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Celebrating "Six Years": Critic Lucy Lippard's Seminal Conceptual Art Treatise Will Guide Brooklyn Museum Show
09/05/2012
Celebrating "Six Years": Critic Lucy Lippard's Seminal Conceptual Art Treatise Will Guide Brooklyn Museum Show Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by Benjamin SuttonPublished: May 9, 2012NEW YORK — Last month the Brooklyn Museum honored Lucy Lippard as the first feminist art critic during their inaugural Sackler Center First Awards. This week the museum announced that Lippard's book "Six Years" — which has introduced generations of art history students to conceptual art — will be the subject of what may be the first major exhibition structured around a single tome of art scholarship, "Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art." The show will open on September 14 and continue through January 20, 2013. "My co-curator Vincent Bonin and I have been talking about doing this show for years," Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art curator Catherine Morris told ARTINFO, "and I think the fact that it has remained a pertinent idea speaks to the importance and significance of Lippard’s project." "Materializing 'Six Years'" is a testimant to the suggestive and creative style of Lippard's writing itself. "Lippard’s annotated approach to collecting information about her peers retains a freshness for readers today because she is purposefully not acting as a filter or a guide, or an authority to the information," Morris said, "but was instead simply interested in following the course of an idea that was in the air — an idea about shifting the status quo and really examining the materiality of the art object." Morris and Bonin selected some 270 works, which will be organized chronologically into six sections, one each for the years between 1966 and 1971, corresponding to the six chapters in Lippard's "Six Years." Works included will parallel the trajectory of the book, chronicling the emergence of conceptual art from the mid-'60s to the early '70s, with an additional focus on the movement's relationship to feminist art. "This exhibition — which includes a whole lot of male artists who had nothing to do with feminism, per se," Morris said, "is being sponsored by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art because focusing on the important impact of Lippard’s thinking on the historical contextualizing of Conceptual Art is an example of a feminist curatorial methodology, which we are very much interested in exploring in our exhibitions. The exhibition will open with a section of works from a legendary exhibition Lippard curated in 1968, "Eccentric Abstraction," including pieces by seminal women artists like Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, as well as male contemporaries like Bruce Nauman and Robert Morris. Further sections track the international spread of conceptual art, and its practitioners' penchant for both institutional critique and anti-Vietnam War commentary. Later galleries will address how crucial documentation and text became to the process of making and experiencing conceptual art, as well as Lippard's work with the radical Art Workers' Coalition and her many experimental exhibition projects around the world. The final section will take on how conceptual art evolved in the 1970s, to and its relation to protest, performance, and feminist art. After its Brooklyn presentation the exhibition will travel to two other as-yet-undetermined institutions. An accompanying catalogue to be published by the Brooklyn Museum and the M.I.T. Press will include a forward by Lippard. "Lucy has deliberately not been involved in the curating of the show," Morris noted. "She has told me her biggest concern is that people understand that this is a show about 'Six Years' and not about Lucy Lippard." Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Museums, Brooklyn Museum, Lucy Lippard, Catherine Morris, conceptual art, feminist art Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Q&A: Alex Ross Perry Preserves 16MM Filmmaking With "The Color Wheel"
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Village VoiceThe Brooklyn-based director's second film, which opens for a week-long run at BAM next week, mashes up Philip Roth novels and iconic '70s road movies. Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreFilm Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Chinese Art Star Zhang Huan Stops Traffic With an "Over-the-Top" Public Sculpture for Downtown Toronto
09/05/2012
