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| | Uffizi Gallery presents sculptures from the collections of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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A visitor looks at busts dating from 1st century Rome in the exhibition 'Faces Revealed' at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Portraits also form part of the show. EPA/MAURIZIO DEGL' INNOCENTI.
FLORENCE.- The Uffizi is showing a collection of art works entitled 'Volti svelati' ('Faces Revealed') in the Reali Poste Hall, until 29 January 2012. This exhibition is sponsored by the Friends of the Uffizi, an association which has supported and worked alongside the gallery since 1993. The exhibition has been put together by the Uffizi Gallery with the help of the Special Office for Historic, Artistic and Anthrolpological Heritage and the City of Florence Museums Association. The exhibition contains a number of classical sculptures from the collections of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The exhibition supervisor, Cristina Acidini said 'The exhibition sheds light on an extraordinary part of the history of museum studies as it highlights the rather topical and ... More |
| Vanity: Fashion photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection at Kunsthalle in Vienna | | Painting on Paper: Josef Albers in America exhibition on view at Kunstmuseum Basel | | Homage to Marianne Langen: Works from the collection at the Langen Foundation | 
F.C. Gundlach, „Pop Art-Fashion“, Grace Coddington. Minikleid von Daniel Hechter, Hamburg 1967, in: Brigitte 18/1967, © F.C. Gundlach.
VIENNA.- Fashion is a manifestation of ideals of beauty and social change, an expressive play between belonging and distinction, communication and trend. Its only constant factor is permanent change. In the sphere of beautiful appearances fashion/photography works in a both anticipatory and historicizing way: it reflects the change it creates. As part of the Kunsthalle Wien’s special photography program, the exhibition Vanity, which presents about two hundred selected works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection (Hamburg), explores the subject of fashion and photography. F.C. Gundlach, who was born in Heinebach, Hesse in 1926, was a legendary fashion photographer himself who produced 180 covers and 5,500 pages for the editorial section of the magazine Brigitte alone. The gallery owner, collector, curator, and founder regards fashion ... More | | 
Josef Albers, Farbstudie zu Homage to the Square, o. J.
BASEL.- The exhibition presents more than seventy works on paper Josef Albers (b. Bottrop, Germany, 1888; d. 1976) created after emigrating to the United States in 1933: studies for the Kinetics and Adobes of the late 1930s and 1940s as well as an extensive group of works beginning in 1950 that served Albers’s preparation for his Homage to the Square paintings. All loans for the exhibition have been provided by the Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, and the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut. It is the first time that such a large selection of these works is on view in Europe. The focus of the show is on issues of colour. Josef Albers had received initial training in the arts at the Royal Art School, Berlin, the School of Applied Arts, Essen, and the academies of Berlin and Munich. In 1920, he took up his studies at the Weimar Bauhaus, and only a few years later, in 1923, he was appointed head of its stained-glass workshop. Albers created glass paintings and desig ... More | | 
Sigmar Polke, Bambusbild, 1967© The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.
