Museums exhibit high-tech appeal Mar 28, 2008
Visitors can also save $2 on admission if they present their MP3 player loaded with the current podcast of Scottish video artist Douglas Gordon describing how he filmed an elephant in the middle of the night for his work "Play Dead: Real Time," which was recently featured at the museum. The Chicago History Museum allows visitors to download three tours, including two of permanent exhibits and one of a special exhibition. (MSNBC -- Technology)
A match with Zidane scores cinematic goal Jan 31, 2008
What makes the film, directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, so special is its experimental concept: The entire 92-minute movie, which utilizes 17 cameras, focuses on Zidane during the course of a single game ... What: Documentary directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
The winner takes it all in Turner show Dec 7, 2007
Douglas Gordon's 24-hour Psycho isn't here either (it was considered when Gordon won in 1996, but wasn't in the Turner show) ... Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley benefit from having rooms of their own, as do the films by Douglas Gordon and Gillian Wearing, though Jeremy Deller's thought-provoking film Memory Bucket, about George Bush's home town, is relegated to an alcove ... Trends which emerge here are picked up in the art schools: Douglas Gordon, the first artist to win for video work in 1996,... (Scotsman)
Celeb Auction to Support HIV Programs Dec 6, 2007
Among the contributing artists: Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. The sale's proceeds - estimated at more than $40 million - will go to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa conducted by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, Sotheby's said Wednesday. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Galleries think big after 1m jackpot Nov 6, 2007
GoMA wanted to look at international work that would contextualise the practice of the outstanding Scottish artists - such as Douglas Gordon, Christine Borland and Simon Starling - whose work it shows. Many of these Scottish-born or Scottish-educated artists live overseas and are strongly influenced by the artists working around them. (Guardian Unlimited)
Favorite places, best picks Oct 20, 2007
There are also rotating exhibits from international artists, such as Scotland's Douglas Gordon (currently showing) and American photographer. When LaChapelle arrived for the opening-night party at MALBA a few months ago, I watched him get mobbed by local fashionistas looking for a photo-op. (MSNBC -- Travel)
The contemporary picture Aug 27, 2007
Montreal is also a good bet this fall, with a large group exhibition of electronic art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, from Sept. 20 to Dec. 9 (the show has been developed in collaboration with Montreal's cutting-edge Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology), and, at the Galerie de l'UQAM, a small exhibition of work by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon. This show will include Gordon's short film installation titled Play Dead, borrowed from the National Gallery of Canada (the... (Globe and Mail)
Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait Aug 17, 2007
Now, to art and film viewers he is at the centre of an acclaimed piece of cinema called Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno (with music by Mogwai). Currently on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the piece is at once an unconventional presentation of a soccer game, a rumination upon the individual behind the image and a compelling example of video art. (Suite101.com)
Has upstart Manchester stolen auld Edinburgh's festival glory? Jul 17, 2007
On Thursday I was amazed to see so many big-name contemporary artists, such as Douglas Gordon, Carsten Holler and Tacita Dean, together in one place. Even Manchester's biggest crowd-pleaser - the show put on by Carlos Acosta, the guest principal of the Royal Ballet - was a humdinger. (The Observer)
You're having a laugh - if only I was too Jul 15, 2007
This was 'a group show' at the old Opera House featuring performance by a gaggle of the world's headline conceptual artists, from the Scottish video maverick Douglas Gordon to Tate Modern's artificial sun king Olafur Eliasson ... Douglas Gordon offered a wonderful folk singer who interpreted Joy Division's 'Love will Tear Us Apart' on a blacked out stage; presumably running with the concept that you can't go wrong if you feed a Manchester audience its favourite lines. (The Observer)
The art of a champion Jul 10, 2007
