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A visitor looks at an artwork by Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy prior to the official opening of an exhibition, entitled Art of Light, at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition presents more than 200 works of art by Moholy-Nagy (18951946), with photographies, films, photograms, paintings, collages and grafics. EPA/MARCELMETTELSIEFEN.
BERLIN.- L€szl‚ Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is one of the most important exponents of Modernism. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau has mounted an exhibition of his art as represented by over 200 works: paintings, photographs (black-and-white and colour), photograms, collages, films and graphics. The show will focus on the years in which Moholy-Nagy was developing his theory of art as an art of light. This covers the period from 1922 to the end of his life and beyond, in view of the influence he exerted after his death. For Moholy-Nagy was always a theoretician and practitioner in equal measure, always wanting to be a holistic artist. He approaches his work – painting, photography, commercial and industrial design, film, sculpture, scenography – from a wide variety of aspects and practises it as a radical, extreme experiment, by refusing to place his hugely differing works in any sort of aesthet ... More |
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Wit's End, an Exhibition of New Work by Matthew Brannon at David Kordansky Gallery
Matthew Brannon Tour Guide, 2010, sculpture: steel, enamel, wood print: letterpress on paper, sculpture: 39.5 x 237.5 x 97 inches (100.3 x 603.3 x 246.4 cm) print: 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents Wit's End, an exhibition of new work by Matthew Brannon. The exhibition opened on October 30th and will run through December 4th. Wit's End represents a radical complication and amplification of themes present in Brannon's practice to date. These include the subversion of language, notions of fiction and autobiography, and a conceptual re-imagination of artistic practice in the context of visual culture, commerce, and repressed desire. In Wit's End, Brannon puts the gallery to use as a theatre of aesthetic moves and counter-moves, a cerebral system which is continually ruptured by artworks that pull the signifying rug out from the exhibition as a whole. While the show includes sculpture, unique letterpress prints, and a sound ... More | | First Solo Exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman's Work Opens at Soledad Senlle Gallery
Stephanie and Julia. © Sarah Mei Herman.
AMSTERDAM.- Soledad Senlle Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman (Amsterdam, 1980). Thresholds and transitions within and between people form a perpetual theme uniting the photography and video work shown in A Wordless Whisper; the child on the threshold of the adult world and the thresholds between individuals. Herman’s intimate portraits explore closeness within the family with a special interest in sibling-relationships. In her photographs and video’s, family members seem to have gentle, loving and tender physical encounters. “The most fragile contact and elusive things between people often seem to exist beyond the reach of language. I am fascinated by relationships between people, the physical closeness between them or what sets them apart and the necessity of this physical proximity to others.” Having grown up as an only child herself, Herman has long been intrigued by the i ... More | | Artist's Jewels From Modernisme to the Avant-Garde at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
A man looks at a work, entitled The Peacock Sconce, by British silversmith Alexander Fisher (1864-1936) at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) in Barcelona. EPA/TONI GARRIGA.
