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Weekly Roundup
Mark Bradford. The Tears of a Tree, detail, 2014. Mixed media on canvas; 305 x 1219 cm. Courtesy of the artist. New and recent work on view by Mark Bradford, Mariah Robertson, Alfredo Jaar, and other...
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The Walker Curates the News: 09.08.15
A rendering of William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments (2016) along the Tiber River To create Triumphs and Laments—an 1,800-foot mural on walls along the Tiber River in Rome—William Kentridge will...
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The Walker Curates the News: 11.02.15
Corita Kent, [W]RON[G] WAY / Prophets of boom, 1967, on view in Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums “Her gift was to express these really profound things with a kind of...
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This Week in Art: 3.28-4.3
William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments, photographed by Chris Warde-Jones for The Telegraph. This week we take a look at news exclusively about ART21 artists—the projects they’re working on, where...
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This Week in Art: 4.11-4.17
An illustration of Louise Bourgeois’ Spider by Isabelle Arsenault. From the new children’s book Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois. Image courtesy of the Guardian. Melbourne’s National...
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This Week in Art: 5.16-5.22
Martin Puryear. Big Bling in Madison Square Park, 2016. Photo by Scott Lynch for Gothamist. This week’s art news highlights are largely community-based, involving one of our all-time favorite things:...
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This Week in Art: 5.23-5.29
Yinka Shonibare MBE. RA Family Album, 2016. Photo: Artlyst. This week our art world hero is William Kentridge, who used his exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin as an opportunity to speak out...
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This Week in Art: 7.4-7.10
Katharina Grosse. Rockaway! at Fort Tilden, 2016. Photo by New York Off Road on Instagram. Last week our short film series New York Close Up won the Cine Golden Eagle for Digital Series. Congrats to...
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This Week in Art: 7.11-7.17
Yinka Shonibare. Food Fairy, 2006. Manikin, Dutch wax printed cotton, leather, artificial fruit, fiberglass, and goose feathers. Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Gallery. Last week, the Hirshhorn...
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This Week in Art: 7.18-7.24
Ai Weiwei’s F. Lotus installation at Belvedere Palace in Vienna. Photo via @aiww on Instagram. NPR Berlin’s coverage of the Foreign Affairs Festival included a segment on William Kentridge, and his...
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This Week in Art: 8.1-8.7
Ruben Natal-San Miguel. AMEricano (Star Spangled Immigrant), 2016. Washington Heights, NYC. © Ruben Natal-San Miguel. From the exhibition WE:AMERicans at Station Independent Projects, NYC. Courtesy of...
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This Week in Art: 9.12 – 9.18
Production still from the Los Angeles hour of Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 8. © ART21, Inc. 2016. We’re a mere five days away from the premiere of Season 8 of Art in the Twenty-First...
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This Week in Art: 10.3-10.9
Pedro Reyes, Doomocracy. 2016. Brooklyn Army Terminal. Aptly timed for the election and Halloween, Season 8 Mexico City artist Pedro Reyes launches his “house of political horrors,” Doomocracy, this...
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This Week in Art: 11.7-11.13
Mike Kelley’s Memory Ware exhibition, on view at Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Gothamist. Season 8 artist Theaster Gates has been busy! Just last week it was announced that he and the Rebuild Foundation...
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This Week in Art: 11.14-11.20
Cover of Rebecca Peabody’s new book on Kara Walker, released November 15, 2016. Image courtesy of University of California Press. Tomorrow a new book on artist Kara Walker is being released by...
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“Triumphs and Laments: A Procession Across Time”—An Interview with William...
William Kentridge. Triumphs and Laments. Bridge at dusk, details of the frieze. 500 x 10 meters. Photo by Sebastiano Luciano. “Every victory has a [corresponding] defeat; therefore, for every person...
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This Week in Art: 12.12-12.18
Maya Lin’s Novartis building at 181 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Photo by Iwan Baan for the Boston Globe. This week was all about design for Art21 artists. Jeff Koons designed a snowboard to raise...
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This Week in Art 1.9-1.15: Artists Call for Inauguration Day Strike
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl; 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York. This week was all politics for Art21 roster...
