February 2016 – ARTDEALS

: Ernie Gehr: Carnival of Shadows

February 16, 2016

Ernie Gehr’s large-scale, multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre cinema, a playful exercise in moving-image graphics, and an extension of the artists’ interest in the abstraction, texture, and rhythms of visual material. Its source is an early-20th-century shadowgraph toy, which used “paper print films” in the

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: Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954

February 16, 2016

This exhibition offers a concise but detailed survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). It tracks his artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the radical abstractions for which he

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: Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective

February 16, 2016

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976) worked primarily as a poet until the age of 40, when he turned to the visual arts. Over the next 12 years, his work retained a poetic quality and a sense of humor that balanced its conceptual framework; for his first solo exhibition, he encased unsold copies of his latest poetry

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Julia Rommel at Overduin & Co., Selected by Joshua Abelow

February 16, 2016

Julia Rommel, ‘A Cheesecake with Your Name On It,’ 2016, installation view. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND OVERDUIN & CO., LOS ANGELES Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. This week’s shows were picked by artist Joshua Abelow. Read more about this week’s Pictures here. Today’s show: “Julia Rommel: A Cheesecake

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Art + Feminism Announces Third Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

February 16, 2016

2015 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Art + Feminism has announced that it will hold a third Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 5, following the enormous success of the event’s last two editions, in 2014 and 2015. Once again, the edit-a-thon will take place at the Museum

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Morning Links: ‘The Life of Pablo’ Edition

February 16, 2016

The cover art for Kanye West’s new album, The Life of Pablo, featuring artwork by Peter De Potter. VIA THE VERGE KANYE WEST Watch Yeezy Season 3, which features a new Vanessa Beecroft performance. [Tidal]CHANGES Katie Hollander, who has been deputy head of Creative Time for eight years, has been named executive director. She replaces the

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Hauser Wirth & Schimmel In L.A. Will Have Onsite Bookstore

February 16, 2016

The new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel space. COURTESY HAUSER WIRTH & SCHIMMEL ARTBOOK, a publisher with retail locations at MoMA PS1 in Queens, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Swiss Institute in SoHo, will have a new space inside Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, which opens next month in Los Angeles. The gallery is the L.A.

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Back to the Future: 50 Years of Video Art at the Broad Art Museum, MSU

February 16, 2016

October 17, 2015 to February 14, 2016 Andy Warhol, Outer and Inner Space (still), 1965, black-and-white 16-mm film transferred to digital files, sound, double screen, 33 minutes. Broad Art Museum. ©2015 THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, A CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED/COLLECTION OF THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, CONTRIBUTION THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE

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Gentrifying Fishtanks, Indian Television, and ‘Dead’ Rappers: Ashok ‘Dapwell’ Kondabolu Presents ‘Yo Fight My Mans’ At Babycastles

February 16, 2016

Installation view from “Yo Fight My Mans,” 2016. BABYCASTLES Today marks the opening of “Yo Fight My Mans,” a multi-dimensional art and media event that for five weeks will take over the impossible-to-define Babycastles space near Manhattan’s Union Square. Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu, formerly of the rap group Das Racist, is curating for the project, which

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To Take a Computer as an Apprentice: A Look at When Art Met Technology at LACMA, in 1971

February 16, 2016

Installation view of “Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966)” at the Whitechapel Gallery. STEPHEN WHITE With so many shows about art and the Internet lately, it’s hard to remember a time when it was unexpected that artists would ever rely on machinery and electronics, but, in 1971, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened “Art

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