Carlo Maria Mariani The Mysterious Enchantment of Beauty

Raphael Rubinstein

Frye Art Museum

Robin Hill. Multiplying the Variations

Arts & Photography

California State University, Stanislaus

The Miraculous presents the artistic avant-gardes of the last five decades as a tapestry of incidents as fascinating and unlikely as any collection of myths or legends. Thinking more of Kafka's Parables than Vasari's Lives of the Artists, Rubinstein composes a series of micro-narratives celebrating the mystery and ingeniousness of these human activities which, for lack of a better term, we call contemporary art. Each of the fifty episodes in The Miraculous is a richly detailed telling of the circumstances surrounding a single work of art; only the name of the artist is withheld until the end of the book. As Michael H. Miller wrote describing the book in ARTnews: the works take on the icy detachment of a Lydia Davis story, a floating concept with no clear context. Distilled to only an idea, the pieces bask in their more intriguing narratives and separate themselves from the heavy baggage of authorship and intention. Includes writing on fifty artists such as Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Marina Abramovic, Lee Lozano, Tseng Kwong Chi, Cindy Sherman, David Hammons, and R.H. Quaytman.

The Miraculous

History & Criticism

Paper Monument

Jane Irish

Locks Publications

This catalog is published on the occasion Jennifer Bartlett's exhibition from her most recent series Hospital Paintings. Art critic and poet Raphael Rubinstein writes "From the beginning of her career she has been a restless and relentless transgressor of boundaries, among them figuration/abstraction, image/text, painting/sculpture. In her latest body of work-paintings and pastels that depict views from the windows of a New York City hospital, as well as scenes of hospital corridors and doorways-Bartlett continues to problematize her medium, even as she revels in its materials and genres."Working from a series of snapshots taken during an extended 2012 hospital stay along the East River in Manhattan, Bartlett produced a series of pastels and then a subsequent series of oil paintings. This exhibition debuts the paintings- psychologically charged interior and exterior perspectives of the hospital, each with an interrupting colored band and the words HOSPITAL transposed atop the scene. Throughout her career, Bartlett's work has maintained a signature mix of diaristic observational study of the world around her, rule-based conceptual systems for the execution of projects, and an exhaustive play with different media.

Jennifer Bartlett: Hospital Paintings

The perceived rules of the development and running of alternative spaces, and where those rules came from, are among the questions answered by the authors of Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces. The underlying message in the publication is the importance of critical thinking as well as the need for alternative thinking. In the book s preface, Steven Rand (artist and the Founder and Executive Director of apexart) addresses the role of the alternative space and the need for alternative thinking to challenge some of the art world s practices and the ways apexart has tried to address them over the last 16 years. A few of the essays provide some history of alternative spaces. Robert Atkins (art historian, critic, and curator based in California) uses as an example the salons of the 1920s, specifically Mabel Dodge s, to show how a true alternative functioned. René Block (gallerist and former director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany) gives a brief history of how alternatives began and an introduction to the Berlin space TANAS. Using case studies of art venues in China, Vietnam, and Cambodia over the last 20-30 years, Biljana Ciric (independent curator based in Shanghai) explores the potentials of alternatives. Other essays use other alternatives as example. Irene Tsatsos (writer and curator and former Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) uses examples of permaculture housing as alternative living arrangement and Matta-Clark s restaurant Food as alternative venue in the 1970s to demonstrate the importance of critical thinking and unrestrained creative expression. Marina Grzinic (philosopher, artist and theoretician based in Ljubljana) presents the construction of normality to help define alternative. Naeem Mohaiemen (writer, artist, and technologist working in Dhaka and New York) uses as main example the Paris exhibition of works from Bangladesh to show how an alternative approach to standard procedure is necessary. Other essays reaffirm the importance of thinking critically. Sofija Grandakovska (academic, theorist, and poet in Skopje) uses the dissident, as an example to explore the importance of critical thinking and searches for the alternative space for the dissident. Julie Ault (artist, writer, and editor based in New York) reviews her previous writing on alternative spaces and shares the importance of reflexivity in continually asking what we are doing and why. Winslow Burleson (Assistant Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Arizona State University; received his PhD from the MIT Media Lab) shares his work in the field of Human Computer Interaction to present a series of motivational tools for young people working in the arts today. Some texts reveal ways to achieve a new alternative space. Renaud Ego (poet based in Paris) shows the alternative aspects in the field of writing and mentions technology, specifically the Internet, as a place for free expression. Boris Groys (philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and professor at New York University) also explores the power of the Internet as he argues that the de-professionalization of art is a highly professional operation and further that weak images have the most power. The future of alternative spaces may lie in a non-venue. Pablo Helguera (artist and Director of Adult and Academic Programs at the Education Department of MoMA, NY) suggests we ought to (re)consider our audience and that perhaps the public program and a traveling venue is a more appropriate approach to reaching current audiences. Raphael Rubinstein (New York-based poet and art critic and past editor at Art in America) reviews some of the changes that have evolved since alternative spaces began in the 1970s. More information: apexart.org/publications/playingbytherules.htm

Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/ Alternative Spaces

Boris Groys

Robert Atkins

Marina Grzinic

Julie Ault

Steven Rand

Rene Block

Winslow Burleson

Biljana Ciric

Renaud Ego

Sofija Grandakovska

Pablo Helguera

Naeem Mohaiemen

Irene Tsatsos

apexart

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Norman Bluhm

James Harithas

Luigi Sansone

The Estate of Norman Bluhm / Mazzotta

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