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A three dimension life size reproduction of Vincent van Gogh's "The Bedroom" is on display during a preview held ahead of the exhibition of his works at the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, southwestern Japan. The Dutch post-Impressionist painter's 36 oil paintings along with 32 prints and drawings are touring three Japanese cities of Tokyo, Dazaifu and Nagoya from October to April 2011 for a series of exhibitions, marking the 120th anniversary of his death. AP Photo/Kyodo News, Kazufumi Nagao.
FUKUOKA.- The exhibition Van Gogh: The adventure of becoming an artist will opens in Japan, featuring masterworks from the Van Gogh Museum and Kröller-Müller Museum collections. The exhibition includes such highlights as The bedroom and The sower (Van Gogh Museum), and The Ravine and Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Kröller-Müller Museum). The exhibition gives an impression of the methods and techniques Van Gogh used in developing his style and technique, and of the artists who influenced him in this development. Paintings by some other famous artists are therefore also on display. Though these works were not all seen by Van Gogh, they give an impression of the working methods that were prevalent at the time. ... More |
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Exhibition of Works by Multi-Talented Artist Robert Rehfeldt on View at Weserburg Museum
Robert Rehfeldt, Das Blatt wendet sich nicht, 1973 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010
BREMEN.- Robert Rehfeldt was one of the most well-known and most important artists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of the 1970s and ’80s. He was a draughtsman, graphic artist, painter, filmmaker, action artist, visual poet and mail artist. His worldwide artistic connections made him a contact partner for numerous artists in the East and West. The exhibition is on view until Feb. 6th, 2011 at the Weserburg Museum. He would have celebrated his eightieth birthday in January 2011. The exhibition thus also pays homage to an exceptional artist who, undaunted by Socialist Realism and the doctrinaire bureaucracy of the GDR, created a complex oeuvre characterized by a unique brand of visual and linguistic subversiveness. The exhibition of the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications is the first to focus on his entire graphic oeuvre, which mirrors the story of a restless and uncomfortably non-conformist artistic ca ... More | | Goodbye to Some of the Notable People in the Arts and Popular Culture Who Left Us in 2010
Peter Marzio was recruited by the trustees of the MFAH, Houston in 1982.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the last day of the year, we would like to say goodbye to those artists who left us this past year. Here, a roll call of some of the notable people in art and popular culture who died in 2010. Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, born Marlene Woerner (August 25, 1918 – January 1, 2010), was a German sculptor. She was born in Landshut, Germany. In 1932, after the death of both parents, she attended the state school for ceramics in Landshut and completed her Master's degree in ceramics when she was only 17 years old. She began her studies of sculpture in 1936 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under the guidance of Josef Henselmann and Richard Knecht. At the academy she was the first woman to study sculpture for use with public buildings. Since 1945 Marlene Neubauer-Woerner has lived and worked as a freelance sculptor, based in Munich. From 1952 she has been a member of the Sezession, an association of artists ... More | | Radical Reinterpretation of Everyday Consumer Images by Penelope Umbrico in New Book
Umbrico’s first monograph, is accompanied by a series of essays.
NEW YORK, NY.- Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As Umbrico describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.” Umbrico finds these moments in the printed pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures, and online sites such as Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. By identifying and isolating image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—the farcical and surreal nature of the lingua franca of consumerism and recreation is brought to new light. Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) presents a unique and challenging approach to quintessential ... More |
 | January's 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show Returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center
Roy Lichtentsein, Shipboard Girl.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 19-23, 2011. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management this encyclopedic art event will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series, film screenings, special events program, live performance art, book signing, and special exhibit spaces. China, a powerhouse of Asian Art will be the focus of the 2011 show. A special program featuring Chinese art with accompanying lecture series, will be a highlight of this year’s fair. A special exhibit, ‘Three Walkers – Crossing Over’ presented by Guangzhou’s 53 Art Museum, is curated and sponsored by the prominent Asian art magazines Art Gallery Magazine and Gallery Sights and features celebrated artists Feng Feng, Liu Qing-yuan, and ... More | | Biblical Archaeology Society Announces the Publication of "In Search of Herod's Tomb"
Professor Ehud Netzer during a press conference in The Hebrew University in Jerusalem on Tuesday, 08 May 2007. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Biblical Archaeology Society announces the publication of “In Search of Herod’s Tomb” by Ehud Netzer in the January/February 2011 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR). The first-century Jewish historian Josephus tells us that the site of Herodium was the final resting place of the skilled builder and hated king Herod the Great (known also from the infancy narratives of the Gospels), but Josephus failed to identify the exact location of the tomb. For 35 years, Herod’s tomb eluded Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer. Finally in 2007 a ruined mausoleum and a smashed sarcophagus were uncovered, providing the long-sought answer. And excavations at Herod’s magnificent eponymous desert retreat have ... More | | Artist Jenny Holzer Creates a Projection for the Portland Museum of Art
US artist Jenny Holzer poses in front of her artwork 'Monument' (2008, 20 double-sided, curved electronic LED signs). EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS.
