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A man walks past furniture by US artist Donald Judd (1928-1994) at the Pinakothek der Moderne inMunich,Germany. Judd's furniture was supposed to be used on a daily basis as its usage was among Judd's main concerns. From 15 July 2011, 'The New Collection - The International Design Museum Munich' presents a selection of Judd's concept furniture at the Pinakothek der Moderne. EPA/FRANKLEONHARDT.
MUNICH.- American Donald Judd (1928-1994) is considered one of the most important 20th century artists the world over. He came to fame in the 1960s as one of the protagonists of Minimal Art but expanded his oeuvre to include the areas of architecture and design. Yet only a few people are aware that Donald Judd also applied himself intensively to furniture design. For the first time in the context of an interdisciplinary institution, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich – is showing a focused selection of the furniture Judd conceived, doing so within a setting of important museum collections on the history of modern art and design. Judd addressed the design of furniture more intensely after moving to Marfa/Texas. He needed tables, chairs and a children’s bed for his small house. As Judd was unable to buy the furniture that met his requirements either in Marfa or the ... More |
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Select Group of Chicago's Premier Contemporary Art Galleries Announce Gallery Weekend Chicago
Dan Gunn, Sympathetic Arrangement, 2011. Enamel paint, tinsel, and polyurethane on wood, 14 x 11 inches. Collection of Howard and Donna Stone, Chicago. Courtesy moniquemeloche, Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- A select group of Chicago's premier contemporary art galleries have come together to organize Chicago's first ever Gallery Weekend Chicago (GWC) on September 16-18, 2011. Like the very successful Gallery Weekend Berlin, the event is designed to attract an exclusive group of national and international clientele to experience Chicago’s dynamic contemporary art scene. Viewings of new exhibitions at top contemporary art galleries and museums, access to hard-to-secure reservations at Chicago’s finest restaurants, and private VIP events will make up the weekend’s activities. “Chicago has so much to offer in terms of art, architecture, and cultural production in general, so I had the idea to marry that with our world-class restaurants to curate a unique weekend experience for our out-of- ... More | | Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Presents Monet to Cézanne/Cassatt to Sargent: The Impressionist Revolution
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman Arranging Her Hat, circa 1890. High Museum of Art.
MEMPHIS, TN.- Alive with color, flickering light, and spontaneous movement, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings are arguably the most recognizable and popular visual art of our time. Because of their familiarity and immediate appeal, it is easy to forget how these canvases first shocked and then eventually transformed the art world. The exhibition is on view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from July 16th through October 9, 2011. Monet to Cézanne / Cassatt to Sargent: The Impressionist Revolution offers a rare chance to rediscover masterworks by celebrated members of the movement. The exhibition features over 85 paintings and works on paper. It traces Impressionism as it evolved through the nineteenth century and into the modern era, both in France and the United States. Radicals and revolutionaries, the Impressionists broke the rules of traditional painting. Around 1870, members of the movement such as C ... More | | Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Actualizations of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun
View of the installation 'Lunapark' by German artist Michaela Melian during the KUB Arena exhibition 'Beginning Good. All Good'. EPA/ENNIO LEANZA.
BREGENZ.- The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, which received its premiere at the Lunapark Theater in St. Petersburg in 1913, attempted to “create a collective work based on language, painting, and music.” Its authors – the poets Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh, the composer and painter Michail Matjuschin, and the painter Kazimir Malevich – wished to construct an “anti-harmonious” work against the current of their time. This was in Czarist Russia in the years between industrial modernization and peasant ser fdom and after the attempted revolution of 1905. While in their enthusiasm for technology the Italian Futurists had already glorified machinery before World War I and brought it to bear against people, Russian Futurism took off from an idea of the future that seemed possible only by fundamentally deconstructing the as ... More |
Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Artist Francesco Clemente's High Fever
Francesco Clemente, Italian, born 1952; Febbre Alta (High Fever), 1982; woodcut; sheet: 26 3/4 x 21 1/4 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund 20:1988.6; © Francesco Clemente.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents the exhibition Focus on the Collection: Francesco Clemente's High Fever, which brings together a series of nine dark and mysterious woodcuts that explore the beauty, pleasure and pain of love by contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente. Influenced by the mysticism of India, Clemente conveys both the sensual and spiritual aspects of love, including childbirth and motherhood. Clemente exploits the natural grain of his woodblocks to dramatic effect, allowing it to become part of the repertoire of expressive marks found in each of the compositions. The grain and the dark tones of the ink reference the Northern European history of the woodcut. Born in Naples in 1952, Clemente taught himself to paint after finishing high school. He moved to Rome in 1970 ... More | | Camera Work Presents Outstanding Photographer-Portraits by the American Photographer Arnold Crane
Ansel Adams, beim Fotografieren am Point Lobos, Kalifornien, 1969. © Arnold Crane.
