Rirkrit Tiravanija at Sharjah Biennial

Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2015 (Eau de RRose of Damascus). Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Image courtesy of the artist and Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo by Shanavas Jamaluddin.

"Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible"

For the Biennial, Rirkrit Tiravanija constructed an elaborate rose garden within the courtyard of the Calligraphers' Studios, outfitting it with a rosewater distillery and kitchen, where visitors are invited to eat fragrant rosewater delicacies while relaxing atop ottomans in the lounge... 

The Biennial continues until June 5 and marks the most expansive edition to date, with locations spread throughout the city and into far-flung corners of the Emirate." via Huffington Post

Read full article here

Jorge Pardo in "Re-Corbusier"

New exhibition celebrates Le Corbusier, through the eyes of those he influenced. The show, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier's death, serves as an imaginative counterpoint to the career survey of the Modernist Swiss architect's work that will begin at the Centre Pompidou later this month. "Re-Corbusier" features work by Jorge Pardo, Olaf Nicolai, Michel Aubry, and more. via tmagazine

On view now through July at Maison La Roche, Paris

http://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx?sysId=13&IrisObjectId=8813&sysLanguage=en-en&itemPos=3&itemSort=en-en_sort_date1%20DESC%20&itemCount=63&sysParentName=&sysParentId=42

Jessica Stockholder: SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows

Public Opening for SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows SPRING

Friday, Mar 13, 2015 at 5 - 7 pm

SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows, is a yearlong series of 20 projects including exhibitions and special events. The three-part series celebrates SITE's dynamic exhibition history by reconnecting with 20 artists who have showed at SITE over the years and inviting them to return to SITE to present new work, sometimes in collaboration with other artists and creative producers. The first installment Spring features the works of Gregory Crewdson, Deborah Grant, Roxy Paine, Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley, Rose B. Simpson, and Jessica Stockholder.

via SITE Santa Fe

http://sitesantafe.org/event/public-opening-for-site-20-years-20-shows-spring/

Kerry Tribe: The Loste Note

Kerry Tribe: The Loste Note

10 April - 31 May, 2015

Opening reception: Friday, April 10, 7 PM

356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Watch excerpt here

http://356mission.tumblr.com/post/113978045600/kerry-tribe-the-loste-note

Uta Barth in Framing Desire

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

Framing Desire: Photography and Video

Curated by Andrea Karnes

An exhibition showcasing over 40 recent acquisitions alongside iconic photographs and videos from the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

21 February - 23 August, 2015

The Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell Street

Forth Worth, TX

76107

Read more about the exhibition here:

http://www.themodern.org/exhibition/upcoming/framing-desire-photography-and-video/2922

Paul Winstanley at The Usher Gallery, London

(detail) at The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Curated by Andrew Bracey

Through 19 April, 2015

This exhibition features details of artworks by 118 artists to create a huge collage of images. Reproduced close-ups allow viewers to focus on brush strokes, surfaces, and minutiae of paintings. The exhibition launched at H-Project Space, Bangkok in June, and toured to Transition Gallery in London and now for its final venue, The Usher Gallery, London. 

Read more here

http://www.thecollectionmuseum.com/?/exhibitions-and-events/view/andrew-bracey

A Night of Performance with Kerry Tribe and friends at 356 Mission/Ooga Twooga

Kerry Tribe - "Critical Mass" Starring Emelie O'Hara and Nick Huff
Ben Vida - "Slipping Control" With Ben Vida on electronics and Mecca Vazie Andrews and Tara Jane O'Neil on vocals.
Plus Austin Meredith's "LOOP"
Sunday, March 22 at 7 PM

356 S. Mission Road / Los Angeles

http://356mission.tumblr.com/page/2

Close Conversation: Charline von Heyl and Mark Godfrey at MoMA, NY

Close Conversation: Charline von Heyl and Mark Godfrey

When: Tue., Mar. 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Where: Museum of Modern Art 
11 W. 53rd St.
212-708-9400
Price: $15

Click here to buy tickets or for more information from the venue's website

Charline von Heyl and Mark Godfrey, Curator of International Art, Tate Modern, London

Join us for a series of one-on-one conversations between curators and painters in front of their paintings on view in the exhibition The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World. All conversations take place in The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor, unless otherwise noted. Seating is extremely limited.