Then, as Sarah Milroy writes, artist Douglas Gordon turned the footage into a cinematic masterpiece ... The Scottish-born artist Douglas Gordon, the winner of the Turner Prize in 1996, is largely known for his super-slow cinematic works. (Globe and Mail)
Whose art is it anyway? Jun 11, 2007
Sarah Lucas and Douglas Gordon have teamed up with international colleagues including the French star Jean-Mark Bustamente for The Hamsterwheel project, which claims to bring together "artists whose work is connected in some cryptic way". And that is even before you embark on a tour of the national pavilions for the 77 countries - a record - officially participating in the Biennale. (Scotsman)
A heady look at a soccer tough guy May 4, 2007
The game had no interest for the directors, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno ... Directed by: Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno. (Boston Globe)
A frenzy for furnitureas art Jan 22, 2007
Others have forged fertile collaborations with designers, as Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon have done with M/M (Paris). It would be cheering to attribute the sudden surge of interest in design among collectors to its intellectual dynamism, but (with a few enlightened exceptions) the explanation is more mundane. (International Herald Tribune)
Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho Dec 28, 2006
Douglas Gordon won the 1996 Turner Prize on the basis of a single work: his famous 24 Hour Psycho ... Douglas Gordon's success with 24 Hour Psycho has oddly given him the desire to remake it ... " When the artist announced he was remaking 24 Hour Psycho, loyalists to the first work were baffled, puzzled, outraged, soured, and in the mood of total rejection. Why do it? they asked. What was the idea? A host of related questions were raised, not the least of which was: what is Gordon's idea of a... (AbsoluteArts.com)
London's Frieze Serves Up Horn Installations, Chapman Brothers `Body Art' Oct 11, 2006
Gagosian of New York and London has Jeff Koons at its new West End gallery on Davies Street and Douglas Gordon at Britannia Street. There are Francis Picabia nudes -- only about four for sale -- at Zurich and London-based Hauser & Wirth's latest space on Old Bond Street and Christoph Buchel at Iwan Wirth's Coppermill in East London. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
One night for cool art (Sept. 28) Sep 28, 2006
"24 Hours 3 Stooges," at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), 952 Queen St. W. "24 Hours 3 Stooges" takes as its inspiration "24 Hour Psycho," in which Scottish artist Douglas Gordon slowed down director Alfred Hitchcock's slasher thriller to have it last for the course of an entire day. For the MOCCA projection in its courtyard, Paris-based Canadian artist Paul Collins has slowed the Three Stooges' bodily mayhem borrowed from films and TV shows down to the point that a vicious jab in... (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Three Canadians included in Berlin video-art show Sep 19, 2006
Other featured artists include Switzerland's Pipilotti Rist, France's Pierre Huyghe, Scotland's Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill and Dan Graham from the United States, and Belgium's Marcel Broodthaers. The exhibition runs through Feb. 25, 2007. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
- Ruaridh Nicoll May 21, 2006
Douglas Gordon has a show starting at MoMA in New York and a film at Cannes. Richard Wright has been working in Texas. (Guardian Unlimited)
At Cannes, boring is out, political is in May 19, 2006
dine Zidane - France's national hero - in "Zidane, Un Portrait du 21?me Si?cle" by the visual artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon. These past years, the pressure is also on to find the films that spill blood, like Bruno Dumont's "Flandres," promising carnage in the fields, or in the "Pulp Fiction" genre, Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales." The French selection includes Nicole Garcia's "Selon Charlie," an ensemble piece with Jean- Pierre Bacri, Beno. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Cannes: a user's guide May 15, 2006
Try these crossovers: the British artist Douglas Gordon co-directs a portrait of Zinedine Zidane, Zidane: un portrait, while assorted provocateurs from both film and gallery worlds get together for the (reputedly very mixed) hard-core sex anthology Destricted: directors include Sam Taylor-Wood (inset), Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Marina Abramovic and Gaspar No. And if that seems too tame, then you'll probably want to try Taxidermia - an allegedly jaw-dropping Hungarian film about murder,... (Independent)
