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Visitors take a look at the sculpture Male Torso by German artist Georg Baselitz, seen through the sculpture The Black Arp by German artist Daniel Richter, at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. Hamburger Bahnhof is a former railway station in Berlin. Since 1996 the tourist attraction houses the National Gallery's Museum fuer Gegenwart, a contemporary art museum. Baselitz's sculpture is part of the museum's own collection, belonging to the Berlin entrepreneur Erich Marx. The collection is showcased in a series of rotating exhibitions on the 10,000 square meters of space, parallel to temporary exhibitions. AP Photo/Gero Breloer.
BERLIN.- Since November 1996 the Hamburger Bahnhof has housed the National Gallery's 'Museum für Gegenwart' or 'Museum of Now'. Parallel to temporary exhibitions, the museum also presents works from its own important collections in a serious of rotating exhibitions on the 10,000 square metres of space at its disposal. On the ground floor of the main building, samples are on display of Fluxus, Vienna Actionism and happenings, all movements that played an important role in the radical changes in art in the 1960s. Also housed in the west wing are the body of works by Joseph Beuys, including sculptural pieces and works on film. This collection, unparalleled anywhere else in the world, is an impressive display of the extent to which Beuys' strove to broaden the concept of art. Parallel to this, key works from the extensive Sammlung Marx collection are on show in the Kleihueshalle on the ground floor, where, alongside Andy Warhol's famous portraits of stars and such influential celebr ... More |
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Without You I'm Nothing: Art and Its Audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Olafur Eliasson, Eye see you, 2006. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, gift of Rosina Lee Yue and Bert A. Lies, Jr. MD in honor of Stefan T. Edlis and H. Gael Neeson.
CHICAGO, IL.- Addressing the cultural shift toward a greater level of audience engagement and participation with works of art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Without You I'm Nothing: Art and Its Audience on view through May 1, 2011. Featuring works drawn from the MCA Collection, Without You I’m Nothing charts the growth of this phenomenon over the past fifty years, where artists have increasingly involved the physical presence of their audience in the conception, production, and presentation of their work. Beginning in the 1960s, Minimalist artists such as Carl Andre and Richard Serra used industrial materials to create sculptures that moved the object off the pedestal to the "real" space of the viewer, producing a new way of experiencing a work of art. The engagement of the viewer was ... More | | Hirshhorn Acquires Artworks by Dan Flavin, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow and Gabriel Orozco
Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco poses at the Kunstmuseum in Basel. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum has recently acquired important artworks in sculpture, film and photography that demonstrate the museum’s commitment to collecting key artists’ work in depth in the tradition of its founder, Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and expanding its current holdings in these mediums. Several of the works will be on view in 2011 and 2012, and make a significant contribution as the Hirshhorn’s prepares for a major exhibition focusing on the permanent collection to celebrate the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2014. “We are thrilled to acquire these major artworks for our collection,” said Kerry Brougher, deputy director and chief curator. “The Flavin sculpture is a significant piece that will dramatically engage with the architecture of the Hirshhorn’s galleries. The Conner and Snow films, some of the most influential of the postwar era, strengthen our moving-image collecti ... More | | Art Nouveau and Art Deco from the collection of the Drents Museum on View in Gent
Mantel clock by Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934), Manufactured by Brecht & Dyserinck, 1901. Brass. Photographer: Tom Haartsen, Oudekerk aan de Amstel © Drents Museum Assen.
GENT.- Design Museum Gent is presenting the exhibition Art nouveau and art deco from the Netherlands. A selection from the collection of the Drents Museum in Assen until 27 February 2011. The Drents Museum in Assen houses one of the top five collections in the Netherlands in the field of art nouveau and art deco. Design museum Gent is displaying a representative selection from this collection. The exhibition presents among other things furniture, ceramics and silver by renowned Dutch designers such as Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Johan Thorn Prikker, Gerrit Rietveld and Willem Gispen. Artists of lesser renown outside of the Netherlands are also represented, with works by Chris Lebeau, Chris van der Hoef, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Carel Lion Cachet and Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. A specially designed picture cabinet is ... More |
 | Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Ends 2010 on a High Note with Liu Xiaodong's Hometown Boy
Liu Xiaodong, Xiao Dou Hanging Out at the Pool Hall, 2010. Oil on Canvas, 150 x 140 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
BEIJING.- UCCA opened one of its last exhibitions of the year (Nov 17, 2010 – Feb 20, 2011), Hometown Boy by Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong. With 26 new oil paintings, over 200 pages of framed diary entries and an in-depth documentary film by famed Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Hometown Boy offers UCCA visitors an intimate and unprecedented look into the life and artistic practice of one of China’s most acclaimed artists. UCCA has always been committed to breaking new ground with innovative exhibition methods, and Liu Xiaodong’s Hometown Boy is no exception. For this exhibition in three parts, co-curated and co-produced with Minsheng Art Museum and The Institute, UCCA’s Big Hall has been divided into three separate spaces, each highlighting a different facet of Liu Xiaodong's work. The first space is devoted to over 200 framed pages of Liu Xiaodong's diary entries produced during his return to his hom ... More | | The Force is Strong: 'Empire' and 24 Other Films Tapped for National Film Registry
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the character Yoda. AP Photo/Lucasfilm Ltd.
