How Many Billboards? Art in Stead

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to announce its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 23 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles for five weeks from February 5 through March 12, 2010. How Many Billboards: Art in Stead is organized by MAK Center Director Kimberli Meyer with co-curators Lisa Henry, Dr. Nizan Shaked, and Dr. Gloria Sutton, and public art consultant Sara Daleiden. The exhibition will be accompanied by an overview exhibit and orientation station at the Schindler House, which opens on February 23, as well as a series of public programs and bus tours. A dedicated website, howmanybillboards.org has been launched to provide up-do-date exhibition information as the project unfolds. The MAK Center is also designing interactive media to help viewers navigate the show. Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California's conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard and interprets its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as an idea as well as art as a media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s. Featured artists include Kenneth Anger, Michael Asher, Jennifer Bornstein, Eileen Cowin, Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Renée Green, Kira Lynn Harris, John Knight, David Lamelas, Brandon Lattu, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Kori Newkirk, Maria Nordman, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, Allan Sekula, Susan Silton, Kerry Tribe, James Welling, and Lauren Woods. www.howmanybillboards.org