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A visitor looks at a painting, entitled The Red Airplane, 1932, by German painter Franz Radziwill (1895-1983) at the Art Hall Emden, in Emden, Germany, 14 January 2010. Art Hall Emden puts a retrospective on Radzwill, entitled Franz Radziwill. 111 Masterworks from Private Collections,on display from 15 January to 19 June. EPA/INGO WAGNER.
EMDEN.- The Kunsthalle Emden’s Jubilee Year begins with a comprehensive review of Franz Radziwill (1895 - 1983). Already in 1995, the Kunsthalle held a large retrospective of the artist which brought many of his fans from North Germany to Emden. In 2010, the Kunsthalle received a bundle of more than 70 works on permanent loan. This opulent growth gave the opportunity, again, to take a look at the broad work of the painter. 111 masterpieces by the painter Franz Radziwill can be seen from Saturday (15th) at the Kunsthalle in Emden. The extensive exhibition includes watercolors, drawings and paintings from the period between 1916 and 1969. “It spans from the early work of expressionist images of the new realism to the fantastic work of magical realism”, curator Cathy Henkel said on Friday at a preview. Shown are landscapes, cityscapes, marine paintings, still lifes and portraits. Franz Radziwill was born ... More |
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Exhibitions: Art or Propaganda? North Korea Exhibits a Major Show of Official Art in Moscow
Visitors look at a North Korean painting at the Winzavod gallery in Moscow. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin.
By Amie Ferris-Rotman
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Chubby-cheeked, hard-working and joyous but also ready for military action is how North Korea presents its people at a major show of official art from the secretive state in Moscow. "And Water Flows Beneath the Ice" exhibits 40 works by 39 state-commissioned artists which have never been shown abroad and span 25 years of tight North Korean rule. Hardy women in overalls with windswept ponytails wade in rubber boots beside their male comrades in Pak Tong Chol's "Pioneers of Taming the Western Sea," from 2009. Sharing an innocent joke, the youths look happily ahead into the future. Dozens of smiling steelworkers smelt and haul sheets of metal in a red flag-draped factory in Kim Su Dong's "Front Workers of the Age of Songun," also from 2009. They appear to be having the time of their lives. All the art comes from Pyongyang's Mansudae Art Studio, set up in 1959 and whose 1,000 artists are at the core of ... More | | Crocker Art Museum Announces a Series of Exhibitions for Its Summer of Impressionism
Franz A. Bischoff, Gold Rimmed Rocks and Sea, c. 1925. 30 x 40 in. Collection of Paul and Kathleen Bagley.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum will present a series of exhibitions this summer showcasing the journey of Impressionism from France to the U.S. With a strong emphasis on landscape paintings, the exhibitions collectively feature works by renowned French and American artists alongside masterpieces of California Impressionism. The Crocker’s Summer of Impressionism comprises: • “Transcending Vision: American Impressionism, 1870-1940,” exploring the dissemination of French Impressionism in American painting from the Bank of America Collection; • “Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism,” an exhibition of 40 mid-19th through early 20th-century French and American landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum; • “Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains and Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff,” featuring 40 exquisite works by the Bavarian-born artist who moved to Califo ... More | | Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera on Display at the University of Delaware Museums
Andy Warhol, Dolly Parton, 1985. Courtesy of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
NEWARK, DE.- When Andy Warhol died in February 1987, he left behind a trove of almost 60,000 photographs, the bulk of them unknown to all but his inner circle. They consisted mostly of two kinds: 3 x 4 inch Polaroid images and 8 x 10-inch black and white prints. Ironically, for an artist whose claim to fame lay in his use of serial repetition, Warhol’s photographs were mostly unique affairs, whether the inherently singular Polaroids or the typically one-offack-and-white prints made to specification in Warhol’s darkroom by personal assistants. The exhibition, Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera includes 60 works drawn from the 150 photographs gifted to the University Museums of the University of Delaware by The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy program (January 12 – June 5, 2011). It is the first time these photographs have been publicly shown. Prime examples of Warhol’s obsessive camerawork, they illustrate the a ... More |
 | Influential Element: Exploring the Impact of Water at the Long Beach Museum of Art
Eric Tillinghast, Water Series #69, 2005 (detail). Water, Fabricated Steel, 3 x 30 x 68 inches.
LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art presents its exhibition, Influential Element: Exploring the Impact of Water, presented through April 3, 2011. Influential Element features 24 contemporary works by California-based artists who seek to explore the infinite ways in which water impacts our everyday life. Artists included in the exhibition are Young-Il Ahn, Lynn Aldrich, Adam Belt, Todd Brainard, Matthew Cornell, F. Scott Hess, Jeff Honea, Sant Khalsa, Marina Moevs, Jon Ng, Will Noble, Laura Parker, Elizabeth Patterson, Eric Tillinghast, Daena Title, Bill Viola and Eric Zener. The exhibition features works in a variety of media, including photography, watercolor, video, color pencil, and mixed media. It is especially fitting that Influential Element: Exploring the Impact of Water debuts in a city in which water has historically played a vital and complex role, both from a recreational standpoint and as a major source of i ... More | | An Exhibition of Young and Emerging British and International Artists at Scream Gallery
LG White, 'Inside a Bubble' (detail). Courtesy Scream Gallery. © the artist.
LONDON.- Scream Gallery presents an exhibition of young and emerging British and international artists, who have a common desire to explore and create alternative realities. They transport you on a dream-like journey to another time or place, with inspiration drawn from fairy-tales, surrealism, nature, the human body and childhood. The exhibition has been co-curated by Melissa Digby-Bell and Lee Sharrock. Clare Chapman’s hyper-real oils on canvas are both disturbing and intriguing in their depiction of ambiguous forms and obscure terrain. The paintings draw on a rich tradition of painting from Rembrandt and Rubens, to Bellmer and Bacon. Chapman creates amorphous still-life’s that question our perception of reality, beautifully rendered in vivid sunset tones. David Foster describes her paintings as ‘the dragon’s teeth…presented to you on a velvet cushion’. Wayne Chisnall is a London based arti ... More | | Cordy Ryman and Brandon Morse in Concurrent Solo Exhibitions at Conner Contemporary Art
Cordy Ryman, Windowboxing (detail), 2010, acrylic and enamel on wood, dimensions variable. © Cordy Ryman, Courtesy Conner Contemporary Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring painted sculptural assemblages by Cordy Ryman and real-time generative digital work by Brandon Morse. In Cordy Ryman’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, he presents a new series of playful works created with paint, wood, metal, Velcro and scraps recycled from his studio floor. Ryman, whose New York solo show was identified this fall as “one of the sleepers of the season” by Roberta Smith, is known for continuous experimentation in constructing, altering, and reconstructing painted geometric forms. As Ryman intuitively responds to the contours and material qualities of his media, he envisions the eventual habitation of his works on surfaces in architectural environments. The show title, “Windowboxing” (i.e., the solid border that wraps around a tv image ... More |
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Art Institute of Chicago Celebrates Japanese Picture Calendars in Exhibition
Suzuki Harunobu. Daruma and a Young Woman in the Rain, 1765. Clarence Buckingham Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- In celebration of the New Year and new calendars to be filled, this exhibition brings together approximately 40 egoyomi, the unique Japanese prints that cleverly incorporated calendar markings into their designs. Until 1873, the Japanese calendar was based on a lunar system that divided months into dai no tsuki (long months) of 30 days and sho no tsuki (short months) of 29 days. Because the sequence of long and short months changed annually, the order of the months was recorded subtly and skillfully in the lush pictures of egoyomi prints. Egoyomi flourished during the Meiwa era (1764–71) when the laws of the ruling shogunate dictated that only a handful of publishers were officially allowed to produce calendars for the public. Nevertheless, wealthy patrons often privately commissioned egoyomi, eagerly exchanging them among the members of their literary circles. It has been argued that because these independent egoyomi were in defiance of the law, the calendar ... More | | Los Angeles Mexican-American Culture Center Stops Work over Found Remains
Archeologists excavate human remains found adjacent to La Placita Our Lady Queen of Angels Church. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes.
By: Jacob Adelman, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Construction at a Mexican-American cultural center was suspended Friday after American Indian groups raised concerns that human remains unearthed were being disturbed. It was in the best interest of the LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes center and the community to halt the project, which is being built on county-owned property, president Miguel Angel Corzo said. "Moving forward, we will continue to work with all interested parties and proceed with the rest of our construction as planned," he said. "We believe this discovery and the resulting conversations will engender further education about the rich and complex history of Los Angeles, a history we are committed to exploring here at LA Plaza." State Native American Heritage Commission staffer Dave Singleton, who called on officials last week to stop work on the project pending an ... More | | Heckscher Museum Presents Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation
George Deem, Artist and Model, 2006, Oil on canvas, 32 x 28 in. © 2010 Estate of George Deem/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.
