Phaidon announces an in-depth survey of the life and work of Jim Hodges
Jim Hodges by Jane M. Saks, Robert Hobbs, Julie Ault, Tim Hailand. June 30, 2021 | $49.95 | Paperback | 160 pages | 200 col illus. | 9.9 in x 11.4 in.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Contemporary American artist Jim Hodges (b.1957) addresses issues such as memory, love, and the human condition in a multifaceted practice that includes photography, painting, and sculpture. His use of everyday objects like boulders and denim, coupled with the adoption of transitory shapes like spiderwebs, speaks to the ways in which nature refracts personal experiences into collective ones. Mysterious, beautiful, poetic, and conceptually complex, Hodges work has the rare quality of being simultaneously thought-provoking and visually beautiful.
Now available: Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon catalogue
New publication dives into the Menil Collections exhibition, which features seven large-scale works by internationally acclaimed artists Allora & Calzadilla.
HOUSTON, TX
.-The Menil Collection announced the release of Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon, a new publication focused on the Puerto Rico-based artists show currently on view in Houston.
The exhibition includes seven sculptural works by artists Allora & Calzadilla that revolve around the theme of acedia, a demon that besieges the soul at noon. Created specifically for the museums main building, the exhibition uses sounds, cast shadows, and novel sculptural materials to evoke an awe- inducing atmosphere of bewilderment and beauty as a metaphor for the contemporary moment.
Sarah Meister Named Next Executive Director of Aperture
Ms. Meister will serve as the primary creative force and public representative of Aperture, a nonprofit arts organization and preeminent publisher of photography.
Sarah Meister. Photograph by Naima Green
Aperture Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Sarah Meister has been selected as its next Executive Director. She will begin her new role in May 2021. As Executive Director, Ms. Meister will serve as the primary creative force and public representative of Aperture, a nonprofit arts organization and preeminent publisher of photography, working closely with the Board and leading the staff of thirty-five to further the organization’s distinguished legacy and set its vision for its future. She will succeed Chris Boot, who will be returning to London after leading Aperture for the past decade.
Supposedly, when he first saw the early-‘90s group photos by ART CLUB
2000, art dealer Colin de Land hated them. Not because the images were bad quite the contrary. Because he knew that they were too good, that the group’s collective self-portraits would overpower everything else they tried to do.
He was right, more or less. The cool retrospective of ART CLUB
2000’s work at Artists Space is sort of about the Monkey’s Paw curse of generational fame a curse which the group was very much aware of.
De Land’s American Fine Arts was a much-mythologized alt-commercial space, what Roberta Smith once called an “anti-art gallery.” Embracing “no capital as cultural capital,” its scrappy program took all kinds of fanciful risks.