Archive for the 'Publications' Category
Monday, September 28th, 2009
New York Art Book Fair to feature Richard Prince and Japanese Pop Exhibits
Brendan Fowler of ANP Quarterly at past NY Art Book Fair. (Image: NY Art Book Fair)
The New York Art Book Fair opens later this week at P.S.1 Arts Center in Long Island City. After last year’s overly crowded gathering at Phillips de Pury, we hope the change of venue lends to a less hectic visit. The weekend-long event plays host to over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, and independent publishers, as well as a conference and several special events, including signings by photographers Ryan McGinley and Peter Sutherland. This year, Printed Matter curates a special exhibition of the books and posters of artist Richard Prince, from the 70s to today. We are also looking forward to Gallery 360’s project room, where they will present Japanese Pop, Then & Now, with works by Kiyoshi Awazu, Suzy Amakane, Keiji Ito, Erika Kobayashi, Yutaka Kuriyama, Keiichi Tanaami, Tadanori Yokoo, and Aquirax Uno. A preview night benefit takes place this Thursday and includes entrance to a party at Deitch Studios, Long Island City. Tickets(available via Printed Matter) begin at $20 and include limited artist editions by Elmgreen & Dragset, Jutta Koether, Tom Sachs, and Mungo Thomson.
NY Art Book Fair
Oct. 2 – 4
Preview + Benefit Night: Oct. 1
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Carmichael Gallery Launches Monthly Publication
Carmichael Gallery has just announced the launch of a new monthly newspaper (yes it’s actually in print) called The Art Street Journal. While the first issue seems to predominantly promote the gallery’s own artists and interests (with features on The London Police, Dan Baldwin, and the FAME and Nuart Festivals), it should be of interest to those who follow graffiti and urban art. Free subscriptions are available here.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
KAWS Keeping Busy
Image: Kaws
There’s been quite a bit of KAWS news during the week off. First, we can only hope that what appears to be a fresh take on the classic Chum character in this painting posted on Kaws’ blog, is a sign of things to come (that’s Erik Parker with a great new painting in the pic). The artist will present his next solo exhibit this February in Madrid. While there’s no official word yet, expect Galeria Javier Lopez to play host.
Next up are two new products on the way, including a much anticipated monotone version of the ambitious Four Foot Dissected Companion sculpture. Despite a hefty price tag, if the release of the first color-way earlier this summer is any indication, expect this one to be gone in the blink of an eye. Released this past weekend is a playful toy collaboration with Japanese brand, Undercover, featuring the fashion label’s bear hugging Kaws’ Companion character.
Images: OriginalFake
Lastly, Kaws has lent his hand to the September issue of Interview Magazine’s feature on Michael Jackson.
Image: Kaws
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Deitch Kicks Off Fall Season with Wiley + Auerbach
Images via Deitch Projects. Click for larger view.
Back after a bit of a much needed break, and eager for Deitch Projects to jump-start the fall season with two shows we anticipate being equally powerful and vastly different.
Kehinde Wiley – Black Light will showcase a series of seventeen new photographs by the artist. While the exhibit offers new insight into a practice that has long been part of his creative process, Black Light is new ground for Wiley, who has become extremely successful for his brightly- colored figurative paintings of modern urban Black males, appropriated into the style of Old Masters and Western portraiture. Wiley’s new photo series is also the subject of a new monograph, published by powerHouse and available now.
Opening the same night is Tauba Auerbach’s Here And Now/And Nowhere. The title, an intentional anagram, reflects Auerbach’s obsession with the collapse of organized systems, and the mingling between the two conflicting states of order and chaos. Expect to see painting, photography, sculpture, and an interactive sound instrument that showcases an artist more interested in mastery of concept than medium.
The gallery will open a thirds exhibition on Sept. 10, at their Long Island City warehouse space. The Open will feature works by 31 emerging artists, including Scott Campell, Abigail DeVille, Keltie Ferris, and Deitch director, Kathy Grayson.
Kehinde Wiley – Black Light
Sept 3 – 26
Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
NY, NY 10013
Tauba Aurbach – Here And Now/And Nowhere
Sept 3 – Oct 17
Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
NY, NY 10013
The Open
Sept 10 – Oct. 25
4-40 44th Drive
4-40 44th Drive
Long Island City, NY
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
The Writing’s on the Wall :: Two New Books Explore the Rise of Text in Art
John Baldessari - I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971. (Image © the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery and Sprüth Magers)
A picture may or may not paint a thousand words, but what about the word painting the picture?
The roughly ten year period from the mid 60s – 70s, saw an explosion in the use of text in (or text as) contemporary American art. John Baldessari’s stylistically and aesthetically void text paintings must have seemed absurd to many who first saw them in the late 60s. By the mid 1970s, artists’ use of the written word had grown substantially. Consider some of the most well regarded names exhibited by Leo Castelli over the span of a few short years. In 1968 hei presented his first show with Bruce Nauman, followed by Lawrence Weiner in 1971 and Ed Ruscha in 1973. All three worked heavily with text, exploring territory ranging from minimalism to pop.