BERLIN.- Camera Work presents an exhibition of outstanding photographer-portraits by the American photographer Arnold Crane. The show opened on July 16 and will continue through September 3, 2011. The photographs are complemented with works by the portrayed artists from the comprehensive archive of CAMERA WORK. Arnold Crane enjoyed unparalleled access to the most famous photographers of our time. He used his camera to capture the giants of 20th century photography - Man Ray, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Edward Steichen and many others - in the very intimate settings of their homes, streets and studios. Over a period of more than two decades, Crane created a body of artistic work of immeasurable value and historic importance. Whether sitting in a car with Paul Strand, catching Imogen Cunningham in her kitchen or accompanying Ansel Adams on a Point Lobos shoot, Crane always managed ... More | | The Museo de Arte de Ponce Presents Its Most Important Recent Acquisition: The Battle of Treviño
Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833–-1917), The Battle of Treviño (detail).
PONCE, PR.- With the unveiling of The Battle of Treviño, by Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833–1917), the Museo de Arte de Ponce celebrates the acquisition of a nineteenth-century masterpiece that has never before been exhibited publicly — a painting whose very existence, in fact, was unsuspected until just a few years ago. The work was part of a private collection that had been in the hands of a single family in Spain for over 130 years. “We are celebrating the arrival in Puerto Rico of The Battle of Treviño, a masterpiece by the island’s most talented and beloved nineteenth-century painter. It is a source of great pride for our institution that we are able to give both scholars and the public in general access to this important work, which now becomes a part of Puerto Rico’s artistic patrimony,” said Dr. Agustín Arteaga, director and chief executive officer of the Museo ... More |
Manufacture: A Group Exhibition at the Parc Saint Léger, Contemporary Art Center
Vincent Ganivet, Caténaires, 2009. Blocks, straps, wooden blocks. Installation view : Dynasty, 2010. Musée d’Art moderne & Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
By: Sandra Patron & Zoe Gray
POUGUES-LES-EAUX.- In Europe, in our “post-industrial” era, we are increasingly distanced from the production of the goods we consume. Our downing of tools seems linked to a change in our relationship with the material world, provoking a more passive attitude towards the things with which we surround ourselves. When they break we throw them away, unable to fix them and unable (or unwilling) to understand how they work. In recent years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in making, in notions of self-sufficiency and craftsmanship. While such notions may find particular resonance in these times of economic crisis, they are also part of a larger school of thinking that is reconsidering our relationship to work and production. This changing relationship with material production finds an echo in recent art history. The dematerialization of the art object – triggered by Marcel Duchamp at the start of the 20th century and labelled by art ... More | | New Museum Presents "Ostalgia," an Exhibition about Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc.
NEW YORK NY.- The New Museum presents "Ostalgia," an exhibition that brings together the work of fifty-six artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Republics, and parts of Western Europe. The Multi-floor exhibition is on view from July 14–September 25, 2011. The exhibition takes its title from the German word ostalgie, a term that emerged in the 1990s to describe a sense of longing and nostalgia for the era before the collapse of the Communist Bloc. Twenty years ago, a process of dissolution began, leading to the break-up of the Soviet Union. From the Baltic republics to the Balkans, from Central Europe to Central Asia, entire regions and nations were reconfigured, their constitutions rewritten, their borders redrawn. Combining seminal figures and emerging artists, "Ostalgia" looks at the art produced in and about some of these countries. Mixing private confessions and collective traumas, th ... More | | Denver Art Museum to Present First U.S. Exhibition of the Work of Chinese Painter Xu Beihong
Xu Beihong, Spring Rain on Lijiang River , 1937. Ink on paper, hanging scroll. The Xu Beihong Memorial Museum.
