Index / Curating
Learning from Athens
Grace Higgins Brown reviews documenta 14, Athens, 8 April - 16 July
Plant Scenery of the World
Third in a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival, Catriona Gallagher visits Inverleith House’s new exhibition ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ 27 July - 29 October
Notes from Venice
Claire Walsh offers notes from the Venice Biennale ‘Viva Arte Viva’ 13 May - 26 November
‘The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella’: FOOTNOTES
The beginning of a series of footnotes to Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new exhibition. Text by Louise Briggs
#37 - July 2016
Notes on The Miraculous at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop [1]
Peter Amoore expands on ‘The Miraculous’ at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Essay published as part of ‘Footnoting the Archive: Endnotes’. Includes comments by Raphael Rubinstein.
Remarks: Face to Face
Collector, founder and president of the eponymous foundation in Turin, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo talks about FACE.
ENLIGHTENED COMMISSION
Curator of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival’s ‘The Enlightenments’ programme, Juliana Engberg is enthuses over the commission by Joseph Kosuth
Remarks: Art Under the Arches
Director Kendall Koppe introduces the new permanent space for artist-run gallery, Washington Garcia.
Between the Furnace and the Figure
Fiona Jardine responds to Our Objects: Contemporary Ceramics in Context, a challenging exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art
Remarks: Younger Than Jesus
Lauren Cornell, executive director, Rhizome and adjunct curator, New Museum, is co-curating the New Museum’s first triennial for emerging art.
Merlin James: Yes Yes Yes
Sherman Sam finds an uneasy longing, coupled with affirmative gesture, in the work of contemporary painter Merlin James
Remarks: 53rd Venice Biennale
Judith Winter and Graeme Domke, Dundee Contemporary Arts, discuss their selection for Scotland and Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Remarks: 2 Turin Triennial
Daniel Birnbaum, director of Portikus, Frankfurt, discusses the tasks of curating 2 Turin Triennial and the 53rd Venice Bienniale
Remarks: Visiting Spanish Curators
Javier Marroqui and David Arlandis are Spanish curators working this summer at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop on the venue’s annual show, MAGAZINE 08. Here, they discuss why they have brought togther work by artists from Spain, Crotia, Austria, Denmark and France.
#13 Spring - March 2008
Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk: Q + A
Steven Cairns talks to 5th berlin biennial (bb5) curators Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk about the city, the biennial concept and the philosophies and ideas around this edition
Report: Exhibition by Commission
Jane Neal traces the path of a new phenomenon in British art: the meteoric rise of the public commission.
Loris Gréaud: On and Off
Christophe Gallois interviews Loris Gréaud, an artist who manipulates and expands the art of exhibition-making. Following the showing of Cellar Door at the Palais de Tokyo, the ICA hosts the second version of the exhibition which brings together opera, architecture and black champagne
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Conversations
27 September–16 November, 2008, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Bart Wells Institute, Eds: Luke Gottelier & Francis Upritchard
Dent-De-Leone, 2009, £15, ISBN: 978–0-9561885–2–6
Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition)
25 September–29 November, 2009, Camden Arts Centre, London
#14 Summer - June 2008
Review