| | First Solo Show in South America of Works by Georg Baselitz Opens in Sao Paulo
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A man observes a work of art, which is part of the exhibition 'Georg Baselitz Recently Paintings' of German artist Georg Baselitz, at Pinacoteca of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The art exhibition with 30 paintings of the last 12 years is presented for the first time in Latin America and will be open for the public until 30 January 2011. EPA/SEBASTIAO MOREIRA EPA/SEBASTIAO MOREIRA.
SAO PAULO.- The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is presenting the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Pinturas Recentes [Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings]. The first solo show of the artist’s works in South America, it features a set of 30 paintings produced over the last 12 years – a period in which the artist has revisited and given a new face to the human types he made in the 1970s and ’80s, which constitute the central theme of his oeuvre. Accompanying and reacting to the contemporary cultural dynamics, his painting has become more lyrical, quicker and fluid, and also more ascerbic and ironic. Baselitz denominated this project “Remix,” thus assuming – in a critical and personal way – this concept widely used in other fields of mass culture. Through the artworks of this last decade, the painter has reexplored his themes, his obsessions, his existential and artistic trajectory, beginning a new phase. Georg Baselitz’s oeuvre, which he began cons ... More |
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Art Institute Showcases Innovative Projects Linking Architecture and Design Practices
Studio Makkink & Bey, Slow Car (2007). Credit: Studio Makkink & Bey.
CHICAGO, IL.- Modern architecture and design were long viewed as separate disciplines until practitioners in the mid-20th century began crossing boundaries and rethinking form and function. This fluid exchange of ideas has led to innovative solutions addressing issues at the heart of contemporary life—ones that impact the environment, sustainability, technology, politics, personal well-being, and health and safety. The Art Institute of Chicago has now organized a major exhibition highlighting important recent developments that have resulted from the intersection of architecture and design. Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design—on view December 11, 2010 through July 20, 2011, in Galleries 283–285— presents more than 30 proposals and ideas from an international group of architects and designers, including Florencia Pita/mod, Jurgen Mayer H., R&Sie(n), Experimental Jetset, EMERGENT/Tom ... More | | Mexican Archaeologists Say Tonina Ballgame Court may Be the One Described in Popol Vuh
Pair of sculptures in the form of a serpent's head. Photo: DMC.INAH. M. MARAT.
MEXICO CITY.- The recent finding of 2 sculptures with the shape of a serpent’s head that 1,500 years ago were part of the Ballgame at the Maya city of Tonina, Chiapas today, were found by archaeologists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). This discovery allows the consolidation of the hypotheses of how this ritual place looked like in the Prehispanic age; due to its architectural position it is the one that resembles more the one described in Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Mayas. The recent finding of the 2 sculptures adds up to four other similar that have appeared in different moments since 1992, all of them in Palacio del Inframundo (Underworld Palace), at the Acropolis of Tonina. Both monuments, manufactured with limestone and 80 centimeters long, present a Teotihuacan style. Archaeologist Juan Yadeun Angulo, responsible for the Tonina Archaeological Project, informed that the finding a ... More | | Dedicated Sale of 20th Century British Art Announced at Sotheby's for December 15th
Frank Auerbach, Head of Helen Gillespie II. Estimate: £300,000-500,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Following the success of The Robert Devereux Post-War British Art Collection at auction last month, Sotheby’s will stage its dedicated sale of 20th Century British Art in London on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. A number of distinguished private collections will form the core of the sale, as will a group of de-accessioned works from an array of US museums, all of which are being sold to benefit future museum acquisitions. Maurice Cooke purchased his first picture in 1946, aged 32 and in his first year of reading history at Oxford University. Following this initial purchase he went on to amass a superb collection of 20th Century British Art. After Oxford he became a lecturer in the History Department at Bangor University in North Wales, where he was able to develop his interest in art and architecture and became a Senior Lecturer in History of Art. He was a key figure in the growth of the arts in ... More |
 | Museum für Moderne Kunst Presents New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages
Janus Hochgesand, Au revoir Schneewittchen, 2010.
