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Bacharach, David Set for White House Honor
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By United Press InternationalBarack Obama and his wife, Michelle, are to preside over a White House concert honoring songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend   Read more Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

“White Oxford Cotton” at Cabinet
09/05/2012
Artists: Tariq Alvi, Bernadette Corporation, Martin of Holland, Mark Leckey, Danny McDonald, Lucy McKenzie, Anthony Symonds, Simon Thompson Venue: Cabinet, London Exhibition Title: White Oxford Cotton Date: April 13 – May 12, 2012 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Cabinet, London Link: [...] Read full article here

Carrie Underwood Debut Beats Norah Jones, B.o.B on Billboard 200
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By BillboardCarrie Underwood easily trounces the competition this week as her fourth album, "Blown Away," debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 267,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read more Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Slideshow: The Abramovic Method's Use Of Furniture
09/05/2012
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Celebrating "Six Years": Critic Lucy Lippard's Seminal Conceptual Art Treatise Will Guide Brooklyn Museum Show
09/05/2012
Celebrating "Six Years": Critic Lucy Lippard's Seminal Conceptual Art Treatise Will Guide Brooklyn Museum Show Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by Benjamin SuttonPublished: May 9, 2012NEW YORK — Last month the Brooklyn Museum honored Lucy Lippard as the first feminist art critic during their inaugural Sackler Center First Awards. This week the museum announced that Lippard's book "Six Years" — which has introduced generations of art history students to conceptual art — will be the subject of what may be the first major exhibition structured around a single tome of art scholarship, "Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art." The show will open on September 14 and continue through January 20, 2013. "My co-curator Vincent Bonin and I have been talking about doing this show for years," Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art curator Catherine Morris told ARTINFO, "and I think the fact that it has remained a pertinent idea speaks to the importance and significance of Lippard’s project." "Materializing 'Six Years'" is a testimant to the suggestive and creative style of Lippard's writing itself. "Lippard’s annotated approach to collecting information about her peers retains a freshness for readers today because she is purposefully not acting as a filter or a guide, or an authority to the information," Morris said, "but was instead simply interested in following the course of an idea that was in the air — an idea about shifting the status quo and really examining the materiality of the art object." Morris and Bonin selected some 270 works, which will be organized chronologically into six sections, one each for the years between 1966 and 1971, corresponding to the six chapters in Lippard's "Six Years." Works included will parallel the trajectory of the book, chronicling the emergence of conceptual art from the mid-'60s to the early '70s, with an additional focus on the movement's relationship to feminist art. "This exhibition — which includes a whole lot of male artists who had nothing to do with feminism, per se," Morris said, "is being sponsored by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art because focusing on the important impact of Lippard’s thinking on the historical contextualizing of Conceptual Art is an example of a feminist curatorial methodology, which we are very much interested in exploring in our exhibitions. The exhibition will open with a section of works from a legendary exhibition Lippard curated in 1968, "Eccentric Abstraction," including pieces by seminal women artists like Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse, as well as male contemporaries like Bruce Nauman and Robert Morris. Further sections track the international spread of conceptual art, and its practitioners' penchant for both institutional critique and anti-Vietnam War commentary. Later galleries will address how crucial documentation and text became to the process of making and experiencing conceptual art, as well as Lippard's work with the radical Art Workers' Coalition and her many experimental exhibition projects around the world. The final section will take on how conceptual art evolved in the 1970s, to and its relation to protest, performance, and feminist art. After its Brooklyn presentation the exhibition will travel to two other as-yet-undetermined institutions. An accompanying catalogue to be published by the Brooklyn Museum and the M.I.T. Press will include a forward by Lippard. "Lucy has deliberately not been involved in the curating of the show," Morris noted. "She has told me her biggest concern is that people understand that this is a show about 'Six Years' and not about Lucy Lippard." Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Museums, Brooklyn Museum, Lucy Lippard, Catherine Morris, conceptual art, feminist art Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Q&A: Alex Ross Perry Preserves 16MM Filmmaking With "The Color Wheel"
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Village VoiceThe Brooklyn-based director's second film, which opens for a week-long run at BAM next week, mashes up Philip Roth novels and iconic '70s road movies. Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreFilm Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Chinese Art Star Zhang Huan Stops Traffic With an "Over-the-Top" Public Sculpture for Downtown Toronto
09/05/2012
Chinese Art Star Zhang Huan Stops Traffic With an "Over-the-Top" Public Sculpture for Downtown Toronto Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by Sky Goodden, ARTINFO CanadaPublished: May 9, 2012TORONTO — Crowds gathered on Saturday in anticipation of international art star Zhang Huan and the grand unveiling of his impressive new public sculpture, “Rising,” veritably shutting down one of the Canadian metropolis's busiest streets. The flashy new work was unveiled in a ceremony outside the Living Shangri-La Toronto complex on University Avenue north of Adelaide. On hand were a duo of city councilors and Art Gallery of Ontario director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, flanking the Shanghai-based Zhang, who was dressed in head-to-toe grey and a sleek, if modest, baseball cap. Zhang lead an incense-burning ceremony in advance of the big reveal, and, with the aid of his interpreter, read out a poem, titled “breathing life." The sculpture rises over a reflecting pool, a light-catching lattice of stainless steel birds ‘fluttering’ around root-like arches. Rumored to have cost in the range of $5 million, the piece was funded by the Shangri-La developers in what amounts to “an over-the-top gesture to the city’s Section 37 bylaw that allows zoning easements like height restrictions in exchange for community enhancements like public art,” according to Urban Toronto’s Craig White. Toronto is presently in the grip of Zhang Huan mania. Though “Rising” will sit behind a fence over the next few months until the hotel and residences open in August (more birds are yet to be installed as well), an exhibition of Zhang's recent work has just opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Titled “Ash Paintings and Memory Doors,” it features pieces that are — given Zhang’s history of visceral and politically challenging performance — relatively quiet. But more drama can be expected at another important cultural venue in the city, as Zhang's version of Handel’s "Semele" will be staged by the Canadian Opera Company beginning May 9. As the Chinese art megastar's touch is felt across the city, one thing is noticeably missing — his own body. As Toronto Star critic Murray Whyte wrote, “its imprisonment, abuses, and tests of endurance was the vehicle that made his name as an artist. In authoritarian China, he exerted control in the extreme on the one thing over which he could have dominion: His own physicality.” But, as Zhang said in an interview with Whyte, “Life keeps changing. If we did the same thing all the time, we would be bored.” Certainly boredom can be avoided across Toronto, in the coming months, as the "Zhang Effect" continues to demonstrate its reach. Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Contemporary Arts, Zhang Huan, Toronto, Public Art, Sky Goodden Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Tiffany's Hols Cocktail Party for New Metal Creation
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Asia OneTiffany & Co. held a cocktail party to present its Rubedo Metal collection made in honour of Tiffany's 175th anniversary. The reception at its Takashimaya store saw media and loyal customers as invited guests... Share This Story Tweet This Post to Stumble Upon Email to a Friend Read moreJewelry & Watches Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

