| Compass: Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art on View at Martin-Gropius-Bau
| | | | A woman looks at the work 'Treason' by Neo Rauch from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MoMA) that is on show in the Martin-Gropius museum in Berlin. The exhibition 'Kompass-Zeichnungen' opened to the public on March 11. REUTERS/Thomas Peter. By: Christian Rattemeyer
BERLIN.- Compass presents an extensive selection from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, an extraordinary treasure trove of nearly 2.600 works on paper by over 600 artists, acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in may 2005. The collection was amassed between 2003 and 2005 with the intention to give a broad overview over the medium of drawing in all its material manifestations at that time. It includes studies and sketches as well as monumental finished works; works painstakingly produced with the help of technical tools such as rulers and spontaneous scribbles with no special regard for finish; narrative and figurative works and a broad range of abstractions; works in traditional media such as pencil, watercolours and gouache, and various print techniques, as well as rubbings and transfers of soil, pigments, plant extracts, soot, foodstuffs, and body fluids; it incorporates assemblage, collage, and found objects. The exhibition ... More | | | First Nam June Paik Exhibition at National Gallery of Art Includes Ambitious Installation
Nam June Paik, Untitled (Red Hand), 1967. 19th century paper scroll by Komatsu Akira, red ink, light bulb, and wood frame, overall: 168.91 x 74.93 x 14.61 cm (66 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Hakuta Family.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new exhibition featuring 20 works by groundbreaking contemporary artist Nam June Paik (19232006) will be on view through October 2, 2011, in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. In the Tower: Nam June Paik is the third in a series of shows installed in the Tower Gallery that centers on developments in art since midcentury. The Paik exhibition is presented in two galleries and includes closed-circuit video works, a variety of previously unseen works on paper, and a short film about the artist. The centerpiece of the show, One Candle, Candle Projection (1988/2000), receives its most ambitious installation ever, taking full advantage of the vaulting, self-contained space of the I.M. Pei-designed tower. "Drawn from Paik's estate as well as on an important recent addition to the Gallery's own collection, this focus exhibition explores some of Paik's most dynamic yet meditative ... More | | National Portrait Gallery in Washington Presents "Calder's Portraits: A New Language"
Alexander Calder, Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas. 1925. 50.8cm x 40.6cm (20" x 16"). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of the artist © 2010 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York NPG.71.35
WASHINGTON, DC.- Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (18981976) was also a prolific portraitist who created hundreds of likenesses over the course of his lifetime. An exhibition of these works is being shown at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery March 11 through Aug. 14. Calders Portraits: A New Language sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of Alexander Calders career and on broader narratives of 20th-century American culture. In addition to paintings and drawings, Calders Portraits features a number of the artists famed wire sculptures. Working with the unorthodox medium of wire, Calder shaped three-dimensional portraits, achieving nuanced likenesses and vivid characters. His inventive technique was referred to as drawing in space and ... More | | Compelling New Pictures of Familiar Territories by Wolfgang Tillmans at Regen Projects
Wolfgang Tillmans, Installation view. Regen Projects II, Los Angeles. March 12 - April 9, 2011. Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian Forrest.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of new work by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. For his sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Tillmans presents compelling new pictures of his familiar territories (London, Berlin, and New York) intermixed with images from his recent world travels. As in his first exhibition at Regen Projects, the color prints and large inkjet prints will be unframed and taped or clipped to the wall in a primarily linear, non-hierarchical installation. This is the artist's first show at the gallery since 1995 of exclusively camera-based works. For two decades, Tillmans has pushed the limits of photography exploring the correlation between camera-less abstraction and figuration. With advancements in technology, the camera is now able to capture and convey information in a manner not previously possible when Tillmans began his practice. While the possibilities of digital imaging tech ... More | | New Exhibition About Artist George Ault Opens at the American Art Museum
George Ault, Studio Interior, 1938 (detail). Watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from The Museum of Modern Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, is the curator of the exhibition. Following its presentation in Washington, D.C., the exhibition will travel to two additional venues. During the turbulent 1940s, artist George Ault (1891-1948) created precise yet eerie picturesworks of art that have come to be seen, following his death, as some of the most original paintings made in America in those years. The beautiful geometries of Aults paintings make personal worlds of clarity and composure to offset a real world he felt was in crisis. Historians have recorded the heroic accomplishments and sacrifices of the Second World War, said Elizabeth Broun, ... More | | Victoria and Albert Museum in London Celebrates the Life and Work of Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto exhibition at the V&A, 2011.
