From 29 January until 14 March 2010 acclaimed British artist Michael Landy will transform the
South London Gallery into a 600m³ container for the disposal of works of
art. Art Bin will gradually fill up over the six week course of the
exhibition to create 'a monument to creative failure'. Landy is
inviting artists to submit art works they'd like to dispose of - click here to find out more.
In
this week's final episode of BBC Two's School Of Saatchi,
twenty-year-old Eugenie Scrase was revealed as the artist selected by
Charles Saatchi to have her artwork shown at his exhibition 'Newspeak:
British Art Now' at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Steve
McQueen has signed up to direct a new film about the musician Fela Kuti
(below); Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk announces a new prize for
artists under 35; Art Basel Miami Beach reports strong sales; Brian Eno
will direct the 2010 Brighton Festival; and Richard Wright wins the 2009
Turner Prize.
Strong
sales for Southeast Asian contemporary art; Richard Serra work granted
protected status; Anthony D'Offay's Artists' Rooms go on tour; works
confiscated from Art Basel Miami Beach; major climate change show opens
at London's Royal Academy; and Art+Auction reveals its 2009 Power list.
The
Turner Prize 2009 has been awarded to Richard Wright, it was announced
at Tate Britain yesterday evening. The £25,000 prize was presented by
Carol Ann Duffy. This year's prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to
the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The event
was broadcast live on Channel 4 News.
The
winners of the 2009 Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for
Schools were announced by Antony Gormley at a special prizegiving
evening at the Saatchi Gallery in London on 2 December 2009. The overall
winner is Lauren Mincher from Durham Johnston School in Durham, second
prize went to Ghan Chansuwan from Brentside High School in Ealing, and
third prize to Katie Lewis from Sir James Henderson School Of Milan.
Details about the Schools Prize for 2010 will be announced in January
2010.
Mad.
Sq. Art, part of Madison Square Park Conservancy, will present a
landmark public exhibition of Antony Gormley's artwork 'Event Horizon'
in New York City, on view March 26 through August 15, 2010. Thirty-one
life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass will
inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park as
well as the rooftops of the architectural treasures that populate New
York's vibrant Flatiron District.
The
shortlisted artists for this year's Deutsche Borse Photography Prize
have been announced and are: Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber
and Donovan Wylie (below). The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living
photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant
contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of
photography in Europe between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009. The
winner will be announced 17 March 2010.
"The
one thing that artists must possess above all other qualities is
immense courage," the filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch once said
to me. Nancy Spero, who died last week in Manhattan at the age of 83,
was a woman who possessed immense courage, both in her art and in her
life. For more than half a century, this courage propelled a practice of
enormous imagination that moved across painting, collage, printmaking,
and installation, constructing what Spero once called a "peinture
féminine" that could address--and redress--both the struggles of women
in patriarchal society and the horrors perennially wrought by American
military might.
Kofi Annan, Nobel Laureate and former Secretary General of the United
Nations, has awarded this year's prestigious £60,000 (CHF100,000) Prix
Pictet photography prize for environmental sustainability to
British-based photographer Nadav Kander.
Ai
Weiwei suffers a brain haemorrhage; Hans Ulrich Obrist is named the
most powerful person in the art world; Dasha Zhukova's Garage presents
first Rothko show in Moscow; Miroslaw Balka's new installation at the
Turbine Hall opens in London; The Outset Fund acquires new works at
Frieze for the Tate Collection; and Obama unveils what he's looking at
on his walls.
Channel
4 and The Saatchi Gallery are delighted to announce that Oliver Beer is
the winner of this year's New Sensations prize. Oliver Beer graduated
from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and his work was
chosen by judges Gavin Turk, artist; Ralph Rugoff, director of the
Hayward Gallery, London; critic Louisa Buck; and Alison Jacques, owner
of Alison Jacques Gallery in London. His work, and that of 19 other
shortlisted students, can be seen at the A Foundation in London on until
19 October.
"I
like John Ruskin's idea of art, that there's an unbroken line all the
way back to the cavemen, and we are just the most recent additions."
Damien Hirst Created between 2006 and 2008, the paintings to be
shown at the Wallace Collection in London this October represent a
radical departure from the artist's established working practice.
Good
news from adventurous gallerists, as new art fairs in Miami and Paris
open and plans for additional and/or new galleries are announced by
Gagosian, Blum & Poe (picture) and The Showroom. On the other side
of the coin, auction houses downsizing, reflecting an overall 69%
decline in sales during the first half of 2009; plus the latest on the
LACMA Film Programme and more, all in this week's news round-up.
