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British photographer Mary McCartney, daughter of Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney poses for a photograph next to her photographs during the opening of the exhibition 'From where I stood' in the gallery Contributed in Berlin, Germany. EPA/MARCEL METTELSIEFEN.
BERLIN.- Mary McCartney (b 1969) started her career as a photographer in 1995. Her work is reflection not only of Marys personal world, but of the unique relationships she establishes with the people she photographs, like Kate Moss, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tracey Emin, Stella McCartney or Paul McCartney. Her first book – From Where I Stand – combines those images with places and events as seen through Marys eyes: the intimacy of backstage preparations amoung the corps de ballet at the Royal Opera House, the raw energy of fashion shows and rock concerts, both on stage and off, the private spaces of home and family and the wittily observed vignettes of visual delight. CONTRIBUTED presents the first solo show of Mary McCartney in Germany. ... More |
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Art Lovers Queue through Night for Glimpse of Monet at the Grand Palais in Paris
A visitor looks at a painting "Terrasse a Sainte-Adresse" by French artist Claude Monet. REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS (REUTERS).- Thousands of art lovers queued in freezing temperatures on Saturday night for a final glimpse of a major retrospective on French Impressionist Claude Monet, after Paris' Grand Palais opened round the clock to cope with demand. Wrapped in scarves and heavy coats, people queued for more than three hours to see the nearly 200 works by the 19th century master before the historic exhibition, the biggest one on Monet in decades, closes on Monday evening. Staff from the museum brought hot drinks and slices of cake to keep up their spirits, and a clarinetist serenaded the shivering crowds. Jean-Paul Cluzel, chairman of the Grand Palais, said the museum had decided to keep its doors open continuously from Friday to cope with the record number of visitors, expected to total nearly 1 million since the exhibition opened in late September. "The three nights add up to 40,000 more visitors," Cluzel told Reuter ... More | | Landmark Exhibition of John Marin's Revolutionary Watercolors in Major Art Institute Exhibition
John Marin, The Red Sun-Brooklyn Bridge, 1922 (detail). Watercolor with opaque watercolor, scraping, and wiping, and fabricated charcoal with stumping on thick, rough textured, ivory wove paper (all edges trimmed); 542 x 665 mm. Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- In 1948, a nationwide survey pronounced John Marin (1870–1953) “America’s Number 1 artist.” Marin’s exuberant and improvisational paintings are recognized today as critical to the evolution of American modernism. Less well known, though, is the extent to which Marin pushed the limits of the watercolor medium, establishing for a new generation of artists its inherent suitability to avant-garde expression. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized a major exhibition that is the first to explore this idea through close technical analysis of the artist’s watercolor practice: John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, which is on view in the museum’s Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries in the Richard and Mary ... More | | Clark Art Institute Investigates European Portraiture in the Exhibition Eye to Eye
Portrait of a Man, c. 1530, by Parmigianino. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A special exhibition of European portrait painting, featuring works by master artists from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century, is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from January 23 through March 27, 2011, in the exhibition Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850. Representing the range of styles and themes in Old Master portraiture as practiced in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and France, the twenty-nine paintings and one sculpture in the exhibition include remarkable works by Memling, Cranach, Parmigianino, Ribera, Rubens, Van Dyck, Greuze, and David, as well as other extraordinary works by lesser-known painters. This exhibition is the first opportunity for the public to see many of these works, which have been lent exclusively to the Clark from a private collection. The exhibition brings to light a number of rarely ... More |
 | Images Inspired by Ed Ruscha's Admitted Love of Driving at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station with Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964. Oil on canvas, 65 x 121 1/2 inches (165.1 x 308.6 cm). Private Collection.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Since Ruscha’s first road trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles in 1956, the artist has continued to engage the images he has encountered along the roads of the western United States. Consisting of approximately 75 works, spanning the artist’s entire career, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested tracks key images inspired by his admitted love of driving. The exhibition is on view until April 17, 2011 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. “I like being in the car, and seeing things from that vantage point,” Ruscha has said. “Sometimes I give myself assignments to go out on the road and explore different ideas. My books are an example of that.” The exhibition, organized by Michael Auping, the Museum’s chief curator, includes many of the artist’s most famous books, including Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations, Real Estate Opportunities, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Thirty-Four Parking Lot ... More | | New York City Museum and Visitor Center to Display Brooklyn Navy Yard's 200-Year History
