Friday, December 29, 2006

“Defamation of Character” at P.S.1


Defamation of Character Urs Fischer’s free-floating squiggle “Cioran Handrail” in one of four shows at P.S. 1.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Serpentine Gallery

"In the darkest hour there may be light"
Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection
25 November 2006 – 28 January 2007

Damien Hirst’s groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world’s best-known living artists. From the start of his career, Hirst has adopted the role of curator, organising a series of exhibitions with a group of young British artists who would come to define cutting-edge art in the 1990s. As well as being a producer and a curator, Hirst is also a passionate and obsessive collector of art. Like many artists he began collecting by exchanging works with his friends. Now known as the ‘murderme collection’, this significant accumulation of works spans several generations of international artists. "In the darkest hour there may be light" is the first public exhibition of the Murderme Collection. It offers a fascinating insight into Hirst’s collecting acumen and personal interests, as he says “I always think collections are like a map of a man’s life”.



Sarah Lucas New Religion (blue) 1999, Neon, 38.4 x 54 x 181.6 cm. Murderme Ltd, London. Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London. © 2006 Sarah Lucas. Photograph: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin

Monday, December 25, 2006


"We are city boys...we always believe that excessive love of nature leads to totalitarianism." Gilbert and George

Friday, December 22, 2006

JOHN ARMLEDER


John M Armleder at Mamco in Geneva
Oct 18 - Jan 21, 2006

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Marcel Duchamp "Fountain", 1917


Fountain, 1917 (original lost)
Readymade porcelain urinal
Height 60 cm
Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art

Friday, December 08, 2006

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works With Light


MOCA
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works With Light
October 13, 2006 – January 7, 2007
Bruce Nauman, Mean Clown Welcome, 1985
neon tubing mounted on metal monolith,
Udo and Annette Brandhorst Collection
© 2006 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York

Thursday, December 07, 2006

ROBERT ROSENBLUM 1927-2006


"For many, Rosenblum’s Cubism in the Twentieth Century was the very first tome they read about modernism. His subsequent academic and curatorial career was a daily denial of inclement Greenbergism: Exalt kitsch! Embrace realism! Victory to the vulgar! Only Rosenblum could vindicate the outrĂ© as the highest expression of good taste." Charlie Finch





Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders