Paul McCarthy News

Park Avenue Armory announced today that the Thompson Family Foundation has given $65 million to kick-start a programming endowment that will allow the Armory to expand the range and number of groundbreaking works in the performing and visual arts it presents, as well as the scale and reach of its arts education initiatives for underserved public school students.

Park Avenue Armory today announced the appointment of Pierre Audi as Artistic Director. A critically acclaimed director and artistic director, Audi will continue to lead the Dutch National Opera, a role he has held since 1988 while also serving as Artistic Director of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam from 2004 until 2014. He previously was the founding Artistic Director of the pioneering Almeida Theatre in London. Audi will join Park Avenue Armory in October 2015 to begin planning its 2017 season.

A major new and immersive contemporary ballet -- collaboratively imagined by choreographer Wayne McGregor, visual artist Olafur Eliasson, and award-winning producer/composer Jamie xx -- makes its U.S. premiere at Park Avenue Armory this September.

A major new and immersive contemporary ballet-collaboratively imagined by choreographer Wayne McGregor, visual artist Olafur Eliasson, and award-winning producer/composer Jamie xx-makes its U.S. premiere at Park Avenue Armory this September. Inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's enigmatic and eponymous novel,Tree of Codes distorts conventional perceptions of space and time, through manipulation of light, reflection, sound, and movement. The work will be performed by a company of soloists and dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor.

Park Avenue Armory has commissioned dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and visionary director Peter Sellars to create a performance piece that evolves the tradition of flex, the Brooklyn-born street dance. Characterized by sharp, rhythmic contortion, pausing, snapping, gliding, bone-breaking, and animated showmanship, the flex form evolved from the Jamaican bruk-up style popular in the dance halls and reggae clubs of Brooklyn in the 1990s. Opening today, March 25 and marking the first major presentation of the Armory's 2015 artistic season, FLEXN transforms the dance from its individual, combative style to create a collaborative work of social commentary inspired by both personal experience and current events. A series of public discussions and education initiatives complement the presentation.

Hauser & Wirth is delighted to announce that Graham Steele will join the gallery as Senior Director at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in April 2015. Based in Los Angeles, Steele will lead the sales team with a focus on both primary and secondary market sales, build new client relationships and work with Hauser & Wirth's artists to manage their global presence and forge new connections. He will also have responsibility for developing and curating site-specific projects and exhibitions.

Hauser & Wirth is delighted to announce that Graham Steele will join the gallery as Senior Director at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in April 2015. Based in Los Angeles, Steele will lead the sales team with a focus on both primary and secondary market sales, build new client relationships and work with Hauser & Wirth's artists to manage their global presence and forge new connections. He will also have responsibility for developing and curating site-specific projects and exhibitions.

FREEZER BURN is a group exhibition organized by Rita Ackermann. It draws its title from the very antithesis inherent to the making and the experience of art.

FREEZER BURN is a group exhibition organized by Rita Ackermann. It draws its title from the very antithesis inherent to the making and the experience of art.

Artist Paul McCarthy has been the butt of backlash after his giant green sculpture resembling a sex toy was vandalized in Paris last week.

Trusty Sidekick Theater Company (TSTC) will perform back-to-back presentations of two original immersive productions created for school and family audiences, presented during the Company's time as Artists-in-Residence at Park Avenue Armory.

Dear Friends, Three men all living and working in Los Angeles, all making obsessive amounts of drawings. In the Studio, at the mountain cabin, at the dinner table. The drawing takes over, the drawings provide space for thought, they provide inspiration for new work, they are the new work. Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawings brings together the drawings of Naotaka Hiro, Benjamin Weissman, and Paul McCarthy. Each artist has a unique vision; yet the exhibition showcases similarities, shared interest in the human form and the human psyche.

Iwan Wirth, president and owner of Hauser & Wirth, the internationally acclaimed gallery of contemporary art and modern masters with exhibition spaces in Zurich, London, and New York, announced today the company's new Los Angeles venue will be located at 901 East 3rd Street, in a historic 100,000 square foot flour mill complex in the city's burgeoning downtown Arts District. Under the direction of partner Paul Schimmel, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will transform the site's sprawling collection of late 19th and early 20th century buildings and outdoor spaces into a dynamic multi-disciplinary arts center. The new venue will offer innovative exhibitions, museum-caliber amenities, and a robust schedule of public programs that contextualize the art on view, drawing upon, illuminating, and contributing to the urban culture of L.A. Like Hauser & Wirth Somerset, the gallery's exhibition and outdoor art facility opening in July 2014 on the historic Durslade Farm at the edge of the ancient town of Bruton in southwest England, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel proposes a new paradigm for the 21st century art gallery.

Attempting to achieve the most lifelike portrayal of the human figure, Renaissance artists of the 15th and 16th centuries became self-taught anatomists by necessity. Later, in the 17th century, anatomy lessons became organized events, held in lecture rooms that served as theaters for the students who assembled for demonstrations. The general public, transfixed by the wonders and terrors of the body, were permitted to attend upon payment of an entrance fee.

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, March 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ UK Publisher Bennion Kearny is delighted to announce the publication of Golf Tough a state-of-the-art and inventive new approach to golfing performance by world-renowned author and Sport Psychologist, Dan Abrahams.

Beginning today, 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch.

Beginning 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch. A celebration of Onnasch's longstanding passion for art and collecting, 'Re-View: Onnasch Collection' is curated by Paul Schimmel, celebrated post-war scholar and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. The exhibition focuses on the period between 1950 and 1970, decades when New York's cultural influence was unrivaled and some of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century were born. On view will be iconic examples of Pop Art, Fluxus, Color Field, Assemblage, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism.

Beginning 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch. A celebration of Onnasch's longstanding passion for art and collecting, 'Re-View: Onnasch Collection' is curated by Paul Schimmel, celebrated post-war scholar and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. The exhibition focuses on the period between 1950 and 1970, decades when New York's cultural influence was unrivaled and some of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century were born. On view will be iconic examples of Pop Art, Fluxus, Color Field, Assemblage, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism.

Robert Wilson's The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic will have its U.S. premiere and its only New York performances in Park Avenue Armory's soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall, tonight, December 12 - December 21, 2013.