Art Basel, Booth B-15

JEFF KOONS
Toy Cannon, 2007–12
Bronze and live flowering plants
72 x 121 3/16 x 59 5/16 inches  (182.9 x 307.8 x 150.7 cm)
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Mickalene Thomas: Better Days

Mickalene Thomas: Better Days
Art Bar Installation during Art Basel, Switzerland
13-16 June 2013
Volkshaus No.5, The Gallery

As part of Absolut Art Bureau’s ongoing arts initiative, Thomas was
given carte blanche to create a site-specific art bar at Volkshaus No.
5, The Gallery, for the duration of Art Basel, Switzerland. Inspired
in part by house parties hosted by her mother in the late 70s,
Thomas’s Better Days will be a unique and immersive environment, where
visitors can enjoy a curated program of live performances and guests
DJs. The installation will also feature two rugs custom designed by
Thomas and produced by Henzel Rugs specifically for Better Days.

 Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin, Booth J09
Art Basel, Switzerland
13-16 June 2013
Lehmann Maupin has dedicated a portion of its booth to new paintings
and mixed-media works by Mickalene Thomas, presented in a setting that
evokes her 1970s tableaux installations. Among the works on view will
be a painting of supermodel Naomi Campbell and a salon-style hanging
of collaged black and white photographs that Thomas uses as source
material for her paintings. The fair is open to the public from
Thursday, 13 June through Sunday, 16 June, 11 AM to 7 PM each day.

 Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
Screenings in 2013-2014
Lehmann Maupin is thrilled to announce that Mickalene Thomas's
documentary, Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, will be presented in
the following venues in the coming year: The Poetics of Unforgetting
at the Hackney Picturehouse, London, on 6 June 2013; 2nd Annual Black
Star Film Festival in Philadelphia from 1- 4 August 2013; and on HBO,
airing in 2014.
Thomas's thirty-minute documentary takes as its theme the artist's
mother and muse, Sandra Bush. The film is an emotionally raw and
loving portrait of Bush as she reflects on her life experiences,
including her personal struggles and battle with chronic illness.
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman debuted at the Brooklyn Museum of
Art on 28 September 2012, as part of Thomas's first solo museum
exhibition in New York.

 ART CAPSUL for Net-A-Porter
Mickalene Thomas has been commissioned to conceive of a garment
inspired by haute couture for ART CAPSUL, curated by Stacy Engman.
Part art project, part capsule collection, ART CAPSUL by Stacy Engman
showcases elements found in the works of some of today's most
celebrated contemporary artists. "ART CAPSUL celebrates originality,
vision, and uniqueness inherent in the forms and traditions of haute
couture and art. Artists give life to their artwork through their own
distinct vision, and this special series celebrates this as an
extension of their existing vision and practice, " Engman has said.
ART CAPSUL will be unveiled on Net-A-Porter in July 2013.

 Curatorial Project: Tete-a-Tete at QF Gallery
24 August - 15 September 2013
98 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937
Mickalene Thomas will present the second iteration of "Tete-a-Tete,"
on view from 24 August to 15 September at QF Gallery in East Hampton,
New York. First presented last summer at Yancey Richardson, New York,
Thomas conceived of the idea for this group exhibition after
participating in MoMA's "Conversations: Among Friends." Through this
exhibition, Thomas aims to facilitate a visual conversation among
artists.

Philip Taaffe Recent Work

  
 Philip Taaffe 
Recent Work
extended through June 22 
  

Installation view of Philip Taaffe: Recent Work 
  
 Luhring Augustine is pleased to extend our exhibition Philip Taaffe: Recent Work through Saturday, June 22. The exhibition, the artist’s first solo show of paintings in New York in six years, continues to reveal Taaffe as a philosopher of painting, offering compelling meditations on art and culture, both contemporary and historical, and visual ruminations on the interrelated families of forms and images in art, architecture, and archaeology

 Luhring Augustine
 531 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011 

Tel (212) 206-9100  Fax (212) 206-9055  

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Taryn Simon: Works from the George Economou Collection

Taryn Simon: Works from the George Economou Collection

 

The George Economou Collection, Athens June 04, 2013 — September 27, 2013

TARYN SIMON, Chapter X, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, 2011, archival inkjet prints comprised of 6 components, overall: 84 x 304 3/16 inches (213.4 x 772.7 cm), ed. of 4

 

With contributing text by Nicholas Cullinan, curator in the department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in collaboration with Skarlet Smatana, director of the George Economou Collection, this exhibition features a selection of works from Taryn Simon’s major projects such as The Picture Collection, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII, Contraband, and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.

"At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Eggleston
At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston

February 26th 2013
"At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
on view February 26–July 28, 2013
William Eggleston (American, born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, fifty years later, he is its most prolific and influential exemplar. Through a profound appreciation of the American vernacular (especially near his home in the Mississippi Delta) and confidence in the dye transfer printmaking process to reveal the region's characteristic qualities of light and saturated chromatics, Eggleston almost single-handedly validated color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. This exhibition celebrates the artist's iconic photographs of commonplace subjects that have become touchstones for generations of artists, musicians, and filmmakers from Nan Goldin to David Byrne, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch.
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WILLIAM EGGLESTON
Tricycle, Memphis, 1968
Dye transfer print
11 7/8 x 17 3/8 inches  (30.2 x 44.1 cm)
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