Art and Design, Sunday, 5 April 2020

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times. 

SCREENINGS

The Merwin Conservancy meditative video: Threshold (Meditation Edit for The Merwin Conservancy), created by Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris and The Canary Project), in collaboration with The Merwin Conservancy, in The Sitting Room, W.S. Merwin’s hand-built garden dojo deep in the Pe‘ahi Stream valley, on Maui’s north coast https://merwinconservancy.org/the-sitting-room/ 

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS,  and VIEWING ROOMS 

Simon Lee Chris Huen Sin Kan Puzzled Daydreams https://www.simonleegallery.com/ 

White Columns Cloud Memories Karen Barbour, Hannah Rose Dumes, Amanda Friedman, Austin Furtak-Cole, Erin Hunt, Emily J Kiacz, Benjamin King, Alexandra Lakin, Margaret Mousseau, Jennifer Sullivan, curated by Adrianne Rubenstein https://whitecolumns.org/sections/exhibition.php?id=1486 

Studio Museum Dozie Kanu Function organized by Legacy Russell with Yelena Keller https://studiomuseum.org/function 

Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Torino Digital Cosmos portal to multiple exhibitions: artists such as Alberto Burri, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, William Kentridge, Reinhard Mucha, Jordan Wolfson, Ed Atkins, Francis Alÿs, others  https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/mostra/cosmodigitale/?mc_cid=fa59e34745&mc_eid=7f950bce4e info@castellodirivoli.org

TALKS

Museum of Fine Arts Houston lecture: Francis Bacon: Late Paintings with Curator Alison de Lima Greene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5jdi--FlA The museum’s Youtube channel has many other events https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NtQie9JOU3tl9aMVxVQkw 

David Zwirner

panel: ‘It was like Noah’s Ark’  On Noah Davis and The Underground Museum Karon Davis, Thelma Golden, Helen Molesworth—who organized the recent exhibition of Davis’s work at David Zwirner in New York—and artist Henry Taylor https://davidzwirner.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=647ec2a4e1d9c140e5e034fb7&id=e616a7f5ca&e=8cd09520b7 

  book of conversations: What It Means to Write About Art dialogues conducted and edited by Jarrett Earnest with Holland Cotter, Darby English, and Siri Hustvedt free https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/long-reads-what-It-means-to-write-about-art?utm_source=DZN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=longreads 

IN MEMORIAM: 

Painter Suellen Rocca (1943–2020)

Photographer Victor Skrebneski (1929-2020)