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These projects highlight how the organization creates a truly global perspective on what curators and artists are thinking, researching, and producing today.

Not exact matches

The curators, architects, art historians and artists of the FDR - sanctioned Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives crew scrambled around Europe during the war, saving what they could, finding Nazi - looted and culturally priceless Rembrandts and Picassos and frescoes, many of them crated deep within Hitler's salt mines.

People (or dealers, curators, and critics, anyway) don't know what happened to a major work by two major artists of the day, and they seem not to care, content to pass along inaccuracies or offhand dismissals.

With over 4,000 objects representing more than two dozen collectors, including contemporary artists making art conceived by collecting, Massimiliano Gioni, the museum's artistic director, and his team of curators have mounted a remarkable series of object lessons about what it means to «keep,» the relationship of possession to loss, the madness inherent in love, and the undeniable importance of the individual's voice in recording and interpreting history and its sweep.

Both shows open this week, but what one curator a few months ago called an art - world «battle royale» — the two megadealers competing over the work of a super-profitable artist — has settled into something else, and just maybe what Koons wanted all along: the beginning of a Year of Koons, culminating in summer 2014's full - career retrospective at the Whitney Museum — its last exhibition in its Madison Avenue headquarters before moving to the bottom of the High Line.

The breakthrough success of Lawrence van Hagen's What's Up, held in London earlier this year, underlined for its young curator the need for more global surveys of emerging and established contemporary artists.

Central to her work since is the experience in the early 1990s, when Tabacco attended a month - long drawing workshop in Como, Italy where she recalls, «the most frustrating dilemma facing the participating group of international artists, curators and theorists related to drawing's methodological inclusiveness or otherwise: that is, what constitutes a drawing.

What is the role of process in the work of both artists and curators?

What an artist might lack in objectivity, he or she makes up for in passion and on - the - ground knowledge — the kind a professional curator couldn't possibly have at their disposal.

Upon finding out that an unreleased film denouncing the Greek military junta who ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974 had been shot by the blacklisted, American filmmaker Jules Dassin in 1974 in what is now The Kitchen's gallery space, Curator Matthew Lyons invited Courtesy the Artists, Discoteca Flaming Star, and Georgia Sagri to revisit the themes and structures of the original film.

«When people ask me what are my influences, they're ghosts and magic,» artist and curator Michael Stillion said during a recent visit to his studio in Evanston.

Mind and Matter and these other exhibition and incidental installations of individual works are part of an ongoing initiative among women curators at MoMA to delve deeply into the permanent collection in order to find out what works by women artists they already own and then see how gaps in the collection can be filled through acquisitions, with assistance from the Modern Women's Fund.

Finally, in this exhibition artist / curator Gober has posthumously granted Bess» wish and displayed what remains of his thesis alongside his artwork.

At the Prada Foundation, celebrated curator Germano Celant (best known for ushering Arte Povera to international renown) has organized a fascinating show together with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas that lovers of art history can't miss: an artwork - by - artwork restaging of curator Harald Szeemann's legendary 1969 show «When Attitudes Become Form» at the Bern Kunsthalle, which redefined the possibilities of what curating can and should be.

Hedonistic virtue aside, what do artist - cum - curator Jeff Koons, billionaire collector Dakis Joannou and the 6th century Assyrian demon god of wind have in common?

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GUTS (yellow / gold)(all works 2007), for example, her contribution to «Late Liberties» at John Connelly Presents, is a vivid and uncompromising canvas that confronted viewers with a seemingly metaphorical treatment of the titular word, ensuring that they would be hard - pressed to disagree with curator Augusto Arbizo's claim that «for a young artist to be making work at this moment in what could be called an abstract or nonrepre - sentational manner... is... a highly personal and political act.»

It was the same with Carol Bove — I did a solo booth of her work at Art Basel in 2002, and that's what really broke her as an artist, because European curators and collectors warmed to her work before Americans did.

But, basically, the liberties that Lizzi and Rita took as artists were very different than what I would take as a curator.

What can artists and curators learn from the art projects, curatorial practice, expanded notions of location, pedagogy, and their intersections?

«Ruby Green Contemporary Arts Center set a precedent for what can be done here, with a lot of sweat equity and not a lot of capital,» says Adrienne Outlaw, artist and founder of Seed Space, a lab for writers, curators, and artists.

In this video, the exhibition's curator Tess Jaray RA talks about some of the techniques used by these artists as they push the boundaries of what printmaking means and what it can do.

What happened in New York as a result was the revival of art spaces where artists and curators could experiment.

Add to these shows the fact that Venice Biennale curator Massimiliano Gioni has included the artist in his upcoming «Encyclopedic Palace» exhibition and you can see what amounts to a major Richard Serra moment.

The only artist to have come out of Brancusi's studio, Noguchi had unique insights into what Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart calls «that Modernist Eden of ambiguity — where traditional craft met the avant - garde, object became indistinguishable from base, and art was life.»

