Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama celebrates her 88th birthday today.

Jack Goldstein | The Murder

Jack Goldstein
The Murder
Los Angeles, USA: Self-published, 1977
10" vinyl EP, 33 rpm
Edition size unknown

The artists' third vinyl release is a twelve-minute long record which reportedly consists mostly of sound effects: breaking glass, pouring rain, thunder, etc .

Alex Durlak | A Report/Un Rapport

Alex Durlak
A Report/Un Rapport
Toronto, Canada: Standard Form, 2007
52 pp., 18 × 18.5 × 0.5 cm., softcover
Edition of 300

A Report/Un Rapport is a response to a report written in 1978 by the Advisory Arts Panel to the Canada Council entitled The Future of the Canada Council. The government-subsidized publication features an introduction originally written in a concrete poetry style explaining the importance of art in society. Alex Durlak has created a new layout for the text using the introduction to both critique the challenges of contemporary artistic practices and to reinvest the ideals held by the late-70’s artistic community.

Available for $15.00 CDN, from Art Metropole, here.

Patrizia Meinert | Simultanéité

Patrizia Meinert
Simultanéité
London, UK: Kaleid, 2014
30 x 29 x 3 cm.
Edition of 20

Available for €520.00, here.

Barbara Kruger | Exhibition Purse

Barbara Kruger
Exhibition Purse
Washington, USA: National Gallery of Art, 2016
11.5 x 10"
Edition size unknown


Produced to accompany the exhibition In the Tower: Barbara Kruger (September 30, 2016, -  January 22, 2017) this tote purse features Kruger's iconic text-based style with the phrase "Know nothing, Believe anything, Forget everything" on vivid red stripes.

Available from the publisher, here, for $25.00.

Cary Leibowitz Artforum Interview

"I'm still surprised that this exhibition made it into existence", Cary Leibowitz tells Artforum's Alex Jovanovich for this week's 500 Words. "The curator of the show, Anastasia James, is about the same age as some of my work!" Museum Show, which opened in January and continues at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco until June 25th, is Leibowitz’s first-ever solo museum exhibition and midcareer survey. The show covers covers nearly thirty years of the artist’s output.

"Putting the show together was nerve-racking, but exciting. I was kind of happy with some of the older pieces. But there was another part of me that kept thinking, Oh my god, I barely changed in thirty years. Admittedly, I was embarrassed about looking at all my old work. I was also embarrassed at how badly I treated a lot of it. I had so much art shoved into the basement of my house from a million years ago. Then all of a sudden, when I needed to excavate and get it all out of there, it’s moldy and crapped-up. I was like, “Oh well, I guess this thing and that thing are going into the garbage.” Thankfully I didn’t need to get anything fixed or cleaned up—I make multiples and often have massive quantities of a single piece."

Read/watch the full interview, here: https://www.artforum.com/words/#entry66976