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Bruce Nauman. Piedras negras bajo luz amarilla , 1987. Bloques de mármol negro y lámparas de neón. Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación ?la Caixa?.
MADRID.- The secretary general of ”la Caixa” Foundation, Luis Reverter; the director of the MACBA Foundation, Ainhoa Grandes; the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Bartomeu Marí, and the director of ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection and curator of the exhibition, Nimfa Bisbe, will be inaugurating The Persistence of Geometry. Works from ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA collections at CaixaForum Madrid. This is the second exhibition —and the first in Madrid— to come from the cooperation agreement signed in July 2010 between Isidro Fainé, president of ”la Caixa” and ”la Caixa” Foundation, and Leopoldo Rodés, president of the MACBA Foundation, which was later extended at the MACBA Consortium. The agreement involves the joint management of the two contemporary art collections. The new collection created from the two original ones bri ... More |
| LACMA presents collection by designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte inspired by Florentine art | | Current museum curator John Peter Nilsson appointed Director of Moderna Museet Malmö | | Best-known graphic work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya at Malmo Konsthall | 
Rodarte, Cantaloupe pleated silk, draped silk Georgette, and Taffeta gown with gold ray belt. Photo ©2011 Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents the North American debut of RODARTE: Fra Angelico Collection, a promised gift to the museum’s renowned Costume and Textiles Department. The Spring|Summer 2012 couture collection features a group of extraordinary gowns by acclaimed American designers, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, inspired by frescoes painted by the early Italian Renaissance artist, Fra Angelico (c. 1350–1455). The Fra Angelico Collection was unveiled as a site-specific installation at Pitti Immagine in Florence, Italy in June 2011. At LACMA, the Rodarte gowns will be on view in the museum’s Italian Renaissance gallery, surrounded by classic Renaissance artworks. ”These gowns are the first works by Rodarte to enter the museum’s permanent holdings, and we are pleased to present this outstanding collection,” said ... More | | 
John Peter Nilsson © Photographer: Martin Lindeborg.
STOCKHOLM.- John Peter Nilsson has been appointed director of Moderna Museet Malmö. He currently works as a curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and will take up his new position on 1 March, 2012. John Peter Nilsson (born 1957) has worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm since 2004, where he has been responsible for some of the museum's most acclaimed exhibitions, including Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli, which broke the visitor record in 2009, and Klara Lidén, who received an honorary mention at this year's Venice Biennale. With their combination of groundbreaking and broad artistic oeuvres, the exhibitions curated by John Peter Nilsson have won recognition and appreciation among both critics and the public. He has a background as an art critic and editor-in-chief of several art magazines, including NU: The Nordic Art Review. “John Peter Nilsson is one of Sweden’s most experienced and respected figu ... More | | 
Francisco Goya, The deathbeds, From The Disasters of War, 1810-1820. Courtesy Norrköpings Konstmuseum. Photo: Helene Toresdotter.
MALMO.- The best-known graphic work of Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is Los Desastres de la Guerra, known in English as The Disasters of War. Its message remains just as relevant today. Goya’s etchings depict for the first time war from the viewpoint of the civilian population’s suffering, without any attempt to soften the impact. We are ruthlessly presented with the brutality of war and the inhumanity of mankind. The etchings are an intense visual report of a barbaric behaviour that has since been repeated and is still continuing around the world today. Goya began working for the Spanish royal court painting cartoons* for tapestries, before gradually becoming the official court painter. Concurrently with his career as a portrait painter, he did a number of commissions for the Catholic Church in Spain. After suffering a severe illness that confined him to his ... More |
| Miami Art Museum to present leading artist Dana Schutz' "If the Face Had Wheels" | | Photos of conflicts and disasters by Stanley Greene in "Black Passport" at Foam | | Socrates Sculpture Park appoints New Museum's John Hatfield as new Director | 
Dana Schutz, Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009 Oil on canvas 45 x 48 inches Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overand Park, Kansas, Gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation © Dana Schutz Courtesy of the artist and Zach Feuer, New York
MIAMI, FL.- Even before she reached the age of 30, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Now 35, Schutz’s first ten-year (2001-2011) survey, opening at Miami Art Museum January 15, 2012, was heralded by art critics nationwide when it opened at the Neuberger Museum of Art earlier this year, even landing on the cover of November’s Art in America. The acclaimed exhibition, Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, will open with an exhibition preview and artist talk on Saturday, January 14, 2012, from 6-9pm, and will remain on view until February 26, 2012. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, Schutz’s dynamic paintings abound with expressionist energy, combining an absurdist sensibility with vibrant color ... More | | 
Every day, newspapers and magazines are filled with photos of war, oppression and violence.© Stanley Greene / NOOR.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents Black Passport, a project by and about the American conflict photographer Stanley Greene (New York, 1949). Black Passport shows photos of conflicts and disasters combined with photos of Greene's private life. The result is a revealing portrait of a photographer who is addicted to the adrenaline rush of being on the move, but at the same time realises the sacrifices he makes in his personal life. Stanley Greene has photographed in regions such as Chechnya, Iraq, Rwanda and Sudan and is one of the founders of the international photo agency NOOR. Every day, newspapers and magazines are filled with photos of war, oppression and violence. The photographer that enables us to watch what is happening in the rest of the world from the safety of our own homes, however, usually remains invisible. This is not the case in Black Passport, the biography of war photographer Stanley Greene, which appeared in book form in ... More | | 
John Hatfield was the Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.- Socrates Sculpture Park announces the appointment of its next executive director, John Hatfield. Hatfield will assume directorship of the Park on January 18, 2012, following seventeen years at the internationally acclaimed New Museum of Contemporary Art in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There, Hatfield served in the capacity of Deputy Director since 2008 and held various positions from 1992 to 2002 and from 2004 to 2011. He succeeds Alyson Baker, who served as Director from 2000 to 2011 and has since become the Executive Director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum as of July. As Deputy Director of the New Museum, Hatfield contributed to the development and execution of short and long range strategic planning in all areas of the museum and oversaw the growth and expansion of staff, earned revenue sources, operations, digital resources, finances and programming. He has worked wi ... More |
| National Postal Museum opens "Systems at Work", exhibit recreates path of mail | | Long-lost Victorian painting by William Powell Frith nets $782,680 at Christie's auction | | Activist Collectors share their Contemporary Coast Salish Collection at the AGGV | 
Systems at Work Exhibit Image. Photo: Eric Long, NASM.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- A letter is dropped into a mailbox. How does it go from there to its destination? The answer to that and other questions unfolds in “Systems at Work,” a new permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. The exhibit recreates the paths of letters, magazines, parcels and other pieces of mail as they have traveled from sender to recipient over the past 200 years. In 1808, a stagecoach carries newspapers and the latest news to people hundreds of miles away. Two hundred years later, the integration of ZIP codes, barcodes, intelligent mail, automated sorting machines and advanced technologies enable the U.S. Postal Service to process and deliver mail to 150 million homes and businesses across the country. At the exhibit’s core is a 270-degree high-resolution film experience that puts visitors into the middle of the mammoth world of a mail-processing cente ... More | | 
Alize Morand, employee of Christie's, adjusts the 'Derby Day' painting by William Powell Frith at Christie's in London. AP Photo / Stefan Rousseau.
LONDON (AP).- A long-lost Victorian painting by William Powell Frith sold for 505,250 pounds ($782,680) at a London auction, Christie's auction house said Thursday. "The Derby Day" is an early version of one of the era's most famous pictures — Frith's teeming, picaresque image of the crowds at an 1850s horse race, from a rich family in their carriage to gamblers, acrobats and prostitutes. The finished painting hangs in the Tate Britain gallery in London. The 15-by-35 inch (39 centimeter by 91 centimeter) oil-on-canvas sketch sold by Christie's is Frith's first complete version of the scene. Christie's said the sale — to an anonymous bidder over the phone — set a world record price for Frith at auction. The painting had been expected to fetch between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds, Christie's added. The piece had been hanging in ... More | | 
John Marston (b. 1978), Salmon Headdress, 2010. carved and painted cedar, cedar bark 59.8 x 45.8 x 22.9.
VICTORIA.- The extraordinary, contemporary Coast Salish art collection of Victoria residents George and Christiane Smyth will be presented at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria beginning in the New Year. Opening Jan. 6 and running through May 6, 2012, Victoria Collects: The Salish Weave Collection is a companion exhibition to Victoria Collects opening at the AGGV on Feb. 6. When discussing their role as collectors, George Smyth said, “Our collection is a noun AND a verb. The objects are nouns; what we do with the collection is the verb.” For this reason they call themselves “Activist Collectors”; their mission is to promote the works not just passively acquire and display them. The seeds of the Smyth’s collection were sewn in the late 1990’s with the purchase of Coast Salish art to decorate the walls of their home. In ... More |
| David Hartt's latest work, Stray Light, inaugurates Museum of Contemporary Art's Screen | | South Africa gallows at Pretoria Central Prison site becomes museum, memorial for executed | | Hirshhorn's Black Box features the first U.S. exhibition of the work of Ali Kazma | 
David Hartt, Award Room, 2011. Edition of 6 + 1 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago-based Canadian artist David Hartt’s latest work, Stray Light, inaugurates the MCA Screen, a new series of media-based exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Hartt’s films capture the social, cultural, political, and economic complexities of his subjects, which he then renders with a cool, dispassionate eye. His latest subject is the former Johnson Publishing Company building on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, famous for producing Jet and Ebony magazines and as a leader in African-American taste and culture. Stray Light includes a film displayed in a gallery with a carpet designed to evoke the Johnson Publishing Company, as well as a group of photographs in an adjacent gallery. MCA Screen: David Hartt is curated by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling and runs through April 29, 2012. Hartt records the time-capsule nature of the Johnson Publishing Company space, ... More | | 
nooses hang above the trapdoor in the gallows at the Pretoria Central Prison. AP Photo/Denis Farrell.
