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Salvador Dalì is back in town for the first time since the solo exhibition which took place in October 1954.
MILAN.- After over 50 years, Salvador Dalì’s genius is back in Milan: Palazzo Reale houses a great exhibition investigating the relationship between this Spanish artist and the landscape, the dream, the desire. The exhibition, made possible thanks to the extraordinary collaboration with Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì of Figueres, counts on important loans from Italian and international museums and institutions, including the Fundaciò itself, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia of Madrid, the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, the Boijmans Museum of Rotterdam, the Animation Research Library of the Walt Disney Animation Studios of Burbank, California, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Venice, the Mart of Rovereto and the Vatican Museums. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between painting and landscape. Salvador Dalì is back in town for the first time since the solo exhibition which took place in October 1954 in Sala delle Cariatidi, always at Palazzo ... More |
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Christiane Amanpour Talks with Photographers Elliott Erwitt and Roberto Salas
File photo of American photographer Elliott Erwitt posing during the press preview of his exhibition "Personal Best" in Paris. AP Photo/Jacques Brinon.
NEW YORK (CUBAN ART NEWS).- “Che did not like having his picture taken too much. About that, I have a personal theory.” Roberto Salas was on stage at The Times Center in midtown Manhattan, holding court with fellow photographer Elliott Erwitt as they recalled their experiences covering the early years of Castro’s government. Presented earlier this month in conjunction with the International Center of Photography’s exhibition Cuba in Revolution, the evening was moderated by media journalist Christiane Amanpour. Amid a celebrity-dotted crowd that included actress Uma Thurman and writer Fran Liebowitz, the program opened with a tete-a-tete with international financier Arpad Busson, from whose photography collection Cuba in Revolution was drawn, and closed with a spirited panel discussion about “the complexities of Cuba today.” But for photography aficionados, the conversation with ... More | | Tate Liverpool Presents One of the Most Innovative Artists of the 20th Century
Nam June Paik, Mercury, 1991, (Detail). Multi-Monitor-Installation, Ø 140 cm, T= 50 cm, 2 Kanäle, Neonsysteme, 12 Fernseher, (Farbe, kein Ton) © Nam June Paik Estate, New York, 2010.
LIVERPOOL.- Video artist, performance artist, composer and visionary: Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. Tate Liverpool, in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) present the first major retrospective since the artist’s death, and the first exhibition of Paik's work in the UK since 1988. The exhibition celebrates Paik as the inventor of media art, presenting his artistic path and highlighting his diverse talents in experimental, musical, philosophical, spiritual, political and technological. The exhibition showcases around ninety works from all phases of his career, many shown in the UK for the first time, alongside a rich selection of documentary materials from Paik's performances and early exhibitions. Paik's work developed from music via Fluxus actions and performance to media works, ... More | | Galerie ACTE 2 Presents Exhibition of Photographs by American Artist Melvin Sokolsky
© Melvin Sokolsky
PARIS.- Melvin Sokolsky (born in 1938) is an American photographer and film director. Born in New York City, Sokolsky had no formal training in photography, but started to use his father's box camera at about the age of ten. Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own photographs with those his father had kept in albums through the years. "I could never make my photographs of Butch the dog look like the pearly finish of my father's prints, and it was then that I realized the importance of the emulsion of the day." Around 1954, Sokolsky met Robert Denning, who at the time worked with photographer Edgar de Evia, at an East Side gym. "I discovered that Edgar was paid $4000 for a Jell-O ad, and the idea of escaping from my tenement dwelling became an incredible dream and inspiration." Though he is best known for his editorial fashion photographs for publications such as Harper's Bazaar (for which he produced, in 1963, the "Bubble" se ... More |
 | Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde on View at MCA in Denver
Unattributed. Unsigned. In the style of Kazimir Malevich. Oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm.
DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver presents Orphan Paintings: Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, a large-scale exhibition. Orphan Paintings is an exhibition that explores fundamental assumptions about art by presenting a collection of over 150 paintings of unknown origins. The works in the collection are in the style of Russian avant-garde masters of the early twentieth century, including Kasimir Malevich, Liubov Popova, and Alexander Rodchenko. These paintings came to the United States beginning in 2004 when Denver architectural photographer Ron Pollard began purchasing them from a mid-level insurance administrator in Aachen, Germany, who told him the works were discovered in an unclaimed shipping container in German customs. Pollard partnered with his brother and a friend to purchase the works and began a ... More | | Museum Kunst Palast Dedicates Major Solo Exhibition to the German Artist Klaus Mettig
Klaus Mettig © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
DUSSELDORF.- Museum kunst palast dedicates a major solo exhibition to the artist Klaus Mettig (b. 1950 in Brandenburg), encompassing works from different creative periods. The show juxtaposes panorama photographs of the artist’s latest series Don’t be left behind with an earlier monumental photo wall installation, as well as four multipart slide projections dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Owing to their panorama format the photographic works of the Düsseldorf-based artist open up an unusual, both critical and fascinating view of the world. The Düsseldorf exhibition presents a wealth of newer works in which Mettig focuses his attention on China, India and the USA. An underlying socio-political approach unites the oeuvre of Mettig, whose works invariably embraces reflections on perceptions and effects of the mechanisms of international politics. The work group Don’t be left behind has been in the proce ... More | | Things Get Ugly, Sensual and Raw with "The Wild 80s" Exhibition at ARKEN in Copenhagen
Lars Nørgård, This is just a Temporary Place to Stay, 1982. Photo: Claudi Thyrrestrup.
COPENHAGEN.- The young eighties generation of Danish artists had a bone to pick with the cool, politicizing art of the 1970s. They visualized the new thinking on "the death of the grand narrative," the collapse of hierarchies of value, the elimination of the boundary between original and copy, the mixture of fiction and reality in the media’s stream of images and the growing individualism in society. In that sense, the works of those young artists are important documents for history. They speak of the currents that influenced culture and society in the late seventies and early eighties. In tune with the zeitgeist, they generally painted with ironic detachment but also with sensuality and curiosity about painting. In their raw, at times willfully ugly, expression, the works had a powerful impact on the viewer. Now that we have an occasion to take a fresh look at the work of these ... More |
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Art Gallery of Hamilton Features Canadian Artist Andrew McPhail's "All My Little Failures"
Andrew McPhail, all my little failures 2009-2010, mixed media and band-aids, dimensions variable. Courtesy transit gallery. Photo: McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario.
HAMILTON, ON.- McPhail is an established artist who moved to Hamilton from Toronto five years ago. Practicing in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance for more than twenty-five years, his works have explored a broad range of subject matter. As a person living with HIV, several of McPhail’s past works have focused on the solemn emotions surrounding his experience of this disease, offering humbling insight. all my little failures invigorates the well-honed subjects of his past practice and inserts a witty commentary that appeals to broader issues of human wellness and the anxieties that many people experience related to disease and sickness. The exhibition takes its title from McPhail’s central piece in the exhibition, an immense fabric-like cloak made of over 60,000 BAND-AIDs. Worn by a mannequin, it is a haunting and overwhelming mass. At the same time, McPhail’s obsessive building of ... More | | A New, Vetted Art Fair Focused on Emerging Artists and Galleries to Be Held in Washington
Leo Villareal, Sky, 2009 (detail), Light emitting diodes, Mac mini, circuitry, 3 x 8 feet. Photo: Conner Contemporary.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- (e)merge, a new, vetted art fair focused on emerging artists and galleries with emerging art, will launch September 22 - 25, 2011, at the Rubell Family’s modernist, Morris Lapidus-designed Capitol Skyline hotel in Washington, DC, adjacent to the site of the their future museum. (e)merge will feature multiple platforms: dozens of international galleries; artist, curator and collector panel discussions and tours; performances; and, exhibition opportunities for artists, currently without gallery representation, to present, free of charge, performances, installations, interventions or other work. (e)merge is organized by Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith, co-founders of Conner Contemporary in Washington, DC, and Helen Allen, founder and former director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair. “(e)merge will be like a flash mob for emerging art,” said Leigh Conner. “Our goal is to create a place of en ... More | | Guest Curator and Artist Explore the Collection of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal
Suzy Lake, Pre-Resolution ; Using the Ordinances at Hand, No. 12, 1984 - 1985. Épreuve couleur, acrylique et boîtier, 166.5 x 103.7 x 28.2 cm. Collection Lavalin du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay.
