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Grackle

Grackle is an at-a-glance database of modern and contemporary art exhibitions available for tour.

http://www.grackleworld.com

We are pleased to announce the launch of http://www.grackleworld.com . Grackle is an online database of exhibitions available for tour. Curators may search the database for exhibitions by available floorspace, dates of availability, price, and most recent posts. Searching the database is free.

To add an exhibition to the database, curators may purchase an annual membership that allows for multiple posts, or pay for a single post. Educational and non-profit institutions may receive discounts. Grackle provides a password-accessed template that facilitates quick uploading of images and relevant information about exhibitions. Curators can access their posts at any time to edit or add material. Additionally, they may e-mail posts as links to colleagues.

Every month the Grackle team selects an artist to feature independent of the exhibitions on the database. A work by the featured artist appears on Grackle’s homepage.

For more information about Grackle, please visit www.grackleworld.com or contact Regine Basha or Christopher K. Ho at info@grackleworld.com.

Special thanks to the inaugural group of institutions and curators with posts on http://www.grackleworld.com:

INSTITUTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum
Art Center Basel
Arthouse at the Jones Center
artwurl.org
6a Biennial do Mercorsul, Porto Allegre
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Cooley Gallery, Reed College
Japan Society, New York
List Gallery, Swarthmore College
Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University
San Jose Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Schroeder Romero Gallery
Stadtische Kunsthalle Munich
Triangle Project Space
Tweed Museum of Art
UB Art Gallery, University of Buffalo
Weatherspoon Art Museum

CURATORS
Uli Aigner
Beverly Adams and Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
Kelly Baum
Gerry Beegan
Annette DiMeo Carlozzi
Bill Carroll and Andrea Packard
Cassandra Coblentz
Susanna Cole & Erin Donnelly
Elizabeth Dunbar
Xandra Eden
Sandra Q. Firmin
Miki Garcia
Dr. Suzanne Greub
Dr. Thierry Greub
Kaytie Johnson
Julie Joyce
Marilu Knode
Carlos Motta
JoAnne Northrup
Sara Jo Romero
José Ruiz
Lisa Schroeder
Eric C. Shiner
Stephanie Snyder
John Spiak
Ken Bloom and Peter Spooner
Pelin Uran
Ursula Dávila-Villa

For more information go to: http://www.grackleworld.com

ArtReview

Cajoling, badgering, interrupting, disturbing – this month ArtReview visits artists hard at work on big summer projects for the Venice Biennale, MoMA, the Schaulager and Gagosian.

On newsstands from 17 May
(US distribution subject to overseas delivery)

We publish the profound insights of Robert Gober, a man willing to answer all but one of our questions. Jeff Koons lowers his guard. And voices from across the creative spectrum answer the question: ‘What does Tracey Emin mean to you?’

Plus Sophie Calle, David Altmejd, Isa Genzken, Chéri Samba and all that Venice has to offer.

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“Where do I stand? What do I want?” – Thomas Hirschhorn

Coming this August – ArtReview:Annual. For the first in ArtReview’s new series of annual collector’s editions, internationally renowned artist Thomas Hirschhorn is creating an exclusive artwork across the entire August issue. In this uniquely personal production, the Swiss artist will investigate, through drawings and collage, the inspirations, aspirations and motivations that drive his work.

The ArtReview:Annual is available only to subscribers to the print edition of ArtReview, and through specialist bookshops worldwide.

To subscribe to the print version of ArtReview, visit http://www.artreview.com

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Highlights from the June issue of ArtReview magazine:

Maybe it was the hulking presence of a badly dressed, testosterone-drunk superman with military-green skin, but Jeff Koons was unsilenceable. Mark Rappolt listened in.

Sophie Calle, representing France at the Venice Biennale, has a few complaints about artist profiles, so our writer, Brian Dillon, decided to impersonate her. All the better to understand a work whose origins lie in an ex-lover’s goodbye.

Robert Gober, one of America’s great living artists, has a major retrospective at the Schaulager, a rarity for a man whose preference has always been to “wander into new work” before spending time and energy looking back. So, writes Martin Herbert, if you want to see a sizeable collection of Gober’s work anytime soon, you need to make your way to Basel this summer.

Gober’s not the only New York giant looking back this summer: Jonathan T.D. Neil meets with Richard Serra as MoMA installs the sculptor’s Forty Years retrospective

Object? Installation? Luxury boutique display? David Altmejd makes sculpture, but not as we know it. J.J. Charlesworth meets up with the artist as he puts together The Index at the Canadian Pavilion in Venice, a macabre vision incorporating werewolf parts, ‘bird-men’ and the glitter and sparkle of precious metals.

ArtReview Biennale focus: 18 pages of Tracey Emin, Robert Storr, the off-site pavilions, Congo’s modern-day Hogarth and much more.

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ArtReview:Digital – same magazine, just digital.
Now in its eighth month, ArtReview’s digital twin has 13,000+ subscribers and more than 400,000 page views per month, reaching a global market: Russia, Asia, Europe, the Americas… Essential reading for those who want a bit of opinion with their art, ArtReview:Digital lets you view the magazine when, where and how you feel like it.

Get your FREE digital issues… including an indispensable double summer issue for your carry-on (July/August), the new art season (September), the photography edition (October) and the Power 100 (November) at http://www.artreviewdigital.com

For more information go to: http://www.artreview.com

Portikus

Salty Water
Paulina Olowska

What of Salty Water
Bonnie Camplin

Opening: May 25, 2007, 8pm
Exhibition on view: May 26, 2007 – July 1, 2007

Press talk: May 25, 2007, 11am

This shared installation is a seamless and simultaneous coexistence of two: “Salty Water” by Paulina Olowska and “What of Salty Water” by Bonnie Camplin.

It’s an intricate configuration of made and gathered objects and images, a product of collaboration and a shared extemporaneous (free fall) voyage and a way into comprehending the modern world and coming to terms with the consequences and manifestations of industrialization and free market economy. Also it’s an intense meditation on the nature of trade, exchange and trust. This includes sex trade and how it incorporates versions of solidarity and collaboration between women. As both artists view themselves as women workers, they consider how this relates to their position as professional artists.

Collaboration between us has been based on working with two points of departure, one is very personal memory based reference and one is an outsider’s view of myths and symbols. Both artists can inhabit both of these positions in relation to themselves and each other. Olowska is from Gdansk and Camplin is from London. Solidarnosc and Colonial history are obvious examples of symbolic and direct influences on the artists.

A boat was found and became a kind of stage onto which were gathered various bits of the haul from our shared venture. Memories in the fabric of the boat/stage of imagined female personalities who embarked on an epic voyage now washed up wrecked in interior space by a wall that also tells stories of misadventure. Apparently our protagonists have passed through psychic spaces where there are no laws of exterior/interior or of scale (like in Gulliver’s Travels). The installation is a haunted and moody theatrical tableau that sparkles faintly in the dark just like the glitter of putrescence.

A performance will take place on the day of the opening.

A publication will accompany this exhibition at the Portikus (scheduled to appear in late July, 2007).

For further information or guided exhibition tours please contact Portikus: info@portikus.de

PORTIKUS
Alte Brücke 2 Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Telephone +49 69 962 44 54-0
Facsimile +49 69 962 44 54-24

For more information go to: http://portikus.de/