PREVIEW U.S. SHORTS.IN THE VAST POST-FORMALIST LAND-scape, a Robinsonade: Artists wandering the shifting sands of digital reality create their own oases in "Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World" (Mar. 9-May 20). Curated by Kristin Chambers at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Andrea Zittel, Jorge Pardo, Gregor Schneider, and others set up camp in interstitial zones negotiated by recombining art and life practices. There's a good chance this show will be a far cry from "Perfect Acts of Architecture," a show of 130 drawings from 1977-87 at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Jan. 27-Apr. 15)--for who cares less about comfort than jet-set architects (Libeskind, Eisenman, Tschumi, and others)? The MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology List Visual Arts Center's "Inside Space: Experiments in Redefining Rooms" (Jan. 27-Apr. 8) promises to be similarly fantastic: Monica Bonvicini, Oona Stern, Henrik Olesen, and others aim to disorient dis·o·ri·ent tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation. Verb 1. the visitor with wood-grain carpets, hollow walls, and fathomless fath·om·less adj. 1. Too deep to be fathomed or measured. 2. Too obscure or complicated to be understood. fath closets. Mondrian, of course, never got lost in a wardrobe--though he was stranded, in a way, on arriving in New York in 1940. His great passage will be documented by Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk of Harvard's Straus Center for Conservation in "The Transatlantic Paintings," in which the curators will train X rays and ultraviolet light on fifteen late paintings to reveal the works in progress (Harvard University Art Museums The Harvard University Art Museums are the Fogg Art Museum, which specializes in Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which specializes in art of Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. , Apr. 28-July 22). Alexis Rockman, on the other hand, would rather use art to get at the stuff of science. He promises to track cross-pollinating species at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (Apr. 27-Aug. 19). Combining these approaches, Olafur Eliasson will use elementary science to create a series of installations in water, ice, and light for his first major US museum show, at the Boston ICA Ica (ē`kä), city (1993 pop. 108,724), capital of Ica dept., SW Peru, on the Pan-American Highway. It is a commercial center for the cotton, wool, and wine produced in the region. There are several summer resorts nearby. (Jan. 24-Apr. 1). There'll be more cross-pollination when the ice melts at the ICA, making way for three major simultaneous shows (Apr. 18-July 1): "One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects," an exhibition of Marlene Dumas's drawings and eight new paintings (two other canvases will be included in "Painting at the Edge of the World" at the Walker Art Center from February 10 to May 6); "Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits" (the photographer has her first solo US museum show at the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by from March 2 to July 29); and "Laylah Ali," consisting of gouache-and-ink "Greenheads" and new work (Ali will be included in the "Try This On" series at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, from February 10 to May 6). Not to be outdone, the MIT List Center mounts separate shows of Paul Pfeiffer, Johan Grimonprez, and Isaac Julien between April 17 and July 1. The Drawing Center heads up this spring's revivals with one of Rabelaisian proportions: "Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor" will include about ninety works on paper from 1880-95 (Apr. 27-July 21). And the ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. , New York, weighs in with "Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer" (and, at the same time, new work by Kiki Smith) from March 29 to June 10. Reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. of more recent work will include AA Bronson, on his own and with General Idea (MCA MCA in full Music Corporation of America Entertainment conglomerate. It was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Jules Stein as a talent agency. In the 1960s it bought Decca Records and Universal Pictures, and today it produces films, music, and television shows. , Chicago, Jan. 27-Apr. 22), LA artist Bruce Yonemoto, to show recent video installations at the ICA Philadelphia (Feb. 24-Apr. 22), and Belgian painter Raoul de Keyser Raoul De Keyser is a Belgian painter, born in 1930, who lives and works in Deinze (Belgium). Since 1964, the Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser has been building a highly personal body of work that is difficult to categorize. (Renaissance Society, Chicago, Mar. 11-Apr. 22). Other notable new work: projects by Katharina Fritsch (Mar. 3-May 27) and Gilbert & George (Feb. 3-May 20) at the MCA; Janine Antoni at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefleld, CT (Jan. 21-May 20); and Dara Friedman (Feb. 10-may 27) and Erika Wanenmacher (Mar. 31-May 27) at SITE Santa Fe. |
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