By: Ben Nuckols, Associated Press
BALTIMORE, MD (AP).- Darth Vader proclaiming he's Luke Skywalker's father, John Travolta preening in his underwear and an early 20th-century deaf activist communicating in sign language are among the images that will be preserved by the Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry. The 25 films selected this year include "The Empire Strikes Back," the 1980 sequel to "Star Wars" that many critics and fans consider the best of George Lucas' six "Star Wars" films. "Empire" shocked moviegoers with the revelation that masked villain Darth Vader was the father of hero Skywalker. While Lucas didn't direct "Empire" — he entrusted it to the late Irvin Kershner — he got another film selected for the registry: the student short "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB." Lucas' "Star Wars" and "American Graffiti" ... More | | 5th Salon du Dessin Contemporain will Explore Every Dimension of Contemporary Drawing
Sandro Chia, Bacchus, Oil and pastel on cardboard, 75 x 60 cm. © Courtesy Galerie Placid.
PARIS.- For its fifth year, the fair is assembled by nearly 80 European galleries, including around 10 in the new area highlighting young artists – DRAWING NOW I LA MEZZANINE. At the centre of the fair, Pierre Cornette de St Cyr will unveil his contemporary drawing "Museum without Walls". For the first time, DRAWING NOW I NUMERIQUE will explore every dimension of contemporary drawing with a specialist program of contemporary drawing. Over four days in the heart of Paris, collectors, curators and art lovers are invited to (re)discover the contemporary art scene through contemporary drawings by recognized and emerging artists! For its fifth year, the Salon du Dessin Contemporain is becoming DRAWING NOW PARIS. This Anglicism is not an affectation, but a way of clearly indicating the fair’s international dimension. Nearly 30% of galleries are European this year, ... More |
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Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art on View at the Mattress Factory
Armando Mariño, "The Anxiety of Influences", 2001 (detail), oil on canvas, diptych, 66.5 x 76.5 and 66.5 x 57.5 inches.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- After decades of official silence, discussions of “race” and racism have become prominent in contemporary Cuba. Since the early 1990s, numerous cultural actors—musicians, writers, painters, performers, and academics—began to do something that was previously unthinkable: they began to denounce the persistence of racial discrimination in Cuban socialist society. These intellectuals have articulated the concerns of the Afro-Cuban youth, a population group that came to age in the early 1990s, precisely at the time that the socialist welfare state began to unravel. They have constituted a loose Afro-Cuban cultural movement that is using cultural spaces to raise uncomfortable questions about the persistence of racism in Cuba. Culture has become the space where a democratic future can be imagined and debated within the island. Queloides: ... More | | Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic by Marco Anelli to Be Published by Aperture
Marina Abramovic sat every day for the run of the show—716 hours and 30 minutes— and faced over 1500 people.
NEW YORK, NY.- After becoming an internet sensation, Marco Anelli’s powerful portraits of sitters in the historic 2010 Marina Abramovic performance at the Museum of Modern Art are now collected and available in their entirety in the Aperture monograph, Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic. The centerpiece of The Artist is Present, the landmark retrospective of this pioneer of performance art’s oeuvre, was Abramovic herself, who sat silently in the museum’s atrium inviting visitors to take a seat across from her for as long as they chose. She sat every day for the run of the show—716 hours and 30 minutes— and faced over 1500 people, whose involvement completed the work. Photographer and collaborator Anelli documented every interaction, taking a portrait of each participant and noting the time they spent in the chair. Just as Abramovic’s piece concerned duration, the photographs give ... More | | First Comprehensive Overview of Gabriel von Max's Work on View at Lenbachhaus
Gabriel von Max (Foto), 1876. Foto: Franz Hanfstaengl. © Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus.
MUNICH.- Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), artist, Spiritist and Darwinist, was a remarkable character and in many ways a paradigmatic figure of the later nineteenth century. His main focus lay in the history of the development of mankind, its origins, essence and future. This exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich present the very first comprehensive overview of von Max’s entire work. Every facet of his rich imagination will be shown, from his artistic oeuvre to his interest in natural history as well as ethnology and esoterics. Max's painting, research and work as a collector provide an encyclopaedic view of the art, culture and science of his time, and a spectacular visual encounter with various aspects of the nineteenth century. Gabriel von Max was educated in Prague, Vienna and Munich, and after the success of his 1867 painting “The Christian Martyr” he became one of the ... More |
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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Honors Vassar College's 150th Anniversary with Exhibition
Diane Arbus, A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C., 1966. Gelatin silver print. Collection The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY © 1966 Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC.
