| | Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
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A visitor observes the poster 'Hope' of US artist Robert Indiana at a press event of the exhibition 'Fantasy meets Power: Political Artist's Posters' at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany. The exhibition presents protest actions with more than 180 works of 90 international artists of the last 60 years between 18 March and 13 June 2011. EPA/MALTE CHRISTIANS.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned artists and thus offers a fresh and comprehensive overview over protest and opposition movements in the course of the past 60 years. At the same time it highlights the tensions between utopia, the wish for participation and political history – looking at the newly reviewed protests this subject is highly topical. Artists’ posters tell the story of protest, commitment to freedom and human rights, the fight for equal rights and tolerance. “Power to Fantasy” was the artist Pierre Soulages’ slogan of support to the students protesting in Paris in May 1968. The Post-War period when Picasso emphazised his support for peace with his doves of peace, was followed by the rebellions of the 60s. A decade later the freedom of minorities was at the centre of attention, and shortly after artists such as Joseph Beuys focussed on the pollution of the environment. By the ... More |
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The MFA Houston Announces Landmark Acquisition of a Dozen Works by James Turrell
The museum announced the recent acquisition of a dozen light-based works by James Turrell.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), builds on its longstanding commitment to the work of James Turrell with the recent acquisition of a dozen light-based works by the renowned American artist. Turrell titled the grouping Vertical Vintage; the retrospective selection reflects the full arc of Turrell’s engagement with artificial light, ranging from his first mid-1960s projections to his most recent Tall Glass series. “Vertical Vintage is part of an on-going partnership established by the MFAH and James Turrell,” said MFAH interim director Gwendolyn H. Goffe. “This project evolved out of many conversations Peter C. Marzio had with the artist, and reflects Dr. Marzio’s absolute commitment to excellence.” “James Turrell worked closely with the MFAH staff and board of trustees as we defined the parameters of this major acquisition,” commented Alison de Lima Greene, MFAH curator ... More | | James Cohan Gallery Presents the First Solo Exhibition of Alex Katz' Work in Mainland China
Alex Katz, Black Hat (Alex), 2010 (detail). Oil on Linen, 48 x 60 inches; 121.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, copyright the artist.
SHANGHAI.- James Cohan Gallery Shanghai presents Alex Katz, the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in mainland China. The exhibition focuses on five recent portrait paintings from 2008 to 2010, along with a selection of prints that feature the artist’s lifelong interest in the landscape. Alex Katz (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1927) has been a defining, preeminent and influential artist for the past fifty years. Graduating in 1949 from The Cooper Union Art School in Manhattan he was then awarded a scholarship to the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he studied plein air painting, and which the artist soon realized, as Katz commented, “helped me separate myself from European painting and find my own eyes.” Katz had his first one-person exhibition in New York City in 1954. Since the early 1960s, emerging in New York ... More | | Modern Art Masters from the Smithsonian Opens at Cheekwood Art & Gardens
Franz Kline, Blueberry Eyes, 1959-1960, oil on paperboard. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Gift of the Woodward Foundation.
NASHVILLE, TN.- Modern Masters examines the complex and varied nature of American abstract art in the mid-20th century through three broadly conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius – “Significant Gestures,” “Optics and Order” and “New Images of Man.” The decades following World War II were stimulating times for American Art. While some vanguard artists began to paint or sculpt in the 1930s as beneficiaries of WPA-era government support, other immigrant artists fled to the United States as Nazi power grew in Germany. A few artists were highly educated; others left school at an early age to pursue their art. Working in New York, California, the South and abroad, these artists blended knowledge gleaned from the old masters and modernists Picasso and Matisse with philosophy and ancient mythology to create abstract ... More |
 | Dutch Drawings from the Pushkin Museum on View at the Bonnefanten Museum
Adriaen van Ostade, Group of Peasants in the doorway of a Farmhouse pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour and gouache, 276 x 215 mm inv. 4708 © State Pushkin Museum Moskou.
MAASTRICHT.- The Moscow based State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts stages a major exhibition of Dutch drawings in the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. This is the first time that the Pushkin Museum sent such a large number of Dutch drawings abroad. There are ninety items on show until June 19th 2011. The exhibition opened on the same day as TEFAF 2011. Most of the drawings date from the period when seventeenth-century Dutch art was at its peak, and were made by artists who defined the spirit of the times. Drawings from the Golden Age are only a part of the Moscow collection of Dutch prints and drawings, but they are the best and most coherent part. These works, by the leading masters, trace the development of Dutch drawing from the late sixteenth until ... More | | Martin-Gropius-Bau Presents Photographs by Actress Margarita Broich
Kate Winslet, Der Vorleser, 20.4.2008 © Margarita Broic.
