Best of Best2010. 12. 18. 04:00

Best : Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards

Top honors for Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards went to the late artist Louise Bourgeois and Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Iles during a ceremony held at Webster Hall on December 8, 2010. Conceived by Pruitt as a performance-based artwork that follows the format of a Hollywood awards show, the annual event celebrates individuals, exhibitions, and projects that made a significant contribution to contemporary art during the past year. After opening with a restaging of Marina Abramović's Imponderabilia, mastermind Rob Pruitt and Master of Ceremonies Glenn O’Brien ascended the stage to greet the art-world luminaries in attendance before turning it over to cast of presenters including John Currin and Rachel Feinstein; Marina Abramović and Klaus Biesenbach; and Bill Powers, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, and Jerry Saltz, of the Bravo television series Work of Art, who awarded winners in categories ranging from Blogger or Critic of the Year to New Artist of the Year.

Guests dined on a menu crafted by Roberta’s, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and enjoyed performances by artists Martin Creed and Kalup Linzy, who was joined by James Franco for a ribald duet. But the night was more than mere revelry. As a shared fundraising event benefiting the Guggenheim Foundation and visual arts nonprofit White Columns, the Art Awards celebrated the liftetime achievement of Martha Rosler and Jonas Mekas, while an Artist-Educator Achievement Award, new to this year’s ceremony, went to Marilyn Minter. As Mekas accepted his award—a black-and-white silk-screened painting of an engraved trophy designed by Pruitt—he declared to his fellow artists, “We all have the same purpose—to make humanity more subtle and beautiful.”

View photos from the night on Flickr.

The complete list of nominees and winners is:

Alternative Space of the Year
WINNER Artists Space, New York
179 Canal, New York
Cleopatra's, Brooklyn, New York
Light Industry, Brooklyn, New York

Alternative Project of the Year
WINNER INDEPENDENT, New York
Apartment Show, various locations, New York
edia Int'l Group, Foundation Barbin, New York
Jennifer Rubell, Creation, Performa 09, New York

Artist of the Year
WINNER Louise Bourgeois
Marina Abramović
John Baldessari
Trisha Donnelly

Blogger or Critic of the Year
WINNER Jerry Saltz
Howard Halle
Paddy Johnson
Linda Yablonsky

Curator of the Year
WINNER Chrissie Iles
Massimiliano Gioni
Laura Hoptman
Neville Wakefield

Exhibition outside the United States
WINNER John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London
Rosemarie Trockel: Deliquescence of the Mother, Kunsthalle Zürich
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Matthew Barney: Prayer Sheet with the Wound and the Nail, Schaulager, Basel

Group Show of the Year, Gallery
WINNER Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970, David Zwirner, New York
Lush Life, various locations, New York
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Your History Is Not Our History: New York in the 1980s, Haunch of Venison, New York

Group Show of the Year, Museum
WINNER In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Greater New York, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
2010 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

New Artist of the Year
WINNER Tauba Auerbach
Michele Abeles
Liz Magic Laser
Ryan McNamara

The Rob Pruitt Award
WINNER Lena Dunham

Solo Show of the Year, Gallery
WINNER Trisha Donnelly, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Claude Monet: Late Work, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Gelitin: Blind Sculpture, Greene Naftali Gallery
Jonathan Horowitz: Go Vegan! Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

Solo Show of the Year, Museum
WINNER Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Otto Dix, Neue Galerie, New York
Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Master of Ceremonies Glenn O'Brien and Rob Pruitt. Photo: Roger Kisby


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Best of Best2010. 12. 16. 03:41

Artforum Best 2010 : Lee Ambrozy, Gu Wenda, Zhou Yi, “West Heavens”

Lee Ambrozy

Gu Wenda, Zhou Yi, “West Heavens”

Gu Wenda, Mythos Of Lost Dynasties - Modern Meaning of Totem and Taboo, 1984–86, ink on rice paper, silk boarder scrolls, 9 x 23’.

Ink traditions may lay fallow in the contemporary art world, but consecutive openings of two retrospectives by Gu Wenda (at Yan Huang Art Museum in Beijing, of early works in a literati style, and at He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, of experimental ink on paper), plus a solo exhibition at Shenzhen’s OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of work informed by literati traditions (lots of human hair––either braided or ground into fine powder resembling ink), flirted with an ink revival. The exhibitions were followed by a symposium on experimental ink painting, held at the University of Chicago’s new center in Beijing and organized by Wu Hung, where Gu appeared one step ahead of scholars and critics alike. Few people versed in the literati tradition concern themselves with the “contemporary” art world, a schism that allows works like Gu’s Pseudo: Modern Meaning of Totem and Taboo, 1984–86, to appear timeless, even new, against a contemporary art landscape.

Zhou Yi’s first solo exhibition in his hometown of Beijing, mounted at C5 Art after Zhou had returned from more than a decade in the US and a thorough indoctrination in American art schooling, represents a new kind of Chinese artist: the kind no longer working overseas in intellectual exile, but returning home to thrive. Zhou is a “foreign” local. His aesthetic is governed by rules rather than a visual value system, and his colorful works are informed by his knowledge of color theory and rooted in play—hence an installation/creation scene including a mural and filled with crumpled painted paper, stackable erasers, and strange shapes made from dried acrylic paint. Zhou’s form of abstraction is categorically ambiguous but fascinating to behold.

Advancing the current China-India conversation, “West Heavens” (at various venues in Shanghai) introduced Indian artists to the Chinese art landscape, bursting through the reigning self-reflexive mentality that tends to see China as the axis of the non-Western art world. “West Heavens” included Nilima Sheikh and Raqs Media Collective as well as Chinese artists such as Qiu Zhijie, and was accompanied by a lecture and publication series. As the first major show to introduce arts from greater Asia, it exceeded an outdated China/West dichotomy and explored common issues. Significantly, half of the works occupied a former dormitory for British monks in an old Shanghai concession neighborhood near the Bund, forming a new postimperialist conversation on the ruins of a former ideological fortress.

Lee Ambrozy is editor of artforum.com.cn. Her first major work of translation, Ai Weiwei’s Blog, is forthcoming from MIT Press.


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Best of Best2010. 12. 14. 03:44

2010 Artforum Best

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흥미로운건 미술계에 부는 film making의 강세!

Travis Jeppesen은 다음 세 사람의 작업들을 베스트로 꼽았다.

James Benning, Keren Cytter, Karla Black

Keren Cytter, Four Seasons, 2009, still from a color video, 12 minutes.

For his performance at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, James Benning, California’s reigning auteur of landscape cinema, used his HD camera to rephotograph and reframe all the portraits of his friends and family depicted in his seminal 1991 road-trip film North on Evers, then slowed them down and projected them onto the large screen of the Arsenale Cinema. Benning then read aloud the original diaristic text that had appeared, in handwritten scrawl, across the bottom of the screen in the original film. The overall effect could easily have been one of weepy-eyed nostalgia, had it not been for the expert hands of an artist whose sustained dialogue with his own work continues to intrigue a loyal audience of followers while eradicating the boundaries between his own art, politics, and private life.

In terms of museum shows this summer, Stockholm was the place to be, with the stellar traveling Ed Ruscha painting retrospective occupying the ground floor of the Moderna Museet, and Keren Cytter down in the basement. If anyone had had any doubts about Cytter’s genius, it took only this labyrinthine “best-of” maze of her films, forming a precarious echo chamber, to bring us round to her humorous existentialism and knack for the multitudinous absurdities inherent in quotidian banter.

Despite my aversion to superlatives, Karla Black’s current outing at Capitain Petzel in Berlin suggests that she is the most interesting sculptor of her generation. Her sensitivity to the tactility of “soft” materials such as cellophane, paint powder, and sugar paper is perhaps rivaled only by her sense of rhythm; both are equal collaborators in this remarkable symphony of forms that gives me great hope for 2011, when Black will take on the Scottish pavilion in Venice.

Travis Jeppesen is a Berlin-based writer whose latest book, Dicklung & Others (BLATT Books, 2009), is a collection of poetry.


