| | Jessica Lange shows her photos in Europe for the first time at the Niemeyer Center in Avilés
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US actress Jessica Lange poses next to one of her photographs at the exhibition 'Unseen' at the Niemeyer center in Aviles, Spain. EPA/J.L. CEREIJIDO.
AVILES.- The Niemeyer Center in Avilés (Spain), in collaboration with diCHromA Photography (Madrid) and thanks to the courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York), presents for the first time in Spain the exhibition Unseen, from the actress and photographer Jessica Lange The exhibition collects 78 photographies (12 of them, contacts), all taken during the last twenty years, in two series: “Things I See” and “On scene – Unseen, Mexican Suites.” Produced by diCHromA Photography, and curated by Anne Morin, the exhibition will be hold at the Centro Niemeyer, from september 10th until november 27th, 2011. Jessica Lange will be present the opening day. In 1967, Jessica Lange won a scholarship at the University of Minnesota to study photography, but the ups and downs of student life carried her to Spain and then to Paris, where she prefered the drama to his photographic practice. At that moment started her acting career, which led her to become the star ... More |
| The Art of the Anatolian Kilim: Highlights from the McCoy Jones Collection at the De Young Museum | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition by Xu Bing explores the production and culture of tobacco | | MoMA PS1 presents major exhibition looking at art from the past years from a post-9/11 perspective | 
Kilim, 18th–19th century. Turkey, Anatolia. Wool; slit tapestry weave, 335.3 x 180.3 cm (132 x 71 in.). The Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Collection. Gift of Caroline McCoy-Jones.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A world-class collection of Anatolian kilims gifted to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by Caroline McCoy-Jones from 1988–89 is showcased in a choice exhibition of two dozen of the finest examples. Presented in the textile arts gallery at the de Young September 10, 2011 through June 10, 2012, the pre-19th-century Anatolian flat-woven kilims on view include a variety of design types, regional styles, as well as superb examples of artistic and visual prowess. The kilims in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s permanent collection are considered the most important group of Anatolian kilims outside Turkey. Major patrons to the Fine Arts Museums Textile Arts Department, Caroline and H. McCoy Jones have generously donated more than 800 ... More | | 
Xu Bing printing on a tobacco leaf, 2000. Photo courtesy Duke University.
RICHMOND, VA.- Xu Bing: Tobacco Project explores the production and culture of tobacco as seen through the eyes of one of China’s most ground-breaking contemporary artists. The artist visited tobacco farms, warehouses and cigarette factories in Virginia to create the work for this exhibition, which also includes pieces from the artist’s previous projects on this topic. Altogether, this exhibition spans 12 years and surveys one of his most ambitious undertakings. Tobacco Project will be on view through December 4, 2011. “Virginia’s long history with tobacco makes Tobacco Project a particularly relevant exhibition,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Director Alex Nyerges said. “Xu Bing is one of China’s most recognized and celebrated contemporary artists, and we are pleased to feature this noted artist’s work at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.” Xu Bing conducted his first Tobacco P ... More | | 
Harun Farocki, Transmission (2007). Video (color, sound); 43:00 minutes. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Film Funds, 2011. (c) 2011 Harun Farocki.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.- MoMA PS1 presents a major exhibition reflecting upon the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ways that they have altered how we see and experience the world in their wake. Eschewing images of the attacks on 9/11, as well as art made directly in response, the exhibition provides a subjective framework within which to consider the attacks in New York and their aftermath. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, September 11 occupies the entire second floor of the museum, with additional works located elsewhere in the building and in the surrounding neighborhood. The exhibition opened on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, and will remain on view through January 9, 2012. Since that morning, "September 11" has come to connote ... More |
| Alchemy & Inquiry: Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli and Terry Winters at James Cohan Gallery in Shanghai | | Montreal Concert Hall designed by Diamond and Schmitt Architects opens to the public | | Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Director Gerard Vaughan announces retirement | 
Fred Tomaselli, The Dust Blows Forward, The Dust Blows Back, 2011. Photo collage, acrylic, resin on board, 24 x 24 inches; 61.0 x 61.0 cm. Photo: Courtesy James Cohan Gallery.
