Denver Art Museum displays "Get out the vote" posters Aug 23, 2008
Also on exhibit at the museum: Focus: the Figure, modern and contemporary works by Bruce Nauman, Red Grooms and many others. The museum will offer free admission on Aug. 25 to conventioneers and anyone else interested in visiting that day. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Girlz on the hood Jun 24, 2008
In the end, Prince's problem is that he's just not as good as Bruce Nauman or Matthew Barney, or Sherman at her best. His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bridget Riley retrospective opens in Paris Jun 20, 2008
She has written on artists from Poussin to Bruce Nauman and curated an artist's choice show at the National Gallery in London, choosing large figure paintings by Titian, Veronese, El Greco, Rubens, Poussin and C. zanne: "To give your work more than a personal validity you need the support of a more objective framework. Where can one find this if not in the past?" she asked in the catalogue of her Pace-Wildenstein show in New York last winter. (International Herald Tribune)
Let there be 'Light' Jun 16, 2008
In Bruce Nauman's illuminating works at MCASD, words and images are charged with meaning ... Neon was an early medium for Bruce Nauman ... BRUCE NAUMAN / Artists Rights Society In Bruce Nauman's art, videos as well as neon sculptures, clowns are scary and "Mean Clown Welcome" (1985) is no exception. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Report: 2 million artists in US, many struggling Jun 12, 2008
Or Santa Fe, the scenic, temperate home to Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, fellow author Natalie Goldberg, painter Susan Rothenberg and her husband, the sculptor-multimedia artist Bruce Nauman. No other city has so high a percentage of writers, artists and architects, the NEA says, a finding that doesn't surprise Santa Fe officials. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Ghosts of childhood past May 10, 2008
At the Royal Academy's Sensation exhibition in 1997, Whiteread exhibited Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) - multicoloured resin castings of the spaces beneath 100 chairs, a homage to her hero, the artist Bruce Nauman, who had cast the space under chairs in the 60s. Although this new work couldn't have been more different from her plain concrete castings, it had a similar elegiac strain. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A collector's item: art dealer's 125m gift to the nation is ... Feb 29, 2008
Works by Jeff Koons, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Georg Baselitz and Richard Hamilton will also feature. The Prime Minister said the gift would "open up art to new audiences" and that "individual acts of generosity like this impact on the lives of millions, and reinforce the UK's richly deserved reputation as having a range of world-leading museums and galleries". (Independent)
Major arts bequest 'transforms' British collection Feb 27, 2008
The donation, which ranks among the most important in Europe, comprises a total of 725 works by 25 groundbreaking artists including Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ron Mueck, Damien Hirst and Bruce Nauman. It is one of the greatest gifts that has even been made to museums in this country, Tate director Nicholas Serota said on Wednesday announcing the donation. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Dane Jensen Presents 'Eye of the Storm: War Through the Lens of American Combat Photographers' Feb 14, 2008
During the span of his career, Jensen has worked with artworks from photographer's such as Patrick McMullan and Tim Street-Porter, 20th C. artists Brice Marden and Bruce Nauman, emerging artists Mark Ryden and Elliot Puckette, and international designers Maarten Baas and Studio Job. Jensen is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Madison's department of Art History. (Primezone Releases)
Santa Clara University: de Saisset Museum Features Exhibition of 1960s Art From the Extraordinary Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection Jan 19, 2008
Eye on the Sixties includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints by artists such as Robert Arneson, Bruce Beasley, Fletcher Benton, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Ronald Davis, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, David Park, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley. SCU students played an active role in the creation of the exhibition, contributing their own... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Kenneth Baker's art moments Dec 30, 2007
"A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s": The Berkeley Art Museum survey traced the Bay Area creative roots of one of the late 20th century's most influential American artists. "Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings": A perfect marriage of art and venue - the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - this show let visitors walk within the sensibility of a major contemporary abstract painter. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Way more than just smoke and mirrors Dec 27, 2007
al brought us great shows of prominent mid-career international figures Vik Muniz and Bruce Nauman, as well as Montrealer Pascal Grandmaison. Also, they showed some daring in their acquisitions, particularly in the purchase of Thomas Hirschhorn's apocalyptic Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake, a masterwork of installation art by one of the leading European contemporary artists. (Globe and Mail)
50m grant to make Tate Modern into 'world's best' Dec 6, 2007
These include works by Damien Hirst, Mark Rothko, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman and Olafur Eliasson ... Designed by the architects Herzog uron, who created the vision for Beijing's Olympic stadium, it will see different kinds of galleries built to showcase large-scale installations, including works such as Hirst's Pharmacy, a room-sized piece with cabinets containing prescription drugs, and Bruce Nauman's Mapping the Studio II, a sprawling new media recreation of studio space. (Independent)
