BRIAN MORRIS KRUGER Aug 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008 Edition. Published: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:54 AM MDT passed away on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, with his family in Marble Falls, Texas, after a year-long struggle with leukemia. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
UCSD's Stuart Collection opts to take 'Another' look at Kruger May 20, 2008
EARNIE GRAFTON / Union-Tribune Barbara Kruger's "Another," in the atrium of UCSD's new Price Center East, includes mural-scale imagery (left) and quotations in terrazzo (on the floor). Another, the 17th addition to the collection, is by Barbara Kruger, a Los Angeles-based artist with a global reputation. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Gap turns T-shirts into an art form May 14, 2008
In addition to Close and Koons, participating artists include Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerry James Marshall, Hanna Liden and Sarah Sze. "We gave them a classic men's or women's T-shirt and told them, 'This is your canvas. Have fun,' " Hansen says. (USA Today -- Life)
Students share 'inspirations' through art May 8, 2008
This piece was similar to the style of the artist Barbara Kruger. and] is very powerful and a great example of how students can express their opinions through art and imagery. (Springfield Sun, PA)
L.A.'s Broad museum opens doors Feb 8, 2008
The BP Grand Entrance, which faces Wilshire Boulevard, includes a collection of vintage L.A. streetlamps ("Urban Light" by Chris Burden), Koons' "Tulips" and Charles Ray's "Firetruck." Area also includes Robert Irwin's palm garden, 54- by 52-foot scrims with art by Baldessari and a Barbara Kruger installation. The second phase of the so-called transformation will see the arrival of Koons' "Train" -- 2011 is the target date -- plus the construction of a Piano-designed single-story building behind... (Variety)
Spike Lee awarded Wexner Prize Nov 27, 2007
The council's 25 members include filmmakers John Waters and Philip Kaufman and Barbara Kruger, a former artist in residence at the Wexner Center. Related Industry News. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Crowds the key to museum's funding push Oct 18, 2007
Next year's first crowd-puller will be Southern Exposure, from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, including works by American artists such as Barbara Kruger and Bill Viola. The museum in San Diego will stage a reciprocal exhibition of Australian video art drawn from the Sydney museum's collection. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Six miles of hair in avant-garde work at Dartmouth Jul 7, 2007
Reflecting influences of such textbook-certified political artists as Hans Haacke and Barbara Kruger , Gu's work is more academic than revolutionary. Using such a supposedly unconventional material as hair is hardly noteworthy, either, as products of the human body -- from fingernails to blood -- are often used by artists these days. (Boston Globe)
Contemporary Currents: Selections from the Bank of America Collection May 7, 2007
Barbara Kruger creates conceptual and often politically charged works that incorporate photographs and text which comment on social stereotyping. The reemergence of the figure in the late 1970 s as an important subject for contemporary artists is reflected in Robert Longo s dramatic, realist depictions of anguished office workers. (Florida Times-Union)
Table for 39: Apr 27, 2007
At around the same time, artists like Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Laurie Simmons were using photography and ironic references to Hollywood heroines and fashion magazines to "perform" feminine identity in their art. Their style was cool and cerebral and had little to do with the earnest, craft-oriented creations of the previous generation. (Slate)
PhotoShop and the Visual Pun Feb 25, 2007
Visual artists that use the written word include: Duane Michals, William Wiley, Marcel Duchamp, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, Howard Finster, Edward Hicks, Rene Magritte. for PhotoShop and the Visual Pun" title="Start a discussion for PhotoShop and the Visual Pun"> for PhotoShop and the Visual Pun. (Suite101.com)
Temptations of the Fair Dec 25, 2006
The show, which will be up through the spring, posits a blooming tradition of gorgeous and impolite styles keyed to psychosocial provocations in works by Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Barbara Kruger, Raymond Pettibon, and Jim Shaw. I hadn t heard of nearly half the artists (nor had some Southern Californians I consulted). (New Yorker)
L.A. show pays homage to Magritte Dec 4, 2006
Barbara Kruger, a Los Angeles artist and UCSD professor, employs gigantism to sharp effect in one of her trademark works, with its oversized image of a woman, magnifying glass to one eye, whose text drolly declares, It's a small world but not if you have to clean it. One of Magritte's favorite devices was to fragment the human body. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Magritte goes on show in a surreal Los Angeles setting Nov 18, 2006
The show's curator, Stephanie Barron, had from the start tapped Baldessari as one of the contemporary figures in the show, along with such mixed company as Marcel Broodthaers, Barbara Kruger and Philip Guston. But it wasn't until April that the museum's new director, Michael Govan, had an idea. (International Herald Tribune)
Artist turns bus into a truly moving memorial Nov 4, 2006
Followers of contemporary art will recognize its debt to artists like Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer , who have used billboards, public video screens, and matchbook covers as sites for their socially provocative works. But if you pause to think about the reality that Starr's work represents, it delivers a considerable emotional punch. (Boston Globe)
American Ingenious: Oct 16, 2006
Tillman emerged from the downtown New York arts scene of the late 1970s and '80s; her friends and peers included writers Dennis Cooper and Patrick McGrath and artists Barbara Kruger and Kiki Smith. (This cultural moment is captured in the new anthology , edited by Brandon Stosuy. (Slate)
Road trip for freer trade Jul 22, 2006
American artist Barbara Kruger coined the slogan "I buy therefore I am." Nisbet goes one further: "You are what you buy.". RFID is, she says, "a very efficient technology and very useful if deployed at the retail level. It's not like swiping your credit card. It can happen without your consent.". (Toronto Star -- Arts)
- Could you survive a year without shopping? Jul 8, 2006
November 9 "I Shop, Therefore I Am," a 1983 serigraph on vinyl by the feminist artist Barbara Kruger, sells at the Chelsea auctioneer Phillips, de Pury ny for $601,600. When the gavel falls, the packed salesroom erupts in applause. (Guardian Unlimited)
LACMALab Head Robert Sain Named Executive Director at Montalvo Arts Center Apr 18, 2006
LACMALab has worked with a wide range of artists including college students, emerging artists, important mid-career artists and established figures such as internationally distinguished artist Barbara Kruger. Barry M. Ariko, president of the Montalvo Board of Trustees, said the Montalvo trustees selected Sain from a national field of candidates following a six-month search process. (PR Newswire)
Victoria props up sluggish home approvals Jan 7, 2006
By Leo Shanahan, CanberraJanuary 7, 2006. A BOOM in home building approvals in Victoria has underpinned an Australia-wide rise, with total November approvals approaching the $5 billion mark. (The Age)
