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A visitor looks at 'Artificial Moon' an installation by Chinese artist Wang Yuyang consisting of 10,000 energy-saving light bulbs, part of 'Translife' the International Triennial of New Media Art at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, China 12 August 2011. The show is curated by the museum's director Fan Di'an who has built a reputation for the venue as a place for cutting edge exhibitions often with a strong international element, breaking from the decades old tradition of dull propaganda based domestic art. EPA/ADRIAN BRADSHAW
By: Zhang Ga
BEIJING.- Following the groundbreaking international new media art exhibition Synthetic Times, a 2008 Beijing Olympics Cultural Project, the National Art Museum of China presents TransLife, the next installment of the Media Art China series, now instituted as a triennial, in Beijing. Amidst the global challenges of climate and ecological crises that threaten the very existence of humanity, the exhibition TransLife reflects on the whereabouts of humankind in relationship to nature through an unique perspective and philosophical speculation, calling for citizen participation in facing these imminent challenges with artistic imagination to advocate a new world view of nature and a retooled humanist proposition. The exhibition is structured by three thematically related components that gradually progress from the discovery of new sensorial potentials that extend our cognitive capacities to the emergence of multiple life forms to biodiversity and an exploration of the symbiosis of ... More |
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| "Covering Pollock" Features New Works by Richard Prince on the Artist Jackson Pollock | | Works of Art by John Marin On View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art | | Associated Press Photographer Peter Hillebrecht Remembers When the Berlin Wall was Built | 
Richard Prince, Untitled (Covering Pollock), 2009. Collage on c-print, 24 x 21 ¼ inches.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Guild Hall of East Hampton presents Richard Prince “Covering Pollock” featuring 27 new works that are focused on Jackson Pollock, a leader of the Abstract Expressionist group. The exhibition opens on Saturday August 13 and runs through October 17, 2011 throughout the entire museum. Acknowledged as one of the most important and influential artists of our time, Richard Prince uses appropriation to distill and disrupt America’s compulsive fascination with iconic brands, fame, and lifestyle. This is the first public viewing of “Covering Pollock” and the first museum exhibition of Richard Prince’s work on Long Island. Prince states, “Five years ago, I drew over a deKooning book and made paintings that were a take-off on deKooning's 'Women' series. I also made the hand-drawn and collaged Franz Kline book as well. I think about what I can add to that history, to their work. W ... More | | 
John Marin, Tunk Mountains, Maine, 1948. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Lent by the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PORTLAND, ME.- Although John Marin (1870-1953) was regarded as one of America’s most important painters at the time of his death, scholarship and museum exhibitions to date have focused on his early work coloring popular understanding of his life’s work. Featuring approximately 60 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, on view through October 10, 2011 at the Portland Museum of Art, concentrates on the late period of John Marin’s career between 1933 and 1953. This exhibition, the first in-depth examination of the artist since 1990, explores his late career, adds nuance to our understanding of his work, and reclaims Marin’s reputation as an artist committed to developing a modern visual language of landscape and place in an era preoccupied with complete abstraction ... More | | 
In this Aug. 13, 1961 b/w file picture two men only dress with their swimming trunks are covered with blankets and smoking a cigarette after they manged to flee across the high security border seperating Berlin to the West. AP Photo/Peter Hillebrecht.
By: Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press
BERLIN (AP).- Fifty years after his pictures of the Berlin Wall going up were published around the globe, former AP photographer Peter Hillebrecht slowly walked along a cobblestone strip that serves as a reminder of the barrier that once divided the German capital — and relived the day. "I got a phone call at 2:30 in the morning from an editor telling me that the East Germans had started building a wall through the city," the 81-year-old said during a recent visit to Berlin, ahead of the 50th anniversary Saturday of the building of the wall. "So I ran out and took some of the first pictures at night, and then many more during daylight in the Tiergarten neighborhood and Brandenburg Gate where the East ... More |
| Revolutionary Landscape Painter Fred Williams Gets Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia | | "Lost" Painting by Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer Ford Madox Brown Resurfaces in Britain | | Bonhams to Hold Exhibition of Works by the Last Wild Expressionist of Spain: Carlos Nadal | 
Fred Williams, Self portrait at easel 1960–61. Oil on composition board. National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Gift of Lyn Williams 1998, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program © estate of Fred Williams.
