Joel Sternfeld - Photographs of the High Line

Joel Sternfeld, Looking South on an Afternoon in June, 2000, Negative: 2000, Print: 2009
Digital C-print, 40 x 50 inches, Printed in editions of 7 with 3 APs. Luhrig Augustine Gallery.

Luhrig Augustine Gallery is presenting photographer Joel Sternfeld's images of the High Line in New York before it is redeveloped. The works will be presented at the Art Dealer's Association of America's, Art Show in New York whom with the gallery has a long relationship with, this month. The work represents the preservation done in an attempt to save it by The Friends of the High Line who engaged Sternfeld to document it. As I mentioned in a previous post the project is currently in its second stage and as you can the photographs are a nostalgic look at why the magical location was saved in the first place.

NewPark Station wins Live the BOX competition

Felix Heidgen and Thomas Nagy from Princeton, New Jersey have won Live the BOX with the scheme NewPark Station . The competition by AIA Newark and Suburban and the Young Architects Forum looked to find "innovative, visionary and compelling proposals for container constructed multi-family mixed-use project". The use of shipping containers is not an entirely new design invention and has been used as a space for displaying art and architecture for several years now. Recently Art Basel Miami used them to present the Art Positions - Young Art by The Beach however in this case the construction material is a great starting point for the architects who have created a scheme with the local community and keep their real needs in mind.

Terra Nullius Now Showing in Germany

The German Federal Cultural Foundation has funded an exhibition of Australian Art which begun on Australia Day. Terra Nullius: Contemporary Art from Australia is curated by Deborah Kelly (Australian) and Frank Motz (Germana) and has an amazing array and quality of artists and mediums and is an example of the increasing relationship between Australian and German contemporary art galleries. The exhibition will be showing at ACC Galerie Weimar until 22 March 2009 and then move on to Halle 14 in the Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig from 1 May - 26 July 2009.

The artists participating are:

Vernon Ah Kee
Tony Albert
Richard Bell
boat-people.org
Jon Campbell
Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser
Julie Dowling
Tina Fiveash
George Gittoes
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
Gordon Hookey
Dianne Jones
Mike Parr
pvi collective
Tony Schwensen
Merran Sierakowski
Soda_Jerk
Squatspace
Natascha Stellmach
Judy Watson

40 x 40 x 40 at Dickerson Gallery Melbourne

40 x 40 x40 is a group show of you guessed it works with dimensions 40 cm by 40cm (2d) and 40 x 40 x 40 (3d). With a mix of gorgeous mediums this looks like a fun and enticing show to start off the year and a smart but not totally subtle way to create affordable works for the current temperamental market.


40 x 40 x 40
4 February - 22 February, 2009

Dickerson Gallery
44 Oxford Street
Collingwood Melbourne VIC 3066

MOS architects win PS1 Young Architects program

PS1 and MOMA have announced the winning scheme as afterparty by architectural collective MOS for their 10th annual Young Architects program where an installation is created in the front courtyardspace of PS1 in Queens, NYC. The installation is a series of concrete curved towers which use wind to cool them during the summer. The previous courtyard installation was a series of outdoor gardens and will be replaced with afterparty as part of PS1 summer program where the installations as used as a bar and music venue during the summer months.

Another year, Another Warhol

Despite Andy Warhol's death just over 20 yrs ago new and reconstructed exhibitions of his art are still happening on a regular basis. Andy Warhol's place in history as a Jewish artist (his original family name was Warhola) and his place in the history of the many famous gallerists who supported him start off the Warhol exhibitions for 2009.

Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered exhibition is about to conclude at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco and was organised in conjunction with The Jewish Museum, New York. The portraits include Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis,Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein.

Presented alongside original photographs and sketches for the portraits as well as source material and reviews from the time of lays the basis for interpreting the original 1980 exhibition Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century shown at the Lowe Art Museum in Miami and The Jewish Museum in New York.

At the same time a private collection of his Warhol's works Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection will be exhibited at the Gagosian in New York until Saturday, February 28, 2009. Ileana Sonnabend was one of Andy Warhol's strongest supporters with some of his most well known series exhibited at her gallery in Paris including Death and Disasters (1964), Flowers (1965), and Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1967).

Nuage Vert

Photo by Antti Ahonen, 'Nuage Vert by HeHe'.

HeHe
Nuage Vert
22-29 February 2008, Salmisaari, Helsinki, 5pm to 10pm

Check out this amazing new artwork Nuage Vert (Green Cloud) which follows the emissions of a power station, adjusting the size of the cloud by whether the emissions are lessened or not. The artists HeHe (duo Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) are asking the local community to reduce their energy consumption to effect the size of the cloud.