February 8, 2010 – 11:44 am
If you’re in NYC tomorrow night, be sure to swing by The Wild Project sometime between 6pm and 8pm for the opening of Elisabeth Bernstein’s first solo exhibition, Scapes, organized by our good friends Kate Greenberg and Hilary Schaffner.
From the press release:
“Bernstein’s seemingly familiar landscapes, at first glance, look as though they could be taken from places throughout the world. However, after close examination the viewer will notice that they have been fabricated for the camera. Using paint pigments and strategic camera placement to confound our expectations of weight and scale her images resemble mountainous terrains from an indeterminate time…”
Jan 28 – Mar 6, 2010
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, February 9, 6 – 8pm
@ 195 East 3rd Street b/t Ave A and B.
New York, NY 10009
p. 212.228.1195
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1 – 7pm
For more information please contact Hilary Schaffner at 212. 228.1195 or info@thewildproject.com.
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February 6, 2010 – 2:39 pm
Torbjørn Rødland is showing a new body of work, Dearest Kitty, at Nils Stærk in Copenhagen.
Western critics are used to seeing cuteness as a lie – a lie told in order to sell a product. It’s been an integrated part of my project since the 90s to look for a more nuanced understanding of cuteness. To my surprise, this search led me to photographic sadism. It was in Tokyo that I first saw the link. In Japan there is an acceptance of cuteness and a history of sadism much stronger than here, but I’ve recently noticed a shift in American culture as well. The last decade gave us Inglourious Basterds and the Bush Doctrine but also incredibly cute viral videos.
It’s been reported that Walt Disney begged the American Air Force not to bomb Schloss Neuschwanstein during the 1945 air raids. He modeled his Sleeping Beauty castle on the building, which less than eighty years earlier had been inspired by scenography from Wagner operas. I traveled to Bavaria to photograph this fantasy castle in front of snow-covered mountains, only to find that its best angle was inaccessible. I would have needed a helicopter or a small mountain expedition to make the picture I wanted and ended up buying a poster. They say Schloss Neuschwanstein is the most photographed building in Germany.
Two summers ago I photographed four watercolors signed «A.H.». For years they’d been hidden in a small frame behind one of the many watercolors Adolf Hitler painted of traditional German houses. We know Hitler owned a copy of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Disney’s first feature-length animation film. Private screenings were arranged for Hitler’s inner circle.
The skulls are photographed in cremation ovens. I longed to deal with reality in a more direct way. What can be more real than a person on fire?
One hundred years ago the New Testament was still our main story of evil and sacrifice. The World Wars changed that. The Holocaust is now our culture’s main mythological story of evil and sacrifice.
Anne Frank was fifteen when she died in Bergen-Belsen. Kitty is the name of her Amsterdam diary, our Gospel.
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February 4, 2010 – 1:15 pm
Sam Falls – Nothing Is Revealed
At Higher Pictures
764 Madsion Ave (btwn 65th and 66th sts), NY, NY
February 04 – March 06, 2010
Lydia Panas – The Mark of Abel
At Foley Gallery
547 W. 27th St, 5th Fl., NY, NY
February 04 – April 20, 2010
Silja Magg
Constructed Identities
Featuring: Katherine Edwards, Joel Jagerroos, Camile Godoy, Laura Gonzales, Jessica Ledbetter, Silja Magnusdottir, Therese Ohrvall, Lizzy Oppenheimer, Veronica Rafael, Bailey Roberts, Bernadette Vitale
At Thomas Werner Gallery
526 W. 26th St #712, NY, NY
February 04 – 06, 2010
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January 30, 2010 – 2:07 pm
Anne Collier at Anton Kern Gallery
Marlo Pascual at Casey Kaplan
William Eggleston: 21st Century at Cheim & Reid
David Schoerner
The Year In Pictures at Danzinger Projects
Peter Alexander
Primary Atmospheres: Works From California 1960-1970 at David Zwirner
Brian Ulrich
Instruments of Empire: Photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich at Caption Gallery
Yuta Nakajima
Small Prints at K&K Gallery
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January 28, 2010 – 11:08 am
“An art student visiting New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art recently toppled over in front of Pablo Picasso’s The Actor and tore a 6in hole in it. The painting, worth about £80m, has already been taken away to be restored and is thought to be fully repairable.”
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“In 2007 a painting by US artist Cy Twombly was smeared with lipstick after a woman, claiming to be “so overcome with passion”, gave it a rather vigorous snog. She was arrested and charged with criminal damage after staff intervened at the Collection Lambert museum in Avignon, France but told baffled press she was “just trying to warm up” the pristine white canvas.”
Reuters
“In 1996 a 22-year-old Toronto art student vomited over Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Red and Blue which was hanging in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Despite gallery officials dismissing it as “an unfortunate incident” the student, Jubal Brown, said he intentionally defaced the painting. He later consumed red food colouring and gave a repeat performance all over a work by Raoul Dufy at the Art Gallery of Ontario.”
Eyestorm
“Damien Hirst’s 2001 exhibition of Painting-By-Numbers was mistakenly sabotaged when the installation of empty beer-bottles, messy paint tins and overflowing ashtrays was cleared away by an enthusiastic cleaner. The work was later retrieved from the bin and Hirst said reportedly saw the funny side.”
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“In 1997 Russian performance artist Alexander Davidovic Brener (whose previous work included defecating in front of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh) was arrested and then jailed for painting a green dollar sign on a painting by Kazimir Malevich called Suprematisme. He argued in court that the act was “a dialogue with Malevich” rather than vandalism.”
-View the rest at The Independent
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