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Artist Karin Sander looks into the room next to her sculpture 'Karin Sander 1 5' at the Hans-Thoma-Museum in Bernau,Germany, on 13 August 2011. The plaster figure originated at a scale of 1 5 through a 3D bodyscan of the artist. Karin Sander will receive the 44th Hans-Thoma-Prize in Bernau on Sunday, 14 August 2011. EPA/Rolf Haid.
BERNAU IM SCHWARZWALD.- The Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) has bestowed the 2011 Hans Thoma Award, the Grand State Prize for Fine Arts, to the Berlin-based artist Karin Sander. The jury honoured Karin Sander for her outstanding oeuvre of sculptures, installations and spatial interventions. The award ceremony took place on 14 August at the Hans-Thoma-Kunstmuseum in Bernau. The solo exhibition on that occasion runs from 16 August to 18 September, 2011. The Hans Thoma Award, named after the painter Hans Thoma (1839-1924), was founded in 1949 by the State of Baden-Württemberg to pay tribute to new developments in contemporary art. The prize is endowed with 25.000 EUR and awarded every second year to an artist born or living in Baden-Württemberg for an outstanding life's work and achieving international recognition. The prize is connected with an exhibition and a monographic publication. Previous award winners include Otto Dix, Anselm Kiefer, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Thomas ... More |
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| Exhibition at Albertina Museum Provides Insights into Max Weiler's Entire Drawing Career | | Danish Audiences Get a Chance to Experience in Exhibition, a New Side of Josef Albers | | New Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art Explores the Artistry of African Headwear | 
Max Weiler, Selbstporträt, 1930. Kohle auf Papier, 59,8 x 45,8 cm. © Yvonne Weiler.
VIENNA.- Max Weiler (1910 – 2001) was not only a great painter, but also a fascinating and important graphic artist. In more than seventy years of creative activity, he produced an estimated 4000 drawings covering virtually all formats and techniques and forming a collection that is on par with his paintings. The exhibition provides insights into Max Weiler‘s entire drawing oeuvre, focusing on the development and variety of the works as well as the significance they had for the artist himself. Parallel to the paintings, the drawings constitute a world of their own. At the same time, however, they are interrelated - a relationship, which is illuminated with a selection of paintings on display. The work of the painter Max Weiler (1910-2001) has been explored over the past 20 years with the help of numerous exhibitions and scholarly publications. Here, too, his life’s theme of the pictorial crossover between nature and spirituality took centre stage, and the drawi ... More | | 
Josef Albers, Color study for Homage to the Square (detail).The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation © 2010 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bildkunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society, New York.
HUMBLEBAEK.- Louisiana – on paper is a series of small exhibitions at Louisiana, scheduled to be shown in the course of 2011. The exhibitions are curated by director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Poul Erik Tøjner, and focus on graphic works and drawings. The first artist in the series was American Al Taylor (1948-1999), now followed by German Josef Albers (1888-1976). Both artists are represented in Louisiana’s collection. The exhibition is the first to show such a concentration of paintings on paper by Josef Albers, some of which will be completely unknown to the general public. Works in oil on paper, painted by the artist since the 1940s in preparation for the »Adobe« and »Variant« series in particular, will be presented together with a large group related to his principal work »Homage to the Square« from the ... More | | 
Diviner’s headdress (nkaka), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tabwa peoples, first half of the 20th century. Leather, fiber, beads, feathers, and fur, 22 1/2 x 15 x 10 1/2 in. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of The Cecil and Ida Green Foundation.