NEUSS.- Every private collection has its own history, each just as unique as the people who have compiled it. Why do people collect art? Which motives spark the inception of an art collection? This exhibition – on the occasion of the 100th birthday of collector and benefactor Marianne Langen – sets out to illustrate the approach taken by Marianne and Viktor Langen in creating their exceptional collection with works from very different cultural spheres. Marianne Langen first came into contact with foreign cultures during extended trips overseas upon which she embarked first as a young woman and later together with her husband. The more intensely Marianne and Viktor Langen explored their own, Western culture, the more interested they became – with candour and curiosity – in the art of foreign cultures. They conceived of art as the key to understanding the world and, based upon this stance, started ... More |
| Ancient Art of India: Masterworks of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on view in Mexico City | | Monet, Renoir and Cézanne return to the Fitzwilliam as famous artworks go back on display | | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents The Legend of Rex Slinkard | 
India, Uttar Pradesh, Buddha Shakyamuni, late 6th century, Gift of the Michael J. Connell Foundation, Photo © 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s collection of Indian art traveled for the first ever exhibition of ancient Indian art in Mexico. The special exhibition, Ancient Art of India: Masterworks of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is being presented at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas in Mexico City. The show features 115 objects from LACMA’s permanent collection—one of the most comprehensive groupings of South Asian art in the Western hemisphere—and explores the elaborate cosmologies of ancient India’s three main indigenous religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Ancient India’s religious mythology and associated artistic imagery were among the most highly developed of all world cultures. Each of these religions constructed systems of the universe with multiple realms, which were populated by a diverse range of real and imaginary inhabitants. Divinities, demi- ... More | | 
Les Peupliers (Poplars), by Claude Monet © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE.- One of the most popular galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has undergone a full renovation and reinstallation. Gallery 5, housing the museum’s remarkable collection of paintings and sculpture by the French Impressionists and other late 19th and early 20th-century artists has re-opened with a striking new look, colour and display. Featuring artists such as Monet, Matisse, Cézanne, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley and Renoir, the refurbished Impressionist gallery follows on from the restoration in 2010 of its sister space housing 19th and 20th-century British art, Gallery 1. The works have involved many of the same improvements, including enhanced natural lighting, restoring the richly-coloured scagliola (imitation marble) of the Grade I-listed building and a dramatic dark blue-grey wall covering. The new, more atmospheric, space will offer visitors the opportunity to re-encounter some of the mo ... More | | 
Rex Slinkard (U.S.A., 1887–1918), Tehachapi, c. 1914. Oil on canvas, 32 x 37 inches. Bequest of Florence Williams, 1955.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “The Legend of Rex Slinkard” through February 26, 2012. This exhibition of more than 60 works includes oil paintings, charcoal drawings, and pen-and-watercolor sketches that convey the breadth and strength of Slinkard’s short-lived artistic development. The Cantor Arts Center is the primary repository of paintings and sketches by the early 20th-century California artist Rex Slinkard (1887–1918), who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 while he was serving in the military. During his brief life, Slinkard emerged from his roots as a California rancher to become a painter who helped influence the modernist bent of the emerging California art scene. He studied with Robert Henri in New York City, where he shared a studio with George Bellows and established personal contacts with well-known people in the worlds of visual ... More |
| Kunstmuseum Bonn is first German museum to show a solo exhibition of Laura Owens' work | | Gare du Nord: Dutch photographers in Paris 1900-1968 on view at the Hague Museum of Photography | | The Whitney Museum presents Aleksandra Mir's The Seduction of Galilelo Galilei | 
Laura Owens, Untitled, 2010-2011. (Detail).
BONN.- Kunstmuseum Bonn is the first German museum to show a solo exhibition of Laura Owens who was born in Euclid, Ohio (USA) in 1970 and lives in Los Angeles today. With Laura Owens, who already had several exhibitions at renowned museums like the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2003), Kunsthalle Zürich (2006) and Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (2007), Kunstmuseum Bonn presents, after Franz Ackermann, yet another important young position in contemporary painting. Laura Owens undoubtedly takes a special position in the field of young contemporary painting, as her seemingly romantic and naïve pictorial language goes beyond the separation between abstract and figurative art. Only upon a closer look the analytical potential of her paintings dealing with the tradition of modernism becomes visible. Her paintings can be placed somewhere between vital colorism and symbolically charged figuration which at times reveals ... More | | 
In the 1950s, Paris quickly recovered its pre-war attractiveness.