FRANKFURT-RHIEN-MAIN.- Frankfurt-Rhein-Main is home to many artists, and as a region with a wealth of museums, exhibition spaces, and art sponsors, not to mention the renowned Staedelschule, it is a place of importance in the international art scene. “New Frankfurt Internationals”—a project comprising an exhibition, a performance series, and artistic interventions in the Rhein-Main edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung—seeks to recognize the artistic potential of the region and focuses on works by artists who live in Frankfurt and surrounding areas or who studied at the Staedelschule, the Academy of Fine Arts of Mainz, or the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design, and who, in some cases, are among the “new internationals” of the global art scene. “New Frankfurt Internationals” is a cooperation between the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the More | | Lichtenstein Painting Originally Purchased for $27.50, Sells for $128,700 at Quinn's
Enid Liess with the painting she purchased for $12.50 in the early 1960s.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- A 1951 painting by Roy Lichtenstein purchased for $27.50 and kept out of the public eye for nearly 50 years sold for $128,700 on Dec. 4 at Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia. Titled The Statesman, the 18 by 28 inch oil-on-canvas portrait was consigned by D.C.-area resident Enid Liess, a retired schoolteacher who, as a young girl had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was there that she learned how to identify quality artworks. Sometime in the early 1960s, Liess attended an art auction at her local temple, where she hoped to find affordable art to decorate her new apartment. When a modern painting of a man in a military jacket caught her eye, Liess decided she had to have it. “It was whimsical, and I loved the earth tones,” Liess recalled. At the time, Liess and her husband were newlyweds with little ... More | | Paul Kasmin Gallery Opens New Space in Istanbul with Exhibition by David La Chapelle
Installation view of the David La Chapelle exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery in Istanbul.
ISTANBUL.- One of New York’s leading art galleries, “Paul Kasmin Gallery is now in Istanbul after New York. David LaChapelle will be hosted as the first guest with an exhibition as assertive as the gallery itself. “Documents of Desire & Disaster” exhibition can be seen between 10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011 at Paul Kasmin Gallery -Akaretler Sıraevler, consisting the selected frames of LaChapelle, who is well-known for the photography works he does with the world’s most famous names.” The exhibition, which will take place in Akaretler Sıraevler, a new key location for contemporary art and design in Istanbul, was made possible with the support of New York Business Man & Art Collector Michael Shvo and the Sponsorship of Serdar Bilgili / Bilgili Holding. Paul Kasmin Gallery, Founded in New York in 1989, ... More |
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Iranian Film Today Festival Returns to the High Museum of Art for the 13th Year
Featuring six films, this year’s festival includes both seasoned, award-winning filmmakers Bahman Motamedian (“Sex My Life”) and Ramtin Lavafipour (“Be Calm and Count to Seven”) and the feature debuts of several filmmakers including Shalizeh Arefpour (“Heiran”) and Shirin Neshat (“Women Without Men”).
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the 13th annual Iranian Film Today film festival in January 2011. Featuring six films, this year’s festival includes both seasoned, award-winning filmmakers Bahman Motamedian (“Sex My Life”) and Ramtin Lavafipour (“Be Calm and Count to Seven”) and the feature debuts of several filmmakers including Shalizeh Arefpour (“Heiran”) and Shirin Neshat (“Women Without Men”). “Despite the repression of dissenting voices in Iran, its filmmakers continue to produce cinema that holds its own on the world’s screens,” said Linda Dubler, curator of media arts at the High. “The 13th annual Iranian Film Today presents diverse views of Iranian society, from the edgiest documentary to the most elegant art film. Ranging from the exploration of the role of women in an Islamic theocracy to the marginalization ... More | | 18 Cross-Generational Artists will Be Featured in MoMA PS 1's Presentation of The Talent Show
Gillian Wearing, I Signed On and They Would Not Give Me Nothing from Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, 1992–1993, chromogenic print mounted to aluminum, 16-1/2 x 11-3/4 in. Collection Walker Art Center. Gift of Richard Flood, 2006. Image reproduced courtesy Maureen Paley, London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents The Talent Show, featuring works by 18 artists in the First Floor Main Galleries beginning on December 12, 2010. The exhibition is curated by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey. In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered participants a chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that increasingly allow us to present our private lives as public theater. During the same period, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, placing unwitting “participants” on an entirely different kind of stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show examines a range ... More | | Designing Media, a New Book by Bill Moggridge, Explores New and Traditional Media
The book features interviews with 37 significant figures in traditional and new forms of mass communication.
