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Roving Eye: Juan Downey Returns to New York
Last week, pioneering video artist Juan Downey's work finally arrived at the Bronx Museum from Tempe, where it had been on view at the Arizona State University Art Museum. It's the first museum survey in America of the Chilean-born artist (1940–1993). It took over two years of planning for the 100 works in his exhibition "The Invisible Architect" to make it here [where they are on view through May 20], after Arizona and the MIT List Art Center in Cambridge, Mass. A 27-foot trailer rolled up in front of our museum and parked there for two days, with some 11 wooden crates and pallets, 17 pedestals and four vitrines, and 30 monitors and DVD players, all taking over two hours to unload. The crates sat for 48 hours, acclimatizing to the galleries, a natural part of the process when art travels. Now that it's all unpacked several days later, we are installing the exhibition.
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The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss
With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of shows our team of editors can't stop talking about.
This week we check out Thomas Heatherwick's slick furniture and architectural designs at Haunch of Venison, On Kawara's career-long dedication to documenting today's date at David Zwirner, and a cheerfully engaging group show at Joe Sheftel's recently opened Lower East Side gallery.
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The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss
With an ever-growing number of galleries scattered around New York, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Where to begin? Here at A.i.A., we are always on the hunt for thought-provoking, clever and memorable shows that stand out in a crowded field. Below is a selection of shows our team of editors can't stop talking about.
This week we check out Thomas Scheibitz's blocky, collage-inspired compositions at Tanya Bonakdar, wander among Ross Knight's elegantly spare sculptures at Team, and discover Japanese model/curator Mie through the eyes of 35 artists, in a group portrait show at Freight + Volume.
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At the DeCordova Biennial, Dreams of Disneyland
The 23 artists and collaboratives in the second DeCordova Biennial [through Apr. 22] live and work in the six original New England states, and the stated purpose of the show is to demonstrate the high level of work being made there. Co-organized by Dina Deitsch, the museum's curator of contemporary art and Abigail Ross Goodman, former director of Boston's Rotenberg Gallery, the show reflects economic instability and self-effacement.
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Andrea Fraser Targets Male Take on Feminist Movement, circa 1972
"Men on the Line," Andrea Fraser's one-woman, one-night only show at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Los Angeles, Jan. 23, dripped with dramatic irony. Fraser, a performance artist known for her work on institutional critique and the roles and portrayals of women, derived her script from a radio talk show broadcast from 1972, in which three men and a male moderator earnestly discuss the burgeoning feminist movement of the time. "Men on the Line" was presented in connection with the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, sponsored by the Getty Museum and LA><ART.
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Stuart Hawkins says she was never any good at drawing. Upon deciding she to be an artist in the first grade, she arranged toys and stuffed animals, ev
