| | Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650 at the Prado Museum in Madrid
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A visitor observes the Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) painting titled Vista del jardin de la Villa Medici en Roma (View of the Medici Villa's garden in Rome) during the presentation of the exhibition 'Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650' at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The exhibition, running from 05 July until 25 September 2011, is focused on the landscape genre from its origins in Rome in the early 17th century until its completed development. EPA/PACO CAMPOS.
MADRID.- Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 will be exhibited at the Museo del Prado after its showing at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition project is one of the most ambitious to be undertaken by the Prado, which has worked closely with the Musée du Louvre. Works have been loaned from fifty different sources in order to offer the most important selection of landscape of this period to be exhibited to date. This important group of works will also analyse the evolution of the genre from its first flowering to its maturity through figures of the stature of Velázquez, Claude Lorraine and Poussin. Until the late 16th century, landscape was considered a minor artistic genre by art theoreticians and was on occasions treated as a speciality confined to the painters who had moved from northern Europe to Italy. Various different traditions co-existed ... More |
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For the First Time: Rembrandt and Degas, Two Young Artists, on View at the Rijksmuseum
Edgar Degas, Self-Portrait, 1857-58. Oil on paper on canvas, 26 x 19 cm. Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.544. Photo Michael Agee.
AMSTERDAM.- Although it is well known that the famous French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was inspired by Rembrandt, the forthcoming exhibition is the first actually devoted to Rembrandt’s influence on Degas. This summer, the Rijksmuseum presents a series of self-portraits of the two artists when they were young. Rarely displayed together, the Degas self-portraits originate from internationally renowned collections such as those at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles. One of the Degas self-portraits is particularly special, as it comes from a private collection and has never been shown before. Including more than 20 individual pieces, the exhibition takes place at the Rijksmuseum from 1 July to 23 October 2011. Each ... More | | MoMA Exhibition Examines the Work of Architects and Their Ideas on Urban Renewal in the U.S.
THINK Design. Perspective of World Cultural Center. World Trade Center Competition, New York, New York. 2002. Ink Jet print, 12 ¾” x 19” (32.4 x 45.7cm). Image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents 194X-9/11: American Architects and the City, an exhibition that examines the work of leading architects in light of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The selections trace an arc from the idealism of the World War II years through the subsequent criticisms of the 1960s and '70s, to the threshold of today's post-9/11 period and the debates catalyzed by the rebuilding of Ground Zero. On view from July 1, 2011, through January 2, 2012, in Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, the exhibition comprises 85 drawings and models drawn from the Museum's collection by renowned architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Leon Krier, and Steven Holl, and rediscovered figures such as James Fitzgibbon. It is organized by Barry ... More | | Museum to Present Baroque Masterpieces, Including Two Never Before on Public View
Cesare Dandini, Penitent Magdalene, n.d. Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. Haukohl Family Collection.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- “Florence and the Baroque: Paintings from the Haukohl Family Collection” will bring masterworks of Italian painting and sculpture from the 16th through 18th centuries to Northern California. On view at the Crocker Art Museum from November 5, 2011 through February 12, 2012, this exhibition is drawn from the largest private American collection of Florentine Baroque painting and features works by key artists such as Cesare Dandini, Jacopo da Empoli, and Francesco Furini. The exhibition includes two paintings that have never before been on view to the public—“Saint Sebastian” by Onorio Marinari and “Penitent Magdalene” by Cesare Dandini. Under the patronage of the Medici princes, late 16th-century Florence was a hotbed of artistic innovation. A new clarity in color, style, and subject began to replace the elegant virtuosity of earlier painting. The paintings’ compositio ... More |
Crash Scuttles New York's Glenn H. Curtiss Museum 1911 Navy Flight Event
The museum's Curtiss A-1 Triad hydroaeroplane taking off from one of New York's Finger Lakes. AP Photo/Glenn H. Curtis