CANBERRA.- Fred Williams revolutionised the way we see and think about the Australian landscape. In the 1960s, inspired by the landscape of Victoria close to where he lived, he distilled the essence of environment in his paintings and works on paper. However, while the subjects were regional, Williams wanted to convey a wider sense of place. The local was the template for the more general, unifying elements of the continent. His intuitive sense of unity was confirmed over the years with his growing interest in geology and his broadening experience of diverse aspects of the country, from Erith Island and Flinders Island in Bass Strait in the south to Cape York in far north Queensland to the Pilbara region in Western Australia. For all the differences he ... More | | 
Ford Madox Brown, The Seraph's Watch, 1847. Oil on panel. Private collection Geneva.
By: Alice Baghdjian
LONDON (REUTERS).- The public have not laid eyes on the heavenly depiction of "The Seraph's Watch" for over a century and many people thought the painting was lost. But now the work by pre-Raphaelite British artist Ford Madox Brown, depicting the serene gaze of two angels before a crown of thorns, will be exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery in northern England next month. Completed in 1847, The Seraph's Watch was last displayed publicly in London in 1896, at which point the painting disappeared - and was even feared lost - until it was rediscovered in a private collection two years ago by the exhibition's curator, Julian Treuherz. "When I saw the painting I knew instantly what it was. It had been regarded as lost but we all knew what it looked like from the copy made by Madox Brown's pupil, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ... More | | 
Fifty works spanning all of his life will be on show at Bonhams. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Department will be hosting an exhibition of a selection of works by Carlos Nadal from English Collections. Fifty works spanning all of his life will be on show at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London from Thursday 25 August - Wednesday 7 September 2011. On Thursday 25 August between 11am-12 noon the artist’s son Alex Nadal will be present to offer insight into his father’s life and work. “When addressing some students, the Catalan artist, Carlos Nadal once said, “Look up and around, not down at the pavement as so many people do. Make to enjoy the day of the joie de vivre.” Nadal lived his life by this mantra, and a sense of joie de vivre absorbed from his surroundings infuses all his works. Revelling in a riot of colour, his canvases employ bold contours and a naive style to convey familiar, illustrative scenes recalling memories, like painte ... More |
| From John F. Kennedy to September 11, Conspiracy Theories Thrive Among Thousands | | Photo Essay by Photographer Jamey Stillings Captures the Construction of a New Industrial Wonder | | U.S. Postal Service Honors Pioneers of American Industrial Design Commemorated on New Stamps | 
Hank Black, left, holds a sign as he talks with Michael Cangemi after a meeting of the North Texans for 9/11 Truth group at a cafe in Dallas. AP Photo/LM Otero.
By: Tamara Lush, Associated Press
DALLAS, TX (AP).- In Dealey Plaza, with the white "X'' painted on the spot where President Kennedy was assassinated, ask anyone about the grassy knoll and the second gunman. Conspiracy theories come with the territory here. And at Barbec's Restaurant on the other side of this sprawling city, six men sit on a covered porch and convene a meeting of the North Texans for 9/11 Truth group and talk about the government's lies about 9/11. The group has 50 active members; 200 on the mailing list. And they number among many thousands who, after years of investigations, don't believe the official version of how the World Trade Center collapsed, who was responsible or what the government knew and when. Politics doesn't have anything to do with it; two were ... More | | 
The Bridge at Hoover Dam. Photo: Jamey Stillings.
