Question Bridge installation is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum
thru 3JUN
Created by artists Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
AiPad Panel Discussions
On Saturday 31MAR, Aipad will be hosting a series of panel discussions which will be held nearby at Hunter College. More info here.
© Rineke Dijkstra
10 a.m. | A Conversation with Rineke Dijkstra
This interview with the internationally recognized Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra will offer a rare opportunity to hear about her inspirations and thoughts before her upcoming retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in June 2012. The interview will be conducted by Jennifer Blessing, curator of photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
12 p.m. | Curator's Choice: Emerging Artists in Photography
Two major exhibitions in New York City during the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New York are of note -- the Whitney Biennial 2012 at the Whitney Museum and Perspectives 2012 at the International Center for Photography. Panelists will include: Sarah Meister, curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art; Christopher Phillips, curator, International Center for Photography, New York; and Joshua Chuang, assistant curator, photography, Yale University Art Gallery. The moderator will be Lindsay Pollock, editor in chief, Art in America.
2 p.m. | How to Collect Photographs: What Collectors Need to Know Now
Speakers will include Kenneth Montague, director, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, and Joseph Baio, collector, New York. The moderator will be Steven Kasher, StevenKasher Gallery.
4 p.m. | A Celebration of Francesca Woodman
Panelists will include Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor, art history, University of California, Berkeley; Sloan Keck, a designer and friend of Francesca Woodman; and Elisabeth Subrin, artist, and assistant professor, film and media arts, Temple University, Philadelphia. The moderator will be Robert Klein, Robert Klein Gallery.
6 p.m. | Italian Contemporary Photography
During the run of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, an important exhibition will be on view at Hunter Art Gallery, New York. Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s – Present. The moderator will be Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Speakers will include Maria AntonellaPelizzari, exhibition curator and Professor in the History of Photography at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; Yancey Richardson, Yancey Richardson Gallery; Julie Saul, Julie Saul Gallery; and Olivo Barbieri, artist.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tribble & Mancenido at Aipad
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Gerhard Richter : Painting
Gerhard Richter Painting
Opens Wednesday 14MARCH
thru 27MAR
“It’s pointless to talk about painting.” — Gerhard Richter (1965). Richter, considered one of the world’s greatest living painters and now nearly 80 years old, agreed to talk about his work, as a small film crew documents his creative process. Blunt, provocative, unashamedly curmudgeonly and iconoclastic (but never cynical), the artist says he’s “interested in things he doesn’t understand,” that “painting is a secretive business,” and that “each painting is an assertion that tolerates no company.” “You have to distrust your parents and see through them.” Born in 1932 in Dresden (which became East Germany), he left for the West nearly 30 years later. When his American gallerist Marian Goodman visits, they recall a 1984 show which began their relationship. Extensive contemporary scenes of the artist painting and interviews from the 1960s and ’70s give a sense of his creative development — his colorful abstractions, photorealist portraits, and paintings inspired by politics and history as well as more intimate statements. His final words as he applies and then scrapes off vast globs of paint: “Man, is this fun.” (via)
Friday, March 9, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Josephine Meckseper : Manhattan Oil Project
Photograph by James Ewing, courtesy of Art Project Fund
6MAR-6MAY
46th & 8th Ave
Manhattan Oil Project by Josephine Meckseper is the second installation at The Last Lot project space, presented by Art Production Fund. In Manhattan Oil Project, Meckseper presents two new monumental kinetic sculptures, each standing 25 feet tall. These full scale sculptures are inspired by mid 20th century oil pumps the artist discovered in Electra, a boarded-up town once famous for being the pump jack capital of Texas. The pump jacks recall the ruins of ghost towns, forgotten monuments of America's decaying industrial past. This pairing of the pump jacks and the Times Square location merges a classic symbol of American oil production and wealth with the center of New York City commercial culture.
The oil pump sculptures formally refer to the large-scale kinetic sculptures of Jean Tinguely, Alexander Calder, and Mark Di Suvero. Although they mirror the forms and materials of the mid-century oil industry, Meckseper locates her work firmly inside the contemporary debate about American business, wealth and consumerism. The pumps are intended as ignition points for critical discussion engaged directly with modern life.
The Last Lot is a generous short-term donation to Art Production Fund from The Shubert Organization, and is part of the Times Square Alliance’s public art program that works to bring cutting-edge art to Times Square. (via)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Photography in Flux : Reinventing the Medium
© Daniel Gordon
Photography is evolving at an astounding speed. The very definition of pictures—who makes them, and what happens to them—is in a constant state of flux. The discussion will consider how artists and institutions are responding to contemporary pressures. What do the democratization and dematerialization of photography mean to those who make, sell and curate photography? Photography is being redefined by new technology and social media, but what does that mean in terms of photography's history? Is the art world prepared to mediate a discourse on the nature of imaging as it radically metamorphoses?
The talk is being held in connection with Art in America's March issue, devoted for the first time to American photography. Feature articles include coverage of Zoe Strauss's streetwise Philadelphia photography, Robert Adams's cool West Coast vistas, and author Luc Sante's character study of Weegee. (via)
450 Park Avenue
15MARCH, 6.30pm
If you haven't already, pick up this month's issue of Art In America, dedicated to photography with wonderful, insightful articles on all things photo. One particularly great read, Photography Objet Manque by Claire Barliant. Happy reading!
Monday, March 5, 2012
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