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Louvre Museum Director Henri Loyrette looks at oil paintings of English born American artist Thomas Cole 1801-1848 known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness as part of a partnership with American museums for the New Frontier Exhibition at Louvre Museum in Paris, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. American tourists fill the galleries of the Louvre Museum, yet American art is surprisingly scarce, but Paris' premier museum and three U.S. art institutions are seeking to change that with an exhibit tracing the birth of American landscape painting and its influences. AP Photo/Francois Mori.
By: Laurence Joan-Grange, Associated Press
PARIS (AP).- American tourists fill the galleries of the Louvre Museum, yet American art is surprisingly scarce. Paris' premier museum and three U.S. art institutions are seeking to change that with an exhibit tracing the birth of American landscape painting and its influences. "As soon as I arrived at the Louvre, I noticed that American art was not displayed at the level it merits," said Louvre director Henri Loyrette. Even the exhibit's English-French melange of a name breaks tradition: It's called "New Frontier: l'art americain entre au Louvre," or "American Art Enters the Louvre." It focuses on Thomas Cole, a pioneer of the Hudson River School of American landscape painters of the 19th century. Cole's "The Cross in Solitude," from 1845 and in the Louvre collection ... More |
| Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments: Silenced musical treasures languish in Michigan vault | | Leading global gallery opens on-line exhibit of 30 'Best of the Best' pieces sold in 2011 | | Touring Mount Rushmore's famous faces goes virtual; visitors will be able to take in-depth tours online | 
Instruments in the University of Michigan's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments sit in storage in Ann Arbor. AP Photo/Paul Sancya.
By: Jeff Karoub, Associated Press
ANN ARBOR (AP).- A massive cache of musical treasures that's grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for "The Green Hornet" radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn and now languish, rarely seen or heard, in a Michigan storage vault. Spanning centuries and continents, the instruments worth at least $25 million by their chief caretaker's estimate are packed and stacked in an out-of-the-way storage room with water-stained ceilings. It's hardly the environment envisioned for them when Detroit businessman Frederick Stearns gave the University of Michigan the base of the collection a century ago with instructions that the instruments be exhibited — not invisible. ... More | | 
C. Bordjalou Kazak, 5.3 x 6.9, Rare museum level antique Caucasian Bordjalou Kazak rug from the second quarter of the 19th century.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company, the world’s leading dealer of 19th century, art-level Oriental carpets, today announced an on-line exhibition which will feature 30 of the most rare, one-in-the-world antique rugs that it has placed with clients during the past year. Presiden / Founder Jan David Winitz, who opened his Gallery in 1980, said, “In 2011, we were very fortunate to procure and to place a substantial number of extremely rare, high collectible to museum-level Oriental carpets. This exhibition spotlights 30 of the most noteworthy carpets our clients bought last year.” The on-line exhibit will “open” on Wednesday, January 18, and run until March 31. The rugs may be accessed in a slideshow format with commentary about each piece at http://www.claremontrug.com. “The vast majority of these astonishing antique rugs never appe ... More | | 
The memorial in western South Dakota. AP Photo/Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
By: Kristi Eaton, Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP).- Virtual visitors to Mount Rushmore can now explore even more remote areas of the memorial than some who see it in person. Three-dimensional laser technology scans that captured every nook of the four presidential faces and other features of the monument last year mean that starting Tuesday, visitors will be able to take in-depth tours online of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota. The portal, comprised of models of the monument, allows people remote access to the site to plan a visit or explore unusual areas, said Maureen McGee-Ballinger, the memorial's director of interpretation and education. The monument draws about 3 million in-person visitors a year. Online users are able to manipulate or dissect the three-dimensional models in various ... More |
| Vancouver Art Gallery permanent collection expands by more than 150 works in 2011 | | Fondazione Pastificio Cerere presents Postcard from... Damien Hirst Nucleohistone | | Saint Louis Art Museum presents new media series Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Single Wide | 
Frederick Horsman Varley, Fire Ranger's Look-out, circa 1932 (detail), oil on panel, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Purchased with funds donated by the Audain Foundation, Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Key acquisitions of historical and contemporary art expanded the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection by 156 works in 2011, with 113 works received through private donation. Works by artists Robert Davidson, Gathie Falk, Rodney Graham, Angela Grossman, Lawren Harris, Brian Jungen, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Takao Tanabe, John Vanderpant, Frederick Varley and Ian Wallace, among many others, have been added to the Gallery’s collection, enhancing its status as the most significant public art collection in Western Canada . The Gallery’s permanent collection now numbers 10, 262 works of art. “The Vancouver Art Gallery ’s permanent collection is the core of our program and its sustained growth ... More | | 
Damien Hirst, 2011. Photo: Anton Corbijn, 2011.