THE HAGUE.- Paris was where it was at. It was the place to be. For decades the sparkling nightlife and intellectual ferment of the French capital attracted writers and artists from around the world. Among them were Dutch photographers, who flocked to Paris to capture romantic images of life in the city’s streets. In this exhibition, pictures snapped by photographers like Henri Berssenbrugge, Emmy Andriesse, Ed van der Elsken and Johan van der Keuken bring to life the twentieth-century metropolis that plays the starring role in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s concurrent exhibition Paris, City of modern art. Paris shares a long history with photography; it is the birthplace of the medium. It would become the city of modern art, but it was the capital of photography right from the moment when Louis Daguerre first presented his discovery to the world in 1839. Dutch photographers were already going there in the 1920s and ’30s to study the discipline at specialist school ... More | | 
Aleksandra Mir (b. 1967), still from The Seduction of Galileo Galilei, 2011. Video, color, sound; 16:33 min. Commissioned by Mercer Union, Toronto. Collection of the artist, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, and Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona.
NEW YORK, NY.- Engaging in a dialogue with the seventeenth-century Italian “father of modern science,” the London-based artist Aleksandra Mir is presenting The Seduction of Galileo Galilei (2011) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mir’s new video work documents a Galileo-inspired gravitational experiment along with a selection of collages from Mir’s series The Dream and the Promise (2008–09), combining religious iconography with that of space travel. The exhibition is curated by Whitney curator Carter Foster. It will be on view in the Lobby Gallery through February 19, 2012. Mir’s projects are typically interactive and draw on her interests in technology, religion, media, and concepts of distance and place. Her work on projects, performances, and publications takes her into communities and art spaces ... More |
| Exhibition of Japanese prints by Tsukioka Kogyo to open at Bonnefantenmuseum | | Exhibition of faces of African Americans who lived in Columbia opens in South Carolina | | DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to present Gary Webb's first US museum exhibition | 
The presentation links up with a series of 'art on paper' exhibitions in the Bonnefantenmuseum.
MAASTRICHT.- The presentation The beauty of Silence – Japanese prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo will be opening in the Bonnefantenmuseum on 15 January 2012. The presentation links up with a series of 'art on paper' exhibitions in the Bonnefantenmuseum, and revolves around the work of one of the great Japanese print artists of the turn of the last century, Tsukioka Kōgyo. Kōgyo became well-known for his popular depictions of the typically Japanese Noh theatre, which underwent a real revival at the end of the 19th century. He also depicted animals and landscapes. His technique in creating coloured woodcuts is so refined that it is indistinguishable from painting. The year of Tsugioka Kōgyo's birth, 1869, coincided with great political and economic upheaval in Japan. From 1603 to 1868, the 'Shoguns' had held sway over a feudal power system, controlling all the distinguished families in Japan. Though the emper ... More | | 
Unidentified Portrait, 1920s, CMA 1993.12.61
COLUMBIA SC.- In one photograph, a young boy looks plaintively toward the camera, dressed in undoubtedly his finest wool suit, his prized rooster gently clutched under his arm. In another, the Reverend Charles Jaggers sits regally in a finely carved chair, his Bible in one hand and his cane in the other. These are the faces of African Americans who lived in Columbia and across South Carolina during the 1920s and 1930s, as captured by African American photographer Richard Samuel Roberts. This December, the Columbia Museum of Art unveiled an exhibition of 23 images taken by Roberts, selected by the Advisory Committee and the Board of the Museum’s newest affiliate group, Friends of African American Art and Culture. Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts, on view in Gallery 15 through April 29, illustrates the richness and diversity of Roberts’s oeuvre. The images in the exhi ... More | | 
Gary Webb, Glo Baby Glo, 2009. Cast aluminum, car spray paint, wood, brass, 66.93 x 45.28 x 59.06 inches / 170 x 115 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY.
