Blah blah blah went the promospeak from Art21. So I skipped to the videos–brief (6 mins. or so) documentary clips on artists early in their careers. First I laughed with Kalup Linzy and James Franco (yes, that James Franco) performing camp rap; then I watched a sad one of LaToya Ruby Frazier wearing out a [...]

It’s 16 days to the premiere of Art 21′s new film about William Kentridge. It ain’t perfect but Kentridge himself is. The film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible takes place Oct. 21 at 10:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings it says; not a good sign). I am going to remind you every once in [...]

Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
21 September 2010 – 9 January 2011

EXHIBITION, EXHIBITION is a unique and ambitious exhibition that sets out to explore and reflect on the roles of perception and interpretation in the experience of viewing both works of art and exhibitions, revising the ways in which we commonly view them. It brings together artworks characterized by their use of doubling and symmetry; works produced in series – which consequently explores issues of artistic progression and development, change and variation; works that are visually deceptive; work produced in different versions, even produced by different artists, and presents them in a display format that itself will be premised on and follow these ideas.