Online Feature: Sight Point (for Leo Castelli)

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Earlier in the year I had the chance to revisit the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. When I was last there, Richard Serra’s Sight Point (for Leo Castelli) had been dismantled to make way for improvements to the Museumplein. Not this time though; divesting myself of all the baggage that comes with art history, I had one of the most moving experiences I've ever had with a piece of sculpture, contemplating this gargantuan geometric form with fresh eyes.

—Online Feature: Sight Point (for Leo Castelli)

Paul Sharits Dream Displacement at Greene Naftali

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Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
8th Floor
New York, NY 10001
September 3 – October 3, 2015

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Paul Sharits' 1976 film Dream Displacement serves as the focus of this recently-opened solo show at Greene Naftali, which runs until October 3rd. Sharits was part of a group of experimental artists who emerged in the 1960s as the structural film school – a small but influential movement that has long had the gallery's support. This exhibition, co-presented by the Anthology Film Archives, features the looped multi-projector 16mm print of Dream Displacement alongside a selection of paintings and reference material.

—Greene Naftali

When All Of My Friends Are On At Once – Memories of Being Online

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Organized by Gene McHugh
Art by Juan Amaya
Design by Beautiful Company

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When All Of My Friends Are On At Once is a bit like an online journal, with Gene McHugh as its guardian, and many of the art world's brightest up-and-comers as its contributors. Each artist was asked to share their first memories of being online, and the result is a varied and often highly personal collection of stories that I think most of us can relate to in some capacity. Artist Cameron Soren personally reminded me of the time I looked up Tupac's coroner's report on Rotten.com, but maybe reading about Tyler Coburn's successful Sailor Moon website will jog a few of your online memories.

—When All Of My Friends Are On At Once

Between Life and Death: Robert Motherwell's Elegies in Bay Area Collections

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Golden Gate Park 
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
September 5, 2015 – March 6, 2016

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The de Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting a celebration of the centennial of Robert Motherwell's birth. The small one-room show opens today and features works from the artist's Elegies to the Spanish Republic series, assembled from local public and private collections. These pieces make use of large, heavily-applied fields of black paint, utilizing gestural techniques and a formalist reduction that sets him apart from most of his contemporaries. This is both a concise exhibition of one of the 20th century’s most preeminent abstract expressionists, and a wonderful chance to celebrate a significant milestone with other admirers of Motherwell’s work. 

—de Young Museum

Gagosian Paris presents Chris Burden

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26 Avenue de l'Europe
93350 Le Bourget, Paris
April 25 – September 19, 2015

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Having been closed for the whole of August, the Gagosian's Chris Burden show has now reopened at their gallery on the outskirts of Paris, until its extended run comes to an end on September 19th. Anyone who lives in the area or expects to be close by should really make a trip to the suburb of Le Bourget to witness a number of the conceptual artist's thought-provoking sculptures. The exhibition, which includes the massive Porsche with Meteorite, represents something of a late career retrospective, with the three most recent pieces acting as an overview of Burden’s final years, prior to his death in May.

—Gagosian Gallery

The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969

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Hardback, 168 pages
12 x 8.25 inches
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery, 2015

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I posted about the What Nerve! exhibition when it opened at the Matthew Marks Gallery in July, prominently featuring works from the Hairy Who and other similar artists. Now the gallery has released all of the outsider collective’s art books in one volume, with the following snippet of the press release shedding more light than I could:

"Much of the Hairy Who’s legacy rests on four self-published books made to accompany their exhibitions. These comic books, as the artists called them, are among the first artist’s books executed in full colour, and they are exemplary models of artistic collaboration. The pages teem with unforgettable characters (including Juan Dollar, Poodle Woman, and Lotte Da) rendered in energetic lines and intense colours. The artists’ formal inventiveness and penchant for wordplay are on full display in these illustrations. Even the group's name is a pun. At one of the first meetings, the younger members were discussing Harry Bouras, a Chicago artist and critic, and they delightedly riffed on Karl Wirsum’s repeated question “Harry who?”

The Collected Hairy Who Publications 1966-1969 gathers these seminal books for the first time in a single hardcover volume, reproducing them at actual size and in full colour. Accompanying them are a scholarly essay by Dan Nadel and an extensive archive of Hairy Who posters, exhibition photographs, and ephemera.”

Head over to the gallery's store to pick up a copy before this limited title is sold out.

—Matthew Marks Gallery

Jay DeFeo Catalogue

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Hardcover, 86 pages
9 x 11.5 inches
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash

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Originally produced to coincide with last year’s retrospective at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery, this catalogue centred around the late avant-garde artist, Jay DeFeo, chronicles the bulk of her working life. It features 50 key works from 1965 to 1989, including paintings, drawings, photographs and little-seen photocopy pieces, as well as an essay by Walead Beshty entitled The Ritual of Everyday Life: On the Migrating Objects of Jay DeFeo. For anyone fascinated by the Beat movement and Semina-associated artists, it is sure to be a must.

—Available from Artbook

Depression Catalogue

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94 pages, 18 foldouts
9.5 x 12 inches
Designed by Eric Wrenn
Published by Ramiken Crucible

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Last year I saw some photos from an amazing group show entitled Depression, put on at the François Ghebaly Gallery in LA. At the time I didn't know that the exhibition was organised by Ramiken Crucible, so when I saw this catalog for sale on the Lower East Side gallery's website, I was pleasantly surprised. Alongside work from an impressive list of artists including Lucas Blalock and Andra Ursuta, the catalog's accompanying text offers insight into a serious issue that many people find themselves affected by.

—Available from Ramiken Crucible
—François Ghebaly Gallery