frieze new york 2013, issue 2 - The Art Newspaper

PHOTOS: CHRISTINE MCMONAGLE. BOCHNER: © MEL BOCHNER
THE ART NEWSPAPER FRIEZE NEW YORK DAILY EDITION 11-13 May 2013 15
CALENDAR
Frieze New York 2013
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.friezenewyork.com
New Art Dealers Alliance
Pier 36 at Basketball City,
New York
UNTIL 12 MAY
www.newartdealers.org
Pool Art 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/new-york
MUSEUMS
Americas Society
Art 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 Arts
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
The present and future
of the Jewish Museum
The deputy director, Jens Hoffmann, on Jack Goldstein and beyond
The 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 new
deputy director,
Jens Hoffmann,
will oversee a wideranging
series of
talks and events that
will help to consolidate
the institution’s newly
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 Arts. In New York, he
joined Claudia Gould, who was previously
at the helm of the Institute of
Contemporary Art 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 The 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 Arts 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. They 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 Art 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
The 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 Art and guest
curator Philipp Kaiser. The Jewish Museum
presentation has been organised by assistant
curator Joanna Montoya
The Impressionist Line from
Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec:
Drawings and Prints from
the Clark
UNTIL 16 JUNE
www.frick.org
Grey Art 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 Art
Madison Square Park
Orly Genger: Red, Yellow
and Blue
UNTIL 8 SEPTEMBER
www.madisonsquarepark.org/art
Metropolitan Museum
of Art
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 Art, 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 Arts
and Design
2 Columbus Circle
Against the Grain: Wood in
Contemporary Art, Craft
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