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A visitor looks at 'Dawn, Noon, Sunset and Twilight' 1979 at the Salvador Dali exhibition in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The exhibition runs until 13 November 2011. The retrospective of Spanish artist Dali's work contains a hundred pieces including 25 oil paintings, 20 watercolours, 70 drawings, and many photographs. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV.
MOSCOW.- The exhibition entitled Salvador Dalí: a retrospective opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts next 2 September, coinciding with the Dual Year Spain-Russia. It is the mayor retrospective ever celebrated in this country with original works. It will be opened from 3 September until 13 November 2011. The opening events were presided over by the Russian Minister of Culture, Aleksandr Avdeev, the Spanish Ambassador, Mr. Luis Felipe Fernández de la Peña, as well as Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum, and Joan M. Sevillano, Managing Director of the Dalí Foundation. The show includes works from the very early years (20s) down to Dalí’s last canvases. It offers the visitor an opportunity to see his evolution, not only technical but also his influences, iconography, ideological sources, symbolism, of his original universe. The loans come exclusively from the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. The exhibit benefits from the sponsorship of the Russian cultural fou ... More |
| LACMA presents first retrospective of revolutionary Chicano conceptual artists, Asco | | Exhibitions focus on the vital relationship of the Van Abbemuseum with artists and art lovers | | 11 in 2011, Museo de Arte de Ponce enters the age of video art with first online exhibit | 
A visitor looks at "The Truth about the Terror in Chile," a 1973 diptych by the artist Gronk. AP Photo/Reed Saxon.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987, the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (1972–1987), co-organized with Williams College Museum of Art and on view September 4 through December 4, 2011. Geographically and culturally segregated from the still-nascent Los Angeles contemporary art scene and aesthetically at odds with the emerging Chicano art movement, Asco members united to explore and exploit the unlimited media of the conceptual. Creating art by any means necessary—often using their bodies and guerilla tactics—Asco merged activism and performance and, in doing so, pushed the boundaries of what Chicano art might encompass. Asco: Elite of the Obscure includes nearly 150 artworks, ... More | | 
Christian Boltanski, Monument to Odessa.
EINDHOVEN.- Three exhibitions opened in the Van Abbemuseum on Saturday 3 September 2011, which focus on the vital relationship of the museum with artists and art lovers from the local area and see the city of Eindhoven as a source of artistic inspiration. The museum has been bringing international contemporary art to Eindhoven for three quarters of a century. It has built up an international position, partly due to the productive links with the immediate artistic environment. Artists, collectors, governments and various public groups have created close connections with the museum. They are an important foundation for its existence and quality. The Van Abbemuseum is keen to enter a debate with people who support, challenge or question the museum's ambitions. Each of the three exhibitions which comprise VANUIT HIER – OUT OF HERE focuses on the significance of artists, collectors and the city of Eindhoven for the Van A ... More | | 
Stephanie Dodes, Still video, Veiled Shadows.
PONCE, PR.- Museo de Arte de Ponce entered the age of video art with an exhibit titled 11 in 2011, comprised of 11 short videos by artists from Puerto Rico, the United States, Singapore, and Australia. The site is located at www.museoarteponce.org/11en2011. With 11 in 2011, the Museo de Arte de Ponce is expanding beyond its physical galleries and, in fact, beyond the need for visitors to actually visit the museum, while at the same time acting on a philosophy of creating new connections between art, the artist community, and the public in general. Dr Agustín Arteaga, director and CEO of Museo de Arte de Ponce notes that “the boom in the digital economy and in new technologies has changed the language of audiovisual communication, and consequently the language of the art video. The museum’s initiative in putting videos on exhibition on its webpage is a move toward opening spaces for discussion and dis ... More |
| Reading Public Museum to feature works from its permanent collection of American Impressionists | | Work by acclaimed artist Alice Neel anchors collection acquired by Rowan University Art Gallery | | Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wins fans in L.A. with Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition | 
Charles Webster Hawthorne, A Study in White, n.d., oil on canvas, 36 x 22 in., Reading Public Museum, 1931.197.1
READING, PA.- A new exhibition at the Reading Public Museum titled American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists’ Colony opens September 24, 2011 and continues through January 29, 2012. This comprehensive exhibition features, for the first time, one of The Museum’s greatest strengths — its own collection of works by American Impressionists. This collection of lyrical landscapes, ranging from snow-covered hills to sun-filled harbors and seascapes, penetrating portraits, and remarkable still life paintings documents an important moment in the history of American art. It includes more than 100 total works, including 75 oil paintings and nearly 30 works on paper dating from the golden age of American Impressionism, the 1880s through the 1940s. A wide range of approaches to impressionism in the earliest twentieth century, including an abiding interest in capturing the effects of light and atmosphere in ... More | | 
The collection, a group of nearly 100 works by more than 50 women artists, was amassed by Sylvia Sleigh.