In
2003 lokal_30 opened in Warsaw and rapidly established itself as one of
the most important contemporary art spaces in Poland. While other
galleries are closing or downsizing, this autumn lokal_30 is expanding
with a new gallery in London's East End.
Tate
Britain, the home of British art from 1500 to the present, is seeking
to appoint a Director to lead the Gallery. The new Director will succeed
Stephen Deuchar, who has been appointed Director of The Art Fund,
joining Tate Britain at a time when a major programme of capital
development is under way and when the opportunity to develop a vision of
engagement with historic and contemporary British art has never been
more exciting.
Robert
Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Jeopardy? Plus news of Zhang Huan's new
commission to direct Handel's Semele, an outpour of public reaction to
LACMA's closure of its film programme and more...
Artist
Dash Snow (below) dies at 27; Ai Weiwei is censored by the Chinese
government; Jean Nouvel has been commissioned to create an island of
culture in France; 23 are injured on Robert Morris's public artwork at
Tate Modern; and Damien Hirst creates a new bike for Lance Armstrong.
The
artist Ryan McGinley pays homage to his friend Dash Snow who died this
week aged 27: 'He was one of my first muses. He embodied everything that
I wanted to photograph and everything that I wanted to be.
Irresponsible, reckless, carefree, wild, rich. One of my favorite things
about Dash was always his unconscious moving hand. He would be sitting
there smoking cigarettes, writing his tag in the air without being aware
of it. I would just smile and watch the smoke twirl into the letters S A
C E.
Abu
Dhabi has announced the establishment of a major new annual event
featuring international contemporary art and design. Presented under the
patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed
Forces, Abu Dhabi Art will take place 19-22 November and will celebrate
its inaugural edition with an art fair, exhibitions, multi-media
performances, presentations, and exclusive tours and gala events at the
Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.
Ai
Weiwei calls for an internet boycott; the choreographer Pina Bausch
dies; Sarah Jessica Parker's art TV series goes into production; Haunch
of Venison closes its Zurich gallery; Heathrow's Terminal 5 is set to
become an art gallery; plus a report on the recent contemporary art
sales in London.
An
impassioned debate took place last week at the Saatchi Gallery as part
of its Art Prize for Schools being run with the Sunday Telegraph. On
the panel were Turner Prize-winning artists Grayson Perry and Antony
Gormley; philosopher Alain de Botton; design expert Stephen Bayley and
Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of the children's charity Kids Company.
Here is an edited version of Grayson Perry's speech, warning of the
dangers inherent in digital culture.
When
an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as
a rule follows two steps. Before its actual collapse, a mysterious
rupture takes place: all of a sudden people know that the game is over,
they are simply no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses
its legitimacy, its exercise of power itself is perceived as an impotent
panic reaction. We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the cat
reaches a precipice, but it goes on walking, ignoring the fact that
there is no ground under its feet; it starts to fall only when it looks
down and notices the abyss. When it loses its authority, the regime is
like a cat above the precipice: in order to fall, it only has to be
reminded to look down...
A
kiss on a Cy Twombly painting costs $20,000; Richard Rogers attacks
Prince Charles for "unconstitutional" behaviour and "an abuse of power";
Larry Gagosian expands in Beverly Hills; Nina Canell and Geert Goiris
win prizes at Art Basel; and Banksy opens his first museum show.
The
Armory Show has commissioned British artist Susan Collis to create the
visual identity for the 2010 fair. Collis's artwork, which concentrates
on meticulous recreations of everyday objects, will set the aesthetic
for the fair's look, will be featured in all of the fair's advertising
and marketing materials, and will be showcased in the catalogue. This
will be the ninth year The Armory Show has commissioned an artist to
define the image of the fair.
Brad
Pitt caused a stir at ArtBasel this week, buying a Neo Rauch for $1
million; filmmaker Tim Burton gets a major show at MoMA, New York; Zaha
Hadid wins commission to build 'exhibition city'; Dasha Zhukova will
host the 3rd Moscow Biennale; The Times announces the top 200 artists
since 1900; and the Zoo art fair announces new plans for a multi-venue
exhibition this October.
Frieze
Foundation is looking for an experienced curator for Frieze Projects,
Frieze Film and The Cartier Award. Since the inaugural Frieze Art Fair
in 2003, Frieze Foundation has pursued an ambitious curatorial
programme, inviting artists to respond specifically to the fair context.
