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Written by Kevin Santiago
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Monday, 08 February 2010 05:47 |
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Avedon Fashion 1944-2000
will be on view at the Norton Museum of Art from February 9 through May 9,
2010. The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon's
fashion work, it will feature over 150 objects, including photographs from
throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work
in context and materials demonstrating his creative process. Richard Avedon is
the most significant and influential photographer to have taken fashion as one
of his subjects. He began working for Harper's Bazaar in 1944, when he
was only twenty-one, and revolutionized fashion photography, dispensing with its
prevailing mannered and statically posed formulas and introducing a more
youthful, spirited, and distinctly American style.
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Read more... Fashion Photography of Richard Avedon at the Norton Museum of Art
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Written by Marion Belmar
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Monday, 08 February 2010 05:47 |
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THE HAGUE.- In the early 20th century, a group of
artists caused a huge furor in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der
Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical
paintings which were to prompt the development of Expressionism in Germany. The
core members of the group were Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and kindred
spirit Franz Marc. Although the group was so important for the later
development of modern art, this exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will
be the first major retrospective of its work ever held in the Netherlands. Many
of the works were seen earlier as part of the successful Kandinsky exhibitions
at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
On view through 24 May, 2010.
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Read more... Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens Retrospective of the Work of Der Blaue Reiter
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Written by Quincy Salinger
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Monday, 08 February 2010 04:31 |
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AUBURN, AL.- Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announces
that the Louise Hauss and Davis Brent Miller Audubon Gallery will be
closed for renovation February 15 through March 26 to allow for an upgrade of
the lighting system. We are installing new track lights that will provide more
flexibility in illumination of the exhibitions and ensure better control over
light levels and UV filtering to further safeguard the collections. We
apologize for the inconvenience, but think you’ll be delighted with what you see
at the grand reopening of the galleries -- an exhibition based on one of JCSM’s
Audubon treasures, never before exhibited at the museum. On
view 27 March through 3 July, 2010.
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Read more... Audubon’s Final Achievement ~ "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
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Written by Stephan Jennings
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Monday, 08 February 2010 04:30 |
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LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London will present an
exhibition of new work by the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Following his
acclaimed exhibition at Haunch of Venison Zürich in 2008, Kallat’s new work
showcases the full range of his visual vocabulary incorporating video,
sculptural installation, photography and the large format paintings for which he
is best known. Tackling his foundational themes of sustenance, survival
and mortality in the contemporary urban environment of Mumbai, Kallat offsets a
vivid, hand-made aesthetic with digitised renderings of streets fit-to-burst,
where the cumulative impression of daily existence is pushed to the
extreme. On view 15 February through 27 March, 2010.
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Read more... Haunch of Venison to show New Work by Indian Artist Jitish Kallat
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Written by Julie Brackman
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Monday, 08 February 2010 04:30 |
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MONTREAL.- While Vancouver and Toronto may have boasted
the most vibrant art scenes in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnipeg took over
in the 2000s, spurred on by artist Marcel Dzama. He quickly carved out an
international reputation for his unclassifiable, disconcerting art that reveals
a fanciful, anachronistic world. Marcel Dzama – title (Of Many Turns),
which offers a critical survey of his haunting yet outrageous work, is the
largest solo exhibition of Dzama’s art by a public gallery. It will be presented
at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from February 4 to April 25,
2010.
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Read more... Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art
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Written by Cassie Silversmith
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Monday, 08 February 2010 01:30 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of
paintings by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, 1865 – Paris,
1925). The exhibition features portraits of women, primarily nudes, and
is the first gallery exhibition in New York devoted to the artist’s paintings.
Félix Vallotton’s paintings do not give pleasure easily. In portraiture he is
not a flashy virtuoso and his nudes are not “sexy”, at least not in any typical
fashion. His paint handling is careful and deliberate; his palette, subdued and
a little flat; his surfaces, slow and at times somewhat dry. His intense,
unforgiving attention to detail lends a palpable realism to the paintings.