SHANGHAI.- James Cohan Gallery Shanghai presents the exhibition Alchemy & Inquiry with works by three prominent American artists, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli and Terry Winters. The exhibition was organized by independent curator Raymond Foye and Senior Curator Jennifer McGregor at the Wave Hill botanical garden and cultural center in New York City, where this exhibition first originated and was on view from April to June, 2011. Nature and the natural world have long inspired artists in both Western and Eastern cultures. While each of the three artists in this exhibition have their own distinctive and innovative approach to their process and materials, they each share a common interest in producing works that become diverse, visually engaged responses to the ways in which they study nature ... More | | 
Diamond and Schmitt Architects with Aedifica Architects, and a team of acousticians and consultants reinterpret the rectangular shoe-box.
TORONTO.- Music lovers rejoice. Montreal has a new sound: a concert hall for our times where musical expression can be seen and heard in comfort and style. The Montreal Concert Hall adds a new dimension to the city’s dynamic cultural identity and completes the downtown arts complex, Place des Arts, with an inviting and engaging structure that is every bit a part of the life around it. Diamond and Schmitt Architects with Aedifica Architects, and a team of acousticians and consultants reinterpret the rectangular ‘shoe-box’ theatre configuration with an intimate three-balcony, 1900-seat auditorium designed principally for symphonic use. The new home of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and other arts groups is an initiative of the Quebec Government and developed by Groupe immobilier Ovation, a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin. Lead architect Jack Diamond ... More | | 
Dr Vaughan said today that he believed the time was right to retire from his role.
MELBOURNE.- After thirteen years as Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Gerard Vaughan today announced he would retire from his role as Director in July 2012. Dr Vaughan was originally appointed Director of the NGV in 1999. Dr Vaughan said today that he believed the time was right to retire from his role: “In any field of endeavor knowing when to leave a role is crucial. I believe this is the right time to bow out. “I am very proud of our achievements over the past 12 years, and am confident the NGV is in good shape for the future. It has been a great privilege and pleasure to serve Victoria in the role of NGV Director. “In 2011 NGV celebrated its 150th anniversary, a very significant milestone in the life of this great gallery. During this year thousands of Victorians have celebrated with us, with activities for all in the community. It was always my intention to complete this marvellous milesto ... More |
| The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga presents the first exhibition in Spain of Monica Bonvicini | | American fine art photographer Todd Hido exhibits at Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery | | English artist Rose Wylie opens "Picture on the wall..." at Galerie Michael Janssen | 
Monica Bonvicini, Satisfy Me, 2010.
MALAGA.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga is presenting A BLACK HOLE OF NEEDS, HOPES AND AMBITIONS, the first exhibition in Spain of the work of Monica Bonvicini, one of the most important names in contemporary art today. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between gender and power, not as a display or vision of social and human evolution but rather as an ongoing dialogue with the viewer, who inevitably responds to the provocative nature of Bonvicini’s work. A BLACK HOLE OF NEEDS, HOPES AND AMBITIONS comprises a large-scale installation entitled Satisfy Me (2010) made of aluminium letters. The CAC Málaga has been chosen as the venue for its first display inside a building. “I don’t make art to be beautiful”. This phrase sums up Monica Bonvicini’s vision of artistic creation in general and her own in particular in which she aims to establish a permanent dialogue between her work and the v ... More | | 
Todd Hido, Untitled 9198‘, 2010. C-Print. © Todd Hido, Courtesy Kaune, Sudendorf Galerie, Köln.
COLOGNE.- With their current exhibition Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery presents works by the renowned American fine art photographer Todd Hido. Hido has emerged as a photographer through his night shots from the series ‚House Hunting‘, where he photographed houses in the suburbs of America. Contrary to the clear language of the pictures and the precise execution of this work are his slightly melancholic, almost pictoral landscapes. Photographed through the windshield of his car, he presents the world through a diffuse veil of water and ice. Some details are sharp while others melt into abstract fluid forms. And although one cannot see clearly through the glass, one still gets an impression of the vastness that may lie beyond in endless highways. Through the visible separation of the inner and outside world the photographer emphasizes himself more than before in this work. His landscapes are ... More | | 
Rose Wylie, Lily & Palm Trees 2004, 174 x 174 cm / 68,5 x 68,5 in. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents its first exhibition by English artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934) entitled “Picture on the wall...”. Rose Wylie’s large-scale paintings and drawings depict simple motifs - animals, cartoonlike figures, insects, skulls and flowers and follow a faux-naïf strain in English art history. She is often inspired by the everyday imagery of her domestic life in rural Kent as well as by folk art and mass media. She also draws from a comprehensive knowledge of art historical references; including ancient wall paintings, medieval and Italian Renaissance art. Disparate expressions as those found on old candy wrappers, paint jobs on African trucks, 1930’s cigarette cards, tattoos and films come together in her rich visual language. An intoxicating mix of the primitive and contemporary is laid bare. Wylie never uses photographs as ... More |
| Summer's finest estate offerings are ready to harvest at Nest Egg's Sept. 24 Antiques Auction | | Award-winning Belgian-Palestinian designer and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar exhibits at the Mosaic Rooms | | Phillips de Pury & Co. to sell major photographic works by leading artists to help save Venice | 
Original photographic portrait of film star Adrianne Ames by noted Art Deco-era celebrity photographer Alfred ‘Cheney’ Johnston, 10 by 13 inches, from Johnston’s personal archive. Est. for lot of two images $800-$1,200. Nest Egg Auctions image.