BERLIN.- As an actress Margarita Broich is one of the big names, but it may come as a surprise to many that she is also a photographer. For the first time the Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing an exhibition of her work consisting of over 60 portraits of her fellow artists, including Ben Becker, Kate Winslet, Veronika Ferres, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christoph Schlingensief, Thomas Quasthoff and many more. Margarita Broich has captured those fleeting moments when the actor sheds the role in the intervals or a few minutes after the end of a performance. The role can still be discerned on the features of the players when they are still surrounded by the world of scenery and mirrors but not acting any more. They have been sought out in changing rooms, theatre foyers, or with the make-up artist, taking off their make-up while still surrounded by the tools of their transformation. Broich portrays the artists with the instinct of ... More | | Exhibition of Artists' Work on Paper on View at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art in Berlin
Girardi, The Unknown Road Project, 2010, Mixed Media auf Papier, 21 x 29 cm. Photo: Courtesy Cain Schulte Contemporary Art.
BERLIN.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin & San Francisco's joint exhibition Magna Carta explores the diverse and innovative creations of international artists who work with and on paper. The artists involved have been asked to create pieces that are thematically anchored in an investigation of the 13th-century legal document the Magna Carta, which is widely considered a pivotal turning point in the attempt to establish individual liberties, and a key element in the radical transformation of constitutional thought. The works in this exhibition explore contemporary issues focusing on the protection of personal freedom, individual rights, and unlawful imprisonment. The exhibition seeks to highlight the universality and contemporary relevance of the issues emanating from the Magna Carta in today's increasingly ... More |
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Two Works About Children and Art by Dutch Artist Rineke Dijkstra at Bonniers Konsthall
Rineke Dijkstra, The Weeping Woman, Tate Liverpool, 2009. 3 channel HD video installation, 12 min. Courtesy: Jon Mot, Brussels.
STOCKHOLM.- Bonniers Konsthall presents I See a Woman Crying—two works about children and art by Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. One of the two films in Rineke Dijkstra's exhibition I See A Woman Crying shows a group of children from a primary school who interpret Picasso's painting Weeping Woman from 1937. Together, the children devise stories about the woman in the image; how she feels, where she has been and where she is going. We never get to see the painting, but the children's imagination triggers our own. In the second film, we see how the schoolgirl Ruth, who is deeply concentrated and at the same time slightly distracted, tries to capture Picasso's motif in her sketchbook. Rineke Dijkstra got the idea for the two films in 2008 when she was artist-in-residence at Tate Liverpool, whose collection includes Picasso's painting, and was fascinated by the museum's educational work with local schools. She was par ... More | | Tony Duquette's Talisman's of Power on Offer at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles
Tony Duquette, 'Symbolizes the Diversity of Mankind and Creativity', 1990s. A date seed, synthetic white coral, copal amber, bone, serpentine, garnet, celluloid and vermeil necklace with original box length 16in (40.5cm) Est. $2,000 - 3,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields announced the Tony Duquette "Talismans of Power" Auction on April 18, 2011, which will follow the firm's sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts. The Los Angeles auction will feature a unique offering of approximately 135 lots of jewelry designed and created by the famed Tony Duquette. The collection is mainly comprised of Duquette's famed "Talismans of Power" necklaces, but also includes unique brooches, pendants and bracelets designed as accompaniments to the necklaces. The elegant pieces are made from gold plated silver, exotic and semi-precious stones and geodes as well as iconic Duquette imagery. Originally created by Duquette as part of his healing process and for his personal use, a number of the Talismans boast unique mantras. Eventually ... More | | Whitechapel Gallery in London Presents Keeping it Real: Material Intelligence
Ester Partegàs, It’s an Individual Experience (We the People Series),2006 (detail). Inkjet Ultrachrome archival ink print, 113 x 130 cm ©Ester Partegàs. Courtesy Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid.
LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents the work of a generation of artists who make a direct link between art and everyday life, in the fourth and final display of works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece. The exhibition includes artists such as Paul Chan, Arturo Herrera, Martin Kippenberger, Seth Price and Kelley Walker who use existing images as a material in their work. Whether by taking cuttings from newspapers or using common technologies such as desktop scanners, they heighten the physicality of their chosen images by cropping, distorting and layering them. Works on show include Martin Kippenberger's collages combining reproductions of iconic Pop Art works by Roy Lichtenstein taken from a Deutsche Bank calendar with cut-outs from a German nudist magazine and Arturo Herrera's abstract collages which incorporate segments of his ... More |
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Japan Society Reframes the Prevailing Perspective on Contemporary Japanese Art
Manabu Ikeda (1973– ), History of Rise and Fall, 2006. Pen and acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board, 78 3/4 × 78 3/4 in. (200 × 200 cm). Photo: Kei Miyajima. Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery. Takahashi Collection. Copyright © IKEDA Manabu.
NEW YORK, NY.- A shimmering taxidermy deer and a gasp-inducing canvas depicting a tumulus of minuscule salary men are among the compelling works that greet visitors to Japan Society Gallery from Friday, March 18 to June 12, 2011. The occasion is Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, an exhibition introducing American audiences to a new wave of Japanese artists who challenge their country’s long love affair with the kawaii (cute) aesthetic. “This is grown up art, created for the most part by artists who are little-known here in the United States,” says exhibition organizer David Elliott, a noted independent curator who has directed several major modern art museums, including Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, Stockholm's Moderna Museet, Oxford’s MoMA and Istanbul’s Modern. The 16 participating artists range in age from ... More | | N.C. Museum of Art Presents Work by Leading Contemporary African American Artists
Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2008, fabric, fiberglass, and metal, H. 102 x W. 36 x D. 28 in., Rubell Family Collection, Miami, © 2010 Nick Cave.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art presents 30 Americans, an exhibition of work by many significant contemporary African American artists, in its Meymandi Exhibition Gallery in East Building, March 19 through September 4, 2011. Organized by the internationally known Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition features 75 works of art from the last three decades and includes painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed-media installations. 30 Americans brings together both established and emerging artists whose work explores issues of race, gender, identity, history, and popular culture. By featuring seminal figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Robert Colescott alongside rising stars like Hank Willis Thomas and Kehinde Wiley, 30 Americans also highlights artistic legacy and influence, and illustrates how an earlier generation of African American artists has influenced a new generation ... More | | The United Kingdom's Premier National Art and Antiques Fair to Be Held March 23-29
An important pair of George II walnut side chairs, English: circa 1730. Width: 24 in 61cm. Depth: 22 in 56 cm. Height: 40 ½ in 103 cm. Brian Rolleston Antiques Ltd.
LONDON.- Visitors to The 19th BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, the UK’s premier national art and antiques Fair and showcase for more than 100 members of the prestigious British Antique Dealers’ Association, can expect to see these twenty highlights, plus much more, from 23-29 March 2011. Situated in one of London’s most affluent areas, the Duke of York Square, off Sloane Square, surrounded by luxury shops and restaurants, makes it the ideal location for visitors travelling from far and wide. The Fair brings together the very best of the UK’s art and antique dealers who offer for sale a fantastic variety of top quality furniture, paintings, silver, jewellery, ceramics, glass, clocks, design pieces and antique carpets. Long-standing participants Thomas Coulborn & Sons, Frank Partridge and Anthony Woodburn will bring items of the highest calibre while both Godson & Coles and Lucy Johnson juxtapose rare period English furniture alongside 20th-century British art. S ... More |
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 Groundbreaking Seattle Performance Company Degenerate Art Ensemble Celebrated at Frye Art MuseumSEATTLE, WA.- An array of warrior princesses, ninjas waging epic battles, hungry ghosts, birds and beasts—shape shifters all—will greet visitors at the Frye Art Museum from March 19 to June 19, 2011 when the groundbreaking Seattle performance company Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) will be celebrated for the first time in a museum exhibition. DAE’s dynamic, event-based sensorial extravaganzas will be showcased through music, sculpture, props, costumes, musical instruments, animated films, photo and video documentation, and video projections. Included are signature DAE works such as Sonic Tales (2009) and Cuckoo Crow (2006); a premiere performance, Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Red Shoes; as well as workshops with the artists and public programs. Artworks and sets created by DAE especially for a museum context include The Hidden One, a giant, glowing girl-theater deftly ... More Jill Magid's Recent Work "Closet Drama" on View at Berkeley Art MuseumBERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Jill Magid: Closet Drama / MATRIX 237. Jill Magid’s work involves infiltrating systems of authority and power to explore issues of vulnerability, observation, and trust. By drawing institutions closer, exploiting their loopholes, seducing their agents, repeating their logic, and pushing the limits of revelation, she has developed a highly conceptual, performance-based practice. Her collaborators include police officers in New York, Liverpool, and Amsterdam, and, most visibly, the Dutch Secret Service. Her work here varies in form—video, photographs, sculptures, installations, printed text, books—yet most have some connection to the documentation of her process. Magid’s more recent work engages the written word and its use as an agent of control, manipulation, and distortion. A Reasonable Man in a ... More Tour Reveals Layers of Shanghai's Jewish History SHANGHAI (AP).