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces it will present British sculptor Gary Webb’s first US museum exhibition next summer. An exciting and established young contemporary sculptor in England, Webb is wellknown for his use, often in a single artwork, of myriad materials including steel, aluminum, glass, mirror, plastic, brass, wood, brick, spray paint, fabrics, and assorted found objects. For Gary Webb: Mister Jeans, on view May 27 through August 13, 2012, deCordova will present a survey of Webb’s recent work including two new outdoor sculptures designed by the artist specifically for deCordova’s Museum Entrance Plaza. Gary Webb: Mister Jeans is the third in a planned series of major solo sculpture exhibitions to be held each summer at deCordova. ... More |
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 Christopher Baker's Hello World! debuts at gallery's first ever screening room LONDON.- The Saatchi Gallery is opening its first ever screening room for film and video. In a space on Duke of York’s Square, a stone’s throw from the Gallery in Chelsea, Saatchi Screen, in partnership with The Cadogan Estate and Hugo Boss, will launch with the first UK presentation of Christopher Baker’s video installation, Hello World! Or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise. Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of video diaries gathered from the internet. Each of the 5,000 videos that make up Hello World! features a single individual speaking candidly to an imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on individual speakers or become immersed in the overall cacophony. The project is a meditation on the c ... More Winners announced for new museum garden design COPENHAGEN.- With their winning project “SMK Back into the Park” the Polyform office will be behind the revitalisation of the 7,500m² area in front of the National Gallery of Denmark. The winning project was presented by the Gallery and the City of Copenhagen earlier today at a reception held at the Gallery. On that occasion the architectural office SLA was awarded second prize for their design proposal. Polyform’s winning design and seven other proposals will be exhibited at the Gallery until 15 January 2012. The inauguration of the new Museum Garden is projected for 2013. In June of last year the National Gallery of Denmark and the City of Copenhagen launched a competition inviting proposals for a new design to reinvigorate and reinvent the Museum Garden. After a preliminary pre-qualification round, a total of eight enterprises from Denmark and abroad were invited to submit their proposals. Now, ... More Exhibition of new works by designer Thaddeus Wolfe at Volume Gallery CHICAGO, IL.- Volume Gallery debuted an exhibition of new works by designer Thaddeus Wolfe, titled: ASSEMBLAGE. Volume Gallery will take over Gallery Two of Andrew Rafacz Gallery in an ongoing series highlighting work from American contemporary designers. Opening reception December 10th, 4-7 PM. In his first solo exhibition in Chicago, ASSEMBLAGE showcases Wolfe’s unique works in glass created through a specialized technique, inspired by mineral and crystalline formations. “I am producing forms that have the appearance of being built up – and are also fractured and coming apart.“ The ASSEMBLAGE series, Wolfe provides a distinct aesthetic link between the state of minerals and observing them in their relation to modernist sculpture and architecture. The angular sides of Wolfe’s creations have the appearance of naturally occurring circumstances of cubic crystallization but represent the ... More Galveston ferry may be Texas' best tourist bargain By: Michael Graczyk, Associated Press
GALVESTON (AP).- Galveston's Bolivar Ferry, Texas' version of the famous New York Staten Island Ferry, may be the best tourist bargain in the Lone Star State. It's free, and the roughly 20-minute ride each way between Port Bolivar and Galveston is an entertaining diversion from the beaches and historic districts that are the biggest local tourist draw. Nowhere else in the vast state of Texas can you cross and share a waterway with ships on one of the world's busiest channels, feed scores of seagulls eager for bread or popcorn, and spot dolphins swimming and diving within shouting distance of the boat. "The scenery, looking at everything, I've enjoyed it since I was a child," Destiny Perry-Inman, 30, of Kirbyville, said on a recent trip. "I'd come here every summer with my dad. I would ... More |
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| | Watchmaking in Geneva: Treasures of gold and enamel at the Musée d'art et d'histoire
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A mythological scene (L) painted enamel on copper, in the style of Simon Vouet, around 1880, realized by Edouard Castres, and Orpheus, right, by Gustave Moreau, 1920, embossed on copper, realized by Jean Henri Demole are displayed during the exhibition 'Watchmaking in Geneva, the magic of craftsmanship, treasures of Gold and enamel' at the Musee Rath in Geneva. The exhibition runs until 29 April 2012. EPA/SALVATORE DI NOLFI.
