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A Person views Andy Warhol's acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas entitled: "Fate Presto, 1981" during a press preview of an exhibit of Andy Warhol at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. AP Photo/Susan Walsh.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Andy Warhol is known for soup cans and celebrity images, not so much for painting headlines and abstract works. The late pop artist has left much to be discovered in two shows that open Sunday on the National Mall. The National Gallery of Art is opening its first Warhol exhibit with "Warhol: Headlines," an examination of his use of news headlines throughout his career. At the same time, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum will feature "Andy Warhol: Shadows," a 450-foot-long installation in the round museum that marks the first time all of Warhol's 102 abstract "shadow" paintings will be shown together as the artist intended. "This might surprise people," said Hirshhorn curator Evelyn Hankins. "They get two very different sides of Warhol." Besides his obsession with celebrities and iconic images, it turns out Warhol was a news junkie. At a time when nearly everyone on the New York City subway had a newspaper in hand, Warhol was watching, fascinated by the consump ... More |
| 80 outstanding 19th century French drawings from the Louvre go on view at the Morgan Library | | With over one hundred loans "Picasso 1905 in Paris" exhibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld | | American artist Dan Colen's first major exhibition in Rome opens at Gagosian Gallery | 
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Portrait of Constance Mayer. Black and white chalk, with stumping on blue paper, darkened to brown. Musée du Louvre. Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Jean-Gilles Berizzi.
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall The Morgan Library & Museum hosts an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre’s finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852. David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre, which runs through December 31, 2011, offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the mastery of Corot, David, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Prud’hon, and other celebrated artists of the era. The Louvre rarely allows so many major drawings from its famed collection to travel. The Morgan is the sole venue for this exhibition. Throughout the late eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries, France was beset with seismic political, social, and cultural upheaval. The established royal order was overthrown and the country ... More | | 
Picasso at Montmarte, Place de Ravignan, circa 1904. Photograph, 21 x 27 cm. Paris, Musee Picasso ©bpk /RMNs.
BIELEFELD.- 1905 was a key year for Picasso. After his melancholy Blue Period, he began creating the brighter paintings of acrobats and circus artistes of his Pink Period at his studio in Montmartre. Picasso had, in the meantime, settled in the metropolis of Paris. He was now more fascinated by the antique-oriented paintings by French artist Puvis de Chavannes than by the work of Henri Toulouse-Lautrecs, his role model at the time of his first trip to Paris. Archaic-looking lads, monumental female bodies, and increasingly abstract, mask-like faces mark the development of a new concept of the body, which culminated in the famous Demoiselles d’Avignon in 1907. Picasso’s friends and his lover, Fernande Olivier, were portrayed as if on a wide stage, in countless drawings, paintings, and sculpture. With over one hundred loans from private and public collections around the world, the fifth Picasso exhibition in Bielefeld since 1984 deals with the artist’s breakthrough t ... More | | 
Dan Colen, Cherry Oh Baby, 2011. Trash and paint on canvas, 115 5/8 x 85 x 11 3/8 in. Photo: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
ROME.- Gagosian Gallery Rome presents Dan Colen’s first major exhibition in Rome. In “Poetry,” a large-scale exhibition at Gagosian New York last year, Colen moved closer to reality while plumbing its metaphysical potential. Rather than “deceiving the eye” with techniques that mimic real materials, he used the real materials themselves – a brick wall, a halfpipe, and a row of customized motorcycles -- transforming them in bold and singular acts, and on a scale befitting his romance with environment. Since this time, Colen has been pushing his studio practice, defined with a band of constant collaborators, into a knowingly “informal” realm where the mark (or trace of action) remains live and visible, rather than sublimated or concealed. Trying to control what transpires while making sure that all gestures are sincere is an internal and external struggle that has been instrumental in fo ... More |
| Dutch and Flemish paintings on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg | | The Denver Art Museum is first benue for "Robert Adams: The Place We Live" exhibition | | Rijksmuseum is largest loaning institution to exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna | 
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Double Portrait of a Husband and Wife with Tulip, Bulb, and Shells (1609). Oil on panel. Collection of Dr. Gordon and Adele Gilbert.