NEW YORK, NY.- Designing Media, written by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge and published by MIT Press Nov. 29, examines connections between old and new media. In his book, Moggridge describes the changing media landscape and the growth of new patterns of media consumption. The long-dominant forms—television, radio, newspapers, magazines and books—have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive websites, television broadcasts over the Internet and books are published in both electronic and print editions. “The convergence between new and traditional media is in turbulent flux, with the models for successful designs yet to be evolved,” said Moggridge. “I found it fascinating to learn from so many people who have a track record of innovation and design excellence.” The book features interviews with 37 significant figures in traditional and new forms of mass communication, including Chad ... More |
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Hanneke Meijer and Rokus Due Say Giant Stork Once Roamed Indonesian Island
A six-foot (180 centimeters)-tall giant stork stands next to a dwarf Homo floresiensis. AP Photo/John Wiley & Sons, Inge van Noortwijk.
By; Robin McDowell, Associated Press
JAKARTA (AP).- Fossils of a giant stork have been discovered on a far-flung Indonesian island that has been home to many extreme-sized creatures — from tiny human-like "hobbits" and dwarf elephants to the world's largest-known rats and lizards. Authors Hanneke Meijer and Rokus Due wrote in the December issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society that leg bones from the marabou stork, which lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, indicate it stood around 6 feet (180 centimeters) tall and weighed up to 35 pounds (16 kilograms). It appears to have been primarily land-based, they wrote. The bones were found during excavations of the Liang Bua cave in the west of the island of Flores at a depth of around 15 feet (4.7 meters). Flores, located on Indonesia's eastern ... More | | Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, David Becker, Dies
David was most recently employed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where he was the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints and Drawings.
BRUNSWICK, ME.- David Becker died on November 26, 2010 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice in Scarborough, ME. He was born in Albany, NY on October 15, 1947 and educated at The Albany Academy, the Taft School, and Bowdoin College from which he graduated in 1970 with a degree in history. While there, he discovered the Bowdoin Museum of Art and began developing an interest in art and especially printmaking. In 1983 he received a Master of Arts degree from New York University. In addition to receiving a Chester Dale Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, David did coursework at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School in 1999 and 2009. David was most recently employed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts where he was the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator of Prints and Drawings. David ... More | | An Exhibition of Photographs by Cleveland-Born Nathan Harger Opens at Hasted Kraeutler
Nathan Harger, Untitled (Process Tank), Brooklyn, NY, 2010. Courtesy Nathan Harger/ Hasted Kraeutler, NYC.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Kraeutler presents an exhibition of photographs by Nathan Harger. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition. Nathan Harger photographs objects, scenes and spaces in the everyday urban environment such as highways, cranes, bridges, airplanes, power lines, factories and other structures behind the massive forms of production that shape American culture. The earlier works exhibited are grids, which show his conceptual development and his negotiation of the dynamic visual experience of a city [Untitled (Overpass), Queens, NY, 2007]. The recent works are high contrast black-and-white photographs, such as Untitled (Process Tank), Brooklyn, NY, 2010. The industrial spaces in the outer boroughs of New York City, New Jersey and Western Pennsylvania where Harger photographs are not tourist sites; they are often restricted areas around factories, power plants and airports at the fringes of the city. Bo ... More |
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Fine Arts Center Presents an Exhibition of Over 100 Works by Contemporary Mexican Ceramic Artists from Tonalá
COLORADO SPRING, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico and the Mexican Cultural Center in Denver, presents an exhibition of over 100 works by contemporary Mexican ceramic artists from Tonalá, which opened Dec. 11. These ceramic artists draw upon a thousand of years of tradition. Tonalá is a small city outside of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco, where potters fused together ancient and modern techniques to produce a regional tradition that boasts 10 different styles of finishes with rich colors and distinctive decorative details. “The remarkable execution of these works, and the beautiful imagery depicting a rich variety of real and fantastic forms show the aesthetic and technical mastery achieved by these artists, considered some of the best ceramicists in Mexico today,” said FAC Cur ... More
Andrew Skurman Receives Chevalier des Arts Medal for Architecture from France