GENEVA.- Sharing the richness and beauty of the watchmaking, enamelware and jewellery collections of the Musée d'art et d'histoire is the objective of the exhibition Watchmaking in Geneva. The Magic of Craftsmanship, Treasures of Gold and Enamel. On view until April 29th 2012, this exhibition puts on display more than a thousand objects and masterpieces from the 16th century to today. It also presents some pieces that can be admired by the public for the first time. To enter the world of the watchmaking, enamelware and jewellery collections of the Musée d'art et d'histoire is to step into a realm of luxury where treasures of perfection are waiting to be discovered: watches, clocks and jewels in addition to enamels and miniatures. Monumental pieces and minuscule specimens of only a few millimetres are revealed as genuine masterpieces where beauty blends with high precision and technical prowess, ... More |
| Loan from Centre Pompidou in Paris brings forty of the museum's top paintings to The Hague | | Reciprocal exhibitions between Russia and Italy bring masterpieces by Giotto to the Tretyakov Gallery | | Foundation De 11 Lijnen exhibition focuses on Jasper John's works that feature his hands | 
Robert Delaunay, La Tour Eiffel, 1926, oil on canvas, 169 x 86 cm, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou.
THE HAGUE.- The prestigious Centre Pompidou in Paris has loaned forty of its top works for a special exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. The exhibition includes famous masterpieces by such artists as Kandinsky, Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse, Miró, Giacometti, Léger, Braque and Delaunay. Visitors to the museum this will have a unique opportunity to experience Paris as the dazzling city of modern art in The Hague. In the first half of the 20th century, Paris was an irresistible magnet which attracted up-and-coming artists from all over the world. It was here that modern art history was written. The most progressive artists of the Netherlands were also drawn to this exciting site of renewal and artistic freedom. This autumn the flow has been reversed as the top collection of the Centre Pompidou comes to The Hague, forming the backbone of a major ... More | | 
The Madonna with child by Giotto. EPA/UFFICIO STAMPA.
MOSCOW.- The present display is organized on the initiative of President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and President Giorgio Napolitano under the patronage of Cyril, the Patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia in the framework of Year of Russian culture and Russian language in Italian Republic and Italian culture and Italian language in Russian Federation. Being a result of the joint work of the representatives of the reserch centres, museum community, and theological circles, this project has become a unique experience of collaboration between Italian and Russian experts, who made this unprecedented exchange of masterpieces possible at the conclusion of the Russian-ItalianYear. In the famous Baptistery in Florence the State Tretyakov Gallery presents rare pieces of Old Russian art from its collection. They are the monumental “Our Lady Hodegetria”, created in the ... More | | 
Jasper Johns, Savarin, 1982. Monotype 2/2. 127 x 96.5 cm.
OUDENBURG.- Jasper Johns has been using his own handprint as an element in his paintings, drawings, and prints for close to 50 years. This exhibition presents many of his lithographs and intaglios that demonstrate not only the wide variety of effects he has achieved through this deceptively simple device but his mastery of printmaking techniques. The first time Johns used his hands as a component of a work was in 1962, in four Study for Skin drawings. These were made by the artist covering his face and hands in oil and imprinting them on paper. Since these drawings were studies for a "rolled-out" sculpture of a head, this first manifestation of the artist's hands can be seen as incidental. However, later that year, handprints appeared as focal points in several important paintings, including Diver, Land's End, and Periscope (Hart Crane), as well as in large drawings. Revisiting established subject matter is a hallmark of John's sensibility: I like to ... More |
| First U.S. solo museum exhibition of Canadian artist Ron Terada at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | | Jonathan Paul Ive, the designer behind Apple's products, knighted in the United Kingdom | | MoMA PS1 solo exhibition premieres Clifford Owens's latest body of work, Anthology | 
Ron Terada, Big Star, 2003. Hart House Collection, University of Toronto. Purchased by the 2010 - 2011 Hart House Art Committee with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition program/ Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada. Image courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver.
