Whitney Biennial Model Tees
The Whitney Museum has collaborated with the Gap on a series of t-shirts designed by past Whitney Biennial artists, including Art21 artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger (her design is pictured above), Kerry James Marshall, and Kiki Smith. There are thirteen in all, and the prominent remainder includes Ashley Bickerton, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Hanna Liden, Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Kenny Scharf, Sarah Sze, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
The t-shirts will be available at select Gap stores and online beginning May 15. In the meantime, with the opening of the 2008 Whitney Biennial last week, they can also be found in advance at the museum gift store.
More Women in the City: installation views
Installation views of West of Rome’s Women in the City project, featuring Art21 artists Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, as well as Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler. Thanks to For Your Art for these.
Jenny Holzer, “Sex differences are here to stay,” selection from Truisms, 1977-79/2008 displayed on the marquee at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood.
Barbara Kruger, Plenty, 2008 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s LACMA West facing 6th Street and Fairfax Avenue.
Installation view of Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1978/2008 at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
All photos by Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy of West of Rome
Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images
Jenny Holzer. Don’t Talk Down to Me, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82. Offset poster. © 2008 Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Jenny Holzer. Destruye, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82. Offset poster. © 2008 Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Barbara Kruger, stills from Plenty, 2008. Video, 3 min. 15 sec. loop. Courtesy of the artist.
Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City
Women in the City is a viral public art exhibition throughout the streets of Los Angeles that starts today. Timed to coincide with the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Women in the City is on view at over 50 locations from Venice Beach to Pasadena. The project activates the relationship between art and the urban experience while investigating trends in consumerism and the language of popular culture.
The work of four seminal women artists, who began to emerge on the international art scene at the beginning of the ’80s within the feminist movement, will penetrate the urban and social geography of the city. Art21 artists Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, along with Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman, disseminate their work in various locations in on-the-road billboards, video screens, storefronts, a movie theater and even propagation through widely distributed stickers.
Today, Women in the City debuts Barbara Kruger’s new video Plenty (2008). The work appropriates advertisements and stereotypes commenting on consumerism. Presented on a temporary video billboard at LACMA, Plenty screens daily on continuous loop through mid-March. It is also presented on video billboards on the Sunset Strip, across from the Hyatt Hotel (8410 Sunset Boulevard) and at the Key Club (9039 Sunset Boulevard), where it is screened daily and fragmented between advertisements.
Because of its developing areas, its unique sprawl, and the diverse cultures that inhabit it, contemporary Los Angeles serves as a site for the recontextualization of Jenny Holzer’s political language within the social framework of the city. Beginning tomorrow, Holzer‚Äôs Inflammatory Essays (1979-82/2008) will be dispersed in both English and Spanish throughout all areas of the city. Posters will be placed in storefronts, alongside advertisement billboards, and in pedestrian areas. Her famous Truisms (1977-79/2008) occupy citywide LED screens, banners, and marquees. The Survival Series (1983-85/2008) is a set of aggressive phrases meant to propel the passive viewer into an act of questioning. They are distributed as stickers throughout Los Angeles clubs, shops, and will also be inserted into the LA Weekly on February 14.
The Barbara Kruger - Selfridge’s connection
Season 1 artist Barbara Kruger has been collaborating with British department store Selfridge’s to provide their seasonal advertising artwork. Apparently, she has worked with them in the past as well. Check it out on Selfridge’s site here.
[via C-Monster and The Guardian’s Art & Architecture blog]
Barbara Kruger: Picture/Readings
An exhibition by Season 1 featured artist Barbara Kruger is on view at Mary Boone Gallery, New York . The exhibition entitled Picture/Readings, is a collection of works from 1978, which reflect that era’s captivation with photography as forthright, conceptual ideology, and feminist consciousness. Hence the Picture/Readings presage the iconic photo/text works for which Kruger would become known.
In these stark early works, Kruger places a single image alongside a panel of text. The photographs, shot by the artist in California and Florida, depict from a passersby viewpoint, unremarkable details; windows, corners, gables, roof overhangs, of residential architecture. The occasional intrusion of a palm or other tropical vegetation provides the only sense of place. Equally detached in its casual typewritten appearance and tone is the accompanying text: Kruger has written a narrative which recounts the incidental urgencies and activities of the buildings’ imagined inhabitants. The Picture/Readings posit that by looking - the province of photography - richly varied internal spaces may be revealed.
Mary Boone Gallery
745 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10151
The exhibition will run through December 22.
