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A woman looks at a nude photograph of British model Naomi Campbell by Helmut Newton, on display at the Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde in Apolda, Germany, 07 November 2011. The exhibition presents 75 photographs of German photographer Newton (1920-2004) from 09 January to 27 March. EPA/MICHAELREICHEL.
APOLDA.- The road here was long. "For years we had the desire at some point to have a Newton-exhibition in Apolda ", said on Friday Hans Jurgen Giese, Managing Director of the Kunstverein Apolda Avant-Garde. "In mid-2008 I asked the Newton Foundation to bring works of the legendary photographer to the Kunsthaus Apolda. The answer was at that time sobering: It was said that the images would only be shown in major cities, not in the province". The exhibition includes 75 images from the 1973 to 2002. Among the works are large-format black-and-white and color photographs, featuring such stars as model Naomi Campbell. The exhibition also shows Polaroid series from the collection of fashion designer Yves St. Laurent. Newton fetish performances and images of women in glamorous surroundings are also part of the show. Helmut Newton became an icon by creating icons. He photographed for Vogue 'and the biggest fashion magazines in the world. With his book, Helmut Newton with his style of f ... More |
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Allan Stone Gallery Extends the Exhibition Alfred Leslie/John Chamberlain: Collage
John Chamberlain, Untitled, ca. 1961 (detail), mixed media relief, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 5 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Allan Stone Gallery extends the exhibition Alfred Leslie / John Chamberlain: Collage through January 22nd, 2011. The exhibition features 15 early works from both artists, spanning the ten years from 1951-1961. Leslie is best known for his expansive abstract canvases, experimental films, and precisionist nude paintings. Chamberlain, the king of 60s and 70s sculpture, is famous for his polychromatic car part assemblage. Both artists are now considered giants of the post-war era, easily recognizable for their signature, disparate styles. By returning to an earlier age, Collage provides a unique historical and visual context. In these works one sees the formation of two distinctive personalities, emerging from the crucible of abstract expressionism. Leslie’s collages serve as small but powerful counterparts to his larger canvases. Chamberlain’s, through his use of staples and cardboard, inti ... More | | Milton Avery & the End of Modernism to Open at Nassau County Museum of Art
Milton Avery, March with a Green Hat, 1948. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches. Permanent Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art. Purchase College, State University of New York; Gift of Roy R. Neuberger.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Milton Avery & the End of Modernism looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated color fields, the simplification of form, and figures that emphasize the flatness of canvas surface. Milton Avery & the End of Modernism opens at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) on January 22, 2011 and remains on view through May 8, 2011. It is organized for NCMA by Museum Director Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. The exhibition was organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. It was funded, in part, by the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; the Friends of the ... More | | Israel Museum Explores the Seasons with Works by Pissarro, Rodin, Sisley, and Others
A late follower of Antoine Watteau, French, early 19th century, Girls Painting in the Landscape, undated. Oil on canvas. Images courtesy of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, opened a new exhibition exploring the visual depiction of the four seasons in European art from the 16th century onward. The Four Seasons, on view through December 2011, examines the connection among art, mythology, and folklore in agrarian societies dependant on the cycle of the seasons. More recent works demonstrate changes in this theme's depiction by artists in modern urban society. The exhibition includes approximately 30 paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and porcelain figurines, drawn largely from the collections of the Israel Museum. The depiction of the seasons has been a popular genre throughout the history of art, and especially during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, based on an ... More |
 | Ann Shostrom's First One-Person New York Exhibition in 18 Years at Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Ann Shostrom, harvest, 2010, cotton, dyes, acrylic, bleach and dye prints, embroidery
