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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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