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July 24–November 7, 2011 MOMA NY The purpose of design began to shift in the late 20th century from utility toward a more holistic combination of purpose and meaning. Contemporary designers do not just provide function, form, and meaning, but also must draft the scripts that allow people and things to develop and improvise a [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY May 4–August 7, 2011 Official Website: www.blog.metmuseum.org www.alexandermcqueen.com The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen [...]
Monumenta 2011 May 11- June 23 Each year MONUMENTA invites an internationally renowned contemporary artist to appropriate the 13,500 m² of the Grand Palais Nave with an artwork specially created for the event. This year the Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor was invited to create “Leviathan”, an aesthetic and physical shock, an experience of colour [...]
MOMA NY May 8–August 1, 2011 Sixth floor Francis Alÿs uses poetic and allegorical methods to address political and social realities, such as national borders, localism and globalism, areas of conflict and community, and the benefits and detriments of progress. Alÿs’s personal, ambulatory explorations of cities form the basis for his practice, through which he [...]
17 December 2010 – 13 March 2011 Video artist, performance artist, composer and visionary: Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. Tate Liverpool, in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) present the first major retrospective since the artist’s death, and the first exhibition of [...]
Official Website: www.ps1.org December 12, 2010 – April 4, 2011 In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered people a conflicted chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that people increasingly use to perform their private lives as public theater. During the same [...]
The Love Doll: Days 1-30 Feb 15 – Mar 26 http://salon94.com In the fall of 2009, Simmons ordered a customized, high end Love Doll from Japan. The doll, designed as a surrogate sex partner, arrived in a crate, clothed in a transparent slip and accompanied by a separate box containing an engagement ring and female [...]
Official Website: http://www.moma.org January 28–May 9, 2011 The Robert and Joyce Menschel Photography Gallery, third floor Performance art is generally experienced live, but what documents it and ensures its enduring life is, above all, photography. Yet photography plays a constitutive role, not merely a documentary one, when performance is staged expressly for the camera (often [...]
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin November 5, 2010 through February 6, 2011 Carsten Höller. Soma Belgian artist Carsten Höller has turned a contemporary art museum in Berlin into a zoo! 24 canaries, 12 reindeers, eight mice and two flies, are what visitors to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art [...]
New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho September 29, 2010–January 10, 2011 Official Website: www.moma.org New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Roe Ethridge: Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” [...]
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