ArtBabble: Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie: Season 6 Preview (April 2012)

Art21 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:39:59 +0000

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Art21: First Look

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Art21

In this preview from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 episode, "Change," artist Catherine Opie discusses her on-going series, "Girlfriends," during a photo shoot for the series with swimmer Diana Nyad in her Los Angeles studio.

"Change" premieres Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

For more information on Catherine Opie, please visit:
http://www.art21.org/artists/catherine-opie

"Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season Six Trailer (2012)

Art21 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:51:06 +0000

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Art21: First Look

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Art21

Trailer for Season 6 of the Peabody Award-winning series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century." Featured artists include: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, El Anatsui, assume vivid astro focus, Lynda Benglis, Rackstraw Downes, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mangold, Catherine Opie, Mary Reid Kelley, Sarah Sze, and Tabaimo.

Season 6 premieres Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). For more information, please visit art21.org.

Hide/Seek: Portraits by Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, and Deborah Kass

National Portrait Gallery — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:02:13 +0000

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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

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National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of “Hide/Seek” and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

Conversations on Urban China: Doug Aitken & Catherine Opie

Hammer Museum — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:30:25 +0000

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HAMMER LECTURES

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Hammer Museum

Director of Critical Studies and MA/PhD programs in UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:34:46 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Catherine Opie: American Photographer
September 26, 2008–January 7, 2009

Catherine Opie confesses, “I’ve never seen the work together before,” speaking of her Surfers and Icehouses series. Both share the common narrative of “temporary communities,” as she calls them. The exhibition provided audiences with an unprecedented opportunity to examine the many interconnections between her diverse bodies of work, which, as she says, are all characterized by “these little moments that are recognizably human.”