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BOCHNER: © MEL BOCHNER THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE NEW YORK DAILY EDITION 11-13 May <strong>2013</strong> 15 CALENDAR Frieze New York <strong>2013</strong> Listings are arranged alphabetically by category FAIRS Collective Design Fair Pier 57, New York UNTIL 11 MAY www.collectivedesignfair.com Cutlog New York 107 Suffolk Street, New York UNTIL 13 MAY www.cutlogny.org Frieze New York Randall’s Island, New York UNTIL 13 MAY www.<strong>frieze</strong><strong>new</strong><strong>york</strong>.com New <strong>Art</strong> Dealers Alliance Pier 36 at Basketball City, New York UNTIL 12 MAY www.<strong>new</strong>artdealers.org Pool <strong>Art</strong> Fair Flatiron Hotel, 9 West 26th Street UNTIL 12 MAY www.poolartfair.com Pulse New York Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York UNTIL 12 MAY www.pulse-art.com/<strong>new</strong>-<strong>york</strong> MUSEUMS Americas Society <strong>Art</strong> Gallery 680 Park Avenue Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges UNTIL 20 JULY www.americas-society.org Asia Society 725 Park Avenue Season of Cambodia UNTIL 16 JUNE www.asiasociety.org Bronx Museum of the <strong>Art</strong>s 1040 Grand Concourse Joan Semmel: the Lucid Eye UNTIL 9 JUNE www.bronxmuseum.org Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn John Singer Sargent Watercolours UNTIL 28 JULY Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui UNTIL 4 AUGUST LaToya Ruby Frazier: a Haunted Capital UNTIL 11 AUGUST Käthe Kollwitz: Prints from the “War” and “Death” Portfolios UNTIL 10 NOVEMBER Life, Death and Transformation UNTIL 18 JANUARY 2014 www.brooklynmuseum.org Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street Giosetta Fioroni: l’Argento UNTIL 2 JUNE www.drawingcenter.org El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue Super Real: Alternative Realities in Photography and New Media UNTIL 19 MAY Voces y Visiones IV: Presencia UNTIL 31 DECEMBER www.elmuseo.org Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street Piero della Francesca in America UNTIL 19 MAY <strong>The</strong> present and future of the Jewish Museum <strong>The</strong> deputy director, Jens Hoffmann, on Jack Goldstein and beyond <strong>The</strong> Jewish Museum may not be the first place you think of in New York to see contemporary art but the institution is increasingly shaking off its image as a traditional repository of historic items and engaging with the art and culture of our time. Opening this week is a retrospective (until 29 September) devoted to the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein, tracing the influence of his paintings, films, installations and sound recordings on the so-called “Pictures Generation” of the 1970s and 1980s, which included Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo. Throughout the run of the show, the museum’s <strong>new</strong> deputy director, Jens Hoffmann, will oversee a wideranging series of talks and events that will help to consolidate the institution’s <strong>new</strong>ly expanded identity. Hoffmann joined the museum last November, but this is the first exhibition in which he has been able to stretch his curatorial muscles. “When I came, I started working on the Jack Goldstein show because I’m familiar with the work and with most of the artists who come from his circle, so it was easy for me to put together a programme around him,” Hoffmann says. “Holistic” programming Hoffmann, who has worked as a curator for more than 15 years and, for a while, seemed to have a hand in every international contemporary art biennial, came to the Jewish Museum from San Francisco, where he was the director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>s. In New York, he joined Claudia Gould, who was previously at the helm of the Institute of Contemporary <strong>Art</strong> in Philadelphia and took over as the director of the Jewish Museum in November 2011. In a recent profile in the New York Times, Gould described part of Hoffmann’s job as creating “holistic” interdisciplinary programming. “I have a lot of diverse interests,” Hoffmann says, revealing that, in addition to his curating, he is involved in the museum’s Jewish Film Festival, which opens next January. “I am, of course, also thinking about the exhibitions at the museum that are perhaps less contemporary-minded and more historical, or perhaps even going in a different direction of more cultural history, which is another area I’m interested in. I think what Claudia meant by ‘holistic’ is really trying to look at all of these different aspects,” he says. For the Goldstein exhibition, Hoffmann with Mel Bochner’s <strong>The</strong> Joys of Yiddish, 2012 (above), and Laurie Simmons’s Cibachrome print Purple Woman/Kitchen, 1978 Hoffmann has organised a “crossgenerational” programme of talks to show the spread of the artist’s career. This includes a discussion of Goldstein’s historical significance with Douglas Crimp, the curator of the 1977 “Pictures” exhibition that gave a name to that generation of artists; a conversation between the artists R.H. Quaytman and John Baldessari, who taught Goldstein at the California Institute of the <strong>Art</strong>s in the 1970s; and a day-long symposium in September that will bring together many of the artists Goldstein worked with during the 1970s and 1980s, along with younger artists who have been influenced by him. <strong>The</strong>y include Robert Longo, “We’re thinking about how to use the building in other ways” Morgan Fisher, Matt Mullican, Troy Brauntuch, James Welling and Kathryn Andrews. “We’re trying to look at Goldstein from various angles. It’s quite extensive, but I think that’s where we want to go with [our] public programmes,” Hoffmann says. After the Goldstein exhibition, he says, the museum will stage a retrospective of the cartoonist <strong>Art</strong> Spiegelman, best known for writing and illustrating Maus, a Holocaust survivor story in graphic-novel format. “That, again, will have a huge range of public programmes that we’re beginning to work on right now,” Hoffmann says. From cartoons to Chagall <strong>The</strong> museum will follow up that show with an exhibition about Marc Chagall and his time in New York. “It’s really interesting to me to think about how we can make a show about Chagall relevant for a younger audience, or an audience that’s used to contemporary exhibitions,” Hoffmann says. He uses the current installation by the contemporary artist Barbara Bloom, which incorporates historic objects from the museum’s collection, as an example of how the institution “would like to move forward with a very particular sensibility in terms of the installation, which in my opinion is very contemporary”. Hoffmann says the museum does not intend to let contemporary art take over, however. “Curatorial practice has evolved a lot, and many of these innovations have taken place in the field of contemporary art. My desire here is to see how we can apply certain ideas and concepts of contemporary curating to more historical exhibitions, or to how we present our collection in the future.” To achieve this, the museum is in the middle of a strategic plan, Hoffmann reveals. “It’s a little early to say exactly what we’re going to do, but I know that in the foreseeable future we’re going to start thinking about how to use the building in other ways.” This will affect the temporary exhibition programme and the permanent collection, which Hoffmann will be involved in reinstalling. “I think that we will see the results of all of this in four to five years,” he says. Helen Stoilas • “Jack Goldstein x 10,000” was organised by the Orange County Museum of <strong>Art</strong> and guest curator Philipp Kaiser. <strong>The</strong> Jewish Museum presentation has been organised by assistant curator Joanna Montoya <strong>The</strong> Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark UNTIL 16 JUNE www.frick.org Grey <strong>Art</strong> Gallery New York University, 100 Washington Square East Alice Aycock: Drawings UNTIL 13 JUNE www.nyu.edu/greyart High Line Gansevoort Street to West 34th Street Oscar Muñoz, Re/trato, 2003 UNTIL MAY Superflex, Modern Times Forever UNTIL 19 JUNE El Anatsui, Broken Bridge II UNTIL AUGUST Virginia Overton, Untitled UNTIL AUGUST Busted UNTIL APRIL 2014 Carol Bove, Caterpillar UNTIL MAY 2014 www.thehighline.org Japan Society 333 East 47th Street Edo Pop: the Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints UNTIL 9 JUNE www.japansociety.org Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom UNTIL 4 AUGUST R.B. Kitaj: Personal Library UNTIL 13 SEPTEMBER Jack Goldstein x 10,000 UNTIL 29 SEPTEMBER www.thejewishmuseum.org Mad Sq <strong>Art</strong> Madison Square Park Orly Genger: Red, Yellow and Blue UNTIL 8 SEPTEMBER www.madisonsquarepark.org/art Metropolitan Museum of <strong>Art</strong> 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity UNTIL 27 MAY At War with the Obvious: William Eggleston UNTIL 28 JULY Punk: Chaos to Couture UNTIL 14 AUGUST Photography and the American Civil War UNTIL 2 SEPTEMBER African <strong>Art</strong>, New York and the Avant-Garde UNTIL 2 SEPTEMBER MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City Expo 1: New York 12 MAY-9 SEPTEMBER www.ps1.org Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue Matthew Barney: Drawings UNTIL 2 SEPTEMBER www.themorgan.org Museum of <strong>Art</strong>s and Design 2 Columbus Circle Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>, Craft CONTINUED ON PAGE 16