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VENICE 2019 — GIARDINI

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The Giardini section of the 2019 Venice Biennale includes a selection of mostly new work by Nicole Eisenman, Kaari Upson, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Joi Bittle and Dominique Gonzalez–Foerster, Jill Mulleady, and Hito Steyerl.

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

Through November 24.

Giardini della Biennale

Venice.

From top: Nicole Eisenman, Morning Studio, 2016, oil on canvas, courtesy and © the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Kaari Upson, There is No Such Thing as Outside, 2019, HD video (still), courtesy and © the artist, Sprüth Magers, and Massimo de Carlo; Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mama, Mummy and Mamma, 2014, acrylic, color pencils, charcoal and transfers on paper, courtesy and © the artist and Victoria Miro, London; Joi Bittle and Dominique Gonzalez–Foerster, Martian Dreams Ensemble, 2018, diorama detail, courtesy and © the artists; Jill Mulleady, This Connection is Not Private, 2018, oil on linen, courtesy and © the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick; Hito Steyerl, Leonardo’s Submarine, 2019, three-screen video, courtesy and © the artist and installation photographer Naomi Rea.

NEW MUSEUM — PUBLIC CONVERSATION

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Carolee Schneemann, Carsten Höller, Kaari Upson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Cheryl Donegan, Elizabeth Peyton, Jeremy Deller, Nicole Eisenman, and George Condo are among the forty artists participating in WHO’S AFRAID OF THE NEW NOW?, a series of public conversations this weekend at the New Museum.

The event concludes on Sunday night, December 3, at 8 pm, with a conversation between Carol Bove and Joan Jonas.

WHO’S AFRAID OF THE NEW NOW?

Saturday and Sunday, December 2 and 3, from 10 am through 9 pm.

New Museum

235 Bowery, New York City.

From top: Joan Jonas, photograph by Sebastian Kim; Allen Ruppersberg, Who’s Afraid of the New Now?, from the series Preview Suite, 1988, lithograph, courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.

AT MARCIANO, UNPACKING REPACKING

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UNPACKING—the inaugural show at the Marciano Art Foundation—will be up through mid-September, when it makes way for the installation of a Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, opening in October, 2017.

Included in UNPACKING—curated by Philipp Kaiser—are works by El Anatsui, Walead Beshty, Huma Bhabha, Carol Bove, Latifa Echakhch, Cyprien Gaillard, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Paul Sietsema, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Oscar Tuazon, and Kaari Upson.

The foundation’s building—a repurposed Masonic temple—also features one of the best small bookstores in town. The shop stocks a comprehensive selection of catalogues and art books by artists in Maurice and Paul Marciano’s collection, as well as a shelf-full of back issues of the recently discontinued journal Parkett.

UNPACKING—THE MARCIANO COLLECTION

Through September 16.

Marciano Art Foundation

Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top: Oscar Tuazon, Playboy Papercrete, 2012/2013 (detail) and Latifa Echakhch, All Over 2016, images courtesy the artists and Galerie Eva Presenhuber; Adrián Villar Rojas, Two Suns (II), 2015, image courtesy the artist and the Marciano Art Foundation.

KAARI UPSON AT THE NEW MUSEUM

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Kaari Upson’s recent domestic scenes—upended sofas and despoiled rolls of paper towels at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and now the GOOD THING YOU ARE NOT ALONE show on the third floor of the New Museum—depict America as a big-box store gone to seed.  Curated by New Museum associate curator Margot Norton, viewers are herded through tight spaces and uneasy confrontations.

“There’s no beginning, middle, or end in the work. It could be the end of something that I’m not even recognizing the line of, but then the beginning of something else that I don’t even know is about to happen.” — Kaari Upson*

KAARI UPSON: GOOD THING YOU ARE NOT ALONE, through September 10.

NEW MUSEUM, 235 Bowery, New York City

newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/kaari-upson

*Helen Stoilas, “Kaari Upson: Unfinished Artist,” The Art Newspaper, May 2, 2017:

theartnewspaper.com/reports/kaari-upson-unfinished-artist/

Kaari Upson, Untitled (1000 cans), 2015. Aluminum, 1,000 parts, each 5 × 2 1/4 in (12.7 × 5.7 cm). © Kaari Upson. Courtesy Kaari Upson, Massimo De Carlo, and Sprüth Magers. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen Studio

Kaari Upson, Untitled (1000 cans), 2015. Aluminum, 1,000 parts, each 5 × 2 1/4 in (12.7 × 5.7 cm). From the My Mother Drinks Pepsi series.
© Kaari Upson. Courtesy Kaari Upson, Massimo De Carlo, and Sprüth Magers. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen Studio

 

CONCRETE ISLAND AT VENUS

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Matt Johnson, Drywall #5 (Baby Aqua M440–3), 2017. Painted wood, 72 x 101 x 72 inches (182.9 x 256.5 x 182.9 cm) Image credit: Venus Over Manhattan

Matt Johnson, Drywall #5 (Baby Aqua M440–3), 2017.
Painted wood, 72 x 101 x 72 inches (182.9 x 256.5 x 182.9 cm)
Image credit: Venus Over Manhattan

“Welcome to Concrete Island: an overlooked city within a city, an entropical paradise where leisure is lean….Listen to our walls: they speak in a rare blend of hobo shamanism and contemporary primitivism that captures the texture of the urban psyche.”*

This group show at Venus’ Boyle Heights outpost features work by Kelly Akashi, William Anastasi, Vern Blosum, Will Boone, Jedediah Caesar, Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Crenshaw Cowboy, Catharine Czudej, Jaime Davidovich, Harry Dodge, Sam Falls, Francesca Gabbiani, Kim Gordon, Matt Johnson, Lazaros, Jason Matthew Lee, Jason Bailer Losh, Tony Matelli, Pentti Monkkonen, Ruben Ochoa, Jon Pylypchuk, Ry Rocklen, Nancy Rubins, Sterling Ruby, Analia Saban, Blair Saxon-Hill, Max Hooper Schneider, Daniel R. Small, Piotr Uklanski, Kaari Upson, and Chris Wiley.

 

CONCRETE ISLAND, through May 20.

VENUS LOS ANGELES, 601 South Anderson Street, Los Angeles.

*venusovermanhattan.com/exhibition/concrete-island/