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Renowned classical architect Andrew Skurman was awarded France's Médaille des Arts et des Lettres (Medal of Arts and Letters) for his contribution to the promotion of French culture by Corinne Pereira, the Deputy Consul General of France in San Francisco. The ceremony, attended by more than 350 invitees, was held on November 22, in the prestigious Green Room of the a href="http://sfwmpac.org" target="_blank">San Francisco War Memorial. The Medal of Arts and Letters is awarded by the French Minister of Culture to citizens of France who have "significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance." Select foreign nationals also have received the medal since it was established in 1957. The recipient of the award is admitted into the Order of Arts and Letters as a chevalier, or knight. Pereira, who spoke on behalf of the Consul general of France, Romain Serman, who had been unexpecte ... More
"El Nacimiento": Selected Nativities from the Boeckman Collection on View at the Tyler Museum of Art
TYLER, TX.- A focus exhibition of traditional Mexican nativities or nacimientos is on view at the Tyler Museum of Art. The works were selected from The Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Mexican Folk Art in the Museum’s Permanent Collection as well as the loan from the Boeckman’s personal collection. The selected pieces show miniature scenes depicting the birth of Jesus Christ as interpreted by Mexican artists and are on display in the Museum lobby. Also known as crèches, a French term literally translating to “infant beds,” these examples will be on display throughout the holiday season. The works were created by artists in Michoacán, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Puebla, Mexico, and will be on display through Sunday, January 9 in the TMA lobby. Didactic materials are available and have been produced in both English and Spanish and can be found next to the wall case. The nativities included in this ... More
Children's Book Illustrations Conjure Magic from Real Life at Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- The sometime chilly realities of modern-day life take on warmth and verve in 35 original children’s book illustrations created between 1960 and the present day, on view at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers through May 23, 2010 in How We Live Now: Picturing Everyday Life in Children’s Book Illustration. On view are delicate watercolors executed with languid washes and quick dabs of color, black and white sketches, color photographs, and expressive pastel figure drawings as well as a variety of styles and methods mirroring the social themes and subjects of contemporary culture. Books for viewing and for browsing will be on display in the exhibition, which has been drawn from the museum’s collection of Original Illustrations for Children’s Literature, which includes over 4000 objects including original illustrations, preparatory materials, manuscripts and book ... More
Columbia Museum of Art Implements Renewable Energy Project with Grant from the US Department of Energy
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art implemented a renewable energy project using a recently installed solar panel array on the roof of its building which is reducing the amount of energy the museum has to purchase. The Museum received a $213,500 grant from the US Department of Energy to fund the 177 solar panels, special installation equipment, 6 electrical inverters and a web based monitoring system. A special educational webpage at columbiamuseum.org provides visitors with fun facts, live readings of energy saved, photos and interactive games for kids. The Solar Panels will: PRODUCE 10-20% of the Museum’s daily usage. OFFSET 40 tons of carbon every year. SAVE 379 trees per year. GENERATE 53,340 kilowatts per hour. “This project is a great example of using renewable energy to improve the environment and the economy. Patrons of the museum will be able to learn more about solar technology as they see it w ... More
Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center presents Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy from December 11, 2010 to March 6, 2010. The exhibition brings together over 30 sculptures spanning Calder’s career with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder's legacy as modern sculptor. While a well-known, even beloved figure, Calder has not previously been considered an important point of reference for contemporary artists. This is the first exhibition to explore Calder's significance for an emerging generation of sculptors, reconsidering his influence and his innovation through a presentation of his own work alongside the work of contemporary artists. The seven contemporary artists in this exhibition - —Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook—have taken important cues from Cal ... More
United States Artists Announces 50 USA Fellowships for 2010
NEW YORK, NY.- The national grant-making and advocacy organization United States Artists (USA) has selected 52 outstanding artists to receive 50 USA Fellowships for 2010, awarding them with unrestricted grants of $50,000. This marks the fifth year of the USA Fellows program and brings the total that USA has invested in living artists to $12.5 million since 2006. Chosen for the caliber and impact of their work, the USA Fellows for 2010 hail from 18 states and Puerto Rico, range in age from 32 to 71, and represent some of the most innovative and diverse creative talents in the country. They include cutting-edge experimenters and traditional practitioners from the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, film and media, music, theater arts, and visual arts. The complete list of winners is provided below. As it celebrates its fifth anniversary, United States Artists is also kic ... More
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