Comparing the opinions of various curators, Glasstress addresses this issue through glass sculptures specially
made by major artists on the contemporary scene and through objects and sculptures made by designers, whose research was influenced by the formal aspect of the use of the object.
Not exact matches
This is a
major exhibition of works
by a New York
artist who died in 1978 at the age of 35; and, literally,
made a mark on NYC in the 70s
by cutting into — and at times removing — large chunks of buildings.
The Manchester Art Gallery is currently presenting «
Make Every Show Like It's Your Last», a
major new exhibition of work
by the British
artist, Ryan Gander.
In the run up to his
major exhibition, Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (until 10 September 2017), the
artist was interviewed
by Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc - Christoph Wagner, who spent six months with him while he was in the process of
making his grand series of railcar paintings, Habakuk.
In the first
major institutional survey of his artistic career, the display will showcase pieces
by the Chinese
artist and political activist
made since his return to China in 1993, as well as new site - specific installations.
Visual
Artist Elena Siff's
Making Change project addresses how the Internet plays a
major role in this new artistic economy
by setting up an actual and virtual marketplace that allows participating
artists an opportunity to sell their creations in person and online.
In the run up to his
major exhibition, Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, the
artist was interviewed
by Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc - Christoph Wagner, who spent six months with him while he was in the process of
making his grand series of railcar paintings, Habakuk.
«The very conditions that
make the State possible... trace creative lines of escape» — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (Nomadology: The War Machine, 1986) Lisson Gallery presents the first
major solo exhibition in the United Kingdom
by Moroccan - French
artist Bouchra Khalili.
Statistics from 2012 reveal that 90 per cent of the visual
artists featured in art books were men; work
by women
artists made up three to five per cent of
major permanent collections in the US and Europe; artworks
by female
artists achieved none of the highest 100 auction prices; of The Art Newspaper's top 30 most visited exhibitions in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring female
artists.
We see that in the breadth of people included in
major recurring exhibitions, in the interests of younger
artists, critics and curators, in the editorial choices
made by the most current magazines, in the increasing visibility of
artists emerged in the 60s and 70s, but did not enter the canon.
First
major survey of work
by British
artist Anna Barriball, bringing together drawing, video, photography and sculpture
made over the last decade.
Taking as its title and starting point a statement
by the pioneering British feminist
artist Jo Spence, the exhibition focuses on
major performance art
made by women
artists in the UK during the 1970s.
On the other hand the raucous humor of the various projects depicted
by Barcelona based
artist and activist Leonidas Martin was quite wonderful and contagiously funny although one of the best pieces was video of a bank occupation, when in a kind of flash mob event, people closed their accounts at a branch of a
major bank and a huge crowd of revelers suddenly materialized, eventually even
making an initially stunned woman banker burst out laughing.
While the
major artists of the movement produced different kinds of work, they were united
by an interest in unconventional — typically everyday — materials, evidenced in Mario Merz's Cone (1967),
made from willow, and Mario Ceroli's Io (1968), an iron and coal sphere.
Opening on 23rd January at the Rook & Raven gallery, Bigger Than The Both of Us, a solo exhibition
by acclaimed
artist Corinne Felgate is comprised of two new
major installations, Bigger than the Both of Us (MOMA) and Studio X Y Z, that draw on the
artist's on - going research into our collective relationship with the man -
made environment, and how society's perception of the manufacturing industry shapes our understanding of what it is to exist in the world today.
MoMA receives
major donation of Latin American art The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros has donated 102 works of modern art
by artists from Latin America to New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper,
made between the 1940s and the 1990s.
This exhibition brings together the work of potter Sara Flynn, who has been commissioned to
make a new body of work for display on the granary, alongside a
major installation
by British
artist Richard Smith and over twenty photographs
by the Sri Lankan
artist Lionel Wendt.
This
major exhibition features 90 works
by the late Argentinian
artist made from the late 1960s to the present.
On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract
make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced
by black
artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including
major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.
Berlinde De Bruyckere has
made a
major new sculpture inspired
by the paintings of Baroque Neapolitan
artist Luca Giordano.
The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work
by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who
made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.
The High began collecting the work of contemporary self - taught
artists in 1975 and became the first museum outside of Alabama to
make a
major purchase of work
by Bill Traylor in 1982.
According to a survey conducted
by Washington - based National Museum of Woman in the Arts, works
by female
artists make up only 3 - 5 % of
major permanent collections in the US and Europe.
In the run up to his
major exhibition, Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (until 10 September 2017), the
artist was interviewed
by Kasper Bech Dyg and Marc - Christoph Wagner over the course of six months while he was in the process of
making his series of large - scale railcar paintings, Habakuk.
OCMA unveils a
major, site - specific installation
by Long Beach
artist Olga Lah,
made of hundreds of stacked, foam blocks and extending 65 feet.
However, new textual material has been produced, new conversations started, and the heroic struggle of The Real Estate Show not only reached younger generations of
artists and art professionals, but ended up covered
by major mass media,
making people aware of how timely the restaging was, and how things not only have not changed, but have gotten even worse.
As a result, the Clyfford Still Museum houses 95 percent of Clyfford Still's total output,
making its collection the most intact body of work
by any
major artist from any century.