HUNTINGTON, NY .- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation. This exceptional exhibition which opened on January 15, 2011 and runs through March 27, 2011, explores issues relating to the artistic use of other artists’ styles and images in historical and contemporary works. Historically popular artists had followers, imitators and forgers, while more recent artists openly adopt well-known images and styles to comment on originality, authorship and culture. This exhibition presents old master and nineteenth-century works from The Heckscher Museum Permanent Collection, providing a framework for connoisseurship issues, such as authenticity and attribution. Artists to be considered include Canaletto, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, and George Inness, among others. Contemporary appropriation artists ... More |
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Valencian Institute of Modern Art Shows Photographs by Bernie DeChant: Brazil and Beyond
US photographer Bernie DeChant poses at Valencian Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, eastern Spain, 13 January 2011. EPA/KAI FORSTERLING.
VALENCIA.- Organized into three bodies of work, the exhibition explores deep contrasts and aesthetic similarities in architecture, abstract and human form from DeChant's travels to Brazil, China, Morocco, Japan and the United States. He inspires us to look closer, to become connected with place, beauty and one another. Inspiration, like happiness, is contagious. These leaders knew this as they envisioned entire cities of inspiration. But the utopian dreams find rude awakenings in the reality of day-to-day existence. DeChant captures both the dream and the reality, infecting us with his muse via a cinematic journey of life. The catalog of the exhibition reproduces the works exhibited and published a text of Andy Patrick. Bernie DeChant (Racine, Wisconsin, 1972) is a photographer and filmmaker who lives ... More | | The Finnish Capital Celebrates the Darkest Days of the Year with the Season of Light City Festival
Mercy, Mikki Kunttu. Photo Ralph Larmann.
FINLAND.- The Season of Light city festival turned the Helsinki city center into an inspiring journey of light from New Year’s eve through January 9, 2011. A series of installations transformed familiar city neighborhoods with the help of light art into mystical environments and stimulating experiences, presenting Helsinki’s historic city center in new perspectives. The journey started from Village of Light by Jouko Kärkkäinen in the Esplanade Park, consisting of glowing minimalistic miniature houses. A tall cross in front of the iconic Helsinki Cathedral displayed Mercy, a media artwork by Finnish light artist Mikki Kunttu featuring powerful images of the Christian faith created by LED technology. The work was accompanied by music that filled the square, and it was supported by light effects projected onto surrounding buildings. Starting from Senate Square, the Unioninkatu street displayed 100 years by Germa ... More | | Poppy Sebire Brings Together Material and Materialism: Ali Bailey and Jessica Labatte
Ali Bailey, Ralph Lauren, 2010. Wood, construction adhesive, paint can, paint, 182.9 x 121.9 x 152.4 cm. Photo: Courtesy Poppy Sebire Gallery.
LONDON.- Poppy Sebire gallery's latest show brings together material and materialism: two young artists interested in consumer culture and physical form, whose work revolves around the surprising, playful and sometimes unsettling transformation of found objects. THE FACT OF THE MATTER exhibition by Ali Bailey and Jessica Labatte is on display until 24 February 2011. ALI BAILEY's work tackles advertising and branding culture. His sculpture, 'Ralph Lauren' (pictured above) juxtaposes a slick, luxury brand with a raw hand-made aesthetic, using the label's 'designer paint' to create a billboard-shaped form with a rough, putty-like texture, and including the tin itself as a sort of bathetic logo. Also showing are works on paper dealing with similar themes: magazine advertisements defaced, reshaped and framed so we see them as much ... More |
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USC Fisher Museum of Art Announce Exhibition "John Nava: The Making of the Trojan Family Tapestry"
LOS ANGELES, CA.- USC Fisher Museum of Art announces the exhibition “John Nava: The Making of the Trojan Family Tapestry” on view through April 9, 2011. Commissioned in 2008 by Ronald Tutor Campus Center Art and Trojan Traditions, under the advisement of Fisher Museum Director Selma Holo, the Trojan Family Tapestry was created by world renowned artist John Nava. This exhibition will feature Nava's paintings and show the processes by which the final tapestry was created. The exhibition will contain 15 figure studies in oil on panel or linen, various tapestry "test pieces" as well as other paintings by Nava. Once commissioned, Nava made frequent trips to the university from his home and studio in Ojai, California photographing life on campus and the Trojan Spirit. He also attended a USC football game. The finished tapestry now hangs as the signature work of art in t ... More
Bert Green Fine Art Presents Final Two Exhibitions in Current Location
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bert Green Fine Art presents the fourth solo show by Clive Barker, an internationally known writer, film director, producer, and fine artist. His paintings and drawings are integral to his overall creative process, which includes multiple disciplines and media. In the current exhibition, Barker exhibits artworks spanning more than 10 years, including brand new paintings and works on paper, as well as a wide variety of drawings, including conceptual sketches from earlier projects. BGFA debuts their fifth solo show of the artworks of Sandra Yagi. Yagi's work is inspired by her fascination with the intersections between mythology, science, religion, physiology, sexuality and forensics. In this new body of work, Yagi has created three distinct series: Paintings of skeletons and animal musculature in action, S&M scenes enacted by a skeletal dominatrix, and chimerical animals, all small scale works ... More
