Damien Hirst – End of an Era
Damien Hirst arrives stateside with an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures at New York’s Gagosian Gallery. Having recently announced the end of the various series for which he has become known over the last twenty years, including the spot, spin and butterfly paintings, Hirst makes reference to the seachange in his own work with the exhibition’s title. ‘End of An Era’ runs until the 6th of March, 2010.
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the ways of modern life, and influencing everything from architecture to fashion, from painting to furniture-making. This ambitious survey of over 400 works dissects the Bauhaus movement through exhibits, a “lounge,” and hands-on art-making workshops. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Josef Albers, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
Lubalin Now
The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.
The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.
Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009
41 Cooper Gallery
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
The New York Based bookstore Printed Matter is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. This exhibition, on view in the Third Floor Archives at PS1, shows examples of its publishing history from 1976 to present, featuring more than 100 international artists.
On view October 8, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Christian Marclay: 2822 Records
Art you can walk on: Christian Marclay’s installation plasters a whole floor of Moma’s PS1 with twelve-inch records of all different genres.
On view September 5, 2009 - April 5, 2010
Tauba Auerbach HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE
Tauba Auerbach, opens her Here and Now/and Nowhere show at NYC’s Deitch Projects. Auerbach is known for her inventive twists on typefaces, creating magical new languages from the known English alphabet. Here and Now/and Nowhere, however, will feature more than just letter paintings and drawings; Auerbach will also be showcasing three-dimensional crumple paintings and fold paintings, as well as static photographs, and the show’s central piece.
September 03 — October 17, 2009
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York
Kinokuniya
Since 1981, Kinokuniya, the hip Japanese bookstore chain, has served New York’s Japanese-language readers from its outlet at Rockefeller Center with it’s impressive stock of imported Japanese paperbacks, latest issues of hard-to-find magazines, DVDs (such as the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away) and CDs. Now the company has decided that Japanese is no longer the center of its universe. It’s new store overlooking Bryant Park will house a majority of English-language titles in an effort to expand their audience. But Japanophiles fear not: The new three-storey store, one of nine Kinokuniyas in the United States, is stocked with plenty of Japanese-language novels, fashion magazines and a huge manga (comic) collection in both Japanese and English. The old store will close at the end of the year.
Avenue of the Americas, near 40th Street
Books are also sold online at www.kinokuniya.com
Scribble - Karl Haendel
Head to New York’s Soho to see the temporary installation by Los Angeles based artist Karl Haendel. Commissioned by the nonprofit Art Production Fund, Haendel has produced a giant scribble on a donated wall at 441 Broadway at Howard Street, challenging our pre-conceived ideas of street art and public mark making.
Super Contemporary at the Design Museum
Fans of ultra modern design can check out a host of specially commissioned works at the Super Contemporary exhibition London event, which is being held at the Design Museum between June and October 2009. The show aims to explore what makes the UK capital a magnet for world class creatives. Paul Smith, Thomas Heatherwick and Ron Arad are just some of the designers whose work will be featured in the show, designing something that improves life in the city, inspired by the city.
3rd June - 4th October 2009
Design Museum, 28 Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000
NYC’s International Center for Photography is gearing up for an exciting exhibition as part of its Year of Fashion, with a retrospective of legendary photographer Richard Avedon. Avedon, who died in 2004, revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. His spirited, imaginative photographs featuring iconic models such as Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and Veruschka showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light, and continue to influence photographers around the world. Entitled “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,” the show, which opened on May 15th, will feature art works spanning Avedon’s lengthy career at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker and beyond.
Until September 6th, 2009
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool at PS1
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Erlich has constructed one of his most well known and critically acclaimed works in PS1’s Duplex gallery: a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder. When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing and walking beneath the surface of the water. It is only when visitors enter the gallery from the basement that they recognise that the pool is empty, its construction a visual trick fashioned by the artist. A large, continuous piece of acrylic spans the pool and suspends water above it, creating the illusion of a standard swimming pool that is both disorienting and humorous.
Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be on view in P.S.1’s Duplex gallery until October 24, 2009
Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect
Check out this fifteen-year survey exhibition of the artist known for her innovative approach to language and use of nontraditional media. Our favourites are her characteristic LED sign works, which thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, include manipulations and projections of government documents. ‘Protect Protect’ will be lighting up the Whitney until May 31st 2009.
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, T (212) 570-3600
Renovated Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery will open to the public this month following its multi-million pound redevelopment programme. The Heritage Lottery Fund supported project has transformed the former library building next to the Gallery, increasing gallery space by 78%. Designed by leading Belgian architects Robbrecht en Daem (with London practice Witherford Watson Mann Architects), the expanded Whitechapel Gallery provides one of the most exciting new cultural buildings in Europe. Included in the expanded building are new galleries dedicated to presenting collections and new commissions; a permanent gallery and research room for the Whitechapel Gallery’s historic archive, and an Education and Research Tower including study and creative studios.
The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1 T. 020 7522 7888
Yayoi Kusama at The Gagosian Gallery
New and recent works by the renowned doyenne of the Japanese art world, currently celebrating her 80th year in the business. Kusama is known for her trippy anti-minimalist installations, sculptures, and screen prints frequented by giant polka dots, sealike figures, and sexy yet childlike objects such as mushrooms and chunky shoes. Our highlight of the exhibition is the mind-blowing installation (pictured) nicknamed the “Infinity Room”—a seemingly gigantic void filled with mirrors and floating lanterns.
April 16 - June 27th 2009
555 W 24th St, New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011
Francesco Clemente
May 2nd sees the launch of Francesco Clemente’s new exhibition at Deitch Projects, NYC. The gallery walls are wrapped in continuous meditative, rainbow-themed large-scale watercolor paintings for the daydreamily titled show, “A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows.”
May 2nd to 30th 2009
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York NY, T 212 343 7300
Partners & Spade
The brain-child of Andy Spade (yes, Kate’s husband) and Anthony Sperduti, Partners & Spade is part art gallery part novelty shop that serves as a front for the duo’s brand consulting firm during the week. A treasure trove of curious goods and inspirations cover every available surface: while certain miscellanea are displayed in aged wooden cabinets other knick-knacks are stashed in pull-out drawers. Merchandise ranges from $1 bouncy balls to a $75,000 antique book of botanical drawings. Mixed in with the products are rotating art exhibits - some pieces available for purchase, some not.
Partners & Spade, 40 Great Jones Street, between Bowery and Lafayette Street, New York NY. T 646 861 2827. Open Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Hussein Chalayan at The Design Museum
Leading the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named ‘British Designer of the Year,’ Hussein Chalayan, is renowned for his innovative use of materials, meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitudes to new technology. This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of Hussein Chalayan’s work in the UK. Spanning fifteen years of experimental projects, the exhibition explores Hussein Chalayan’s creative approach, his inspirations and the many themes which influence his work such as cultural identity, displacement and migration.
22 January – 17 May
Design Museum 28 Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD T. 0870 833 9955
100+ Nieves Zines at Printed Matter
From April 4th – May 23rd 2009 Printed Matter will be showing an exhibition with the legendary Swiss publisher Nieves. The exhibition will feature a full retrospective of Nieveʼs ʻzine program since 2004 as well as a selection of the books published by the press since its founding in 2001. The publications have taken on a variety of forms, from limited edition, photocopied zines, to more-formally recognized hardcover, perfect-bound and offset books.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.
Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 Tel. 212 925 0325
Bauhaus Archiv
The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century.
It is the most complete existing collection focused on the history of the school and all aspects of its work and is accessible to all. The collection is housed in a building drafted by Walter Gropius, the founder of the school.