Hirst tumbles down art power list Oct 15, 2009
The highest-placed artist is Golden Lion winner Bruce Nauman at 10. The rest of the top 10 is dominated by gallery directors. (BBC News -- UK)
'Whirlwind' Swiss curator tops modern art power list Oct 15, 2009
Whirlwind' Swiss curator tops modern art power list - Yahoo. Whirlwind' Swiss curator tops modern art power list. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Deborah Butterfield at Paule Anglim Aug 16, 2009
Extending a line of task-oriented performance begun by Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman and others in the late '60s, Brinkmann puts himself through - literally in a few cases - obstacles or challenges that various objects pose. In one episode, he breaststrokes across the camera field, swimming effortfully through air, prone on a dolly. (San Francisco Chronicle)
$100 Million Payday Poses Problem for Pay Czar... Aug 4, 2009
It includes pieces by Andy Warhol, David Salle, Bruce Nauman and Julian Schnabel. The son of a British Airways employee who trained pilots, Mr. Hall was raised near London, and he graduated from Oxford University with a degree in chemistry. (The Drudge Report)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Jun 16, 2009
The discussion will likely touch on letter-drawings to Westermann by artists William Wiley, Ed Ruscha, Ken Price and a young Bruce Nauman. Free and open to the public. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
53rd Venice Biennale opens Jun 6, 2009
The U.S. Pavilion featured works by Bruce Nauman, whose media spans sculpture, neon, performance, video and photography. He has been invited several times to represent the United States at Venice but had until now declined. (Yahoo News)
Matthew Day Jackson exhibit at MIT's List Visual Arts Center touches on many disciplines May 24, 2009
Many of his pieces explicitly reference giants of 20th-century art, such as Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys. "Matt is an idea percolator," declares curator Bill Arning. (Boston Globe)
Joe Goode goes for lift-off in Geyserville May 15, 2009
Their voices will echo and hum through the mysterious tower in a work co-commissioned by Hamilton - who designed the 2,000-ton concrete tower with San Francisco architect Mark Jensen - and Steve Oliver, the arts patron whose bucolic Sonoma County spread is dotted with sculpture by Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra and others. His white Lab, Stella - so named so Oliver could call out to her Brando-style - took a dip in the tower's reflecting pool while Goode's dancers dangled over the railing above. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Aboriginal art show riddled with clichés Apr 28, 2009
Instead, we are left with a limp quotation of earlier works by U.S. art star Bruce Nauman, who used these motifs to such electrifying effect in his well-known sculptures of the 1980s and 90s. Anna Tsouhlarakis, who is part Navajo and Creek and part Greek, opens the show with a videotape of herself taking dancing lessons from a variety of informal instructors of all backgrounds, learning everything from the Charleston to the merengue and the bump. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