Chinese Art Star Zhang Huan Stops Traffic With an "Over-the-Top" Public Sculpture for Downtown Toronto Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by Sky Goodden, ARTINFO CanadaPublished: May 9, 2012TORONTO — Crowds gathered on Saturday in anticipation of international art star Zhang Huan and the grand unveiling of his impressive new public sculpture, “Rising,” veritably shutting down one of the Canadian metropolis's busiest streets. The flashy new work was unveiled in a ceremony outside the Living Shangri-La Toronto complex on University Avenue north of Adelaide. On hand were a duo of city councilors and Art Gallery of Ontario director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, flanking the Shanghai-based Zhang, who was dressed in head-to-toe grey and a sleek, if modest, baseball cap. Zhang lead an incense-burning ceremony in advance of the big reveal, and, with the aid of his interpreter, read out a poem, titled “breathing life." The sculpture rises over a reflecting pool, a light-catching lattice of stainless steel birds ‘fluttering’ around root-like arches. Rumored to have cost in the range of $5 million, the piece was funded by the Shangri-La developers in what amounts to “an over-the-top gesture to the city’s Section 37 bylaw that allows zoning easements like height restrictions in exchange for community enhancements like public art,” according to Urban Toronto’s Craig White. Toronto is presently in the grip of Zhang Huan mania. Though “Rising” will sit behind a fence over the next few months until the hotel and residences open in August (more birds are yet to be installed as well), an exhibition of Zhang's recent work has just opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Titled “Ash Paintings and Memory Doors,” it features pieces that are — given Zhang’s history of visceral and politically challenging performance — relatively quiet. But more drama can be expected at another important cultural venue in the city, as Zhang's version of Handel’s "Semele" will be staged by the Canadian Opera Company beginning May 9. As the Chinese art megastar's touch is felt across the city, one thing is noticeably missing — his own body. As Toronto Star critic Murray Whyte wrote, “its imprisonment, abuses, and tests of endurance was the vehicle that made his name as an artist. In authoritarian China, he exerted control in the extreme on the one thing over which he could have dominion: His own physicality.” But, as Zhang said in an interview with Whyte, “Life keeps changing. If we did the same thing all the time, we would be bored.” Certainly boredom can be avoided across Toronto, in the coming months, as the "Zhang Effect" continues to demonstrate its reach. Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Contemporary Arts, Zhang Huan, Toronto, Public Art, Sky Goodden Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Tiffany's Hols Cocktail Party for New Metal Creation
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Asia OneTiffany & Co. held a cocktail party to present its Rubedo Metal collection made in honour of Tiffany's 175th anniversary. The reception at its Takashimaya store saw media and loyal customers as invited guests... Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreJewelry & Watches Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Top-Ranked Tiffany & Co. Getting Very Oversold
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Forbes Blogs The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — strong fundamentals and a valuation Read more Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

In Five: Todd Solondz’s Wacky New Trailer, Against Me! Singer Transitioning to Womanhood, and More Performing Arts News
09/05/2012
In Five: Todd Solondz’s Wacky New Trailer, Against Me! Singer Transitioning to Womanhood, and More Performing Arts News Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by ARTINFOPublished: May 9, 20121. Todd Solondz’s next movie, “Dark Horse,” will focus on a man (Jordan Gelber) who lives and works with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow!) and falls in love with a detached woman (Selma Blair). Watch the trailer below. [The Playlist/Indiewire] 2. Against Me! singer Tom Gabel has become the first rock star to announce that he will make the transition from a man to a woman, becoming Laura Jane Grace. [RS] 3. G. Dep, a one-time rapper affiliated with Bad Boy, was sentenced to 15 years after turning himself in for a shooting — and discovering that he had in fact committed murder. [NYP] 4. Promoting, in character, his new movie “The Dictator,” Sacha Baron Cohen endorsed Mitt Romney for president. [NME]Related: “The Dictator” Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Strongman Send-Up Looking Pretty Feeble 5. “Hubris” was taken: Bobby Brown has named his forthcoming album “The Masterpiece.” [The Juice/Billboard] Previously: Samuel L. Jackson, “Mad Men,” the Beach Boys, J.J. Abrams, and Action Bronson Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Performing Arts, Columnist, In Five, Todd Solondz, Dark Horse, Against Me!, Tom Gabel, Laura Jane Grace, G. Dep, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator, Bobby Brown Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Best of the Costume Institute Gala: Cindy and Cartier and Tiffany, Oh My!
