Shop swap
This summer, KK Outlet welcomes colette to their Hoxton Square space. In return, KesselsKramer has taken over colette, installing a unique range of products, books, and artwork. From ‘divided loyalty’ scarves that allow you to support both KK and colette, to a yes/no cube that makes navigating relationships easy, this collection reflects the agency’s great diversity.
Electric Windows 2010
Over the course of one week in late July, the historic river city of Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley will transform into a Mecca of Urban Art when local gallery Open Space unveils the new ELECTRIC WINDOWS 2010. In a one-day live art and music event, 28 of some of the country’s most prolific street artists will converge on Main Street to create original, large-scale works that will be permanently installed on the exteriors of vacant 19th-century buildings. The public installation and launch of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, July 31, at 510 Main Street, beginning at 12pm. ELECTRIC WINDOWS will then be a permanent public art destination, to remain on view year-round.
Maison Martin Margiela ‘20′
Recently opened at Somerset House is Maison Martin Margiela ‘20′, an extensive showcase that celebrates 20 years of the brand’s conceptual approach to fashion. On display are installations, photography, video and film that elaborate on designer Martin Margiela’s philosophy, from its deconstructivist design aesthetics to avant-garde couture and understated branding to store interiors and love for Trompe-l’œil. The show was previously staged at Modemuseum in antwerp and Munich’s Haus Der Kunst.
Through 5 September, 2010
Haw-Lin
Haw–Lin is a blog run by kool cats Jakob Klein and Nathan Cowen and is all about fashion, backpacks, beautiful women, Michael Jordan, DJ Funk, graphic design, swimsuits and Ferris Bueller.
Richard Prince – Salon 94
Salon 94 is pleased to present Richard Prince: T-Shirt Paintings, the inaugural exhibition at Salon 94 Bowery. The show serves as a mini-retrospective of Prince’s painting, spanning nearly twenty-five years of his work. The setting of the show, a raw, un-renovated, former restaurant supply store on the Bowery, echoes Richard Prince’s seminal exhibition “Spiritual America,” which took place in 1983-4 around the corner at 5 Rivington Street.
A full color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Salon 94 is located at 243 Bowery, New York, NY. Through June 26, 2010.
THIRTYDAYSNY
THIRTYDAYSNY is a celebration of arts and culture within a live gallery space that is open to the public for one month in the heart of New York City. The gallery is curated by Family Bookstore and will feature weekly performances, symposiums, and showcases from contemporary artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers from all over the world.
70 Franklin Street, Tribeca, NYC
Matthias Schaller
This is the first gallery show in the U.S. for Matthias Schaller who has focused almost exclusively on shooting people-less interiors. Whether photographing photographer’s and architect’s studios, Cardinal’s desks in the Vatican, artist’s palettes or original astronaut suits, Schaller’s series or sequences engage with the spirit of the objects and the environment they inhabit. All his different works follow this strategy of indirect portraiture.
April 16 - May 22, 2010
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