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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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