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The picture shows a man looking at 'Three Brothers' (1982) by US artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) during the exhibition '80s Revisited' at the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld, Germany. The exhibition runs from 13 March until 19 June 2011. EPA/OLIVERKRATO.
BIELEFELD.- On Sunday, March 13, 2011, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld will open its newest exhibition, The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection II. This show marks the apex of our two-part presentation of works by the most important painters of the 1980s, on loan from the private collection of Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger.While the first part focused mainly on works by young German and Italian artists, the second part concentrates on major figures from the New York art scene. Andy Warhol is represented by numerous works, as is Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, George Condo, David Salle, Mike Bidlo, and Miquel Barceló. The “Collaborations” by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and Andy Warhol (which Bischofberger began commissioning in 1984) will also be shown. Here, the differences and similarities among the artists are particularly obvious. These works, many of them extremely large, ... More |
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Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts on View at the Jewish Museum in New York
Marriage Contract, Jerusalem, 1999; artist: Archie Granot (b. 1946); multilayered colored papercuts and ink on paper. The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary KET 451.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the world's foremost collections of decorated Jewish marriage contracts (ketubbot) is held by The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Thirty of the finest are on display at The Jewish Museum in The Art of Matrimony: Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts from The Jewish Theological Seminary Library from March 11 through June 26, 2011. From one of the earliest known decorated pieces (twelfth century) to recent creations, these exquisite marriage contracts provide a wealth of information on the artistic creativity, cultural interactions, and social history of the communities in which they were created. Ketubbot, which typically record the bridegroom's obligations to his bride in case of death or divorce, have been integral to Jewish marriage for millennia. They were kept in the homes of married Jews living in the West under Christian governance or in the East under Muslim rule. Th ... More | | Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Joan Miró (1893-1983) Portrait of Josep F. Ràfols, 1917, oil on paper mounted on panel 76 x 54 cm. St. Louis (Missouri), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney M. Shoenberg, Jr., 1961.
FLORENCE.- The exhibition Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity brings together over sixty early works of three young artists: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí, as well as over one hundred of Picasso’s sketches. All three were raised in Catalonia, but came to fame in France where two of them chose to live and to build up their careers, whereas Salvador Dalí stayed largely in Spain. On view at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from 11 March to 17 July 2011, the exhibition is structured like a film in a series of ‘flashbacks’ that take the visitor back in time to the very birth of modernity. Beginning with Dalí’s meeting with Picasso (1926), it traces the birth of modernism to its earliest beginnings through Dalí’s responses to Miró, Miró’s encounter with Picasso (1917), and ends just before the young Picasso’s arrival in Paris in 1900, at the start of ... More | | LACMA to Host Exhibition of Vija Celmins's Work Created in Los Angeles Between 1964 and 1966
Vija Celmins, Time Magazine Cover, 1965. Oil on canvas, 22 x 16 in. Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser and Wirth. © 2011 Vija Celmins.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964-1966, exploring an essential yet often overlooked period of the artist’s work. Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been internationally recognized for her meticulously executed paintings and drawings using a monochrome palette of black and gray, depicting starry night skies, ocean waves, barren desert floors, and fragile spider webs. But the images that first grounded her interest as a young artist in Los Angeles during the early 1960s are characterized by violent themes such as crashing warplanes, smoking handguns, and other images of death and disaster influenced by the violence of the era—the war in Vietnam, social change, political assassinations—and the mass media that represented it: newspapers, magazines, and television. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Menil Collec ... More |
 | Chazen Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Russian Icons from Its Collection
Unknown, Russian (Moscow), Saint Basil the Great and Saint Basil “the Fool” Adorning the Holy Trinity, 19th century, oil, tin, and enamel on panel, 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. Gift of Joseph E. Davies, 37.1.15
