Consumer Reports: Trevor Shimizu -ARTnews
Trevor Shimizu was born March 30, 1978, in Santa Rosa, California. His mother was born in Japan, and his father was born in Hawaii. He lived in Sebastopol, California, with…
Cady Noland’s Art Feels More Prescient, Incisive, and Urgent Than Ever -ARTnews
Cady Noland, Untitled, 1989, at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, October 14–December 22, 1989. ©CADY NOLAND/COURTESY MATTRESS FACTORY ‘What’s great about this country,” Andy Warhol wrote in his 1975 tome,…
How a Video by Arthur Jafa Became a Worldwide Sensation—and Described America to Itself -ARTnews
Arthur Jafa. KATHERINE MCMAHON One evening last November, a year after the election of Donald Trump, guards at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden steps away from the White House…
Dara Birnbaum’s Televisual Art Comes into Focus -ARTnews
Dara Birnbaum. EMMA TILLMAN In 1970 Dara Birnbaum and a group of anti-war demonstrators in San Francisco stared down a television set that had been placed on a podium as…
Icons, An Introduction
Who is an Icon? In the five profiles within, iconic status is high-stakes and hard-won—and, we hope, long-lasting. Read More The post Icons, An Introduction appeared first on ARTnews. Source…
Morning Links: Icons Edition -ARTnews
Still from Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel’s Happy Birthday, Marsha! (detail), 2018, on which Arthur Jafa served as cinematographer. COURTESY THE ARTISTS For the Ages The Spring 2018 issue of…
Basel Fair Names Exhibitors for 2018 Edition -ARTnews
Liste’s palatial home. LISTE Ah, Liste. In some ways, the enterprise based in Basel, Switzerland, is the most pleasurable of all the world’s art fairs, with formidable sausages on offer…
Lévy Gorvy Appoints Christie’s Chairman Andreas Rumbler as Partner of New Zürich Office -ARTnews
Andreas Rumbler. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER HAUSER Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy announced today that Andreas Rumbler, chairman of Christie’s Switzerland, will join Lévy Gorvy as a partner in November, to…
Kurt Kauper, Master of the Nude Hockey Player, Paints the Female Figure -ARTnews
Installation view of “Kurt Kauper: Women,” 2018, at Almine Rech Gallery, New York. MATT KROENING/©KURT KAUPER/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ALMINE RECH GALLERY As Architectural Digest reminded its readers in November,…
Morning Links: Alberto Giacometti Edition -ARTnews
Alberto Giacometti and photographer Erhard Wehrmann. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Exhibitions The “City and Cosmos: the Arts of Teotihuacan” exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features over 200…