Television Delivers People
December 12, 2007-February 17, 2008

Television Delivers People brings together single-channel video works from the 1970s to the present that examine how an individual viewer is shaped by television's structure and content. These videos also suggest the possibility of an active approach to viewing which remains relevant even as the physical experience of viewing changes. The exhibition takes its title from Richard Serra's video Television Delivers People (1973), which pairs a Muzak soundtrack with a scrolling list of statements describing the manipulative strategies and motivations of corporate advertisers imbedded in television. Works from the late 1970s and early '80s by Dara Birnbaum and Joan Braderman extend Serra's media critique by using strategies of appropriation to deconstruct specific television genres and programs. Videos by Michael Smith and Alex Bag adopt a performative approach in responding to television, acting out characters whose lives are shaped by cable and its endless programming choices. The exhibition also includes videos by a number of young artists who have created experimental narratives reflective of a dense internet culture, where diverse content from television, film, and music is immediately accessible and available for manipulation and response. Curator: Gary Carrion-Murayari

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March 15 – June 8, 2008
Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, California Video is the first comprehensive survey of video art emerging from Northern and Southern California in the late 1960s and up to the present. Representing the developments in and increased accessibility of media technology, this exhibition includes many of the most important works of single-channel video, video sculpture, and video installation. Featuring the work of 60 artists, California Video locates a distinctively west coast aesthetic within the broader history of video art while highlighting the Getty's major commitment to the preservation and exhibition of a young but vital artistic medium.

THE GETTY

October 4, 2007 – February 17, 2008
Some artworks offer escape: fanciful worlds, soothing aesthetics, images and ideas made to calm and comfort. Others nudge us to question and reflect on realities facing us as individuals and as a society. The latter definition of art guides the exhibition Brave New Worlds, which considers the present state of political consciousness, expressed through the questions of how to live, experience, and dream. Organized by Walker visual arts curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond, the exhibition of some 70 works by 24 artists from 17 countries doesn’t resort to simplistic notions of “political art.” Instead, the diverse artistic voices gathered here seek different potentials for engagement and thus collectively offer a look beyond glib expressions of globalism.

WALKER ART CENTER

The upcoming exhibition for Gagosian Gallery’s new fifth floor space at 980 Madison Avenue, Fit to Print, focuses on the medium of collage, specifically works that utilize printed media in a prominent fashion. To set a contemporary tone, every work included in this exhibition will have been made since January 2000. This focus will bring to light the work of many international artists united by the common theme of the media in print and its myriad forms.

This exhibition seeks to expose an artist’s compulsion to react to the steady stream of information that print media supplies. The work on view will range from meditations on formal composition to personal takes on current events.

22 September 2007 – 3 February 2008
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice is an exhibition of sculptural objects that, by way of their presentation, can be seen as actors on a stage. The floor of the main gallery will be covered with a thin layer of black volcanic sand and the floor of the second gallery will be covered with white sand. All free-standing objects will be placed in the sand. Viewers will walk around the perimeter of a desert/desert island. The objects may appear to them as stranded, as castaways. This staging calls to mind the poignancy and absurdity of a Samuel Beckett play.

BALLROOM MARFA

October 18, 2007 – March 16, 2008
On view in the Hirshhorn's lower-level galleries this fall are a number of important recent acquisitions, including a selection of works acquired through the Contemporary Acquisitions Council (CAC), a membership group that brings works by emerging artists into the museum's collection. During its inaugural year, the group helped the museum acquire 22 new works in a range of media by artists from DC, London, Dublin, New York City, Toronto, Mexico City and elsewhere. Also on view will be other recent additions to the collection such as Lee Friedlander's "The Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden" (1978), a suite of 52 gelatin silver prints taken of the building and garden soon after the museum opened. The selection of acquisitions for this exhibition reflects the great diversity of works being acquired by the Hirshhorn, ranging from conceptual photography to sculpture. This exhibition is organized by Curator Anne Ellegood.

HIRSHHORN

October 20, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Playback is an exhibition showcasing more that 50 off rhythm and exciting music videos directed by contemporary artists in the last 20 years / Playback is also a scenography anchored in our daily lives: at the gym, in a karaoke, in a home-cinema, at the hi-fi store… / Playback finally offers an exclusive program of concerts, performances and even a hair brush contest…

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September 29, 2007 – January 6, 2008
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 examines the dynamic relationship between rock music and contemporary visual art, a relationship that crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Since the late 1950s this unlikely hybrid of rhythm-and-blues and country music has had an undeniable impact on society while drastically changing with the times. Artists from the 1960s to the present have maintained a strong connection to rock, beginning with Andy Warhol’s involvement with The Velvet Underground (who released their Warhol-produced landmark album The Velvet Underground and Nico in 1967 -- the same year the MCA opened its doors). More recently, artists such as Slater Bradley, Raymond Pettibon, and Mike Kelley have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while many noted rock musicians such as John Lennon, Bryan Ferry, and Peter Townsend have emerged from art schools.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO

November 9 – December 23, 2007
A group show including painting, works on paper, and installation at Joseloff Gallery, Harford Art School.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 2007

JOSELOFF GALLERY

HAMMER

The Rolf Ricke Collection is the most extensive and valuable acquisition made by Museum für Moderne Kunst since the purchase of the Karl Ströher Collection in 1981.

It includes works by such trail-blazing artists as Donald Judd, Richard Artschwager, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Gary Kuehn, Lee Lozano, Fabian Marcaccio, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino and David Reed. The exhibition entitled Das Kapital – Blue Chips & Masterpieces embraces the entire building, showcasing outstanding works from the MMK Collection – from Andy Warhol and Robert Gober to Luc Tuymans – in a new dialog with oeuvres from the Rolf Ricke Collection.

MMK Frankfurt

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14 July – 28 October 2007
The German newsmagazine, Spiegel called the conceptual artist, Josephine Meckseper, a "rebel against the zeitgeist." The magazine, Die Zeit, characterized her as a sophisticated admirer of the works of Jean Baudrillard. A German-born artist who has lived and worked in New York since the early 90s, Meckseper has achieved international recognition with her participation in noteworthy exhibitions and biennial contemporary art shows such as the Whitney Biennale in 2006 and the Moscow Biennale in 2007. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is the artist's first solo museum exhibition. In the 1,200-square-meter space, over 150 works from Meckseper's oeuvre consisting of her earliest creations, to new work created especially for the Stuttgart exhibition will be on display. Meckseper is a multimedia conceptual artist using a variety of techniques: She creates large installations, window displays, sculptures, paintings, photographs and films.

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