GLASSBORO, NJ.- Celebrating the acquisition of a new collection, the Rowan University Art Gallery presents “Groundbreaking: The Women of the Sylvia Sleigh Collection” and selections from the Sister Chapel installation - including Bella Abzug by Alice Neel - are on view through October 1, 2011. The collection, a group of nearly 100 works by more than 50 women artists, was amassed by Sylvia Sleigh (1916-2010), a pioneering feminist and well-known painter of portraits and male nudes. Shortly before her death last year, Sleigh offered to donate her entire collection to the Rowan University Art Gallery. “Although many artists own works by their peers, Sylvia Sleigh was quite unusual in her extensive acquisition of art by other women,” notes Dr. Andrew Hottle, professor of Art History in Rowan’s Department of Art, who was instrumental in bringing the collection to the university. “Her own ... More | | 
An installation of artist Ai Weiwei's "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" is pictured at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Ai Weiwei/Copyright 2011 Museum Associates/LACMA.
By: Jordan Riefe
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is living a heavily restricted life in Beijing after being released from detention earlier this year, but his work is speaking volumes to people in the second-largest U.S. city. Ai's touring installation, "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads," opened two weeks ago at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has been introducing people here to the work of a man about whom, until recently, they may have only read about in headlines telling of his recent detention in China. The work is a series of 12 massive, 800 lb. bronze heads depicting the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Standing among them on the museum's sunny North Piazza, people have been posing for photos ... More |
| Florentine artist Walter Romani's Il Demone del Tramutamento at Palazzo Piccolomini | | Iconic image of Kate Moss by Corinne Day to sell at Bonhams, exhibition opens at Gimpel Fils | | Thorvaldsens Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark exhibit in Moscow | 
Walter Romani dedicates this exhibition to the late poet Mario Luzi, for whom Pienza was a ‘spiritual home’ and who referred to Walter and his work as "Il Demone del Tramutamento".
PIENZA.- The Palazzo Piccolomini welcomes for the first time an exhibition by Florentine artist Walter Romani. From September 3 to October 16, 2011, over thirty works are presented in the courtyard of this extraordinary Renaissance palazzo. Walter Romani dedicates this exhibition to the late poet Mario Luzi, for whom Pienza was a ‘spiritual home’ and who referred to Walter and his work as "Il Demone del Tramutamento". “Like a magician, a conjurer, with a unique understanding, Walter Romani takes us into his poetic universe, touched with irony and much ingenuity. To create the works, he selected ‘cardboard’ but cardboard that has already seen a prior use: to package, to protect, to contain, to transport objects, food, goods. The works – sculptures, paintings, jewellery, books, ... More | | 
Portrait of Kate Moss by Corinne Day. Estimate: £1,000 – 1,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Just over a year after the untimely death of British fashion photographer, Corinne Day (1962-2010), one of her most iconic images of Kate Moss is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs Sale on 17 November 2011. The image was taken for the February 1991 issue of The Face magazine for a feature called Heaven is Real. The photograph on offer is a rare vintage print and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £1,000 – 1,500. Corinne Day’s daring and provocative images burst into collective consciousness through the pages of The Face magazine in the early 1990s. The exhibition at Gimpel Fils revisits some of Day’s earliest photographs created for The Face, providing an opportunity to assess the on-going artistic legacy of her exceptional vision. During the 1980s and ‘90s, The Face broke boundaries with its radical art ... More | | 
Constantin Hansen. Portrait of a Little Girl, Elise Købke, with a Cup in front of her, 1850. National Gallery of Denmark.
