Posts tagged Hirshhorn
The second segment of this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talking about the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America’s Tony Smith Artist Research Project.
McCoy and his colleagues have created project on which they’re trying to use Wikipedia to document all 83 of Smith’s outdoor sculptures, making pictures, available technical documentation and information about the works publicly available, and for free. Anyone may contribute an entry on one of Smith’s outdoor works, so check out the list of outdoor Smiths to see if there’s one near you! (Bonus: If you complete an entry, INCCA-NA will send you this kick-ass t-shirt as a thank-you.)
This is Smith’s Throwback (1976) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where it’s currently on view in the museum’s rooftop sculpture garden. While the editions of Throwback in New York City and at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden have been documented for INCCA-NA’s project, the SFMOMA sculpture has not. There’s a t-shirt there for the takin’!
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Ann Hamilton. Her installation the event of a thread is on view at the Park Avenue Armory in New York through Jan. 6, 2013.
The piece pictured here is at hand (2001), which is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. I think it’s the best Hamilton in a museum collection: It’s simple — it releases paper from a little machine and encourages us to watch it float to earth as an audio track plays. It’s hypnotic. It slows time.
Hamilton is one of America’s most-honored artists. She is the recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, a United States Artists fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. In 1999 she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Today, a decade after the Hirshhorn acquired at hand, she sits on the museum’s board. Images and video of many of her installations and objects are available at her website.
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Mix a popular artist with a knack for making visually loud, catchy work with two high-profile commissions — Los Angeles buses for ForYourArt and the escalator space at the Hirshhorn — and you’ve got a Flickr hit. So if you can’t be in LA or Washington right now, check out Barbara Kruger’s latest work via JPEG.
Kruger was the lead guest on Episode No. 36 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. She told great stories, explained some of the surprising origins of and motivations behind her work and made me laugh.
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Image: Barbara Kruger bus by Flickr user waltarrrr.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Stephanie Barron, the curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s major retrospective of Ken Price. The exhibition is in member previews and opens to the public on Sept. 16.
Orange (1961) is a super example of an early Price. Rarely exhibited at the Hirshhorn, which owns it, this Price seems to be giving birth to a gnarly little two-fingered something-or-other.
Price is a sculptor who worked with clay, paint and forms rooted in whimsy, erotics and the history of sculpture across many cultures. He died in February at age 77.
Barron is LACMA’s senior curator of modern art. Her exhibition credits include co-curating with Maurice Tuchman a retrospective of David Hockney, an exhibition of Hockney’s portraits and a series of landmark exhibitions on German modern and contemporary art.
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Image: Ken Price, Orange, 1961. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.
Yesterday Kelly Crow of the Wall Street Journal featured Barbara Kruger’s new installation for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In addition to some cool time-lapse video of the piece, titled Belief + Doubt, Crow spotlights Hirshhorn director explaining why it was important for the Hirshhorn to commission the piece from Kruger. It’s really good stuff.
Kruger was the subject of an Ann Goldstein-curated 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped her win the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Belief + Doubt, 2012.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Barbara Kruger, whose most recent commission, Belief + Doubt, is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (The work officially opens on August 20, but it is visible now.)
Kruger was the subject of a 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped earn her the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award. The most recent major monograph on Kruger’s work was published in 2010 by Rizzoli.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I’m Just Looking) (detail), 1987. Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Barbara Kruger, whose most recent commission, Belief + Doubt, is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (The work officially opens on August 20, but it is visible now.)
One of the topics we discuss on this week’s show: The genesis and development of Kruger’s interest in works that deal with sociopolitical themes — and power structures in particular.
Kruger was the subject of an Ann Goldstein-curated 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped her win the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989. Collection of The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Calif.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Barbara Kruger, whose most recent commission, Belief + Doubt, is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (The work officially opens on August 20, but it is visible now.)
Kruger was the subject of an Ann Goldstein-curated 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped her win the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Untitled [We don’t need another hero], 1987.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Barbara Kruger, whose most recent commission, Belief + Doubt, is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (The work officially opens on August 20, but it is visible now.)
Kruger’s new Hirshhorn piece fills the lower atrium of the museum — and works its way up the museum’s famed escalators. It’s her latest immersive installation; to be in it is to feel like one is inside a dictionary or book of quotations.
Kruger was the subject of an Ann Goldstein-curated 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped her win the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Belief + Doubt, 2012.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Barbara Kruger, whose most recent commission, Belief + Doubt, is on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (The work officially opens on August 20, but it is visible now.)
In Questions, Kruger asks what it means to be patriotic: A flag-waver? Or to live up to the ideals of the American democracy, questioning, challenging, thinking all the way? On this week’s show, Kruger and I discuss the origins and motivations of her Questions series.
Kruger was the subject of an Ann Goldstein-curated 1999 retrospective at MOCA, an exhibition that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her installation at — and actually on — the Italian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale helped her win the Biennale’s lifetime achievement award.
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Image: Barbara Kruger, Questions, 1991.
