Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring Creators

By Hilarie M. Sheets

CHICAGO — Stretching across the windows of three conjoined storefronts on the Northwest Side of Chicago is a 70-foot-long mosaic made of 7,000 circular name tags with a mix of red and white backgrounds. They spell out the message “Love Thy Neighbor.” The simple declaration could be read as the mission statement underpinning the activity in the two-story brick building, a new multidisciplinary art space dreamed up by Nick Cave, the artist and educator, and his personal and professional partner, Bob Faust.

“It is our way of introducing ourselves to the community,” said Mr. Cave, best known for his dazzling “Soundsuits” that double as full-body sculptures and garments.

Full article at New York Times

THESE BAGS WE CARRY ARE FILLED WITH PROMISE

Artists Nick Cave and Bob Faust create a kaleidoscopic mural from one of Cave’s iconic soundsuits constructed entirely of woven bags collected from around the world. These bags we carry are filled with promise is a through-the-looking glass interpretation that the baggage we all walk through life with is anything but weighty. In this manifestation, the bags seem to defy gravity, and rather than weighing us down, actually carry the hopes, dreams and aspirations that fuel us for our choices ahead. From the single source image of Cave’s work, Faust selects and manipulates key details that seem to morph seamlessly into multiple patterns, shape-shifting across the 31 liner feet of lobby wall.

Full Article at New York Live Arts

Artist Nick Cave Turning Vintage Irving Park Building Into Studio, Gallery

The building at 3618-3622 N. Milwaukee Ave. will be called Facility and neighbors are being asked to contribute to a street-facing art installation titled "Love Thy Neighbor."

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Nick Cave's "If a Tree Falls" opens Thursday, November 1st at 513 West 20th and 524 West 24th Street

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present If a Tree Falls, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave, bookending the artist’s spring presentations in New York. If Weather or Not (Jack Shainman Gallery, May 17 – June 23, 2018) was the visual manifestation of states of mind, and The Let Go(Park Avenue Armory, June 7 – July 1, 2018) an expression of states of being, If a Tree Falls explores a crucial underlying component of these personal and collective states – the state of the American nation.

Full Article at Jack Shainman Gallery

BEHIND THE SCENES OF NICK CAVE’S THE LET GO

By Niama Safia Sandy

By nearly all accounts, this American moment is one characterized by deep turmoil. Political chicanery. Gun violence. Racial discrimination. Gender-based violence. Police brutality. Education reform. On any given day, there is some permutation of those things permeating the news cycle.

Artists often become the standard-bearers leading the way toward a kind of soft reset—devising visual strategies and physical embodiments toward new methodologies for reckoning and—in the case of the latest project by Nick Cave (NA 2015), The Let Goat Park Avenue Armory in New York—release.

Full Article at NAD Now

Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration, Hyperallergic

by Seph Rodney

In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.

Sometimes on a Sunday, in the morning hours when the grass is still wet, and the city street is mostly quiet, people rise and dress, and gather in a church to sing, to dance, and to clap their hands. Sometimes the hymns are sung low and throbbing like an earth tremor and sometimes they emerge strained and agonized, screeching and searching. Sometimes an organ marks the path to ecstasy, or a drum circle, or a fully electrified band, or just a group of singers coordinated in matching outfits and choreographed formation. 

Full Article at Hyperallergic

The Power of Nick Cave, The Know

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In 1995 the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky was asked about the evolution of religion. He simply went on to say that someday churches will be replaced by great dance halls, places for parties. As I see it, the artist Nick Cave—who created the ultimate performance series The Let Go—has just fulfilled Jodorowsky’s prophecy. 

Full Article at The Know