MADISON, WI.- The icon is a distinctive form of holy image in Eastern Orthodox cultures, intended to evoke sacred presence by appealing to the senses. Holy Image, Sacred Presence: Russian Icons, 1500–1900 presents about thirty works from the museum’s permanent collection to explore the distinctive devotional functions, religious experiences, iconography, and changing styles of Russian icons from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. Examples include a mandylion (miraculous image of the face of Jesus), proskynetaria and iconostasis panels from Orthodox churches, and small devotional icons for private use. The exhibition is on view March 12– June 5, 2011. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, many monasteries and churches were closed and the best icons were collected in state museums. Those ... More | | Belgian Artist Francis Alys Exhibits 300 Portraits of "Fabiola" at the Haus zum Kirschgarten
Belgian artist Francis Alys poses at his exhibition 'Fabiola' at the Haus zum Kirschgarten. EPA/GEORGIOS KEFALAS
BASEL.- Created by the internationally acclaimed artist Francis Alÿs, Fabiola is an installation of over 300 portraits of a fourth-century Christian saint collected by the artist from flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and the Americas. These seemingly identical portraits, including paintings, embroideries and miniatures are all copies of a lost original of Fabiola by the French nineteenth-century painter, Jean-Jacques Henner. A majority of the Fabiolas on display are anonymous with limited provenance, and many are in poor condition and unframed. Viewed together, the cohesiveness of the display rests not only in the fact that all the images are of the same subject, but that they all adhere to the same strict iconographic formula - Fabiola is depicted in profile with her head covered in a rich red veil. The stylistic differences between the portraits offer a window onto changing aesthetic, social and religious values over the past century. ... More | | A Dynamic Group of Exhibitions Launches at the Power Plant in Toronto
Thomas Hirschhorn, Das Auge (The Eye), 2008, mixed media. Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto. Photo by Steve Payne.
TORONTO.- In association with The Power Plant – Refresh, the gallery reopens to the public with three new exhibitions: two by internationally-acclaimed artists Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and one group show featuring younger artists from Canada and the United States. The Power Plant presents the North American premiere of Thomas Hirschhorn: Das Auge (The Eye), one of the artist’s most immersive works. Also making its North American premiere is Phantom Truck, one of two works in the exhibition Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Phantom Truck + Always After. The gallery also presents To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?, juxtaposing the works of five artists engaged with ideas of landscape and the natural world: Andrea Carlson (Minneapolis); Annie MacDonell (Toronto); Kevin Schmidt (Vancouver); Jennifer Rose Sciarrino ... More |
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First Monographic Exhibition in France by Bethan Huws at Centre International d'Art et du Paysage
Bethan Huws, Forest, 2008-2009. 88 bottle-racks eand neon piece, Bethan Huws & A.D.AG.P, Paris 2011. Photo: Charles Duprat.
ILE DE VASSIVIERE.- From March 13 to June 19 2011, Bethan Huws, who has been living and working in Paris for the past twenty years, will be showing her first monographic exhibition in France, Black and White Animals, at the Centre international d'art et du paysage and in the Vassivière Island sculpture park. The exhibition interweaves her various inspirations from her childhood memories in Wales to her experience on the Plateau des Millevaches (Limousin, France) where she is making a film commissioned by the French Culture Ministry for 5,25, a contemporay art network based in Limousin. After the exhibition at Vassivière, her films will be shown at the Frac Limousin during the summer. Through artistic references and a witty use of language, Black and White Animals brings an unexpected poetry to the landscape—even for the regular visitor of Vassivière. The artist playfully re-reads the work of a 20th century e ... More | | Leading International Asian Art Specialists to Exhibit During Asia Week New York 2011
Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō, 1663-1747), lacquered and inlaid wood sculpture of Benkei. Signed: Haritsu, with seal: Kan. Height: 1113/16 in, 30 cm; width: 10⅝ in, 27 cm; depth: 11⅞ in, 30.2 cm. Courtesy of Sydney L. Moss Ltd.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ten of the world’s most prominent Asian art specialists—Eskenazi Ltd., John Eskenazi Ltd., Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd. and Sue Ollemans Oriental Art from England; Galerie Christian Deydier from France; Carlo Cristi and Dalton Somaré Gallery from Italy and Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art from Japan—will join 24 of their New York-based colleagues here in simultaneous exhibitions during Asia Week New York 2011. From the Himalayan Regions: Sculptures, Tangkas and Textiles will be presented by Carlo Cristi of Italy at AFP Galleries, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 702 (March 18-27). It will feature fine collections of Tibetan paintings ranging from the 13th-17th centuries, Nepalese and Indian bronzes dating from the 10th-12th centuries and Central Asian textiles dating from the 6th-10th centuries along with needle loop embroideries of the Ming Dynasty ... More | | Exhibition Showcases New Work by John Frame: Stop-Motion Animation and Still Photography
Mr. R in the Portico, 16 x 16 x 4 in. Wood, fabric, glass eyes, and found objects over stainless steel armature (Main character with tall ears holding forefinger to mouth). Photo: John Frame.
