White Cube Salon Archive

In this audio comissioned for White Cube Salon, former Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner, discusses the 'Hammer and Sickle' paintings of the 1970s.

Andy Warhol begun his ‘Hammer and Sickle’ series in 1975, which were first exhibited at Castelli Gallery, New York in 1977 under the generic title ‘Still Lifes’. 
 
Like Warhol’s well-known paintings of popular consumer products, the ‘Hammer and Sickle’ series highlight his ability to transform quotidian subject matter into highly charged images that reflect an adroit understanding of their role and power.

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Salon: Andy Warhol | Eric Shiner, former Director of the Andy Warhol Museum

In this audio commissioned for White Cube Salon, Contemporary and Modern Art Professor Sarah Wilson of the Courtauld Institute of Art discusses Picabia's 'Transparencies' and the influence of Romanesque frescoes.

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Salon: Francis Picabia | Sarah Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Courtauld

In this audio essay commissioned for White Cube Salon, author and curator Mark Godfrey, discusses the work 'Untitled' (2007) by David Hammons. 

In 2016, Godfrey curated ‘David Hammons: Give Me a Moment’ at The George Economou Collection. Here, he recounts his initial reaction to Hammons’ fur coats upon seeing them at L&M Arts in 2007.

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Salon: David Hammons | Mark Godfrey, Curator and Art Historian

White Cube Salon is pleased to present a work by Sophie Calle entitled ’Suite Vénitienne‘, which consists of 81 black and white photographs, texts and maps.
 
As an artist, Calle submitted herself to tasks that were profoundly unexpected, but so matter-of-fact, others had no option but to comply. Conceived in 1980, this work marks a major breakthrough for the artist, and involves Calle shadowing a subject without his prior consent. Casting a man she hardly knows as the unwitting protagonist in a game of cat and mouse, she follows his daily movements around Venice and documents them with a notebook and Leica camera, the results of which comprise the work ’Suite Vénitienne‘. Here, writing no longer serves to assert the artist’s personality, rather, it guarantees her anonymity in a game that is constantly changing.
 
Author Chris Kraus, who jokingly compared herself to Sophie Calle while she was writing the novel ‘I Love Dick’, met up with photographer and writer Juliana Halpert to discuss the lasting impact of ‘Suite Vénitienne’.

Salon: Sophie Calle | Author Chris Kraus and Artist Juliana Halpert, In Conversation

White Cube Salon is pleased to present Hirtenkopf, a large-scale oil painting by Georg Baselitz. Made in 1986, this masterwork references the artist’s earlier, iconic ‘Heroes’ paintings from the mid-1960s and portrays an inverted head engulfed by pastoral motifs. 
 
In this audio essay, the acclaimed art critic, art historian and journalist Martin Gayford guides us through the enigmatic iconographies of Hirtenkopf, which merge art historical themes with personal memories to conjure a sense of pathos and uncertainty.

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Salon: Georg Baselitz | Critic Martin Gayford on ’Hirtenkopf‘ (1986)

The June 2023 Salon presents Robert Ryman’s painting Page (1998). A perfectly square canvas, primed with an ecru base layer and animated by staccato gestures of white pigment, Page serves as a transcript of its own making, each stroke a record of the artist’s pursuit of form, space and light. An audio by Courtney J Martin discusses the purposeful structural qualities and material experimentation that elevate the work beyond what many would simply consider a white painting.
 
Courtney J Martin is the Director at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2015, Martin curated a significant exhibition of Ryman’s works at Dia: Chelsea, New York. She is also co-author of the comprehensive volume Robert Ryman, published by Yale University Press in 2017.

Salon: Robert Ryman | Courtney J Martin of the Yale Center for British Art, on ‘Page’ (1998)

Damien Hirst - Away from the Flock

Explore selected works in the Broad collection with commentary by the people who built it - founders Eli and Edythe Broad and founding director Joanne Heyler.

More information is available on our website: http://www.thebroad.org/art/anselm-kiefer/n%C3%BCrnberg 

Image © Anselm Kiefer
Douglas M. Parker Studio, Los Angeles

Anselm Kiefer - Nürnberg, 1982

In a discussion chaired by the RA’s Tim Marlow, Anselm Kiefer and David Chipperfield RA explore the ways in which art and architecture interact in Kiefer’s practice. Watch the video: http://bit.ly/1T3ToOQ

Anselm Kiefer in conversation with David Chipperfield

The future of archives with the Chicago-based artist, urban planner, and professor. This conversation was presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The New York Public Library Podcast

Theaster Gates—"I'm Trying to Create an Intimate Moment with Our Most Treasured Assets."

Order at: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk

Limited edition of 100 LPs pressed as a fundraiser for Cafe OTO to acquire some new equipment.

Fred Frith - Guitar, Piano 
Christian Marclay - Records and Turntables

Recorded 7 July 2012 at Cafe OTO by John Chantler & James Dunn. 
Mixed and mastered by Myles Boysen at Headless Buddha Mastering Labs.

Design by Laurent Benner, Collages by Christian Marclay.

Fred Frith & Christian Marclay - Live at Cafe OTO 2012 (ROKU004) - excerpt

The Des Moines Art Center invites you to experience moments of exploration, education, and relaxation through our two-to-three minute audio clips. Let your mind spend time in our galleries; focus on a single artwork or listen to several tracks in a row creating a mini-tour. In this Museum Moments audio tour, Director of Security and Visitor Experience Brett Neiderhauser discusses David Hammons’ Untitled (Basketball Drawing).

David Hammons, (American, born 1943)
Untitled (Basketball Drawing), 2004
Graphite on paper applied with a basketball and found copy of "Albert Einstein In His Own Words”
42 3/4 × 29 3/8 in
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 2008.50.a-.b

Museum Moments Audio Tour: David Hammons' Untitled (Basketball Drawing)

The first in a series of audio interventions for BBC Radio 4. Famous for The Clock - a 24-hour video collage - Christian Marclay's Open Air work is another feat of crafted montage-making. Familiar Radio 4 voices combine and compete in not-so-familiar ways...

More info here: http://bbc.in/13lS28T
More on the Open Initiative: http://www.artangel.org.uk/open

Open Air - Christian Marclay

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Salon: Robert Ryman | Courtney J Martin of the Yale Center for British Art, on ‘Page’ (1998)

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