Kunsthaus Zürich Closes Anniversary Year with Best Result Since 1989
ZURICH.- The Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft closed the centenary of the Kunsthaus with a record of over 400,000 visitors – its best figure in 20 years. And the 2011 programme promises highlights both Swiss and international. The Picasso exhibition ends with extended opening hours on 30 January. The Kunsthaus Zürich’s 2010 programme garnered the museum a veritable storm of visitors in its centenary year, along with increasing additions to membership rolls. For their part, the exhibitions ‘Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet – The Bührle Collection’ and ‘Picasso’, with well over 100,000 admissions each, contributed to a record total of 420,000 visitors (cf. 228,000 in 2009). The calibre continues high in 2011: the ongoing Picasso exhibition can be visited until 30 January daily except Monday until 9 p.m. In the autumn, with the world’s first presentation of the top-flight Nahmad Collection, the Kunsthaus ... More
Website Follows Johns Hopkins Archaeologists in Egypt
BALTIMORE, MD.- Follow along online as Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students, artists, conservators and photographers return to their investigation of Mut Temple this month, focusing their attention to the area south of the temple's Sacred Lake. Bryan and her crew are resuming their excavation in Luxor, Egypt, and are sharing their work via " Hopkins in Egypt Today," their popular digital diary offering a virtual window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. With new posts appearing daily through the end of January, visitors to "Hopkins in Egypt Today", will find photos of Bryan and her colleagues working on site in Luxor. In recent years, the ongoing excavation has focused within the temple itself and around the perimeter of the sacred lake, called the Isheru. This year, Bryan and her team return to the area behind the lake w ... More
Moore Acknowledges Valued Service of Departing Gallery Director & Launches National Search
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Moore College of Art & Design announces that Rochelle F. Levy Director & Chief Curator Lorie Mertes will step down as director of The Galleries at Moore in mid-February. Mertes, who has lead the Galleries with distinction over the last three years, is relocating to North Carolina. "It is with sadness and deep appreciation that I accept Lorie Mertes' resignation," says Dr. Happy Craven Fernandez, president of Moore College of Art & Design. "Lorie's effective innovative leadership has significantly advanced the Galleries and the central mission of Moore to educate students for careers in art and design. Her creativity and vision have helped to expand exhibition space, strengthen community programs and outreach, as well as increase the visibility and broad appeal of The Galleries at Moore." Under Mertes' leadership, The Galleries at Moore gained international and national attention with Philagrafika ... More
Alessandra Sanguinetti Presents The Adventures of Guille and Belinda at Le Bal
PARIS.- In 1999, Alessandra Sanguinetti began working on a series of photographs which register the saga of two young cousins named Guille and Belinda, then nine and ten years old. Cultivating an intimate relationship with the pair over the past five years, Sanguinetti collaborates with the girls to construct images fueled by the dreams, fantasies, and fears that accompany the psychological and physical transition from childhood to adulthood. Sanguinetti’s photographs include both staged theatrical constructions and spontaneous recreations of childhood fantasies. With the Argentinean countryside as their backdrop, Guille and Belinda use costumes, props, and their imaginations to produce visual tableaux imbued with references to art and literature that explore the diffuse boundary between fantasy and reality. The Life that Came is the continuation of The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, an ongoing series of photographs following the ... More
Major Archaeological Project Examines Interactions That Changed China
OXFORD.- The Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture, based in Oxford University's School of Archaeology, has received its first major research award since its launch in October last year. The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a grant of almost half a million pounds for the research project 'China and Inner Asia (1,000-200 BC): Interactions that changed China'. The project, led by Dame Jessica Rawson, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, will look at how the early Chinese societies made use of different foreign materials and technologies. Researchers will track how the Chinese, with their highly organised, relatively dense population, were able to react fast and on a large scale. Bright red carnelian beads found in tombs of the early Chinese states (circa 850-650BC) are telling signs of major interactions between the Chinese elite of the day and the peoples further west in present-day Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Siberia. Nearest comparisons ... More
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