Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow on Jack Goldstein at the Hammer's Lunchtime Art Talk Series

Jack Goldstein
June 25, 12:30pm | The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Jack Goldstein, Untitled, 1984
Acrylic on paper
29 1/4 x 41 5/8 x 1 3/4 in. (74.3 x 105.7 x 4.4 cm)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Promised gift of Susan and Larry Marx

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.

This talk on Jack Goldstein is led by Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow.

This free program is not ticketed. All public programs at the Hammer are free and made possible by a major gift from an anonymous donor.

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Angela Bulloch, Jack Goldstein, & Rirkrit Tiravanija in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound / The Ringier Collection 1995 – 2025, curated by Beatrix Ruf & Wade Guyton

Rirkrit Tiravanija
April 13 – October 5, 2025 | The Langen Foundation, Neuss

In Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound the Langen Foundation in Neuss presents an extensive selection of works from the Swiss Ringier Collection, marking its first major exhibition in Germany. Curated by Beatrix Ruf and artist Wade Guyton, the exhibition features approximately 500 works, offering an overview of one of the most relevant collections of contemporary art. Spanning works from the late 1960s to the present day, it documents Michael Ringier’s 30 years as a collector and key developments in the art world.

Together, these pieces form a rich and layered portrait of Michael Ringier, a Swiss publisher and media entrepreneur, whose collection of art is deeply intertwined with his personal and professional life, as well as the identity of Ringier, a media company active in 19 countries across Europe and Africa. Since 1997, the company has invited international artists to design its annual reports, granting them complete creative freedom. These collaborations have resulted in creative and intelligent explorations of the role of a media publisher today and its engagement with audiences. Renowned artists including Fischli/Weiss, Maurizio Cattelan, and Sylvie Fleury have contributed to these reports, as has Wade Guyton, whose report featured a one-to-one reproduction of one of his paintings printed in high-resolution detail across hundreds of pages. When compiled, these pages recreate the work in its original dimensions.

The exhibition's subversive title highlights how traditional artistic media continues to inspire new interpretations—both by challenging their conventional boundaries and through intentional artistic ambiguity. Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound re-examines the expectations surrounding what defines a medium and how it shapes our perception. The connection to a global media company like Ringier is evident: from its beginnings in publishing and printing to its evolution into a digitized and diversified corporation, the company has been shaping the relationship between content and medium for over 190 years. Wade Guyton, too, challenges the concept of the medium of painting—whether through his large-format printed works or the strategic use of digital technologies, he questions what a medium can be and how it shapes the art it conveys.

Through these explorations, the exhibition invites viewers to see the collection not merely as a compilation of works but as a dynamic narrative that constantly opens up new perspectives. This approach reflects Michael Ringier’s view of art as a living, integral part of both his entrepreneurial and cultural engagement.

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Celebrating 15 years

Jack Goldstein | e-flux

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Just days before turning sweet16, the Schinkel Pavillon celebrates a milestone 15th birthday in retrospect with an anniversary mailing.

It is with great joy that Nina Pohl and her team look back on 15 years of not only exhibitions and performances, but also lectures, screenings, concerts, talks, and interventions realized by over 400 artists and countless supporters.

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California Dreaming at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Jack Goldstein | By James Russell | D Magazine

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This summer, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth hosts two exhibitions highlighting the development of the twentieth century art scene in the Golden State. David Park: A Retrospective, which opened last weekend, and the highly conceptual Disappearing–California c. 1970: Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein, which opened last month, weave together two modern art movements from different parts of California.

Guest curated by Phillip Kaiser of Los Angeles, Disappearingoccupies 13,000 square feet of the museum’s entire first floor. It is thematically organized, exploring how the three artists stretched the limitation of disappearance through performance. The show gets its name from Burden’s 1971 work “Disappearing,” in which he vanished from December 22-24.

Only a few years before, Ader created the installation “Please don’t leave me,” the show’s earliest piece (1969). A messy, tangled cluster of light fixtures dangle in front of thin, capitalized letters demanding “PLEASE DON’T LEAVE ME.” Of course, you have to leave the piece to continue through the show. (You’re not left to languish for long: Burden’s “Survival Kit” has all the viewer needs to proceed: a joint, a fake $100 bill, a candle, an army knife, and other essentials.) Goldstein’s videos, which show him moving, sitting, and exploring, round out the three artists’ early works.

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Jack Goldstein | Disappearing – California, c. 1970

The Modern

Fort Worth, TX

10 May - 11 August 2019

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In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. That work, entitled Disappearing, gives its name to this exhibition, which examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries in 1970s Southern California, Bas Jan Ader and Jack Goldstein. Loosely affiliated, these three artists shared a common interest in themes of disappearance and self-effacement, which manifested in works that were daring and often dangerous. In 1972, Jack Goldstein buried himself alive during a performance, while Chris Burden’s often self-harming works explored the limits of pain. During Bas Jan Ader’s tragic last work, In search of the miraculous, 1975, the artist vanished while crossing the Atlantic in a small sailboat, never to be seen again. Responding to cultural pressures like the Vietnam War and the nascent field of feminist art, the artists poignantly used “disappearing” as a response to the anxiety of the 1970s.

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Jack Goldstein film screenings at Museum of the Moving Image

Jack Goldstein, Ballet Shoe, 1974-5

SCREENING AND LIVE EVENT: Downtown New York Film: The 1970's and 1980's launches today with Amos Poe's "Unmade Beds" and short films by Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, and Ericka Beckman at 3PM. With Amos Poe in person. 

Tickets are $12 for adults, $9 for senior citizens, and students and $6 for children. 

Museum of the Moving Image is located at 36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria.

via movingimage.us

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