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Written by Marty Walker
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:05 |
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Dallas, TX - Lisa Grossman’s
oil paintings of the wide open rural eastern Kansas, painted en
plein air (or on location), are a meditation on open spaces, exploring the
emotional responses to atmospheric shifts in light, color, and the vast distance
of land and sky. Grossman’s paintings are devoid of objects typically
depicted in landscape painting, such as trees, dwellings, and other human-made
contraptions such as cars and electrical lines. She instead wipes them out with
her confident brushstrokes offering uninterrupted, contemplative fields of color
open to self-reflection. On view 23 March through 17 April,
2010. Reception: Saturday, March 27, 6-8 pm.
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Read more... Marty Walker Gallery to show Lisa Grossman's Landscape Oil Paintings
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Written by Steve Bourget
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:05 |
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PARIS.- For the very first time in Europe, the
exhibition "Sex, death and sacrifice in the Mochica religion" puts together 134
Mochica ceramics depicting sexual or sacrificial acts with a surprising level of
realism. These potteries reveal to us the link that the Mochica people had
established between religion, power, sexuality and death. This amazing religious
iconography, which is a meeting of the sexual act and the sacred, is unique in
Precolumbian art and specific to Mochica mythology. It represents
sacrificial acts but predominantly of a sexual nature between animals and/or
anthropomorphous figures. The Mochica craftsmen have moulded these non
reproductive rites into their pottery, and gold objects, making the
stylized sexual attributes the central themes of an iconography for ritual
purposes whose boldness is as pronounced as the strength of their beliefs.
On view through 23 May, 2010.
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Read more... Sex, Death and Sacrifice in the Mochica Religion at the Musee du Quay Branly
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Written by Ursula Davila-Villa
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:04 |
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Austin, TX - In a special collaboration, the Harry Ransom Center
and the Blanton Museum of Art presentManuel Álvarez Bravo and His
Contemporaries: Photographs from
the Collections of the Harry Ransom Centerand The Blanton Museum of
Art. Organized by The Blanton as part of The University of Texas at Austin’s
celebration of the Mexican Bicentennial, the exhibition will feature 45
iconic images by “the father of Mexican photography,” drawn from the Harry
Ransom Center and The Blanton—UT’s two primary collections. The show will also
include excellent examples of work by Álvarez Bravo’s contemporaries including
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand, and
Edward Weston.
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Read more... The Blanton Museum of Art to open Manuel Álvarez Bravo & His Contemporaries
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Written by Herman Volker
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:03 |
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AMSTERDAM.- March 11 marks the beginning of a
comprehensive campaign on Vincent van Gogh's painting The Bedroom (1888). Art
lovers can follow the process of restoring this popular painting step by step
via a special blog on www.vangoghmuseum.com/bedroomsecrets. Among others the
museum's head of restoration Ella Hendriks will give online updates on the
progress of the restoration week by week. "It's the first time we've rendered
each step of a restoration accessible to the public in this way" says Axel
Rüger, director of the Van Gogh Museum. "And it has the added advantage of
keeping the canvas in the public eye." The director will be launching the
Bedroom secrets blog today by means of a personal blog post. At the same
time the presentation Bedroom secrets: Restoration of a masterpiece will be on
show in the museum's Rietveld building up to 29 August 2010.
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Read more... Restoration of Van Gogh's Masterpiece Can Be Followed Via Blog
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Written by Rowland Kingman
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:03 |
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EDINBURGH, UK - Jupiter Artland announced four
major site specific commissions to be unveiled in May 2010. New works by Turner
Prize short-listed artists Cornelia Parker, Nathan Coley and Jim Lambie as well
as young British sculptor Peter Liversidge, will be displayed in the 80-acre
woodland grounds of Bonnington House on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Since opening in May 2009, Jupiter Artland has quickly established itself as an
exciting new addition to the UK art scene, offering visitors a unique
opportunity to explore one of Britain’s pre-eminent collections of contemporary
sculpture in a constantly-evolving environment.
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Read more... Jupiter Artland announces Four New Sculpture Commissions
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Written by Sonya Veldhiem
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Friday, 12 March 2010 02:02 |
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AMSTERDAM.- Alexander Gronsky (Estonia, 1980) was
chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2010 by an international jury
today. The annual prize, is given to a young international talent in photography
under 35 years of age. The jury was impressed by the quality and diversity of
the submitted portfolios from around the world. Out of 81 nominees, 31
are from Europe, 14 from Asia, 13 from the United States, 15 from South America,
3 from Africa, 3 from Australia and New Zealand and 2 from the Middle East. The
chairman of the jury noted on the winner: “Gronsky, a ‘new docugraphic’
photographer is renewing the tradition of documentary photography. His
photographs use a narrative of intimate distantiation that open a whole new
world through an apparently classic technique.”