Rendering provided by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. AP Photo/Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation's most storied warships — sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines. The yard's sprawling hospital treated soldiers from the 1860s through World War II. Now, more than four decades after the largest-scale shutdown of any military facility in U.S. history, the Navy Yard is coming to life again. Today, the 300-acre facility hums as a vibrant industrial park with the Steiner Studios, the largest film and television complex outside Hollywood, and hundreds of other businesses. A $25.5 million museum and visitor's center under construction, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92, will highlight the shipyard's ... More | | Exhibition by William Eggleston Transforms Ordinary Moments into Indelible Images
William Eggleston. Untitled (from Southern Suite portfolio), 1981 (detail). Dye-transfer print, 16 x 20 in. Edition of 12. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Gift of AutoZone, Inc. 2001.15.15.4. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
NASHVILLE, TN.- William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked, an exhibition bringing together recent works and iconic photographs by one of today’s most renowned photographers, William Eggleston, opens in the Upper Level Gallery of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts remains on view through May 1, 2011. The exhibition, originated by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, includes 50 photographs by the Memphis, Tenn., resident who is one of the most influential artists of his generation. Included in the exhibition are selections from the permanent collection of the Memphis Brooks Museum, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, with the assistance of the Eggleston Artistic Trust, and the David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, ephemera objects and the continuous screening of the renowned ... More |
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Drawings and Photographs from the Collection of Designer Kasper at the Morgan Library
Hans Hoffmann, An Affenpinscher, (detail). Watercolor and gouache on vellum, 10 x 14 1/4 inches (25.5 x 36 cm) Kasper Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The art collection assembled by American fashion designer Herbert Kasper—known simply as Kasper—is exceptional for its distinctive character and superb quality. The Morgan Library & Museum presents the collection to the public for the very first time, offering visitors a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary group of drawings and photographs. Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs is on view through May 1, 2011. The exhibition features over one hundred works, including old master drawings, modern and contemporary works on paper, and photography. The unusual, tripartite nature of the Kasper Collection is a testament to both Kasper’s personal taste and his desire to build a truly unique collection. A particular focus of Kasper’s activity as a collector has been sixteenth-century European art, notably drawings by masters ... More | | Retrospective of 40 Years of Richard Deacon's Work Opens at the Sprengel Museum
British artist Richard Deacon smiles at the camera in the Sprengel Museum. EPA/PETER STEFFEN
HANOVER.- Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is internationally recognized as one of contemporary sculpture’s most influential figures. He quickly emerged as an exceptional fabricator of forms, the creator of an artistic universe fluidly embracing the living. The Missing Part exhibition, designed in close collaboration with the artist, is a retrospective of 40 years of his work shown here for the first time as an assemblage of approximately forty sculptures and some 120 drawings, engravings and photographs. Appearing on the English scene as a promising young sculptor in the early 1980’s, Richard Deacon quickly made a name for himself as a artist deeply committed to material. He works with ceramics, metal, wood, resin, paper, glass, plastic, leather and cloth and is a self-proclaimed fabricator. His sculptures never seek to hide technical operations behind them, including assemblage, riveting, torsion, stretching, folding or strapping… The creator of approxima ... More | | Solo Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings by Jun Kaneko Opens in Cincinnati