DALLAS, TX.- Celebrating African decorative design, African Headwear: Beyond Fashion presents approximately fifty objects from the Dallas Museum of Art’s internationally acclaimed collection of African art and from several private collections, including those of Michael and Shelly Dee; Susan Montgomery; Taiye Ozigbo; Sidney Perutz; and John and Karen Reoch. Through form, materials, and imagery, African headwear communicates information about the wearer, including an individual’s ethnic group, gender, age, marital status, social and economic status, military rank, role in government, religious affiliation, and profession. This exhibition presents headwear from sub-Saharan Africa, where what one wears on one’s head is both fashionable and meaningful, and explores the ways in which headwear signifies status ... More |
| Summer Exhibition at the Belvedere Focuses on Josef Danhauser's Pictorial Narratives | | German Artist Georg Baselitz Introduces a New Artistic Device into His Art: The Remix | | Sovereign Splendour: Imperial Porcelain from Shanghai at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag | 
Josef Danhauser, Newspaper readers , 1840. Oil on wood, 21 x 17 cm. Belvedere, Vienna © Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- During his lifetime, Josef Danhauser (1805–1845) was one of the most important artists in Vienna, and his name is inseparably linked with the epoch known today as the Biedermeier era. The summer exhibition at the Orangery presents the artist as a storyteller. His paintings grant a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of his time. Trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to be a history painter, Danhauser soon overcame the academic traditionalism to enrich his historical and religious topics with genre elements. What distinguished him most was his extraordinary ability to translate literary texts into pictorial language. Gestures, facial expressions, and telling movements are the “vehicle” of his pictorial narratives; and behind it all lie a daring use of satire and acute powers of observation. Inspired by the series of engravings by the English painter William Hogarth (1697–1764) and the Vienna street scenes ... More | | 
At GL STRAND Georg Baselitz’ latest works are presented on three floors.
COPENHAGEN.- With the exhibition Baselitz Re-Mixed Kunstforeningen GL STRAND has opened its doors to one of the most significant painters today. Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) is one of the most prominent visual artists of his generation. The German artist works with sculpture, drawings and graphic art, but is best known for his characteristic paintings whose subjects are often shown ‘upside down’. This detaches the subject from the reality it represents. Now Georg Baselitz has introduced a new artistic device into his art: the remix. This is a concept taken from the world of music. In the remix pictures he re-paints his own subjects from the 1960s and 1970s. In this way he looks at his paintings afresh and renews himself. At the same time Baselitz quotes the works of other artists, re-paints them and thus makes the subjects his own: they are his painterly comments on other artists’ work. The artists to whom Baselitz refers in his remix pictures include Edvard Munch, ... More | | 
Chinese vaas met fencai decoratie van Indiase lotusbloemen en plastische figuurtjes van spelende kinderen, Qianlong dynastie (1736-1795), 31,1 cm, collectie Shanghai museum.
THE HAGUE.- Only the best was ever good enough for the court of imperial China. It had its own special factories using the highest quality porcelain, the most virtuoso craftsmen and the finest pigments to produce the crème de la crème of Chinese ceramics. Now, for the very first time, a hundred of these masterpieces from the collection of the Shanghai Museum are exhibited outside Asia. However, the Sovereign Splendour exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag does not present these magnificent examples of imperial porcelain in isolation: through a focus on the symbolism and significance of their decoration, it also introduces the public to the fascinating myths and traditions of pre-revolutionary China.In the early seventeenth century, it became fashionable in the Netherlands to collect Chinese porcelain. Pieces imported by the Dutch East ... More |
| Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography by Verna Posever Curtis | | During 'Elvis Week,' Fans Flock to Memphis to Remember Pivotal Year in Singer's Career | | Chasing Shadows: Thirty Years of Photographic Essay by Santu Mofoken at Jeu de Paume | 
Jack Delano – Photos: The Lower Anthracite Region. Two Volumes, 1938 or 1939.
NEW YORK, NY.- As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes—to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate, and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture, June 2011) traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress. The albums that comprise Photographic Memory provide immensely personal and idiosyncratic historical perspectives. From an 1899 Alaskan expedition album of Edward Sheriff Curtis’s early work, to Walker Evans’s extended suite of images in study for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, to a family album by Danny Lyon, t ... More | | 
Every year, thousands of Elvis devotees flock to Memphis to remember the singer's death. AP Photo, File.