LONDON.- This spring the V&A opened the first UK solo exhibition celebrating the life and work of Yohji Yamamoto, one of the world's most influential and enigmatic fashion designers. This installation-based retrospective, taking place 30 years after his Paris debut, features over 80 garments spanning Yamamotos career. The exhibition explores the work of a designer who has challenged, provoked and inspired the fashion world. Yamamotos visionary designs are exhibited on mannequins amongst the treasures of the V&A. Placed in hidden corners of the Museum, the silhouettes creates a direct dialogue between Yamamotos work and the different spaces in which they are displayed. Items are found on the British Galleries Landing, in the Norfolk House Music Room and looking out onto the John Madejski Garden from an alcove in the Hintze Sculpture Galleries. Other pieces are sited in the Paintings Gallery, amongst the museum ... More | | French Artist Jean-Antoine Watteau Features in Two Rival London Exhibitions
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Standing Savoyard, c. 1715. Red chalk, brush and grey wash and red and black chalk stumping on paper, 359 x 221 mm. ©The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection. By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- Whether by coincidence or design, French 18th century artist Jean-Antoine Watteau has two major London shows dedicated to him, both opened on Saturday. The Royal Academy's show "Watteau: The Drawings" focuses on the artist as draughtsman, an important element of his work which acquaintances said he preferred to painting. At the nearby Wallace Collection, the museum has re-displayed its extensive Watteau canvases including examples of the "fete galante" -- an elegant social gathering in parkland setting -- for which the artist is probably best known today. To accompany the re-hanging, the Wallace put on a separate exhibition on Jean de Jullienne, one ... More | | Scuderie del Quirinale Shows Works by Lorenzo Lotto for the First Time in Rome
Lorenzo Lotto, Ritratto di Lucina Brembati 1518 circa. Olio su tavola. Bergamo, Accademia Carrara.
ROME.- Following the major monographic exhibitions devoted to Lorenzo Lotto in Venice in 1953 and in Bergamo, Paris and Washington in 1998, the Scuderie del Quirinale presents, for the very first time here in Rome, an exhibition covering the entire artistic output of this spectacular and solitary master of the Italian Renaissance who, leaving the tranquil provinces of the Veneto and Marche behind him, lived briefly in Rome itself, but the city showed at the time that it never really understood his work. "Alone, without loyal help or solace, and sorely troubled in his mind", as he was to describe himself, he resumed the itinerant life and ended his days as an oblate in the Santa Casa di Loreto in the Marche. Born in the 15th century, Lorenzo Lotto managed in a thoroughly original and independent fashion to reconcile the traditional elements of the great painting of his era with certain aspects that already herald the great age of the Baroque. After his initiation into the evocat ... More | | Milestone Reached in Dallas: Topping Out Held for Perot Museum of Nature & Science
Ross Perot, center right, escorts the next signee to a beam. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez.
DALLAS, TX.- Recalling the years when many dismissed the idea of a new science museum in Dallas, longtime board member David Corrigan led a celebratory toast as topping out ceremonies were held for the Perot Museum of Nature & Science. Hundreds cheered the milestone as Ross and Margot Perot made the "official call" instructing the Balfour Beatty crane operator to hoist the steel beam to the top of the structure. "We hoped for this day when we began talking 20 years ago about building a new science museum for Dallas... so to see that final beam move into place is really meaningful," said Corrigan. "Today happened because you believed, you never gave up, you put in the work and the resources, and we thank you." Ross and Margot Perot, their five children and extended family members along with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne were the last to sign the beam. In May 2008, the Perot children made a $50-million gi ... More | | The Autry National Center Receives a Major Collection of Work by Theo Westenberger
Meryl Streep, 1980. Photograph by Theo Westenberger, courtesy of the Autry National Center.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Autry National Center announced it has received the gift of a comprehensive collection of more than 9,500 photographs along with thousands of negatives, transparencies, contact sheets, and studio materials from the estate of trailblazing feminist photographer Theo Westenberger (19502008), whose versatility in portraiture and travel images made her a leading magazine and advertising photographer and a respected artist. In keeping with its mission to explore the experiences and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West, the Autry will create the Theo Westenberger Archive to honor and build on the legacy of this important woman artist from the West. Plans for the archive include exhibitions, digitization of the collection to create online databases, licensing of the artists most iconic works, and the establishment of a series of programs and awards around the Westenberger name and coll ... More | | Dierk Schmidt's Image Leaks: On the Image Politics of Resources at Frankfurter Kunstverein
Dierk Schmidt, Questionnaire to H. von Pierer (Detail), 1998 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. Courtesy the artist and Sammlung Harrie Kolen.
