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Among those invited to participate are many young emerging artists, including Louise Hopkins, Permindar Kaur and Richard Billingham. The inclusion of two senior artists - Richard Hamilton and John Latham - is due to the fact that their work has long developed concerns that are now paramount to many of the younger artists. Anya Gallaccio has been invited to make a site-specific installation for the lawn in front of the MCA. .. NowHere will be a large-scale presentation of contemporary international art. The intention is to throw light both on the most significant currents in today's art and new ways of presenting contemporary art within the museum institution. html "A special installation of 24 works by the early modern sculptor Constantin Brancusi. html "Twenty-five years of printmaking by American artist Sol LeWitt, from his early screenprints to his latest woodcuts. html "A major retrospective surveying nearly half a century of achievement by Roy DeCarava, one of the key figures in American postwar photography. He knows every artist, needs rest cures from overwork, overstimulation and exhaustion, and can be counted on to turn up anywhere and everywhere. He's become a nonstop curator, but it's his enthusiasm and the sheer volume of names that he can utter that makes him a phenomenon. Highlights (for me) were Gillian Wearing's video called Boys Time of four boys doing nothing; Matt Collishaw's video of a mother panhandling in a giant snow bubble, called Small Comfort; Richard Billingham's Nan Goldin-ish portraits of a dysfunctional family; Douglas Gordon's blue room sound installation, Something between My Mouth and Your Ear, playing radio hits from 1966; and Angela Bulloch's installations that include an old Space Invaders game you could play and a video salon in the Dufy room. Any of Medalla's works might be interesting in a gallery, but as a group here they lacked cohesion. The Kiosque's table of magazines and fanzines provided material for perusal, but I was glad to leave after each of my three visits.

Douglas Gordon Zeit als Gefahr, als Bedrohung, als uneinholbare Komponente unseres Daseins zu zeigen, ist Douglas Gordons Thema. Das, was sich in Erinnerungen stapelt und verwischt, wird entfaltet und erscheint in bedrohlicher Unendlichkeit. In seiner Video-Installation "24 Hours Psycho" beispielsweise dehnte Gordon den beruehmten Hitchcock-Film auf die Zeit, die als Realzeit vom Drehbuch vorgegeben wird. Im Kontext von Bleibe wird Douglas Gordon das Video "Blue" von 1999 zeigen, in dem der Kuenstler seinen eigenen Koerper unaufhoerlich traktiert. Wo ist das Reale - fuer jeden von uns als Individuum und als kollektive Gesellschaft.

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