PHOENIX, AZ.- From the moment photographer Jamey Stillings first encountered the bridge at Hoover Dam he knew it was a subject he couldn’t ignore. Over the next two years, he visited the bridge 16 times documenting the progress and completion of the enormous structure that would eventually span the Colorado River . The resulting photo essay is the focus of a new exhibition opening at Phoenix Art Museum on August 13, 2011. The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings features more than 40 large format color photographs chronicling the creation of North America ’s longest single-span concrete arch bridge. Officially named the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the bridge is located roughly 1500 feet downstream of Hoover dam and is the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass project. Construction began in 2004 and was completed in 2010. The 1,905 foot long bridge spans the Black Canyon ... More | | 
The installation includes nine objects from the collection of George R. Kravis II and a related design drawing from the museum’s Drawings, Prints and Graphic Design department.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- “Quicktake: Stamps of Approval” features the work of American industrial designers recognized by the U.S. Postal Service in a new series of Forever stamps. The stamps commemorate 12 pioneers of American industrial design whose designs helped shaped the look of everyday life in the 20th century. Organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum with the Philbrook Museum of Art, the “Quicktake” installation will debut in the Great Hall of Cooper-Hewitt Aug. 12 and run through Sept. 25, before continuing on a nationwide tour. Admission will be free. The main exhibition galleries at Cooper-Hewitt remain closed as the museum embarks this fall on a $64 million expansion and renovation. Visitors continue to enjoy ... More |
| "Elvis" Mask Among 200 Objects Featured in African Innovations at the Brooklyn Museum | | Photographic Portraits of People Opens at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art | | Walker Presentation is First U.S. Exhibition of the Ongoing Puppeteer Project by Pedro Reyes | 
Unknown Chewa Artist, 'Elvis' Mask for Nyau Society, Central or Southern Region Malawi, ca. 1977. Wood, paint, fiber, cloth, 11 x 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas III, Frederick E. Ossorio, and Elliot Picket, by exchange and Designated Purchase Fund. Brooklyn Museum Collection.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Beginning August 12, 2011, the Brooklyn Museum will present a long-term installation of 200 of the finest objects from its renowned collection of African art in the recently renovated gallery space on the first floor. African Innovations, a chronological and contextual reinstallation, will be on view while the galleries in which the African collection has been installed since 1935 undergo large-scale renovation. African Innovations, in which works will be arranged historically for the first time, will be framed on either end by two displays. The first, containing masterpieces from the seventh century b.c.e. to 1800 c.e. by artists ranging from those of ancient Nok and Hellenistic North Africa to the Sapi of Sierra Leone and sculptors of the ancient kingdom of Benin, will establish a pattern of Africa’s ongoing interaction ... More | | 
Dawoud Bey, A Boy in front of the Lowes 125th Street Movie Theater, 1976. Carbon pigment print, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Dr. Kenneth Montague/The Wedge Collection. © Dawoud Bey.
DURHAM, N.C.- An exhibition featuring more than 100 original photographic portraits of people of color opened yesterday at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition, “Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection,” is a series of portraits taken over the past 100 years by more than 60 global artists. In some portraits, the subjects have little or no control over the way they are depicted; in others, the subjects become increasingly involved with the photographer. All of the artists reject a common tendency to view black communities in terms of conflict or stereotype. “Becoming” includes studio portraitists (Malick Sidibé, James VanDerZee), social documentarians (Milton Rogovin, Jürgen Schadeberg), conceptual artists (Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems) and young contemporary artists whose work is largely unknown in this country (Zanele Muholi, Viviane Sassen). The work is on loa ... More | | 
The Walker’s exhibition is the first U.S. presentation of this evolving project, which Reyes first presented at the Yokohama Triennial in 2008.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and other towering figures from the history of economic theory take on starring roles as puppets in the Walker Art Center organized exhibition Baby Marx. Exploring the intersections of entertainment, economic theory, and contemporary art, Baby Marx, created by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, opened August 11 and runs through November 27, 2011. The Walker’s exhibition is the first U.S. presentation of this evolving project, which Reyes first presented at the Yokohama Triennial in 2008. What began as a seven-minute trailer used to pitch a family television sitcom has since undergone extensive development, including script development and the construction of an elaborate set, culminating in a full-length pilot episode that the artist filmed in 2009. For his engagement with the Walker, Reyes reflects on the entire project to date by creating a new iteration of Baby Marx that employs t ... More |