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition by Dierk Schmidt combines recent work and thematically related older pieces to create a focal image of contemporary economic-political relationships. A core question explored in Schmidts practice is how artistic images can address everyday political events and their historical legacy. Schmidt explores the possibilities of critical painting in series of images. Above and beyond the simple depiction of historical events, he is interested in an expanded definition of historical painting, i.e. a constant tracking of historical references in the present. He does not consider his painting as the depiction or mere reflection of social constellations but as a medium that serves as a point of argument with the potential to reveal conflicting interests. The starting point for many of Schmidts projects is the attentive observation of the economic conditions of artistic ... More | | Shortlist for Canada's Inaugural Scotiabank Award for Photography Announced
Work by Roy Arden, Vancouver.
TORONTO.- Continuing a longstanding tradition of supporting Canadian contemporary art, Scotiabank announced the shortlist for the inaugural Scotiabank Photography Award, the largest award in Canada for an established Canadian photographer: · Roy Arden, Vancouver · Lynne Cohen, Montreal · Robin Collyer, Toronto The creative vision demonstrated by each of the shortlisted artists reinforces the value of art to show us who we are as a country and how we see the world, said Jane Nokes, Executive Director, Scotiabank Photography Award and Director, Corporate Archives and Fine Art, Scotiabank Group. This award is about showcasing Canadas best talentit will not be easy for the jury to select one winner. Three short listed artists were chosen in Toronto on March 10, 2011 by a Canadian jury composed of William A. Ewing, Director of Curatorial Projects, Thames & Hudson; Marie-Josée Jean, Director of ... More | | Thomas Hirschhorn Explores Explosive Issues at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
Thomas Hirschhorn, It's Burning Everywhere, 2011. Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2011. Photo: Cem Yücetas.
MANNHEIM.- The Bernese artist Thomas Hirschhorn (*1957, lives in Paris) is one of the most important artists in the international art scene. It became clear in 2004, at the latest, when in his scandalous show, Swiss Swiss Democracy (Paris), an actor in a symbolic act urinated on the picture of the Swiss minister Christoph Blocher, that Hirschhorn seeks confrontation with his art. From 12 March to 13 June, 2011, the Kunsthalle Mannheim presents the 300-square-metre material collage, Its burning every-where, with which the artist was included in the series of 3sat and Monopol, Stations. Meisterwerke zeitgenössischer Kunst. With his flaming, expansive battle of material, Its burning every-where, Hirschhorn continues the project he started at DCA in Dundee, Scotland, in 2009. The untiring artist transforms the exhibition space into an artificial conflict zone a trouble spot by means of innumer ... More | More News | Spring Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum Features the Art of John BuckSACRAMENTO, CA.- Thirty years of John Bucks sculpture and printmaking are surveyed in the traveling exhibition, John Buck: Iconography, featuring 50 prints, sculptures, and shadow box constructions. The exhibit, drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, opens at noon on March 12 at the Crocker Art Museum. The exhibition runs through May 15, 2011. This retrospective recognizes the reach of Bucks art and highlights the ongoing regional importance of the artist and his work. An alumnus of the graduate program at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), Buck figures among the artists participating in the most important artistic moment centered at UC Davis in the late 1960s and 1970s. Buck began making sculpture in wooda practice he continues todayduring the mid-1970s. His sculpture is assembled from the carved and expertly shaped wood into large-scale ... More Exhibition at Photo 4 of Giulio Rimondi's Photographs Tell the Story of BeirutPARIS.