C: International Contemporary Art articles from March 22 2000

C: International Contemporary Art archives from March 22 2000

Garry Neill Kennedy (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Since much of his production has been site-specific, it's not often one can see a comprehensive selection of works by Garry Neill Kennedy. Through his long career -- much of it corresponding with his presidency of the Nova Scotia College of Art...

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York) 2000 (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... In the now well-established blockbuster tradition, New York's Museum of Modern Art is presenting its conclusive view of the 20th century through a series of shows titled MoMA 2000, a kind of meta-history, underlining what should forever be...

American century and the Whitney biennial (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... At the Whitney, curators have focused on American reputations in their millennial-marking exhibition, titled immodestly enough: "American Century." The show set out exemplars of the American contribution to modern art. The website and the...

Architecture in Chicago (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Nothing identifies Chicago more than its built environment. This is a city whose centre is a textbook of 20th-century architectural styles and whose long-established neighbourhood enclaves are as different from each other in character as the...

Who, who, who is Michael Fernandes?
March 22, 2000... In 1986, during the NATO conference in Halifax, Fernandes participated in an exhibition titled "Art Against Militarism" at the Anna Leonowens Gallery of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His text piece in the window of the gallery...

Painting contingencies (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Like a locust invasion, the proliferation of art in Chelsea is so profuse that, at times, it seems to inhibit one's ability to see. But some things do stand out, as did "Derived From" -- an exhibition of coolly painted images (and intensively...

Marks of obsessive invention (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... With "Signs of a Sick Mind," Toronto artist Kelly Mark offers the voyeuristic pleasure of peeking into someone else's cupboards and the intellectual spark of looking at art. Mark's stock-in-trade is good-humoured conceptualism combined with an...

(Tracey) Emin's also ran (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... The big news in December was that confessional artist Tracey Emin didn't win the Turner Prize. The winner was Steve McQueen, whose piece Deadpan I had the prescience to review in our February 99 issue. Nonetheless, it will be Emin's My Bed (a...

Experimental exercise of freedom (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Occasionally it happens -- when ideological sympathies lead to simultaneous programming -- that one exhibition will be undermined by the invited comparison. Such was the case in LA this winter when the Barbara Kruger retrospective was presented...

Vacation in black & white: John Armstrong on the travels of Diana Bos.
March 22, 2000... Since the seventies, travel and tourism have been recurrent motifs for Dianne Bos. From those earliest works, she employed the icons of warmer climes and the imagery of vacation advertising through a wide range of media. Now, with "Galaxies and...

Cliff Eyland's Liverpool notebook (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... There now appears to be ample evidence of the infectious nature of the international biennial. And from its current variants around the globe, we might conclude that this virus has potential for infinite mutation. Among the sites of recent...

Urban gothic: Philip Monk on Stan Douglas's Le Detroit.
March 22, 2000... On the heart of America, at its industrial core, a rot festers -- a malignant reminder of past crimes of dispossession. Detroit, Motor City -- its name is emblematic of the spark of industrial and popular culture. Yet its city centre is a ruin,...

Letter from New York: December 1999 (exhibitions).
March 22, 2000... I just flew in from the coast and Boy! are my arms tired. I've been lingering in airport lounges among corporate Borg units whose minimum wage is four times my Best Year So Far. "The drone of flying engines," sings Joni, "is a song so wild...

Donigan Cumming: Marche Bonsecours, Montreal (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... As Guy Bellavance put it in 1988 during Optica's conference, The Photograph as a Vulgar Document: the documentary photograph offers precise information regarding precise phenomena to a precise end. But for years now, practitioners of a renewed...

Flywheel: Nunnery Gallery, London (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Too much of the current British art scene takes itself a little too seriously: in addition to the self-conscious Sensationalism of the YBAs, just think of the media scrum and artistic frenzy of what is now almost euphemistically referred to as...

Watch: bona fide, Chicago (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Staged purposely at the end of the year, "Watch" -- an eclectic hodgepodge of works by seven artists and one philosopher -- considered the nature of faith in the context of the millennial metaphors of transformation and reckoning. The success...

Letter from London: January 2000 (exhibitions).
March 22, 2000... Art is a strange domain. Recently, I shuffled into the Karen Hamilton Gallery to find photographs of little anthropomorphic toys wandering in asparagus forests and over broccoli hills. A group of these identical inch-high androgynous beings...

Jack Niven: tableau vivant, Toronto (exhibition).
March 22, 2000... Within the cozy confines of Toronto's Tableau Vivant Gallery, London-Ontario-artist Jack Niven engineered a painting show with the pace of a music video by packing the small gallery like a Victorian memento-jammed parlour. Mixed metaphors...

Anita Aarons: 1912-2000.
March 22, 2000... Anita Aarons would have cringed at the notion of a eulogy. Born in 1912 in the (still) infamous King's Cross district of Sydney, she dedicated her life (perhaps her many charmed lives) to the here-and-now -- as an artist, educator, writer and...