With gorgeous color, ebullient natural imagery (birds, butterflies, flowers) and harmonious designs, Trudy Kraft’s “Emergence” at Gross McCleaf is pure visual happiness. Kraft’s third solo show at the gallery continues the artist’s exploration of the cosmic inter-connectedness of things. Influenced by cultural traditions in Japan, Africa, Thailand and India, Kraft’s easel-sized works on paper feature [...]

Big Picture is the title of a work by recently-deceased California artist Jason Rhoades (1965–2006), an expression term also suggestive of a “larger overview.” When Rhoades—in an ironic reversal—displays a large garden on a small flatscreen, he sets the tone for an exhibition of film and video installations which features the most diverse approaches to the cinematographic art installation.

Museum Morsbroich
13 March–22 May 2011

A period of radical upheaval took place in Argentinean art during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. This shift wasn’t solely articulated in formal experiments. It was motivated above all by the renunciation of institutionalised contexts and concomitant espousal of a more committed form of art critical of the media, which in turn brought forth political actions and public interventions.

Frankfurter Kunstverein
11 March–8 May 2011

The exhibition “IMAGE LEAKS – On the Image Politics of Resources” by Dierk Schmidt combines recent work and thematically related older pieces to create a focal image of contemporary economic-political relationships. A core question explored in Schmidt’s practice is how artistic images can address everyday political events and their historical legacy.

By Daniel Forrest Hoffman The beauty of a city, a building, or a home has often been explored through natural signs of age. The “lived in” quality of a place is usually what allows it to speak about itself and its history. Erin Murray’s solo exhibition “Architecture Parlante” at Slingluff Gallery (through Feb 27) explores the [...]

“OR” talks with “OK” as “OH” hangs back in the corner. “Capital B,” the tall, gangly guy, is telling jokes while the host, “Big A,” though looped and upside down, makes everyone feel at home. What is this, a cocktail party? James Hyde‘s “Word! The Stuart Davis Group” at Jolie Laide kind of looks like one, [...]

S.M.A.K.
Museum of Contemporary Art
3 December 2010–27 March 2011

The Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie (Baia-Mare, 1977) is showing in the S.M.A.K. a selection of paintings from before 2009 and a body of new work, including some collage paintings. Also, he is for the first time constructing his imposing Dada Room, a benchmark work in which elements from previous work merge.

Crazy-happy collage paintings, mournful costumes, wizardly sculptures, and candy-colored sweaters with pleats — “New American Voices” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is a four-course feast.  The works — by four featured artists who were in residence at the FWM recently — don’t really go together, but each artist is given so much space it’s [...]

This exhibition with the British artist Walead Beshty (b.1976) presents an overview of ten years of his photographic and sculptural work, recombining old and new pieces within site-specific installations, which turn on questions of the in-between.

Apply to the Wind Challenge 2012 Some changes are blowing through the Wind Challenge 2012, and those changes may make a difference, we think, in who will want to toss their hats in the ring. The 2012 honorarium is going up to $750 from $500 for each of the nine winning artists!  The addition of [...]

It seems like a good time for Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. Artists whose work incorporate storytelling, pointed statements and using the female body to do so, Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith have been compared beautifully in a variety of contexts, including Jon Bird’s Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. Looking through [...]

Generali Foundation
4 February – 17 July 2011

unExhibit takes the legendary show an Exhibit by Richard Hamilton, or more properly by the Independent Group, held at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1957, as the point of departure for considerations on the subject of the display-as-exhibition. The premise of an Exhibit was “no objects, no ideas”: an exhibition composed of colorful panels loosely suspended in space so that visitors could amble between them.

Turkish and Other Delights columnist Elizabeth Wolfson is filling in for regular Inside the Artist’s Studio writer Georgia Kotretsos this month and next.  — Ed. Ben Durham lives and works in Midway, Kentucky, just outside of his hometown of Lexington. He received a B.F.A from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. His work has [...]

As I am grieving the disappearance of the Minimalist from the pages of the New York Times, I am also pondering Mark Bittman’s statement from his farewell column, “the continuing attack on good, sound eating and traditional farming in the United States [and elsewhere in the world, I want to add] is a political issue.” [...]

“To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune,” says Mr. Miyagi, the Yoda-like master in the 1984 movie “The Karate Kid.”   More than 25 years on, the idea of the “inscrutable Asian” is mostly swept aside by a sushi-loving West.  And now, a local art exhibit uses the one-time insult to mock [...]

Cornerhouse, in conjunction with Eastside Projects, Birmingham and mima, Middlesbrough, presents a major touring solo show by acclaimed artist Carey Young. This exhibition, reconfigured for each venue, surveys the artist’s investigations of language, rhetoric and performance. The show features a newly commissioned video work Memento Park (2010), alongside a number of key video works and recent photographic, text and telephone works.

”Last Day A Pixel Saved My Life”Concept of the ExhibitionA memory is a faded moment, a blurred silhouette. The smartphone, instead, objectifies it with maniacal precision, catching every detail that eludes the glance, combining space, time and sound…

Edward Maeder is the former curator of Costumes and Textiles at the L.A. County Museum of Art and later at historic Deerfield. Maeder has more recently taken up the mantle of artist and “needleman.” His exquisite paper dress creations are made of Q-tips, coffee filters and other found papers. The inspiration for these art objects [...]

In 2011, the Royal Academy of Arts will be presenting the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the twentieth century. The show will represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring what we mean by the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of strongly themed galleries, each making its own visual argument.

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) invited the artist, Virgil Marti, to create an exhibition from works in the store rooms of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), and Marti’s discoveries among the museum’s overflow, dis-attributed, unfashionable, and otherwise overlooked collections were a spur to his imagination. The objects in storage reminded Marti of the [...]