• April 18, 2008

    Date posted: April 18, 2008 Author: jolanta


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    DAILY NEWSLETTER
    		 
    Friday, April 18  
    NY Arts Beijing Newsletter in Chinese click here
    		 

    International Top News

     An Exhibition to Die For—Literally

    The German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhibition. “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,” he told The Art Newspaper. “My aim is to show the beauty of death.” (The Art Newspaper, April 17, 2008) 

    Guggenheim Bilbao Exec Admits to Embezzlement

    The chief financial officer of Spain’s Guggenheim museum has confessed to embezzling almost half a million euros, reports the BBC. (Artinfo, April 17, 2008)
    NY Arts May- June 2008 Editorial Preview

     Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow

    My work revolves around a tension between images that are pastoral and familiar. Much of my curiosity stems from objects and natural occurrences encountered domestically or within nature. Some of these objects whether manufactured, intentionally altered, or specifically created, are often combined with performance to create new contexts. These objects become props and part of a narrative in which I investigate their uses or their traditional functions and reinterpret them.

     Xiang Jing’s Body Language

    Every image I create revolves around self-reflection and questions about the existence of the female human being. My works on this theme are more related to the human body. I have worked on this theme for many years, and this year I am planning a series of traveling solo shows around Asia to present my works on this theme. My secondary theme is more personal. At times, I try to see the world from my own perspective. For me, the exterior world is like a mirror. I see myself in a mirror. Some part of the external world is out of people’s control and confusing, like seeing oneself in a mirror. In that sense, I am posing the question: Is the world really what it looks like?

    Reviewed

    Check out this Review: Matt Connors: Enjambment by Josh Morgenthau

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    Openings and Art Events on Friday, April 18

    New York:

    — Rodney Graham @ 303 Gallery, 11am
    — New York Painters @ Sideshow Gallery, 6-9PM
    — Nina Sobell @ Location One, 6-8PM
    — Troy Brauntuch @ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 6-8PM
    — Donald Judd @ Tina Kim Gallery, 6-8PM
    — Yoko Ono @ Galerie LeLong, 6- 8PM
    — Elizabeth Peyton @ Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 6-8PM
    — New Contemporaries @ Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery, 3-6PM
    — International Art Fairs (Lecture) @ School of Visual Arts, Amphitheater, 7PM
    — Panel Discussion: International Art Fairs: The White Cube and Globalization @ School of Visual Arts, 7-9PM

    National:

    — Dennis Hollingsworth @ Michael Kohn Gallery, 6-8PM, Los Angeles, CA
    — Elizabeth Opalenik @ David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL

    International:

    — “Hell O’ Monsters” @ Think.21 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 6-9PM
    — “In the Name of Architecture,” @ Albertina Passage, Vienna, Austria 6PM
    — “Institutional & Poetical Violence,” @ Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    — Istanbul International Film Festival, April 5-20, www.iksv.org
    — Berlin Biennale, April 5-June 15, www.berlinbiennale.info
    — Art Cologne, April 16-20 , www.artcologne.de
    — China International Gallery Exposition, April 24-28, www.cige-bj.com

    — Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org

     

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