March 2009 Archives

Debut: Marcel Dzama's Brutal, Beguiling Music Video
Marcel Dzama's video for Department of Eagles is the 34-year-old artist's most ambitious (and biggest-budget) project of its kind to date.
by Chloe Roubert on March 30, 2009
Weekend Tour: At the AIPAD Photography Show in New York, A New Moment for Photography?
In New York, the AIPAD Photography show opened yesterday and the anxiety about the place of photography in the arts continues to rear its head.
by Natasha Roje on March 26, 2009
News Round-up for Thursday, March 26th
Following the surprising news last week, that hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen owns a large stake in Sotheby's and plans to mount a huge show...
by Natasha Roje on March 26, 2009
GO SEE: Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern, London Through May 25th.
Roni Horn's midcareer survey at the Tate Modern takes a while to warm up to, but give it some time and the shimmering, meditative work will begin to invite you in. The 54-year-old New York artist’s first solo show in Britain, the exhibition encompasses the full range of her diverse career—from refulgent glass sculptures to drawings, photography, and text-based pieces—and introduces viewers to her recurring themes of identity, androgyny, and water.
by Ashley Eldridge-Ford on March 25, 2009
Spotted: JR's Women Project is Now in Cambodia.
JR is pursuing his humanitarian and artistic world travels: He was spotted recently plastering the streets of Phnom Pehn's (Cambodia.) He is working more specifically in the impoverished neighborhood of Dey Krahorm, where the local population is being expelled. This series considers the impact eviction has on a community, family and individual.
by Chloe Roubert on March 20, 2009
News Round-up for Wednesday, March 18th
The trend towards museums de-accessioning their collections continues to dominate the art news despite the efforts of private interest groups and regulators to fight back:
by Natasha Roje on March 18, 2009
Go See: Dana Schutz at Zach Feuer Gallery NY, through April 25th.
Dana Schutz, the Columbia MFA "prodige" of figurative painting, is having her fourth solo exhibition at Zach Feuer at the tender age of 33. Despite the current economic climate, Dana's paintings seem to have a magnetic field which attracts the attention of many art world insiders.
by Laurence Lafforgue on March 16, 2009
Spotted: ArtWeLove Members During Armory Arts Week 2009
ArtWeLove made a fabulous debut during Armory Arts Week, hitting all the major art fairs and offshoot events. Over 150 of our members were everywhere to be found, from the VIP fair previews to the private walk throughs led by fair directors like Amanda Coulson of Volta, to the vernissage and afterparties.
by Laurence Lafforgue on March 13, 2009
AWL DISCOVERY: Dan Hays
The proliferation of digital photographs on the Internet is incomprehensibly vast. These images owe much to the categories and styles of traditional photography, yet often it is their unmediated low quality, in terms of selection, composition, and compression. This is with this premise in mind that British-born artist Dan Hays challenges a good "old media," painting, to express these paradoxes.
by Laurence Lafforgue on March 12, 2009
News Round-up for Wednesday, March 11th
The drama continues with the Chinese bronzes at the Yves Saint Laurent sale; the bidder is now weeping over the debacle, but those may be only the first of many tears shed throughout the Chinese art market.
by Natasha Roje on March 11, 2009
VOLTA NY 2009 Edition: What We Loved
Volta, the sister fair of the Armory, offered a great way to explore the latest emerging trends in contemporary art this year. Because the fair...
by Laurence Lafforgue on March 8, 2009
News Round-up for Sunday, March 8th.
The Armory Show and all of its satellite fairs in New York end today and the mood seems to be one of cautious optimism, as Obama is surely not the only one desperate to move on from an apocalyptic economic narrative.... (cont'd)
by Natasha Roje on March 8, 2009
Robert Ayers' recommendations for Armory Week.
It’s only Friday afternoon and I’m already exhausted! But like every Armory Week the city is jam-packed with some really fantastic art. I’ve already made...
by Robert Ayers on March 5, 2009
Fresh from the 2009 Armory Show: First Impressions, and What We Loved
The big elephant in the room at this year's Armory is, of course, the economy; apparently it's not going so well, and this anxiety can...
by Natasha Roje on March 4, 2009
Get the Scoop on Scope: An Interview with Alexis Hubshman, Founder and Director of Scope Art Fair
Scope Art Fair New York opens today. Before you hit the fair, read the interview below, where Andrew Goldstein asks the questions that matter to Fair Director Alexis Hubshman on behalf of ArtWeLove.
by Andrew Goldstein on March 3, 2009
Our Survival Guide to Armory Art Week
Take a deep breath, New York's Armory Arts Week, as it is called, is upon us. There are no less than seven art fairs happening on New York's west side during the first weekend in March.
by Natasha Roje on March 3, 2009
GO SEE: Josh Smith: Currents, at Luhring Augustine through March 14
I feel for earnest contemporary artists. It seems that the art world must be giving them a nasty inferiority complex. So many of the big...
by Natasha Roje on March 1, 2009

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