TAMPA, FL.- Saluting the 150th anniversary of the noted educational institution, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts presents an exhibition from Vassar College. Founded in 1861, Vassar was famous as a pioneering women’s college before it went coeducational in 1969. It was the first college or university in the United States to have a museum as part of its original plan. Today Vassar’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center has 18,000 works in its collection - nearly 3,000 of which are photographs. The exhibition, which runs through January 29, 2011, features work by the major photographers the twentieth century including Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Lee Friedlander, Lewis Hine, Frank Paulin, ... More | | Photographs of Rediscovered Ephemera from Mental Patients at Frank Pictures Gallery
Lisa Rinzler’, Family Of Markers, 12 x 15. Photo: Courtesy Frank Pictures Gallery.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- Frank Pictures Gallery presents Lisa Rinzler’s THE GRASS IS GREEN, an exhibition of photographs of the rediscovered ephemera of generations of mental patients from the abandoned Willard Psychiatric Center in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. This is award-winning cinematographer Rinzler’s second show for gallerist Laurie Frank. Her exhibition of platinum Palladium prints premiered at Frank’s Still/Moving in 1999. The 14 large format chromogenic images in her latest exhibition, printed on sheets of glass, are culled from hundreds shot by Rinzler of the 427 suitcases, trunks, crates and bundles recovered after Willard closed in 1995 that belonged to patients who had spent decades in this vast state mental institution. In them were the remnants of lives left behind when their owners entered the locked gates, a hovering presence of hundreds of souls or spirits attached to the ... More | | Major Exhibition on British Designer John Pawson at the Design Museum in London
John Pawson, Plain Space. Private House, Germany. Photo Todd Eberle.
LONDON.- The Design Museum presents a major exhibition on John Pawson. Often labelled a ‘minimalist’, he is known for his rigorous process of design. By reducing and editing he creates architecture and product designs of visual clarity, simplicity and grace. Plain Space celebrates Pawson’s career from the early 1980s to date and includes a selection of landmark commissions including the Sackler Crossing at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the new Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur in the Czech Republic and Calvin Klein’s iconic flagship store in New York, as well as current and future projects. At the heart of the exhibition is a site-specific, full-sized space designed by Pawson to offer a direct and immersive experience of his work. This is the first time the Design Museum has realised a 1:1 scale architectural installation inside the museum. Using a rich range of media the exhibition will e ... More |
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The Phillips Collection Kicks Off a Year of 90th Anniversary Festivities With a Grand Reopening
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection celebrates its 90th anniversary and launches the countdown to its centennial, beginning with a free weekend on Jan. 15 and 16 and marking the end of the year with an anniversary birthday bash on Nov. 5. Special installations and programs throughout the year debut stunning new acquisitions in contemporary art, engage artists in conversation with the collection, and tell the story of artistic innovation at the heart of the museum since Duncan Phillips opened its doors in 1921. The Jan. 15−16 free weekend heralds the joyful reopening of the original Phillips house, closed for repair after a fire in early September. The Phillips welcomes visitors back to its intimate galleries where a spectacular new installation of masterworks from the permanent collection is on view, along with a special installation of Sir Howard Hodgkin’s most ambitious work to date, As Time Goes B ... More
Camden Arts Centre Present a New Exhibition Curated by British Artist Simon Starling
LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre present a new exhibition curated by British artist Simon Starling, the latest in a series of artist-selected shows. After completing a residency at the Centre in 1999, Starling returned in 2000 with a solo show. He was the winner of the Turner Prize in 2005. This exhibition, entitled Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), will pick up on ideas and methods used by the artist in his own work and is inspired by the writings of Jorge-Luis Borges and George Kubler. It aims to create a temporal cacophony by orchestrating a series of collisions between spatially and historically remote works, that themselves push and pull at an understanding of linear time. Conflating works already exhibited at Camden Arts Centre during the past five decades, the works in Starling’s exhibition will be installed in the exact position they occupied the first time around. These fragments of the ... More
Arts & Letters Daily Founder Denis Dutton Dies
WELLINGTON (AP).- Author, academic and founder of the popular Arts & Letters Daily website Denis Dutton has died in New Zealand, his family said Wednesday. He was 66. Dutton, professor of philosophy at New Zealand's Canterbury University, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but continued working until his health deteriorated rapidly a week ago and he died Tuesday, said his son, Ben. "I think that he has been an incredibly passionate advocate for ideas and truth and a wonderful father and husband," Ben said. Dutton was widely known for his Arts & Letters Daily, a groundbreaking early aggregator featuring links to commentary on arts, literature and events. He established the site in 1998 and continued on as editor after selling it to the U.S.-based Chronicle of Higher Education the next year. London's Guardian newspaper described it in 1999 as "the best website in the world." Born in California on Feb. 9, 1944, Dutton was ... More
China Builds Sichuan Earthquake Museum
BEIJING (AP).- Chinese state media says construction has begun on a museum commemorating the nearly 90,000 people who died during a 2008 earthquake. Xinhua News Agency says the museum is located in the worst-hit region of Beichuan in Sichuan province in southern China. Dozens of poorly constructed schools collapsed during the quake and over 5,000 children were among the 87,000 killed. The government has not responded to complaints that many schools lacked emergency exits and other basic safety features, and activists investigating the deaths of the children have been detained and jailed. The $35 million museum is e ... More
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