| | Zeitgeist and Glamour: the Decades of the Jet Set at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf
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Jade Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger poses next to a picture of her father at the opening of the exhibition 'Zeitgeist + Glamour' in the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany, 04 February 2011. The exhibition runs from 05 February to 15 May 2011. EPA/HORST OSSINGER.
DUSSELDORF.- The Sixties. It is as if a new era has dawned, a 'revolution of the young' has begun: new faces, incredible music, unusual beauties, a change of fashion, style, and taste, another way of life. Everyone wants to be a part of it and everyone and everything is mingling together: la dolce vita and subculture, glamour and art and intellectual currents. The protagonists of money and power surround themselves with the protagonists of the arts: aristocracy, politics, business, painting, music, film, fashion, dance, theatre, and performance. Legendary images of the 60s and 70s will be brought together in the 'Zeitgeist & Glamour' exhibition at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf; the most spectacular photographs of an exciting era: the icons of an age, superstars and celebrities, and unmistakeable milieux. There are both masterful photographs of the highest aesthetic order, ground-breaking in their finesse, and cheerful snapshots ... More |
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Major New Hepworth Wakefield Gallery Designed by David Chipperfield to Open on May 21
Barbara Hepworth, Figure (Archaean), 1959, bronze, Photography: Jonty Wilde Plates, © Bowness, Hepworth Estate.
LONDON.- The Hepworth Wakefield designed by David Chipperfield Architects, will open to the public on Saturday 21 May 2011, putting the spotlight on Yorkshire as a world centre for sculpture, together with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore Institute and Leeds City Art Gallery. Named after Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903 and lived there with her family until the age of 18, The Hepworth Wakefield will create for the first time a permanent public legacy for the artist in her home city. The highlight of The Hepworth collection will be a group of over forty works donated by her family that provides a unique insight into Barbara Hepworth’s working methods and creativity. The Hepworth Family Gift, donated through a special scheme facilitated by the Art Fund, comprises a unique collection of prototypes and models in plaster, aluminium and wood. These were works the artist made towards the realis ... More | | New Portrait of the Princes William and Harry at National Portrait Gallery in London
Prince William of Wales and Prince Henry of Walesby by Fergus Greer, December 2006, bromide fibre print. © Fergus Greer.
LONDON.- A previously unseen portrait of Prince William and Prince Harry by Fergus Greer and a portrait of Tracey Emin by David Bailey will form part of a new display highlighting the photographs recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. Eighteen by Twelve: Recent Photographic Acquisitions from 7 February 2011 in Room 41a will show eighteen prints by twelve contemporary photographers, all on display for the first time at the Gallery. Every year the National Portrait Gallery acquires a diverse selection of photographic portraits which offer a visual reflection of contemporary British life and culture. The sitters in this display include recent portraits of popular scientist Brian Cox, poet Christopher Reid, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis and Mackenzie Crook, and singer songwriter K T Tunstall. The display will also include comedienne Catherine Tate, contemporary singer M.I.A, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, ... More | | Morgan Library Presents Exhibition on Controversial Shakespeare Portrait Question
Artist Unknown, Seventeenth Century (c.1610), William Shakespeare. Oil on panel, 24 ¼ x 14 ¾ inches (53.9 x 37.5 cm) Collection of Archbishop Charles Cobbe (1686–1765); Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2009, when the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon unveiled a previously unidentified portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), it created an international stir. The Jacobean-era painting had hung unrecognized for centuries in an Irish country house belonging to the Cobbe family, and bore significant resemblance to the famous engraving of Shakespeare in the First Folio of his plays. In a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum entitled The Changing Face of William Shakespeare, the Cobbe portrait, together with a recently identified sixteenth-century portrait of Shakespeare's patron Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton, is being presented in the U.S. for the first time. Also on view will be three additional portraits of the ... More |
 | Detroit Institute of Arts to Honor Artist William T. Williams with 2011 Alain Locke Award
William T. Williams, The Flute Player, 1992. Acrylic on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts auxiliary Friends of African and African American Art will present its 19th annual Alain Locke Award to renowned artist William T. Williams on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m. As part of the event, Williams will give a talk entitled “Merging Art and Life in Abstraction.” Photographer Hugh Grannum will receive the Alain Locke Recognition Award. The event is free with museum admission. Williams is being recognized for his large, abstract paintings that reflect his mastery of color, his innovative artistic approaches, and his diverse range of interests. Throughout his 40-year career, Williams has generously mentored generations of artists. He is acknowledged as an initiator in 1968 of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s renowned Artist-in-Residence program, which continues to jumpstart the careers of many artists of African ... More | | Fernando Sánchez Castillo and the Bomb Disposal Squad Create an Exhibition at the CAC Málaga
Fernando Sánchez Castillo.