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Jewel Snob While the Metropolitan Museum might have an vast collection of irreplaceable jewels from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance, there’s no doubt the sparkle spotted on the attendees of this week’s gala gave the collection a run for its money... Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreJewelry & Watches Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Fossil Cuts Profit Forecast After Weak European Sales, Shares Plummet 24%
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Forbes Fossil slashed its earnings guidance today, reporting disappointing European sales of its watches, purses and belts. The fashion-accessories maker expects to earn $5.30 to $5.40 in fiscal 2012, down from the earlier $5.40 to $5.50 range. Analysts were ex Read more Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Nissan's Juke-R supercar now available to Canadians
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Globe and MailThe radical Nissan Juke-R that promises supercar-baiting performance in a subcompact crossover body will be available to... Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreAutos & Boats Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Pure Evil Haunts "The Apprentice" Art Episode, "The Scream" Poster Bonanza, and More Must-Read Art News
09/05/2012
Pure Evil Haunts "The Apprentice" Art Episode, "The Scream" Poster Bonanza, and More Must-Read Art News Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by ARTINFOPublished: May 9, 2012– "The Apprentice" Pits Contestants Against Pure Evil: The latest episode of the British version of "The Apprentice" has a very special challenge for its would-be corporate titans: try to run a gallery. (Keep in mind that in this version, the Donald Trump figure is called Lord Sugar.) Among other things, this has the two teams vying for the prize of representing British street artist Pure Evil, with one contestant rather embarrassingly trying to show off his knowledge of graffiti. (See the clip below.) He does not win over Pure Evil. [UKPA] – "Scream" Sale Boosts Posters: The record-setting sale of Munch's "The Scream" has had an unintended — if possibly predictable — side effect: Sales of the poster version on the Web site Art.com have gone through the roof. "Before this week, 'The Scream' was a steady seller," the company's CEO said last week. "Sales increased 10 times yesterday." Trade in a parody copy featuring Homer Simpson in the famous face-clapped pose have rocketed as well. [Bloomberg] – American History Museum Gets a New Director: John L. Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, has been chosen to lead the National Museum of American History, replacing Brent Glass. Gray's appointment may help address recent criticism that Smithsonian programs do not incorporate in-depth study of the West. [WaPo]  – New York Dealer Linked to Indian Smuggling Ring: New York-based gallerist Subhash Kapoor (of Art of the Past gallery) has been charged with the robbery of a centuries-old emerald idol from a temple in Kalady, India. The theft is just one of over a dozen such temple heists police believe Kapoor engineered over the last six years. [Times of India] – Million-Dollar Art Not for Sale: Galleries presenting art that can't be bought, but might enhance the prestige of the presenter, are getting to be rather fashionable. (It is already all the rage in London.) No less than three exhibitions currently on view in New York — Domenico Gnoli at Luxembourg & Dayan, Frank Stella at L&M Arts, and Cy Twombly at Eykyn Maclean — all present work that is not for sale. [Bloomberg] – French Cave Paintings Older, Better Than Previously Thought: The cave painting community has long been divided as to the dating of the Chauvet cave paintings in southern France, which depict horses, rhinos, and other animals in startlingly refined detail. A new study by French scholars seems to suggest, thanks to geomorphological and chlorine-36 dating, that the images could be as much as 40,000 years old — making them the oldest artworks in the world. According to the study, "These results have significant implications for archaeological, human, and rock art sciences." [News 24] – MAXXI President Resigns: The president of Rome's Fondazione MAXXI — which has been threatened with a government takeover following budget woes — has resigned. Pio Baldi, who has been the Zaha Hadid-designed museum's leader since it opened in 2010, left following the revelation of a €800,000 ($1.03 million) gap in its 2011 budget. [ArtReview] – Santiago Calatrava Criticized for Climbing Costs: The Spanish starchitect has come under fire for charging his home state of Valencia exorbitant fees to build a massive new City of the Arts and Sciences. According to a Web site created by a local leftist party, the architect has billed the state some €100 million ($130 million) to date for the project. [Guardian] – Turkish Artists Fight Back: Turkish artists have begun staging sit-ins and protest marches in response to increasing pressure from the secular country's Islamist government. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan complained that artists "have started to humiliate and look down on us and all conservatives," but his threat of privatizing state-run cultural institutions drew outrage. "This is political interference on freedom of art," said actor Nazif Uslu. [AP] – Tate Reveals 2013 Exhibitions: The British museum announced its next year of exhibitions, including the first major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in two decades, to open at the Tate Modern in February, followed by a major Paul Klee show in the fall. Tate Britain will show works highlighting L.S. Lowry's influence on French painting — perhaps in response to criticism from actor Ian McKellan that the museum had neglected the artist — while Tate Liverpool plans exhibitions on Chagall and glam rock. [Guardian] – Asia Society Leader Departs: The president and chief executive of the Asia Society, Vishakha N. Desai, will leave her post in September after more than two decades with the Upper East Side-headquartered institution. She won't be going far, though: she's joining the Guggenheim Foundation in an advisory role developing its global policy and programs. [NYT] VIDEO OF THE DAY A contestant on the British version of "The Apprentice" tries really hard to convince Pure Evil that he's down with street art: ALSO ON ARTINFO: Pop-Up Populism: How the Temporary Architecture Craze is Changing Our Relationship to the Built Environment How a Roving Shipping Container Became a World-Class Mobile Art Museum for Children in France and Africa Fighting "Fairtigue": How Art Professionals Are Coping With the Ever-Intensifying Global Art Calendar Christie's Postwar and Contemporary Sale Takes $388 Million, Led by a Record-Smashing $87-Million Rothko ART HK — And Its Sister Fair Art Basel Miami Beach — Will Both Now Simply Be Known as "Art Basel" Decoding MoMA's Category-Defying "Ecstatic Alphabets" Exhibition Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ by ARTINFO,The Daily Checklist,The Daily Checklist Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here