Go behind-the-scenes of the New Museum’s “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other.”
Kitty, my Milwaukee buddy, and I spent a misty afternoon with Cate two Sundays ago walking around lower Manhattan and going to the New Museum’s Skin Fruit show. Part of our downtown walk was inspired by Calvin Thompkins’ New Yorker article about the $5 million mural by Julie Mehretu. $5 million? Kitty, who paints murals [...]
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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum, the bearish artist’s first U.S. solo show at a major museum, surprised us for what wasn’t there.
Installation of Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone; all photos courtesy of The New Museum. I’ve been thinking about how we interact with art, prompted by yesterday’s visit to Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone at the New Museum (through January 26, 2009; it was organized by Elizabeth Armstrong of the Orange County Museum of Art). The [...]
DOUGLAS FOGLE APPOINTED CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART said the press release I got last night from the Carnegie Museum. What? Where’s Laura Hoptman, who did the last Carnegie International? I thought she was Curator of Contemporary Art. Hoptman’s on to unspecified new things. The press release doesn’t mention where she’ll [...]