CHICAGO, IL.- Ron Terada: Being There is the first U.S. solo museum exhibition of Canadian artist Ron Terada who uses text, signage, advertising, and Hollywood films in unusual and inventive ways to create cultural narratives. Curated by MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling, the exhibition includes a fascinating body of work that shows Terada's wide-ranging conceptual practice --from paintings, photographs, and graphic design, to video, sound, and interventions. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Ron Terada: Being There through January 15, 2012. Born in 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he still lives and works, Terada is a conceptual artist of Japanese-Canadian decent, who often uses his position within the art world in ... More | | 
London-born designer Jonathan Ive, the senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple.
By: Alex Veiga, AP Business Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Fans of the clean, inviting look of the iPhone, iPad and other blockbuster Apple products are legion, and that includes Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch has awarded a knighthood to Jonathan Paul Ive, a Brit and head of Apple Inc.'s design team since the mid-'90s. Ive received a KBE, short for Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The honor was announced Saturday for services to design and enterprise. "To be recognized with this honor is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful," Ive said in a statement. "I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. I feel enormously fortunate that I continue to be able to design and make products with a truly remarkable group of people here at Apple." Ive is credited with helping the late Steve Jobs bring the consumer-electronics company back from the brink of financial ruin in the ... More | | 
Clifford Owens, Anthology (Senga Nengudi). Performance still. Courtesy On Stellar Rays.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents the first New York museum exhibition of artist Clifford Owens (American, b. 1971). The solo exhibition premieres Owens’s latest body of work, Anthology, which consists primarily of photography, video, and live performance. Organized by MoMA PS1 Assistant Curator Christopher Y. Lew, Clifford Owens: Anthology will remain on view until March 12, 2012. Anthology features performances scores—written or graphical instructions for action —
that Owens solicited from a multigenerational group of African-American artists. Twenty-six major artists have contributed scores, nearly all of whom composed new works specifically for Owens and his project. Owens has long known that African-American performance art has been underrecognized and that its history remains largely unwritten. Rather than producing scholarly research on the topic, Owens has created a new series of work that acti ... More |
| "Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation" at ZKM Media Museum in Karlsruhe | | Archives of American Art announces the opening of Carnegie Institute exhibition records for research | | Culmination of a large scale project by light artist Yann Kersalé on view in Paris | 
Studio view “digital art conservation” work: “Mondrian”, 1979. Courtesy: Herbert W. Franke © ZKM | Karlsruhe, photo: ONUK.
KARLSRUHE.- How can digital data be stored over the long term if the new notebook is already obsolete as soon as it leaves the store? This phenomenon also presents problems in art: What happens to media art when the Internet environment for which it was conceived, changes? Is it admissible to show works that were once developed for the PC now on an iPad? The exhibition “Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation” at the ZKM | Media Museum fundamentally explores questions related to collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining computer-based art works and makes the work concerning digital conservation visible. For a few decades now, digitalization has enabled and simplified the processing and distribution of data; digital data are available on the Internet for all users at all times. Basically, however, the conservation of digital content has been subject to an increasingly rapid adaptation to new technical systems. Thi ... More | | 
Jury of Award for the 1934 Carnegie Institute International. Gifford Beal, American artist, Elisabeth Luther Cary, Art Editor of the New York Times, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director of the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. Standing, Homer Saint-Gaudens.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art announced the completion of a major project funded in 2007 by the Brown Foundation Inc. to fully arrange, preserve and describe the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art Exhibition Records (264 linear feet). One of the Archives’ most significant collections is now fully accessible to researchers and includes a detailed online finding aid. As part of this effort, portions of the collection were also digitized. Researchers now have online access to nearly 147,000 digital images, including the correspondence of the museum’s first two directors John Beatty (1896-1921) and Homer Saint-Gaudens (1922-1950) and the voluminous records of the Pittsburgh International Exhibitions of Contemporary ... More | | 
Lʼappel du large © Yann Kersalé - AIK.