BARCELONA.- Artist's jewels. From Modernisme to the avant-garde explores the approach to the world of jewellery by leading artists of the main art movements in the first decades of the fertile 20th century. The exhibition gathers almost 350 works, chiefly jewels, that strike a dialogue with paintings, sculptures, photographs, fabrics and objets d'art, showing how jewellery made up the little universe of great artists. Artist's jewels. From Modernisme to the avant-garde reveals the relations between jewellery and the work of art. This exhibition, the first on this subject to be held in our country, shows the less well-known side of Auguste Rodin, Hector Guimard, Josef Hoffmann, Josep Llimona, Serrurier-Bovy, Henri Van de Velde, Manolo Hugué, Paco Durrio, Pau ... More |
 | Large-Scale Recreation of William N. Copley's 1974 Exhibition, X-RATED, at Paul Kasmin Gallery
William N. Copley, Pin Up, 1974, acrylic on linen, 45 x 35 1/8 inches, 114.3 x 89.2 cm. Photo: Courtesy Copley LLC and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents William N. Copley X-RATED, a large-scale recreation of the artist’s 1974 exhibition in the former Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Highly original, libidinous, and unapologeticly joyful, the paintings were unlike anything being made at that time. This body of work, painted between 1972 and 1974, represents a pivotal leap in the artist’s style and is rich with irreverent yet ambitious compositions, unbridled combinations of highly-keyed colors, and generous doses of off-beat humor. CPLY (the artist’s self-chosen moniker) here presents single figures, pairs, and the occasional group–their gestures and actions translated from magazines procured in seedy 42nd street emporiums–posing and coupling eagerly amid vivid arrays of abstract patterns and lyrical motifs, romping furniture, ... More | | New Sparsely-Colored, Figurative Paintings by Belgian Artist Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner
Luc Tuymans, Corporate, 2010. Oil on canvas, 105 3/8 x 74 inches. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become third-degree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly out-of-focus, as if covered by a thin veil or painted from a failing memory. There is almost always a darker undercurrent to what at first appear to be innocuous subjects: working within series, Tuymans has, in this way, explored diverse and sensitive topics including the Holocaust, the effects of images from 9/11, the ambiguous utopia of the Disney Corporation, and the colonial history of hi ... More | | Feud Over Vermont Artist and Illustrator Tasha Tudor's Estate Goes to Trial on Monday
Children's book illustrator Tasha Tudor is seen holding a dog. AP Photo/The Tudor Family.
By: John Curran, Associated Press
MONTPELIER (AP).- A 2½-year-old probate battle involving the heirs of children's book author and illustrator Tasha Tudor goes to trial Monday, with her adult children fighting over the legitimacy of the will controlling her $2 million estate. At issue: Whether Tudor was unduly influenced when she rewrote it to give nearly everything to her oldest son. Tudor, who quit school after the eighth grade, won a worldwide following with her whimsical watercolors and drawings in "Pumpkin Moonshine," ''Corgiville Fair," and "Little Women," among nearly 100 children's books she illustrated or wrote. In words and deed, Tudor celebrated old-fashioned family life at home, becoming known for her anachronistic lifestyle — often going barefoot, wearing vintage dresses or making linen for her own clothing and living in a replica ... More |
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Six Rising Artists in Six Resonant Multimedia Projects, on View Inside and Out at the Wexner
Megan Geckler, Every step you take, every move you make, 2010. Site-specific installation at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Flagging tape, hardware, wood. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Six Solos, featuring six independent exhibitions of the work of six rising international artists, will be on view inside and outside the Wexner Center November 9, 2010–February 13, 2011. The artists—working in a wide range of media, among them LED lights, stainless steel, flagging tape, plywood, paint, video, film, and fiberglass—are Erwin Redl , Megan Geckler, Tobias Putrih/MOS, Gustavo Godoy, Katy Moran, and Joel Morrison. The work of each artist will occupy its own space. Organized by the Wexner Center, Six Solos opens in conjunction with the center’s 21st anniversary celebrations. Notes Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin, “The Wexner Center has a long history of supporting the production of new, often experimental work by younger artists looking for opportunities to push their practice in new directions. Each of the selected ... More | | Loans from the Region's Finest Collections, Brought Together During Abu Dhabi Art 2010
Al-Sheikhly, Ismail, Landscape, 1956 (detail). Private Collection.
ABU DHABI.- Abu Dhabi Art, the platform for Modern and Contemporary regional and international art, presents Opening the Doors: Collecting Middle Eastern Art, a major new exhibition of works featuring a host of the most significant Middle Eastern artists from major collections. Organised by Abu Dhabi Art 2010, with works secured by Christie’s, the exhibition will be held in Gallery One at the Emirates Palace until the 8th of January 2011. Comprised of ninety museum quality works spanning from the 1920’s to 2010, no similar exhibition has united masterpieces owned by the finest collectors of the region. Abu Dhabi Art’s holistic approach to presenting art includes looking at how collections are created; Opening the Doors will offer an original insight into the art scene of the region through some of the finest and most important individual, corporate and institutional collections. It reveals a tradition of collecting and the phenomenal rise of arts patronage in the ... More | | Office of Cultural Education in Albany Launches New Netherland Research Center
DeWitt Clinton portrait; from Freedom's Treasures exhibit.