MALAGA.- Method of Discourse is a clear example of the creative play that underpins the work of Fernando Sánchez Castillo. Using a title based on the celebrated Discourse on Method by the French philosopher René Descartes, Sánchez Castillo deliberately inverts and alters the terms to reveal that absolute truth and certainties do not exist and to emphasise the need to question official versions and precepts established by technological progress. Contemporary art becomes a tool with which to demonstrate that things can be different thanks to its freedom of thought and action, which are absent in other facets of modern life. The modification of an object’s use proposed by Marcel Duchamp is particularly present in Sánchez Castillo’s exhibition at the CAC Málaga. The principal work, specially made for this space, inverts the normal function of a robot used to deactivate bombs in order to turn it into an artistic device with ... More | | Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco
Isabelle de Borchgrave, Maria de’ Medici (detail), 2006, inspired by a ca. 1555 portrait by Alessandro Allori in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- For more than fifteen years, the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave has been producing a completely original body of work that is quite easy to explain but very difficult to categorize. Her central project has been to recreate exquisite, life-size historical costumes entirely from paper. Taking inspiration from the rich depictions in early European paintings, iconic costumes in museum collections, photographs, sketches and even literary descriptions, de Borchgrave skillfully works paper to achieve the effect of textiles: crumpling, pleating, braiding, feathering and painting the surface. The artist’s exhibition Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave is on view February 5 to June 5, 2011, at the Legion of Honor as part of the Collection ... More |
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Jean-Marc Bustamante's 'Dead Calm' Exhibition On Display The Fruitmarket Gallery
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Untitled, 2010. Ink on Plexiglas, 150 x 150 cm. Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery.
LONDON.- Jean-Marc Bustamante is one of France’s senior artists and a major figure in the international art world. His clear, direct vision manifests itself in an almost bewildering array of materials and media – first photography, then sculpture, painting, architectural projects, installation. His work is unified and characterised by its calm intelligence and a kind of extraordinary ordinariness that helps us see its subject, the world around us, in a new way. Jean-Marc Bustamante's 'Dead Calm' exhibition is on display until April 4, 2011. Bustamante’s art has not been seen enough in Britain, and The Fruitmarket Gallery brings it to new audiences in Scotland. This exhibition includes classic work from the 1980s and 1990s – the large-scale photographs and sculptures with which Bustamante made his name and newer ... More | | Christian Viveros-Fauné and Jota Castro Appointed Curators for Dublin Contemporary 2011
Christian Viveros-Faune'and Jota Castro.
DUBLIN.- New York-based curator and writer, Christian Viveros-Fauné, and Franco-Peruvian artist and curator, Jota Castro, have been appointed joint Lead Curators of Dublin Contemporary 2011, one of the most ambitious art exhibitions ever staged in Ireland. Dublin Contemporary will take place for eight weeks from September 6th to October 31st 2011 and will present the work of Irish-based artists, alongside leading artists from around the globe. Viveros-Fauné and Castro are very ambitious for Dublin Contemporary and will be presenting the work of some renowned international artists alongside artworks by outstanding Irish artists. They will present a programme of exhibitions that relate to the theme of Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance. Taken from William Butler Yeats’s famous poem, “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title was inspired by Yeats’s response ... More | | Toronto Duo Young & Giroux Unveil New Work Specially Made for the Musée d'art Contemporain
Daniel Young & Christian Giroux. Image tirée du film Every Building, or Site, That a Building Permit Has Been Issued for a New Building in Toronto in 2006, 2008. Still from the film film Every Building, or Site, That a Building Permit Has Been Issued for a New Building in Toronto in 2006, 2008. Courtesy the artists and Diaz Contemporary, Toronto.