45 x 34 inches. Photo: Courtesy Elizabeth Harris Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Harris Gallery presents a solo exhibition, Harvest, by Ann Shostrom. This is her first exhibition with the gallery and her first one-person New York exhibition in 18 years. Ann Shostrom’s paintings operate within the seams of fine art and craft traditions, informed by the uses of collage in modern and folk art. She uses fabrics and used household linens that are dyed, painted, embroidered, and sewn together. Shostrom uses open-ended processes to create the dyed fabrics that become building materials for her constructions. Her wax resist methods include melting by blowtorch, burning votive candles, and drawing with traditional tools. Fluid dynamics combine with chemistry to produce landscape forms. Erosion rends the fabric. Tears and holes open new vistas. She joins formalist abstraction to the history of domestic labor and craft. By sewing one tradition into another, weaving ... More | | First Survey of Heinz Mack's Early Metal Reliefs 1957-1967 at Sperone Westwater
Heinz Mack, Rotor mit Interferenzen, 1960, aluminum, glass, wood, stainless steel, 59 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (151 x 151 x 25 cm). Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents the first survey of Heinz Mack’s early metal reliefs (1957 - 1967). Together with fellow German artist Otto Piene, Mack co-founded the ZERO group in 1957, which sought a renewal in art amidst the ruins of post-war Germany. Created in the formative years of ZERO, Mack’s metal reliefs were made in his first studio in Düsseldorf at 69 Gladbacher Straße, which served as both an experimental laboratory for art and was the site of ZERO’s first exhibitions - “Abendausstellungen”, or “Evening Exhibitions” that lasted the duration of one night. Mack’s metal reliefs are characterized by their shimmering industrial surfaces, made from aluminum, Plexiglas, wood, glass and stainless steel: all materials that were radically unfamiliar for sculpture at the time. His aim was to abandon the traditional idea of pictorial space ... More | | Four Emerging, Chicago-Based Cartoonists Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Paul Hornschemeier, Excerpt from The Three Paradoxes, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- New Chicago Comics presents the work of four emerging, Chicago-based cartoonists and animators: Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, on view from January 8 to 30, 2011. Each of these artists has a unique style that expands and challenges the conventions of the comic book -- a visual art form for which Chicago continues to be renowned. Jeffrey Brown established himself with his first publication, Clumsy (2002) an autobiographical work that examines modern relationships with discomforting detail and intimacy. His comics are drawn in a deliberately awkward style that heightens both the emotional impact and charming humor of the stories. Each comic is drawn in an individual sketchbook, and Brown is showing a selection of these original books as part of the exhibition. Lilli Carré is an animator and cartoonist who has produced a series ... More |
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Derek Eller Gallery Opens Shows by Adam Marnie and Tom Thayer, and Ruby Sky Stiler
Ruby Sky Stiler, no title (wall relief, open mouth), 2010, acrylic resin, foam, polymer adhesive, pigment, 23 x 19 inches. Photo: Courtesy Derek Eller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery presents Adam Marnie and Tom Thayer in the Main Gallery and Ruby Sky Stiler in the North Room. In a sequence of intimate photo collages and a large-scale wall installation, Adam Marnie uses flowers as flexible signifiers within an array of conversations. They connect to art history (from Dutch still-life to Mapplethorpe), as well as having everyday uses (weddings, funerals), and common thematic embodiments (sex, death, beauty, the passage of time). Marnie takes this familiar subject (a humble vase of flowers photographed in his studio) and makes it the starting point for a series of performative actions: meticulous cutting, re-configuring, and gluing. And in the case of the wall installation, these actions become even more exaggerated, as he cuts into the sheetrock, removing large sections and bringing the wall into ... More | | New Body of Work by Kansas-Born Max Cole at Haines Gallery in San Francisco
Max Cole, Briscone Pine, 2010 (detail). Acrylic on linen, 33 x 49 inches. Courtesy of Haines Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery presents its eighth exhibition for New York artist Max Cole. Having refined her practice over a period of four decades, Cole has earned a reputation as a premier practitioner of reductive painting with a consistently and highly recognizable aesthetic. Employing a subtle palette of black, white, and shades of grey, this new body of work includes a selection of gem-like smallscale pieces as yet unseen here in San Francisco. From a distance, Cole’s works appear to be composed of simple bands of color. But upon closer inspection, these horizontal bands reveal intricate patterns of short, vertical hatch marks consisting of alternating colors. What at first appears devoid of the human hand reveals itself as an accumulation of subtle imperfections. The stripes seem to vibrate, at one moment alluding to foggy horizons or waving fields of grain, and in the next falling ... More | | Green Art Gallery Presents "Lucid Dreaming", First Solo Exhibition of Works by Ebru Uygun
Ebru Uygun, untitled, 2010, mixed media on canvas,200 x 200 cm.
DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery presents “Lucid Dreaming”, the first solo exhibition of works by rising Turkish painter Ebru Uygun in Dubai. Uygunʼs show inaugurates the new 3,000 s.q.f space at Al Serkal Avenue in Al Quoz, the up-and-coming art district in Dubai. The exhibition is on view from January 10 2011 through February 12 2011. Ebru Uygun’s work can be seen as a semaphore for the deconstruction of traditional artistic practice. Her work, while displaying many of the aspects of traditional paintings —created with paint, hung on walls, existing in two dimensions— also encompasses various practices including performance, collage, sound-making and sculpture. In her works, Uygun effortlessly combines several binaries: deconstruction and reconstruction; pulling apart and putting back together; silence and noise; chaos and order. The artist’s practice began with the impulse to add and then late ... More |
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A Series of Works on Paper by Celia Gerard on View at Sears Peyton Gallery
Celia Gerard, Black Star, 2009-2010, mixed media on paper, 60 x 70 inches, 66 x 78 inches framed. Photo: Courtesy Sears Peyton Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sears Peyton Gallery presents a show of new works by Celia Gerard. For her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Celia Gerard exhibits a series of works on paper whose imagery is derived from a developing language of shapes that collide with traces of memory. Exploring the lines of form and structure, Gerard’s process uses the grid as a foundation for adding and subtracting layers of spatial relationships. From piece to piece, the grounds of each individual work oscillate between the lightest light and a mesmerizing darkness. This balance combines materiality with elements of a mysterious state of limitless potential. The multiplicity of Gerard’s mark making turns in on itself, creating a prismatic reflection that strikes a sense of quiet mindful awe. Gerard’s wide ranging influences include Islamic architecture, graffiti, crystal formations, and the works of composer John Cage and artist Ge ... More | | ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries Showcasing Contemporary Chinese Artists
Yang Qian, Untitled (Water Drops), Archival Inkjet Print with Silkscreen, Ed. 200, 32 x 40 inches, 2009.
MIAMI, FL.- Some of the most important contemporary artists of China are featured in "Portal: Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Prints, Photos and Sculpture," an exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries. Internationally recognized superstars in the show include Zhang Xiaogang, Feng Zhengjie, Yang Qian, Guo Wei, Huang Yan, and Sui Jianguo. Along with a wide selection of serigraphs, the exhibition includes a Plexiglass "throne" chair by Yang Fan. Zhang is best known for his series called "Big Family" portraits, inspired by old family photos and European surrealism. Their staring, expressionless poses comment on Chinese collectivism while small differences offer a glimpse of their individuality. Feng Zhengjie, another of the best-known Chinese artists, is represented by three of his "Chinese Portrait Series" silkscreens. Their exaggerated makeup and flamboyant hairdos reflect the artist's view that "the influence of ... More | | John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Marks 50th Anniversary of JFK Inauguration
President John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline Kennedy walk outside the White House during inauguration ceremonies, just as the parade began. AP Photo.
By: Bob Salsberg, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP).- Fifty years later, Richard Donahue still remembers the bitter cold and the crowds at the U.S Capitol stamping their feet to stay warm as they waited for John F. Kennedy to deliver his inaugural address on the day the torch was passed to a new generation. The speech would quickly warm up the partisan crowd, Donahue recalled. Neither he nor anyone there that day could have imagined how ingrained in the American consciousness JFK's words and phrases would become and how easily they still come to mind a half-century later. "It just gave us a sense that the future is now, you're a part of it, and away we go," said Donahue, now 83, a friend of the Kennedy family who earned a prized ticket to the inauguration on Jan. 20, 1961, after ... More |
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The Wright, the Guggenheim's New Fine-Dining Restaurant, Wins Best of the Year Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The Wright, the Guggenheim’s new fine-dining restaurant designed by Andre Kikoski Architect, has won a Best of the Year Award from Interior Design Magazine, it was announced on December 2, 2010, during a ceremony at the IAC Building in New York. The fifth annual design competition recognized superior interior design projects and products in more than 70 categories. Cindy Allen, editor-in-chief of the magazine, described the achievement as “a perfect trifecta” of honors for Andre Kikoski Architect, whose 2010 distinctions for the Wright also include the James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design and the Gold Key Award for Excellence in Hospitality Design. Since opening in December 2009, the Wright, named for the Guggenheim’s famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has received numerous accolades for its innovative design. The 1,600-square-foot space features a curvilinear wall of walnut layered with illuminated fiber optics, a bar clad in ... More