HAMMONDSPORT, NY (AP).- A demonstration flight commemorating the centennial of the Navy acquiring its first aircraft has been canceled after a reproduction of the 1911 seaplane crashed shortly after taking off from one of New York's Finger Lakes during a practice run, organizers said Friday. The Steuben County Sheriff's Office said the reproduction Curtiss A-1 Triad took off from Keuka Lake around 7:35 p.m. Thursday and crashed back onto the water soon after outside Hammondsport, 55 miles southeast of Rochester. The pilot, 58-year-old Kevin House of Bath, wasn't hurt, deputies said. The damaged plane was towed to shore. The plane was built at Hammondsport's Glenn H. Curtiss Museum. Museum Director Trafford Doherty said the weather was clear and calm during a practice flight in preparation for Saturday's 100th anniversary of the Navy acquiring the original seaplane. House, a retired airline pilot, was making his fi ... More | | SFMOMA Presents World View of Five Distinctive Photographers in Face of Our Time
Jim Goldberg, Clutch, Senegal, 2008; chromogenic print; 40 in. x 30 in. (101.6 cm x 76.2 cm); Collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson; © Jim Goldberg.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From July 2 through October 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach, an exhibition that features the work of five distinctive photographers who share an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like now. They describe poetic truths and complex, open-ended social realities within the context of current political events. The title of the exhibition refers to the book Face of Our Time, published in 1929 by August Sander, a major German photographer of the 1920s. His project was to convey his historical moment through the faces and comportments of his contemporaries, in order to reveal the character and culture of Germany before the Second World War erupted. Similarly, the photographers in this exhibition are aligned by their ... More | | Saddle Up! 30 Works of Art Featuring the Horse at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich
Horse and Rider, China, Tang Dynasty, 618 - 907 AD. Terracotta tomb sculpture, 14 ½ x 13 ½ in. Gift of Simone Schloss, Bruce Museum Collection 99.01.
GREENWICH, CT.- While the title of the Bruce Museum's new exhibition "Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum" may seem a bit irreverent, the approximately 30 works of art featuring the horse are more than sheer whimsy. On view in Greenwich, from July 1 through Sept. 25, the equine artworks cover several centuries and encompass a wide range of media -- from a Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) tomb sculpture of a male equestrian figure to a 20th-century photograph by Garry Winogrand of a woman nuzzling a police horse. The title for the show comes from a Bruce Museum contest, the first launched on the museum's Facebook site, to name the exhibition of horse-themed artworks from the permanent collection. The winning entry was submitted by Matt Farina. Other top picks were Horse Show: Equine Art from the Bruce Museum by Pamela Meharry and Whoa Horsey! by Steve Linderoth. The exhibition, which is on view in the Bantle Lecture Gall ... More |
New Exhibition at Allegra LaViola Gallery Explores the Theme of the Line in Art
Gary Petersen, Untitled S1, 2010. Photo: Courtesy Allegra LaViola Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Draw the Line, an exhibition of drawing, installation and painting that explores the theme of the line in art. In his essay “The Role of Line in Art” Wyndham Lewis speaks of the line as “the bone beneath the pulp”. This idea of the essential structure underlying the construction of a work is the starting point for Draw the Line. While Lewis was speaking specifically of drawing, this exhibition seeks to explore the line in a broader context. Marci MacGuffie’s site-specific installation takes its inspiration from bars and cells. The lines that constrain can also harbor a plethora of worlds within them, existing on the macro and micro levels. Don Gummer’s collages cut layers of line that rest over a sparkling setting, evincing a sense of the sculptural despite their attachment to ... More | | Sprüth Magers London Introduces New Series of Works by Dutch Artist Marcel van Eeden
Since 1993, van Eeden, a graduate of The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, has almost exclusively worked in ‘nero’ pencil to articulate a series of events.
LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London introduces the work of Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden with the exhibition ‘November 22, 1948’. For this latest installment of his work van Eeden has created a new series of drawings that reveal the artist’s ongoing exploration of the concept of narration through the lives of a range of semi-fictional characters and their global exploits. Since 1993, van Eeden, a graduate of The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, has almost exclusively worked in ‘nero’ pencil to articulate a series of events that are part of a continuous yet inherently unstable narrative in constant flux. The resultant predominantly monochromatic images are stylistically reminiscent of ‘film noir’, and the accompanying text within the drawings crosses into the territory of the graphic novel. ... More | | Tate Movie Project "The Itch of the Golden Nit" Hits Screens Across the United Kingdom
Line-up of main characters. © Tate Movie Project 2011.