(Images: © Black Dog Publishing, Taschen)
Out next month, Art and Text (Black Dog) presents a select survey of text in art. Using seminal early 1900s artist El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters as a starting point, the book moves through the 1960s conceptualists (including those mentioned above) to heavyweight contemporaries like Jenny Holtzer, Barbara Kruger, Richard Long, Martin Creed and Tracy Emin. Absent from the volume, but worthy of consideration, are names like Steve Powers, Tauba Auerbach and Greg Lamarche, who represent a new wave of artists continuing the dialogue between art and text.
Barbara Kruger – Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987 (Image © Mary Boone Gallery)
Type – A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 (available now from Taschen) steps further back. The first book of a two volume set traces the evolution of the printed letter by providing both a written history and visual compilation of typefaces prior to the twentieth century. The source material is near astounding, drawing from the monolithic collection of Jan Tholenaar, who amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of type specimens prior to his passing this year and before the book’s publication. Included with purchase of the volume, is unlimited access to an online image library of 1000+ high-resolution scans of type specimens, downtloadable for unrestricted use. For the casual reader, Taschen has made the entire book viewable for free in PDF format here. Volume 2 is scheduled for release in February of next year.
Sample page from Type, Vol. 1 (Image: © Taschen)
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
KAWS + Wonderwall Designing New Brooklyn Studio
Image © Complex
Complex has just published a new interview with KAWS, where the artist speaks of a new Brooklyn studio being designed with Masamichi Katayama, founder of Wonderwall Inc., who are highly regarded for retail design including Uniqlo, Bathing Ape, Marc Jacobs, and Colette stores.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Five Years of T Magazine Covers
Banks Violette
The Moment is running a week long daily feature recapping the past five years of T Magazine covers. Since 2004, The New York Times Style Magazine has curated an artistically playful group of artists and designers to reinterpret the classic T logo, including Banks Violette, Oscar De La Renta and Steve Powers. So far, two years of covers have been reviewed, with three days and three more to go. Here’s a few of our favorites so far. See them all by Friday here.
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- Megan Caponetto
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- Nicolas d’Olce
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- Oscar De La Renta
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- Steve Powers
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- Michael Dal Veccio
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- Banks Viollete
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Taschen Commemorates Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman – Pierre Koenig, Case Study House #22, from Taschen’s Shulman Portfolio (1999). Image: Taschen
After the passing of Julius Shulman last month, art book publisher, Benedikt Taschen, has published a fitting homage to the hugely influential photographer of Modernist architecture on the Taschen website:
“Julius Shulman was one of the greatest photographers and image makers of the 20th century. Even in a biblical age he was an inspiration for generations of admirers, fans and friends. His house was open for everyone and thousands of pilgrims from all over the world came to see him, the man who created the visual memory of Modernism. He was a generous, kind and caring human being with a memory sharp as the latest generation of computers, recalling every trip he made and every photograph he took. I loved this man and I was blessed to have him as my friend and as a TASCHEN artist.”
Julius Shulman – Richard Nuetra, Singleton House, from Taschen’s Shulman Portfolio (1999). Image: Taschen
Shulman and Taschen’s friendship shines through in this video at the photographer’s Los Angeles home. With the artist now gone, perhaps the best way to remember him is through Taschen’s several invaluable publications, beginning with the now out of print Julius Shulman: Architecture and Its Photography (1998) and continuing with Modernism Rediscovered (2000), which was later expanded to the definitive 2007 three-volume edition. Continuing his commitment to the artist, in 1999 Taschen released a limited edition portfolio set, comprised of 12 different limited edition framed prints, each in an edition of 60, numbered, titled and signed by Shulman. While some are still available on the Taschen site, expect to see a spark in interest.
In 1998 Shulman received a lifetime achievement award from the International Center of Photography in New York. He died on July 15, 2009 at the age of 98.
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Remi/Rough – Lost Colours and Alibis Book
The new Remi/Rough book is available for pre-order from Agents of Change with hundreds of artworks, including collaborations with other talented artists. The foreword is by New York legend, Mare 139. The book also contains a full catalog of the Lost Colours and Alibis painting exhibition. Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Spread ArtCulture #4
Image: Jeff Newman/TheArtCollectors
Spread ArtCulture #4 recently hit newsstands and is worth picking up. While the issue’s cover story features Pharrell Williams, several other articles will be of interest to art enthusiasts, including a look at Deitch Director, Kathy Grayson, an intimate view of Robert Longo’s studio (shot by The Selby), interviews with Marilyn Minter and Steve Lazarides, and pictorials from several notable photographers including David Eustace and Ruud Baan.
For us, the most significant is Spread’s look at the cutting edge practices of Phillips de Pury’s contemporary art team and their Saturday@Phillips auctions. Unfortunately, by the time of the magazine’s publication (and to the dismay of us here at TAC) Phillips had already announced restructuring of its auctions and the elimination of the weekend sales which had grown increasingly popular with young and seasoned collectors alike.