Weekly Roundup
Martin Puryear, "Untitled I", 2002. Aquatint etching. Ed: 40. Courtesy of Barbara Krakow.
- The Cincinnati Art Museum has announced an exhibition of prints by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear. The show is scheduled to open December 2009.
- Barbara Kruger (Season 1) is included in the forthcoming exhibition of work by women artists at the Centre Pompidou. Read about this ambitious display in the Los Angeles Times.
- Seven works by Ursula von Rydingsvard (Season 4) will be installed at the ancient site of Pilane, Sweden for the annual exhibition, Sculpture at Pilane. Opens June 6.
- The MacDowell Colony, a leading artist residency program, will present their annual medal to Season 2 artist Kiki Smith.
- Season 1 artist Richard Serra has received a 2009 honorary degree from Yale University.
- Louis Vuitton; A Passion for Creation at the Hong Kong Museum of Art features a selection of objects from the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création. Pierre Huyghe (Season 4) is included in this display of works by European, American and Chinese artists.
- Work by Andrea Zittel (Season 1) is on view in U.F.O. Art and Design at the NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaf in Düsseldorf. Continues through July 5.
- The 2009 edition of Art-Athina–Greece’s leading international art fair for contemporary art–will include work by Kara Walker (Season 2) and William Kentridge (Season 5) in a collateral event/exhibition, entitled Praise of Shadows. Through July 26 at the Benaki Museum.
- Season 5 artist Yinka Shonibare has enlisted children to assist with his piece for the National Gallery, London. Read the Times Online article.
Don’t Miss: Mark Dion’s European exhibitions
Two exhibitions of work by Season 4 artist Mark Dion, The Natural History of the Museum and Systema Metropolis, are running concurrently in Sweden, Switzerland, and London, respectively, this summer and fall.
In both shows, Dion continues his wide-ranging investigations into art and science—the relationship between animals, humans, and environments, and the Western systems of classification and collection and modes of presentation. Through intriguing art installations, Dion examines how humans make order out of chaos by collecting and classifying organisms and, at the same time, recreating the categorization and exhibition practices of museums. Moreover, he specifically celebrates the 300 years since the birth of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern biological classification system that gives every species a two-part Latin name.
In The Natural History of the Museum, on view at the Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg, Sweden, until August 26, 2007, Dion uses irony, humour and allegory to build bridges between the traditional role of the museum as an authoritarian educator and a new role as a conveyor of knowledge and an entertainer. The show will then travel to Seedam Kulturzentrum in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, from September 15 to November 11, 2007.
Systema Metropolis, at the Natural History Museum in London until September 2, 2007, is based on a four-part installation that explores the strange and surprising biodiversity of London through wildlife samples collected at different sites across the city and its classification.
