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View of one of hundreds of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya's engravings exposed in Valladolid. Goya's engravings from the series called 'Los Caprichos' (The Whims), 'Los Desastres de guerra' (War Disasters) and 'Tauromaquia' (Tauromachy) will be exhibited until 16 January 2011. EPA/NACHO GALLEGO.
VALLADOLID.- The Municipal Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Passion in Valladolid, is hosting through 16 January 2011, 200 prints by Francisco de Goya, belonging to the complete series of "Los Caprichos", "The Disasters of War "and "Bullfight", in an exhibition titled "Goya, The genius of a writer." The show delves into the particular interpretation of Spain that the great Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) made at the time. Throughout his career his expertise was evident in all genres ranging from portrait to landscape without missing the traditional themes that dictated his time and, of course, not forgetting the war and social issues. Besides numerous techniques mastered, not just drawing or oil but his ability as an engraver took him to keep company with the great masters of this technique. ... More |
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Exhibition Featuring More than 60 Works by South African William Kentridge at Albertina
William Kentridge, Self-Portrait [Testing the Library], 1998. Sammlung von Brenda Potter und Michael Sandler © 2008 William Kentridge. Foto mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
VIENNA.- William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the contemporary South African artist's work, on view at the Albertina through January 30, 2011. Featuring more than 60 works in a range of media - including animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures, and books - the exhibition is co-organized by SFMOMA and the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. In close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition explores five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the past three decades. Although the exhibition highlights projects completed since 2000, it also presents, for the first time, Kentridge's most recent work alongside his earlier projects from the 1980s and 1990s - revealing as never before the full arc of his distinguished career. Curated by Mark ... More | | Sally Mann's First Thematic Survey of Work Focusing on the Flesh and the Spirit Published
Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form.
NEW YORK, NY.- In collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and accompanying its landmark 2010 exhibition, Aperture presents Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit (Aperture, November 2010), the first in-depth look at this world-renowned artist’s approach to the body. Throughout her career, Mann has fearlessly pushed her exploration of the human form, tackling often-difficult subject matter and making unapologetically sensual images that are simultaneously bold and lyrical. This beautifully produced publication includes Mann’s earliest platinum prints from the late 1970s, Polaroid still lifes, early color work of her children, haunting landscape images, recent self-portraits, and nude studies of her husband. The series document Mann’s interest in the body as principal subject, with the associated issues of vulnerability and mortality lending an elegiac note to her images. In bringing them together, auth ... More | | François Pinault Foundation Announces Two New Exhibitions in Venice
Installation view from Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection.
VENICE.- From 10th April 2011, Punta della Dogana will show In Praise of Doubt, a presentation of historical pieces and new works including several site-specific projects, which question the idea of uncertainty, our convictions about identity, and revisit the relationship between intimate space and the space of the artwork. Among the twenty artists in the exhibition In Praise of Doubt, almost half of them have never been included in previous exhibitions of the François Pinault Collection. The exhibition The World is Yours at Palazzo Grassi will present another re-assessment, this time of the traditional limits of the geography of art, and how we relate to others and the world. Presented from 4th June 2011, its opening will coincide with that of the contemporary art Venice Biennale, and will bring together works by some 40 artists from 20 countries, most of which have never been shown as part of the François Pinault Collec ... More |
 | Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme Exhibition Explores Who Felix Nussbaum Was
'Selbstbildnis im Lager' (1940) by German Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum. This artwork is part of the first important retrospective exhibition on Felix Nussbaum. EPA/MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY OF JUDAISM.