Top-Ranked Tiffany & Co. Getting Very Oversold
09/05/2012
Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It By Forbes Blogs The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — strong fundamentals and a valuation Read more Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here

In Five: Todd Solondz’s Wacky New Trailer, Against Me! Singer Transitioning to Womanhood, and More Performing Arts News
09/05/2012
In Five: Todd Solondz’s Wacky New Trailer, Against Me! Singer Transitioning to Womanhood, and More Performing Arts News Language English Email Print Save Tweet Pin It by ARTINFOPublished: May 9, 20121. Todd Solondz’s next movie, “Dark Horse,” will focus on a man (Jordan Gelber) who lives and works with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow!) and falls in love with a detached woman (Selma Blair). Watch the trailer below. [The Playlist/Indiewire] 2. Against Me! singer Tom Gabel has become the first rock star to announce that he will make the transition from a man to a woman, becoming Laura Jane Grace. [RS] 3. G. Dep, a one-time rapper affiliated with Bad Boy, was sentenced to 15 years after turning himself in for a shooting — and discovering that he had in fact committed murder. [NYP] 4. Promoting, in character, his new movie “The Dictator,” Sacha Baron Cohen endorsed Mitt Romney for president. [NME]Related: “The Dictator” Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Strongman Send-Up Looking Pretty Feeble 5. “Hubris” was taken: Bobby Brown has named his forthcoming album “The Masterpiece.” [The Juice/Billboard] Previously: Samuel L. Jackson, “Mad Men,” the Beach Boys, J.J. Abrams, and Action Bronson Like what you see? Sign up for our DAILY NEWSLETTER and get our best stories delivered to your inbox. Go to top ↑ Performing Arts, Columnist, In Five, Todd Solondz, Dark Horse, Against Me!, Tom Gabel, Laura Jane Grace, G. Dep, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Dictator, Bobby Brown Share: Tweet Email to a Friend Read full article here