FRANCESSCA WOODMAN
Guggenheim March 16–June 13, 2012
Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief but extraordinary career to be seen in North America. More than thirty years after her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her interest in female subjectivity, seriality, Conceptualist practice, and photography’s relationship to both literature and performance are also hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age. This retrospective offers an occasion to examine more closely the maturation and expression of a highly subjective and coherent artistic vision. It also presents an important and timely opportunity to reassess the critical developments that took place in the 1970s in American photography and video.
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/francesca-woodman
DON’T WORRY.
IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT.
ANSELM KIEFER.
NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
There is a special border, the border between art and life that often shifts deceptively. Yet, without this border, there is no art. In the process of being produced, art borrows material from life, and the traces of life still shine through the completed work of art. But, at the same time, the distance from life is the essence, the substance of art. And, yet, life has still left its traces. The more scarred the work of art is by the battles waged on the borders between art and life, the more interesting it becomes.
—Anselm Kiefer
At GAGOSIAN on 24th Street.
thru Dec. 18.
“DRAW LINES, YOUNG MAN,
AND STILL MORE LINES, BOTH FROM LIFE AND FROM MEMORY, AND YOU WILL BECOME A GOOD ARTIST.”
As Ingres advised Degas.
UBUWEB:SOUND.
I just discovered this site, and it is quickly becoming a favorite. Ubuweb:sound is a comprehensive database of recorded poetry. The selection of poets is varied, ranging in style, region, and period.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html
BOB COBBING.
NEW YORK.
ON TUESDAY.
WILLEM SANDBERG.
One of the most important figures in Dutch graphic design and a highly influential museum director during his time at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam. The Stedelijk commissioned him, in 1928, to prepare pictorial statistical information for the exhibition ‘Work for the Disabled’. Appointed curator of modern art in 1937. During the second world war joined the Dutch resistance and assisted in the production of false identity cards. Became director of the Stedelijk in 1945 and personally designed over 300 catalogues prior to retiring in 1964. From 1964 - 1968 he was on the Executive committee of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and lectured on visual communication at Harvard 1969 - 1970. He died in Amsterdam in 1984.
http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/archive/bio.asp?artistID=489
FINAL FRONTIER DESIGN.
TED SOUTHERN + NIKOLAY MOISEEV.