DENVER, CO.- This fall, visitors to the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will get a rare look inside China’s artistic history through two special exhibitions. Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting and Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China’s Last Dynasty explore this mysterious and ceremonial country during two time periods—the latter years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and the subsequent formation of the Republic of China during the early to middle 20th century. Xu Beihong offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the full spectrum of work by the 20th century Chinese artist who is widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting. One of the first Chinese artists to study in Europe, Xu revolutionized painting in China by drawing influence from both the East and West. This exhibition will feature approximately 60 works from the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum, the majority of which h ... More |
Color Photographs Since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld at Museum Folkwang in Essen
Joel Sternfeld, A Woman at Home in Malibu After Exercising, California, August 1988, aus der Serie: Stranger Passing. C-print, 46 1/2 x 38 inches (118.11 x 96.52 cm) © Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York, 2011.
ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang, Essen/Germany, is dedicating a first European retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld (*1944, New York) from 16 July 2011, with around 130 works from over three decades. Entitled Joel Sternfeld – Color Photographs since 1970 eleven projects in total are being shown. One emphasis comes with 60 photographs from his never before published early work, which extends from 1969 to the late 1970s. Sternfeld’s gaze has always been directed at his home country of America, with its particularities, its people and its own landscapes. Together with Stephan Shore, Joel Sternfeld is one of the most important representatives of New Color Photography, which discovered color for art photography in the 1970s. In- ... More | | Museum of the African Diaspora Presents "Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India"
Dumgi Bastav (Mainalli), 2004, 60” x 42”. Photo: Henry Drewal.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Stunning, colorful, patchwork quilts known as kawandi and made only by craftswomen living in the little known Siddi communities of Africans in India are on display at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) as part of its exploration of how traditional practices are adapted over decades throughout the African Diaspora. The exhibition presents over 30 quilts of a variety of styles and techniques and also the compelling story of the Siddis, descendants of East African slaves, sailors and merchants who currently live in the highlands of the Karantaka and Goa regions on the western coast of the Indian subcontinent. “Soulful Stitching: Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) in India” opened at the Museum of African Diaspora Friday, July 15, 2011. The traveling exhibition consisting of 32 quilts will be on view until September 18, 2011. “Soulful Stitching” is co-curated by Dr. Henry J. Drew ... More | | Portraits of Survivors on View at Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Memorial
Renate Niebler, Galina Kastrizkaja. © KZ-Gedenkstaette Flossenbuerg.
FLOSSENBUERG.- An elderly man wearing a lightly-colored windbreaker, his eyes are closed, he seems rather introverted. Another man is looking the beholder right in the face with an impish wink in his eyes. A lady with curly white hair is looking past the beholder’s shoulder into the distance. She is wearing an elegant dark green jacket. Just like a nice grandmother expecting her family for a visit. Three people with different character traits and biographies. They have only one thing in common: they were imprisoned in the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp and they survived its terrors. These pictures and further portraits of former prisoners are on display in the new temporary exhibition “In uns der Ort”, which opens on July 15 on the premises of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Memorial. This is the first such temporary exhibition initiated by the memorial’s staff. For this purpose, the ... More |
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 National Museum of American History Receives Phil Lesh's "Eye of Horus" Bass GuitarWASHINGTON.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired the “Eye of Horus” bass guitar from Phillip “Phil” Lesh, formerly of the Grateful Dead. The bassist purchased the handmade instrument in 2009 and used it extensively, crediting the guitar with having taught him to play in a different style. The modern, state-of-the-art bass will be preserved as part of the museum’s extensive and diverse collection of instruments, including Prince’s and Eddie Van Halen’s guitars. Lesh came across German master instrument-maker Jens Ritter’s work online and was struck by the design of his custom instruments. After meeting Ritter, he commissioned an electric bass guitar for his own use. The “Eye of Horus” is one of a limited edition of 10 bass guitars and is a Jupiter-style six-string with a body made out of mahogany and neck made out of maple. The neck als ... More Joao Onofre - Espai 13 at Fundació Joan Miró, BarcelonaBARCELONA.