SAN MARINO, CA.- Some three dozen intricately carved sculptures by Southern California artist John Frame take center stage in a new exhibition that brings together a body of work carefully assembled over the past five years, featuring sculpture, still photography, and stop-motion animation. “Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame” will be presented from March 12 to June 20 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. Frame has been creating figurative sculpture examining the human condition since the 1980s. In this most recent project, he has expanded into photography and filmmaking to give additional dimension to the pieces. “This is an exciting departure from our more typical exhibitions at The Huntington,” says Jessica Todd Smith, Virginia Steele Scott Chief Curator of American Art. “We very rarely have featured living artists, but John’s work is so closely connected ... More |
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Celebrating the Genius of an Undiscovered Photographer: Vivian Maier
Collector John Maloof looks through bins of hundreds of unprocessed film and negatives that Vivian Maier exposed years ago. AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast.
By: Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
CHICAGO (AP).- She scoured the streets day and night, venturing into strange and sometimes dicey neighborhoods. She wore a hat, sturdy shoes and a camera, always a camera, around her neck and at the ready. A woman in a white fur stole and evening dress drifting in the darkness toward a '56 two-tone Chevy. Click. A curious little boy, undaunted by his size, using an empty window frame as a ladder so he can peek into a giant box. Click. A huddled coil of a man defeated by life, his clothes soiled and tattered, his head hanging in despair. Click. Fractions of seconds, captured by Vivian Maier a half century ago or more — fleeting moments of life on the streets at a time when men wore fedoras and dragged on Lucky Strikes, when women favored babushkas, when families piled in Studebakers and DeSotos for ... More | | Group Exhibition Addresses Ideas of Scale through Physical and Conceptual Explorations
Dalton Ghetti, Screw, 1999. Graphite and wood, 8 x 10 inches. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo courtesy of Sloan Howard.
SAN JOSE, CA.- Size matters insofar as it tells us something about an object's dimensions in relationship to other things. We understand the difference between what is small versus what is big due to a comparison between them. While our understanding of size is intrinsically tied to human scale, science and technology have opened new perspectives into the cosmic and infinitesimal, dramatically altering the way we understand ourselves in relation to an expansive universe. In organizing Size Matters we selected work that speaks to the conceptual and physical reaches of size. From the monumental to the microscopic, the ten contemporary artists create work in various proportions and forms and utilize scale to challenge and shift our perception of the world around us. Artists Gail Wight and Klari Reis enlarge the microscopic to render visible what is ordinarily invisible to the human eye. The larger than life figurative works of collaborators ... More | | Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht Opens "Madame Realism"
Kitty Kraus, Untitled, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin.
MAASTRICHT.- As part of the program on the Avantgarde, Marres presents Madame Realism, a group exhibition where the interior once again takes a central place. Madame Realism presents works of exclusively female artists in the historical and domestic rooms of Marres. The presentation refers to both the private domain of the interior and the public space of an exhibition. In Madame Realism, several themes will be addressed: the female dandy, visible and invisible gender roles, the political implications of design and reflections on the interior as a form of social critique. With the exhibition À l’intérieur in 2006, Marres introduced the position of the Dandy in relation to the 19th-century desire for beauty as a new metaphysics. Stylemeister San Ming transformed the rooms of Marres into a private domain in which every form of hierarchy, for example between art and design, was dissolved in favour of an individual universe. ... More |
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 First-Ever Solo Exhibition by the Internationally Renowned Lebanese Artist Rabih Mroué at Lunds KonsthallLUND.- Lunds konsthall presents the exhibition I, the Undersigned. In these days of profound change and hopefulness in the Arab world Lunds konsthall is able to show the first-ever solo exhibition by the internationally renowned Lebanese theatre director, actor and artist Rabih Mroué. Curated by Cosmin Costinas, this exhibition is produced by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where it was premiered in the summer of 2010. It is travelling to a number of international locations in 2011 and 2012. The exhibition has been somewhat changed for Lunds konsthall. Not least importantly Mroué is producing an entirely new work – so new, in fact, that it does not have a title quite yet. Rabih Mroué’s art roams the boundaries between the narrative and the visual, between things that require special attention (including the patience to listen and read) and things that can only be experienced here and ... More The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Xiaoze Xie: Amplified MomentsKNOXVILLE, TN.