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Written by Walter Bliefieldt
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:55 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Jacob Lawrence, born in
1917,
became one of the most important African American artists of the
twentieth
century, renowned for his paintings of African Americans and black
people of
other lands who struggled for freedom. Jacob Lawrence Prints, 1963 –
2000, at
the Hudson River Museum through June 6, 2010, include 81 of Lawrence’s
brilliantly-colored individual prints as well as three series of prints
that
show his versatility as an artist and storyteller. The Legend
of John
Brown series depicts a deeply religious and passionately anti-slavery
John
Brown, who felt called to violent insurrection to dismantle the
institution of
slavery in the United States; the Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis
series
is based on Lawrence’s memories of the Baptist ministers of his youth,
whose
sermons contained stories of Creation; and the series on Life of
Toussaint
L’Ouverture focuses on the Haitian slave who became the commander of the
revolutionary army that fought France and England for Haiti’s freedom.
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Read more... Exhibition of Prints by Jacob Lawrence at the Hudson River Museum
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Written by Clemente Garcia
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:55 |
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MADRID.- PHotoEspaña has revealed in a press
conference the names of the winners of the PHotoEspaña 2009 Awards. The
PHotoEspaña Director, Claude Bussac, has made public the awards in
Matadero Madrid at Naves del Español, with the presence
of most of the awarded artists. The Bartolome Ros Award, gifted
with 12,000 €, has been granted to photographer Isabel Muñoz. The jury of
the prize, formed by Rose Ros, responsible for the bequest of Bartolomé
Ros; Carlos Gollonet, curator of expositions and advisor of photography of
the Foundation MAPFRE; Publio Lopez Mondejar, photographer and Bartolome
Ros 1999 Award; Carlos Urroz, cultural agent and Alberto Anaut,
president of PHotoEspaña has wanted to recognize Muñoz by her bravery,
capacity of innovation and approach to diverse cultures through her full
portraits of intensity coherence.
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Read more... The Names of the Winners of the PHotoEspaña 2009 Awards Announced
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Written by Doris Meadows
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:54 |
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ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Nassau County Museum
of Art
(NCMA) presents works by Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Michel
Basquiat,
shown together for the first time. The artists do not share
generation
nor culture, but they do share a confrontational antagonism to the
traditional
and academic, resulting in art that is raw, bold and forthright. Primal
symbols
characterize their work in personalized types of graffiti that exist in a
timeless, unidentifiable space. In the work of these artists, signs and
color
erupt in a free association of structure and rhythm; the mysterious act
of
painting is shown as wild and free, yet also very exacting.
Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat opens at NCMA on March 13, 2010 and
remains on
view through May 23, 2010.
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Read more... Miró ~ Dubuffet ~ Basquiat at the Nassau County Museum of Art
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Written by Kenneth Daniels
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:54 |
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BELLEVUE, WA.- This spring, Bellevue Arts
Museum
offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience the private collection
of
Seattle-based art collectors John and Joyce Price. On view from March 18
through
August 8, 2010, Eyes for Glass: The Price Collection focuses on one
aspect of
the Prices' broad collecting activities: works whose common
denominator
is glass whether it be blown, cast, engraved, fused, slumped, carved,
painted or
in combination with non-glass materials. Enamored by the art created in
the
United States' Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, this premier
exhibition
includes over 170 works by 70 American and Native American artists,
including
Joe David, Preston Singletary, Susan Point, Kenojuak Ashevak, Walter
Lieberman,
Dick Weiss, Cappy Thompson, Dale Chihuly, Dante Marioni, Katherine Gray,
William
Morris, Sean Albert and Lino Tagliapietra.
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Read more... Bellevue Arts Museum to Showcase Glass Collection of John & Joyce Price
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Written by Clarke Canfield, Associated Press Writer
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:54 |
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WINTERPORT, ME
(AP).- Boat enthusiast Jon Johansen
has set out on an ambitious and exhaustive task: documenting every ship
built in
the United States. For years, the 56-year-old publisher of the monthly
Maine
Coastal News has catalogued more than 50,000 vessels — from 20-foot
lobster
boats to seven-masted schooners to modern-day warships. Eventually,
the
Winterport, Maine man plans to create a Web site with his gobs of
information
and call it the International Maritime Library. He says it's his way of
helping
preserve a part of America's rich maritime past.
