Pierre Huyghe June 24–October 19, 2010 Overview:
Noted French artist Pierre Huyghe uses diverse media—including
large-scale installation, public events, and video—to delve into the
uncertainties of representation and investigate how narrative models
affect our sense of reality. In the process, he moves through a variety
of creative fields, such as architecture, cinema, design, and music,
with an eye to their unique qualities and conventions.
Pierre Huyghe. Les Grands Ensembles (The Housing
Projects), 1994/2001. Gift of Howard and Donna Stone.
Huyghe’s 1994/2001 video
installation Les Grands Ensembles (The Housing Projects) is
featured as one of the many provocative works in the special exhibition Contemporar
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Blue, blue, electric blue That’s the color of my room Where
I will live . . .
I will sit right down Waiting for the gift
of Sound & Vision —David Bowie, "Sound & Vision,” Low,
1977
Even before Bowie united them in song, sound and vision had
been closely intertwined in the visual and audio art recordings of the
early 1970s. This focused exhibition of a dozen works in various media
explores the symbiotic relationship between art and music, presenting
humorous yet rigorous investigations in which the two do not connect in
any synesthetic sense but ra
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The Art Institute of Chicago May 1–September 6, 2010
Overview:
While avant-garde architecture has frequently inspired today’s art
photographers and video artists, Stanley Greenberg is the first to focus
a documentary-style lens on the subject. Greenberg's luminous
large-scale black-and-white photographs explore avant-garde structures
in the process of being built. Using highly cropped views, Greenberg
captures moments in the assembly of architecture that are rarely evident
in the final building, revealing the complexity of contemporary
construction and the residual visual unfolding of spaces resulting from
these feats of structural gymnastics. Through framings reminiscent of
Lewis W. Hine’s heroic construction images of the 1930s, Greenberg’s
compelling photographs are a celebra
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Much of contemporary photography and
video
seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are
reanimated in
reproductive media, as well as in live performance and
the virtual world. By
using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic
devices, subject matter, and
technologies, this art embodies a
melancholic longing for an otherw
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Junio 15-Septiembre 12-2010
Jean-Léon Gérôme A greek interior,1850,oil on canvas,collection Lady Micheline Connery
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) was among the most officially honored and
financially successful French artists of the second half of the 19th
century. His brilliantly painted and often provocative pictures were at
the center of heated debates over the present and future of the great
French painting tradition. Reproduced using brand new photomechanical
processes and dispersed across Europe and America, Gérôme's images
indelibly marked the popular imagination, directly influencing
spectacular forms of mass entertainment, from theater to film.
Through most of the 20th century, however, Gérôme's criti
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This landmark exhibition is the first to
focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) in the
Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the
Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and
ceramics by Picasso—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a
selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the
full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself
over the course of his long and influential career.
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