In conjunction with the exhibition The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/23162

Artforum Critic's Picks: Fiona Connor

Fiona Connor

1301PE
6150 Wilshire Blvd.
January 24–March 14

"Perhaps it is Parker Ito's elastic installation in a warehouse behind Chateau Shatto that best reflects our current moment of fingered screens, zooming surfaces, and gleaming connectivity. Or maybe it is Liz Craft's web of yarn, skeletons, speech bubbles, and ceramic dicks at Jenny's that offers a timely response to our present social and aesthetic desires by way of desublimated Pop scenery. Another approach: Fiona Connor's exhibition, "Community Notice Boards," addresses the influence of Internet technologies on new modes of communication by calling on the social networks of sites experienced IRL only. By re-creating a cross section of bulletin boards sourced from Laundromats, libraries, cafes, and other public spaces throughout the city, Connor negotiates the "found object" as something closer to reproducible image rather than salvaged assemblage or purchased readymade. While these notice boards have been reconstructed in structural and material likeness of the "originals," their faded flyers and scrappy ephemera have been meticulously replicated on aluminum sheets rather than on paper: "Do you have a drug problem?"; "Clases de inglés gratis"; "I buy houses."

Connor's material sleight of hand is a critical act of preservation, one that attempts to underscore how proximity and place now contend with more immediate and immaterial means of communication. Documenting its own obsolescence, Community Notice Board (La Brea), 2015, displays little more than vandalized cork, lone pushpins, and traces of paper. If these boards evoke a sense of loss, the effect is not quite nostalgic—their cheerless condition hardly induces sentimental longing for the past. What does it mean to preserve media and materiality in the privileged space of art? Connor's practice seems to suggest there are larger implications for the work of art and its engagement with the social that exceed the immediate pre/post-Internet binary of our contemporary technological moment."

via Artforum

http://artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks50365

Charline von Heyl at Petzel Gallery, March 6 - May 2, 2015

Charline von Heyl

Düsseldorf: Paintings from the early 90s

March 6 - May 2, 2015

35 E 67th Street, New York, NY 10065 

"Petzel Gallery is delighted to announce the inauguration of our new uptown location with an exhibition of early paintings by Charline von Heyl. The group of paintings assembled was previously exhibited in Cologne and Munich between 1991 and 1995, before the artist moved to New York. This will be the first showing of the work in the United States. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with an interview between Isabelle Graw and the artist. " via Petzel

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Tiravanija at YBCA reviewed on domusweb

"Much of Tiravanija's work – whether it is an installation, a print, a documentary, or a curatorial project – fosters the direct and creative engagement of the viewer, user, or participant. He is particularly known for his projects where "things" function as props for visitors to create something of their own, and his interest in how cultural products can foster social production of one kind or another. As a curator, he looks for relationships between his own practice and that of other artists, yielding a rich map of his role as a hyper-connector." Read the full article here

Domus Web 

Rirkrit Tiravanija hosts Local Source event at the Headlands Center for the Arts

Headlands Center for the Arts presents: Local Source: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Sunday, February 22, 6:30pm-9:00pm, Sausalito

MORE INFO: http://www.headlands.org/

Internationally acclaimed artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (AIR '15), known for his groundbreaking contributions in the realm of social practice, will orchestrate a shared meal with a mixed menu based on what is fresh and locally available. As we eat together, Tiravanija will talk about various processes and projects that blur the line between artist and viewer, and ask how an artwork might leave a lasting impression when its medium is something as finite as food. Setting the table in Headlands' historic Mess Hall-renovated by artist Ann Hamilton-this gathering invites visitors to engage with art in an exceptionally sociable way.

This event is co-presented with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in conjunction with Tiravanija's recently curated exhibition The Way Things Go. On view at YBCA February 13-June 21, 2015.

DATE/TIME: Sunday, February 22

6:30pm-9:00pm

LOCATION: Headlands Center for the Arts

944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA, 94965

http://www.headlands.org/

COST/REGISTRATION: $75 General | $50 Headlands Members.

http://www.headlands.org/event/local-source/

MORE INFO:

Website: http://www.headlands.org/

Email: info@headlands.org

Jan Albers cOlOny cOlOr solo show at Von Der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal

Jan Albers

cOlOny cOlOr

Solo-show at Von Der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal

March 22 - June 28, 2015, opening Sunday March 22, 3 pm

http://www.von-der-heydt-kunsthalle.de/

The exhibition will travel to Kunstpalais Erlangen.

An extensive catalogue is published, with texts by Markus Heinzelmann, Museum Morsbroich and Brigitte Kölle, Kunsthalle Hamburg

Pae White: Magnificent Obsessions

'Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector' is the first major exhibition in the UK to present the personal collections of post-war and contemporary artists. Ranging from mass-produced memorabilia and popular collectibles to one-of-a-kind curiosities, rare artifacts and specimens, these collections provide insight into the inspirations, influences, motives and obsessions of artists. 

Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector

Barbican Art Gallery, London

12 February 2015 - 25 May 2015.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=17071