Jun Kaneko, Untitled-Dango, 2009. Glazed ceramics, 70.5 x 33 x 19.5 inches. Photo: Courtesy Carl Solway Gallery.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Carl Solway Gallery presents a solo exhibition of sculptures, paintings and drawings by internationally acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko. He is best known for free-standing, monumental ceramic sculptures utilizing simple shapes and elaborate surface design. His Dangos (Japanese for rounded form) may stand as high as thirteen feet. His abstract paintings are also large in scale, while his drawings are more intimate in nature. Jun Kaneko’s work is included in more than sixty museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, National Gallery of Australia and The National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan. He has realized over forty public art commissions around the world and ... More |
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Art Dubai Projects to Feature New Work by More than 75 Artists in 2011 Edition
Sherin Guirguis, Mashrabeya, 2009, plywood sculpture, 92 x 94 x 77 inches, Courtesy Frey Norris, San Francisco
DUBAI.- This March Art Dubai Projects, a programme of films, talks, radio dispatches and performances, will feature the work of more than 75 artists commissioned to create interactive works in response to the fair. Presented by Art Dubai and featuring collaborations with regional and international organisations including Bidoun Projects and The Island, Art Dubai Projects 2011 will be the fair’s largest and most dynamic series of curated programming yet. “We are delighted to collaborate with leading cultural organisations to present a diverse range of projects that affirm Art Dubai’s role as a site of discovery,” said Antonia Carver, Fair Director of Art Dubai. “From film to installation to performance, Art Dubai Projects explores the fabric, economy, and theatrical nature of an art fair. These dynamic projects engage visitors of all backgrounds.” As part of its ambitious commissioning programme, ... More | | Malmo-Based Artist Christian Andersson Presents His Largest Show Ever at Moderna Museet
Christian Andersson, To R.M. for EVER , 2011. © Christian Andersson/BUS 2011. All works courtesy the artist and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/Stockholm.
MALMO.- Moderna Museet Malmö starts the year with an exhibition of the Malmö-based artist Christian Andersson. His largest solo show so far – From Lucy with love – fills the entire Turbine Hall with several new works, presenting visitors with one of the most complex oeuvres in Swedish contemporary art. In his works, the artist Christian Andersson speculates about possible events, undiscovered opportunities or hidden discoveries, often based on historical or less known material, where his own additions or shifts in interpretation aim to emphasise the already known or allude to the existence of something that has been overlooked. Many of his works are based on legendary objects or references that are on the verge of being forgotten, such as a battery, a book, a conspiracy theory, or a frame from a well-known comic strip. These objects or references may not have an obvious place in sanctioned history, but in the a ... More | | International Center of Photography Opens Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide
Wang Qingsong, Requesting Buddha Series No. 1, 1999. Chromogenic color print. © Wang Qingsong. Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide, a solo exhibition by one of China’s most innovative contemporary artists, is on view at the International Center of Photography through May 8, 2011. Featuring a dozen large-scale photographs and three video works, it is the most extensive U.S. showing to date of the work of this leading Chinese artist. Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang Qingsong (pronounced “wahng ching sahng”) has created compelling works that convey an ironic vision of 21st-century China’s encounter with global consumer culture. Working in the manner of a motion-picture director, he conceives elaborate scenarios involving dozens of models that are staged on film studio sets. The resulting color photographs employ knowing references to classic Chinese artworks to throw an unexpected light on today’s China, emphasizing its new material ... More |
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Vlatka Horvat Opens the Spring Season at Bergen Kunsthall with Major Installation
BERGEN.- Her exhibition can be seen as a stage in an ongoing process for the artist, since she is here continuing her long-term iterative investigations of spatial qualities and relations. With a well established artistic strategy, where the method involves picking the existing apart, cutting out, folding/bending or weaving together photographic, textual or physical elements, she creates new, fictive potential for the relationships between space, body and object. For the exhibition in NO.5 Horvat is showing a major installation, as well as several new series of works on paper. Thematically, she has focused her exploration around the concepts of ‘the edge’ and ‘the centre’ as both spatial/physical and conceptual phenomena. Inherent in this is the idea that edges connote boundaries and limitations, whether in physical conditions like place and space, or in social relations in the form of normative expectations of interpersonal behaviour. Not least, the edge co ... More
