Tag Archive "new-museum"

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

I decided to take it easy at the fairs this year, assuming that, as with large conferences, I’d certainly discover interesting work but was unlikely to predict ahead of time just where I’d find it. One obvious new feature of Art Basel/Miami Beach this year was the prominence of furniture. Some of it was part of the work on display, such as Dan Peterman‘s Running Tables at Klosterfelde, Berlin, despite the fact that the staff were sitting on the built-in seats to eat their lunch; I assume his recycled plastics can handle the wear.

News of the world – Nutter, Gould in New York, Muller in France, Hennessy at PAFA, and opportunities and more

Philly invades New York this weekend – Mayor Michael Nutter at the New Museum and ICA’s Claudia Gould at a NY Gallery Week panel Mayor Nutter participates in the Sustainable City Mayoral Panel, Friday, May 6, 7-8:30pm ($10), part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, a symposium May 4-8 at the New Museum, sponsored by the NuMu, NYU, Columbia and other New York organizations.  Follow their blog.

Interview: New Museum’s “Free” Curator Lauren Cornell

Lauren Cornell, executive director of Rhizome and New Museum adjunct curator, is the curator of the New Museum’s current exhibit, Free (info about the show is at the end of the interview). Cornell answered Corey Armpriester’s questions via email. Corey Armpriester: What inspires your curatorial ideas? Lauren Cornell: Its hard to pinpoint inspiration to a single moment. I show artists, write about their work, fundraise for projects, constantly—I always feel a sense of urgency about what I do. Art isn’t a day job for me, its my life.

Rivane Neuenschwander’s viewer interactive art at the New Museum

Go behind-the-scenes of the New Museum's "Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other."

Scene downtown – Julie Mehretu’s mural and Skin Fruit at the NuMu

Kitty, my Milwaukee buddy, and I spent a misty afternoon with Cate two Sundays ago walking around lower Manhattan and going to the New Museum’s Skin Fruit show.  Part of our downtown walk was inspired by Calvin Thompkins’ New Yorker article about the $5 million mural by Julie Mehretu. $5 million? Kitty, who paints murals in Milwaukee, wanted to see this thing, and so did I.

Art of the Steal at Extra, Extra

This month at Extra, Extra, “PRE-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: WORKS FROM 2009-2010“.  The title of this exhibit sets you up with the premise, a play on words, traditional words relating to the traditional art world.

Urses minor–at the New Museum

Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum, the bearish artist’s first U.S. solo show at a major museum, surprised us for what wasn’t there.

Sitting Down with Art; Mary Heilmann at The New Museum

Installation of Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone; all photos courtesy of The New Museum. I’ve been thinking about how we interact with art, prompted by yesterday’s visit to Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone at the New Museum (through January 26, 2009; it was organized by Elizabeth Armstrong of the Orange County Museum of Art). The exhibition includes not only the paintings for which Heilmann is known and a number of ceramics (reflecting her initial training) but also a number of the artist’s chairs: plywood cubes not unlike Donald Judd’s chairs (well, sufficiently unlike to be his worst nightmare; these have ...

Carnegie, New Museum, Walker musical chairs

DOUGLAS FOGLE APPOINTED CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART said the press release I got last night from the Carnegie Museum. What? Where’s Laura Hoptman, who did the last Carnegie International? I thought she was Curator of Contemporary Art. Hoptman’s on to unspecified new things. The press release doesn’t mention where she’ll be after the summer. The world of museum curating is a restless place and the Carnegie International seems to be a springboard. The last Carnegie International (1999/2000) was organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn and she pretty quickly left Pittsburgh to be senior curator of painting and ...