PORTLAND,ME.- In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Nelson Social Justice Fund at the Portland Museum of Art, the Museum presented a lecture and commissioned work by the internationally known artist Jenny Holzer on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Holzer gave a lecture to a crowded hall of 722 people at the Holiday Inn By the Bay in Portland. After the lecture, a projection that Holzer created especially for the Museum called For Portland lit up the front of the building until 10 p.m. This one-night-only projection, For Portland featured selections from the poetry of Nobel Prize-winner Wisława Szymborska. For more than 30 years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including ... More |
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De Nieuwe Kerk Presents Highlights from Renowned Collections of Islamic Art
Portrait miniature of the Qajar ruler, Fath‘ali Shah, Iran, early 19th century. Gold sheet, painted with opaque and translucent enamels, JLY 1231
AMSTERDAM.- De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam presents highlights from one of the world’s most renowned collections of Islamic art. Passion for Perfection will include some 500 objects from the collection of Professor Nasser D. Khalili. On view through April 17 2011, De Nieuwe Kerk glitters with richly illuminated Qur’ans and manuscripts, paintings, gold, jewels, textiles, ceramics, glassware, lacquerware, metalwork, and wood carvings. These are works of great historical and artistic value, illustrating the refinement and grandeur of Islamic art and bearing witness to a quest for perfect craftsmanship. Passion for Perfection shows that Islamic art is a masterly expression, not of a single national culture or civilization, but of the many peoples joined by Islam for more than 1,400 years. At ... More | | Highly Anticipated Hayward Touring Show of Contemporary British Art Returns to London
Steven Claydon, DETAIL of Western Plan (Commuted), 2009.
NOTTINGHAM.- The British Art Show is a major survey exhibition renowned for showcasing the best in British art now. Organized by Hayward Touring Exhibitions, the show takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK. It opened in Nottingham on 23 October 2010, then tours to the Hayward Gallery – its first time in London in 20 years – followed by venues in Glasgow and Plymouth. Since its beginning in 1979, over 1.1 million visitors have enjoyed the six previous British Art Shows in cities all around the country including Nottingham, Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester, London, Gateshead, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Southampton, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham. The list of previous exhibitors is a ‘Who’s Who’ of British Art – including Lucien Freud, Gilbert and George, Anish Kapoor, Antony ... More | | Discover a Holistic Selection of Erró's Collages from the Reykjavik Art Museum's Erró Collection
Erró, Meiri framleiðsla / More Production, 1974-1975.
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND.- The exhibition offers, for the first time, an opportunity to discover a holistic selection of Erró‘s collages from Reykjavik Art Museum‘s Erró collection. On show are 130 collages which Erró began donating to the museum in 1989, spanning the artist‘s creative career ever since his first experiments with the media at the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík in the early fifties. After cultivating the collage for 15 years there came a turning point in Erró‘s creative form of expression when he started to transform his pictures into paintings; a method which turned out to be momentous and became the key to Erró‘s creative expression ever since. In it the collage gained a dual status; as a collage and as a painting. The exhibition is structured time sequentially and sheds a light on how particular collages laid the foundation for Erró‘s paintings. It is currently on v ... More |
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Evolution of the Conception of Beauty in Contemporary Glass Art at Mudac in Lausanne
Harvey K. Littleton, Ellipsoid Prismatic, 1981. Collection du mudac, Lausanne.
LAUSANNE.- Launched in the early 1970s, the mudac collection has reached the respectable age of forty. It has attained a level of maturity that invites in-depth critical examination of its sources. After all, four decades of collecting activity the world over — led by the late Peter Engelhorn and his wife Traudl Engelhorn, and with the zealous collaboration of Rosmarie Lippuner (director of the mudac’s predecessor, the Museum of Decorative Arts) —is no mean feat! The collection is currently on view October 31st 2011 at mudac. The mudac’s art glass collection is distinguished by several basic traits. Firstly, it centers on a single material, which in turn boasts certain novel artistic properties recognized as such in the early 1950s. Moreover, it is encyclopedic in its scope, proceeding in a keenly curious and open-minded spirit that keeps it in step with the most recent creative developments. Thus its very ma ... More | | 'An Open Mind' is the Title of the New Jubilee Publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, housed in a building that was largely financed by private donations, was officially inaugurated in November 2000.
