News

PABLO HELGUERA

Also in: Art, Featured, Talks

LECTURE INTRODUCTION Artist Pablo Helguera provides an introduction to his work while discussing emerging art practices that involve social interaction, research, and pedagogy. ABOUT PABLO HELGUERA Pablo...

1 Comment | Read More »

Mon, Apr 5 2010

Artist is threatened with jail sentence in “free” Ukraine

Also in: Art, Featured

A Ukrainian artist-activist and blogger Alexander Volodarsky (internet pseudonym Shiitman) is facing a trail in Kiev criminal court that can lead to a serious jail sentence. In November 2009, Alexander...

4 Comments | Read More »

Sat, Nov 7 2009

Anish Kapoor on Sculpture at the Guggenheim

Also in: Art, Featured

Last Month, the New York Guggenheim Museum unveiled Anish Kapoor’s large scale sculptural installation, Memory. A 24 tons steel structure, Memory (2008) is a site specific work designed to engage...

No Comments | Read More »

Thu, Oct 29 2009

Two Albums of America

Also in: Art, Featured

"Untitled" (1990) by Robert Bergman In an unusual choice, New York’s PS1 Museum is exhibiting a solo show called “Selected Portraits” by the American photographer Robert Bergman....

1 Comment | Read More »

Tue, Oct 27 2009

To Save and Project (Curator Interview)

Also in: Art, Film

MoMA puts on its 7th annual restoration/preservation film festival, To Save and Project, exhibiting over 25 films. SMAC has here interviewed the Assistant Curator, Joshua Siegel, who describes in detail...

No Comments | Read More »

Wed, Oct 21 2009

Comme Toujours Here I Stand

Also in: Art, Featured

Comme Toujours Here I Stand at The Kitchen from Big Dance Theater on Vimeo. Premiering NYC this week at the Kitchen, Big Dance Theater presents its latest production, Comme Toujours Here I Stand, which...

No Comments | Read More »

Fri, Oct 9 2009

Guggenheim announces finalists for the Hugo Boss prize.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has chosen the six finalists for its 2010 Hugo Boss Prize, Carol Vogel reports for the New York Times. The hundred-thousand-dollar award, given every two years and...

No Comments | Read More »

Thu, Oct 8 2009

This Bicycle is a Sculpture: A School Struggles to go Green

Also in: Art

This year marks the 150th anniversary of New York’s Cooper Union, a free, highly competitive college with schools of Art, Architecture, and Engineering. The most conspicuous commemoration has been...

No Comments | Read More »

Tue, Oct 6 2009

DVD release of Chantal Akerman’s FROM THE EAST (D’Est)

Also in: Featured, Film

“Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation.” — J. Hoberman, The Village Voice Today...

1 Comment | Read More »

Wed, Sep 30 2009

The New York Film Festival – Lebanon / Inferno / Room and a Half

Also in: Film

Inferno by Henri-Georges Clouzot is film that was never finished. It was started in 1964 and abandoned. Decades later it premieres at the New York Film Festival as a tale of a filmmaker in the search...

No Comments | Read More »