Of contemporary
artists, Grayson Perry, the eccentric potter, Sir Peter Blake, the pop
artist, and Banksy, the graffiti
artist, have been singled out
by their peers as
major influences, but those conspicuous
by their absence from the Top Ten, apart from Hirst and Emin, include Jake and Dinos Chapman, best - known for defacing Goya prints, Mark Wallinger, who videoed himself dressed as a bear, and Marc Quinn, who
made a head out of his own blood.
It featured 30
major works
made throughout the
artist's career, from 1965 to 2011, on loan from public and private collections in America and Europe and was curated and organized
by Paul Nesbitt and Chloe Reith (Curator of Exhibitions, Inverleith House).
The piece, in my view, felt like a slap in the face: white
artist gets lauded
by a
major career -
making institution for dealing with race; everyone else, not so much.
An
artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, currently Professor of Fine Art at the Stadel Schule, Frankfurt, this is his first
major exhibition in this country since winning the Turner Prize in 2005 and includes works
made during the past five years, all of them being shown in Britain for the first time, plus a site specific work commissioned
by Tate St Ives for this show.
Organized
by artist Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann, Director, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, CCA, and produced
by Independent Curators International (ICI), the traveling exhibition examines the work of
artists who operate outside the MFA programs, commercial galleries, and
major museums that
make up the mainstream art world.
Drawn from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections, which together
make up one of the world's largest groups of works
by Anselm Kiefer, the exhibition will include approximately 50
major Kiefer
artist books, works on paper, paintings, and sculptures from the late 1960s to the present day.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that it had received a
major gift of 20th - century works
by African - American
artists from the South, including 10 pieces
by Thornton Dial and 20 important quilts
made by the Gee's Bend quilters of Alabama.
Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1969, 1969.5.1 -.34 © Estate of Louise Nevelson /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend is
made possible
by major grants from The Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Irving Schneider and Family.
At its annual meeting in March, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art
made possible the acquisition of Piano / Piano (1963 — 1965/2011)
by Richard Artschwager, a
major example of the wooden sculptures that employ Formica as a laminate, for which he is known; Plaster Surrogates (1982/1989)
by Allan McCollum, the last large grouping available of the
artist's signature works in this series; and Condensation Wall (1963 — 1966/2013)
by Hans Haacke, a breakthrough kinetic work from the
artist's early career.
Sweet Heart Now Grown So Cold is an exhibition of
major works
made by the
artist over the last five years, and unseen in the UK.
This solo show
by Corinne Felgate is comprised of two new
major installations: Bigger than the Both of Us (MOMA) and Studio X Y Z. Both draw on the
artist's research into our relationship with the man -
made environment.
Kiesler's most important sculpture, «David», 1965, forms the core of this exhibition,
making it a rare opportunity to view
major works
by the visionary Austro - American
artist.
For her first
major show in Miami, Friedman created four brightly hued sheets of rubber — which she
made by pouring 1,000 pounds of material onto the Locust Projects» floor — along with metal sculpture and an accompanying performance piece
by artist Silas Reiner.
David Zwirner was also a
major highlight, showing a series of new Infinity Net works
by Yayoi Kusama, a return to the body of work that sees the
artist taking a more nuanced approach to color, craft and texture that
makes a fascinating new entry in her recent, prolific output.
Herrera is the subject of a 26 - minute documentary,
Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera,
made in 1994, and of Carmen Herrera: 5 Degrees of Freedom,
by Konstantia Kotaxis, produced for a
major retrospective of the
artist's work at the Miami Art Central in 2005.
Herrera is the subject of a 26 minute documentary,
Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera,
made in 1994, and of Carmen Herrera: 5 Degrees of Freedom,
by Konstantia Kotaxis, produced for a
major retrospective of the
artist's work at the Miami Art Central in 2005.
(127 x 101.6 cm) Courtesy of the
artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Made possible
by a
major grant from The Allan Morrow Foundation.
This canny engagement with conventions of both sculpture and abstract painting combine to
make a twofold case: first, for the powerful familial associations and intelligence born from traditional
artist practices embodied
by the blankets she chose and, second, for the larger place of such «women's work» of
making handmade textiles as crucial to
major debates in Western art's history.
Since prices often jump when an
artist has a
major show like this and Baldessari
makes a lot of work
by any standard — enough to fill four solo shows a year on average — he's all over Basel this year.
Song Dong (CHN), The Centre of the World 1 September - 29 October For Aarhus 2017, Kunsthal Aarhus presents the
major solo exhibition, Collaborations,
by renowned Chinese
artist, Song Dong, which begins with
making an edible replica of the City of Aarhus and a public performance where citizens of Aarhus will be able to — literally — eat a large scale model of the city
made from biscuits.
Walker's immense talent matched
by her cunning commentary has
made her one of the most important contemporary
artists today, having enjoyed
major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York in addition to permanent placements within the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute Chicago.
Sixty photographs
made since 1982 feature in the Los Angeles — based
artist's first
major survey exhibition in the United States, which is accompanied
by a catalogue with essays
by curator Russell Ferguson, Lee Edelman, and Esther Leslie, along with a reprint of a 1990 interview
by David Rimanelli.
MOCA Tuscon will be opening the second installment of its
major group summer exhibition on July 10th, «
Made in Tuscon / Born in Tuscon / Live in Tuscon Part II,» which will feature three new works
by Dimitri Kozyrev alongside a select group of emerging contemporary
artists.