SCENE & HERD: The Artforum Diary

November 20, 2009

Linda Yablonsky at the LA MoCA gala, part 2

MOVIE STARS MAY GET DAYS OFF, but artists are always on the job. Meanwhile, the MoCA museum board worked overtime producing its thirtieth-anniversary gala, which made everyone present forget that one out of ten people in this country are currently unemployed. Entry into the huge tent on Grand Avenue, closed to traffic for the occasion, was under a massive movie marquee emblazoned with the title of Francesco Vezzoli’s performance topped by big red letters spelling out MOCA. “It’s just like a theater!” exclaimed a

News

11.20.09
Two New Curatorial Appointments at the Whitney
11.20.09
High Museum of Art Appoints Michael Rooks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
11.20.09
Architecture Contracts on the Rise
11.20.09
Metropolitan Museum Reports $8.4 Million Budget Deficit

International News Digest:

Hamburg’s Artists Making Gains—and Resisting City Marketing; Vladimir Poutine Embraces Street Art; Bamako Biennial Honors African Photographers; Orozco’s “Skeleton Sculpture” Comes to New York; Paris’s 104 Looks for a New Director; Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI II Museum Opens in Rome—with a Dance …

HAMBURG’S ARTISTS MAKING GAINS—AND RESISTING CITY MARKETING A group of Hamburg artists who squatted historical buildings slated for development has made gains in its battle for affordable

in print

November 2009

Urs Fischer, Katharina Fritsch, “The Quick and the Dead,” Charles Harrison, The Box, Rabih Mroué, the Bauhaus, Andy Warhol, New Jerseyy, Mary Reid Kelley, Commonwealth: An Exchange, Rachel Harrison, Doug Aitken, Ricci Albenda, Alice Guy Blaché, and much more

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CRITICS’ PICKS:

Artur Zmijewski

Democracies is a formal and political tour de force: examining the common visual language of protest while exploring how democratic citizen

“A Blow to the Everyday”

For this exhibition, curator Yuko Hasegawa presents several works by Japanese artists that transmute ordinary aspects of urban life.

LATEST REVIEWS

Film

Daniel Birnbaum on The Ister

RIVERS HAVE no poetic power anymore, German filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg tells us in David Barison and Daniel Ross’s 2004 documentary The Ister (now available on DVD). They have lost their mythic resonance and become part of the “machine” of “daily life.” These days, Syberberg asserts, nobody would create a major work of art

Museum Previews

U.S. Exhibitions

Dan Graham

Since 1965, when he began producing the diagrams and photo-text magazine pieces that would become landmarks of Conceptual art, Dan Graham has made a series of swerves in his practice through video and film and performance to the architectural pavilions

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International Exhibitions

Lynda Benglis

IMMA’s installation will foreground the inextricability of synthetic and bodily material by emphasizing the artist’s staging of selves and concomitant media interventions.

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500 Words

David Lynch discusses his exhibition in Santa Monica

David Lynch is a renowned filmmaker, visual artist, and writer. Before making a career in film, he studied fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A comprehensive solo exhibition of his paintings and photographs is currently on view at Griffin Gallery in Santa Monica, California, through December 12.

I LIKE IDEAS. THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS. So you get an idea, and sometimes you get an idea that you fall in love with, and that drives you. It’s all about the love of the idea––and ideas come for everything. Perhaps you get a “painting” idea and you’re totally fired up to go and paint that idea. Sometimes you get a “cinema” idea

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