- For many years now it has been hard to tell the story of Beirut without lapsing into commonplaces. Giulio Rimondi, a young Italian photographer living and working there, has managed to avoid that risk. His images, accompanied by the verses of the elderly poet Christian Ghazi, evoke an atmosphere of intimacy and solitude that is haunted by the memory of war. There is hardly a trace here of the Beirut that's renowned for its entertainment, its wealth and its sex industry. Rimondi's photographs reveal a nocturnal, silent city, where people living at the margins are illuminated for just an instant. "So it's no easy task to talk about or to tell the story of Beirut without lapsing into cliché. Beirut is, in fact, a source of inspiration for poets and writers everywhere. One of these was the Syrian Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar) who lived there for a long time and described it as a "non-city"; and then there's Selim Nassib, author of An ... More "The Erratics" Lotte Glob with Nick Evans and Ruth Barker at the Mackintosh MuseumGLASGOW.- An erratic rock is a large boulder which has been transported by a glacier, coming to rest on rock of a different nature. Lotte Glob (born 1944) is a Danish ceramic artist living in the north of Scotland. We move Lotte Globs work from its outdoor location in her sculpture croft in Sutherland, to the Mackintosh Museum, to rest on works made by Glasgow artist Nick Evans. A performance by Glasgow artist Ruth Barker, in amongst the artworks, takes place at the end of the exhibition. Lotte Glob (born 1944) is a Danish ceramic artist living in the north of Scotland in Sutherland. Her works on show in the Mackintosh Museum, range from the 1960s to present day, and are usually to be found on exhibition outdoors in her sculpture croft. My sculpture garden at Loch Eriboll was born ten thousand million years ago - for the past 36 years it has been lying dormant and uncared for - I became part o ... More Exhibition at Joan Miró Foundation Brings Together a Selection of the Latest Musical Creation in BarcelonaBARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation presents Genius loci, an exhibition curated by Martina Millà, coordinator of programming and projects that brings together a selection of the latest musical creation of Barcelona. The title Genius loci refers to the protective spirits that the ancient Romans associated with each city, although it is now more associated with the citys characteristic and distinctive features. It also refers to the idiosyncratic nature of each creative context, which in this case is Barcelona. The exhibition is designed as a cross between the experience of listening to a museum audio guide and listening to songs on an MP3 or similar such player. Visitors stroll along the tracks recorded on the player, which spread out in four dimensions. The Foundations temporary exhibition rooms accommodate ten spaces that feature installations, video projections or scenic designs devoted to each group. ... More Ragnar Kjartansson: Song at Carnegie Museum of ArtPITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, the first solo American museum exhibition of Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976), one of Europes most exciting and influential young artists. The exhibition features a site-specific, long-duration live performance in the Hall of Sculpture entitled Songnewly commissioned by the museumfeaturing Kjartanssons nieces; four video works; and a one-night-only, vaudeville-style concert starring the artist, members of his family, and his friends. Kjartanssons enthralling performances and videos, which combine sublime environments, repetition, and humor, made him a star of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Ragnar Kjartansson: Song is the 66th installment in Carnegie Museum of Arts Forum series, dedicated to presenting the work of contemporary artists. Kjartanssons performances and videos walk a thin line between darkness and light. Th ... More Over 161 Works by 63 Artists from 30 Countries Featured at the Singapore BiennaleSINGAPORE.- The third edition of the Singapore Biennale (SB2011) opens its doors to the public from 13 March to 15 May 2011. Led by Artistic Director Matthew Ngui and curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith, SB2011 is organised by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) of the National Heritage Board and supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore. The works are presented across four exhibition venues SAM and SAM at 8Q, the National Museum of Singapore, the Old Kallang Airport and Marina Bay. A selection of 63 artists from 30 countries has been invited to participate this year, with a total of over 151 works exhibited under the title Open House. Open House is conceived not as a theme but as an invitation into contemporary art practices. It examines the tearing down of boundaries between the public and private, and the manner in which differences are bridged through interaction and exchanges between these thresh ... More |
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