New York
Los Carpinteros at the New Museum
June 18- September 13, 1998
Los Carpinteros is a group of three sculptors from Cuba who combine simple wood structures with recycled scraps and found objects that result in witty, hybrid forms. An example of their work was presented at ARCO ( Feria de Arte Internacional en Madrid) For the New Museum exhibition, the work is based on rigid corral-type structures which act also as container for more fluid, flexible dwellings. This exhibition is organized by Senior curators at the New Museum Dan Cameron and Gerardo Mosquera

Beatriz Gonzalez @ the Museo del Barrio


Minneapolis
Art Performs Life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones @ the Walker Art Center

Recognizing the critical role of performance in 20th-century avant-garde art, Art Performs Life traces the careers of three artists who have each made a significant contribution to that history: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, and Bill T. Jones.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Merce Cunningham changed the language of contemporary dance by incorporating everyday movements into his choreography and experimenting with chance arrangements. His experiments were extended to his collaborators in music and the visual arts, breaking down the hierarchy between these disciplines and freeing dance from its traditional molds. The Cunningham Dance Company repertoire has included collaborations with major musicians as well as visual artist, as Minutiae (1954) with music by John Cage: Summerspace (1958) with set and costumes by Robert Rauschenberg: Rainforest (1968) with set by Andy Warhol and music by David Tudor: Walkaround Time (1968) with set design by Japer Johns after Marcel Duchamp; and more recent collaborations with Charles Atlas, Leonardo Drew, and Mark Lancaster.

Since Meredith Monk's early avant-garde experiments of the mid-1960s, she has forged a singular vision of performance working as director, choreographer, composer, singer, and filmmaker. A pioneer in what is now called"interdisciplinary performance" and "extended vocal technique," she has created more than 100 works that range from large-scale music theater productions to films, videos, site specific works, and installations. Art Performs Life will focus on the extraordinary marriage of performance, sound, dance, film , and art in Monk's interdisciplinary work. Included will be films, audio, sets, costumes, and storyboards from such works as 16mm Earrings (1966), Education of the Girlchild (1972) Quarry (1976) and atlas (1991)

Bill T. Jones has created more than 40 works of his own Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company as well as numerous other dance companies. Since the 1980s, he has been heralded for the sensous and often atletic style of his movement, which has been described as "sculpture in motion." His performances often transgress the traditional boundaries between public and private through the themes explored---sexuality, gender, race, spirituality, life, and death--- as well as by the use of non-artists as performers in his works. He has collaborated with video artist Gretchen Bender, composer David Cunningham, and visual arts Keith Haring.

Art Performs Life will weave together sound. movement, objects, film, and light through artifacts and reconstructions of props, stage sets allowing the viewer to experience the aesthetic dram of each artist's highly visual, performance-based work.

Miami
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation @ MAM

For those that did not see the exhibition at the List Gallery @ MIT in Boston, there is the opportunity to see it at MAM in Miami. This exhibition

Chicago
Chuch Close @ the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The exbition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York is doing its well deserved routing though imprtant museums.

Seattle
Cindy Sherman

Hood Museum
Jasper Johns

San Francisco
Alexander Calder@ SF MoMA