ALBANY, NY.- A ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 officially opened the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC) on the 7th floor of the New York State Library. The NNRC will focus attention on New York State ’s rich collection of historic Dutch Colonial documents and facilitate access to them for future scholars, teachers and students both here and abroad. During the 2009 Quadricentennial celebration of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage opening up the New World to Dutch settlement, Dutch dignitaries, including the Prince of Orange and Princess Maxima of the Netherlands , visited the Cultural Education Center ’s 1609 Exhibition. At that visit the government of the Netherlands committed to a grant of €200,000 (approximately $275,000) to the New Netherland Institute to continue and expand the New Netherland Project by establishing a New Netherland Research Center . This gift, with matching support from the Institute, will transfo ... More |
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Kim Dorland Pushes the Limits of Painting in His New Exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery
Installation view at Mike Weiss Gallery. Photo: Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents New Material, Kim Dorland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada. In his most ambitious work to date, Dorland continues his emphatic exploration of materiality through thick layering of paint, wood, feathers, fur and glitter. The Shack, among the largest works in the exhibition, addresses an occurrence in which, as a teen, the artist stumbled upon an open porn magazine in the woods, engendering both fascination and trepidation. The woods play a crucial role in Dorland’s paintings as the nexus of dyads, most notably reality/fantasy, ease/tension, seduction/repulsion, and pleasure/horror. The tension between pleasure and horror, as seen in Boogeyman, Sasquatch and Night ... More | | "Sam Havadtoy: Beauty is Mystery", New Exhibition Opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Sam Havadtoy, from the series "A.v.J.," 2009-2010, acrylic and lace on wood panel
TEL AVIV.- Sam Havadtoy was born in London in 1952 and raised in Hungary. After travels in Europe he arrived in New York in 1972, where he worked as an interior designer; among others, he designed homes for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was the beginning of a relationship that lasted over 20 years, first as the couple's friend and later, from 1981, after Lennon's murder, as Yoko Ono's companion. In recent years, Havadtoy has been living and working in Italy. Working as an interior designer in New York, in 1975 Havadtoy also turned to painting. He spent time with the protagonists of the American art world, among them Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, as well as the composer John Cage, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, emerging talents like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and other, and equally gifted emerging artists. The artist who fascinated him most, personally as well as professionally, was Warhol. Other ... More | | Buddhism's Influence on Contemporary Artists Explored by the Rubin Museum of Art
Wolfgang Laib, Rice Meals, 2010, 33 brass plates, rice, and hazelnut pollen, 640 in. length. Sean Kelly Gallery , New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art presents works by five artists of different generations and ethnicities, working between 1960 and the present, whose oeuvres have been influenced by the tenets of Buddhism, including its central principles of emptiness and the fleeting nature of all things. Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art assembles videos, paintings, photographs, and installations dating from 1961 to 2008 by Sanford Biggers (b. U.S., 1970); Theaster Gates (b. U.S.,1973); Atta Kim (b. Korea, 1956); Wolfgang Laib (b. West Germany, 1950); and Charmion von Wiegand (U.S., 1896-1983). Biggers and Gates will each present new site-specific performance works. The exhibition highlights the continuously evolving nature of art inspired by Buddhist ideas and themes. “These artists are inheritors of a rich tradition that threads throughout modern and contemporary art,” says Martin Brauen ... More |
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Miami Art Museum Presents Susan Rothenberg's First South Florida Exhibition
MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum (MAM) presents Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place, the artist’s first museum show in over a decade and first exhibition in South Florida. The exhibition features a select group of 25 paintings ranging from Rothenberg’s early horse paintings of the mid-1970s to her most recent body of work, and explores a number of central motifs that have occurred throughout her 35-year career. Included in the exhibition are two major paintings from Miami Art Museum’s permanent collection, Folded Buddha (1987–88) and Pin Wheel (1988). Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place, on view November 7, 2010 through March 6, 2011, will be a highlight of Miami Art Museum’s Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 season. “Over the years, Susan Rothenberg has sought to deconstruct the very practice of painting, charting a bold new path in the process and working in the grey area where figuration and abstractio ... More