Enlivened by a thinly veiled eroticism, his subtly voyeuristic scenes leave one
feeling more than a little uncomfortable. Paintings of Félix Vallotton is on
view from 4 February to 10 April 2010.
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Read more... Michael Werner Gallery exhibits Paintings by Swiss Artist Félix Vallotton
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Written by Mason Belinkoff
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Monday, 08 February 2010 01:29 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution
dedicated to promoting photography, and Instituto Cervantes, a
non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of
Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret
the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions opening
February 4 and 5 at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes respectively, just
prior to the launch of the 10th annual New York Flamenco Festival on February
11. Exhibition on view through 1 April, 2010.
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Read more... Flamenco & Photography Celebrated at Aperture Gallery in New York
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Written by Sylvia Bangstrom
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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:45 |
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PORTLAND, OR.- Among the most important and
influential artists of his generation, Cy Twombly has used mark-making and
written language as the core of his artistic practice since the late
1950s. Twombly’s work has come to define an important branch of
gestural abstraction that conflates painting and poetry, line and word. The
exhibition showcases three recent works—two virtuosic paintings and a bronze
sculpture—that illuminate the artist’s continuing engagement with process and
content, the immediacy of materials, and the continuum of history.
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Read more... Recent Works by Cy Twombly Showcased at the Portland Art Museum
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Written by Richard Davidoff
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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:44 |
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PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art
Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester
reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring
the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention
Center. Sales during the first day of the fair indicate that the US art
economy is rebounding strongly – consistent with very strong auction sales in
New York on Wednesday – where a Giacometti sculpture sold for a record $105
million – a new high for any work of art. The American International
Fine Art Fair continues its run through February 8.
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Read more... Record Attendance Marks Opening of 14th American International Fine Art Fair
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Written by Carmen Constante
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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:43 |
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HUESCA, SPAIN - The first notions that usually
come to mind when considering garbage, waste and deterioration are generally
negative, when not outright nauseating. We are aware of the physical and
chemical processes of the matter around us, beginning with the cycles of nature
itself, including industrial processes, technical constructions and manufactured
consumer items, and ending with the very materiality of the human being as a
living organism. This crisscrossing of elements and activities-which,
after all, is what makes the human being civilized and cultural, negotiating and
struggling to domesticate and exploit the landscape and the ecosystem, the
planet, in short-generates endless reactions, overpopulation and overproduction,
upsets and imbalances, and therefore waste, before which we often do not know
how to react or that, metaphorically, but also in the practical reality, we end
up sweeping under the rug and looking the other way.
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Read more... Exhibition Examines Waste and Recycling As Contemporary Art
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Written by Curtis Mannheim
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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:43 |
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LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London announced an exhibition
of work by the legendary filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger, in his first solo
show in London in over five years. Making films continuously since the
late 1940s and considered a countercultural icon, Kenneth Anger is widely
acclaimed as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema. His
groundbreaking body of work has inspired cineastes, filmmakers and artists
alike. Many channels of contemporary visual culture, from queer iconography to
MTV, similarly owe a debt to his art. On view 19 February though 27
March, 2010.
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Read more... First Solo Show in London in 5 Years for Kenneth Anger at Sprüth Magers
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Written by Philippe Büttner
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 05:40 |
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BASEL.- One hundred years after the death of the
French artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an
exhibition to this pioneer of modernism. Forty outstanding works provide a
concise overview of the development and diversity of his oeuvre. A customs
official, Rousseau had no formal art training and initially painted in his free
time. Many years passed before his art, non-academic and long
considered merely naive, found recognition in the Paris salons. In addition to
the legendary jungle pictures characteristic of his late work, Rousseau also
painted views of Paris and environs, as well as figures, portraits, allegories
and genre scenes. With Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin, Rousseau was one of
the artists whose visual inventions paved the way for incipient modernism.
On exhibition 7 February though 9 May, 2010.
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Read more... The Fondation Beyeler honors French Artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) ~ 100 Years
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