SAINT PETERSBURG, FL.- The 38 striking paintings and 14 works on paper in this exhibition are rich in the history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century northern Europe. The works encompass biblical stories, mythological subjects, stunning portraits, scenes from everyday life, seascapes and landscapes, and still lifes. The St. Petersburg Times is the media sponsor of all MFA exhibitions. The Gilberts, who developed this exceptional collection over more than 35 years, were attracted to these paintings, in part, because so many explore biblical stories. Abraham Bloemaert?s Cain and Abel (about 1588-1592) is both violent and dramatic. In contrast, Paulus Potter?s God Appearing to Abraham at Sichem (1642) has a rustic, harmonious calm and captures a moment of divine revelation, a promise to the Jewish people. These marvelous paintings reveal cultures ascending, becoming more literate and interested in the arts, trying to establi ... More | | 
Robert Adams, Lakewood, Colorado, 1968-1971. Gelatin silver print. Yale University Art Gallery, purchased with a gift from Saundra B. Lane, a grant from the Trellis Fund and the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first U.S. venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition features more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and worked in Colorado for nearly 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed images were taken in the Rocky Mountain region and will strike a familiar chord with visitors. The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, will be on view September 25, 2011–January 1, 2012 in the museum’s Gallagher Family Gallery. "We’re excited to host the work of one of the foremost photographers of our time," said Eric ... More | | 
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Winterlandschap, ca. 1650-1682 (detail).
AMSTERDAM.- Providing a total of 17 paintings, the Rijksmuseum is making the largest contribution of loaning institutions to the exhibition Winter Tales: Depictions of Winter in European Art from Bruegel to Beuys, which was organised by former Rijksmuseum Director in Chief Ronald de Leeuw on behalf of Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. More than 180 objects, ranging from paintings to a sleigh, tell the story of European winters from 1450 to the present. For centuries, artists have been inspired to create beautiful paintings and historical pieces by such stories as that of Napoleon’s forces as they faced crisis during the harsh Russian winter in 1814. In addition, the tranquillity and beauty of the brutally cold white of winter, the carefree enjoyment of the frozen scenery of characteristically Dutch winter landscapes, the habits and customs of the season and winter celebrations have also served as sources of ins ... More |
| Exhibition of recent work by Japanese artist and architect Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner | | Major exhibition on Sam Maloof and his circle of artist friends on view at the Huntington Library | | Survey exhibition of paintings and drawings by Hans Burkhardt at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts | 
Installation view of Yutaka Sone: ISLAND at David Zwirner, New York (September 20 - October 29, 2011). Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by Yutaka Sone, on view at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. This is the artist’s fifth solo show since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999. Working in a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance—Yutaka Sone’s work revolves around a tension between realism and perfection. The artist originally trained as an architect and an almost obsessive attention to detail and its relationship to a larger whole underpin his practice at large. Whether architectural or natural, landscapes occur throughout the artist’s oeuvre, and he frequently picks his subjects from actual locations—Hong Kong Island, Los Angeles highway junctions, a mountain range, a section of a rainforest, ski resorts, and his own backyard—recreating these to scale in paint, ... More | | 
Sam Maloof’s Occasional “String” Chair (1950) and Coffee Table (1950) with Gertrud and Otto Natzler’s Large Shallow Bowl (1958). Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The furniture of midcentury craftsman Sam Maloof (1916–2009) and the art made by 35 members of his circle of friends will be explored in a groundbreaking exhibition this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Maloof’s work has been given to American presidents, collected by celebrities, and admired by art connoisseurs far and wide. It also has been the subject of major exhibitions across the country, but this is the first to examine closely Maloof’s contribution to the development of art in Southern California. “The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985” will be presented in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery from Sept. 24, 2011, through Jan. 30, 2012. The exhibition is part of “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980,” an unprecedented collaboration initiated by the Getty ... More | | 
Hans Burkhardt, La Brea Tar Pits," (Burial of the County Museum), 1975. Oil on canvas, 77 x 114 inches. Courtesy of Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, © Hans
