More of this story Sep 13, 2008
In Index: Conceptualism in California From the Permanent Collection, Chris Burden s "Exposing the Foundation of the Museum" encourages visitors to go below the facility s floor ... One section of the museum has been excavated for Chris Burden's "Exposing the Foundation of the Museum," a series of three stairs and handrails going into holes under the museum floor. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Unusual Spaces Jul 13, 2008
" Hill recently co-organized "Vaudeville" with John Criscitello, a mixed media artist whose interests range from sculptural installation, video art, painting and drawing, to, more recently, curating. At his Sfumato Studio, located above Hickey's Music on Adams Street, Criscitello recently mounted a group show with works by five local artists, all of whom are working in contemporary mediums or dealing with experimental forms or content, putting them outside the status quo in Ithaca. An additional... (Ithaca Times, NY)
Artist makes NYC skyscraper from 1 million toy pieces Jun 11, 2008
The skyscraper actually a sculpture by artist Chris Burden called "What My Dad Gave Me" was to be unveiled at Rockefeller Center on Tuesday ... Finishing touches are put on "What My Dad Gave Me" by artist Chris Burden in front of Rockefeller Center in New York City. (USA Today -- News)
All their eggs in one basket May 10, 2008
Southern Exposure includes pieces by relatively well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola, James Turrell, Chris Burden, Robert Irwin and Vija Celmins, as well as works by younger-generation figures such as Glenn Kaino or Kota Ezawa. As is so often the case with such surveys, the overall impression belongs to the category of "not bad". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Turning a lens on those with an eye for art Apr 11, 2008
There she encountered as teachers Chris Burden, John Baldessari and Paul McCarthy, each known for boundary-bursting experiments with performance and unconventional media. Straight out of graduate school, Miller applied for inclusion in the annual EAST international exhibition at the Norwich Gallery in England. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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)
Art Review: The Information Age Jan 18, 2008
Think of Chris Burden building warring cities out of thousands of toys and Ann Hamilton creating a room featuring walls lined with hundreds of small panes of specimen glass. Surely someone, sometime, looked at a big pile of old books and thought of constructing a monumental sculpture from them. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Jim Dine, Tony Labat and Ruth Eckland: wrecks, lies and videotape Dec 16, 2007
Among American conceptual artists, perhaps only Vito Acconci, Dennis Oppenheim and Chris Burden have also put their bodies on the line to this extent. Labat's recent work at Paule Anglim implies no personally life-threatening commitments, but it references various extreme states: paranoia, war, poverty, religious hallucination and caffeine rush. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The art of war Jul 15, 2007
Chris Burden offers plans for and a model of a warship transformed into a sailing vessel with great, white sails. Jake and Dinos Chapman do a take off of Goya's series of "Disasters of War" etchings, saying in an exhibit sign that while they are "intensely pessimistic about the job of being an artist and about what art does socially . . . our cynicism translates into humour.". (Boston Globe)
In two exhibits, politics and war are held up for scrutiny May 16, 2007
A large model ship by former performance artist Chris Burden is also perplexing. It represents a World War II battleship outfitted with sails -- the idea being, according to wall texts, that the ship could be recycled as a green, non-fossil-fuel-using vessel. (Boston Globe)
The material is the message at MOCA Apr 15, 2007
Los Angeles-based Chris Burden designed "The Reason for the Neutron Bomb," an antiwar installation of 50,000 nickels and 50,000 matchsticks, in his early days. More recently, he has collected vintage street lights, to be installed on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Los Angeles Times)
'Not for sale,' a New York show for artists' personal favorites Feb 13, 2007
The works range from small, very personal- seeming drawings (Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden) to fully realized paintings (Alex Katz, Eric Fischl, Dana Schutz) to machine-developed black-and-white pictures (Stephen Shore) to huge sculpture and installation work a testament to the desire to hold on to something, or at least to an impressive amount of storage space. The biggest piece in the show is a Mark di Suvero sculpture from 1978, called "She," that is 55 feet, or nearly 17 meters, tall and... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
