As we previously posted, Made in L.A. 2012, L.A.'s
first biennial exhibition featuring the work of 60 local artists, runs through Sept. 2 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, LAXART in Culver...
As we previously posted, Made in L.A. 2012, L.A.'s
first biennial exhibition featuring the work of 60 local artists, runs through Sept. 2 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, LAXART in Culver City and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Feliz.
Acquired sixteen years after the artist served as a juror for the museum's
first biennial exhibition, the painting was recommended by no less an authority on contemporary painting than Alfred Barr, then the director of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Not exact matches
In 1968, after nearly four decades of hosting both the Whitney Annuals and
Biennials, the museum presented an
exhibition of only sculpture: the
first Whitney Sculpture Annual.
When the Whitney's curators planned the museum's
first exhibitions in its new home, they postponed the
biennial a year to concentrate on the permanent collection.
He also installed his
first - ever public art work on the High Line in New York, not too far from where the
biennial exhibition is on view.
SAMSON KAMBALU: NYAU CINEMA This is the
first United States solo museum
exhibition for the Malawi - born, London - based filmmaker Samson Kambalu, a steady presence on the international scene who has shown at the Venice, Liverpool and Dakar
Biennials; he uses humor to challenge official histories, art and religions.
Free Play is presented as part of PERFORMA 05, the
first biennial of visual art performance in New York City, which will take place November 3 - 21, 2005, and include a multidisciplinary program of live visual art performances, film screenings, lectures, and
exhibitions.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon visits the
first exhibition of designs submitted to the
biennial LAGI design competition.
Biennials and Beyond is the
first book to position a range of contemporary
exhibitions in the context of art history, providing installation photographs,
exhibition floor plans, and critical texts from the time, as well as an expansive account of recent
exhibition history.
The International is the
first biennial - style
exhibition to become W.A.G.E. Certified.
Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer's
first large - scale
biennial, officially closed September 2, but if you missed the
exhibition you are not entirely out of luck.
In 1892, Venice, Italy, mounted the
first biennial artwork survey in modern times, a pluriform
exhibition surveying types of art made around the world and shown in pavilions divided by country.
Irish curator Annie Fletcher, who is based in the Netherlands, was the
first biennial curator, and she created an essential bridge from the previous annual
exhibitions with After the Future in 2012.
The model of contemporary art
biennials, upon which Prospect is based, emerged with the Venice Biennale, which was founded in 1895 to be the
first international art
exhibition.
He has written about the work of Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Hayes, and Wangechi Mutu, among others, and has organized
exhibitions including: «Quadruple - Consciousness» at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, «Fade: African American Artists in Los Angeles,» for the city of Los Angeles, numerous
exhibitions and programs for LAXART, Los Angeles, where he served as Curator, and «Made in L.A., 2012,» the
first Los Angeles
biennial, co-organized by a curatorial team from the Hammer Museum and LAXART.
«This
exhibition will mark the
first presentation of a curatorial team for the United States included as a participant in the main program of the
biennial,» said
biennial Director Jorge Fernández.
The context has only expanded since the
biennial's founders — Austin - based artists Shea Little, Jana Swec, Jon Lawrence, and Joseph Philips —
first sought to provide an
exhibition opportunity for all artists in the state.
Biennials and Beyond is the
first book to position a range of contemporary
exhibitions in the context of art history, providing installation photographs,
exhibition floor plans and critical texts from the time, as well as an expansive account of recent
exhibition history by Bruce Altshuler.
Today, however, Net - savvy artists are responding to renewed encouragement generated by new - media and digital - art festivals, such as ZERO1, which will mount its second
biennial in San Jose in June; contemporary museums actively building collections, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art; and even long - established institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, which brought together work by a half - dozen
first - generation Web artists in last year's «Automatic Update»
exhibition.