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Read more... Maine Maritime Buff Creating The International Maritime Library
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Written by Corey Bartlett
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:54 |
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EAST HAMPTON, NY - Born into a family of stone carvers in the town of Mure on the Japanese island of Shikoku, Masatoshi Izumi was the principal collaborator of Isamu Noguchi on the artist's late stone sculpture. Izumi began working with stone in 1953, and in 1964 he co-founded the Stone Atelier in Kagawa Prefecture, dedicated to new architectural and artistic uses of traditional stone cutting techniques.
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Read more... Izumi Masatoshi Exhibits at LongHouse Reserve
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Written by Leslie Sacks
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:54 |
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SANTA MONICA, CA.- Greenfield Sacks
Gallery
presents an exhibition of works by celebrated New York artist Alex Katz.
The
exhibition will include oil paintings and prints from 1992 - 2008 in the
genre
of landscape and seascape. Unlike Katz’s large-scale paintings,
the
paintings exhibited are small and intimate in scale, each are 9 x 12
inches. The
prints range in size from 29 x 23 1/4 inches to 28 3/4 x 67 3/4 inches.
On exhibition through 24 April, 2010.
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Read more... Landscapes and Seascapes by Alex Katz at Greenfield Sacks Gallery
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Written by Marlene Gibbons
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 01:53 |
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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, VA.- The University of
Richmond Museums presents "Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm
in Art
from the Collection", on view from March 20 to May 14, 2010, in the Joel
and
Lila Harnett Museum of Art. The exhibition features art in which
pattern,
texture, and rhythm are the primary elements that generate energy and
visual
movement as well as emotional and aesthetic content. These
selected
paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and textiles are from the
permanent
collection of the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study
Center.
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Read more... University of Richmond Opens Exhibition of Art from Its Collection
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Written by Stephanie Giddings
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Monday, 15 March 2010 01:47 |
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LONDON.- This exhibition is the first ever
to
focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s shared enthusiasm for art.
Bringing
together more than 400 items from the Royal Collection, it celebrates
the royal
couple’s mutual delight in collecting and displaying works of art, from
the time
of their engagement in 1839 to the Prince’s untimely death in 1861.
The
exhibition also challenges the popular image of Victoria – the
melancholy widow
of 40 years – and reveals her as a passionate and open-minded young
woman.
On view 19 March through 31 October, 2010.
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Read more... First Exhibition Ever to Focus on Queen Victoria & Prince Albert's Enthusiasm for Art
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Written by Robert M. Place
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Monday, 15 March 2010 01:20 |
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Los Angeles, CA - While known today primarily as
a fortune
telling or occult deck, the Tarot was born out of
the intellectual and artistic developments of
the Italian
Renaissance. Links to the
Tarot’s icons and symbology can be found in the
popular
arts, and philosophy of this rich
historic period. Influenced by alchemy,
Hermetic
mysticism and the concept of Anima
Mundi (the
fifth element of life), the Tarot became a
conversation between mystics and
artists that has lasted over five centuries. This
exhibition was curated by Tarot scholar, writer, and artist Robert M.
Place.
Fool’s Journey will be
on view at CAFAM
through April 9, 2010. A host
of events,
including artists’ talks, children’s workshops, and adult classes, and
other
cultural adventures will take place during the run of the
exhibit.
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Read more... The Fool's Journey ~ The History & Symbolism of the Tarot
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Written by Octavio Brenes
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Monday, 15 March 2010 01:19 |
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VALENCIA,SPAIN - The sea has been an indispensable
element of cultural germination and a symbol of inspiration thanks
to the
magic of its waters, its legends, its light, the contrast between
calmness
and roughness and, for that reason, artists have not overlooked
these
aesthetic sensations. The sea is a psychological allegory
that
encloses clear antitheses: surfaces and depths, the absence of
confines on
the horizon and the absence of light in the abyss. Unlike the
earth – a
symbol of the rational soul – the sea is indeed the metaphor of
the heart.
It is the figure of the uneasiness that tortures us: of our need
to go in
pursuit of unknown goals. On view through 10 May,
2010.
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Read more... The Sea as a Pretext" Opens at Valencian Institute for Modern Art
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Written by Bert Green
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Monday, 15 March 2010 01:19 |
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LOS
ANGELES, CA.- Bert Green Fine Art presents a
long-overdue solo exhibition by San Francisco based artist John U.
Abrahamson,
and the gallery debut of the works of Paul Guillemette. John U.
Abrahamson paints in a
dramatic, pained style
which is born of a gothic sensibility, but fully transcends that
stylistic
limitation through the masterful application of technical skill in the
service
of a real, experiential subject matter. On exhibition through 24 April,
2010.
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Read more... Long-Overdue Solo Exhibition by John U. Abrahamson at Bert Green Fine Art
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