MONTREAL.- Toronto duo Young & Giroux unveiled a brand-new work as part of an exhibition specially produced for the Musée. The Musée d’art contemporain presents Young & Giroux from February 3 to April 25, 2011. In their works, Daniel Young and Christian Giroux re-examine mid-twentieth-century modernism, the production of space and the built environment. They rework the abstract forms associated with this modernism by taking consumer products and items related to design and industrial production techniques and using them to create sculptures that evoke theories of contemporary architecture. For this show, Young and Giroux have extended ... More |
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Jewellery Owned by Last Link to World of Proust and Monet for Sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh
Born in Paris in 1904, Paulette Howard-Johnston (née Helleu), who died in 2009 aged 104, was one of the 21st Century’s last links to the Belle Époque. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- Jewellery and silver belonging to the daughter of the famous French society painter Paul Cesar Helleu, one of the models for a central character in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (sometimes known as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’),’ is to be auctioned at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 2 March. Born in Paris in 1904, Paulette Howard-Johnston (née Helleu), who died in 2009 aged 104, was one of the 21st Century’s last links to the Belle Époque, the world of Proust’s novel, which ended abruptly on the battlefields of the First World War. The writer drew on his friendship with Paulette’s father in creating the character of the painter Elstir whose work provides a constant point of reference and reflection throughout his multi-volume masterpiece. Paul Cesar Helleu, painted ... More | | BFI Gallery Presents the First London Showing of 'Marxism Today' by Artist Phil Collins
Phil Collins, marxism today (prologue), 2010. HD video, 35 min. Courtesy Shady Lane Productions.
LONDON.- This February, the BFI Gallery presents the first London showing of marxism today by British artist Phil Collins. Shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, marxism today is an ongoing project that began by following the fortunes of former teachers of Marxism-Leninism in Communist East Germany. The exhibition runs through 10 April 2011 and admission is free. Collins’ short film marxism today (prologue) (2010), first presented at the 6th Berlin Biennale, mixes contemporary interviews with ex-teachers alongside archive material in which snapshots of life in the old GDR are offset with the teachers’ own recollections of the time, and their contrasting experiences after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Contemplative, engaging and affecting, the film is supplemented by a new companion video, use! value! ... More | | New Artists/New Work Series at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Presents Melika Bass
Melika Bass. Courtesy of Jared Larson.
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago artist Melika Bass makes experimental films that explore cults, women’s asylums, and menacing creatures through atmospheric narratives that emphasize image and sound textures. Using both non-professional actors and performance artists, her films often reveal a subtle surrealist influence and focus on enigmatic actions and situations. Shooting in 16mm film and exhibiting in digital video, Bass presents her work in an installation that opens this evening during First Fridays at the monthly "UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, and runs through February 27, 2011. The film presented in the exhibit, Shoals: A Film Cycle in Seven Parts, is shown in a series of seven chapters. The premiere of the theatrical version of Shoals (52 min) is screened separately in the MCA Theater along with the Chicago premiere of her film Waking Things (40 min) on Sunday, Febr ... More |
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Colbert to Auction His Artfully Doctored Portrait
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Stephen Colbert (kohl-BEHR') is trying a new role: art dealer. Comedy Central announced Friday that the host of "The Colbert Report" is putting one of his portraits up for auction. Colbert has repeatedly had himself painted in comically self-aggrandizing style. This one is referred to as "Portrait 5, Stephen(s)." But it's potentially the most valuable: Artists Frank Stella, Shepard Fairey and Andrew Serrano each added their touch to the work in December. It will be sold March 8 by auction house Phillips de Pury & Company, with proceeds going to DonorsChoose.org. Another Colbert portrait was hung in Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 2008. Despite his conservative pundit's disregard for high culture, Colbert has increasingly embraced the art world. He recently claimed to be the elus ... More
