With “William Leavitt: Theater Objects” the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles presents the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt. The retrospective at MOCA Grand Avenue surveys William Leavitt’s 40-year career and includes paintings, photographs, works on paper, performances, and installations from the late 1960s to [...]

In the lead up to this year’s Academy Awards, I found myself on a few occasions defending Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit as something other than simply a good remake of a classic western.  My argument in defense of their Oscar-nominated film more or less hinged on the basic point that True Grit can [...]

In the main gallery of Discharge!, Piotr Uklański’s current show at Gagosian Gallery, fourteen vibrantly colored large-scale paintings hang unusually close together on walls covered in equally dynamic wallpaper.  The overall effect is striking, and stepping into the room is to step into a dense and immersive visual experience (the press release describes the exhibition [...]

In the main gallery of Discharge!, Piotr Uklański’s current show at Gagosian Gallery, fourteen vibrantly colored large-scale paintings hang unusually close together on walls covered in equally dynamic wallpaper.  The overall effect is striking, and stepping into the room is to step into a dense and immersive visual experience (the press release describes the exhibition [...]

Yesterday, Google launched Art Project. Art Project brings the technology of Google Maps Street View into a handful of the world’s best art museums. Users can virtually wander through various galleries and click and drag to explore full panoramic views. The experience moves beyond the street version, however, in that it lets you click to [...]

From 29 January until 3 April 2011, Portikus will present Matthew Brannon’s exhibition A question answered with a quote. Brannon has developed a site-specific installation, as part of which he will also be showing several new works.

Extrastruggle is an enormous project which began in 1997. It works on imaginary demands from imaginary customers. Just like a graphic designer designing a logo for a client, it designs logos for all communities under social pressure. So begins the introduction to Extrastruggle (Extramücadele in Turkish), the “enormous project” belonging to artist Memed Erdener. A [...]

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 27, 2011, 7 – 10 pmOn View: January 28 – February 6, 2011, 12 – 5 pmPost Internet Survival GuideCurated by: Katja Novitskova and Michael RuizThe Future Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Post InternetSurviv…

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British film director Peter Greenaway interpreting Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper seemed a compelling combination. At least it piqued my curiosity. While the exhibited video work concluded its run at The Armory in NYC on January 6, I have been struggling to find the words to describe my disappointment and dissatisfaction (to put it [...]

“…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: [...]

“Maybe the Internet is for me what Paris in the 20s was for Joyce, Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein or New York in 50s was for Jasper Johns and Rauschenberg.” — Jon Rafman Canadian new media artist Jon Rafman may be best known for his Google Street View project and his clever and poignant web art [...]

Screens invites you to explore a compelling new work from artist John<br />
Ward Knox.<br />
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"The ancients built Valdrada on the shores of a lake, with houses all<br />
verandas one above the other, and high streets whose railed parapets<br />
look out over the water. Thus the traveller, arriving, sees two<br />
cities: one erect above the lake, and the other reflected,<br />
upside-down."<br />
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In "Untitled", John Ward Knox probes the surface of our user<br />
interfaces, drawing out the pointer convention and shifting it gently<br />
from instructor to mark-maker. Unfolding twice, four, eight times on<br />
itself, each gesture is flipped and inverted, a reversed movement<br />
playing out in another screen-space.<br />
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View Work<br />
http://www.screens.org.nz/jwk_untitled/<br />
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Project page with introduction and discussion<br />
http://www.screens.org.nz/john-ward-knox/<br />
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Also on Screens is "Rain", a game-work from Seung Yul Oh inviting<br />
play, recently exhibited at Artspace, Auckland.<br />
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Finally, don’t miss the ongoing project from US photographer William<br />
Boling, inviting users to dialogue with him using text snippets and<br />
snapshots.<br />
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Thanks as always for your support of Screens. Sharing and discussion welcome.<br />
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Best,<br />
Luke Munn and Jeff Nusz<br />
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SCREENS is a series of commissioned online works from notable artists,<br />
seeking to redefine the artgame/interactive field with pieces which<br />
create new relationships, deal with untouched themes, and utilize on<br />
and offline media.<br />
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State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
22 October 2010 – 6 February 2011

Internationally renowned Danish artist Jeppe Hein develops sculptures and installations reminiscent of Minimal Art with which he responds to the spatial and site-specific structures of exhibition locations. The relationship of the individual to his surroundings and the psychological reaction to spatial changes stand at the center of his works

Glasgow-native Susan Philipsz was awarded the Turner Prize at the Tate Britain earlier tonight for Lowlands, a sound installation featured at the 2010 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. The fourth woman to win the illustrious Turner Prize, Philipsz is also the first ever artist to have her sound piece garner the accolade recognizing the [...]

New Museum
On view through 2011

On Saturday, November 13, 2010, the New Museum unveiled acclaimed German artist Isa Genzken’s first public artwork in the United States, installed on the façade of the Museum’s building on the Bowery.

We ran around First Friday, stopping at Schmidt-Dean, Bridgette Mayer and Jolie Laide. The evening was lovely, the openings packed and we even saw some red dots on a price list–always a good sign of the city’s art health. At Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Susan Fenton’s new body of works, made in residence at Ballinglen Arts Foundation [...]

The video artist Tony Oursler is perhaps best known for his video projections of human faces onto the heads of small doll-like bodies.  Lying on the ground or hanging limply from a pole in the corner of a gallery space and speaking in anxious, angry or even hysterical tones, these disturbing little effigies with their [...]

OPENING 6PM ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22ND. ON VIEW UNTIL SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21ST 2010.

This exhibition showcases three artists working with generative code to create abstract and reactive works. Marius Watz and Paul Prudence have been contributing to the dial…

See the World from a Child’s “POINT OF VIEW”
Children’s Photography and Video Exhibition
Opening October 20, 2010 at the Gallery at 180 Maiden Lane
(Between Front and South Streets, Lower Manhattan)

Contact: Susan Helbock • info@magicboxproductio…