http://theartseen.net contemporary art blog Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:38:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wish I could attend this, but I am previously engaged with: An Evening with The Raincoats (tickets) Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:30–11:00 P.M. MoMA PopRally invites you to a special performance by the legendary post-punk group The Raincoats, presented in conjunction with a pair of MoMA exhibitions featuring influential women artists. ... http://theartseen.net/2010/11/19/physical-center-brooklyn/ Ming Wong is a Singapore-born artist who received a Special Jury Mention at last year's Venice Biennale. He works out of Singapore and Berlin, and his entire acclaimed exhibition, Life of Imitation, is now on view at the Singapore Art Museum through August 22nd. His work confronts issues of identity ... http://theartseen.net/2010/05/12/ming-wong-at-singapore-art-museum/   Kambui Olujimi is one of my favorite artists right now, one that never fails to impress with the direction in which his mental, linguistic, and visual interpretations go. His last exhibition was a solo project, The Clouds Are After Me (Nov. '09), hosted at Saatchi & Saatchi in conjunction ... http://theartseen.net/2010/05/04/kambui-olujimi-wayward-north/   Escape from New York is an incredibly ambitious and enviable project from independent curator Olympia Lambert, using Kickstarter and out-of-the-cube thinking. Never heard of her before this, but this kind of endeavour should be supported. Friends in the exhibition include Laurel Nakadate and Mia Pearlman, ... http://theartseen.net/2010/05/04/escape-from-new-york-curated-by-olympia-lambert/ Thanks to Artkrush for bringing this Washington Post article and the work to my attention. Not being a Klimt scholar, though definitely an admirer, I'm interested to hear that Beethoven Frieze (1902), the permanent, too-racy-for-early-20th C.-audiences work at Secession, gets a contextual reboot by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel. The idea of ... http://theartseen.net/2010/02/27/christoph-buchel-sexes-up-klimt-some-more/ Finally, after reading about this so long ago on Boing Boing, Takashi Murakami's piece from last year's Tate Modern exhibition, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, curated by Alison Gingeras, hits the Internet.  The video, produced by Murakami and directed by McG, features actress Kirsten Dunst in anime-inspired ... http://theartseen.net/2010/02/24/takashi-murakamis-akihabara-majokko-princess/ It's not often that I cite the Los Angeles Times (or update, for that matter), but this article speaks as to the obstacles and successes gallery owners face in LA: Sales have all but dried up for many L.A. area dealers, quite a few galleries have closed and others have ... http://theartseen.net/2009/07/29/shifts-in-the-la-gallery-scene/ The Art Newspaper, by Andrew Goldstein, has been covering the unfolding legal tête-à-tête between French photographer Patrick Cariou and Richard Prince over the latter's appropriation of 30 photographs from the former for his Canal Zone (2008) exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. First filed December 30, 2008, the complaint (.PDF link) alleges copyright ... http://theartseen.net/2009/04/17/cariou-v-prince-et-al/   While not contemporary, the story about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa is a fascinating episode of greed, conspiracy, secrets, lies, and more lies. An excerpt from the upcoming book, The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler appears in ... http://theartseen.net/2009/04/16/mona-lisa-frown/ http://theartseen.net/2009/04/09/laurel-nakadate-stay-the-same-never-change-trailer/