Tag Archive "gerhard-richter"
A Different Kind of Metaphor at Dia: Beacon, New York
The Dia: Beacon, 80 miles north of New York City, houses an impressive collection of pared down, phenomenological works from the past fifty years by Dan Flavin, Andy Warhol, Sol Lewitt, Imi Knoebel, Walter De Maria, Donald Judd, Gerhard Richter, Robert Smithson, Fred Sanbeck, Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becker, William Heizer, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Serra, John Chamberlain, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin, Franz Erhard Walther, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Irwin, On Kawara, Bruce Nauman, and (not on view currently) Blinky Palermo and George Trakas.
John Cage’s Shoes–Robert Storr speaks in Paris
I think it was the 13th of August, 1992, that artist and neighbor Ray Johnson called me with the news that John Cage was dead. I know it was early in the morning, and not the day he died, the 12th, because when I went outside to get a coffee and a New York Times, Cage’s obit was fully formed, a solid page, a gray tombstone reserved only for those who have come to New York to change the world. Ray hung up and I assume spent the day dialing all sorts of people to tell them that John Cage ... More » »
Robert Storr defends his shows
Yale University School of Art Dean, Robert Storr. Thanks China Culture for the picture. We were interested to hear Yale Dean and curator Robert Storr on abstract art, part of a series of 3 lectures at the Met. The series seems to be about contextualizing up-and-coming artists in the canon. Here’s who was under discussion last Saturday: (in the canon already)– Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Jasper Johns, and Gerhard Richter—and (not there yet but Storr wants to put them in) — Odili Donald Odita, Tom Nozkowski, Mary Heilmann, El Anatsui and Ron Gorchov. Many of the examples Storr used ... More » »
Emphasis on Experience: Richter and Serra
By Daniel Payavis With Richard Serra’s retrospective exhibition (it closed Sept. 10) at the Museum of Modern Art (see post) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Notations: Kiefer, Polke, Richter currently up (see Look! video here), I have had ample opportunity to ponder the work of both Richter and Serra, certainly two of the most significant artists in the last thirty years. Their names reach out as far into the realm of common knowledge as contemporary artists’ names go; their work maintains international interest, yet it would seem that this is as similar as the two artists get. After all, ... More » »
Look! at the big bad Germans at the PMA
Click To Play In episode 15 of our video series Look! It’s Libby and Roberta, we brood a little with those post World War II German titans Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Anslem Kiefer. The three are showing in Notations part III, the last in a series of exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that explore issues of contemporary art making and ideas. Curator of Contemporary Art Carlos Basualdo carries us beyond the U.S. border with his choices at the same time that he displays the significance of the PMA’s collection. We can never thank our video hero, David ... More » »
Weekly Update 1 – Sheinkman and Daou at Gallery Joe
This week’s Weekly has my short review of Mark Sheinkman and Annabel Daou’s exhibits at Gallery Joe. Below is the copy with some pictures and here’s the link to the Editor’s Picks page. Mark Sheinkman Like Gerhard Richter, whose realistic paintings of candles aren’t really about wax or wick but falseness of reality, Mark Sheinkman uses tropes of realism to evoke what lies beneath. “Kerze,” by Gerhard Richter, oil on canvas, 35 3/8 by 37 3/8 inches, 1982 In his first solo exhibit in Philadelphia, the New York artist’s graphite-on-paper works suggest in every way the smoke from Richter’s candles. ... More » »