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Best of Best2010. 12. 8. 19:25

Turner Prize 2010 : Susan Philipsz


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Best of Best2010. 12. 8. 11:08

Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010

Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2010

Kanye's 'Fantasy' conquered reality; the Black Keys locked into a groove; Arcade Fire burned down the suburbs

 

18. Kings of Leon
Come Around Sundown
RCA

The best arena-rock album of the year. The backwoods doo-wop flair of "Mary" and country-U2 yearning in "Back Down South" catch the Kings at the perfect midpoint between pure pop and down-home. And the staccato "End," Sundown's first song, sounds like a new beginning.

17. Beach House
Teen Dream
Sub Pop

Victoria Legrand's sexy vocals are hazy and androgynous, like a stoned late-night heart-to-heart in which no one's sure who is sleeping where. Beach House sharpened their sound and hooks on their third album — what's surprising is that it only made their music more mysterious, more magical.

16. Kid Rock
Born Free
Atlantic

Mr. Bawitdaba finally cuts the Bob Seger record of his dreams. This Rick Rubin-produced classic-rock throwdown is pure Detroit drive-time 1975: From hard-nosed arena anthems to winsome country rock to blue-collar boogie, Rock shows a versatility — and depth — no one thought possible back in his Bullgod youth.

Rolling Stone's Best of 2010: Albums, Singles, Movies and more

Next: Albums 15-11

 

5. Jamey Johnson
The Guitar Song
Mercury

1: Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
What does Jamey Johnson keep under all of that hair? Songs. Nashville's gruffest and grittiest star turns out to be its most reliable traditionalist, a Music Row pro who can write a song for every emotional season. Johnson pulled out a whole slew of them — 25, clocking in north of 105 minutes — for his double-disc fourth album: acoustic confessions and rugged boogie blues, big weepers and grim reapers, cover tunes and novelty ditties, not to mention "California Riots" and "Playing the Part," a pair of fiercely funny, unrepentantly redneck swipes at the frou-frou blue states.

4. Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Merge

Arcade Fire don't do anything small — so leave it to the Montreal collective to make an album of vast, orchestral rock that locates the battle for the human soul amid big houses and manicured lawns. The Suburbs is the band's most adventurous album yet: See the psychotic speed strings on "Empty Room," the Crazy Horse rush of "Month of May," the synth-pop disco of "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)." Win Butler and his wife, Régine Chassagne, sing about suburban boredom, fear of change and wanting to have a kid of their own — always scaling their intimate confessions to arena-rock levels and finding beauty wherever they look.

3. Elton John and Leon Russell
The Union
Decca

Two rock giants, one largely forgotten, rekindle a friendship and make music that ranks with their best. Producer T Bone Burnett delivers his most spectacular production in memory, filled with shining steel guitar, chortling brass and gospel-time choirs. Ultimately, it's Russell's voice that shines brightest, drawing on the entire history of American popular music in its canny, vulnerable, knowing croon.

2. The Black Keys
Brothers
Nonesuch

The duo boil it down on their best record yet: vivid tunes stripped bare and rubbed raw, with hot splashes of color and hooks popping through like compound fractures. "Howlin' for You" smears gnarly blues over a glam beat cribbed from Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2," while a cover of Jerry Butler's broken-hearted hit "Never Give You Up" takes Dan Auerbach's falsetto-flashing soulman persona to the next level. It's rock minimalism pushed to the max.

1. Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam

With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West made music as sprawlingly messy as his life. When he wasn't feuding with Matt Lauer or bugging out on Twitter, Kanye was building hip-hop epics, songs full of the kind of grandiose gestures that only the foolish attempt and only the wildly talented pull off. The more he piled on — string sections, Elton John piano solos, vocoder freakouts, Bon Iver cameos, King Crimson and Rick James samples — the better the music got. Never has Kanye rhymed so hilariously ("Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh?/I put the pussy in a sarcophagus") or been so insightful about his relationship-torpedoing faults. From the bracing prog-rock of "Power" to the spooky grandeur of "Runaway" to the shape-shifting "Hell of a Life," he made all other music seem dimmer and duller. Is the album dark? Sure. Twisted? Of course. But above all, it's beautiful.

Rolling Stone's Best of 2010: Albums, Singles, Movies and more

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