An Exhibition to Die For—Literally

The German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhibition. “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,” he told The Art Newspaper. “My aim is to show the beauty of death.” (The Art Newspaper, April 17, 2008) 

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Guggenheim Bilbao Exec Admits to Embezzlement

The chief financial officer of Spain’s Guggenheim museum has confessed to embezzling almost half a million euros, reports the BBC. (Artinfo, April 17, 2008)

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Check out this Review: Matt Connors: Enjambment by Josh Morgenthau

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— Istanbul International Film Festival, April 5-20, www.iksv.org
— Berlin Biennale, April 5-June 15, www.berlinbiennale.info
— Art Cologne, April 16-20 , www.artcologne.de
— China International Gallery Exposition, April 24-28, www.cige-bj.com

— Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org

Art Revealed as Fiction at Yale

A Yale art student who claimed that she had repeatedly inseminated herself and then induced miscarriages as a performance-art project, igniting a firestorm of criticism on the campus and on the Web, told university officials on Thursday that she had lied about the claims and that the story itself was the art project. (New York Times, April 18, 2008)

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Photographs of Gay Paris at War Paint an Uneasy Portrait of City Collaboration

An unusual warning has been added to a Paris exhibition that has shocked some visitors and media, despite the absence of sex, violence or religion. The photographic show has caused offence by depicting the French capital in the Second World War as a sunny place, where people enjoyed life alongside their Nazi occupiers. (London Times, April 18, 2008)

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Check out this Review: Takashi Murakami’s Smog of Luxury by R.C. Baker

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— Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org
— Istanbul International Film Festival, April 5-20, www.iksv.org
— Berlin Biennale, April 5-June 15, www.berlinbiennale.info
— Art Cologne, April 16-20 , www.artcologne.de
— China International Gallery Exposition, April 24-28, www.cige-bj.com
— Chicago Merchandise Mart, April 25 – 28, Chicago, IL, www.merchandisemart.com

Miami Muralist Ordered to Cover Obama

Serge Toussaint, a Miami-based, Haitian muralist, has been forced to paint over a part of one of his murals that depicts Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama, reports the Miami Herald. (Artinfo, April 4, 2008)

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‘Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs’ to Begin U.S. Tour

"Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," a new exhibition featuring more than 130 treasures from the tomb of the celebrated pharaoh King Tut and additional ancient sites, will begin a United States tour this fall. (Artdaily, April 4, 2008)

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Check out this Review: Art With Baggage in Tow by Roberta Smith
(New York Times, April 4, 2008)

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Openings and Events for Saturday, April 5

New York:

— This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance @ Queens Museum of Art  
    (http://www.queensmuseum.org)
— Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley: New London School @ Mark Moore Gallery 5PM- 7PM
    (http://www.markmooregallery.com)
— Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung: Residential Erection @ Postmasters Gallery  6PM- 8PM
    (www.postmastersart.com)
— Tony Magar: Buddha Sometimes  @ Mike Weiss Gallery  6PM- 8PM
    (www.mikeweissgallery.com)
— Gabe Brown @ Van Brunt Gallery  6PM- 9PM
    (www.vanbruntgallery.com)
— Gregory Crewdson @ Luhring Augustine
    (www.luhringaugustine.com)
— Dieter Roth: Drawings @ Gladstone Gallery  
    (www.gladstonegallery.com)
— Alexander Brodsky @ Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 6PM- 8PM
    (www.feldmangallery.com)
— Claire Klarewicz-Okser: New Paintings @ Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery  3PM- 5PM
    (www.artnet.com)
— LightPicturePaintEtc Group Show @ 717 Studio  7PM- 11PM
    (www.717studio.net)

National:

— Agathe Snow: Moving @ Peres Projects  6PM- 9PM, Los Angeles, CA
    (www.peresporjects.com)
— Foot Worshipper’s Tea Party @ Antebellum Gallery  5PM- 7PM, Hollywood, CA
    (www.antebellum.us.ms)
— Symposium: Sites of Transition: Urbanizing the Mojave Desert @ ASU Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
    (www.asuartmuseum.asu.edu)

International:

— Vincenzo Montella @ Il Ramo d’Oro  6PM, Naples, Italy
    (www.ilramodoroeditore.it)
–Abbas Kiarostami: Snow White @ Gallery Rossana Ciocca  6:30 PM, Italy
    (http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/1545)
— Ye Yongqing: As Free as a Bird @ Anna Ning Fine Art, Wanchai, Hong Kong
    (http://www.annaningfineart.com)
— Dan Graham: More of the Same @ Hauser & Wirth Zurish, Zurich, Switzerland
    (www.hauserwirth.com)
— Pekin Fine Arts @ Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, Booth No. E 16, Tokyo, Japan
    (www.artfairtokyo.com)

Openings and Events for Sunday, April 6

New York:

— Silvia Marinari: Images from Italy @ Parliamo Italiano Language School  6PM- 8PM
    (www.parliamo.com)
 
National:

— Working Class Hero and Spiritual Mystic: The Life and Work of Vincent Van Gogh @ Rozanoff Art  1:30 PM
    San Francisco, CA
    (www.rozanoffart.com)

International:

— MythoSylt: Jetzt @ Galerie Villa Huhn, Gevelsberg, Germay
    (www.galerie-villa-huehn.de)
— Karin Knefferl: Tier und Mensch @ Galerie & Edition Bode, Nuremberg, Germany
    (www.bode-galerie.de)
— Pekin Fine Arts @ Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum, Booth No. E 16, Tokyo, Japan
    (www.artfairtokyo.com)

Openings and Events for Monday, April 7

New York:

— Robert Morris: Subjective Histories of Sculpture II @ The Theresa Lang Center at The New School  6:30 PM
    (www.newschool.edu)
— Allyse Pulliam : Coney Island Twilight  @ Steuben Media Arts Gallery  6PM- 9PM
    (www.pratt.edu)
— Lecture: "Joe Scanlan on Sol LeWitt" @ Dia Art Foundation 6:30PM
    (www.diacenter.org)

National:

— Lecture by Stefan Behnisch @ California College of the Arts  7PM, San Francisco, CA
    (www.cca.edu)

— Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 3-6, www.fullframefest.org
— Istanbul International Film Festival, April 5-20, www.iksv.org
— Berlin Biennale, April 5-June 15, www.berlinbiennale.info
— Art Cologne, April 16-20 , www.artcologne.de
— China International Gallery Exposition, April 24-28, www.cige-bj.com

— Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org

Art Crowd Gets Heated at Armory Dance Party

It’s
hard to have a throwdown in skinny jeans, but on Saturday night at the
Whitney Biennial’s 24-hour dance party at the Armory, it happened: The
hipsters went wild. (New York Magazine, March 17)

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Turn Artists Into Teachers, Say Danes

Unemployed
artists in Denmark should teach in schools instead of just receiving
unemployment benefits, the ministries of culture and education have
proposed. (The Art Newspaper, March 17)

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Whitney McVeigh by Suzie Walshe

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New York
– Ohad Meromi: "Ethnographies of the Future" @ Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 7 – 9PM
www.briconline.org/rotunda
– Weng Fen, Zhang Huan: "Chinese Art with Regis Krampf" @ Gallery 10G,  6-9pm
www.gallery10g.com
– Stephen Prina "The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You" @ Park
Avenue Armory (Park Avenue Armory), 7pm
www.armoryonpark.org
– Franz West "Passstuecke" @ Gagosian Gallery (uptown)
www.gagosian.com
– Lecture:  "Artist Talk with Sebastian Lemm" curated by Gregory Volk at
Goethe-Institut New York, 7pm
www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm

National
– Crossed Country Group Show @ Sherman Gallery, Boston, 5:30-7:30 PM
www.bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/galleries/sherman
– Third Tuesdays/Sketch Tuesdays @ 111 Minna Gallery, 6PM
www.111minnagallery.com

International
– David Andelman: "A Shattered Piece" @ Louise T Blouin Institute, London
www.ltbfoundation.org

– Glasgow Art Fair, March 27 – 30, Glasgow Scotland, glasgowartfair.com
– Whitney Biennial, March 6-June 1, New York, New York, whitney.org
– Armory, March 27-30, New York, New York, thearmoryshow.com