Public Art Fund presents:
Sarah Morris, "Robert Towne"

A new project at Lever House

Park Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets
New York
On view through December 3, 2006

Jeff Koons' artworks rarely inspire moderate responses, and this is one signal of the importance of his achievement. Focusing on some of the most unexpected objects as models for his work, Koons' works eschew typical standards of "good taste" in art and zero in rather precisely on the vulnerabilities of hierarchies and value systems. As critic Christopher Knight has written "He turns the traditional cliché of the work of art inside out: Rather than embodying a spiritual or expressive essence of a highly individuated artist, art here is composed from a distinctly American set of conventional middle-class values."

Michael Craig-Martin interview:
As for the fundamental nature of artistic expression, he believes that is also largely unchanged. If you look at a 15th- or 16th-century painting, he says, you are "not being transported back to the 16th century. You are pulling the painting into now. If you have an art experience, it is a now experience, not a then experience. There is much less difference between the art of the past and present than is popularly thought." He gives the example of walking through room after room in the National Gallery without noticing much, "and then something will just zap you. It is not a history experience or a sociology experience. It is an art experience, and it is the same if the art was made yesterday or 800 years ago. Ultimately, while art has many functions, one of the major ones is to deliver that art experience. It is rare and it is hard. You can't make it happen, and it completely evades some people. But if you want to understand art, you have to look at a lot of art. And the more you look at, the better your chance of experiencing that zap."
Inspirations:
Andy Warhol,
Jasper Johns,
Bruce Nauman,
Gerhard Richter,
Sigmar Polke

Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver and Bywater Bros. Editions, Toronto, are pleased to announce the release of the premiere issue of Lynn Valley. Lynn Valley is an ongoing series of publications edited exclusively by artists. Issue #1, by New York State based artist Richard Prince features images selected and arranged by the artist. Lynn Valley will be produced three times a year, and the next issue by Cologne based artist Johannes Wohnseifer will be announced soon. Upcoming issues are planned with Beijing based artist Cao Fei and Berlin based artist Jonathan Monk.

Peter Fischli & David Weiss "Busi", 2001
single-channel video with sound

“Art is a platform for experience, not a lesson." Klaus Kertess

"Encounter art as an experience, not a statement or a answer to a question." Susan Sontag

"Living with artworks has led me to question myself more,to avoid being a prisoner of my convictions, to break with the comfort of habit." Francois Pinault

"Art is a means to acquiring an investigative activity. I don't know if you can necessarily change things in a broad sense. You can make yourself aware of the possibilities; It is important to do that." Bruce Nauman