By: Adrian Sainz, Associated Press
MEMPHIS, TENN (AP).- Elvis Presley fans love an anniversary. Every year, thousands of Elvis devotees flock to Memphis to remember the singer's death on Aug. 16, 1977. The main event of "Elvis Week" is the solemn candlelight vigil at Graceland, his longtime home, at midnight Tuesday. This year, fans have something else to commemorate. It was 55 years ago — 1956 — when the first two Elvis albums were released, launching an international music career that brought Elvis' mix of country, rhythm and blues, and gospel to millions of fans around the world. "It's a documentation of what I think is rock music's most incredible year," said Ernst Jorgensen, a music producer and Elvis catalog expert. "Nobody was prepared for Elvis." To mark Elvis' breakout year, Jorgensen ... More | | 
Santu Mofokeng, Winter in Tembisa, vers 1991. Essai : Township Billboards : Beauty, Sex and Cellphones. Courtesy Lunetta Bartz, MAKER, Johannesburg © Santu Mofokeng.
PARIS.- The exhibition and the accompanying book bring together a unique selection of the photographic essays made by Santu Mofokeng over the last thirty years. Well-known from his projects Black Photo Album/Look at me: 1890-1950, Township Billboards: Beauty, sex and cellphones; Trauma Landscapes and Chasing Shadows, the South African artist took the opportunity of the invitation for this show and the production of his first comprehensive monograph, to delve deep into his artistic archive. “Chasing Shadows. Santu Mofokeng, thirty years of photographic essays” presents a selection of more than 200 images (photographs and a slideshow), texts and documents. The photographic essays he composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto ... More |
| Revolutionary Icon Fidel Castro Turns 85 Quietly but Still a Force in the Island of Cuba | | Exhibition at Hamburg's Kunstverein Features Several Installation Settings by Berlin-Based Artist Henning Bohl | | Deichtorhallen Hamburg Showcases the Versatile Oeuvre of Zurich Artist and Polymath Dieter Meier | 
A painting depicting Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, by late Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin, is seen during an exhibit in Havana. AP Photo/Javier Galeano.
By: Peter Orsi, Associated Press
HAVANA (AP).- Revolutionary icon Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday behind closed doors Saturday as the aging leader famous for railing against Washington increasingly fades from the spotlight — even if his outsize persona continues to cast a long shadow over Cuban society and U.S. relations. There were no announcements of how Castro planned to spend the day, though Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Havana for cancer treatment, said via Twitter that he was with his longtime friend and political mentor. "Here with Fidel, celebrating his 85th birthday! Viva Fidel!" Chavez tweeted. The previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in Castro's honor. "What we say in the songs of our invited artists will be little next to what he deserves," Alfredo Vera, one of the organizers, said late Friday. ... More | | 
Henning Bohl, Cornet of Horse, 2011. Installation view Kunstverein Hamburg. Photo: Fred Dott / Kunstverein Hamburg. Courtesy Johann König, Berlin; Karin Günther, Hamburg; Casey Kaplan, New York.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition "Cornet of Horse" features several installation settings by Berlin-based artist Henning Bohl (born in 1975) that are linked both in terms of content and in terms of recurring motifs and materials and the way these are employed. Besides referring to each other, Bohl’s works also contain numerous, often subtle references to other art (movements). While his use of references follows a certain logic, it does not necessarily aim to produce meaning. Bohl is more interested in creating arrangements that tell stories and in how they are told. The exhibition in Hamburg is centred around two objects that resemble tables insofar as they have four legs (made from Schultüten, paper cones that are filled with small gifts and given to German children on their first day of school), a horizontal frame (a stretcher frame of the type used for mounting canvasses) and an oversized ... More | | 
Dieter Meier and Harald Falckenberg.
