Public Art Fund, New York’s leading presenter of artists’ projects, new commissions, installations, and exhibitions in public spaces, is pleased to announce its spring 2011 exhibitions: a large, multidirectional archway by Eva Rothschild; a monument to Pop icon Andy Warhol by Rob Pruitt; and a career survey of structures by the seminal artist Sol LeWitt.
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Tate Britain: Susan Hiller
Tate Britain
1 February–15 May 2011
Susan Hiller (b. 1940) is one of the most influential artists of her generation. This major survey exhibition at Tate Britain will provide a timely focus on a selection of her key works, including many of the pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections for which she is best known. It will be the largest presentation of her work to date, providing a unique opportunity to follow her exploration of dreams, memories and supernatural phenomena across a career of almost four decades.
The Core Program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Call for applications – The Core Program: Artist and Critical Studies Residencies
Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts
The Core Program awards artist and critical studies residencies to highly motivated, emerging visual artists and critical writers who have completed their academic training but have not yet fully developed a professional career.
Life after college with Angel O on artblog radio
A year and a half has passed since Angel O graduated from Moore College of Art. She had some work at the Great and Terrible Collective in the fall, but we wondered why we weren’t seeing more from this original young artist. So we tracked her down in Harrisburg, back at home after the Philadelphia [...]
The Museum of Modern Art, New York: MoMA and Cinecitta Luce celebrate Bernardo Bertolucci with a complete career retrospective
This comprehensive 20-film survey, presented in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce, Rome, celebrates the work of Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the great living practitioners of the art of cinema. All of the prints in this series are newly remastered by Cinecittà Luce, with sound and color correction overseen by several of the cinematographers who have worked with the director, including Vittorio Storaro, Darius Khondji, and Fabio Cianchetti.
Menil Collection: Vija Celmins’s Television and Disaster
Menil Collection
November 18, 2010 – February 20, 2011
Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been known for her captivating paintings and drawings of starry night skies, fragile spider webs, and barren desert floors—quiet, expansive worlds meticulously executed in gradations of black and grey. As a young artist in Los Angeles during the early 1960s, however, Celmins’s work was marked by a distinctly different tone, one influenced by the violence of the era and the mass media that represented it.
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
Smithsonian American Art Museum
November 19, 2010 – May 8, 2011
Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) has been depicting the natural world with virtuosity and wit for more than two decades. He was one of the first contemporary artists to build his career around exploring environmental issues, from evolutionary biology and genetic engineering to deforestation and climate change.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts: salt 2: Sophie Whettnall
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
November 18, 2010 – February 27, 2011
Whettnall, whose artistic practice encompasses photography, video, performance, and installation, began her career as a painter. Even as she turned to video, her work frequently returned to landscape and self-portraiture, genres traditionally aligned with painting.
HEREart
HERE has been one of New York’s more prolific producing organizations since 1993, and today, stands at the forefront of the city’s presenters of daring, new, hybrid art. HEREart provides emerging and early career visual artists and curators access to space at an active, well-located multi-arts center. We focus on exhibitions that creatively work with our unique spaces and engage audiences with artwork that is specially curated to function within a busy environment. HERE is currently accepting submission for HEREart’s 2011 exhibitions. Our deadline is October 13, 2010. For more info, please visit: http://here.org/programs/here-art/<img src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/q6unsj54WUU" height="1" width="1"/>
Kunstmuseum Basel: Andy Warhol: The Early Sixties
Kunstmuseum Basel
5 September 2010 – 23 January 2011
In the early 1960s, after a successful career as a commercial artist, Andy Warhol decided to devote himself to the fine arts. Even so, consumerism and the media-oriented nature of mass production continued to be the main thrust of his work. The exhibition highlights the artist’s seminal years from 1961 to 1964.
Index the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Parrot with works by Marcel Broodthaers and Karl Larsson
Index the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
1 September – 17 October 2010
Index shows works by Marcel Broodthaers (Belgium, 1924-76) and Karl Larsson (Sweden, born 1977) in an exhibition entitled Parrot. The presentation of Broodthaers – poet, filmmaker and one of the 20th century’s most important European conceptual artists – is concentrated and dense in view of the artist’s intense and short career that left a wide range of comprehensive and complex oeuvres.
Jeff Koons Book
Jeff Koons’ forthcoming monograph traces his spectacular career from 1979 to the present. True to form, the book honors his overstated aesthetic with proportions that may dwarf some coffee tables. Limited to a pressing of 1,600 copies, it serves as…