Pedestrian.tv (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Artists are generally environmentally conscious and by definition aesthetes. So this bike/artist calendar by New York City's Swiss Institute totally makes sense. The calendar features the likes of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Collier Schorr, Ugo Rondinone, Rita Ackermann, Aurel Schmidt, Ryan McGinley, Pierre Huyghe, David Byrne and Cindy Sherman rolling around NYC on two wheels and certainly beats soft...
today and tomorrow (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Here are 2 versions of Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe. The first one is from 1999, Pierre sanded down a few layers of paint at Secession in Vienna (Austria), revealing the wall painting from previous exhibitions. The second one is from 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Hugo Boss Prize was established in 1996 with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as a way to "support talented young, emerging artists as well as established individuals whose public recognition may be long overdue." The winner — who receives $100,000 and a show at the Gugg — is chosen by an international panel of distinguished judges from the art world. Last year Palestinian...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
We're a step closer to finding out who will win the biannual Hugo Boss Prize , which is bestowed for achievement in contemporary art. Vying for the $100,000 award this year are the finalists just announced by the Guggenheim : Cao Fei from China, Hans-Peter Feldmann from Germany, Natascha Sadr Haghighian from Iran, Roman Ondak from the nation formerly known as Czechoslovakia, Walid Raad from Lebanon...
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The first annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim have a local nominee: The Walker Art Center -- the only non-New York American venue nominated for a prize -- is up for best museum group show for The Quick and the Dead . In a twist, that show, curated by former New York-based Creative Time curator Peter Eleey, competes with After Nature , last year's show at the New Museum, now headed by former Walker...
PORT (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery Installation view, Image c. 2009 SculptureCenter and the artists Photo: Jason Mandella Voyages are an incredibly rich subject, let's briefly consider; The Odyssey, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, King Kong, Francis Alÿs's paseos, Kubrick's 2001, The Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick, Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki, numerous HG Wells stories, Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera,...
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
And speaking of "The Quick And The Dead," I swear I've seen a nearly identical piece to Pierre Huyghe's Timekeeper, 1999, before. I thought it was at the 1995 Whitney Biennial, on the east wall of the central gallery,...
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Bucky/Fly's Eye/Dymaxion Car, 1980, featured in the just-closed MCA Chicago exhibition on Buckminster Fuller. Photo © Roger White Stoller. Via Art or Idiocy . • "Weeping Barbie syndrome" hits two of the Walker Art Center's Beuys' works! • The Walker's Peter Eleey narrates a quick video about Pierre Huyghe's outdoor installation Wind Chime (After Dream) , a series of wind chimes...
CubeMe (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
The Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only major Le Corbusier-designed building in North America. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this building, a crazy-looking temporary puppet theatre was constructed within its sunken courtyard. French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe and Harvard assistant professor of architecture, Michael Meredith,...
kostis velonis (Free subscription) | 27/05/2009
Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 18/05/2009
ZURICH.- Philippe Parreno (born in Oran/Algeria in 1964, lives and works in Paris), realized in 2002 together with Pierre Huyghe the project «No Ghost just a Shell», a first comprehensive exhibition on all works involving the Manga character “Anlee” for Kunsthalle Zürich . Now he introduces himself with the solo exhibition «May»: At Kunsthalle the first episode...
crookedbrains (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Atari Light. " Atari Light ", 1999 by Pierre Huyghe . This project includes computer game program interface, joysticks and halogen lamps. Other Posts: Talented Tongues. Beautiful Snowflakes. Most Interesting Illusions. Which Of These Paths Would You Choose. These Drivers Aren't As Smart As They Think They Are.
VVORK (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
“Atari Light”, 1999 by Pierre Huyghe. Computer game program interface, joysticks, halogen lamps.
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Journeys to Nowhere: Selections from the Collection, on view at the Walker Art Center August 14–December 7, 2008, has as its centerpiece Pierre Huyghe’s room-size film installation A Journey That Wasn’t (2006), which premiered at the 2006 Whitney Biennial and was acquired jointly by the Walker and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The piece shares space in the...
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