Tate Modern gets 50m boost Dec 6, 2007
Purnell referred to his memories of admiring the Rothko Seagram murals in the former Tate Gallery on Millbank; Serota said he wanted the younger generation visiting Tate Modern to establish similar relationships with newer works - to remember, as well as the Rothko room, a putative Cornelia Parker room or Bruce Nauman room. At present, over a two-year period, 40% to 50% of the Tate's holdings are kept in storage. (Guardian Unlimited)
Damien who? Will Hirst stand the test of time? Nov 25, 2007
Lydia Yee, curator of the Barbican Art Gallery in London, said of Hammons: "His recent sculptures and objects continue to surprise and challenge viewers. Though future generations might not get all the art references, Hammons's work will speak to them profoundly. Ms Yee also plumped for the French-born artist Bourgeois, still active at 95 and who currently has a retrospective at Tate Modern. "[Bourgeois] made a significant contribution to reshaping our understanding of 20th-century art and of... (Independent)
Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol Oct 31, 2007
A detail of "Mean Clown Welcome" by Bruce Nauman at The Warhol. While Dan Flavin and James Turrell are the cool minimalist and placid metaphysician, respectively, of light as a medium, Bruce Nauman plays upon its flash, gaudy allure and relationship to pop and commercial culture to challenge complacency ... "Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works With Light," at The Andy Warhol Museum, offers an extensive and intimate exchange with the artist through 16 works ranging from naughty to ethereal. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Smithsonian Given Castelli Records Oct 20, 2007
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Martin Creed's art provokes debate Sep 21, 2007
A neon sign spelling "Things" called to mind neon-light word works by Bruce Nauman. A crumpled ball of paper echoed crumpled paper works by Tom Friedman. (Boston Globe)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
In his past curatorial positions, Benezra co-organized landmark exhibitions such as the 1994 Bruce Nauman retrospective and the 2001 survey devoted to South African artist Kentridge. Benezra has also co-curated, with Peter Galassi of New York MOMA, a retrospective of the work of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Traditional Santa Fe embraces future Aug 11, 2007
O'Keeffe, Willa Cather, Bob Dylan, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Cormac McCarthy the roll call of arts greats who have spent time there is disproportionate for such a far-flung desert oasis. In the '80s and '90s, Santa Fe Style, a repackaging of the original Pueblo Revival, became one of the most celebrated design looks on the continent. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Rallying 'round the past Jul 22, 2007
In 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum, the veteran performance artist Marina Abramovic presented "Seven Easy Pieces," in which she reenacted famous extremist performances by Vito Acconci , Bruce Nauman , herself, and others. A positive take on all this might be that American and European cultures are in a retrospective, ruminative mood. (Boston Globe)
* Portrait of the artist as curator, and the dealer as artist Jul 12, 2007
In one area, a grouping of works by masters like Jasper Johns, Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman offers wonderful contrasts of pale waxy surfaces and ambiguous forms. But they are also ballyhooed by the kitschy irreverence of Emily Kaufman's nearby Girl on a Fainting Couch, a 1975 work in pinkish cast epoxy and fiberglass that melds an odalisque and her dainty chaise into a single, gleaming, undulant sheet of plastic-fantastic flesh. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Jeremy Langlois - Guest Chef at the Mac's Rotonde - During the Jazz Festival Jun 21, 2007
If you prefer, you can choose from among our new exhibitions Bruce Nauman and De l';criture/With Writing, the Projections Series' Darren Almond: In the Between or the second edition of Music Video. -%SU: CLT,SPT -%RE: 40. (Canada Newswire)
* Art in the present tense: Politics, loss and beauty Jun 14, 2007
I wasnt trying to deliver a message, but like Bruce Nauman, I wanted to say, Please Pay Attention Please, he said, referring to Naumans writings of that title. It was hard not to pay attention. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale Jun 11, 2007
"I wasn't trying to deliver a message, but like Bruce Nauman, I wanted to say, 'Please Pay Attention Please,' " he said, referring to the artist's writings of that title. It was hard not to pay attention. (International Herald Tribune)
The Musée d'art contemporain Annual Ball - A stylish success! May 30, 2007
The sold-out gala event saw 325 guests stroll down the red carpet, enjoy a preview of the Bruce Nauman exhibition and cut the anniversary cake. An elegant evening enlivened by a convivial atmosphere was the consensus as the guests headed home. (Canada Newswire)
Meet those whose missions are to get you interested in the arts. May 17, 2007
They posted IMA's first video -- one promoting the Bruce Nauman neon art show -- on YouTube in July of 2006. "Now, we've reached a point where we'll be on projects and people who we wouldn't expect say, 'Why isn't this on YouTube?'' Incandela said. This all happened quickly thanks to Maxwell Anderson, the museum's CEO since March 2006. "He's a supporter of technology and of taking risks," Incandela said. "If the CEO is saying it's OK, that means other people are going to be more accepting, too. (The Indianapolis Star)