MOSCOW.- Art of the Danish Golden Age has in recent years been the subject of several major exhibitions abroad. Last year it was the national galleries in England and Scotland that marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Christen Købke with a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work mounted in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark. Now the Russian public is being given the chance of a more comprehensive introduction to this flourishing period during which Danish art acquired a character of its own. Especially Thorvaldsen is a figure familiar to Russian art history. Among other things, he made a statue of Czar Alexander I and was commissioned to create various sculptures and portraits of Russian princes and counts. The Pushkin Museum in Moscow itself possesses a sculpture of Princess ... More |
| Brazilian photographer Breno Rotatori exhibits at FOAM as part of the Brasil Festival Amsterdam | | Keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions announced for Frieze Talks 2011 | | Medieval English alabaster sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view at the Tyler Museum | 
Untitled, from the series Bloco de Notas, 2009-2011 © Breno Rotatori.
AMSTERDAM.- As part of the Brasil Festival Amsterdam, Foam is showing the work of the young Brazilian photographer Breno Rotatori (Saõ Paulo, 1988) in Foam 3h. Rotatori makes photos and videos inspired by his daily surroundings. He creates poetic stories in an intuitive way that, through their special colour and use of light, carry the viewer into a world which lies between reality, remembrance and fiction. Habitar o tempo (live for the moment) shows a selection of photos from the series Bloco de Notas and the video Multiverso. In the Bloco de Notas series, Rotatori has photographically captured personal experiences and the feelings that accompany them. Rather than being realistic portrayals of a given instant in time, the photos show poetic, dreamy and nostalgic depictions. They portray the moments between the experience itself and the coloured remembrance of that same period. Together they form passages in Rotatori's visual diar ... More | | 
Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, French Horns, Unwound and Entwined, 2005. Frieze Art Fair 2007. Photo by Linda Nylind. Credit: Linda Nylind/Frieze.
LONDON.- John Bock, Daniel Buren, Adam Curtis, Alison Knowles and Taryn Simon, are all part of the international line-up of highly respected artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators taking part in Frieze Talks 2011. Frieze Talks is a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions that take place in the auditorium at Frieze Art Fair. It is presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie, Jörg Heiser and Dan Fox. Keynote lectures will be given by: artist Daniel Buren; award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis; founding member of Fluxus, Alison Knowles; and Professor of Art History, Hunter College, New York, Katy Siegel. Panel discussions led by Christy Lange, Vincenzo Latronico and Aaron Schuster will focus on current debates in contemporary art and theory. Featuring artists including Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Ta ... More | | 
Artist unknown. Panel of the Assumption of the Virgin, later 15th century. Alabaster, 16 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches. On loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art announced the opening of Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum on view September 4 through November 13, 2011 at the TMA. This is the only scheduled stop in the southwestern region of the United States for this touring exhibition. The 60 alabaster panels and free-standing figures in the exhibition are drawn from the world’s largest collection of medieval alabasters, that of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Dramatic, and intricately crafted, these pieces are some of the finest examples of the elegant, yet, neglected art form of alabaster sculpture. The sixty prime examples, including a complete set of panels from an altarpiece, have been carefully selected for this exhibition, representing all the major types produced by English sculptors. The exhibition is organized in six sections: Serving as an introduction t ... More |