MERIDIEN, CONN.- Over the summer months, Ryan Brechlin’s team at Nest Egg Auctions has had the opportunity to visit numerous estates and collections around New England, with contents ranging from Modern art to American political and historical ephemera. On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Connecticut-based company will conduct a mixed Estate & Antiques Auction featuring a premier selection gathered from those various sources. Among the strongest categories to be offered is historical and military memorabilia. A key lot consists of a red and yellow signal flag that came from the World War II Japanese Battleship Nagato, grouped together with an Imperial Navy field cap and samurai sword from a non-commissioned officer on ... More | | 
El-Asmar'’s projects range from the functional and mass-produced to the truly original.
LONDON.- The Mosaic Rooms presents an exhibition by the award-winning Belgian-Palestinian designer and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar to coincide with the London Design Festival and 100% Design this September. The exhibition will include over 100 high-end domestic objects, in collaboration with the Design Museum of Ghent. A new design, ‘Mabkhara’ – a Middle Eastern incense burner for Zari – will be shown for the first time at this exhibition. Counting among her clients some of the world’s greatest luxury design houses, including Hermès and Puiforcat, El-Asmar’s projects range from the functional and mass-produced to the truly original. Her ‘HTS’ (Hermès Tout Simple) cutlery range received the Etoile de l’Observeur du design 06 award in France, and the Henry van de Velde Public Prize 2006 in Belgium. ‘Central Park’, a sterling silver coffee and tea set with amaranth handl ... More | | 
Philip-Lorca diCorcia Giostre, Venice, 2011. Archival pigment print, 30 x 40 in / 76.2 x 101.6 cm. ©Philip-Lorca diCorcia, courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York.
LONDON.- Fourteen leading international artists have donated major photographic works of Venice to be sold at auction in aid of Venice in Peril on 3 November 2011 at Phillips de Pury & Company, London. The artists were invited to photograph Venice to create a collection of new images of the city as part of the Real Venice project, which aims to raise substantial funds to save Venice and to create a lasting legacy of the city. The artists are: Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Antonio Girbés, Nan Goldin, Pierre Gonnord, Dionisio Gonzalez, Candida Höfer, Tiina Itkonen, Mimmo Jodice, Tim Parchikov, Matthias Schaller, Jules Spinatsch, Robert Walker and Hiroshi Watanabe. For centuries, Venice has inspired intellectuals, writers, and artists with its ravishing beauty, riches ... More |
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 Chris Johnson: A self-taught product of San Francisco's graffiti culture exhibits at Malmo Konsthall MALMO.- The American artist Chris Johanson (born 1968) is a self-taught product of San Francisco’s skateboard and graffiti culture. In his playful and humorous works he comments on what it is like to be human and live in today’s society. He works in widely varying media such as painting, film, installation and music. Johanson grew up in a suburb of San José in California and began his artistic career as a teenager. He painted skateboards and made posters and flyers for his friends, and then gradually began using public space to comment on American society. Even his early drawings show a spontaneous and slightly naïve imagery. He still likes to work in public spaces such as department stores and bookshops or directly in the street environment while also exhibiting at established galleries and museums. Johanson uses bright colours with a cartoon-like style. He is an acute observer, who in a simple and direct way conveys ... More Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art opens exhibitions of new works by Jacob Tillman and Sarah Thibault SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art presents By Extension, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by gallery favorite Jacob Tillman in his second solo outing. In this new body of work, Tillman further develops his idiosyncratic interpretation of time and space, exploring the relationship between exterior spaces, interior planes, and the dimensionality of the objects within. Gravity takes on a subtly mercurial quality, allowing objects to shift, hover, and realign in a way that seems self-considered. Simultaneously, individual claims to the third dimension become lost, with features abstracting into patterns, and visual rhythms emerging from dynamics of texture, surface, substance, air, and light. The works challenge, puzzle, and always compel. Tillman received his MFA in painting from UCLA in 2010. In addition to shows at Wolfe Contemporary, he has exhibited in Los Angeles, Prague, Salzburg, an ... More New work by DC artist Ellington Robinson at Project 4 Gallery WASHINGTON, DC.