Beginning September 21, Pangolin London will open a group exhibition curated by artist and magazine editor Marcus Harvey. ‘Two and a half dimensions” is how Marcus Harvey describe sthe ‘gateway’ from wall based painting to sculpture. The exhibition brings together paintings whose preoccupation is with three dimensionality and floor-based sculpture.

Pangolin London’s September show features a range of artists from Sir Anthony Caro and Harry Thubron to recent graduates, which reflects Harvey’s preferred model of looking at a subject by using a cross generational mix of established and emerging practitioners.

Further artists include Adam Walker, Richard Clegg, Harry Thubron, Ian Dawson, Anthony Caro, Hew Locke, Edward Lipski, Martin Westwood, Sophie Newell, Jeremy Butler, Tina Jenkins, Corin Johnsonand Marcus Harvey.

The exhibit will run through October 29.

Pangolin London
Kings Place, 90 York Way
London N1 9AG

The Minneapolis Institute of The Arts (MIA) is showing an exhibit on modern design through September 11, featuring design and designers from the post-World War II era to the present. From the museum:

American and European designers over the last six decades have explored abstraction of form, new technologies, new materials, and adventurous colors in items for household use. This exhibition focuses on these developments through over thirty examples of furniture, industrial design, jewelry, and other consumer objects, including notable recent acquisitions. Works by Americans Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Frank Gehry, and Michael Graves, as well as Europeans Eero Aarnio, Piero Fornasetti, and Jens Quistgaard, are among the designers included.

Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
2400 3rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404-3506

Check out more images after the jump.

On view at Duke University’s Nasher Museum, Beyond Beauty presents rare photographic material dating from the 1860s to the present drawn from the school’s special collections. Part of the exhibitions purpose is to trace the history of photography from the albumin print to the digital. There’s work from the famous Matthew Brady, From Lewis Hine, and contemporary artists like Guy Tillim. The collected photographs are complimented by a book Beyond Beauty: The Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Up until October 18, 2009.

A few selected images after the jump.

Last weekend, O.H.W.O.W. opened the second stage of Michael Genovese’s It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humility. For this portion, the artist presents works that document performances that have taken place in the gallery and around his site specific sculpture since June 13. A way to view how people have interacted with Genovese’s creations, and a method of catching up with the life of the exhibition.

Reality Check, the third exhibition in the MET’s gallery for contemporary photography, explores the way photographers exploit the mediums illusionism to question what is real and what is not. Included are staged images, as well as landscapes that appear artificial. The exhibition closes on March 22, 2009, so haste is required to catch it in the flesh.

Some works are available, however on the web. For example the above, Frank Breuer’s Industrial Hall (Nike) of 2000. Here is a building that gives little indication of interior function, one of the motivating factors for Breuer’s capturing.

A few more images that caught the eye after the jump.

After the Party, an exhibition of candid Polaroids of young men by Jeremy Kost, opened on March 3 at The Dactyl Foundation in New York. The show was curated by Tom Goossens of P.S. 1 and will end on March 21, 2009. In a conversation with Adam Klappholz for Interview Magazine, Kost talks about what it is like to work with Polaroid, and his transition from office worker to full time photographer.

The Dactyl Foundation is located at 68 Grand Street, New York.

Currently on view from RISD’s Fleet Library Bedazzled covers three areas – 1. What is camouflage? 2. Dazzle camouflage. 3. RISD student work involving camouflage. The exhibition runs until March 29, 2009, with the highlight being the dazzle camouflage ship mock ups from the Library’s special collection. For more on camo, DB has a concise History of Modern Camouflage. This takes some clear inspiration, and adds to, from the brilliant camouflage show on view at the Imperial War Museum in London a few years ago.

A further example from the collection follows.

Interdisciplinary artist Ben Jones of celebrated East Coast art collective Paper Rad presents a solo show of between-media video sculpture, light painting, and “drawing in the digital age” at Deitch Projects 76 Grand Street gallery. Entitled The New Dark Age, the exhibition explores new methods of pictoral storytelling through the drawn, projected, and sculpted line.

The New Dark Age is on view from February 5 to 28, 2009 at Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, New York.

View the full poster after the jump.

“What a Wonderful World,” the largest exhibition of work by Call of the Wild duo Kai and Sunny opened yesterday at Stolen Space in London. The show is complemented by a soundtrack from Unkle’s Pablo. The work is on view until February 15, 2009.

Read on to view selected pieces from “What a Wonderful World.”

GERING & LOPEZ GALLERY is pleased to present Corrosions of Conformity, a solo exhibition of work by New York-based artist Michael Bevilacqua. Bevilacqua’s practice of recycling materials he has used or images he has seen is evident in the exhibition, as key motifs frequently resurface throughout his work. The same icon takes on new meaning in different settings, corroding the original message. His work is abstract, but routed firmly in experience.

This is Bevilacqua’s first solo exhibition at Gering & López Gallery. Corrosions of Conformity until February 21, 2009.