London attorney and curator Daniel McClean finds intersections between art and law through curatorial projects. Offer & Exchange, an ongoing series of commissions co-curated with Lisa Rosendahl (director of the Baltic Art Center in Sweden), negotiates situations between artists, museums, galleries, collectors, and the public that challenge assumptions using the history of seminal curator, dealer and publicist Seth Siegelaub’s work as point of departure.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, The National Arts Club, Honoring Cecily Brown & Nicolai Ouroussoff, Gabriel Orozco, and Nancy Spector
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Brad Alexander, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been living in Southern Germany since graduating from Wesleyan University in 2008. Alexander is currently enrolled at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, which has seen Willi Baumeister and Alfred Hrdlicka as professors as well as Oskar Schlemmer, Max Ackermann, and Bernd Becher as students.
Check out Tala Madani‘s recently opened show at Lombard-Fried Projects of new paintings and animations, up through April 3. Get excited: the INDEPENDENT, a “new model and temporary exhibition forum” is opening (free of charge!) at the former X-initiative this Thursday, and will feature the Claire Fontaine in the form a neon text work, on view 24 hours a day during the run of the entire project, March 4-7. Read on for more things to see and do this week!
Sarah Thornton’s mechanical mind deciphers the gestures hidden within the wild, eccentric, and unregulated art world. Her recent bestseller, Seven Days in the Art World, unlocks the mysteries of this creative sphere that appears to be lit from within.
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