LA art community remembers Michael Crichton as collector, LACMA ... Nov 8, 2008
Even before Crichton's Dia visit, Govan said, he had used Crichton's book on Jasper Johns for research while organizing a retrospective exhibition on 20th century light artist Dan Flavin, which premiered at Washington's National Gallery of Art in 2004. "It's a great loss; I have to say it's very, very sad," Govan said. (Los Angeles Times)
* Producing reality Sep 17, 2008
Finally, he says, I started out being interested in the American west coast movement X Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin. Then, I came across the so-called land artists X Richard Long, Hamish Fulton. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Albright-Knox adds varied collection of works Jul 17, 2008
The acquisition enhances the museum's existing holdings of artists Dan Flavin, Robert Irwin, Sol LeWitt, Anne Truitt and Robert Therrien, some of which were gifted to the gallery in 1980 by Seymour Knox Jr.. Other pieces from the Italian industrialist's collection have been sold or donated since the early 1980s to such museums as the in Los Angeles, the in New York and other museums around the world. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
For Carl Andre, beauty is in the basics Nov 27, 2007
With artists such as the late Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, he shaped the austere, tough-minded movement known as Minimalism. Partly a reaction to the emotional excess of Abstract Expressionism, it grew into an enormously influential aesthetic force that continues to reverberate. (Los Angeles Times)
Hirst is all class, even when the pupils are pickled Nov 14, 2007
Each "pupil" is illuminated by fluorescent strip lighting - another allusion, this time to Dan Flavin. "The shark represents individuality," Hirst said before last weekend's rock'n'roll opening in front of 2000 of the New York cultural elite. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Damien Hirst and Lever House: In New York, a $10 million 'School' Nov 13, 2007
There is Dan Flavin (the strips of fluorescent lighting); Warhol (the notion of repetition, as in the rows of dead sheep); Joseph Cornell (the boxes encasing the dead animals); Jannis Kounellis, who uses live birds in his work; and Ren. Magritte, who painted an egg in a birdcage. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hirst's latest leaves art world drooling Nov 10, 2007
Each "pupil" is illuminated by fluorescent strip lighting - another allusion, this time to Dan Flavin. "The shark represents individuality," Hirst says as he puts the final touches to the installation before tonight's rock'n'roll opening in front of 2,000 of the New York cultural elite. (Guardian Unlimited)
Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol Oct 31, 2007
While Dan Flavin and James Turrell are the cool minimalist and placid metaphysician, respectively, of light as a medium, Bruce Nauman plays upon its flash, gaudy allure and relationship to pop and commercial culture to challenge complacency. Readers may remember Nauman's neon piece from the 1985 Carnegie International, "Having Fun/Good Life/Symptoms," in which irony and word play mixed with spiraling rainbows of illuminated color, promising merriment and then poking the viewer's sensibilities... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Ileana Sonnabend, 92; art dealer, collector Oct 27, 2007
Displays of Conceptual and Minimal sculpture by Dan Flavin and Robert Morris, mixed-media works by German-born Anselm Kiefer, installation art by Mario Merz and other members of the Italian-based Arte Povera movement, and kitsch-inspired works by Jeff Koons suggested the range of her personal tastes. In interviews, she said she did not know how many works she owned. (Los Angeles Times)
Smithsonian Given Castelli Records Oct 20, 2007
1925), Dan Flavin (1933-1996), Frank Stella (b. 1936), Richard Serra (b. (Suite101.com)
Fidelity and Wisdom Sep 13, 2007
Whatever the theory, where insurance workers once toiled, today there is sculpture by Anselm Keifer ("Palette with Wings"), Sol LeWitt ("Splotch"), Dan Flavin ("Monument to V. Tatlin") and others. This exhibit, A Conversation in Three Dimensions: Sculpture from the Collections, is on view through May, 2008. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
Major acquisitions: Ann Hamilton's "Indigo Blue," now on view; key works by Dan Flavin, William Kentridge, Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Haacke. Major exhibitions: "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" (2002), "Marc Chagall" (2003), "Diane Arbus Revelations" (2003), "Philip Guston Retrospective" (2003), "Chuck Close: Self-Portraits" (2005), "The Art of Richard Tuttle" (2005), "Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective" (2005), "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" (2006), "Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint"... (San Francisco Chronicle)
JPMorgan and Pera Museum Partner to Tour Renowned Corporate Art Collection Aug 1, 2007