Sydney L. Moss Ltd to Bring Japanese Art to New York in March
NEW YORK, NY.- The venerable London dealer in Asian art, Sydney L. Moss Ltd, will stage an exhibition devoted to Japanese art at the Alexandre Gallery on the 13th floor of the Fuller Building in New York, from Wednesday 16 to Monday 28 March 2011 as part of Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) and coinciding with Asia Week. Centenary Exhibition of Japanese art, including the Elly Nordskog Collection of Inrō will be Moss’s sixth annual New York exhibition and will feature lacquer, inrō, pipecases, netsuke and other works from the collection of Elly Nordskog, Californian nonagenarian and grande dame of the heyday of Japanese art collecting in Los Angeles, as well as works from the Edo period. Mrs Nordskog had exceptional taste in Japanese lacquer, especially in marrying inrō with nets ... More
Landmark Exhibition of Iconic Works from Every Phase of Picasso's Career Leaves Seattle in Less Thank Two Weeks
SEATTLE, WA.- There are less than two weeks left to see the Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. What The Stranger calls “one of the best [Picasso show’s] you’ll ever see outside Paris”, the exhibition displays more than 150 original works of art, including 75 major paintings and sculptures. More than 300,000 visitors from Seattle and across the country have seen the exhibition, which is poised to become the biggest and most ambitious show ever on view at SAM. As a final farewell to the exhibition and to accommodate the large number to visitors to the “not-to-miss-show” of the year, Seattle Art Museum is extending its hours for the duration of the exhibit, as well as remaining open on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Museum hours during the final days of the exhibition are: January 7-9: 10am-9pm • January 10: Open to SAM Members o ... More
Bruce Munro's Water-Towers at Salisbury Cathedral
KILMINGTON.- The installation of Bruce Munro’s Water-Towers has begun, and work is in progress on his second contemporary artwork at Salisbury Cathedral, situated along two entire sides of the ancient cloister. 16,000 water bottles (large 2 Lt size) have been supplied by Cott Beverages, suppliers to Tesco, and thanks are due to Jamie Feeley and particularly Sophie Dungworth for their help in ensuring they arrive through inclement weather and other challenges. Today Munro’s team began lacing 69,000 meters of optic fibre through the bottles. Each of the 69 towers will be built of 216 bottles containing a total of 30 tons of water, and together they will form a huge maze which changes colour in an offset pattern to a musical score. The Cloisters were built between 1240 and 1270. Water-Towers will remain in place for two months, alongside Munro’s Light Shower which cascades from the high in the spire crossing ... More
Monet's Water Lilies to Reunite in Missouri
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art is lending a painting of water lilies by Claude Monet to museums in Missouri, where it will join two companion paintings for the first time in 30 years. The painting will be loaned for a year to the St. Louis Art Museum and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. The Plain Dealer reports that the three paintings measure 42 feet wide when together and were created by Monet as a trio but sold separately after his death in 1926. The shows will run from April 9 to Aug. 7 in Kansas City and from September to next January in St. Louis. All three paintings will be in Cleveland in 2015 as part of an exhibit planned for the museum's 2016 centennial celebration. The paintings were last together in 1980, when they toured the same three cities. ... More
Egypt: Missing Pieces of Colossal Statue Unearthed
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists have unearthed six missing pieces from a 3,400-year-old colossal double statue of a powerful pharaoh and his queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Sunday the fragments of the statue of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye were discovered on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor. An Italian team restored the statue after it was first unearthed in 1889, filling in the missing pieces with modern stonework. The recovered fragments were from the right side of Amenhotep III's chest, crown and leg, and a section of the queen's leg, left arm and foot. The original pieces will be fitted to the statue, which is on display in the main hall of Cairo's Egyptian Museum. ... More
PBS Launches Free Full-Length Video App for iPhone and iPod Touch and Antiques Roadshow Game App
PASADENA, CA.- PBS announced the App Store debut of the PBS App for iPhone and iPod touch, featuring more than 300 hours of free video, including full-length programs. Also launching today, the PBS Antiques Roadshow game app, available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, lets players virtually collect, appraise and bid on real antiques with new collectibles from different cities added regularly. “With a huge library from nearly 360 member stations and 1500 public media producers, PBS is delivering a rich on-demand experience and is now one of the first broadcasters to bring full-length video to the iPhone,” said Jason Seiken, SVP, PBS Interactive, Product Development and Innovation. “There has been increasing demand for our content on other platforms – the PBS video player averages 22 minutes viewing time per program among audiences 18+ and ranks 19th among video sites, with more than 104 million streams. In ... More
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