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 Stroom De Haag presents Hans van Houwelingen 'Until it stops resembling itself' THE HAGUE.- During the Museum Night The Hague Stroom Den Haag inaugurated a solo exhibition by Hans van Houwelingen, one of the leading contemporary artists explicitly engaged in the field of art and public space. His thought-provoking designs and proposals reflect a novel, and markedly critical, view on the contemporary monument. Within walking distance of the center of Dutch political power, Van Houwelingen addresses the way we think about art, public space and the power structures that impact both. A variety of assumptions and strategies that define the way we conceptualize or relate to monuments come under scrutiny in the work and texts of Hans van Houwelingen. The artist deconstructs the hypocrisy, fallacies and political control in today’s culture of remembrance – the inflation and hidden agendas of gestures of commemoration in public space. His recent proposal for a 'National Monument to the Guest ... More States of Fragility: A solo exhibition by Anj Smith at Ibid Projects LONDON.- For her third solo exhibition at IBID PROJECTS, Anj Smith presents a series of eight new paintings to be shown for the first time. Each work is located between representations of portrait, landscape and still life painting, often encompassing or rejecting elements of all three. This collapsing of simultaneous ideas and phenomena is intrinsic to these paintings, where narratives are as complex and layered as the application of paint and where objects disintegrate into chaotic rubble or reconfigure to acquire brand new and bewildering meanings. Differing states of time, place and different psychological spaces overlap in these works, as do the types of painting, with luminous jewel-toned colour banks as likely to exist against crude slabs of impasto, scratched barren areas or zones of almost pornographic attention to the minute. Smith has said: "There's definitely no literal or singular narrative in any of the pai ... More Newly restored films by legendary avant-garde artist Jack Smith shown in Europe for the first time LONDON.- Legendary American artist, filmmaker and actor Jack Smith (1932-1989), described by Andy Warhol as the only person he would ever copy and by John Waters as “the only true underground filmmaker”, is celebrated at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in film, performance and debate with a retrospective of Smith’s work from 7 to 18 September 2011. Working in New York from the 1950s until his death in 1989, Smith unequivocally resisted and upturned accepted conventions, whether artistic, moral or legal. Irreverent in tone and delirious in effect, Smith’s films, such as the notorious Flaming Creatures (1963), are both wildly camp and subtly polemical. Smith is best known for his contributions to underground cinema but his influence extends across performance art, photography and experimental theatre. A Feast for Open Eyes: Jack Smith maps out the breadth of Smith’s practice, from his collabora ... More GV Art Gallery acts as a hub for collaborations between artists and scientists LONDON.- Science is changing our world and our lives at an ever increasing rate. But today artists are bringing science out of the laboratory. Once art and science seemed diametrically opposite; but these days some of the most innovative artists are fusing art and science to create a brand new art movement inspired by science. Striving to visualise the invisible and what it must mean to be human in the future, they create images and objects of stunning beauty, redefining the notion of aesthetic and of what is meant by art. These days the term ‘art and science’ is on everyone’s lips - but no one quite knows what it is or where it is going. Does it mark the rise of a new culture in which science and technology will be the driving forces and will even perhaps determine the future of culture? Are there similarities in the creative processes of artists and scientists? Can science benefit from art? And can considering these questions ... MoreInfluential street artist Swoon transforms Institute of Contemporary Art lobbyBOSTON, MA.- On the occasion of its 75th anniversary this fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) has commissioned Brooklyn-based artist Swoon to create the fifth installation of the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. Extending from the elevator atrium to the lobby and soaring forty feet up to the ceiling, Swoon’s new installation is the largest to occupy the Fineberg Art Wall. The work, titled Anthropocene Extinction, is composed of streams of intricately cut paper which connect key sculptural elements within the installation—including a 400-pound, suspended bamboo sculpture. Swoon is on view at the ICA from Sept. 3, 2011 to Dec. 30, 2012. “The opening of Swoon kicks off a dynamic line-up of fall exhibitions and performances celebrating 75 years of contemporary art in Boston,” said Jill Medvedow, director of the ICA. “Swoon is one of the foremost artists practicing street and activis ... More |
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