By: Donna Bryson, Associated Press
PRETORIA (AP).- Martha Mahlangu can't bear to visit the prison where her son, an anti-apartheid guerrilla, was hanged. But she says it's important that other South Africans see the gallows the government opened as a monument Thursday. The new memorial recreates the place where political prisoners like Solomon Mahlangu climbed the stairs to face their executions, never struggling and sometimes even singing anti-apartheid songs. Martha Mahlangu, an 87-year-old former maid, hopes visitors to the gallows will contemplate her son's sacrifice. "Solomon only thought of freedom, to free the black man," she said in an interview in her Pretoria home. "He never thought of himself, only about seeing the black man free." Her voice faltered when she tried speak about being invited to take part in a series of events this week at the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. She sat on her porch in a neighborhood set aside for blacks under apartheid that today remains predominantly black and poor. Sh ... More | | 
Ali Kazma, “O.K.” (2010). 7 channel video installation with sound, endless loop. Courtesy of C24 Gallery and Vehbi Koç Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s popular Black Box series has brought a diverse range of international film and video works to Washington for more than five years. This season Black Box features the first U.S. exhibition of the work of Ali Kazma (Turkish, b. Istanbul, 1971), who is fascinated by the process of work, from the transfixing repetitive flow of automated mass manufacturing to the unique intricacies of artisanal hand labor. His artworks have studied subjects ranging from a blue jeans assembly line in a vast Turkish factory to the intimate benchwork of a wristwatch repairman and the intensity of brain surgery in an operating theater. Black Box features Kazma’s most ambitious project to date, seven channels of synchronized video, all running on an endless loop. “O.K.” (2010) is a study of a notary stamping hundreds of documents at breakneck speed. The ... More |
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 Crocker Art Museum to celebrate 50th anniversary of Studio Glass Movement with new exhibition SACRAMENTO, CA.- Next summer, the Crocker Art Museum will be one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary of the studio art-glass movement in America. “Red Hot and Blown: Contemporary Glass from the Crocker’s Collection” brings together more than 20 works by some of America’s most well-known glass artists, including Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Therman Statom, and Nancy Mee. The exhibit will be on view March 17 through September 23, 2012. Since the movement’s founding in the early 1960s, glass has emerged as a rich and diverse form of creative expression with vessels, sculptures, and everything in between being blown, cast, assembled, and painted. The Crocker’s exhibition includes all of these techniques, ranging from Lipofsky’s blown sculptures from the 1960s and Chihuly’s elaborate “Macchia Seaform Group” from the 1980s to more recently ... More PowerHouse Books announces Here We Are by Panos Kokkinias BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Here We Are is an anthology of Panos Kokkinias' widely exhibited fine-art photography, from 1994 through 2007. The monograph consists of four sections, each representing different bodies of work linked by a common theme: Kokkinias' personal, ongoing obsession with existential subject matter. Home (1994-1995), was produced during a difficult personal period for Kokkinias, marked by an eating disorder. To help overcome his troubles, Kokkinias turned the camera onto himself. Gradually his physical presence in the pictures gave way to surrogates for his psychological state. Interiors (1995-1996), contains depictions of uncommon and unfamiliar interior spaces with the apparition of haunting human figures. Seen from a distance, the subjects are trapped, wandering, and lost, without an apparent escape. In Landscapes (1996-2001), beneath an omnipresent lens, distant figures roam the ... More Ennead Architects to design Penn State's Veterans Plaza NEW YORK, N.Y.- Pennsylvania State University has selected Ennead Architects in collaboration with Sculptor Mark Mennin as winner of the design competition for the new Veterans Plaza. The gift of the class of 2011, the memorial will honor Penn State veterans. Ennead partners Richard Olcott and Timothy Hartung will lead the design team. In a pivotal location adjacent to both the University's Old Main and its quad and Pollack Road, the memorial occupies a culturally and spatially significant spot on campus, sited to become a central part of the campus experience. Preliminary plans for the Veterans Plaza feature a circular walkway and curved wall made of precast concrete, centered around an artistic representation of a warrior’s shield, symbolizing honor and sacrifice. The plaza’s curved wall will be named to honor Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a 1998 liberal arts graduate and the only Penn State alumnus to earn the Medal of Honor. ... More In Cuba property thaw, new hope for a decayed icon HAVANA (AP).- Along Havana's northern coastline, storms that roll down from the north send waves crashing against the concrete seawall, drenching vintage cars and kids playing games of chicken with the salty spray. Fisherman toss their lines into the warm waters, shirtless men play dominoes on card tables, and throngs of young people gather on weekend nights to laugh, flirt and sip cheap rum. This is the achingly beautiful and most instantly recognizable part of Havana's cityscape: the Malecon seafront boulevard, with its curlicue lampposts and pastel buildings rising into an azure sky. Just about anywhere else in the world, it would be a playground for the wealthy, diners in four-star restaurants and tourists willing to spend hundreds of dollars a night for a million-dollar view. But along the Malecon, many buildings are dank, labyrinthine tenements bursting beyond capacity, plagued by mold and reeking of ... More |
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