February 23, 2012
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London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu presents a show and pop-up shop of fashion and art at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery. The show encompasses a group of limited edition fashion and accessory designs from Duro's Spring 2012 collection as well as a selection of vintage and contemporary photography, textiles, contemporary art, furniture, music, books and objets trouvés.
Show has been extended thru March 31, 2012
February 22, 2012
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The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition Disorder, including new work by Nina Chanel Abney, Michael Bevilacqua, Iona Brown, Benjamin Edwards, Asad Faulwell, Wendell Gladstone, JP Munro, Justin Samson, Tom Sanford and Christian Schumann, opening on Thursday, February 23 and running through March 24, 2012.
http://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/
February 16, 2012
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FAMILY BUSINESS
The Virgins Show
opening February 16, 2012
FAMILY BUSINESS is a new exhibition space initiated by Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni.
Located in Chelsea at 520 West 21st Street, FAMILY BUSINESS is a guest house – a place where friends and enemies are invited to present the works of artists they support and projects they believe in.
FAMILY BUSINESS is the big brother of the Wrong Gallery, a minuscule space that Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick ran in New York from 2002 to 2005. Just like the Wrong Gallery, FAMILY BUSINESS is a non-profit space open to experimentation and irreverent exhibition formats, right in the heart of Chelsea.
The first exhibition to inaugurate this untouched space is aptly titled “The Virgins Show”: all the featured artists have never shown before (Presumably they are in fact still virgins.) Early reports are identifying the show's content as what might happen if Mary Heilmann had a threesome with Martin Kippenberger and Blinky Palermo. It is curated by longtime virgin Marilyn Minter, who is also the author of this press release, the first she has ever written.
In addition to the pieces situated in the space there will be a constantly running video monitor featuring the very first works of artists who have agreed to abandon their sultry lives of debauchery and become Born Again Virgins. (If only for the duration of the show.)
The opening will feature a guest appearance by the band The Virgins, whose name is a bit suspicious as it is widely believed they are actually a group of sexually depraved maniacs.
Also, no word back from Richard Branson, but we've got our fingers crossed.
Virgins:
Andrew Brischler
Eric Mistretta
David Mramor
Rebecca Ward
and more
Born Again Virgins:
Patty Chang
Kate Gilmore
Laurel Nakadate
Wangechi Mutu
Mika Rottenberg
Aïda Ruilova
FAMILY BUSINESS is a free time-share: a space made available to people who have something interesting to say; a way to get to know new families and friends.
FAMILY BUSINESS is powered by the Center for Curatorial Studies – Bard College.
January 14, 2012
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In both the six sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the six new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art-historical typologies. From masks, technological portraits of archaic beings, to drawings, which mark a return to an expressionistic mode of depiction of fantasmal faces, Bhabha seeks inspiration from very different sources, tribal art, science-fiction, combining them to arrive at a new kind of figuration and constructing the human face as a site in which all the possibilities of the expressive can be played out.
Saturday 25 February 2012, at 6.00pm, and together with the presentation of the exhibition Are We Still Going On? by Kaarina Kaikkonen.
February 25 to April 15, 2012. For more information, visit the Maramotti Collection: http://www.collezionemaramotti.org/it/Home-Page
December 16, 2011
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"Minter entered her silver age with these ultra-slo-mo videos and billboard-size paintings, featuring images of babies and close-ups of feet in high heels splashing through puddles of aluminum paint. Luxuriant and decadent, the work continued Minter’s cautionary investigation of our never-ending cultural obsession with glamour and beauty."
Full article here