Since that time, Thompson has organized such major projects as the annual Creative Time Summit, Kara Walker's A Subtlety (2014), the group show Living as Form (2011), Paul Ramirez Jonas's Key to the City (2010), Jeremy Deller's It Is What It Is (with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie; 2009), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (multiple artists, 2008), Paul Chan's acclaimed Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007), and Mike Nelson's A Psychic Vacuum, with curator Peter Eleey.

Artists David Reed and Christopher Wool speak with curator Katy Siegel on what the New York Studio School was like for them.

The responsibility shared by the artist and the participants for what the work can evolve into permeates her entire oeuvre», says Lena Essling, curator of the exhibition.

Another pair, Katy Rothkopf, Senior Curator of the BMA's Department of European Painting and Sculpture, and Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, have gathered more than ninety of the artists» major paintings and drawings to create what Jay Fisher, the BMA's Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, describes as «an unprecedented visual narrative that reaches across the twentieth century.»

What's different today is not just the heightened economic inequality we see within the US, but also the widespread de rigueur expectation — reinforced by curators, academics, and, indeed, critics — that serious artists offer a kind of protest, working to subvert the very social and economic power structures their patrons uphold.

Juror, Lisa D. Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, mentions in her essay that, «Most of the works by Midwest artists chosen... challenge traditional definitions of painting or sculpture and instead explore a hybrid state that incorporates aspects of both...» We hope you will pick - up a copy and let us know what you think!

Philip Von Zweck is a Chicago based artist, curator, radio dj, food fryer, art handler and god knows what else.

«[BETA Spaces] provides curators with an opportunity to develop their vision and collaborate with artists in order to produce a strong exhibit, which is what professional gallery and museum curators do for a living.»

For more in this series, see my thoughts on tackling race and gender in art, artist - curators, art fair hype, top 5s and top 10s, our political art is terrible, gap left by Brian Sewell, how art never learned from the Simpsons, why artspeak won't die, so - called reviews, bad reviews are bad for business, the $ 179m dollar headline, art fairs appealing to the masses, false opening hours, size matters and what's wrong with video art.

You Should've Heard Just What I Seen explores how music shapes the experience of making and looking at art, with original contributions from over 50 leading contemporary artists, curators and gallerists.

LACMA curator Franklin Sirmans says, «In a broad scheme, we believe in Charles and his work and what it means to other artists and other museum collections.

With a title as broad as «I Really Miss You Until You're Here» from White Conduit Projects» latest exhibition, it is easy to be intrigued about what might be included in the show, and what themes the artists, and indeed curator, might be addressing.

The fifth instalment in our yearlong, monthly survey in which artists, curators and cultural commentators explore the question of what African art (of the contemporary flavour) does or can do within various local contexts across the continent.

We've asked dealers, curators, advisors, collectors, and seasoned artists to provide some insider insight on what to do (and what not to do) during your next studio visit.

Convening luminary artists, curators, researchers, and writers to discuss how technology is transforming culture, the first edition of Open Score will consider how artists are responding to new conditions of surveillance and hypervisibility; how social media's mass creativity interfaces with branding and identity for individual artists; how the quality and texture of art criticism is evolving in a digital age; and what the future of internet art might be in light of a broader assimilation of digital technologies.

ghetto Biennale 2015: The Ghetto Biennale is calling for applications for its 4th edition (Nov. — Dec. 2015) and invites artists and curators to explore what potentials the radical tools Kreyol, Vodou and the Lakou have to offer to the contemporary world.

I ask one of these artists, Helen Cammock, what it was like to work with Himid: «She is an artist / curator who utterly trusted my instinct, who was there to talk ideas through, to ask questions, to make suggestions, but most importantly, to encourage me to make what I wanted with confidence and courage.»

«What was revealing to me as a young curator was the schism that suddenly seemed to exist between my generation, of which Thelma was a definite leading light, and the generation of cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and accomplished artists who had never been properly foregrounded within American art history.

«It is the product of a deep collaboration between curators, scholars, and artists and shows the very best of what is possible at the Smart Museum.»

Together with interviews featuring artists, curators, art critics and gallery directors, GalleryLOG's virtual gallery shows footage of what art looks like on the wall before it's even installed.

Duddell's bills itself as «a social and cultural destination for people who have an active appreciation for the arts» (a strategically coded phrase for collectors) and hosts what it calls exhibitions, often involving high - profile artists or institutional curators.

On the occasion of what would have been his 100th year, this symposium, recorded on December 1, 2012, at the National Gallery of Art, takes a new look at Smith's achievement from the diverse perspectives of artist, art historian, and curator.

«As to what influences what,» Edwards said in an email, «it is a complex question, one that curators and art historians busy themselves with and that can be tracked from artist to artist.»

In the first part of our interview, we discussed what Hoffmann gains as a curator by visiting artists» studios; the art scenes of the American Midwest; the problem of wealthy American patrons who finance a museum in their home city and import the MoMA model; and why it is good to be generous as a curator.

What I've always appreciated most is the ability for an artist to show work at a smaller scale, perhaps a project space for example, and work their way through the diverse community of curators, gallerists and collectors that are deeply interested in new artists and their work.