
Carsten Höller will build one of his signature slides as part of the forthcoming New Museum retrospective.
3743 via L Magazine


Highlight's from the first solo exhibition of Korean artist Jang Yong Sun entitled Particles of Dark Matter.
3742 via Colossal


An artist plans to turn Bushwick’s Microscope Gallery into her “birthing room”, where her baby will arrive in front of live audience.
3741 via NY Post


Symphony for a Cyborg: Bjork on using her iPad to fuse nature and technology in "Biophilia"
3739 via ARTINFO


Trudy Benson's "Actual/Virtual" at Mike Weiss gallery is the artist's first solo effort in New York.
3738 via Mike Weiss


Leopold van de Ven's architectural wall sculptures were inspired in response to the White Cube space.
3737 via you have been here sometime


On the final day of his first big exhibit at MOCA, Jeffrey Deitch let WSJ magazine follow his every move.
3735 via WSJ Magazine


Rankin and Damien Hirst will open their first collaborative show, "Myths, Monsters, and Legends," in LA later this month.
3734 via Interview

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Birds take flight at Xu Bing's show at the Morgan Library as the artist answers all the important Q's.
3731 via ARTINFO


Hionas Gallery presents its latest solo show, Tun Ping Wang: "Undefined", a series of large-scale pastel drawings.
3730 via Hionas Gallery


"It's impossible to understand and it's daft," Gerhard Richter on the current art market.
3729 via Reuters


UCLA’s Hammer Museum put on: “Now Dig This! Art and Black LA 1960–1980," exploring African American art experience.
3726 via W Magazine


Larry Gagosian is closing the two-year-old Gagosian Store at 988 Madison Ave and 77th Street.
3725 via ARTINFO


Don Bachardy set out to do an LA artist portrait series with some impressive results.
3723 via ARTINFO


Rich Hendry is currently exhibiting his latest works at Sky Lounge, London.
3722 via Leps Art Advisory


Nick Cave's, For Now at the Mary Boone gallery is shocking. When you turn the corner to see the artist’s work, you stammer back in surprise. The gallery-goers are treated to about 30 "people" frozen in playful positions, covered in wild, colorful and magnificent costumes.
These costumes, or as he calls them, "soundsuits" are appropriately named considering if worn, which they can be, they would rustle and buzz with the sounds of their materials. Some are made from baskets and sticks, others are made from what looks like anything that could be found in a kids play pen or someone’s garage: small globes, pot holders, birdcages, quilts with cartoon characters, stuffed animals, and glitter. Nick Cave is African and the pieces have a tribal colorful celebratory feel. As you'll see in the video below, the pieces enhance what seems to be tribal or African style dances.
They all have a sense of movement even though they are frozen in place. Seeing as all of the pieces are full body costumes, (they cover the face, the feet, legs and arms) they erase all identity. But perhaps they erase identity in a positive way, a way of reducing any judgment on any "type" of person that could be treated differently or poorly. Instead, they become a sort of joyous theater, a theater of equals, a theater of “psychedelic, functified freak show that is an accumulation of the decades from the perspective of voodoo woo-loo.” Check it out in action below.
Terri Ciccone is the founder and editor of Contrapposto Blog and an Art Ruby contributor
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