ROME.- Fondazione Pastificio Cerere inaugurated its 2012 program with the second edition of Postcard from…, a project conceived and curated by the Fondazione’s Art Director, Marcello Smarrelli, and aimed at diffusing contemporary art in urban contexts. Produced in collaboration with A.P.A. - Agenzia Pubblicità Affissioni, Postcard from… involves four artists yearly who each create a poster measuring 400x300 cm, dimensions of which reflect those used in billboard advertising. This year’s first poster, Postcard from… Damien Hirst Nucleohistone, was realized by internationally renowned British artist Damien Hirst, and will be displayed at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere until 10 March, 2012. The poster has been installed in the Fondazione’s courtyard and will also be circulated in ten facilities in Rome managed by A.P.A. with the standard 14-day advertising turnover. An updated list of locations can be consulted on Pastificio Cerere’s ... More | | 
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, still from Single Wide, 2002; high definition video with sound; 6 min. 7 sec.; Courtesy of the artists and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents its latest New Media Series installation, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Single Wide. The video will be on view in Gallery 301 through March 25, 2012. Hubbard and Birchler’s Single Wide (2002) is a gripping yet deliberately enigmatic six-minute story. Shot on a meticulously staged set, the film offers a glimpse into the tormented life of a young woman living in a trailer home. Single Wide features a highly constructed setting in which detail and ambiguity are skillfully juxtaposed, with numerous clues but no complete answers. Hubbard and Birchler are best known for such narrative complexity, further heightened by their characteristic use of seamless looping. Shot in 2002, Single Wide premiered in the ... More |
| Canadian artist Althea Thauberger presents film at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal | | "Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas" displayed at the Georgia Museum of Art | | Lucy Pullen explores phenomena and color in new exhibition at Romer Young Gallery | 
Althea Thauberger, Zivildienst (Social Service, 2006. Performance filmed in digital video with sound. Running time: 18 minutes.
MONTREAL.- From January 4 to February 19, 2012, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is presenting Zivildienst ≠ Kunstprojekt (Social Service ≠ Art Project) by the Canadian artist from Saskatoon Althea Thauberger. Screened as part of the Projections series, this eighteen-minute black-and-white film was produced with the collaboration of eight young Germans who devoted part of their civil service to the artist’s project. Thauberger, based in Vancouver for several years, studied photography at Concordia University (2000) before going on to earn an MFA at the University of Victoria in British Columbia (2002). A meeting with the artist will take place on Wednesday, February 1, in the Beverley Webster Rolph Hall. As artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2006, Thauberger reached an agreement with the German authorities of the Zivildienst (the civil service) in order to work with cons ... More | | 
Henry Eugene Thomas, Coffee table, ca. 1957 (codesigned by Marion West Marshall, 1928–1964). Walnut, white pine and yellow pine, 18 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 51 inches. Collection of George O. Marshall Jr. and Charlotte Thomas Marshall.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents “Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas”, a decorative arts exhibition featuring furniture made by Athens craftsman Henry Eugene Thomas, from Jan. 14 to April 15, 2012. The exhibition features about 20 pieces of furniture made by Thomas plus related photographs and ephemera and are accompanied by a small book published by the museum. This is the first exhibition to highlight Thomas’ furniture and a career that spanned three decades. Little was known about his career, though he was well known in the Athens area and taught Henry D. Green, a prominent advocate of Georgia decorative arts, about antiques. “Gene Thomas was an expert craftsman and a true ... More | | 
Color and media are ubiquitous and immersive. Talking about either is like describing water to a fish.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Romer Young Gallery presents its second solo exhibition with Canadian artist Lucy Pullen. For her exhibition, HUE, Pullen explores phenomena and color using a wide range of media. Her goal is to preserve neoteny- recently defined by Joichi Ito as, ‘the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood: idealism, experimentation and wonder’ (In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants, J. Ito, Science Section of the New York Times: Dec 5, 2011). Color and media are ubiquitous and immersive. Talking about either is like describing water to a fish. Using sculpture, painting and video, with colored plexi-glass, reflective material, polished aluminum, corian and footage from a cloud chamber Pullen joyfully builds a creative response to an increasingly mediated society. The distinction between art and media, like drawing with a pencil or working on a computer, quickly fades on ... More |