VADUZ.- “An Open Mind” is the title of the new jubilee publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechten-stein summarising the history of the institution and the exhibitions and events it has organ-ised in the first ten years of its existence. The prestigious volume, made possible by the generous support of the Centrum Bank Foundation, is published by Benteli Verlag, Berne. The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, housed in a building that was largely financed by private donations, was officially inaugurated in November 2000. With the Kunstmuseum Liechten-stein, the team of architects Meinrad Morger and Heinrich Degelo along with Christian Kerez designed a building of great complexity and discrete simplicity that immediately gar-nered international acclaim. Since then, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein has ... More | | Museum Ludwig Acquires Set of Editions Made by Scottish Artist Lucy McKenzie
Lucy McKenzie/Paulina Olowska, Nova Popularna, 2003. Silkcreen on paper, 58,5 x 42 cm © Lucy McKenzie.
COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig has purchased a complete set of the editions made by Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (*1977) and is showing them in the eleventh exhibition in its series “Graphic Collection / Museum Ludwig“. To mark this first presentation of all the works, the artist produced a special mural. The editions by this young Scottish artist could scarcely be more varied. Among the approx. 50 pieces are linocuts and silkscreen prints, along with posters for events, silk scarves, record covers she has designed and a calendar. They testify to her collaborations with other artists, her activities such as setting up a bar in War-saw or establishing her own record label, “Decemberism“. For her designs McKenzie often draws on the artists she admires from the 1920s and 1930s and from the 1950s, such as Käthe Kollwitz or comic artist Hergé. In an ... More |
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Museum Frieder Burda, Designed by Richard Meier, in Baden-Baden Proves to Be Crowd Puller
BADEN-BADEN.- The Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, created by New York building designer Richard Meier, proves to be a true crowd puller. Since the opening in October 2004, more than one million art lovers have visited the museum. The snow-white building is situated in Baden-Baden’s famous Lichtentaler Allee and adjoins the old National Gallery (Staatliche Kunsthalle), built 100 years ago. In Germany, this is the first time that a national and a private cultural institution work together in such a unique way. Especially fascinating is the interplay of alternate views from outside nature to art and from inside the museum back out to the surrounding park. In New York, the museum has been awarded the American “New York Chapter Design Award“. This important prize for architecture, assigned by the renowned “American Institute of Architects (AIA)“, honors the “excellent design and first- ... More
Regine Schumann's Black Box on View at Museum Ritter
WALDENBUCH.- Regine Schumann’s art lives from the interaction between colour, light, materials and space. For her wall and floor installations she almost exclusively uses materials which, once appropriately charged with light energy, light up of their own accord. The exhibition is on view until May 01, 2011 at Museum Ritter. Fluorescent acrylic glass is her material of preference, although in recent years she has also frequently worked with UV-active Plastilight strings. With these means the artist constructs perfectly geometrical rectangular picture boxes and smoothly arched forms, or uses them to crochet large objects using basic primal structures that extend out over the floor or walls. In her searching inquiries into colour and colour spaces, Regine Schumann is very much a painter, if not in the classical sense of the word, because she breaks with conventional ideas by employing unusual concepts and techniques. I ... More
The National Gallery Complex Celebrates the New Year with the Annual Exhibition of Watercolours by JMW Turner
EDINBURG.- In keeping with a century-old tradition, New Year’s Day at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh is marked by the opening of the annual exhibition of watercolours by J M W Turner (1775–1851). The thirty-eight works on display were bequeathed in 1900 by Henry Vaughan, a London art collector who amassed an outstanding group of watercolours by the British painter. A perennial favourite in the Gallery’s exhibition calendar, the display runs throughout January, providing a thoughtful counterpoint to the more energetic celebrations of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, and a welcome injection of light and colour during the darkest month of the year. Recognised as perhaps the greatest of all British artists, Turner was a master of watercolour painting, using the medium to create stunning land and seascapes, topographical views and designs for book illustrations. Vaughan acquired examples from every ... More
Win an Opportunity to Have Your Work Exhibited at Turner Contemporary
KENT, CT.- Page Turner is the art and writing competition launched by Turner Contemporary, Aim Higher Kent and Medway and University for the Creative Arts, with the aim of uncovering new talented artists and writers in Kent. To enter you have to be a student or staff in school or higher education in Kent, meaning teachers, teaching assistants and tutors can enter as well as their pupils. We are looking for original artwork inspired by the theme Nothing in the World But Youth, with the winning entries to be shown in an exhibition of the same name at the new Turner Contemporary gallery 17 September 2011- 8 January 2012. This means that the winners will have their creations displayed alongside works by artists such as JMW Turner, Andy War ... More
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