WANG BING IN CONVERSATION
The closing week of the exhibition WANG BING at Chantal Crousel will bring the artist back to the gallery for a conversation with Anne Kerlan, director of the Center for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China. Included in the installation are two of the artist’s films previously unseen in France: Mrs. Fang (daily at 11 am) and Beauty […]
MUSIC
ADAM LINDER — THE WANT
Inspired by Bernard Marie-Koltès’ play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (1986), choreographer Adam Linder has created a new opera, THE WANT, with music by Ethan Braun and a libretto in co-operation with Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer. The work premieres this week in Berlin, and will open in Hamburg in January. The cast of singers, actors, and dancers includes Jess Gadani, Justin F. […]
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PETE SHELLEY
Pete Shelley—one of the greatest composers and performers of the punk era—died yesterday in Estonia. Shelley—who avoided gender pronouns in his songs and adopted the family name of Percy and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley—formed Buzzcocks in 1976 with Howard Devoto, releasing the EP Spiral Scratch (which includes the song “Boredom”) at the end of that year. Devoto […]
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A LUTA CONTINUA
The collection of Sylvio Perlstein comprises twentieth-century art movements—from Dada and Surrealism to Abstraction, Land Art, Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Pop Art, Op Art, Arte Povera, Nouveau Réalisme, Conceptualism, and Contemporary Art—as well as a “collection within the collection” of photography. The catalogue A LUTA CONTINUA—THE PERLSTEIN COLLECTION is out now, and includes essays by Luc […]
TAVARES STRACHAN — INVISIBLES
INVISIBLES—Tavares Strachan’s magnificent “exploded diagram” and critique of the Encyclopædia Britannica—is on view for one more week at Regen Projects. INVISIBLES includes a tribute to Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., the first African American to be trained as an astronaut. TAVARES STRACHAN—INVISIBLES Through December 22. Regen Projects 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles. From top: Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand […]
MAPPLETHORPE CHOREOGRAPHED
MAPPLETHORPE—CHOREOGRAPHY FOR AN EXHIBITION will set Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs against ancient and modern works as well as a performance program engaging the work of international dancemakers. MAPPLETHORPE—CHOREOGRAPHY FOR AN EXHIBITION Through April 8. Museo Madre, Via Settembrini 79, Naples. See “Through a Glass, Darkly: A Mapplethorpe Portfolio,” PARIS LA 11 (Spring 2014), 61–71. Robert Mapplethorpe—Choreography for an […]
ZINC AND COPPER PREMIERES
In conjunction with the exhibition LEONOR ANTUNES—THE LAST DAYS IN GALLIATE, the brass trio Zinc & Copper—Robin Hayward, Elena Margarita Kakaliagou, Hilary Jeffery—will premiere OCCAM OCEAN—DELTA X by Éliane Radigue, as well as a new compostion produced in collaboration with Antunes and Ellen Arkbro. The performance will take place within Antune’s installation. ZINC & COPPER Tuesday, December 18, at […]
