November 17, 2010–February 28, 2011
Artist Paula Hayes talks about inspirations for her installation Nocturne of the Limax Maximus at the Museum of Modern Art.

Images courtesy of Paula Hayes. Fabrication footage courtesy of Teo Camporeale. YouTube footage courtesy of Martin Schneider.Special thanks to Teo Camporeale, John Gray, James Mongrain Studio, Colbar Art, and Digital Atelier.
© 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

With Pure Views—a special installation by some of China's most world-renowned contemporary artists (on view April 19-21) as the focal point for the evening, four of the featured artists (Hong Lei, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun, Zhou Chunya), along with critic Liu Chun and curator Lu Peng—will gather in a lively panel discussion about art in China today.

Join MATCHA for excerpts from Makrokosma Bali, a new work from composer Wayne Vitale in collaboration with Sekaa Gong Taruna Mekar—a renowned gamelan ensemble from Bali under the direction of I Made Arnawa—and US-based visual and set designers. The work combines new music for gamelan orchestra with projected video and still imagery, digital-audio soundscapes, and an integrated lighting and set design. Makrokosma Bali contrasts the cultural values and cosmology of Bali with those of Western origin, exploring a range of scales from macro (galaxies) to micro (a human cell).

Get a behind-the-scenes look at this history and creation of this dazzling textile, the only one of its kind in the world, made from the strands of silk from over one million of Madagascar’s golden orb spiders. On view at the Art Institute of Chicago through October 2011.

In June 2011, GALLERY CRAWL interviewed Aaron Terry about his RESISTANCE TO THE INDIGNITIES OF MODERN LIFE show at Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco.

Author, scientist, and animal welfare advocate Temple Grandin brings a unique perspective to the IMA’s Planet Indy series. She describes visual ways of processing experience and how her own thinking as a person living with Autism led her to become the designer of more humane livestock handling facilities throughout North America. The animals in these facilities are calm and comfortable; they die a swift, painless death. The result is meat that many experts believe to be healthier for the people who consume it.

In January 2011, GALLERY CRAWL interviewed Gallery Hijinks owner, Jillian Mackintosh, along with artists Martin Machado and Aleksandra Zee about their current exhibition, AS IT WAS BEFORE.

Get an inside look as David Brenneman, Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Francis B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, talks about Titian's "Diana and Callisto," one of the paintings featured in the current exhibition at the High Museum, "Titian & The Golden Age of Venetian Painting."