Sculptor set for Tate Modern hall Apr 6, 2007
Other artists to have exhibited in the Turbine Hall include Louise Bourgeois, Juan Munoz, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Bruce Nauman and Rachel Whiteread. SEE ALSO 09 Oct 06 | Entertainment 19 Sep 06 | Entertainment 25 Jul 06 | Entertainment 22 May 06 | Entertainment 16 Jan 06 | Entertainment 10 Oct 05 | Entertainment. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Trip back to the '60s with Bruce Nauman Mar 12, 2007
The humor burns slowly in "A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s" at the UC Berkeley Art Museum ... A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s: Sculpture, video, drawings, photographs and other objects. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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)
Quietly Puzzling Jan 18, 2007
OK, OK, OK" (1990), as if he wanted to expose the sinew of effort itself, the better to know its value. Even the early pieces, watched through, induce in the viewer a corrosive skepticism toward the most routine acts of will. "A Rose Has No Teeth," the brainchild of Constance Lewallen at BAM, contains a few discoveries, such as the very brief, oddly disorienting film, "Uncovering a Sculpture" (1965). It also revisits much of the work included in a 1972 retrospective organized by Jane Livingston... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Lyric Opera S.D. changes schedule Jan 15, 2007
It includes works by several major contemporary artists, including Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Jenny Holzer and Alexis Smith. People have found it (the brochure) to be incredibly useful, says Stuart Collection director Mary Beebe. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Scottsdale galleries make Arizona an art zone Jan 1, 2007
On a recent visit, videos by Bruce Nauman and tea and coffee sets designed by leading architects filled two galleries, while an exhibit of modern and contemporary photography loaned by private collectors and abstract paintings by Monique Prieto filled two more. On a previous visit, an exhibit of homes created with unusual materials challenged accepted notions of construction materials. (Boston Globe)
Temptations of the Fair Dec 25, 2006
Meanwhile, folks were parting with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of actual dollars for this or that Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bruce Nauman, or Cindy Sherman, not to mention the odd Picasso or de Kooning. It seemed that almost everyone was selling out of almost everything. (New Yorker)
Daring artist as provocative in death as he was in life Nov 20, 2006
He worked within a world of the avant-garde, exemplified then by Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson and others. Gray's work reflects the dematerialization and conceptualization of art that exploded onto the scene in the 1960s and '70s. (Anchorage Daily News)
You have to laugh, really Nov 14, 2006
" Charming. Is there any work of art that he covets for his collection? "There's a piece by Bruce Nauman I'd really like. But he's very expensive. (Guardian Unlimited)
Albright to sell 200 antiquities Nov 11, 2006
"I'd like to see us purchase an Edward Hopper and get more representation of American moderns. That's an area that could be bolstered. And more recent figures - like Bruce Nauman and Felix Gonzalez-Torres for example - need to be represented.". The Sotheby's sales will begin on March 19, with Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, including a bronze wine vessel from the late Shang Dynasty. (Buffalo News)
Technology brings smell, sound to gallery Nov 3, 2006
Bruce Nauman set up an infrared video camera in his studio to record what went on there in the darkness of night. A segment of the grainy, spectral recording projected at MIT shows the artist's desk and chair and the occasional mouse, moth, and cat. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Surveillance, spectacle on video Nov 3, 2006
Pieces from the '60s include Jonas Mekas's film of Andy Warhol and friends posing for a group portrait; Bruce Nauman on tape kneading and pinching his own naked thigh or walking in a slow, weirdly exaggerated manner through a narrow corridor; and Vito Acconci standing still and pointing his finger back at the camera. Martha Rosler's fiercely didactic feminist masterpiece from 1977, "Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained," in which men resembling scientists measure every part of the... (Boston Globe -- Living)
The dense heart of a city, revealed in a reflection Nov 1, 2006
Borrowing ideas from Minimalist and post-Minimalist predecessors like Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman and Eva Hesse but using deep matte colors, reflections and other illusions, he makes boundaries seem to disappear with an effect that is often overtly sensual and spiritual. Kapoor, who first rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and won the Turner Prize in Britain in 1991, calls them nonobjects. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
New York Art Nov 1, 2006
On display will be works in all media by artists including Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman and Jeff Koons. Special sections on photography, architecture, film and performance art will be guest-curated by experts in each field. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Civic Emotions Oct 30, 2006
I recall standing at the entrance of a Bruce Nauman exhibition, shortly after my son was born and Nauman is an artist I keenly admire and have analyzed at exhausting length where one of his Clown Torture videos was shouting at people, and thinking, I am interested in this, but I do not care about this as obsessively as I do about watching my child grow into consciousness. Life is too short, and parenting too exhausting, to allow you much time for mere professional opinionating. (New Yorker)