- Amplified Moments is the first major US exhibition to survey the work of Xiaoze Xie (pronounced shout-zah shee-ay), an important Chinese contemporary artist. More than 30 works document his achievements in painting, drawing, photography, installation, and video, and represent his use of books and newspapers to symbolize the fragile nature of history and memory. Although Xie intended to pursue a career in architecture, the violent military crackdown on student protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 compelled him to shift his energies. He left the People’s Republic of China three years later after completing his training as a painter, and began using symbolic imagery derived from newspapers, decaying books, museum libraries, and media images of current events. For Xie, stacks of printed pages represent not only cultural memory and the passage of time, but the ways in which history ... More Karen Kilimnik Includes Influential 1989 Installation in New Show at 303 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery presents their tenth exhibition of work by Karen Kilimnik. For this occasion, Kilimnik shows her influential 1989 installation "The Hellfire Club episode of the Avengers." A mise-en-scene based on the 1960s British television series "The Avengers," the installation is an arrangement of xeroxes, photographs and props framed by velvet curtains and two impenetrably black drawings of British manor houses. Several nearly life-size photocopies of the stars of The Avengers (Emma Peel and John Steed) are part of the tableau, as if bringing the episode to life. Gold frames, mirrors, cobwebs, swords, an ax; these elements combine with a pea, The Beatles, and other stereotypically British imagery, forming the artist's own portrait of the already artifical tenets that made the television show so engaging. The show's soundtrack is similarly collaged to reflect the show's feeling, using edited snippets of Haydn ... More Museum of Liverpool Opening Date AnnouncedLIVERPOOL.- The Museum of Liverpool will launch 100 years to the very day that its iconic neighbour the Royal Liver Building opened its doors. The largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century, the new Museum of Liverpool, will open to the public for the first time on Tuesday 19 July. One of the world’s leading history museums and a stunning new addition to the city’s famous waterfront, the Museum of Liverpool is the first national museum anywhere in the world that is devoted to the history of a regional city. Demonstrating Liverpool’s extraordinary contribution to the world, it will showcase popular culture and tackle the social, historical and contemporary issues of the city. Professor Phil Redmond CBE, chairman of National Museums Liverpool said: “Liverpool’s waterfront is known the world over, and we are pleased that we will soon be welcoming visitors to what i ... More Lebanese/American Photographer Walid Raad Announced as 2011 Hasselblad Award WinnerGOTHENBURG.- The Hasselblad Foundation announced Lebanese/American photographer Walid Raad as the recipient of the 2011 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The prize, consisting of SEK 1,000,000 (approximately USD 150,000), a diploma and a gold medal were presented to Walid Raad in New York on March 8, 2011. An exhibition of the award winner's work, Walid Raad – 2011 Hasselblad Award Winner will open on November 12, 2011 at the Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden, where the Foundation has its head office. In connection therewith one or more seminars will be arranged with the award winner. The Foundation's citation regarding the decision to award the 2011 prize to Walid Raad is as follows: Walid Raad is one of the most original and singular contemporary artists using photography. He has been widely acclaimed for his project "The Atlas Group," in which Raad generated origi ... MoreBlink! at the Denver Art Museum Reveals the Human Side of Electronic MediaDENVER, CO.- In the blink of an eye, technology changes. The Denver Art Museum (DAM) celebrates this revelation in Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, its first large-scale exhibition devoted entirely to electronic and time-based media. Focusing on artwork from the past 30 years, Blink! will explore how technology-based art—often considered mechanical and cold—relates to the human spirit through narrative, performance, music, humor, social and political issues, nostalgia and the purely sensory. On view March 13 through May 1, 2011, the exhibition draws primarily from the collections of the DAM and Polly and Mark Addison. "This exhibition explores the possibilities that arise when artists use non-traditional methods to express an idea," said Jill Desmond, exhibition curator and curatorial assistant in the department of modern and contemporary art at the DAM. "Artists have taken and re-contextualized everyday t ... More |
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