Ambitious Show Including Over 150 Embroidered Canvases by William Earl Kofmehl III at Lombard Freid Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard Freid Projects presents William Earl Kofmehl III: Dear Father Knickerbocker, I Just Googled You, the gallery inaugural exhibition at 518 West 19th Street. Kofmehl’s ambitious show includes over 150 embroidered canvases, a sculpture of a giant squirrel referencing the mythological Trojan Horse and a life size self-portrait of the artist cast in bronze and adorned with zucchini tailed and corn eared animals. Adjacent to the bronze figure is a projected video displaying a conversation between the artist and Bernie Goetz, the infamous New York vigilante and prominent squirrel husbandrist who is remembered for his 1984 subway shooting. Bernard Goetz, introduced to the artist by way of a mutual friend, becomes a particular source of inquiry and an indirect collaborator for Kofmehl’s exhibition. The Goetz incident, which epitomized New Yorkers’ frustrations with the high crime rates of the ... More
Paulina Olowska Shows Paintings and Knitted Sweaters at Metro Pictures
NEW YORK, NY.- For her second exhibition at Metro Pictures, Paulina Olowska shows paintings and knitted sweaters adapted from postcards of home knitting patterns from late communist-era Poland. With these works Olowska continues her engagement with communist Poland's fascination with Western consumerism and celebrates the spirit and stylish improvisations of the "Applied Fantastic." Polish writer Leopold Tyrmand, describing the localized re-creations of Western styles, coined the term "Applied Fantastic" in 1954. Olowska incorporates text and graphics from the illustrations including the Polish names for the pattern styles. The paintings are done in a realist style that achieves the same disjointed effects of the postcards. The illustrations used by Olowska depict high-fashion looks to be fabricated at home and, however glamorous, the images have a decidedly "behind the iron curtain" look. These works also pay tri ... More
James Cahill, Eminent Art Historian, to Receive Freer Medal
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have announced that James Cahill,former curator of Chinese art at the Freer and eminent scholar in many topics of Chinese and Japanese art history, will be awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal in recognition of a lifetime of seminal contributions to his field. Over the years, Cahill's scholarly writings and collaborative projects with other prominent Chinese art specialists have played an important role in the development of Chinese art history studies internationally. A specialist in Chinese painting, he has worked on major artists and their masterworks, as well as lesser known painters, thereby broadly expanding subjects of study. Cahill will receive the medal Thursday, Nov. 18, at 11 a.m, in a public ceremony in the Freer's Meyer Auditorium. Born in 1926 at Fort Bragg, Calif. Cahill received his bachelor's degree in Oriental Languages fro ... More
Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents an Exhibition of the Work of Ivan Chuikov
MOSCOW.- Ivan Chuikov has long been and remains a challenging figure in the international art scene – this is what makes him truly unique. The universally acknowledged classic of conceptual art who opened a window to Europe, ‘the prince of emptiness’, ‘the heretic of the easel’, the embodied contradiction, the dandy of postmodernism… All these titles exist simultaneously, assuming that the artist stays true to his enduring method – the combination of sharp thought and flawless plastic quality. Windows series, Ivan Chuikov’s trademark, is the ultimate metaphor of the border between periods, art and life, artist and the world. The secret concealed behind the veil of every description, the secret that the author keeps putting in our minds, is still an intriguing one. The heresy of simplicity, new to Ivan Chuikov, is balanced in the exhibition with Yin-Yang, the playful series of puzzles, while Virtual Sculptures and the elegant Labyrinth fr ... More
Regen Projects Presents an Exhibition of Dan Graham's Multidisciplinary Practice
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of works by Dan Graham. Graham's multidisciplinary practice consists of writing, film, video, performance, photography, architectural models, installations, and glass and mirror structures. Using interlocking ideas of humor, inter-subjectivity, and perception Graham challenges the constantly shifting relationship of the viewer to the work. Exploring the boundaries of physical and social spaces, Graham shows the various apparatuses of how we see in relation to the nature of art and social experience. The exhibition will feature a large pavilion, models, video works, and photographs. Graham's large-scale, quasi-functional pavilions investigate the double functions of inside and outside and experiment with ways in which opposing forces interact. Working with two-way glass and mirror, the materials of corporate office buildings built in the eighties, Graham sets up situ ... More
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