August 2017 Art News

"Artist Marta Minujín describes how seeing the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on her return to Argentina from New York many years ago prompted a series of large-scale works that demystify popular monuments or cultural myths. Minujín traces the evolution of these works from horizontal metal structures to food that people can take and eat. For New York, she envisioned a Statue of Liberty made from McDonald’s hamburgers—an idea that she believes can still be realized with a different type of food."

Credit: Guggenheim Museum 

"Artist Zineb Sedira talks about the development of the videographic aspect of her practice, from documentary-style works dealing with her parents and the Algerian War of Independence, such as "Mother, Father and I," through videos based on her interests in language and oral history, such as "Mother Tongue," and more “filmic,” poetic works featuring maritime imagery, such as "Middle Sea." Sedira describes newer works like "Gardiennes d’images" as fusions of some of her previous approaches."
 

"Through photography and sculpture, Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi explores the history and memory of architecture. In her series Double Monument for Flavin and Tatlin (2010–2016), Pousttchi incorporates constraining materials like rails, street barricades, and metal crowd barriers into sculptural forms with spiraling vertical towers and neon light tubes. These “double monuments” reference the work of Russian constructivist sculptor-architect Vladimir Tatlin from the 1920s and American minimalist artist Dan Flavin from the 1960s, created in homage to Tatlin.

"Phillips Director and exhibition curator Dorothy Kosinski introduces Markus Lüpertz, on view at The Phillips Collection May 27 through September 3, 2017."

Credit: The Phillips Collection

"In this video, Bill Ham discusses his "kinetic paintings," which involve the unique use of a transparent overhead projector deployed as a tool for direct spontaneous abstract painting in improvised studio sessions. Ham began his art of projected imagery in 1964, sharing his earliest experiments with the artists and musicians of the Pine Street neighborhood, where he settled after moving to San Francisco in the early 1960s. He is widely heralded as the originator of the psychedelic light show in the United States, first performed at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1965.

"Special guests Lonnie Holley, Danny Glover, Paul Arnett, and Delroy Lindo comment on de Young's special exhibition, Revelations: Art from the African American South, on view through April 1, 2018."

Credit: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco 

"A behind-the-scenes look at the installation of “Artists on the Move in 18th-Century Europe.” The recently conserved painting “Devout Men Taking the Body of Saint Stephen” (Benjamin West, 1776) is the dramatic centerpiece of the gallery."

Credit: Museum of Fine Art, Boston

"LACMA’s Artists on Art videos offer insights into works in the museum’s encyclopedic collection that have inspired and informed artists working today. Looking at art through their eyes, we hear directly from artists about works that intrigue them and have fed their own creativity."

Credit: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art