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This Week in Art 1.16-1.22: Three Art21 Artists Win Awards
Kerry James Marshall, Laurie Anderson, and Theaster Gates all won awards this week. This week was all awards for Art21 artists. Kerry James Marshall was announced as the winner of this year’s CAA...
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This Week in Art 2.13-2.19: Inescapable Politics
Protest at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Terminal 4, in New York City, against Donald Trump’s executive order signed in January 2017 banning citizens of seven countries from traveling to the...
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This Week in Art 2.20-2.26: William Kentridge Launches Arts Incubator
The Centre for the Less Good Idea website. Screenshot, February 20, 2017. William Kentridge has started an arts nonprofit dedicated to experimental projects. Called The Centre for the Less Good Idea,...
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This Week in Art 2.27-3.5: Rashid Johnson’s Directorial Debut
Rashid Johnson. Last week it was announced that New York Close Up artist Rashid Johnson will be directing his first feature length film—an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son. “I came...
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This Week in Art 4.10-4.16: William Kentridge’s Triumphs & Laments Restored...
Triumphs & Laments vandalized in Rome. Photo courtesy of La Repubblica. Almost since its creation, graffiti vandals have been damaging William Kentridge’s 1,800-foot mural in Rome, Triumphs &...
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This Week in Art 4.24-4.30: Kerry James Marshall Makes “Time” 100 List
Photograph by Broomberg & Chanarin for Time. This week the art world continued to be centered around Kerry James Marshall, who was just announced as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...
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This Week in Art 5.1-5.7: Mika Tajima & Do Ho Suh Win Awards
Left: Mika Tajima in the New York Close Up film “Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle.” Right: Do Ho Suh in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 2 episode, Stories. © Art21, Inc. This was an...
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This Week in Art 5.8-5.14: The 57th Venice Biennale Opens Saturday
Mark Bradford. Go Tell it on the Mountain, 2017. A mixed-media work on canvas that will be on view at the Venice Biennale. Photo: Joshua White. Courtesy of The Baltimore Sun. This Saturday the 57th...
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This Week in Art 7.17-7.23: North Carolina Museum of Art Dedicates Entire...
El Anatsui. Lines That Link Humanity (detail), 2008. Discarded aluminum and copper wire, (irregular); 18 x 25 ft. Gift of Barbara and Sam Wells. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art. This...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public
A post shared by cindy sherman (@_cindysherman_) on Jun 14, 2017 at 7:15pm PDT This week Cindy Sherman was in news—from W Magazine to The New York Times—for unlocking her Instagram account, making 593...
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This Week in Art 8.14-8.20: Marina Abramović Reunites with Partner Ulay
Still from The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay. Courtesy of the Louisiana Channel. After a break up and lawsuit left their relationship in pieces, Marina Abramović and her former partner Ulay...
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This Week in Art 9.11-9.17: Cindy Sherman and Maya Lin Celebrated as TIME...
Cindy Sherman (left) and Maya Lin (right). Photographs by Luisa Dörr for TIME. Last week TIME launched a new multimedia project titled Firsts—a series celebrating contemporary women breaking barriers....
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This Week in Art 10.2-10.8: Artists Create Posters Opposing Trump’s...
Barbara Kruger. Art Against the Immigration ban poster, 2017. Courtesy of the Guggenheim. Last month the Guggenheim published a blog post about a recent delivery the museum had received: a set of...
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This Week in Art 10.9-10.15: Jeff Koons Collaborates with Snapchat
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog in an augmented reality collaboration with Snapchat. Last week Snapchat released an augmented reality collaboration with artist Jeff Koons, virtually “placing” his iconic...
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This Week in Art 10.30-11.5: Performa 17 Starts Wednesday
Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa. On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting...
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This Week in Art 11.6-11.12: Artists Fights Sexism and Harassment with...
Jenny Holzer. Truisms, 1982. Installation view, Times Square, New York. Photo: Public Art Fund. Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Abigail DeVille, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Tania Bruguera, and...
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Olafur Eliasson Partners with IKEA, Graciela Iturbide Works Acquired by MFA...
Little Sun Original, on the road. © Nicky Angunwa. Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and his social enterprise Little Sun have partnered with IKEA to create a series of sustainable solar-powered...
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Waiting To See What I Would Become
Sharing stories of growing up in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals how early experiences influenced his drawing style and describes similarities and differences between South African and North...
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