13 March–19 June 2011

The Ludwig Forum Aachen will celebrate its 20th birthday with the exhibition opening of Hyper Real – Art and America around 1970. The exhibition, commissioned by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and Anna Sophia Schultz, features some 250 works by 100 international artists, such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Jeff Wall, Garry Winogrand and Andy Warhol.

opening February 25, 2011www.gagosian.comPress Release

Final Call for EntriesThe final deadline for submissions to Migrating Forms 2011 is Tuesday, February 15, 2011Go to migratingforms.org for full guidelines and instructions on how to submit. About Migrating FormsAn annual, ten-day festival dedicated to…

“…We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgment may be used as a tool to make later judgment more sensitive. This is a way of learning from everything.” — Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge: [...]

Describing Millais’ Ophelia as “a trigger in my art; an inspiration for what I’m doing”, American artist Ed Ruscha reveals a long-held fascination with one of Tate’s most admired paintings and explains the impact it has had on his work.

Gagosian Gallery presents a pop-up exhibition of catalogues, posters, prints and limited editions by gallery artists including John Currin, Ellen Gallagher, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Ric…

Installation view of fierce pussy, Get Up Everybody and Sing, 2010. Photocopy on paper, tape, dimensions variable. On view in “ACT UP NEW YORK,” at White Columns. Photo: 16 Miles

Martin Bromirski shares Ed Ruscha Says Goodbye to College Joys, an advertisement that first appeared in the January 1967 issue of Artforum, whose square layout Ruscha [...]

Left: Sonny Smith and Chris Leon, Sonny’s Cosmoramic Jukejams. Photos: 16 Miles [more]

It took a decade, but someone has finally put together a collection songs that makes Stephin Merritt’s 69 Love Songs look a little bit underdeveloped. The man responsible for that feat is Sonny Smith, leader of the group Sunny & the Sunsets. Smith [...]

opening September 2, 2010www.spruethmagers.comPress Release

Martin Creed, Work No. 878, 2008, at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Photo: 16 Miles
“It is bad form, however, to cut in while the artist is doing a snow job on a potential buyer, buttonholing a critic or curator or licking the shoes of a more important artist.”
– William Grimes, “When Art Puts on a Party Hat: [...]