Tag Archive "venice-biennale-2009"

Shepard Fairey Does Venice, Silvio

Shepard Fairey, who rose to fame and made his mark with his wildly successful and now controversial Obama campaign poster, has left his mark here in Venice as well.  During the June international art orgy known as the Venice Biennale, Fairey was brought to a tiny bar in the San Polo quarter near the Rialto Bridge by two Biennale hostesses, according to Guiliano, the bartender at Boteri Cafe.

More Inky links on Biennale and top prize

Here are a couple of additional stories about the PMA, Bruce Nauman, the Golden Lion top award to Nauman, beyond the ones to which I already linked: Today, Ripples of Venice success * about what the Bruce Nauman exhibit at the Venice Biennale, organized by the PMA, means for the museum’s future collection and leadership. This love note to Philadelphia’s premiere art attraction has lots of details and observations worth reading. Plus there’s a great picture of PMA curators Carlos Basualdo and Michael Taylor beaming in front of a Nauman, with the Golden Lion in hand! Top prize affirms a ... More » »

Inky does more Biennale

If you didn’t have enough about the Biennale in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, the good news is there’s a great big ol’ article on Bruce Nauman today. It’s worth the read!!! And there’s more Biennale stuff coming this weekend!!!

Good reads in the Inky and Times

Yesterday was a red letter day in art writing in the print media. The New York Times ran a terrific article, Framing the Message of a Generation by Holland Carter, comparing two exhibits, “The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum. What seduced me was his lead on how some work gets canonized, other work not.  But then he went on to discuss the whole idea of dividing art by age and how the two shows succeed and fail at this.

Lookee here: PMA Curators work with Bruce Nauman in Venice!

Bruce Nauman will be the featured artist in the American Pavilion, 2009 Venice Biennale. From the PMA’s press release: U.S. Department of State Names Bruce Nauman to Represent the United States in the 2009 Venice Biennale Philadhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifelphia, PA (January 25, 2008) -The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce the selection of Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) as the artist to represent the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected Nauman following the unanimous recommendation of the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions (FACIE) that reviewed proposals received through an ... More » »