The National Academy Museum originally opened before museums as we know them today existed. The goal of the Academy was to assemble a body of work that would demonstrate the styles, tastes, and contributions of American art and architecture from the 1820s-1970s. The founders stated that upon election, members had to donate one artwork representative [...]
Peter Eleey has done a magnificent job of curating a moving and artistically solid exhibition. He explained to the small group he led through his show at PS1 that the idea for it had been brewing in his head for awhile. Curators are usually the experts trying to teach the audience something with an exhibition, but in [...]
On view at the Guggenheim are the works of Lee Ufan from the 1960s to the present. Born in 1936 in Korea, Ufan has lived and worked in Korea, Japan and France. He attended art college in Seoul and then moved to Tokyo in 1960 receiving a degree in philosophy. Throughout his life he has [...]
Okay so here is the kind of art I expect to see on my visits to Santa Fe:
But I was actually pleasantly surprised by a number of shows I saw. Good thing I know where to go on my visits.
My first stop was a small museum just off the Plaza called the Museum of Contemporary [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition “Ostalgia.” And it’s about time the New Museum finally got some kudos for a show. Stemming from a term that came about in the 1990s, the title describes “a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc.” In the struggle for people to [...]
“Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities” at MAD is an entertaining exhibition. It investigates how technology changes viewers’ perception of images. The focus is international artists who make miniature worlds through the use of models akin to the dioramas people of my generation grew up making for their book reports. But these are much more [...]
If you are in New York, there is no escaping talk of the McQueen show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And for good reason. The exhibition includes work by the infamous designer from his postgraduate show in 1992 to his final collection that graced the runway after his sudden, tragic February 2010 suicide. McQueen’s [...]
When he was 24, Ai Wei Wei left China and moved to Brooklyn, the East Village and the Lower East Side in New York City. Though he was unknown in the States, he had already had his now infamous 1979 Stars exhibition in Beijing. He took over 10,000 photographs during his ten years in New [...]
Hans-Peter Feldmann received the $100,000 2010 Biennal Hugo Boss honorarium for his outstanding contributions to the contemporary art world. The eighth artist to win the award, the 70-year-old Feldmann has bucked the art world system for years by refusing to sign works, creating unlimited editions, and stopping his creative output for a ten year period. Continuing [...]
Fondazione Prada at Ca’ Corner della Regina
While there were some lovely works on view, I was not wowed by this show. The exhibition highlights works Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli have selected from the Prada Foundation’s collection. Curated by Germano Celant the show includes contemporary art as well as a section with Italian Art from [...]