- For his exhibition at Espai 13, João Onofre has created Untitled (Original orchestrated ersatz light version), a video that continues his exhaustive research into performance, this time using a highly sophisticated piece of interpretative art. By incorporating into the work the famous Portuguese singer Adelaide Ferreira and a symphony orchestra, Onofre provides viewers with new ideas and ways of responding to popular culture. In the video, made especially for the cycle Implicit Sound, the artist appears for the first time on camera as a tribute to the work of the pioneering visual artists who used their own bodies as works of art. The exhibition is on view from July 15 through September 11, 2011 at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Since graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1999, João Onofre has continued to shine, becoming one of the most interesting art ... More President Obama Meets with Norman Rockwell Museum Staff at White HouseSTOCKBRIDGE, MA.- President Barack Obama opened the doors of the White House today for a special meet and greet with Norman Rockwell Museum Director/CEO Laurie Norton Moffatt; Museum President Anne Morgan; and Museum Trustee Ruby Bridges Hall. The meeting was held to celebrate the White House exhibition of Norman Rockwell’s classic 1963 painting “The Problem We All Live With,” which was inspired by Ms. Bridges’ history-changing walk integrating William Frantz Public School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. President Obama requested the loan of the painting from the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum to honor the fiftieth anniversary of Bridges’ childhood experience.“It was deeply moving to hear President Obama speak with Ruby Bridges about her school experience and Norman Rockwell’s painting,” says Ms. Norton Moffatt. “He acknowledged Ruby’s walk to school and her mo ... More A Group of International Artists Exhibit at Priska C. Juschka Fine ArtNEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Silver Bullet, a group exhibition conceived by Dannielle Tegeder, comprised of a group of international artists. The show ranges from historic pieces of art from the 1950’s to work created in the present year. The title, while referring to materials that include mirrors, metal, and silver paint, also articulates the metaphor of the "silver bullet" as a straightforward solution. The exhibition tests the myth that one can solve a complex problem with a single shot. The organizer and artist, Dannielle Tegeder, defines the exhibition as a collective of eight artists linked by their own formal or conceptual handling of silver. An artist may explore the reflective element of silver – creating a philosophical perspective or a context of illusion – or the rigid conceptual idea of silver as a commodity. At first sight, the works connect in aesthetic and vis ... More Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry at the Bruce MuseumGREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut presents the new exhibition Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry from July 16, 2011, through February 26, 2012, featuring a magnificent array of different types of jewelry as well as samplings of minerals, precious stones and other materials from which artists have created an infinite variety of human adornment. The exhibition is organized by the Bruce Museum’s new Curator of Science, Dr. Gina C. Gould, and is supported by Betteridge Jewelers, the Charles M. and Deborah G. Royce Exhibition Fund, Anne and Fred Elser, and Hank and Meryl Silverstein. Jewelry: It is the universal means to transmit personal information—marital status, wealth, heritage, and aesthetics. An artifact of world history, jewelry is evidence that the Earth, human culture, and technology have evolved. The known history of personal adornment extends thousands of years. ... More Toronto's Carnival: Festival Photographs from 1967 to Today at the Royal Ontario MuseumTORONTO.- Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival and Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue (BAND) present Caribbean Carnival Exhibitions 2011, featuring two complimentary art exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The Gladstone Hotel. These exhibitions mark the world premier of Toronto artist Nation Cheong. Toronto’s Carnival: Festival Photographs from 1967 to Today will be on view at the ROM on Level 2 in the Hilary and Galen Weston Wing from July 16 to August 1, 2011. “This is the fourth year the ROM is proud to support the Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival," said Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. "We celebrate this year with a unique exhibition showcasing the vibrant history of the festival and Caribbean culture in Toronto. It is a pleasure to welcome the work of Nation Cheong to the ROM. His photographs alongside archival images from the festival’s past forty-five years create nostalgic connect ... More |
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