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Glasstire (Texas Visual Art) : What’s in a Collection: “Recent Acquisitions 2002-2022” at the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth

While a permanent collection show typically does not spark fireworks enough to make a special trip, the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth’s exhibition focusing on the institution’s last 20 years of acquisitions offers a fascinating glimpse into the sometimes opaque inner workings of collecting. Scholarship often seeks to elucidate the ways in which artworks reflect the period of creation, but equally important is how artworks respond to the time in which they were acquired into major public collections.

gabriela ancoApril 16, 2022Shirin Neshat

Document Journal : ‘Our Selves’ at the MoMA takes an intersectional approach to feminist photography

“Society consumes both the good girl and the bad girl,” Argentine artist Silvia Kolbowski once said. “But somewhere between those two polarities, space must be made for criticality.”The quote was included in a statement from MoMA about the opening of Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists this coming weekend. The statement sums up perfectly the nature of the collection, which is neither a chronological history, nor a linear account, but an approach to the medium from a “contemporary, intersectional feminist perspective,” in the museum’s words.

gabriela ancoApril 15, 2022Rosemarie Trockel

DW : 'Putin is lying': Gerhard Richter condemns Ukraine war

Richter, who lives in the western city of Cologne, donated five art prints of his famous candle paintings in an extra-large format to "Kunst hilft Geben" (or Art Helps Give), a non-profit organization in Cologne. The Richter prints are estimated to have a value of at least €30,000 ($32,500) each, according to Dirk Kästel, initiator and chairman of the board at Art Helps Give. The proceeds of the sales are earmarked for refugees from Ukraine as well as for war victims in the country. Kästel said his organization sends them medicine and food among others. "We also provide aid in Ukraine's border region with the help of our cooperation partners." And Richter is not the only contributor to the organization's campaign: 44 artists have already donated 108 works of art for the cause, including Rosemarie Trockel.

gabriela ancoApril 14, 2022Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel

Springfield Museum.org : Yoko Ono Mend Piece

Ono proposes communal mending as an act of healing. In a seemingly simple white room, shattered cups and saucers are placed on a table. Participants are asked to mend the fragments together using common household items: twine, glue, scissors, and tape. The resulting works are displayed on nearby shelves, evidence of the power of collective action.

gabriela ancoApril 9, 2022Yoko Ono

Art 19 Box One at Art Düsseldorf 22

The fourth edition of Art Düsseldorf will take place from 8 to 10 April, 2022 in the halls of Areal Böhler in Düsseldorf. As a fair for the most significant developments in contemporary art and the latest trends in the art market, Art Düsseldorf benefits from the top-class collector community of North Rhine-Westphalia and neighboring European countries. Here, Art Düsseldorf reaches almost 90% of all European collectors.

gabriela ancoApril 4, 2022art 19 box one

William Kentridge at the Paris Opera with the opera "Wozzek"

Browbeaten by the captain, exploited by the doctor, deceived by Marie, Wozzeck leads us to reflect on the most tragic effects of madness both on a isolated individual and on a group. This expressionist world blends just as strikingly into the staging of William Kentridge, one of the major visual artists of the contemporary scene. His drawings and videos appear to us like projections of Wozzeck’s imagination, exposing the horror of the First World War.

gabriela ancoMarch 14, 2022William Kentridge

Wallpaper : Chiharu Shiota’s ‘labyrinth within a labyrinth’ at Copenhagen’s Cisternerne

Chiharu Shiota has become the latest artist to take over the arched depths of Copenhagen’s Cisternerne. Titled Multiple Realities, her installation is a poetic landscape of web-like yarn, both serene and unsettling.

gabriela ancoMarch 12, 2022Chiharu Shiota

CNN Style : Yoko Ono broadcasts global message of peace every night for a month

Artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono is occupying digital mega screens across the world to transmit a message of peace.

Some of the largest LED billboards in major metropolitan areas -- including Piccadilly Lights in London, Times Square in New York and K-Pop Square in Seoul -- will be interrupted at 8:22 p.m. local time to broadcast the phrase "Imagine Peace" in bold black text every night for the rest of March.

gabriela ancoMarch 4, 2022Yoko Ono

The Arts Desk : A Century of the Artist's Studio, Whitechapel Gallery review - a voyeur's delight

The Whitechapel Gallery's exhibition opens with Cell IX, 1999 (pictured below) one of the wire cages that Louise Bourgeois filled with memories of her dysfunctional family.

In referring to voyeurism, Cell IX makes a brilliant introduction to an exhibition whose theme is the artist’s studio, since our desire to peek behind the scenes is prompted largely by hope of accessing the artist’s psyche and finding out what motivates them.

gabriela ancoMarch 2, 2022William Kentridge

Hickory Daily Record : 25 influential female artists of the 20th century

Yoko Ono’s art, whether performance or visual, acts as a two-way mirror, throwing the viewers’ reactions back at them and revealing some deep inner truths about her audience. Involved in New York’s avant-garde scene, she both collaborated with other artists and created pieces of her own, like her famous 1964 “Cut Piece,” hoping to unsettle and inspire those who engaged with it.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2022Yoko Ono

Artnet : Templon, a Five-Decade Mainstay of the Paris Art Scene, Will Open Its First New York Gallery in September

A 55-year-old Parisian gallery crosses the Atlantic for the first time.

“When I left New York, I always knew I would come back some day,” Templon said. “We have a lot of collectors in New York, and the gallery has a long relationship with the city. The gallery represented a lot of New York artists in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.” Several artists currently in the gallery’s stable lack New York representation as of now, including Chiharu Shiota, Iván Navarro, Prune Nourry, and Jim Dine.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2022Chiharu Shiota

E-flux : Shirin Neshat, Jeffrey Gibson, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams
Shirin Neshat’s ﬁrst major Canadian exhibition in 20 years focuses on her most recent project, Land of Dreams, which marks a pivot in Neshat’s gaze toward the “western world.” The central work that gives the exhibition its title comprises over 100 photographic portraits and a video installation, converging photography and ﬁlm into an immersive experience that presents a perspective on contemporary America.

gabriela ancoMarch 1, 2022Shirin Neshat

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