Gallery Glimpses Nov 20, 2009
Affiliated artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith and Claes Oldenburg. Participating from Wellesley this year are Roy Perkinson, Anne Lyman Powers, Christine Rogers and Michelle Walquist. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Nancy Spero; feminist artist addressed political violence; at 83 Oct 24, 2009
Kiki Smith, one of the many younger artists influenced by Ms. Spero, once said in an interview: When I first saw Nancy Spero s work, I thought: You are going to get killed making things like that; it s too vulnerable. You ll just be dismissed immediately. (Boston Globe)
Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years ... 7:00 Jeff Koons 7:30 Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois 8:00 Jean Michel Basquiat Interview 8:45 Short Discussion 9:00 Inner Tube Program with Johnny Thunders 9:30 Inner Tube Program-New York Music. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Auction nets Hallwalls $70K Sep 25, 2009
Two sold for more than $10,000 apiece: a photo by Cindy Sherman, which sold for $10,625; and a glitter, ink and paper collage on paper called Bird and Stars by Kiki Smith, which sold for $10,625, exceeding its estimated value of $5,000-$7,000. Reader Comments. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
Event to delve into study of animals Apr 30, 2009
She said the exhibit --composed entirely of work by professional artists -- features pieces by Mark Dion, Kiki Smith, Penn State professors in the School of Visual Arts, Robert Yarber and Liz Quackenbush, and former Penn State student Cara Judea Alhadeff, among others. She said the Zoller exhibit, on display through Friday, is a composite of ideas about "how this spectacle of animals has entered our imaginations.". (Daily Collegian, PA)
Female artists, in their voices Apr 4, 2009
The documentary looks in on the creative lives of five women of different generations: a young street artist identified only as Swoon, Egyptian-born painter Ghada Amer, sculptor Kiki Smith, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic and painter Nancy Spero. All have in common that their careers took root in, and to some extent were in response to, New York. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Ciné Anniversary Film Festival schedule Mar 27, 2009
Beatific sculptures by Kiki Smith give way to painted bloody phalluses by Nancy Spero. Ghada Amer responds to the repressive culture of her native Egypt with vast embroidered canvases of nakedly intertwined female figures. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Side by side Feb 11, 2009
Check out the four galleries: "The Artist-as-Curator: Kiki Smith," "Perceiving Space in Art," "American Art," and "Stories, Ideals, Beliefs." Smith created an installation using dozens of vessels from many cultures and periods. In "Perceiving Space in Art," viewers are asked to ponder how space is used with multimedia pieces, including a 16th-century Italian sculpture and a 20th-century light installation. (Boston Globe)
Andrea K. Scott: Vik Muniz, at MOMA. Feb 8, 2009
Some are formal: a yellow square by Ellsworth Kelly abu 00004000 ts Kiki Smith s glass sculpture of an egg yolk. Others crack wise: stones, both collected and copied in bronze, by Vija Celmins, shears made by the cutlery company J. A. Henckels, and a crumpled ball of paper by Martin Creed play a round of rock, scissors, paper. (New Yorker)