It also departs from the
biennial's value system as rooted in the empire building world's fairs of the 19th and 20th centuries — many call London's Great
Exhibition of 1951 held in a dramatic crystal palace the «
first»
biennial — designed to give viewers a deeply overwhelming «great mass and jumble of things» (commodities, mostly) as «a challenge to make sense of... unimaginable diversity; to find or invert a «perspective» on the whole so that objects could be made to «stay and lie orderly.»
The Council organized the
first Fine Arts & Flowers
exhibition in 1987, which has since become a
biennial event.
Kentridge
first gained recognition in 1997, when his work was included in Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and in the Johannesburg and Havana
Biennials, which were followed by prominent international solo
exhibitions.
Our members enable us to support artists and engage Portlanders with free visual arts
exhibitions, our
biennial of Oregon artists, and a
first - of - its - kind Curator in Residence program for emerging talent.
These
exhibitions mark Torrance Art Museum's (TAM) third time participating in SUR:
biennial and the
first exhibitions affiliated with the Getty - led Pacific Standard Time initiatives.
There will be more to say about FotoFocus overall — it features over 60
exhibitions and 100 events during its monthlong run — but at this point I'm prepared to deem the work of Roe Ethridge — who as part of the
biennial is having his
first major solo museum
exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)-- Lynchian in nature.
His
first one - person
exhibition was at Pat Hearn Gallery in New York in 1989, and since then his work has been shown in museum
exhibitions across Europe and the United States, including the 1993 and 1995 Whitney
Biennials.
THE OPENING THIS MONTH OF THE 2000
BIENNIAL EXHIBITION — the latest installment of the Whitney's flagship show and the most - talked - about event on the museum's calendar — also marks a closing of sorts: that of the moderately embattled
first chapter of Maxwell Anderson's tenure as director.
It was also agreed that the national
biennial exhibitions would have a common theme, the
first of which was to be «The Environment» in 1976.
The
biennial will be his
first major museum
exhibition, and he described wanting to ensure his inclusion «isn't just trying to tokenize my work in any way,» he said.
It was the sixth edition of the festival and the
first under the artistic direction of Sarah McCrory; as one has come to expect from such
biennial undertakings,
exhibitions and installations were spread throughout the city, occupying spaces ranging from major public institutions to such quirky, out - of - the - way venues as an underground parking garage, a vendor's stall in a dilapidated shopping center, and a crumbling Edwardian community bathhouse.
The journey and event culminated in «A Journey That Wasn't» (2006), a video installation
first shown in the 2006
biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
To celebrate the impact of this influential institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London, has opened its doors to the
first exhibition tracing the company's history, which involves screening footage of over 20 selected commissions that debuted as part of the
biennial.
Be among the
first to view Constant as the Sun, our third regional
biennial exhibition which brings together works from artists interested in portraying, building and connecting communities.
This morning (June 28), the Hammer Museum announced the five finalists up for the $ 100,000 Mohn Prize, selected from the roster of 60 emerging or under - recognized Southern California artists featured in the Made in L.A. 2012
exhibition — the
first Los Angeles
biennial organized by the Hammer and LAXART.
Earlier this month, the Hammer Museum and the LAXART contemporary art space announced the 60 artists selected for Made in L.A. 2012, the
first in an ongoing series of
biennial exhibitions that focus on works created by LA - based artists.
His
first solo
exhibition was in 1982, and his work has been included in numerous museum
exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney
Biennials and three Whitney
Biennials.
The Hammer Museum and LAXART have announced the participants in this year's «Made in LA 2012,» which is the
first in a series of
biennial exhibitions featuring new work by Los Angeles artists.
Although this is Vogt's
first major museum show, her works have been included in a number of prestigious group
exhibitions, including the 75th Whitney
Biennial in 2010 and Made in L.A. 2012 — the
first Los Angeles
biennial organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART.
His
first one - person
exhibition was at Pat Hearn Gallery in New York in 1989, and since then his work has been shown in museum and gallery
exhibitions across Europe and the United States, including the 1993 and 1995 Whitney
Biennials.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon visits the
first exhibition of designs submitted to the
biennial LAGI design competition.