American Debut of RMB City Opera at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- RMB City Opera, an innovative video by contemporary Beijing artist Cao Fei, is shown in the Project Space gallery at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art until June 5. The work explores the ideas of play, romance, identity, and our global, inter-connected world through the use of Second Life, a virtual online community inhabited by avatars – imaginary characters created by their real-life masters. In Second Life, avatars socialize, develop businesses, and pursue educational and creative opportunities often related to art, design and architecture. They hope to find idealistic solutions to global problems. RMB City Opera premiered in Turin, Italy in 2009 as an experimental theatrical play. Its installation at the Nelson-Atkins marks its American debut. RMB City Opera’s virtual cityscape includes emblematic sites such as Tiananmen Square, the Beijing Olympic Stadium, the China Central TV building, Ne ... More
New Buildings Revive Miami Beach's Lincoln Road
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- It seems like there should be a bouncer and a line of women wobbling in stilettos beneath the red neon "1111" sign, like at any other South Beach hotspot. This is no club, though. It's a radical, open-air parking garage that has become a modern gateway to the see-and-be-seen cafe scene of Miami Beach's Lincoln Road. Its audacity is matched at the other end of the historic shopping strip by an innovative concert hall that Frank Gehry designed for a childhood friend. Both buildings have reclaimed once-blighted corners of the trendy pedestrian mall as public spaces and infused a new architectural whimsy into the traditional Art Deco and Miami Modern cityscape. Even for South Beach, it sounds ridiculous that a parking garage could become something of a vertical park. But that's how 1111 Lincoln Road has evolved since it opened a year ago. Runners charge up and down the ramps in the early mornings. Photographers stage shoots and tourists gawk at the views. A glass- ... More
Baltimore Cuts Off Funding for Poe House
BALTIMORE (AP).- Baltimore has cut off funding for the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, one of the strongest links between the literary icon and the city that claims him as its own. Curator Jeff Jerome says he's been told that the Poe House must become self-sustaining by mid-2012, or it will close. The city hasn't been funding the museum since last summer, but Jerome is keeping it open with money he's raised over the years. The Poe House had been funded at $80,000 a year, which includes Jerome's salary, a security system, utilities and supplies. Jerome has been the curator and sole employee since the city took control of the building in 1979. Poe lived in the tiny west Baltimore rowhouse with his aunt and cousins during some lean years in the 1830s, before he became famous. ... More
The AIA Elevates 104 Members and Six International Architects to the College of Fellows
WASHINGTON, D.C..- The 2011 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 104 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to the profession. The 2011 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony at the 2011 National AIA Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans. The Fellowship program was developed to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level. Robert D. Loversidge, FAIA, (chair) Schooley Caldwell Associates; Henry C. Alexander Jr., FAIA, Rizzo, Carreno & Partners; Jeffrey A. Huberman, FAIA, Gantt Huberman Architects, PLLC ... More
Original Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge Paintings on Display at Heritage Auctions' Park Avenue Location
NEW YORK, NY.- Six original paintings of Disney's Scrooge McDuck – the curmudgeon uncle to Donald, with his vast money bin brimming with gold – from the hand of his creator, Carl Barks, will be on display at Heritage Auctions' 445 Park Avenue (at 57th) location from Tuesday, Feb. 1 through Monday, Feb. 14. The exhibition is open to the public. After the New York exhibition, the six paintings will travel back to Dallas as part of Heritage Auctions' Feb. 24-25 Signature® Comics & Comic Art Auction. The six Scrooge McDuck paintings come to auction from the collection of Maryland radio executive Kerby Confer, an unrivalled grouping of Disney art that Confer is currently releasing to the bidding public. "In the hierarchy of popular Disney artists, few rank higher in the hearts of fans than Carl Barks," said Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for the Comics Department at Heritage, "long known to Disney aficionados as 'The Good Duck A ... More
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