The exhibition will feature works by leading artists, including Dan Flavin, Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Several pieces are included because of their association with American pop culture, including Andy Warhol's silkscreened images of Marilyn Monroe. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hiroshi Sugimoto: At home on an ocean of time Jun 9, 2007
(In the eighties, he augmented his artist's income by dealing in Japanese antiquities artists Dan Flavin and Donald Judd were among his clients but he shut his New York gallery, Mingei, in 1990. So which one is he: The Zen monk with a camera or the shrewd businessman with a strategic eye for profit and advancement. (Globe and Mail)
Minimalist Flavin cast a lasting aura May 21, 2007
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective ... One is Dan Flavin, though there isn't a parallel story about him and hardware stores ... Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images Using standard fluorescent tubes, Dan Flavin turned some of his works into luminous corridors and walls, as seen here in the London version of his retrospective. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Huge bids smash modern art record May 17, 2007
New records were also set for artists including Richard Prince, Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis and Dan Flavin. Andy Warhol's Lemon Marilyn goes under the hammer on Wednesday. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Lighter Side Of Art On Display At LACMA May 10, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- Dan Flavin began using electric light as art in the 1960s ... "Dan Flavin wanted to create an art that was as open and accessible as anything ever," said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO. "He wanted you to be able to walk into these rooms and experience color, light, space, composition and order." ... Dan Flavin: A Retrospective opens May 13. (NBC4.tv, CA)
The material is the message at MOCA Apr 15, 2007
Then there's the late Dan Flavin, whose installations of fluorescent light bulbs will go on view May 13 in a traveling retrospective at LACMA. ... What: "Dan Flavin: A Retrospective," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.. (Los Angeles Times)
APPRECIATION Apr 13, 2007
" LeWitt's willingness to delegate execution of his work to trusted assistants gave him something like the capacity to be in several places at once. I don't know whether anyone has made a count, but LeWitt probably had more solo exhibitions worldwide than any other artist of his generation, certainly far more than anyone else producing site-specific work. Born in Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents, LeWitt credited the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford with his early education in art. Late in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Living the eternal idea Apr 12, 2007
He took a job at the book counter at the Museum of Modern Art, where he met other young artists with odd jobs there, including Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman and Robert Mangold. He noticed the nascent works of Flavin and also absorbed early art by Jasper Johns and Frank Stella. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Sol LeWitt, 78; expanded perception of art through concepts, geometry Apr 10, 2007
In the early 60s, he took a job as a night receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art, where his fellow employees included Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin, and Robert Mangold, artists who would also become renowned for their Minimalist styles. An extremely prolific artist, Mr. LeWitt had hundreds of solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and he created more than 1,200 site-specific wall drawings. (Boston Globe)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
Among his fellow workers were the then-unknown young artists Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman, each of whom would be instrumental in the Minimalist revolution of the 1960s, and art critic Lucy Lippard, who would write many of the most influential critical essays of the period. The frontispiece dedication to Lippard's landmark 1973 book, "Six Years: The Dematerialization of Art (1966-1972)" is "For Sol.". (Los Angeles Times)
Adventurous artists of light at Hirshhorn (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Mar 3, 2007
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden shows several modern takes on light as art -- unfortunately containing only a few arresting examples -- with "Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works From the Collection." Associate curator Anne Ellegood recentlydelved into the Hirshhorn's cache of "light sculpture" and found such art from the late 1950s to today by notables Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Ivan Navarro, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Chryssa but also less impressive art by Jordan Belson and Giovanni... (Washington Times)
An oil town, refined Feb 14, 2007
free admission) houses John and Dominique de Menil's wide-ranging collection of 20th-century and ancient art, with satellite galleries devoted to Cy Twombly and Dan Flavin, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum and the famous Rothko Chapel. The Museum of Fine Arts (1001 Bissonnet St.; 713/639-7300. (CNN -- Travel)
