Today is November 25th. The United Nations has designated today International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today beings the 16 Days of Activism, an international campaign to challenge violence against women, leading to December 10th, Human Rights Day, this year, the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In other news today, the European Union leaders approved an agreement for Britain to leave the EU, Brexit, which will later be rejected by the UK Parliament.
Today is the birthday of Henry Ware Eliot (1843), American industrialist, philanthropist, and the father of T. S. Eliot, and the death of Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (1876–1947): “A scent of evening, ineffable, bearing an obscure doubt, exquisite and tender, enters by the open window into the room where I am at work…”
Welcome to late November. Welcome to the .072nd edition of Prescriptions. Here is our review of the week in the arts.
Todd Hido
This Side of Paradise
Through cinematic narratives, Todd Hido presents a shadowy, empty exterior suburban world while Miles Aldridge presents the viewer with brightly lit garish interiors, both investigating the concept of suburbia. On view through December 15, 2018 at Huxley-Parlour.
Stanley Kubrick / 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
This in-depth exploration of the complete works of Stanley Kubrick presents over 600 items, including moving images, objects and material from the director’s personal archives and correspondence. At CCCB / Contemporary Culture Center Barcelona through March 31, 2019.
Abelardo Morell (detail) / Karl Blossfeldt (detail)
The Beauty of Lines
Through visual confrontations, the visitor is invited to experience the power of the photographic line through these masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection. Including works of Walker Evans, Cig Harvey, and Man Ray, at Property Caillebotte through December 2, 2018.
Postcommodity
Let Us Now Give Thanks
Thanksgiving in America, a nation whose founding conditioned on colonialism and a proclamation premised on the blood of the natives. The irony is something to bear. On this occasion we survey some contemporary Native American art, featuring Fritz Scholder, the artist collective Postcommodity, and others.
September Dawn Bottoms / 2019 Candidate
30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2019 / Last Call
Final week for submissions for the 10th annual 30 Under 30 Women Photographers. The 2019 group will round out 10 years and 300 photographers who will have joined with well over a million visits. Deadline is November 30, 2018.
Lorna Simpson
One Day at a Time
This exhibit uses Farber’s ideas as methodology for assembling the contemporary works of disparate artists as a means to think about time in its many dimensions, from the daily to the cosmological. Among the artists include Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans. On view through March 11, 2019 at MOCA / Museum of Contemporary Art,
Stanley Kubrick / Eyes Wide Shut (still)
RECENT PROFILES
Cig Harvey, minimalist and infectious photography alongside Walker Evans, Man Ray, and others in The Beauty of Lines; Fritz Scholder, among those surveyed for our Thanksgiving feature, Let Us Now Give Thanks; Angela Davis Johnson with her vibrant narrative portrait paintings; and reintroducing Miles Aldridge & Todd Hido in the exhibition This Side of Paradise at Huxley-Parlour; and Lorna Simpson and Wolfgang Tillmans among the collective in One Day at a Time at MOCA Los Angeles.