G.& Thordis W. Burkhardt Foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hans Burkhardt’s (1904–1994) expansive career and influence in L.A. are the focus of a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream. The exhibition, is part of the October 1 inauguration of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980. Arriving in L.A. in 1937, following his association with Arshile Gorky, whose studio he shared in New York from 1928-37, Burkhardt represented L.A.’s earliest and most critical link to the New York School. The exhibition will also juxtapose Burkhardt’s works with contemporaneous reviews and rare archival documentation spanning more than six decades. Included are important paintings shown in his first solo exhibition at the Stendahl Gallery, and his first museum exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1945, which the L.A. Times called an exhibition of “…dynamic ... More |
| "Combinations Described" by Bruce Nauman on view at Donald Young Gallery | | NRW-Forum Exhibition by Magnum photographers focuses on war and crisis photography | | Connecticut College's steel house by Winslow Ames getting chance to shine again | 
Bruce Nauman, Combinations Described (Chicago), 2011. HD video installation (color, stereo sound), continuous play, 1 HD video source, 1 HD video projector, 4 speakers, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Donald Young Gallery, Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- Donald Young Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Bruce Nauman. Spanning a wide range of media, Naumanʼs work often challenges conventional perceptions of body and space. Comprised of a video installation and four new drawings, Combinations Described (Chicago) presents an exploration of human behavior informed by reoccurring themes from Nauman's practice. The installation consists of a single looped projection of the artistʼs hands, roughly one and a half times life-size, situated against white and black backgrounds as he performs a systematic set of finger movements. What might appear as random motions, is the artistʼs deliberate exercise in mental process and physical reaction as he responds to his own pre-recorded verbal instructions: “right hand, first finger, right hand third finger, right hand thumb” and so on. All possible finger combinations are explored in the video ... More | | 
Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr poses in the exhibition Frontline - The Power of Pictures at the NRW Kulturforum in Dusseldorf. EPA/VICTORIABONN-MEUSER.
DUSSELDORF.- This photo is one of the most iconic photos in the world and is etched deeply in people's memories: a soldier, his arms thrown backwards as he falls, his rifle sliding out of his grasp, has just been hit by the bullet that will end his life. In this photo, which is entitled 'Death of a Loyalist Militiaman' and was taken during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the photographer Robert Capa captures the quintessence of all wars. One could say that this photo and the photos subsequently taken by Robert Capa and the triumvirate of George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and David Seymour both during this war and on the horrifying battle-fields and in the places of desperation of the Second World War mark the start of war reporting through photography. In her 2003 book Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, who was critical of war photography in her early essays, revised her previous opinion that people become immune when exposed to pictures of violence and war. She also ... More | | 
Marco Federico, left, Adam Jenkins, center, and David Facenda, right, disassemble one of Connecticut College's steel houses on campus. AP Photo/Jessica Hill.
By: Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press
NEW LONDON (AP).- Shedding paint flakes the size of dinner plates, the rusty steel house huddled in a corner of Connecticut College's campus appeared for years to be more of an eyesore than a historic treasure. As one of few 1930s steel houses of its type still standing nationwide, though, the prefabricated cottage holds a pedigree on par with many better-known architectural jewels — and now it's getting its chance to shine again. A crew of restoration specialists spent much of the past week dismantling the boxy two-bedroom, 800-square-foot structure and meticulously marking each piece to be sent to a Philadelphia conservation firm. Once every panel, beam and other item is cleaned of corrosion and special rust-resistant treatments are applied, they'll be returned to New London next year. Then, it will be reassembled on the same foundation where ... More |