- Project 4 Gallery presents "In Quest of The Sun," a solo exhibition of new work by DC artist Ellington Robinson. To Ellington Robinson, painting is a physical, psychological, and spiritual experience, which includes a formal process and a narrative approach. By contorting and layering collected materials such as travel documents, vinyl, record sleeves, and cassette tapes, Robinson's works evolve and embody his quest. In his new work Robinson explores the ways by which people reach their physical and socioeconomic location. He asks: "How do we arrive at our longitude, latitude, and altitude? What determines our height, width, and depth within time zones?" Robinson recognizes that planes, trains and cars, religion, education, and labels are agents in our migration, while also acknowledging a celestial agent where the ancestors dwell in eternity and parallel universes. He employs interoffice ... More The Eloquence of Trees: South Korean artists Jeong Han Yun and Choon Hyang Yun at Bill Lowe Gallery ATLANTA, GA.- South Korean artists Jeong Han Yun and his wife, Choon Hyang Yun are widely regarded as the vanguard of a movement that has thrust traditional papermaking out of a limiting construct into the very forefront of the contemporary art world. Each is celebrated for their mastery of technique and composition. The word “painting” lacks in description when defining their work. Their fusion of Asian and Western paper making techniques result in monumental works of extraordinary textures and vibrant color. The material of Jeong and Choon's work is most often extracted from the bark and flowers of the ancient Southeast Asian Dak tree. Jeong states that he “feels his heart beat when Dak trees are found and is appetized when the barks are peeled off.” Such is the sensual and psychological connection that he feels to the material from which he makes his work. Jeong’s feelings, thoughts and movements are stored ... More Details: Bergen Kunsthall opens group exhibition BERGEN.- The point of departure for the exhibition Details comes from Rastko Močnik's collection of texts entitled How much fascism?, published in 1995. The basic postulate uttered by Močnik still remains—the question is not "fascism—yes or no?" but "how much fascism?" In the midst of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Močnik related the conflicts and the rise of fascistic forces in geographies "from the Adriatic to Siberia" to the structural consequences of the induction and re-construction of peripheral capitalism. At the time of the establishment of several new state entities based on nationalistic ideologies, Močnik outlined the number of social conjunctures crucial to this process, their anti-anti-fascism and cultural policies with racist undertones. He detected fascistic social effects within, but also outside peripheries, relating them to general processes restructuring the public sphere in late capitalism. His writing thus clearly ... More Recent works and new productions from fifteen international artists and designers at Bielefelder Kunstverein BIELEFELD.- From 10th September to 6th November 2011, the Bielefelder Kunstverein is presenting recent works and new productions from fifteen international artists and designers. The themed exhibition, entitled »Beyond Gestaltung«, investigates the current interrelationship of art and design. It is being put on show in a city, which, with the foundation of a School of Design (1907) and with its links to industry, has traditionally been strongly influenced by the applied arts. Projects which shed light on the artistic development and the social significance of design form the centre of the exhibition. Design is everywhere today. In the light of social, ecological and technological demands, design no longer restricts itself to classical fields of product concepts. Rather, design is understood as a formal intervention in the very structures of our culture. This means that other cultural fields, such as art, arc ... More Exhibition by pioneer of digital art Manfred Mohr opens at bitforms gallery NEW YORK, NY.- It was May 11, 1971 when the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris opened the influential exhibition “Computer Graphics - Une Esthétique Programmée”. A solo exhibition by Manfred Mohr, it featured the first display in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital (rather than analog) computer. Revolutionary for its time, these drawings were more than mere curiosities – they signaled a new era of image creation, setting in motion a trajectory of modernism and information aesthetics. Using Manfred Mohr’s work as a touchstone, "1964-2011, Réflexions sur une Esthétique Programmée" reveals, through his art work, a critical period of development in media arts. It examines shifting perspectives in art and the working methods that made the visual conversation of information aesthetics possible. How the computer emerged as a tool for art, results from its capacity for handling systems ... More |
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