Posts: Beyond

The scoop on Damien Hirst’s taxidermist and other unsung fabricators of British art… from the Guardian.

- Meredith Tromble [Friday, March 7th, 2008]

The works on view in Two or Three Things I Know About Her at Harvard’s Carpenter Center are strong overall, but Moyra Davey’s “Fifty Minutes” (2006) is a knockout. A meditation on nostalgia, psychoanalysis, photography, and reading in post 9/11 New York, the video shows the ordinary details of her apartment as Davey directly and laconically addresses the viewer about her changing relationship to the city around her. At once intimate and expansive, the piece maps out a personal geography which seems to shift and deform with every new thought. Through April 6th.

- Ed Osborn [Tuesday, March 4th, 2008]

Claire Harvey’s disposable installations are refreshingly, effectively modest. In an artworld that seems to have been taken over by loud, spectacular works, Harvey insists on whispering. Go see her latest, Easily-removable, at the Tate Modern before it closes March 2.

- Meredith Tromble [Tuesday, February 26th, 2008]

The 2008 Whitney Biennial will open March 6 with quite a few artists from the West Coast. While these artists mostly live in Los Angeles, some have Bay Area connections such as the late Jason Rhoades who is a SFAI alum and Harry Doge and Stanya Kahn who both lived in the Bay Area and performed at many of SF’s generative alternative venues. San Francisco-based artists Robert Bechtle, a photorealist painter who had a 2005 retrospective at SFMOMA and recent SECA winner and CCA graduate Mitzi Pederson join Oakland, SF, San Diego and Chicago-based Neighborhood Public Radio as Bay Area contributors.

- amy berk [Thursday, December 6th, 2007]

In a sad new development in the Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble) case, Dr. Robert Ferrell has pled guilty because his health will not allow him to continue fighting the case. Paula Reed Ward’s article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quotes Lucia Sommer, coordinator of the defense fund for Dr. Ferrell and Mr. Kurtz, as saying that, “After 3-1/2 years of having his life held hostage by the Department of Justice, he was left with pleading or dying.”

- Meredith Tromble [Wednesday, October 17th, 2007]

This piece from New York magazine delves into Lisa Dennison’s move from the Guggenheim Museum to Sotheby’s, lifting the veil on art and money trade-offs ever so gingerly.

- Meredith Tromble [Tuesday, October 9th, 2007]

From the editors