MONTREAL.- A guest curator and a guest artist have explored the reserve collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal to each present their Points of View on the Collection. From the 7,600 works, both have selected a group of some forty pieces presented in two brilliant exhibitions, respectively entitled Blue and Acts of Presence, which will be on view through March 27, 2011. Point of View on the Collection, inaugurated in 2009, is a series of theme-based exhibitions arising out of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Collection. For the second and third instalments in the series, the museum has called upon a curator, Marie-Eve Beaupré, and an artist, Manon De Pauw, who each take a look at the Collection. Marie-Eve Beaupré focused on artists interested in the colour blue for perceptual, poetic, ... More |
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Olympic Documentary Filmmaker Bud Greenspan Dies at Age 84 in New York City
Bud Greenspan spent decades documenting the stories of Olympic athletes. AP Photo/Showtime, Ted Batenburg.
By: Jim Litke, AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP).- Oh, to catch Bud Greenspan's eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. The filmmaker, whose riveting tales soared as triumphantly as the men and women he chronicled for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in New York City of complications from Parkinson's disease, companion Nancy Beffa said. He was 84. "Bud was a storyteller first and foremost. He never lost his sense of wonder and he never wavered in the stories he wanted to tell, nor how he told them," she said through a family friend. "No schmalzy music, no fog machines, none of that. He wanted to show why athletes endured what they did and how they accomplished what so few people ever do." As a 21-year-old radio reporter, ... More | | Vincent van Gogh: The Letters Available Again in a Limited Number of Copies
Letters and drawings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. EPA/RICK NEDERSTIGT.
LONDON.- This landmark work of art scholarship, hailed by the Financial Times as 'the most important art publication of 2009, if not the decade', quickly sold out on original publication. It is now available again in a limited number of copies: this is an opportunity not to be missed. This is the most complete edition of Van Gogh's letters ever produced, drawing on fifteen years of scholarship and dedicated research. For the first time, all the works of art to which Van Gogh refers are shown alongside the letters - not only the paintings and drawings that he himself was working on at the time, but also the works by others that he mentions. • Features new transcriptions of every known letter to or from Van Gogh • The complete collection: this edition includes all the letters, both in the Van Gogh Museum and those in other museums, archives and private collections • New transcriptions render Van Gogh's words more closely than ever before - unimproved, ... More | | Spectacular Digital Moving Image Installation for Canary Wharf Underground Station
John Gerrard, Oil Stick Work, (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas), 2008. Canary Wharf Underground station. Photo: Andy Keate. Courtesy the artist and Art on the Underground.
LONDON.- As part of a series of new contemporary art projects for the Jubilee line, commissioned by Art on the Underground Irish artist, John Gerrard, is to present a large-scale installation of his work Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008 on a vast bespoke wall in the station. Using customised game-design software to craft stunningly accurate virtual worlds, Gerrard projects a complex digital moving image that eerily develops in real time and will continue to do so over the next 30 years. The viewer joins this hyper-real scene three years into its slowly unfolding story on a desolate Midwest prairie. At daybreak (PST), the tiny figure of Angelo Martinez, a Mexican-American builder, arrives at a solitary aluminium corn silo and carefully paints a perfect black one metre square on the exterior of the structure with an oil stick crayon. ... More |
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Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents a Solo Exhibition of Works by Andrei Monastyrski
MOSCOW.-Moscow Museum of Modern Art and VICTORIA — the Art of being Contemporary Foundation present a solo exhibition of Andrei Monastyrski, one of the most important Russian contemporary artists, a leader of Moscow conceptualist school. The aesthetic field created by Monastyrski is composed of a number of equally significant components — artworks, theoretical texts, performances, poetry, and documentations of Collective Actions group, of which he is the leader and the driving force since 1976. This first museum exhibition of Monastyrski is the starting point for the theoretical comprehension and representation of the artist through a retrospective of his installations. The exhibition intends to start building a synthetic overview of the artist’s work over the past 30 years, based on installations and documentations of Collective Actions performances. It feature ... More