LONDON.- The Tate Movie Project’s The Itch of the Golden Nit premiered Wednesday 29 June in Leicester Square. The film is the first of its kind – an animation made by and for children. Thousands of drawings, sound effects and story ideas by children from across the UK make up the action-packed, half hour animation as part of the Cultural Olympiad. David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall lead the stellar cast providing the voices for the children’s characters from Evil Stella to Captain Iron Ears. Funded by Legacy Trust UK and BP, with additional support and resources from the BBC, the film has been brought together by Tate and the creative magic of Aardman Animations. The Itch of the Golden Nit follows 11 year old hero Beanie on his mission to save his parents from Evil Stella and to return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe. It’s a ... More |
Rare Collage Paintings from the 1960's by Larry Zox at Stephen Haller Gallery
Larry Zox, Untitled, 1961 (detail). Collage, oil, staples on board, 16 x 16 inches. Photo: Courtesy Stephen Haller Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Larry Zox: Collage Paintings includes rare early collage works, including Banner, a seminal work from the late artist’s personal collection. Represented in nearly every major museum in the country, Larry Zox achieved art world prominence in 1973 as the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the catalogue to that exhibition curator James Monte writes that these earliest collage works are “extremely graphic and take advantage of spatial jumps alternately back into an illusionary picture plane and forward into the viewer’s space.” Zox’s signature style – the splicing of a color field to give the sensation of shifting planes – was pivotal in these early collage paintings, and evolved into the graceful looping patterns of his later work. The collage paintings on view in this exhibition reveal the individualism and brio that are the ... More | | Photographers Examine the Fine Line Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography
Gilbert Fastenaekens, 02 - SITE, Cahier des coins, Bruxelles, 1990–1996 (detail). Courtesy of the artist.
BRUSSELS.- This latest exhibition brings together 14 photographers at the instigation of BOZAR and the photography museums of Antwerp and Charleroi. Together, they examine the fine line that now separates documentary photography and fine art photography. The fact is that, since the 1980s, photography has been permanently elevated to the rank of art, but has never been so used in the vast stock of photo-journalism. This documentary and social veneer is brought out in art photographs which enhance the supporting document. Belgian photography does not escape this ambiguity between documentary framework and metaphoric and conceptual narration. Beyond the Document offers a unique snapshot, combining, in a single medium, objectivity and subjectivity, fiction and reality, report and concept, document and work of art. The exhibition Beyond the Document: Contemporary Belgian Photographers is on view from June 29th through September 25, 2 ... More | | Exhibition of Luminous Portraits by Artist Ray Turner on View at Long Beach Museum of Art
Work from the "Good Man/Bad Man" series within Ray Turner: Population".
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) presents Ray Turner: Population, a solo exhibition of nearly 300 luminous portraits by American artist Ray Turner, opening Thursday, June 16, 2011. The series invites viewers to contemplate identity – individually as well as collectively. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 16th from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The exhibition will continue through Sunday, September 11, 2011. Curated by Art Critic Peter Frank and LBMA Executive Director Ron Nelson, the exhibit will also include a selection of photographic interpretations, works on paper, and three-dimensional pieces by Turner. Population will travel to museums across the country and internationally well into 2013 and continue to grow as Turner adds new portraits to the project from each community exhibiting the work. The portraits in Population, executed primarily in oil paint on glass from ... More |
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 Fascinating Prototype Gun Among Highlights of Annual Gleneagles Auction LONDON.- A historically important prototype 12-bore over and under single trigger ejector gun by London gunmaker Boss & Co.. is among the highlights of Gavin Gardiner’s annual auction of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, which will be held in association with Sotheby's at the prestigious Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The sale, now in its 44th year, will take place on the evening of Monday, August 22, 2011. Built in 1909 this was the first Boss Over and Under gun built and was used extensively by the firm as their demonstrator to show customers the advantages of their revolutionary new design and to develop the production techniques for the guns that were subsequently built (Est: £10,000-15,000). As Gavin Gardiner explains: “The Boss design has been copied by almost every maker since, and it truly is the father of the modern Over and Under sporting shotgun. It is still the one by w ... More Machteld Wijlacker Creates a Sort of City at Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenROTTERDAM.- One of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s most fascinating and complex spaces is the gallery in which Richard Serra erected his steel walls in the 1980s. In the exhibition ‘DOCK’ Machteld (Max) Wijlacker takes on the challenge of making a new work in this space. She has created a monumental, rhythmic and layered installation from carefully selected salvaged wood. Machteld Wijlacker has created a sort of city from driftwood and weathered materials. It represents the experiences of someone walking through a large city: the commotion, the megalomaniac architecture and the whirlwinds. Her ‘city’ is made up of a sort of palisade, which the visitor moves between and under. Wijlacker has attempted to create an installation in which visitors can lose themselves. ‘This installation is a direct confrontation with Waxing Arcs by Richard Serra. The sobriety of the steel against the variety of the woo ... More Leading Egyptian Artist Displays Work at Walker Art Gallery in LiverpoolLIVERPOOL.- Wael Shawky, one of Egypt’s most prominent contemporary artists, is displaying a selection of his work at the Walker Art Gallery from Friday 1 July – Monday 29 August 2011 as part of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival. Shawky has exhibited internationally, with shows at the Venice and Istanbul Biennales. His work is concerned with the complex relationship between politics and religion, fundamentalism and capitalism, religious ritual and the role of media. It examines transitional events in the medieval and modern history of the Arab world, such as the first Crusades of 1096-1099 and the 1981 assassination of President Sadat. These themes have come into sharp focus through the recent upheavals in Egypt and the Middle East. The display has been co-curated by head of fine art at the Walker Art Gallery, Ann Bukantas and Eck ... More Phoenix Art Museum is First to Host Modern Mexican Painting from the Andres Blaistén CollectionPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum is the first Museum in the country to host Modern Mexican Painting from the Andres Blaistén Collection, a remarkable exhibition of post-revolution Mexican works drawn from one of the premiere private collections of 20th century Mexican art. Revealing 80 paintings by 45 artists including Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo and José Clemente Orozco, Modern Mexican Painting from the Andres Blaistén Collection presents a visually stunning, definitive look at Mexican art created between 1910 and 1950. The exhibition opened on July 1st and marks the collection’s debut in the United States and the start of a three city tour. “ Phoenix Art Museum has a long history of studying and celebrating Mexican art. We are very pleased to be the first venue to host this exceptional exhibition, which exposes a monumental time of artistic renaissance in Mexico ,” commented James Ballinger, The Sybil Harri ... More Art and Activism Projects of John and Dominique de Menil Wins International Book AwardHOUSTON, TX.- The jury of the International Art Book and Film Festival of Perpignan, France, has announced that Art and Activism: Projects of John and Dominique de Menil has been selected as 2010’s best book on an art collection. Josef Helfenstein, director of the Menil Collection in Houston and co-editor of the book with Laureen Schipsi, will accept the award at the festival this weekend. From the jury’s statement: “The de Menils moved to Houston, Texas from France, fleeing Nazism. They were friends with the finest artists of their time and built one of the most important collections of the XXth century. This book is the first monograph dedicated to them. It examines the de Menils’ significant contributions to education, the building of the Rothko Chapel, their work with filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, and how they amassed the great collection of art that is now housed in the Menil Collection, the Texas ... More Exhibition Prompts Reflection on the Discrimination and Stigmatisation of AIDSBARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, and the ArtAids Foundation present You Are Not Alone, an exhibition curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque with Irene Aristizábal, recipient of the H+F Curatorial Grant. You Are Not Alone is intended to prompt reflection on the discrimination and stigmatisation to which, even today, people living with Aids are subject. Social and collective initiatives can overcome false perceptions and habits arising from ignorance and prejudice, and art can help to change views and attitudes. In You Are Not Alone, fourteen artists from around the world help to fight stigmatisation by reappraising the causes, consequences and current context of AIDS as well as the ways of combating it. The works in the exhibition offer a vision of AIDS from the perspective of different geographical areas. The ArtAids Foundation h ... More NASA Sues Ex-Astronaut Mitchell Over Moon CameraBy: Curt Anderson, AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI (AP).- NASA is suing former astronaut Edgar Mitchell to get back a camera that went to the moon on the Apollo 14 mission. The lawsuit filed Thursday in South Florida federal court contends Mitchell recently tried to sell the camera at an auction. NASA says there's no record that the device was ever transferred to Mitchell and NASA wants it back. Mitchell became the sixth person to walk on the moon during the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. He now lives in Lake Worth. A phone number listed for him is disconnected and there was no immediate indication Friday he had an attorney. The 16mm camera is known as a Data Acquisition Camera. It was one of two that went to the moon on Apollo 14. ... More |
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