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Tate Triennial 2009
Posted on Frieze Issue 120 Jan-Feb 2009 Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the next Tate Triennial, ‘Altermodern’, talks to frieze about botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making image TOM MORTON Your forthcoming book The Radicant employs a botanical metaphor to...
See Italy and Die
We were invited to the opening reception of See Italy and Die at the Musée d'Orsay and it was OK... but what we really liked was to walk on an empty museum without guards...(defacing was not on my head... not really!... OK maybe just a little) We stumble into some...
Gillian Wearing
Our UK friend Tom Cullen invited us to the opening reception Confessions: Portraits, Videos by Gillian Wearing at the Rodin Museum and we loved it. For this event, the artist created Secrets and Lies, a new version of the 1994 work entitled Confess all on video. Don't...
Un nouveau concept en art
Posted on Le Monde on 04/09/09 by Emmanuelle Lequeux Le Français Nicolas Bourriaud aime les concepts et ce n'est pas ce qu'il fait de plus mal. Cet ancien directeur du Palais de Tokyo, le principal centre d'art en France, a profité de son exil londonien pour...
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi deface Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and Tracy Emin’s piece My Bed When these performance artists walked into the Tate Modern gallery and relieved themselves on Marcel Duchamp's urinal exhibit, and argued they were paying homage to the French...
Voids
Voids is a retrospective of empty exhibitions with nine empty rooms, a radical show that is both empty and full of value to celebrate 50 years of the art of the void since Yves Klein in 1958. Read more about it here "The idea of exhibiting emptiness is a recurring...
Replay Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is a chilling representation of an artist's life with his replays where he did his self forgeries to get back at critics and buyers... learn more, google.
Jimmie Durham
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson rocks with a portrait of the American Dream gone real at Galerie Daniel Templon
Contemplating Art
Where else can we sit on a Le Corbusier couch and contemplate a Francis Bacon... Centre d'art Pompidou
Yan Pei-Ming at the Louvre
It was nice to see Yan Pei-Ming - Mona Lisa’s Funeral at the Louvre... A portrait of Ming's Father alive, then Mona Lisa, then a portrait of Ming dead. I am not sure what it means but I would have liked to see Yan Pei Ming to try do Mona Lisa in his signature style...
Seeing Mona
I had finally the pleasure to see Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, quite something even when having to deal with a thousand Japanese tourists shooting away.
Thinking Paris
While paris thinks and thinks and acts a lot less... indulging on the artistic thinking process is bumming me out.
Panic Attack!
by Mia Jankowicz Commissioned on the occasion of the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2007 posted on Frieze on October 2007 Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK The timing and subject matter of ‘Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years’ overlapped distinctly with Kunstverein Munich and...
Defacing all together
Look what we did
Written by Jonathan Jones Posted on The Guardian, Monday 31 March 2003 Weaned on a diet of pickled animals and unmade beds, the British public has become remarkably difficult to shock. Could that be why Jake and Dinos Chapman, the enfants terribles of Britart, bought...
Debating Art: Censorship Or Protest?
By STEVEN A. HOLMES Published: December 6, 1989 on The New york Times An angry debate has erupted at the New School for Social Research after a caricature of a black man the school was displaying in an art show was defaced by an instructor who branded the work racist....
Gert Jan Kocken
Download the Press Release here in PDF (1.18 Mb) Posted at Stedelijk Museum Gert Jan Kocken 16.09 - 11.11.2007 Opening 15.09.2007, 5-7 p.m. The hundredth exhibition in Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (since 1993) is devoted to the work of Amsterdam photographer Gert...
Iconoclasm
fr: L’iconoclasme (du gr. εικών eikon « icône » et klaô « casser ») est, au sens strict, la destruction de représentations, qu’elle soit due à des considérations religieuses ou profanes. L’iconoclasme est opposé à l'iconodulie. Ce courant de pensée rejette l’adoration...
Defacing at The Freedom Tower
The Defacing project by Pablo Gonzalez-Trejo to open at the Freedom Tower in Miami on May 14, 2009. Here is some of the history on this building... by way of wiki The Freedom Tower is a 1925 building in Miami, Florida, that serves as a memorial to Cuban immigration to...