer who interviewed her in 1970 and then never thanked her or printed her name in the article. She...
CINDY SHERMAN: BECOMING Jerry Saltz on the artist who continues to transform herself—this time, for New York. By Jerry Saltz Published Feb 12, 2012 Cecil Beaton once said that “making oneself a work of art” was “that most difficult of all causes.” Cindy Sherman not only does that, she’s given herself up entirely to the mission. For nearly four decades, she has been braiding together fashion,...
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Seems like Leipzigers don’t celebrate Valentines day. I’m giving my valentine to Leipzig for this reason. Happy valentines day, Leipzig.
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Yvonne Rainer
DIA:BEACON BEACON Through May 12 Curated by Yasmil Raymond
On the heels of its well-acclaimed collaborations with Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, Dia will present the work of avant-garde choreographer Yvonne Rainer beginning this fall. Building on Sid Sachs’s excellent archival show “Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961–2002,” Yasmil Raymond has organized a live exhibition...
“Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae”
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER DALLAS Through April 22 Curated by Christopher Bedford
Ambitious, dramatic, and earnestly personal, Elliott Hundley’s assemblage-based practice is forged from ancient narratives and contemporary realities, sublimating notorious characters and plotlines into cyclonic images or structures. “The Bacchae” will feature a dozen works made in the...
Francesca Woodman
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SAN FRANCISCO Through February 20 Curated by Corey Keller
Thirty years after Francesca Woodman’s suicide at the age of twenty-two, her oeuvre is being comprehensively presented in its first American exhibition in twenty years. Woodman’s photographs—with their reframing of the relationship between the body and space, and their hybridization of...
