Creator Projects launches an affordable box of artworks by twelve international artists
Top Row (L-R): Jenny Holzer, photo: Nanda Lanfranco; Tania Bruguera, photo: Claudio Fuentes; Nico Vascellari, photo: Mattia Zoppellaro; Jeppe Hein, photo: Tom Wagner.
Centre (L-R) Daniel Buren, photo: Ulf Dahl; Alicja Kwade, photo: Christian Werner; Martin Creed, photo: Hugo Glendinning; Tosh Basco, image courtesy the Schauspiel Haus Zürich. Bottom (L-R): Katharina Grosse, photo: Hans Grosse; Monster Chetwynd, photo: Joe Campbell and Oscar Oldershaw; Alexander Tovborg; Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, photo: Ella Tomilla.
LONDON
.- Creator Projects announced the pre-sale launch of M.M.S. #1 (Much. More. Shit.), the first in a series of affordable, curated art portfolios delivered via the mail. The portfolio, which celebrates egalitarian access to art and experimental format, will include 12 new artworks by 12 international artists. M.M.S. is a tribute to the legendary avant-garde art portfolio and m
Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images.
Mail art, a democratized genre that stresses a tactile sense of connection we could all use more of these days, is having quite a renaissance during the lockdown era. And now, the Danish agency Creator Projects is pushing it a step further.
Its latest initiative,
M.M.S. (
Much. More. Shit.), allows even the humblest collectors to buy a set of 12 works by major artists (including Tania Bruguera, Daniel Buren, Martin Creed, Katharina Grosse, Jenny Holzer, and Alicja Kwade) for just €200 ($243).
The small artworks in the limited-edition portfolio will arrive at your door in a container the size of a shoe box. The entire set is available for pre-sale starting today, February 24.
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What’s up for art here in London, once the pandemic is finally over? Will we all be able to go back to the state of things as they were, in the jolly days before the plague? Right now everything is still shut up tight.
Avant-gardism and populism were beginning to fall apart from one another before the epidemic manifested itself – ELS
There’s bound to be a transition period while the new vaccines take hold. We had something of this interim sort in the period of optimism last summer before infections suddenly soared again. It wasn’t, in fact, much fun, going to big museums in plague-year conditions. Book in advance, wear a mask, sanitise your hands when you get there, follow the prescribed route, be careful to keep your distance from other visitors. Not too many of those, as it happened. Visitor numbers to the big public spaces fell with a crash. Not surprising when London was more or less forbidden to tourists. No Americans. No Chinese. Are they, in fact, going to come b
The Parrish Art Museum announces Kelly Taxter as next Director
Kelly Taxter joined the Jewish Museum in 2013 and was most recently the Barnett and Annalee Newman Curator of Contemporary Art, the Museums first endowed and named contemporary curator position. Photo: Jason Nocito.
WATER MILL, NY
.-The Parrish Art Museum announced that Kelly Taxter will be the next director of the Museum. The announcement was made by Mary E. Frank, President and Co-Chair of the Board of the prominent art museum, located in the Hamptons, on Eastern Long Island, NY. Taxter will assume her new role on March 22, joining a rising class of new, influential female museum leaders around the country.