Come one, come all, bring your trash heaps and postmodern conceptualism under the big top of the Whitney Biennial 2010. Edited down to 55 artists from the 2008 version's "sprawling" 81, the exhibition includes a lot of photography, a strong showing of paintings, and a majority of women. Curator Francesco Bonami has chosen not to tease out any particular theme, instead concentrating on what "represents the range of ideas and materials American artists are now working with."
As it happens, Charles Isherwood pointed out in a New York Times column last week that past Olympiads also included honors for the arts — specifically architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. Applying a similar rubric to the Biennial, we offer a selection of "competitors" with the stuff for gold medals.
Read the full feature and view images of our picks »
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Earlier this month, Gagosian Gallery London debuted Crash, a group exhibition that includes pieces from Francis Bacon, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, and Andy Warhol. It takes its title — and theme — from the controversial auto-accidents-are-sexy novel by J.G. Ballard. "Crash is an autobiographical novel in the sense that it is about my inner life, my imaginative life," the British writer, who died last spring, once explained. "It is true to that interior life, not the life I have actually lived." Those who have seen David Cronenberg's 1996 film adaptation of the book know just how deeply disturbing — and oddly compelling — that Ballardian point of view can be.
View images from the show and read quotes from the artists »
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Published Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
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