Eli Broad, speaking at the same preview, told the international gathering, "Contemporary art is the art of our time," and also stressed how much he wants to share his collection with L.A. residents as well as with visitors to a city that, according to Broad, now has more space devoted to showing contemporary art than any other city in the world.
So a gathering of contemporary artists – including Nicolas Deshayes, Philomene Pirecki and Sally Troughton – are staging this show of abstractions that reflect on historic uncertainties.
An article in some copies last Sunday about "Peekskill Project V," a gathering of contemporary artwork in various locations in Peekskill, N.Y., gave an outdated name for an installation by Daniel Phillips.
He remained an ideas man: from 2001 to 2003 he served as director at the Ojai Festival, a unique gathering of contemporary musicians in a rustic environment 70 miles north of Los Angeles.
This is "Water Street," an installation by Daniel Phillips that is part of "Peekskill Project V," a gathering of contemporary artwork in pop-up galleries, parks and empty lots in 15 locations throughout the city, as well as in the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art.
Held from May to 7 June, Dak'art features prominently on the international cultural calendar and is the largest gathering of contemporary African artists on the continent.
This inventive gathering offers a contemporary look at the role of language and ink-and-brush painting in Chinese art, as a formal and intellectual medium.
However far we may be today from the scenes of violence that Lincoln described, it's easy to see the danger he was talking about gathering force across contemporary America.
"Winter is coming," the rather sulky denizens of the imaginary land of Westeros repeat to each other, and these words eerily echo the gathering gloom of our contemporary predicament, from the global financial crisis to nuclear meltdown to widespread revolution.
Operating in this temporal limbo is clearly fruitful for the artist, who has several shows this autumn, including "Second Worlds" in Austria at the integrated contemporary art gathering Steirischer Herbst Festival 2011 Sept . 23 to Oct. 16) and "Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art" at the CU Art Museum in Colorado (Sept . 9to Oct. 22).
A thesis that has a long pedigree but has only recently been gathering attention in the contemporary literature is the "Composition as Identity" thesis.
