Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate
between the «good» — that is, the strength,
exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.
«If you Lived Here You'd be Home,» Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on Hudson, NY, June 25 — Dec 11, 2011 «Black Swan: The Exhibition Regen Projects,» Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 — April 16, 2011 «American
Exuberance,» Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011 - July 27, 2012 «America: Now + Here,» a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 — November 2011 «Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial),» September 17 — November 13, 2011 «We Will Live, We Will See,» Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7 — August 14, 2011 «The Bearden Project,» The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 — September 2, 2012 «HIDE / SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,» Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012 «Nothing in the World But Youth,» Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012 «The Bearden Project,» Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 — March 11, 2012 «Jean Genet,» Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 — October 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 — December 18, 2011 «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13 — July 4, 2011 «Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011 «Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists,» Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 — September 18, 2011 «ARTiculate: Links
Between Visual and Verbal Expression,» Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 — February 26, 2011 «Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works,» Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19 — March 19, 2011 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28, 2011 «Distant Star / Estrella Distante,» An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011