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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 [...]
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 [...]
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: www.moma.org December 8, 2010–January 10, 2011 Performances take place hourly starting at 11:30 a.m. every day the Museum is open. For the ninth installment of the Performance Exhibition Series, the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla present Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano (2008). For this piece, [...]
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 [...]
Born 1961, Brussels, Belgium Lives and works in Fasta, Sweden www.airdeparis.com/holler.htm Upside Down Mushroom Room, 2000 Exhibited at Fondazione Prada Milan Carsten Höller holds a doctorate in biology, and he uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Viewer participation is the key [...]
http://www.vikmuniz.net Early Objects by Joshua Decter The polysemous work of Vik Muniz participates in the vicissitudes of this paradoxical re-investment of exteriority with the signs of interiorized meditation-there ϭystification of the commonplace. It is a practice infused with the non-equivalencies of the consummately hybrid condition, the tautologies of non-closure and the vacillations of indeterminate signification. [...]