Audio-Visual Exploration of Myth and Reality in Tijuana Subject of New Exhibition
SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Donkey Show, an audio-visual exploration of the intersection of myth and reality in Tijuana, Mexico, opened at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and will be on view through April 16. The exhibition is guest curated by cultural anthropologist and graphic design historian Jim Heimann and author and music critic Josh Kun. The exhibition runs in Project Room 1 concurrently with Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist, and in Project Room 2, Daniel Cummings: Recent Paintings. The Donkey Show is a blend of 200 rare tourist photographs, vintage nightlife ephemera, and pop songs. It explores American expectations, misconceptions, and fantasies of Mexico featuring two different donkeys—one actual, the other imaginary. Featured are tourist donkey cart photos from the early 1900s to the 1980s, alongside rare Tijuana nightlife, burles ... More
Nordic Water Tales by Susanna Majuri at Galerie Adler
FRANKFURT.- Stories are a wonderful thing! You can lose yourselves in them, assume a different form or personality – and yet, in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth. Finnish photo artist Susanna Majuri (*1978) is the storyteller of the North. In her pictures, her thoughts always return to Iceland, the land of her dreams. The wondrous island with its glaciers, waterfalls and geysers has long held her in its thrall. She takes inspiration for her work from the land of legends, fables, stories and music, weaving together her impressions to create picture galleries that tell of her own life and emotions. Majuri portrays people living not only in Iceland, but also in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, because to her mind, there’s a little bit of Iceland in every Nordic country. She finds the common features of the landscapes just as captivating as the diversity of tongues spoken in the various countries. Her works therefore bear titles in different languages, as a way of ope ... More
New Works by Toronto-Based Artist Ray Caesar at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents A Gentle Kind of Cruelty, new works by Toronto-based artist Ray Caesar, in what is his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features printed multiples as well as several large-scale, original, one-of-a-kind prints. Caesar expands upon his signature aesthetic in this exhibition by taking a more painterly approach, rendering new imagery with softer edges and greater movement than in previous work. The artist’s digitally created dreamscapes, set in elaborately furnished Rococo-style interiors, feature haunting doll-like female figures with delicate features and porcelain complexions. The hybrid characters, part-child-part-woman, some sprouting tails, tentacles and other animal appendages, all wear elaborate costumes that reference fashions of the past and often incorporate futuristic elements as well. Caesar works in Maya (a 3D modeling software used fo ... More
Ida Kay Greathouse, Director Emerita of the Frye Art Museum, Dies
SEATTLE, WA.- It is with great sadness that the Frye Art Museum announces the passing of Ida Kay Greathouse, Director Emerita of the Museum, on Thursday, January 6, 2011. Mrs. Greathouse and her husband, Walser, were friends of Charles and Emma Frye, the founders of the Frye Art Museum. Mr. Greathouse, a Rhodes scholar and graduate of Oxford, served as the Fryes' attorney, executor of the Frye estate, and first director (1952–1966) of the Charles and Emma Frye Free Public Art Museum, as it was then called. Following Walser Greathouse's death, Mrs. Greathouse took the helm as Director of the Frye. Throughout her nearly thirty year career, she was committed to protecting the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye. Kay Greathouse continued her husband's focus on American art, enhanced the Frye Founding Collection's holdings of French paintings, and moved into new collecting directions by acquiring significant paintings by early-twentieth ... More
Conquer the Tower at Windsor Castle: A New Tour Launches this Summer
LONDON.- For over 800 years, Windsor Castle's world-famous Round Tower has dominated the surrounding landscape. Now a new guided tour, 'Conquer the Tower', takes visitors inside the Round Tower and up 200 steps to the top of one of the nation's iconic landmarks. From a height of 65.5 metres above the River Thames, they can enjoy breathtaking views of the Castle and historic parkland, the Thames Valley, the London skyline and across several counties. The tour runs daily throughout August and September 2011. Windsor Castle was first established by William the Conqueror in 1070-86 as one of a chain of fortifications around London, securing the western approach to the capital. At the heart of the Castle was an artificial mound (motte) formed by chalk spoil from the surrounding ditch and topped by a wooden keep. In 1170, Henry II replaced the Norman keep with the Round Tower, built with heath stone from nearby Bagshot. The appearance of the Round Tower today dates from George I ... More
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