| Dana Schutz's exhibition of drawings and monotypes uses images and themes from opera | | Four artists who puncture, penetrate, scratch and even recreate the photographic image at Foley Gallery | | Tokujin Yoshioka now! Design a vivre 2012 Creator of the Year exhibition opens in Paris | 
Dana Schutz, Brünnhilde, 2011. Watercolor monotype with colored pencil, crayon and pastel on Lanaquarelle watercolor paper. Courtesy of the artist and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Published by Two Palms, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Acclaimed artist Dana Schutz opened Götterdämmerung, a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the final opera in Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on January 12. Schutz is the fourth and final artist in a series of leading contemporary talents commissioned to create Ring-themed artwork for Gallery Met. Each show coincides with a new production premiere of Robert Lepage’s staging of the Ring cycle; Götterdämmerung, the final opera in the cycle, opens at the Met January 27 and runs through May 12. Schutz, a young American artist, has earned critical praise for her work, which may be seen in many major museums in America and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art. She is particularly well-known for paintings which transcend ... More | | 
Danielle Durchslag, Relative Unknown 2, 2010. 4 x 2.5 inches. Paper, tape, glue, vintage board.
NEW YORK, NY.- Foley Gallery announces its first exhibition of 2012. Inspired by artists who interrupt and otherwise compromise the integrity of the precious negative and paper used in photography, Penetration showcases several approaches that reveal the presence of the artist’s hand in their photographic work. The result is a concept of its own, represented by four artists who puncture, penetrate, scratch and even recreate the photographic image. Danielle Durchslag looks back at her own ancestral history through photographs of family whose names and identities have been forgotten with the passing of time. With hundreds of pieces of cut paper, she recreates these portraits in a layered mosaic to acknowledge their disappearance and elevate the original photographs from anonymous objects to revered memorials of those whose actions and decisions ultimately affected her. Joseph Heidecker marries vernacular photography w ... More | | 
Crystalized pieces adopting the randomness or unexpectedness of nature surpasses human's imagination.
PARIS.- Tokujin Yoshioka received the award of now! design à vivre 2012 Creator of the Year by Maison & Objet, Paris. Each year, Maison & Objet gives this award to one creator who is acknowledged as the most influential and who has made an impact on world's creative scene. Tokujin extends his sincere appreciation to all people and companies who have been giving the warm encouragement and kind support, which have been a source of his creative inspiration, and have realized the reception of this award. In honor of this award, Tokujin Yoshioka's exhibition is held at Maison & Objet. Crystalized pieces adopting the randomness or unexpectedness of nature surpasses human's imagination. Started since 2007, the "Crystalized Project," on the reflection of "Relationship between power of nature and human beings," tries to create and reveal a new portrait of nature. In the exhibition at Maison & Objet,new pieces, which ... More |
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 Towering legend, flawed man? King's image evolving WASHINGTON (AP).- On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he's a living, breathing man who chain smokes, sips liquor and occasionally curses. As Americans honor King's memory 44 years after he was assassinated, the image of the slain civil rights leader is evolving. The new King memorial, which opened in August in the nation's capital, celebrates the ideals King espoused. Quotations from his speeches and writings conjure memories of his message, and a 30-foot-tall sculpture depicts King emerging as a "stone of hope" from a "mountain of despair," a design inspired by a line of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Some gaze upon this figure in silence. Some smile and pull out cell phone cameras. Others chat about how closely the statue resembles King. And some are moved to tears. "Just all that this man did so that we could ... More Will Kurtz's Extra F***ing Ordinary opens at the Mike Weiss Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Extra Fucking Ordinary, Will Kurtz's debut exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects which depict the characters captured by Kurtz's iPhone camera lens. Utilizing the observing eye of a curious urban voyeur, Kurtz spends large portions of his days combing the streets of New York for his subjects, which are later transformed into sincere and amusing life-size sculptures. It is not the subjects' aesthetic appeal that draws Kurtz as much as their essence and strong representation of the multitude of prototypes that typify New York City: from an old married couple and endearingly eccentric dog owners to curmudgeonly middle-aged smokers. Kurtz’s sculptures openly reference real people engaged in real scenarios, be it posing for group shots at a to ... More Chris Burden's new work: art imitating the future LOS ANGELES (AP).- Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years. It will be a time, Burden forecasts, when cars will race across Los Angeles' no-longer-gridlocked freeways and streets, past a skyline of towering buildings and single-family homes, at speeds of 240 miles per hour or more. That's just what the tiny cars do in "Metropolis II," a colorful contraption composed of 1,100 miniature vehicles, 18 miniature roads, a tiny commuter rail line and dozens of small skyscrapers and other buildings. The cars, which Burden says reach a speed of "240 scale miles per hour," are powered by a complex series of electronic conveyor belts and magnets, "In essence, it's sort of a complicated roller-coaster system," the artist, one of the pioneers ... More "Celebrating Our Legacy: The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Art in the Atrium" at the Morris Museum MORRISTOWN, NJ.- In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Art in the Atrium, New Jersey’s premier annual African-American fine art show, partnered with the Morris Museum to present the Celebrating Our Legacy exhibition and opening reception. The exhibition, which features the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Norman Lewis and twenty-nine other African-American artists, will be on view from January 13 through March 18, 2012. The guest curator for the exhibition is Tarin M. Fuller. A lecture series is also scheduled. A catalog for the exhibition will be available at the Museum Shop. Art in the Atrium, Inc. (ATA) is a non-profit arts organization located in Morris County, New Jersey, that showcases fine art by established and emerging African-American artists through an annual exhibition, the largest of its kind in New Jersey. ATA’s mission is to increase community understanding and awareness of African-American ... More Group exhibition featuring seven artists at Milavec Hakimi Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Milavec Hakimi Gallery presents I See the Moon, a group exhibition featuring artists: Katelyn Alain, Dina Brodsky, Sabrina Marques, Scott Kahn, Christopher Saunders, Ryan Scully and Nicolas Touron. These seven artists display the ability to create alluring visual manifestations of their imaginations, causing viewers to suspend disbelief and dive into fantastical realms of fantasy. I See the Moon explores many worlds from post-apocalyptic landscapes to moments pulled from lifelike fairy tales. The works in this exhibition construct settings, which intricately intertwine the real and the imagined, resulting in a unique blend of familiarity and mystery. Each painting creates a portal into a new place as well as the artist’s mind. With each artist comes a distinct fictitious vision, illustrated through lush color palettes, atmospheric effects and characters. I See the Moon pushes you to inhabit the mi ... More Shane Waltener: Drawn to motion, written in space, stitched over time at Siobhan Davies Studios LONDON.- Shane Waltener presents an exhibition of new works specially designed for Siobhan Davies Studios exploring the relationship between textiles and dance, making and performance, objects and their recordings. Using stitching patterns, dance notation and the building itself as inspiration, he has used this opportunity to research and develop new work with dancers and members of the public. With Stairwell Suite, Waltener uses the stairwell as a loom, and its distinctive vertical metal framework to weave on. Waltener has collaborated with dance artist Laura Glaser to interpret stitching patterns into a set of movements. Acting as needles, or human bobbins, each dancer holding a length of yarn created a spiraling web-like structure during the opening of the exhibition while travelling up and down the staircase. Midway through the course of the exhibition, the piece will be remade in a performance taking place on Febr ... More Exhibition of new paintings by Denis Patrakeev at Erarta Galleries London LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London presents an exhibition of new paintings by Denis Patrakeev. One of the youngest rising stars of the Russian art scene, Patrakeev makes bleak, powerfully unsettling work that addresses the operations of memory, and the traumas of identity and belonging within contemporary society. His ‘Game Earth’ series of paintings depict children’s playgrounds: a sort of idealized, isolated model of social interaction, a rehearsal space for future social behavior – yet also an arena, as the artist describes it, “where I started to depart from the real me – as a child in a playground, during my first unprotected contact with society”. Restricting his palette to sombre, dingy colours, Patrakeev’s images appear deeply sinister and threatening, uncannily devoid of any human beings, stripped of their usual social usage. Instead, with their cold, metal climbing frames ... More |
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