Our congratulations to Lynda Benglis on the occasion of her being honored at the 2014 New Museum Annual Spring Gala. 

New Museum Annual Spring Gala 

Cipriani, New York 

April 1, 2014

The Whitney Museum is proud to present two works by Amy Sillman at the 2014 Whitney Biennale; 'Mother', a painted work by the artist and 'Fells', a three-dimensional collaboration with sculptor Pam Lins.

On view on the fourth floor of the 2014 Biennial, 'Fells' began with a question posed by sculptor Pam Lins about how to incorporate a painting into a sculpture, a proposal that she has been working for the past decade. Amy Sillman suggested that Lins begin a new work by taking and responding to one of Sillman's own canvases, and this began an ongoing back-and-forth exchange between their two studios. They continued this chain of moves and responses for over a year, Lins adding a form, Sillman changing a painting in reply, Lins painting a panel, and so on. The result is a hybrid structure in which the parts appear somehow coordinated and disjointed at the same time, its sculptural components challenging us to think about three-dimensional space even as its pictorial elements seem to disrupt that solid reality.

'Exercise'

Borusan Contemporary

Turkey, Istanbul

1 March -1 June 2014

Our congratulations to Steve McQueen and the whole cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for winning Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards!

WIELS presents for the first time in Belgium an exhibition by Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari, who has emerged as one of the most prominent commentators on photography of the Middle East. Zaatari's practice is closely tied to the practice of collecting. Through books, photographic installations, and videos, Zaatari's visual studies reflects on the shifting nature of borders and the production and circulation of images in the political context of the region. Paralleling his long-term engagement with "the state of image making in situations of war", his work looks into notions of surveillance and expressions of masculinity, exploring the way different media apparatuses get employed in the service of power, resistance, and memory. This sensibility was formed in the course of living through fifteen years of war in Lebanon, watching it unfold and recording it as a teenager.

As co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation - an expanding collection of over 600,000 images - Zaatari is deeply invested in examining how photography served to shape notions of aesthetics, postures and social codes, therefore looking at the present through a wealth of past records of vernacular and studio photography from the Middle East. "I do not believe in the neutrality of the archive," Zaatari says. He has spent much of the last decade studying, indexing, and presenting the archive of Studio Sheherazade, established in 1953 by photographer Hashem el Madani in Saida, South Lebanon - Zaatari's city of origin - as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices.

Akram Zaatari, born in 1966 and author of more than 40 video works, lives and works in Beirut. Zaatari recently represented Lebanon in the 55th Venice Biennale and partook in dOCUMENTA XIII and Liverpool Biennial (2012), and Istanbul Biennial (2011). His work has been exhibited in and collected by museums all over the world, including at Tate, London; Bristol Museum, Bristol; Centre Pompidou, Paris; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MoMA, New York; Kunstverein, Munich; MUSAC, Léon; and Kunsternes Hus, Oslo.

Curator: Dirk Snauwaert

 Our congratulations to Steve McQueen, the cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for winning Best Picture at this year's British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards.

 Our congratulations to Steve McQueen, the cast and the crew of '12 Years a Slave' for being awarded Best Film at this year's Golden Globes.

The 2013 edition of the Contemporary Art Festival celebrates an important moment for the biennial show. The main Brazilian event dedicated to the artistic production from the geopolitical South (Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia and Oceania) goes thirty. It is the only Brazilian international festival for contemporary art, with exhibitions, public activities, awards. As in previous editions, a major exhibition establishes a dialogue with the Southern circuit: besides the Southern Panoramas competitive show, this year the highlight is the three decades of experimentation and risk assumed by Videobrasil since 1983, brought together in the exhibition 30 Years.

"Autocontrucción" (auto-construction) is the term Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968) uses to describe his art, the roots of which lie in the improvised construction methods and techniques of his native Mexico City. In this first major survey of his artistic career to be presented in Europe it can be seen, how Cruzvillegas combines his dynamic sculptural language with natural materials and found objects, blurring the boundaries between art and craft and between industrial and manual production. For Cruzvillegas, the sculptural form is a process of change, action, solidarity, and transformation. Over the past decade, Cruzvillegas has created an impressive body of work that reflects his interest in the forms and matter surrounding Ajusco, a volcanic area south of the Mexican capital.

"Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites" is organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA, and presented by Haus der Kunst.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is generously provided by Nelly and Moisés Cosío Espinosa, the Rose Francis Foundation, Gabriela and Ramiro Garza, Eugenio Lopez, Leni and David Moore, Jr., Donna and Jim Pohlad, Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney, and Marge and Irv Weiser.

The exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich has been generously supported by Thomas Dane Gallery, London / Regen Projects, Los Angeles / Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris / kurimanzutto, Mexico City

L'ALMANACH 14
22 février - 1er juin 2014
MARVIN GAYE CHETWYND, TRISHA DONNELLY, ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU, RACHEL FEINSTEIN, RODNEY GRAHAM, SHEILA HICKS, DAVID HOMINAL, ALEX HUBBARD, JOHN McALLISTER, LAURE PROUVOST, CHARLES RAY, COLLIER SCHORR, EMILY SUNDBLAD, FREDERIK VÆRSLEV, KELLEY WALKER, JORDAN WOLFSON. 

JOHN McALLISTER (USA. Born 1973, lives in Los Angeles)

MARVIN GAYE CHETWYND (GB. Born 1973, lives in London)

FREDRIK VÆRSLEV (N. Born 1979, lives in Vestfossen)

COLLIER SCHORR (USA. Born 1963, lives in New York)

SHEILA HICKS (USA. Born 1934, lives in Paris)

ANTOINE ESPINASSEAU (F. Born  1986, lives in Paris)

JORDAN WOLFSON (USA. Born 1980, lives in New York)

DAVID HOMINAL (F. Born 1976, lives in Amsterdam)

TRISHA DONNELLY (USA. Born 1974, lives in New York)

CHARLES RAY (USA. Born 1953, lives in Los Angeles)

RODNEY GRAHAM (C. Born 1949, lives in Vancouver)

EMILY SUNDBLAD (SW. Born 1977, lives in New York)

RACHEL FEINSTEIN (USA. Born 1971, lives in New York)

ALEX HUBBARD (USA. Born 1975, lives in New York)

LAURE PROUVOST (F. Born 1978, lives in London)

KELLEY WALKER (USA. Born 1969, lives in New York)

Remerciements: 303 Gallery, New-York; Air de Paris, Paris; Cranford Collection, Londres; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New-York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; James Fuentes Gallery, New-York; Lisson Gallery, Londres; Matthew Marks Gallery, New-York; Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris; MOT International, Londres; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Sadie Coles HQ, Londres; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New-York et tous les prêteurs.