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Hyperallergic : Transforming Society Through Play (by Eileen G'Sell)

ST. LOUIS — “Burn this book after you read it,” implores the inside flap of Grapefruit, Yoko Ono’s 1964 collection of 150 prompts aiming to blur the boundary between artist and reader, imagination and reality. Across from the stately colophon, an ink doodle of a blank box flirts below an invitation to “write your own” synopsis, with “name, weight, sex, colour” scribbled in lower-case letters. On the black-and-white cover, Ono looks at us over her bare shoulder, whose rounded form visually mimics the volume’s title. With her untamed mane and oversized aviators, the conceptual artist seems to dare us to partake in something wild and delicious.

gabriela ancoJuly 5, 2022Yoko Ono

The Art Newspaper : 'Art will go back underground': artist Emilia Kabakov on the war in Ukraine and the fate of the Russian art world (by Sophia Kishkovsky)

Born in the Soviet Union, the artist reflects on how works by her and husband Ilya have taken on new meaning since the war.

The artist couple Ilya and Emilia Kabakov live and create at a home and studio on Long Island, New York. The Art Newspaper met with them there and spoke to Emilia about the often prophetic nature of art and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where both artists were born.

gabriela ancoJuly 1, 2022Ilya&Emilia Kabakov

Eye for Film : The almost futuristic Shirin Neshat on Michael Brook, Sheila Vand, Isabella Rossellini, Matt Dillon, Sam Shepard and Land Of Dreams (by Anne-Katrin Titze)

Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s highly imaginative Land Of Dreams, based on a story by Shirin Neshat, screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière and Shoja Azari takes us on the road to the American Southwest of the near future, where an Iranian colony is nestled in the desert, and where a census bureau collects everyone’s dreams for the dreamers “security”.

gabriela ancoJune 25, 2022Shirin Neshat

The Guardian : ‘I was on a conveyor belt to death’: the astonishing worlds of Chiharu Shiota (by Kelly Burke)

After a frightening diagnosis, the Japanese artist is taking on mortality in her new show in Brisbane, using thread to construct huge artworks that sweep entire rooms the day after Chiharu Shiota was presented with plans for an ambitious solo exhibition spanning her 30-year artistic career, she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer.

gabriela ancoJune 25, 2022Chiharu Shiota

Mutual Art : Shilpa Gupta: Untitled

Shilpa Gupta's video installation "Untitled", 2022, conceived especially for the Kestner Gesellschaft and exhibited on the roof of the gallery's building, turns the architecture into a living organism. Emitted texts (Time Runs Endless, Fear Fear Itself, One Sentence Ago, etc.) along with visual components, enter into a poetic-political polylogue with the city and its inhabitants, invoking notions of confinement and intimacy, but also legality and illegality, security and censorship, belonging and isolation.

gabriela ancoJune 25, 2022Shilpa Gupta

E-flux Annoucements : Kirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel, Lawrence Weiner: Gogo Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art

Fluid Mexican onyx, manipulated digital prints and text-based works scaled to match the urban space intertwine in this exhibition featuring three renowned and internationally acclaimed artists—Kirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner—each of whom has made their unique contribution to defining what we understand as contemporary art.

gabriela ancoJune 21, 2022Rosemarie Trockel

Marian Goodman Gallery : 15 - 16 June 2022 William Kentridge - Oh to Believe in Another World Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

The symphony will premiere the topically relevant animated film by William Kentridge, performed to Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. The Shostakovich expert and chief conductor Michael Sanderling will conduct the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester at the KKL Luzern and the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival.

gabriela ancoJune 14, 2022William Kentridge

FInancial Times : Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter’s decade-long project becomes an album (by Richard Fairman)

An encounter between composer Steve Reich and German visual artist Gerhard Richter a decade earlier had started discussion on a joint project. Richter showed Reich his book Patterns, in which an abstract painting is scanned, cut in half, and half again repeatedly. Out of this Richter was creating a film and Reich’s music was to follow a mirroring musical process.

gabriela ancoJune 10, 2022Gerhard Richter

Deadline : Vertical Entertainment Acquires Tribeca-Bound Satire ‘Land Of Dreams’ Starring Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon & Isabella Rossellini – Watch The Trailer (by Matt Grobar)

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the political satire Land of Dreams, directed by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, which is making its North American premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section of the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The global indie distributor has slated the film for a day-and-date theatrical release in 10 of the top 20 markets—including in Los Angeles and New York—this fall. (Watch a new trailer unveiled today by the company above.)

gabriela ancoJune 2, 2022Shirin Neshat

FAD Magazine : KIKI SMITH AT LORCAN O’NEILL, BETWEEN EARTH AND COSMO (by Irene Machetti)

For the first time in her career, Smith presents sculptures entirely made of bronze, challenging herself in this complex endeavour. The exhibition, indeed, took years in the making, and it involved long walks around the Greek myths and periods of reflection in her studio. ‘I am an old fashioned artist,’ affirmed Smith, ‘I need time in my studio to produce works.’

gabriela ancoJune 1, 2022Kiki Smith

Monopol : Charity-Auktion Versteigerung von Kunstwerken zugunsten der Ukraine

Oben ist ein Pigmentdruck ohne Titel von Rosemarie Trockel von 2018 zu sehen. Das Editionsexemplar stammt direkt aus dem Besitz der Künstlerin und wird zum Schätzpreis von 2500 bis 3500 Euro angeboten. Auktionshaus sowie Künstlerinnen und Künstler verzichten auf ihre Einnahmen, mit dem Erlös will der Verein "Kunst hilft geben" nach Köln geflüchtete Menschen unterstützen und humanitäre Hilfe in der Ukraine leisten.

gabriela ancoMay 31, 2022Rosemarie Trockel

Londonist : Review: The Objects Speak For Themselves At British Museum's Feminine Power (by Tabish Khan)

The sculpture, by contemporary artist Kiki Smith, is of Lilith, the first woman according to Jewish mythology, who was exiled from Eden for refusing to be subservient to Adam. History has often depicted Lilith as a demon, but her independence has given her modern feminist icon status; Smith's work leans into both, referencing the myth while revealing a gravity-defying power.

gabriela ancoMay 18, 2022Kiki Smith

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