C.A.N. Condensed
May 5th, 2010
California artist Jim Shaw, who attempts to visually explore the dark side of the American psyche, is showing fifteen enormous paintings in the CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Shaw uses a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance to get across his message. The show, Left Behind, will run from May 7-September 19, 2010. For more on the show, including performance times, visit E-Flux.com.- To celebrate it's 10th anniversary the Tate Modern will host No Soul For Sale-A Festival of Independents May 14-16, 2010. The Tate has invited over 70 innovative and independent art spaces to set up in Turbine Hall. Check it out on the Tate Modern website.
- Investigations of a Dog, an exhibition including several world renowned contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman, Paul McCarthy, and Kara Walker, opens next weekend. The Ellipse Foundation presents over 40 works from artists who "ask themselves questions about the meaning of art making, [and are] spurred by a passionate emotional involvement in the society of humans." Read more on E-Flux.com.
- "Simply to hang a painting on the wall and say that it's art is dreadful" - Martin Kippenberger. Paddy Johnson discusses how art needs a "network" in order to truly be art. Read the full article on ArtFagCity.com.
- Organic materials, such as cockroaches, are being used more
frequently to create art. Artists are going natural, "rummaging through the life sciences in search of materials, ideas, cosmic verities, tragicomic homilies, personal agency, a personal agent, a way to stand out in the crowd." Read more about artists using chicken bones, sardines or even their own blood on NYTimes.com.
- The Turner Prize shortlist has been announced. To see more visit ArtForum.com.
- The Art Newspaper interviewed David LaChapelle about his return to fine art. LaChapelle has become famous for "cutting, acerbic wit and layered symbolism in his celebrity portraiture, fashion and advertising images." LaChapelle recently fell out of love with fashion photography and switched to fine art photography. Read the interview here.
