This week at the Aspen Art Museum, Rashid Johnson will give an artist talk, and accept the 2018 Aspen Award for Art during ArtCrush, the museum’s celebrated annual summer benefit.
RASHID JOHNSON—ARTIST TALK, Thursday, August 2, at 5 pm.
ASPEN ART MUSEUM, 637 East Hyman Avenue, Aspen.
aspenartmuseum.org/rashid-johnson
ARTCRUSH, Friday, August 3, at 6 pm.
BUTTERMILK MOUNTAIN, Aspen
THE RAINBOW SIGN, the new Rashid Johnson sculpture and collage show at David Kordansky, will be up for one more week.
RASHID JOHNSON – THE RAINBOW SIGN, through May 19.
DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY, 5130 West Edgewood Place, at LaBrea, Los Angeles.
Rashid Johnson, from top:
Untitled Microphone Sculpture, 2018.
Untitled Escape Collage, 2018.
Untitled Shea Butter Table, 2018.
Image credit: Rashid Johnson and David Kordansky Gallery.
2018 is an election year, a chance to end Republican control of Congress.
Educate, organize, resist, register, vote…
… and check out the selection from Marilyn Minter and Andrianna Campbell’s ANGER MANAGEMENT, a pop-up featuring resistant work by John Baldessari, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Zoe Buckman, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Jenny Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Laura Owens, Jack Pierson, Mary Ping, Faith Ringgold, Laurie Simmons, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and many others.
A portion of the proceeds will go to charity and to the Brooklyn Museum.
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Earlier this year, former Interview editor and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bob Colacello made his curatorial debut with THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY: ABSTRACT FIGURATION/FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz.
The catalogue—published by Schnabel, with text by Colacello—is an 82-page hardcover featuring work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jeff Elrod, Jacqueline Humphries, Rashid Johnson, Adam McEwen, Sterling Ruby, Borna Sammak, Jonas Wood, Vito’s father Julian Schnabel, and Bob’s former employer Andy Warhol.
“As the 21st century grapples its way through its second decade, America seems to have entered what may be called The Age of Ambiguity, a time when everything is fluid and nothing concrete, and confusion overwhelms certainty… It is said that the best artists are the antennae of their society, the prophets of their era. Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper-Realism on the other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or Figurative Abstraction?” — Bob Colacello*
BOB COLACELLO, THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY (Vito Schnabel, 2017). Edition: 1000.
SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.
BOOK SOUP, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood.
ART CATALOGUES, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
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* artnet.com/galleries/vito-schnabel/the-age-of-ambiguity-curated-by/
Top: Exhibition catalogue. Bottom: The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Landscape with Travelers Resting, 2015. Both images courtesy of the Vito Schnabel Gallery.
UNPACKING—the inaugural show at the Marciano Art Foundation—will be up through mid-September, when it makes way for the installation of a Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, opening in October, 2017.
Included in UNPACKING—curated by Philipp Kaiser—are works by El Anatsui, Walead Beshty, Huma Bhabha, Carol Bove, Latifa Echakhch, Cyprien Gaillard, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Paul Sietsema, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Oscar Tuazon, and Kaari Upson.
The foundation’s building—a repurposed Masonic temple—also features one of the best small bookstores in town. The shop stocks a comprehensive selection of catalogues and art books by artists in Maurice and Paul Marciano’s collection, as well as a shelf-full of back issues of the recently discontinued journal Parkett.
UNPACKING—THE MARCIANO COLLECTION
Through September 16.
Marciano Art Foundation
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
From top: Oscar Tuazon, Playboy Papercrete, 2012/2013 (detail) and Latifa Echakhch, All Over 2016, images courtesy the artists and Galerie Eva Presenhuber; Adrián Villar Rojas, Two Suns (II), 2015, image courtesy the artist and the Marciano Art Foundation.
