{"id":14640,"date":"2014-01-02T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=14640"},"modified":"2014-01-02T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T07:00:02","slug":"years-resolution-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com.au\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/years-resolution-art\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolution: Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do any of your New Year’s resolutions involve art in some way, shape or form? If not, get yourself off to a good start by planning to see at least one of these highly anticipated art exhibits this year. Below are highlights from thedailybeast.com’s Blake Gopnik’s list of 20 Most-Anticipated Art Exhibits in 2014<\/a>. Blake says: “It seems that art has gone Hollywood these days, with record-breaking prices and long gallery lines. But a series of shows in 2014 is set to shake us out of our consumerist complacency.” Happy 2014 to you, from your friends at Zatista.com!<\/p>\n

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Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like\u2122, organized by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner<\/p><\/div>\n

1. St. Louis, MO\u00a0Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like at Contemporary Art Museum
\nJanuary 24\u2013April 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artists A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman have come together in a curatorial collective called Ridykeulous, and they\u2019ve organized this show of \u201cemotionally charged works by over forty artists and activists\u201d who are \u201cprimarily concerned with queer and feminist art.\u201d We are also promised \u201cangry letters and diatribes\u201d by the likes of Tracey Emin, Donald Judd, Carolee Schneeman, Kara Walker, and David Wojnarowicz.<\/p>\n

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Image: Tom Marioni, Morales Interrupted<\/p><\/div>\n

2. Santa Fe, NM Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art at SITE SantaFe
\nFebruary 1\u2013May 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

For something like the last 80 years, artists have made art about\u2014and with\u2014food. This exhibition, originally put together by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, surveys the history of \u201cartist-orchestrated meals\u201d that offer \u201ca radical form of hospitality that punctures everyday experience,\u201d and that breed new kinds of social engagement. Italian Futurists Gordon Matta-Clark, Marina Abramovi\u0107, and Rirkrit Tiravanija are among the gastronomes surveyed.<\/p>\n

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Image: Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, negative 1944; print 1981. Ansel Adams (American, 1902\u20131984). Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin in Memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon. \u00a9 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Los Angeles, CA In Focus: Ansel Adams at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
\nMarch 18\u2013July 20<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a survey of the photos that Adams himself most prized. His gorgeous images of nature may seem the opposite of political, but it\u2019s worth remembering that Adams was one of this country\u2019s earliest and most ardent conservationists.<\/p>\n

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Image: Tim Portlock, Sunrise, 2011, archival pigment print 72 x 54 inches.<\/p><\/div>\n

4. Philadelphia, PA Ruffneck Constructivists at Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
\nFebruary 12\u2013August 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kara Walker, whose famous silhouettes poke at the issues of race that still bedevil the U.S., has organized this group show of contemporary works that \u201crespond aggressively to social inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image: 21c Museum. Empire, 2010. Oil on linen, 96 x 132 in. Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c Museum Hotel \u00a9 Steve Mumford<\/p><\/div>\n

5. Nashville, TN Steve Mumford\u2019s War Journals, 2003-2013 at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts
\nFebruary 28\u2013June 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mumford uses the apparently tame, traditional media of watercolors and pencil sketches, all done from life, to confront the troubled situations Americans have bred in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n

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Image by Eleanor Antin<\/p><\/div>\n

6. Boston, MA Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin\u2019s \u201cSelves\u201d at The Institute of Contemporary Art
\nMarch 19\u2013July 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antin is one of the greats in Feminist and political art. This show looks at the various personas she\u2019s adopted and portrayed while taking on the social issues of our time.<\/p>\n

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Image: David Hartt, For Everyone a Garden<\/p><\/div>\n

7. Pittsburgh, PA David Hartt: Stray Light at Carnegie Museum of Art
\nMay 17\u2013August 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an exhibition opening in May in Pittsburgh, Hartt\u2019s video and photographs are all about the Johnson publishing empire in Chicago, which produced Ebony and Jet and other magazines crucial to Black identity in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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Image: Jeff Koons, Moon (Light Pink) 1995-2000<\/p><\/div>\n

8. New York, NY Jeff Koons: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
\nJune 27\u2013October 19<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this giant, museum-spanning show that will survey Koons\u2019s career, the market darling and popular artist will hold a mirror (or mirrored balloon dog) up to our society\u2019s obsession with sales and popularity.<\/p>\n

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Image: unknown photographer, Gandhi\u2019s Possessions, 1948<\/p><\/div>\n

9. Houston, TX Art and Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence at the Menil Museum
\nOctober 3\u2013January 11, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Menil Museum will stage the first show to look at the relationship between Gandhi\u2019s ideals and politics and the art of the cultures he came out of, and then contributed to.<\/p>\n

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