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Read more... Photographer Alexander Gronsky Wins The Foam Paul Huf Award 2010
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Written by R. Fraser Elliott
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 05:51 |
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TORONTO.- Lust. Passion. Murder. Many of the
greatest artists of the 19th century shared a profound fascination with the
theatre and its themes of triumph and destruction, love and despair.
This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key
artworks by these artists in a major international exhibition titled Drama and
Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19 and continuing through
September 26. Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre is organized by
la Direction des Musées de Marseille, Museo di arte moderna e contemporeanea di
Trento e Revereto (MART), and the Art Gallery of Ontario. The AGO is the sole
North American venue to host the exhibition. Visit : http://www.ago.net/
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Read more... Art Gallery of Ontario to Showcase Drama & Desire ~ Artists and the Theatre
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Written by Anne Pasternak
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 05:51 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- At 44 1/2, Creative Time's
presentation of video art on MTV's outdoor, gilded screen located in the heart
of New York City's Times Square, will showcase the work of groundbreaking
performance artist Marina Abramovic from March 14 – April 14, 2010. Opening
concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Marina
Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, Creative Time's presentation includes
Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980), and Dissolution (1997). Marina Ambramovic
is a performance artist whose groundbreaking work has influenced other artists
for more than three decades.
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Read more... Marina Abramovic ~ Three Historic Films Presented by Creative Time
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Written by Nancy Goldesberry
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 05:18 |
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HOUSTON, TEXAS -
Kenneth Baskin’s 20th Century Artifacts find their inspiration in
mechanical objects; these industrial roots are a starting point for explorations
of form, motion, and humanity in the Technological Age. In their
abstraction and familiarity, instability and balance, they are reminders of the
conceptual sophistication that can inhabit the ceramic arts. Goldesberry
Gallery will exhibit Kenneth Baskin’s industrially-inspired, intellectual,
abstract ceramic sculptures for the month of April, opening March 27 from 6-8
p.m., through April 24, 2010.
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Read more... Kenneth Baskin’s 20th Century Artifacts at Goldesberry Gallery
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Written by Gerhardt Wiessman
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:39 |
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NEWHARDENBERG, GERMANY- Despite all of the quacking going
on about demographic decline: the ducks – all those Daisys and Donalds – are
mulptiplying and Duckburg, at least, has grown considerably. Following the
Neuhardenberg Museum exhibition in 2003, they travelled the world, were
celebrated wherever they went and have now returned to their place of departure
to show and astound their many new colleagues at Neuhardenberg with the many
sensational things they found along the way. On view 14 March through 13 June,
2010.
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Read more... The Famous Ducks are Back! Duckomenta II ~ New Works Mimic the Masters
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Written by Kurt Miester
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:38 |
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BERLIN.- The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents the
definitive retrospective of F.C. Gundlach’s extensive photographic work with the
exhibition “F.C. Gundlach – Photographic Work”. F.C Gundlach is one of the most
famous fashion photographers worked for the most important magazines and
publications from the middle of the 1950’s to 1990.
Among other many famous pictures the most comprehensive presentation of F.C.
Gundlach’s work shows many fameless facets of F.C. Gundlach’s work to date.
After years of research, the curators Klaus Honnef, Hans-Michael Koetzle,
Sebastian Lux and Ulrich Rüter present for the first time numerous unknown
images as vintage prints alongside F.C. Gundlach’s famous photo icons.
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Read more... Martin-Gropius-Bau shows A Retrospective of F.C. Gundlach’s Photographic Work
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Written by Kapil Jariwala
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:59 |
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LONDON.- Curators of the National Portrait
Gallery's new exhibition The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 - which opens on
March 11th - will reveal a six-foot, seventeenth-century life-size portrait
of the Emperor Jahangir which they claim is the largest painting to come from
the Mughal empire. Jahangir holding a globe, dating from 1617, is
opulently painted in gold and watercolour on cotton and includes relief
jewellery. Apart from its appearance in an auction-house catalogue in 1995,
the epic portrait now on view at the Gallery's exhibition has never
previously been seen. On view through 29 June, 2010.
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Read more... National Portrait Gallery claims "Lost" Emperor Portrait is Largest Mughal Painting Ever Seen
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