- Not far from the Bund district in Shanghai, with its hordes of tourists and view of the city's famous skyscrapers across the Huangpu River, is a quiet neighborhood called Hongkou. Walk here along Zhoushan Road and you'll stumble on a sign that signifies an otherwise unremarkable building at No. 59 as a landmark. "During the World War II," the sign reads in imperfect English, "a number of Jewish refugees lived in this house, among whom is Michael Blumenthal, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury of the Carter Government." The marker offers a clue to the hidden Jewish history of Shanghai and the incredible story of thousands of Jews who fled the Nazis and found refuge here in what was the Far East's only Jewish ghetto. Among them was Blumenthal, who fled Europe with his family, spent part of his youth in Shanghai, then moved to the U.S. and served in the late 1970s under U.S. President Jimmy Carter. ... More Four Artists Selected for First Jerwood Makers OpenLONDON.- Jerwood Visual Arts announced the four artists selected for the first Jerwood Makers Open. Rapid prototype jeweller Farah Bandookwala, ceramic artist Emmanuel Boos, glass maker Heike Brachlow and installation artist Keith Harrison have been awarded an equal share of £30,000 to create new work, which will go on display as part of the JVA programme at Jerwood Space in July. The four winners were selected from over 200 entries by Emmanuel Cooper, potter, writer, educator and critic, Siobhan Davies, choreographer and artistic director and Jonathan Watkins , curator, writer and Director of Ikon Gallery. They comment: ‘These makers are united by a deep fascination with their chosen material. From the use of contemporary technologies to ancient processes, they are each pushing the boundaries of craft practice, creating works that are exciting, inventive and at times dangerous.’ Farah Bandookwala grew ... More Annual Exhibition Curated by Cornell's History of Art Majors' Society Examines the Status of the IconITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents iCON: Consuming the American Image, on view from March 19 to June 12, 2011. This exhibition, curated by the Cornell History of Art Majors’ Society, explores how the the status of an icon is suspended between an object of cultural consumption and a subject of social destabilization. “An icon’s meaning is never predetermined, but is devised by the values of the culture in which it operates,” said Kristen Ross ’11, one of the student curators and the group’s president. “An icon is symbolic of not one, but many meanings, whose often contradictory natures serve to broaden its cultural value.” The works exhibited in iCON: Consuming the American Image seek to expose the multiple and often contradictory meanings of the visual signs that inform and shape our individual and collective identities. In presenting ... More Panels, Film Premiere and ADAA Highlight Events Schedule at Dallas Art FairDALLAS, TX.- The 2011 Dallas Art Fair presented by Ruinart will offer a full schedule of panel discussions over the three days of the Fair, April 8 through April 10. Lead by art experts, international collectors, cultural institution directors and educators, the list includes events throughout the Dallas Arts District with many events open to the public. A select number of activities are “by invitation only.” Highlights (in chronological order) include: A documentary film, “Full Circle: Before They Were Famous”, which chronicles fine art photographer William John Kennedy's early 1960s photographs of never before seen photos of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana, will have a public screening at the 2011 Dallas Art Fair on Friday, April 8 at 5:00pm in the Beck Imaginarium, 1807 Ross (same building as the Dallas Art Fair). Immediately following the film will be a panel discussion with Warhol superstar Ul ... More Museum Presents the First U.S. Exhibition of Works by Artist-Couturier Roberto CapucciPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Roberto Capucci, a master of color, form, and innovative silhouettes, was one of the founders of modern Italian fashion in the early 1950s. Today, after six decades of creative achievement, he remains one of Italy’s most influential and imaginative artist-couturiers. Capucci (b. 1930) captured the attention of the international press at an early age, drawing praise from designers such as Christian Dior when he was still a teenager. His work has appealed to Italian aristocrats like the noblewoman Maria Pace Odescalchi, Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, whom he helped project to fame, and American actresses Marilyn Monroe, Esther Williams, and Gloria Swanson. Today, Capucci fascinates and inspires contemporary designers such as Ralph Rucci, who admires Capucci’s dedication to the purity of his art. Covering his couture designs from the 1950s to his recent sculptures, Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion (March 16 – June 5, 2011) is the first major sur ... More |
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