From the very beginning, Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011, was always going to be the target of much contempt. An embodiment of savvy self-promotion, Damien Hirst has become the wo...
Today’s article is brought to you from our friends at the Huffington Post. Do you remember your first time you saw dry ice? Mine was in a punch bowl as part of a Halloween school dance. There was som...
It’s been said that over the course of four short years – from 1968 to 1972 – the Eugenia Butler Gallery set the bar for conceptual art in Southern California. Butler, whose own mother fled hom...
Welcome to HELP DESK, step into my office! Each week I’ll be answering your queries about making, finding, marketing, buying, selling—or any other activity related to—contemporary art. Together, we’l...
There are only so many things you can do to deal with years of oppression. In the case of former Soviet states, there is a tendency to look to humor (albeit a dark humor most often) and the absurd. T...
As part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, Daily Serving is sharing Patricia Maloney’s article Making Events of Objects on [2nd floor projects] and THE THING Quarterly in San Francisco. I...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out, 2009, installed at MoMA. “A kiss puts form into slow and stretchy motion,” writes Sylv...
An exhibition of two adjoining shows by Slavs and Tatars and Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan is on at Kiosk, Ghent till 22 January 2012, featuring works that deal with interpretations and ...
Stan Douglas, Flame, 1947, 2010. Digital silver print mounted on Dibond aluminum. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York To make the images for Midcentury Studio, a selection of which are at...
#Hashtags: Viral Thoughts on Politics, Arts, and Culture #Hashtags provides a platform for longer reconsiderations of artworks and art practices outside of the review format and in new contexts. Plea...
Since the invention of the motion pictures, films have captivated their viewers. Today we pay tribute to the innovation of precedents such as Stan VanDerBeek, and look forward to the innovators of no...
Bibiana Suárez, Aves raras (mexicanos) no. 1 / Strange Birds (Mexicans) no. 1, 2005-2011, archival inkjet print on aluminum panel (map courtesy of the University of Chicago’s Special Collections), 24...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Banks Violette, "Untitled (Church)," 2005 I have a checkered brown and white shirt with sleeves and a collar tha...
The Ozymandias Parade, 1985, Kienholz: The Signs of the Times Exhibition view. © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Photography: Norbert Miguletz When Edward Kienholz died of a heart attack aged 65 in 1996...
Damien Hirst, "Isonicotinic Acid Ethyl Ester," 2010–11. Household gloss on canvas, 99 x 147 inches. Image courtesy of Gagosian Gallery. When Lady Macbeth said “Out, damn’d spot!” she was re...
So, normally the weekly look back into the DS articles delves deeper into archives…today could more aptly be described as ‘From a Few Weeks Ago.’ The article chosen is Agitated Hist...
On my first interview for graduate school, I unerringly identified each slide shown to me: Warhol, Matisse, Pollock, Smithson. I left confident for my next interview the following day. I waltzed into...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley An image Miranda Grosvenor sent to a beau In one of the snapshots Miranda Grosvenor sent to her famous beaus, she appears ...
I can’t remember exactly how I found the website of Whitney Lynn—one of those following links of links things—but as soon as I saw images of her sculptures of pillow fort/military bunkers I knew I wa...
Tomás Saraceno, Cloud Cities, installation view, image courtesy Berlin Art Link This winter the Hamburger Bahnhof’s exhibitions are (mostly) devoted to artists influenced by utopian architecture, a d...
Language is a thing that can easily be something we all take for granted. Today from the DS Archives we take a look back at the exhibit TEXT/URAL from OKOK Gallery. LACMA is currently exhibiting A is...
I must admit I am often plagued by skepticism walking into ‘best of’ exhibitions – the ones, like the recent Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011: In the Presence, that promise to clairvoyantly o...
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley The Kaufmann House in Palm Springs. Photo by Tim Street-Porter. The Christmas arsonist began setting fires under cars in L...
Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Crepusculum, 2011. Photo from Video, 29:00 mins / ed. 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2011 Photo Jirí Hroník. Comprising only a large installa...
For this edition of Fan Mail, Berlin-based artist Lee Yujin has been selected from a group of worthy submissions. If you would like to be considered, please submit to info@dailyserving.com a link to ...
Judy Fiskin, "Untitled," 1974. Gelatin-silver print, 7 x 5 in. On the surface, Judy Fiskin’s tiny photographs of stucco apartment buildings (Stucco, 1973-6) and Southern California architec...
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