PARIS.- Yann Kersalé is an artist who uses light as others use clay or paint. For thirty years, he has been experimenting with new light forms and has created his own “light material”, allowing for a new reading of architecture and urban and natural landscapes. For Yann Kersalé, night is a “black material/substance” that enables him to uncover a powerful palette of whites and greys, forms, hollows and bumps, shadow and light. The EDF Foundation has taken a particular interest in the work of Yann Kersalé and has supported him for the past seventeen years. The Foundation devoted a first exhibition to the artist in the Foundation Cultural Centre in 1994. The Foundation also supported him for projects such as the Cahors Spring Festival in 1996, the “illumination” of the Saint‐Denis Basilica in 1999, as well as the garden of the Quai Branly Museum in 2005. The exhibition opened by the EDF Foundation Cultural Centre through 4 March 2012 is the culmi ... More |
| Dara Birnbaum's earliest single channel works from the 1970s at the South London Gallery | | Museum exhibition sets out to tackle the universal theme of the portrait and the self-portrait | | Kostis Velonis' The Promise of Happiness at Signal - Center for Contemporary Art | 
Film still from Arabesque, 2011, of pianist Iris Weingartner, taken with her permission from YouTube. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York – Paris.
LONDON.- American artist Dara Birnbaum was one of the first to subvert the language of television and is internationally recognised for her pioneering video works made over the past three and a half decades. For her South London Gallery exhibition she presents the UK premiere of her recent work, Arabesque, 2011, a multi-channel video installation which reflects the legacy of two piano compositions; one composed by Robert Schumann for his wife Clara, the other composed by Clara Schumann for her husband Robert. Spanning the SLG’s main exhibition space and first floor galleries, the show also includes the seminal work, Attack Piece, 1975, Birnbaum’s first surviving installation, and a series of her single channel works from the 1970s. A survey of Birnbaum’s analysis of television through the 1980s, including Technology/Transformation: ... More | | 
Andrea La Rocca, Protège-moi, 2011.
BELLINZONA.- Following the exhibition Reflections Off Water Soften Impressions, whose topic coagulated around the concept of history and historical awareness, of travel, of wandering and of the diaspora as an indispensable osmotic evolution, Portraits: Reflected Vision now sets out to tackle the universal theme of the portrait and the self-portrait: not through a strictly traditional, historical interpretation, but through one of analysis. The artists showing are Jon Campbell (D, 1982), Pier Giorgio De Pinto (CH, 1968) and Andrea La Rocca (I, 1983). Tackling the topic of the portrait is out of the question today without considering the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose concept of avant-garde rendered not only art itself subjective, but also necessarily how we look at and see an image. While what philosophy recognises in a portrait is a mere representation of reality, for early twentieth-century psychoanalysis the iconological approach to the image became more ... More | | 
Kostis Velonis, You Might be Able to Climb but Defenitely you will Fall, 2011.
