THE MUSIC OF REGRET
A film by Laurie Simmons
Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 3pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum
The Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
In conjunction with the opening of the new Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography, Doug Eklund, assistant curator in the Department of Photographs, moderates a discussion with Laurie Simmons (Art:21 Season 4), who has work in the Museum’s collection. Simmons’ film is part of the afternoon’s focal point to explore contemporary photography and filmmaking.
At 2pm, there will a screening of No by Sharon Lockhart, followed by discussion with the artist.
View an excerpt of The Music of Regret on Art21’s YouTube channel.
Season 1 artist Bruce Nauman, a pioneer of Post Minimalist video and performance art, will represent the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Philadelphia Museum of Art was chosen as the commissioner for the 2009 United States Pavilion. Carlos Basualdo, its curator of contemporary art, and Michael R. Taylor, its curator of modern art, will organize the Nauman exhibition. After the museum acquired one of Mr. Nauman’s early neon works — “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths” (1967) — the curators began considering Mr. Nauman’s career and proposed an exhibition of his work for the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Read the New York Times announcement here.
From the Frieze archives: a podcast of artist Roni Horn (Season 3) describing the site-specificity and seriality in her work. In this 40-minute keynote lecture from the 2007 Frieze Art Fair in London (”Cultural Cartography,” October 14), Horn talks about her time and works in Iceland and her most recent project, Library of Water, in particular. It is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the relationship of language to place.
Access this podcast here.
[via Frieze]