8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 18
Art Basel opens this week, so a good percentage of the New York art world is in Switzerland, but there’s still plenty to do in our city. Below, a brief guide to the week. Read More
Art Basel opens this week, so a good percentage of the New York art world is in Switzerland, but there’s still plenty to do in our city. Below, a brief guide to the week. Read More
Artist Julien Langendorff, a Paris-based artist and musician with an upcoming show at Agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour, has an intriguing interview up on Opening Ceremony in which he discusses being raised by a psychics (I think my grandmother was kind of a witch”), his interest in Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, getting rejected by tony Paris art school École des Beaux Arts (“Then again, the director now buys my stuff”), as well as having his tarot read by Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Read More
MONDAY, APRIL 9
Artist Talk: “Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Josephine Meckseper”
Josephine Meckseper’s elaborate installations, photographs and videos explore the relationship between politics and consumer culture, particularly with respect to fashion and advertising, and the homogenizing effects of capitalism. Ms. Meckseper is next up in this lecture series, organized in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, which aims to present histories that question convention and offer alternative ways for understanding the evolution of sculpture. —Rozalia Jovanovic
SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, 7 p.m.
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