13th Annual Postcards From the Edge Exhibition and Sale: International Artists Fight AIDS by Donating Artwork
NEW YORK, NY.- Visual AIDS, the country’s premiere non-profit organization uniting visual artists and HIV prevention and awareness will hold their largest benefit, Postcards From the Edge from January 7 - 9, 2011 at CRG Gallery. Known amongst art enthusiasts and collectors as an exciting and affordable way to purchase original work by established and emerging artists from around the world, Postcards From the Edge is a unique fundraiser where each of the 1,500+ postcard-sized artworks are uniformly priced at only $85.00. Each piece is exhibited anonymously and the identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased. The Preview Cocktail Party, raffle and silent auction will be held on Friday, January 7 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Admission is $85.00, which includes a raffle ticket to win first choice of any postcard. New this year is an online auction ... More
Exhibit Opens on Curious George's Wartime Escape
By: Holly Ramer, Associated Press
WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH (AP).- Long before he pedaled himself into all sorts of mischief in "Curious George Rides a Bike," the famous monkey took a much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped the Nazi invasion of France. The manuscript that would later launch their beloved series of children's books was among the few belongings that Margret and H.A. Rey took with them when they fled Paris in June 1940, just days before German troops marched into the city. Both German Jews, the husband-and-wife team cobbled together two bikes out of spare parts and peddled south to Orleans. Trains carried them through Spain and Portugal, where they boarded a ship to the United States. Eighteen years later, the Reys built a summer cottage in New Hampshire, where an exhibit about their wartime escape now is on display at a nonprofit center dedicated to the couple's legacy. To complement the exhibit, which was created by the Institute for Holocaust Education i ... More
Photographer Bernard Faucon, a Pioneer of Tableaux Vivant Tradition, at the New Orleans Museum of Art
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- As New Orleans Museum of Art kicks off centennial celebrations, Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth photographs are on display,through March 13, 2011. These 60 photographs depict one-day celebrations of a festive and playful nature in 25 international sites, representing youths ranging from 15 to 20 years old from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. “From Morocco to Japan, from Burma to Cuba, from Cambodia to Sweden…it seemed to me that this image of youth in the world resembled the festive and playful atmosphere of Happiness Regained, my first staged photographs taken 20 years before,” Faucon said. Faucon is a Provence-born artist who helped pioneer the contemporary photographic tableaux vivant, a technique in which the subjects are required to hold their poses in near perfect stillness. Faucon deliberately stopped taking photos in 1995 and remained inactive until his creati ... More
Mississippi Museum of Art and Historic Natchez Foundation Present Natchez Day
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.- The Mississippi Museum of Art and the Historic Natchez Foundation are partnering to present Natchez Day on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at the Museum. Set against the backdrop of bold and beautiful artwork by Natchezian Rolland Golden, Natchez Day celebrates the people and the cultural tradition of art in and from that great port city. Planned in conjunction with the exhibition, River and Reverie: Paintings of the Mississippi by Roland Golden, Natchez Day follows Natchez Week at the Museum, January 5 through January 8, 2011. During that week, Museum admission is free for Natchezians, and the work of Natchez artists and writers will be available for purchase in The Museum Store. Natchez Day offers a variety of events to which all Natchezians, past and present, are cordially invited. The day begins with brunch in the Museum's Trustmark Grand Hall at ... More
The Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture to Have Terence Riley as Chief Curator
VENICE.-The Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture announced in Venice that Terence Riley had been appointed as Chief Curator for its 2011 edition. Riley, an internationally recognized curator and architect who played a key role in overseeing the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and directed the Miami Art Museum, was selected from an international call for proposals. He will be the first international curator for the Biennale, which started in 2005 and will present its fourth edition in 2011. The Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale is the only architecture biennale that broadens its focus beyond the realm of architecture to consider urbanism and various aspects of growing cities as significant factors for international progress. Shenzhen (a city that w ... More
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