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Episode #101: Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting “Mural” (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers and studio assistants.

Julie Mehretu’s paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings’ wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu’s delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.

Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretu

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Luca Bonetti; Travis Fitzgerald; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; and Harmony Murphy.

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A new exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art is causing discomfort among some visitors by bringing them close to nude performers — some might say too close.

Two nude performers stand inches apart in a narrow doorway of the exhibit of work by Yugoslavian-born artist Marina Abramovic, which opened on Sunday.

The position of the naked pair, who alternate and are either opposite or same-sex performers, forces patrons to decide whether to walk between them.

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Celebrity artist reveals his inspiration for the electrifying design.

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NEW YORK, March 20, 2010 – Curator Adriana Proser introduces the Asia Society Museum exhibition Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art.

For more on the exhibition please click here: http://pilgrimage.asiasociety.org/

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Gerd Harry Lybke from Galerie EIGEN+ART talks about the paintings by David Schnell with Jody van den Villaart from Art.sy at the annual Armory Show 2010 which showcases fine contemporary art around the world every year in New York City.

The Armory Show is the United States leading art fair devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its twelve years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week.

The Armory Show 2010 also features The Armory Show Modern, specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92. Pier 94 continues to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. With one ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 47, 2010 have access to the latest developments in the art world, and to the masterpieces which heralded them.

Piers 92 and 94 on 55th Street and 12th Avenue, NYC
March 4-7, 2010

http://thearmoryshow.com

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The making of the painting, “When It Rains” by Modern Primitive Expressionist artist Erik Von Ploennies from Brooklyn, NY. See more artwork and learn more about Erik at www.ErikVP.com.

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