MALMO.- There is something promising, something desirable about the Swedish model, especially in times of global economic crisis when the Swedish economy seems to stand as unaffected and well rooted as a pine tree in the deep forests. This is of course not entirely true, but the cliché image is striking. The project of modernisation with technology, social engineering and the promise of a better life propelled the emergence of the Swedish success story. However, a more nuanced analysis of the Swedish welfare state entails the complex understanding of its achievements and its drawbacks. In The Promise of Happiness Kostis Velonis engages with the mutual relationship between social welfare and cultural modernity based on the belief that architecture and design will improve society, and that behind formal and aesthetic applications there is a plan for the production of happiness. With equal amount enthusiasm and critical ... More |
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 Michener Art Museum announces new Officers and Board appointments DOYLESTOWN, PA.- The James A. Michener Art Museum announces new officers and appointments to its Board of Trustees. As of January 1, 2012, Kevin Putman will serve as Chairman, Lou Della Penna will serve as President, Bonnie O'Boyle will serve as Vice President and Virginia Sigety will serve as Secretary. Additionally, Gregory Church will serve a three-year term as a Board Member. The museum's 28-member Board of Trustees is comprised of community leaders, museum volunteers and longstanding members recognized for their commitment to serving the arts and culture of Bucks County. Kevin Putman is Owner and CEO of Penn Color, Inc., a major international manufacturer of colorants for plastics, coatings and printing ink industries headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. A member of the museum's Board of Trustees since 1992, Putman most recently served as President from 2008 through ... More Petra Eiko and The-Green-Heart Now at Galiara's New Gallery 4N5 SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Internationally known artist and author Petra Eiko is showing new artwork in Galiara’s new San Francisco Gallery 4n5 through the end of February 2012. In addition to her paintings, Eiko has brought her “What is in your heart?–The world is listening” interactive public art project inviting San Francisco visitors and residents to express their hearts. Eiko is a truly innovative contemporary artist with her reverse acrylic paintings on Plexiglas. Her artworks radiate energy, light and the ever-changing yet constant movement of life. The images express the power and force of feelings that arise from within. At the same time, they capture the pulsating vivacity of the universe. Her circle paintings show the emotional human dance around the ultimate middle—emerging outward from a dot that represents the point of silence and all beginnings. Eiko works with various color combinations and movement to emit ... More Two concurrent exhibitions open at Vered Gallery in East Hampton EAST HAMPTON, NY.- "Landscapes/Seascapes" in Gallery I, reminds the viewer of 'roots' in a subtle way. Several newly arrived Wolf Kahn's 'scream' to be shown - A delicious, massive 80 inch, blazingly beautiful orange and fuscia, autumnal water view is the centerpiece of the exhibition. It is surrounded by works by Balcomb Greene - Montauk Cliffs and Sea, Thomas Moran’s - Montauk view, a pair of Bob Dash Sagaponack views - and a rich selection of works by Milton Avery. A highlight of the exhibition is a group of Benton ‘discoveries’, exciting synchromist 1922-3 flower oil paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, given as a gift by him in the 1930’s to Jackson Pollock. Benton felt toward Jackson, like a surrogate father. He intended the works to be both an artistic inspiration and an inheritance to Jackson. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART AND 19th AND 20th CEN. VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS are offered in Gallery II: ... More abstract critical Newcomer Awards 2011 Newcomers announced LONDON.- abstract critical announced the five artists from the 2011 degree shows nationwide who have been selected to participate in the abstract critical Newcomer Awards: • Zara Idelson (Glasgow School of Art) • Katy Kirbach (RA Schools) • Dan Roach (University of Gloucestershire) • Jack Sutherland (UCA Canterbury) • Gwennan Thomas (Wimbledon College of Art) This is the inaugural year of the prize, offering graduate artists from the 2011 degree shows an opportunity to exhibit alongside the five established artists who selected them. Phillip Allen, Carol Robertson, Iain Robertson, Alan Shipway and Gary Wragg toured shows nationwide to select their chosen graduate. During the exhibition, the £5000 abstract critical Newcomer Award will be awarded to one of the graduate artists. “As selectors, we firstly had to satisfy our own criteria for how we interpret abstract. It is a generic label for ... More Shoppers get more than they bargained as the Hepworth Wakefield at Harvey Nichols opens in Leeds LEEDS.- A new display by The Hepworth Wakefield in partnership with Harvey Nichols Leeds will be available to view until February 2012. The Hepworth Wakefield at Harvey Nichols, is a new temporary display of works by artist Clare Woods and designer Laura Slater. The display at the store’s Fourth Floor Café has been devised and supported by Harvey Nichols Leeds in partnership with The Hepworth Wakefield and artists Laura Slater and Clare Woods. Laura Slater said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase my work to new audiences and present textile design in a fresh and innovative way. I’ve always wanted to apply my designs to new surfaces within a sight specific format. To be able to do this in a prestigious location like Harvey Nichols, together with The Hepworth Wakefield, this has become an exciting reality.” Andy Berrington, Display Manager at Harvey Nichols said: “December and January are ... More |
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