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Art Of The Day Weekly

#304 - from 23 May 2013 to 29 May 2013


James Turrell, End Around: Ganzfeld, 2006, neon and fluorescent light (2007 installation at Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the estate of Isabel B. Wilson in memory of Peter C. Marzio. © James Turrell / Photography © Florian Holzherr (exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston).

IN THE AIR

Turrell, the light man #

In Europe he is known for a few beautiful installations, during the Nuit blanche in Paris, at the Louise Blouin Foundation in London, or during the Biennale of Venice in 2011. The time has come for James Turrell to be consecrated. The California artist, who just turned 70, is the subject of three important retrospectives. All three will open less than a month [Read]

• James Turrell: The Light Inside au Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), du 9 juin au 22 septembre 2013.

• James Turrell au Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), du 21 juin au 25 septembre 2013.

• The Roden Crater, in Arizona

• La Bodega Colomé in Argentina

THE OTHER ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Pistoletto, the wealth of poor art #

He is pas the age of 80, and yet he is everywhere! Michelangelo Pistoletto, once the pope of Arte povera with Jannis Kounellis and Luciano [Read]

THE EXHIBITIONS THAT OPEN

Pasolini Roma #

BARCELONA - Pasolini spent exactly 25 years in Rome, from his arrival in 1950 until his death when he was murdered in the eternal city [Read]

Max is back! #

BASEL - Max Ernst (1891-1976) is one of the giants of modern art. A dynamic artist, he has gone through all the avant-gardes of the XXth [Read]

In the Kennedy suite #

DALLAS - Art historian Olivier Meslay presents a very original and moving exhibition fifty years after the assassination of John Fitzgerald [Read]

AUCTIONS

Atlan, a century later #

PARIS– He was one of the accursed artists of the fifties, poor, free and who died very young as tradition should dictate … Many great [Read]

BOOKS

Velickovic, three shades of black #

He is from that generation of artists from former Yugoslavia who went through the Resistance and then the horrors of the war, Tito’s [Read]

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