Join the founding co-editors of MURDER MAGAZINE—artist Síta Valrún and author BergrúnAnna Hallsteinsdóttir—for the launch of the third issue of their publication.
Number 3—”Blood/Home”—includes the work of Nan Goldin, Silvia Gruner, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, IdaEkblad, Deana Lawson, Forough Farrokhzad, Maggie Nelson, Warsan Shire, and EileenMyles.
MURDER MAGAZINE No. 3 launch
Tuesday, June 18, 6 pm to 9 pm.
2228 West 7th Street (enter on South Grand View Street, 2nd floor), Los Angeles.
Frank Wagner (1958–2016) introduced Berlin to Félix González-Torres, Cady Noland, Marlene Dumas, Alfredo Jaar, Barbara Kruger, and Nan Goldin, and in 1992 curated Close to the Knives—A Memoir of Disintegration: Ein Gedenkraum für David Wojnarowicz at KW.
For nearly four decades, Wagner was involved with RealismusStudio, a curatorial working group of Berlin’s neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK). The memorial show TIES,TALES, AND TRACES—DEDICATED TO FRANK WAGNER draws from a selection of artworks and documents from his estate—Wagner left over 10,000 books and catalogues and about 350 artworks—and includes talks, tours, and symposia conducted by his friends and colleagues.
From top: Frank Wagner at LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, 2014, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, installation view photograph by Christin Lahr, artwork by AnnaCharlotte Schmid, Gabor and Stefano III, Budapest, 2012, C-Print, courtesy the artist, the photographer, and nGbK; Wagner at the exhibitionFélix González-Torres (1957–1996),RealismusStudio, 1996, photograph by Jürgen Henschel, courtesy KW; Wagner and AA Bronson, photograph by Alyssa DeLuccia, courtesy Visual AIDS.
Sales are good, tickets are selling out, events are full, and the sun is shining—although a brief shower is forecast for midday Sunday—so the inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles should be followed by many more.
We hope Felix returns, too. Co-founded by Morán Morán brothers Al and Mills and collector Dean Valentine, it’s an intimate fair headquartered in Hollywood.
An Arthur Jafa edition of Name That Tune has been added to today’s Frieze Talks, and the fair will close on Sunday with Miranda July and Maggie Nelson in conversation.
When you’re out on the Paramount studio backlot in the Frieze Projects section, stop by the Sqirl/Acid-Free space for Sqirl Away to-go items from the Los Feliz restaurant as well as a selection of art books and periodicals, including Liz Craft’s …my life in the sunshine—published by DoPePress—and the new print issue of PARISLA.
FRIEZE LOS ANGELES
Through Sunday, February 17.
Paramount Pictures Studios
5515 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles.
From top: Ken Price, Return to LA, 1990, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks (Frieze LosAngeles); Florian Morlat, collage, courtesy of the artist and The Pit (Frieze Los Angeles); JessiReaves installation at Felix, courtesy the artist and Bridget Donahue, New York; KristenMorgin, Jennifer Aniston’s Used Book Sale (detail), ceramic, courtesy the artist and Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Felix); David Hockney, Peter Showering, 1976, C print, courtesy the artist and MatthewMarks (Frieze Los Angeles); Nan Goldin, Blue, 2016, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman (Frieze Los Angeles).
Six decades of images demonstrating the “global impact of queer identities on the evolution of portrait photography” is the focus of an exhibition at Williams College in Massachusetts.
A digital presentation of Nan Goldin’s original 35mm slide installation THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY is on view at MOCA as part of the exhibition REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN.
“Nan’s Bowery loft had no windows or else they were covered and this made her parties long, hilarious, dangerous events. You had no idea what time it was or how light the sky was getting out there. Her guests departed when they could ingest no more and some didn’t leave even then…
“I remember the first telephone conversation I ever had with Nan. ‘I’m among the missing today,’ she said, and hung up.” — Darryl Pinckney, from his essay in Goldin’s exhibition catalogue I’ll Be Your Mirror*
NAN GOLDIN—THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY
REAL WORLDS—BRASSAÏ, ARBUS, GOLDIN, through September 3.
MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, from top:
John Waters and Cookie Mueller in Provincetown; Edwige Belmore in Edwige Behind the Bar at Evelyn’s New York City, 1985; Bruce Balboni and Philippe Marcade onthe beach, Truro, MA, 1975.
Image credit: Nan Goldin and Matthew Marks Gallery.
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