PARIS.- Who was Felix Nussbaum? His work has only recently been rediscovered and in France, where he is not well known, his paintings have never been shown before. Through 23 January 2011, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme is presenting the first major retrospective of his work organised in France. Felix Nussbaum was a modern German painter, whose work was shaped by the “New Objectivity” and by contact with the European avant-garde of the first decades of the 20th century, in particular the Italian pittura metafisica and international surrealism, references that link him to some of his contemporaries: Max ... More | | National Touring Exhibition Illuminates the Art and Life of Preeminent Zen Master Hakuin
Hakuin Ekaku, Two Blind Men on a Bridge (detail). Ink on paper, 11 x 33 in. Man’yo-an Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- What’s the sound of one hand clapping? This famous meditational question was first framed as “What is the sound of one hand?” by Hakuin Ekaku, an 18th century painter and Zen master whose work is showcased at Japan Society through January 9, 2011 in The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin. “Although a major figure in Japanese art and widely regarded as the most important Zen master of the last 600 years, Hakuin is virtually unknown to American audiences today—a situation Japan Society intends to redress with this, the first retrospective of his work ever to be seen in the United States,” says Joe Earle, Director of Japan Society Gallery. The Gallery at Japan Society ... More | | Masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance Coming to Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Venus Rising from the Sea, Venetian Painting Oil on canvas, about 1520.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will present an exhibition of 25 Venetian masterpieces—12 paintings and 13 drawings—including two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–59). The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese, and Lotto from the NGS collection. The MIA’s presentation of “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland” will be on view February 6, 2011, through May 1, 2011. “We are delighted to be a co-organizer of ... More |
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Symbolic Burial of Patrick Ireland Documentary Launched by Loopline Film
Patrick Ireland burial.
DUBLIN.- A film documenting the symbolic burial of Patrick Ireland, the alter ego of the distinguished Irish artist Brian O’Doherty, was launched by Loopline Film and is directed by Sé Merry Doyle. The film is produced by Vanessa Gildea and financed by the Irish Film Board and Loopline Film. On 20 May 2008, after 36 years of making art as Patrick Ireland, Brian O'Doherty reclaimed his birth name with the burial of his alter ego in the grounds of IMMA. The burial was a gesture of reconciliation to celebrate the restoration of peace in Northern Ireland , just as his action in assuming the name Patrick Ireland was a protest at the British military presence in Northern Ireland and the failure of the authorities to ensure civil rights for all. During the Irish Exhibition of Living Art at the Project Arts Centre in 1972, O'Doherty, in a performance before 30 invited witnesses and assisted by Robert Ballagh and Brian King, undertook ... More | | The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation Acquires Three Works by Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente, Sound and Shadow, I III, 2002, oil on canvas, each 227.5 x 278 cm. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar © Francesco Clemente.
MUNICH.- Francesco Clemente’s works “Sound and Shadow, I–III”, the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation’s most recent acquisitions, were painted in 2002 in New Mexico and depict a desert landscape in vastly changing moods – possibly an allusion to different times of day. The central motif that dominates the composition is modified slightly and can be interpreted as a loose combination of huge and abnormally shaped hands and feet. The body and head, where sensuousness and emotion are located, have – in proportion – been reduced to a minimum. The posture and gesture of the grotesquely distorted figure can either be seen as those of someone kneeling and worshipping, clasping and squeezing, or crawling and running. The conception of the world and of the natural are more ... More | | Images Taken in Iceland by British Photographer Dan Holdsworth at BALTIC
Blackout’s awe-striking photographs appear so otherworldly it is almost impossible to believe that these lunar-style landscapes actually exist.
GATESHEAD.- Blackout, presented at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art through February 20, brings together a remarkable new sequence of images taken in Iceland by British photographer Dan Holdsworth. Occupying a space between documentary and the make-believe, these photographs, reproduced to a grand scale, transform the elemental terrain of giant Icelandic glaciers as they melt away into a strange, futuristic landscape. Blackout’s awe-striking photographs appear so otherworldly it is almost impossible to believe that these lunar-style landscapes actually exist. The blue of the sky becomes the deep black of space, while the earth appears in negative, beyond imaginable human time and scale. Reconstructing the notion of the romantic sublime for the 21st century, Holdsworth’s practice is consumed ... More |
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Zigelbaum + Coelho Debut in the UK with a Room of Computational Light at Riflemaker
Zigelbaum + Coelho, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, 2010. Interactive Lighting Installation. Courtesy of the artists and Riflemaker.
LONDON.- Winners of the premiere design award at this year’s Miami /Basel Fair, young design duo Zigelbaum + Coelho debut in the UK with a room of computational light at Riflemaker - an ambitious pulsating LED installation which completes itself only when touched by the visitor, each movement modifying and transforming the work itself. The gun-testing vault at Riflemaker houses 220 luminescent pixel-tiles. Visitors to the gallery are able to change the colours of the tiles, create a rhythmic pulse and re-arrange the overall form of the square magnetic blocks. Zigelbaum + Coelho is a post-industrialist design studio founded by Jamie Zigelbaum and Marcelo Coelho. Their work utilises physical, computational, and cultural materials in the service of creating new, but fundamentally human, experiences. Jamie ... More | | Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts Presents Photo Clay: In the Picture with Warren Mathe
Warren Mather, Sycamore.
BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft presents Photo Clay: In the Picture With Warren Mather, an exhibition of the artist’s work from the last decade, with an emphasis on the development and diversity of his exploration of visual perception over the last five years. The exhibition runs through Jan. 23, 2011. For 30 years artist Warren Mather has explored and tested the expressive and technical boundaries of clay. In his recent work, Mather has developed and refined his method for transferring film, photography, and computer-generated images onto a clay body in glaze by use of silkscreen printing. The virtuosity of Mather’s technique allows for an astonishing level of detail. Yet far from simply an expression of photorealism in ceramics, Mather’s true talent is in using the two dimensional image to inform and reflect our own visual experience. His panoramic imag ... More | | The Second Stage of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Restoration Has Begun
After reinforcing the foundations of the fortress, mortar will be injected in the hollows present in the bottom of bastions. Photo: DMC INAH. M. MARAT.
MEXICO CITY.- The value enhancement of San Juan de Ulua Fortress in Veracruz Port, one of the priority projects of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will undergo soon its second stage, which includes work as the integral restoration of Casa del Gobernador (Governor’s House) and the faces at Plaza de Armas, currently out to tender. This was announced by architect Salvador Aceves Garcia, adviser to the INAH General Direction at the first day of activities of the 9th Encounter for Revitalization of Historical Centers, taking place in Mexico City with the participation of experts from Cuba, Chile, Spain and Italy. Besides intervention to emblematic spaces of San Juan de Ulua Fortress, the expert pointed out that integral rehabilitation of the building is to be finished. After reinforcing the ... More |
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New Work by Slater Bradley and Ed Lachman: Shadow at the Whitney Museum of American Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Artists have long engaged with the mythology of Hollywood cinema, creating a hybrid of art and cinema that has become an important strand of contemporary art. Shadow’ (2010, 13 ½ minutes) a video installation by Slater Bradley in collaboration with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, takes as its inspiration the unfinished Hollywood film Dark Blood (1993), which was never completed owing to the untimely death of River Phoenix near the end of the film shoot. Lachman was the film’s cinematographer. In the original film, Phoenix plays a disturbed young half- Navajo widower who lives like a hermit on a nuclear testing site in the Nevada desert, waiting for the apocalypse and making Navajo kachina dolls that he believes have magic powers. Phoenix’s character’s wife was killed by radiation from the site. A married couple travelling across the desert become stranded in their car, and are rescued by the boy, who falls in love with the w ... More
Potter's Legacy Designed to Inspire, Integrate Students' Talents
PHOENIX, AZ.- On his 80th birthday in 2009, master potter Don Reitz envisioned a program designed to enhance art and creative experiences for students and faculty. Considering himself a teacher’s teacher, Reitz wanted his next level of legacy to be a residency program that transcends academic disciplines in a collaborative, inspirational space. Reitz decided to make a gift of four acres of his northern Arizona property near Sedona including a studio and gallery building, eight wood-firing, salt-glazing and gas kilns, and works of art produced by him and other artists to the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, its School of Art and the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center (CRC). Reitz is one of the most highly esteemed clay artists and educators in the United States, recognized worldwide for his inspirational teaching and creative use of clay as a sculptural medium. Born in 1929 in Sunbury, Pa. and raised in rural New Jersey, Reitz has helped shape the face o ... More
Corbin Design Helps People Find their Way in Museums
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.- "Where do we go from here?" It's a question everyone asks – and it has a number of answers. If it's a location you're looking for, GPS, smart phones and OnStar will get you to the site – but even then, the question remains: "where do we go from here?" The solution is actually quite simple: it's called wayfinding – and museums are turning to Corbin Design to help people get where they need to go. "Wayfinding is direction for people in motion," said Mark VanderKlipp, Corbin Design president. "It's far more than just signage and maps – wayfinding ties together verbal and visual cues during a visitor's journey, using signage of course, but also through architecture, interiors, lighting and landscape design. It considers a visitor's state of mind, and creates tools to support a variety of navigation preferences."
While studies show that a sense of direction is instinctive, those same studies reveal that it's an instinct many people can't rely on. That's wh ... More
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