Power list shows growth of British influence in art Oct 14, 2006
9: Bruce Nauman, artist. 10: Jeff Koons, artist. (Independent)
Three Canadians included in Berlin video-art show Sep 19, 2006
Toronto Works by three Canadian artists are featured alongside those of such international superstars as Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and Nam June Paik in a major survey of video art scheduled to open Sept. 29 at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof museum of contemporary art. Toronto's John Massey will be featured with Vancouverites Stan Douglas and Rodney Graham in Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection: Films, Videos and Installations 1963-2005. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Local colleges and universities offer a wealth of inspiring art exhibits Aug 31, 2006
It initiates a meaty yearlong project, ``Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art," with one exhibition this fall and a follow-up show in the spring. What sort of impact has technology had on the five senses? An international roster of artists and curators, including Christian Jankowski and Bruce Nauman , tangles with the issue .This year marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth, and the Harvard University art museums celebrate with ``Rembrandt and the Aesthetics... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Art: Martin Creed's Work Delivers a Shock Aug 25, 2006
Precedent for such gestures stretches back through Bruce Nauman to Marcel Duchamp. Artists have flooded through the door that Duchamp opened in his recognition of the primacy of the artistic act. (Los Angeles Times)
Guggenheim in mega Bonn show Aug 3, 2006
A staircase constructed for the exhibit offers a panoramic view of huge, minimalist installations by Bruce Nauman and Carl Andre. Pop Art works round off the display with Lichtenstein's image of a growling dog leading the way to the exit. (Aljazeera.Net)
More of this story Jul 29, 2006
Featuring the large-scale prints of notable artists such as Peter Alexander, John Baldessari, Jedd Garret, Joe Goode, Charles C. Hill, Mark Lere, Bruce Nauman, Lari Pittman and Ed Ruscha, the show explores how artists have challenged traditional lithography techniques to come up with sometimes shocking, often-powerful images. The gallery also acts as print workshop and publisher, and put out all of the exhibit's work through its in-house company, Cirrus Editions. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Glass 'staircase' to create new focal point at Tate Modern Jul 27, 2006
It will enable more of the Tate's collection to be brought out of storage, including large-scale video installations by Bruce Nauman and Bill Viola, and sculptures such as Louise Bourgeois' Giant Spider. Two performance areas will be created in the oil tanks of the former power station, which was decommissioned in the 1980s, including a 400-seat auditorium and performance space. (Independent)
Matthew Barney, in glory all his own Jun 24, 2006
The piece showed him thinking about performance, process, risk, gravity, the residues of an artist's activity as the work: all pre-occupations of post-minimalists such as Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Barry Le Va. The athleticism Barney has since explored literally and in unfunny cinematic burlesque joins a longer arc of American modernist art that reaches back to Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) and David Smith (1906-1965). (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Watching me, watching you May 18, 2006
In his Going Around the Corner Piece (1970), Bruce Nauman forces viewers to move their bodies, rather than being merely seated spectators, in order to change their visible perceptions. Top: Dan Graham's Present Continuous Past. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Mapping the Studio: Artists Relationships to Their Working Environments May 15, 2006
One of the earliest and most crucial moments in the transformation of the studio are Bruce Naumans studio films (1967/1968) ... The exhibition title is borrowed from the monumental video installation Mapping the Studio I All Action Edit (Fat Chance John Cage) (2002) by Bruce Nauman ... Mapping the Studio presents work by: Atelier Van Lieshout, John Bock, Daniel Buren, Tacita Dean, Jan Dibbets, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, Gregor Schneider, Gerry... (AbsoluteArts.com)
* For black abstract artists, history is the present Apr 20, 2006
Lloyd's flashing light sculptures have links to the work of Dan Flavin and Bruce Nauman, but also to police cars. The title of Edwards' sculptural series Lynch Fragments speaks for itself. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Exploring the many meanings of hadith Feb 7, 2006
Appropriating pieces by Yves Klein, Bruce Nauman, Walid Raad and even himself (from an older video piece called "With Soul With Blood" which he has cut down from nine minutes to three), Mroue is engaged in a dialogue with his predecessors, paying homage to his influences as well as embracing the history of Western performance art as his own. Insisting on a certain degree of interactivity (get up on that step stool), Mroue's installation is intellectually probing and the most fun of all the works... (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
Carsten Holler to fill Tate Modern's great hall Jan 16, 2006
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent. (The Independent, UK)
Virtual reality art: Beyond technology Jan 9, 2006
When Bruce Nauman, Michael Snow and Peter Campus turned to video technology in the 1960s, they did so to challenge viewers' expectations by tipping them off balance, providing an ambiguous experience rather than a familiar one. Nauman's "Spinning Spheres" from 1970 is a large and immersive four-screen projection featuring a spinning steel ball. (International Herald Tribune)