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 Two new AGA exhibitions explore pioneers of both early French photography and the frontier landscape EDMONTON AB.- The Art Gallery of Alberta opened two new exhibitions in continuation of its fall season: 19th Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada and Prairie Life: Settlement & the Last Best West 1930-1955 on view until January 29, 2012. Drawn from the extensive collection of French photographs from the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa, 19th Century French Photographs features work by some of the major pioneers of French photography including Eugène Atget, Gustave Le Gray and Charles Marville among others. Tracing the early explorations of this medium through subjects such as landscape, portraiture, street life, war, and the human figure, the 66 works in the exhibition include daguerreotypes, salted paper, albumen silver and photogravure prints. Not to be missed, this exhibition demonstrates the exciting advent of a medium so ubiquitous in present day life. 19th ... More Docks Art Fair achieves a highly praised 3rd edition LYON.- Last week, Docks Art Fair third opus gathered 33 French and foreign art galleries in Lyon, with each exhibitor presenting the work of one artist only, following the solo show concept. They have benefited from an exceptional location, at the heart of Lyon newly renovated area, la Confluence, just a few steps away from the 11th Contemporary Art Biennial, opening on this same week. During six days, the fair allowed gallery owners to expand their professional network and build new relationships. French galleries, Laurent Godin, Cortex Athletico, Modern Art, Swiss Analix Forever, Spanish Fernando Pradilla, Moroccan Matisse Art Gallery and Tunisian El Marsa, have raised particular interest from art collectors during this artistic week. Both professionals and amateurs have praised the artistic quality of the fair’s programming, as well as its organisation. 8,500 visitors are said to have attented the event. ... More Ohio mosque designed to blend in, not stand out HILLIARD, OHIO (AP).- The commanding white structure sits on the edge of cornfields in the suburbs, striking in design yet puzzling in its purpose. One of the largest new Islamic worship centers in the country doesn't look like a mosque, at least at first glance. And that's what its developer was aiming for, especially in a post-9/11 world. "We went to the architect and explained that we didn't want a building that stood out as a mosque," said Khaled Farag, who also is one of the mosque's founders. "We wanted something that fit into a residential neighborhood. We wanted an American mosque," Farag said. The result is a cultural contradiction: a building that is not immediately recognizable as an Islamic house of worship, but is one, as well as a facility that functions as a seven-day-a week interactive museum about all things Islam. "It's not your traditional-looking mosque, because it's not just a mosque," said Abdul ... More Exhibition is inspired by the concepts behind Czech author Milan Kundera's novel Slowness NEW YORK, NY.- Bertrand Delacroix Gallery presents The Pleasure of Slowness, an exhibition featuring works by some of today’s most engaging artists, both emerging and established. The works range from video and photograph to sculpture, installation, and assemblage. ‘‘Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared?” Milan Kundera posed this question in his novel Slowness. The exhibition presents explorations of this question through the creative practice of this selected group of artists. The works bring our attention to creative time, its inclusion and effect on process and completion. These artworks, once past the concept stage, conclusively exist at every stage from fabrication to viewer, and often the two phases intertwine. At times, this process takes place in the studio; in other instances, this occurs in the exhibition space on view while the work is in mutation, going through various stages toward a fin ... More FLAG Art Foundation presents two exhibitions: Art², a group exhibition and Jane Hammond: Fallen NEW YORK, N.Y.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting two exhibitions: Art², a group exhibition on the 9th floor, and Jane Hammond: Fallen, a monumental ongoing installation consisting of over 4,000 unique handmade leaves each inscribed with the name of a American soldier killed in the war in Iraq, on the 10th floor. The two exhibitions will be on view through December 17, 2011. The title of the exhibition Art² refers to the use of a specific and existing artwork in the visual language of an original contemporary artwork. The featured artists reimagine, or incorporate, these past works by artists from their own generation as well as from decades, or even centuries, before. Whether a literal transcription or a point of departure, these works explore the constant flux of art and ultimately demonstrate ways in which our visual history informs our present. While Barry X Ball’s sculpture, Purity, directly references ... More High presents major exhibition of wildlife sculptures by artist Grainger McKoy ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art has organized and premiered "The Sculpture of Grainger McKoy," a major exhibition dedicated to artist Grainger McKoy’s sculptures of birds. The exhibition features 34 small- to large-scale sculptures and several related models and color sketches produced over the course of his career, which spans from the early 1970s until the present. The installation also explores McKoy’s artistic process, showcasing a selection of mixed-media works in a variety of stages from raw sketches to finished sculptures, as well as graphics and a film of the artist at work in his studio. "The Sculpture of Grainger McKoy" will be on view exclusively at the High from September 25, 2011, through January 8, 2012. "For nearly four decades Grainger has distinguished himself in the field of wildlife art, carving works of remarkable realism," stated Michael E. Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcomb ... More |
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