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THIS MONTH: Creativetime, Real Life Magazine, Freight + Volume Magazine 1, Global Feminisms, Nocturne: Late Nights at the Whitechapel, Conrad Atkinson, New Photography from China, China International Gallery Exposition 2006
This month’s list hits both the local and global by reflecting on the history of art in New York City and highlighting new trends and initiatives overseas. Read on.
Creativetime, New York’s long-standing institution for public art, celebrates its 33rd anniversary this month with a gorgeous new title detailing its history. Dense with interviews, essays, and more than 300 images documenting three decades of innovative public art projects, this book is a must have for anyone interested in Public Art or the history of New York’s diverse art scene. Contributors include many of the world's most dynamic, emerging, and established artists including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Thomas Demand, Julian LaVerdiere, Jenny Holzer, Adelle Lutz, William Pope.L, Martha Rosler, David Levi Strauss, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
New York art history buffs should also checkout the new non-profit Primary Information. Devoted to printing artists books, artist writings, out of print publications and editions, Primary Information premiered this month with an anthology of the seminal 1980s periodical Real Life Magazine. Edited and produced by artist, writer and curator Thomas Lawson and writer Susan Morgan, this comprehensive anthology features writings by and about Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Mark Dion, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Thomas Lawson, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Dave Muller, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Michael Smith, John Stezaker, Bernard Tschumi, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and James Welling among others.
Another innovative "art mag" was just launched by New York gallery Freight + Volume. Following a format similar to Me Magazine, each issue spotlights one or two artists who work with the gallery and provides a picture of the friends, influences and aspirations that aid and influence their creative process. Brendan Cass and Brian Belott are the focus of this issue, which features essays and interviews by Donald Baechler, Joe Bradley, Melissa Brown, Katherine Bernhardt, Jen DeNike, Anthony Haden-Guest, and Chie Fueki.
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum opened its doors this spring. Dedicated to exhibiting feminist art, its inaugural exhibition Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art is a survey of over 80 women artists from over 50 countries. The exhibition catalog provides an unparalleled perspective on feminist art practice from 1990 until the present day. A crucial document that is not to be missed, the book includes work by a multinational group of artists Catherine Opie, Miwa Yanagi, Pilar Albarracin, Shahzia Sikander and Yin Xiuzhen.
Turning eastward, London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery produced the first-ever audio release from their popular weekly music series Late Nights at the Whitechapel. A compilation of 15 studio and live tracks by the innovative artists who have performed at the space, the CD spans a wide variety of genres from UK grime and rockabilly swing to improv jazz and metal doom. Artists include: Alexander Tucker, Francois and the Atlas Mountains, Shimmy Rivers & And Canal, Humanzee, Yeborobo, Agaskodo Teliverek, Temperatures, The Bobby McGee's, Suzanne Andrade, Leopard Leg, Sleeping States, Evan Parker with Birds, Jesus Licks, DJ Top Gear, and Ruff Sqwad.
More than 30 years after his groundbreaking exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Conrad Atkinson is rightly regarded as one of Britain's most important living political artists. Landescapes, the first of a complete series on Atkinson's oeuvre, reviews work relating specifically to the land, and was published in response to the inclusion of Atkinson's early masterwork, "For Wordsworth, For West Cumbria," in the Tate Gallery's recent exhibition, A Picture of Britain. The book includes an essay by Richard Cork, chief art critic of the London Times, an interview with Antony Hudek of the Courtauld Institute, and original writings by the artist. Represented in New York by the Ronald Feldman Gallery, Atkinson is also a Professor of Art at the University of California at Davis.
Anyone attuned to the international art scene will know that further east, China is booming. We’ve received two contemporary art books out of China that highlight the latest artists and trends coming out of the area. 3030 Press, based in Hong Kong, is known for their high-end English-language art books. Colorful, fully illustrated and superbly designed, 3030’s New Photography in China brings together some of the most well known photographers under 30 including Cai Wei Dong, Cao Fei, Chen Wei, Chi Peng, Guo Hang, Jin Shan, Liang Yue, Liu Ren, Lu Yanpeng, Peng & Chen and Su Han Guang, Yang Chang Hong, and Zhao Yao among others.
Timezone 8 have provided a complete index of the 108 leading Asian and Chinese galleries who exhibited at the China International Gallery Exposition in April 2006. A full overview of Asian and particularly Chinese art today, this whopping 450-page paperback wonderfully presents works and information about established and emerging artists coming out of this area and their representation worldwide.
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