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 New Museum Extends "Ostalgia" Exhibition to Governors Island with Installation by Andrei Monastyrski NEW YORK, N.Y.- The New Museum is pleased to collaborate with Governors Island on the first U.S. presentation of Russian artist Andrei Monastyrski’s Slogan (1977), on the occasion of the exhibition “Ostalgia”—a survey devoted to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics, on view at the New Museum from July 14- September 25, 2011. The work consists of a red and white banner which carries the message in Russian: “I DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING AND I ALMOST LIKE IT HERE, ALTHOUGH I HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS PLACE.” Virtually unknown in the United States, Andrei Monastyrski (b. 1949, Petsamo, Russia; lives in Moscow) is one of the most respected and internationally acclaimed figures in Russian contemporary art. He recently represented his country at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and has influenced generations of artists. Monastyrski is the ... More The Royal Collection's First Book for Children: Does The Queen Wear Her Crown in Bed? LONDON.- Does The Queen wear her crown in bed and who walks the corgis when she’s busy? Those are the sort of details children really want to know about life at Buckingham Palace. Inspired by the many questions that children have asked her, Marion McAuley, a former Head of Education at the Royal Collection, decided to provide the answers in the Royal Household’s first children’s book about The Queen’s London home. In this 32-page book, illustrated by Katy Sleight, a footman guides two children around the Palace, showing them some of its rooms and explaining The Queen’s most important duties – and what you should do if you meet her. The children find crowns all over the Palace – on picture frames, on ceilings and even on uniforms worn by staff. They discover which crown The Queen wears on stamps – and that it has 1,333 diamonds ... More New Discovery Positions Smithsonian Biology Institute to Bolster Genetic Diversity Among Cheetahs WASHINGTON, D.C.- Researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have discovered why older females are rarely able to reproduce—and hope to use this information to introduce vital new genes into the pool. SCBI scientists and collaborating researchers analyzed hormones, eggs and the uteri of 34 cheetahs at eight institutions, and determined that while the hormones and eggs of cheetahs older than 8 years appear normal, the animals’ uterine tracks tend to suffer from abnormal cell growth, infections and cysts that prevent pregnancy. “Those of us who work with cheetahs have anecdotally noted that it’s hard to reproduce older cheetahs, but this is the first time anyone has documented how aging affects the physiology of reproduction in this species,” said Adrienne Crosier, SCBI cheetah biologist and lead author of the study in which these results were published. “We were relieved to f ... More Second Annual ArtAspen a Resounding Success With $6 Million in Anticipated Sales ASPEN, CO.- The second annual ArtAspen, Aspen’s international fine art fair for post-war and contemporary art took place Aug. 6 – 8, 2011 welcoming more than 2,500 art aficionados, about 20 percent more attendees than the inaugural 2011 event. Sales are expected to be in excess of $6 million, due to expected strong after show sales, as major purchases are pending. “In spite of the economic news that came out just prior to opening, this sophisticated art-savvy crowd took advantage or our unique and high level art offerings and were still buying,” stated ArtAspen Executive Director Rick Friedman. “I’m overwhelmed by how professional, exciting and amazing ArtAspen is. I travel to art fairs all around the world, and this fair is up to the caliber of all the shows that I’ve attended, including the Frieze in London and Art Basel in Switzerland and Miami,” said Aspen Art Museum Director and ... More Kate Eric "One Plus One Minus One" at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum RIDGEFIELD, CT.- Kate Eric is a decade-old collaborative identity comprised of Kate Tedman and Eric Siemens, who methodically take turns as they capture interactions in layers of paint on large scale canvases. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum mounted the artists’ first museum exhibition on view through December 31, 2011. The small survey spans their early work, where the human figure was somewhat present, to the latest, which is quite devoid of human life. The married couple alternate between homes in Italy and San Francisco, observing the interactions that take place around them. Kate Eric explains, “We enjoy looking at exchanges of any sort, whether it be carbon and hydrogen, a new idea and a preconceived notion, or a cartoon elephant and a mouse. It is the commonality in these interactions that fascinates us. Simply put, we take turns. The painting builds up layers as we go along. There are often fifty ... MoreColorado Man, Wife Get Probation in Utah Looting CaseSALT LAKE CITY, UT (AP).- A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Colorado antiquities dealer and his wife to probation as part of an investigation into the looting of American Indian artifacts. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson ordered Carl L. Crites, 76, to serve three years' probation, with credit for two years already served. During a hearing in Salt Lake City's federal court, Crites, of Durango, Colo., apologized for the harm he caused. He pleaded guilty in March to three felony counts of trafficking, theft and depredation of government property. Crites acknowledged trying to buy a pair of basket-maker sandals from an undercover agent knowing they had been illegally taken from Utah, but he said he lawfully obtained 99 percent of his 5,000-piece collection. He also acknowledged helping the informant dig up human remains, pottery shards and a knife on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land in southern Utah. "I know I ma ... More |
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