HAMBURG.- For the first time, Deichtorhallen Hamburg is showcasing the versatile oeuvre of Zurich artist and polymath Dieter Meier – in the form of a comprehensive museum show. The exhibition runs through September 11, 2011 at Sammlung Falckenberg (Phoenix-Werke, in Hamburg’s Harburg district). In the 1980s, Meier first became known to the broader general public as part of the music duo YELLO, which is now considered one of the most influential electro-Pop acts per se. At the same time, Dieter Meier was active as a film and videoclip director, and his music videos for YELLO emphatically defined the genre and were constantly on show on MTV. Far less well-known is Dieter Meier’s oeuvre as a Concept and performance artist, starting as long ago as the late 1960s. With his radical situationism, as absurd as it was humorous, Meier started to explore new spaces and scope for art, and was repeatedly inspired to stage performance in public spaces relying on direct interac ... More |
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 Outdoor Sculpture by Thomas Houseago at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh EDINBURGH.- The first major outdoor exhibition of sculptures by the British artist Thomas Houseago ever to be staged, The Beat of the Show comprises new and recent large-scale works, mostly in bronze and being exhibited for the first time. One of the most original and compelling sculptors of his generation, Thomas Houseago is known for his often monumental sculptures which subvert classical and modernist forms using a variety of materials (wood, clay, plaster, iron and steel); a synthesis of abstraction and figuration, they clearly reveal the process of making and often contain elements of the drawing which lies at their core. Thomas Houseago was born in Leeds, England in 1972. He studied at the St. Martin’s College of Art and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. He lived and worked for several years in Brussels before moving to Los Angeles. Houseago is a sculptor whose powerful work looks back at the past and yet remains ... More PDNB Gallery Examines One Collector's Idea of Meaningful Objects in New Exhibition DALLAS, TX.- Why is this a FUN SHOW? Let’s offer the reasons why. For this show only, PDNB Gallery does not exhibit strictly photo-based art. This original gallery exhibition explores the mind of one collector who has procured many second-hand treasures. These Objets virtu include art glass, paintings, vernacular photographs, knickknacks, whim-wham, fribble, bric-a-brac, and more exciting stuff. America has become more educated about their stuff since the ebay phenomenon began in 1995. Our edification continues with the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow, and now the cable hit series: Pawn Stars, American Pickers and Storage Wars. As a result the treasures/trash theory has been turned upside down. Now we know that some of our trash is really worth something! Not only are the objects in this exhibition for sale (some items cheap prices), the installation in an art gallery setting becomes a conceptual work of a ... More Olaf Nicolai Transforms the Staircase in the Pinakothek der Moderne into a Stage MUNICH.- Since 1997, Olaf Nicolai has developed a wide variety of interdisciplinary projects through his examination of body, time and space. His most recent work, »Escalier du Chant«, is a sound installation made especially for the sweeping staircase in the Pinakothek der Moderne. At its centre is the human voice – with both its sensual power of expression and its political dimension. Olaf Nicolai has invited twelve international composers to write songs about topical political events throughout the current year – events that at the present time are just as unforeseeable as the compositions themselves. Premieres of these songs are performed a capella on the staircase in the Pinakothek der Moderne on twelve Sundays. There are no specific times for the performances as the songs are repeated at varying intervals several times throughout the day. They are sung by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. The composer Rolf ... MoreArt Thieves Nab $250,000 Rembrandt from California HotelLOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Investigators were examining hotel surveillance video on Sunday for clues to the disappearance of a drawing by Rembrandt from a private exhibit near Los Angeles, officials said. The pen-and-ink drawing known as "The Judgment" by the 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, vanished on Saturday night from the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey while the curator was "distracted" for about 15 minutes, said Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. "When he turned back, the pen-and-ink drawing was gone," Whitmore said. "We believe there was more than one person involved," he added. The drawing, which is valued at $250,000 and measures about 11 by 6 inches, was part of a weekly exhibit hosted at the exclusive hotel by the Linearis Institute, Whitmore said. Sheriff's officials were reviewing hotel surveillance tape on Sunday, he said. "We believe this to be well planned and well executed," Whitmore said, but he said investigators ... More Belvedere Worker Fired for Washing Himself with Own UrineVIENNA (AP).- A famed Austrian museum has fired an employee for washing his hands and face with his urine. Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant at the Belvedere, a castle in Vienna with a major art collection. He says his adherence to urine therapy was previously "never a problem." Zoppelt, 57, said Thursday his notice from Belvedere says he was fired because "you regularly rub urine into your skin, particularly the face and hands. With this, you soil your place of work ... and threaten the health of your co-workers." A woman answering the Belvedere press department phone confirmed that Zoppelt was fired but refused to give her name or further information. Believers in urine therapy claim medical and cosmetic benefits but these have not been proven. ... More |
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