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Art Conservation Group to Public: Grab Your Cameras and Document Tony Smith Sculptures
The International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art’s North American branch has called on people to document Tony Smith sculptures on view outside around the world in order to build a comprehensive database of their whereabouts. Randy Kennedy at The New York Times has the story. Read More
Kusama Will Cover Condo Construction Site in Meatpacking With ‘Yellow Trees’
Yayoi Kusama and her work have taken over New York this summer. The Whitney is hosting a retrospective of her work, Louis Vuitton stores are offering accessories with her trademark dots (as well as a creepy life-size wax model of the Japanese master) and her 2004 installation Guidepost to the New Space is on view in Hudson River Park, where Christopher Street ends, thanks to a collaboration between the park’s trust, Gagosian Gallery and the Whitney. Read More
High Line Art to Present El Anatsui Tapestry
A shimmering tapestry of broken mirrors and pressed tin by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui is set to open at the High Line in October, Carol Vogel of The New York Times reports. This epic, site-specific piece, called Broken Bridge, will hang from an outdoor wall by the park between West 21st and 22nd Streets. Read More
Big Apple’s New Wurm
If you stumbled out of the Standard hotel last Sunday morning, blinking in the light like a newborn babe burdened with sin unoriginal, reeking of deeds, your hangover a telltale heart throbbing everywhere, a disproportionate outrage with yourself, growing, over how cliché it all was, I mean honest to God, it’s a cliché—you may have noticed that there’s a new statue out front! Read More
Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac Heads’ Go to Princeton
On the heels of the disappointing—albeit unsurprising—denial of artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s appeal against Beijing tax authorities, there arrives the comparably happy news that his monumental installation, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, will be unveiled at Princeton University on Aug. 1, where it will have a year-long run. The exhibition is sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which has invited Mr. Ai to the school to participate in a series of events on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Read More
‘Individual Spirit’: Joel Shapiro on His Sculpture for the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou
“Four and eight are bad in China,” Joel Shapiro explained late last month in his studio in Long Island City, just south of the Queensboro Bridge. The symbol for that number sounds like the symbol for death. “I had my assistant ask his Chinese in-law, who’s this great mahjong player of Chinatown, which numbers were okay. Also, I discussed it with people at the State Department.” Read More
Oscar Tuazon Installs Sculptures in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Oscar Tuazon will unveil three new public sculptures at Brooklyn Bridge Park, which will be on view from July 19, 2012, to April 26, 2013. Read More
High Line Art Marks Cage Centennial With Film and Sound Presentation
Though it’s somehow hard to believe, John Cage, who died in 1992 at the age of 79, would have turned 100 this year, on Sept. 5. High Line Art is marking the upcoming centennial by joining with Electronic Arts Intermix and Friends of the High Line to present Cage’s film and sound piece One11 and 103 (1992), from Aug. 2 through Sept. 13, on loop, as part of its new High Line Channel 14 series, which will present “films, videos, and sound installations” in the span of the High Line that stretches across West 14th Street. Read More
Times Square Loses Tom Otterness Statues
A redesign of the Time Square Hilton hotel means the Great White Way just got a little less Otterness-y. The new Hilton entrances on West 42nd Street and West 41st Street will feature illuminated panels, The New York Times reports, which necessitated the removal of some 60 or so sculptures by Tom Otterness featuring his signature doughy creatures. Read More
