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Auckland Art Gallery opens outstanding exhibition of international Modern masters
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Before the Performance (detail). Oil on paper laid on canvas. Scottish National Gallery© Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland.
AUCKLAND CITY.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T.maki is presenting Degas to Dali . an outstanding exhibition of international modern artists whose work spans 100 years. Seventy-nine works of art by influential and celebrated artists, such as Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Ernst, Magritte and Warhol have travelled to New Zealand. Opened 3 March 2012, the exhibition from the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) represents the major art movements of the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Degas to Dali is the first major international exhibition since the Gallery re-opened its newly developed building in September. It offers New Zealanders the opportunity to come face to face with works from a remarkable range of artists who have shaped ... More |
| Exhibition of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur |
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The Robert Ellsworth Collection to be offered at Christie's New York Asian Art Week |
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Maryland photographer, Stan Stearns, who shot famous John F. Kennedy Jr. photo dead at 76 |
Diane Arbus, Girl with a cigar in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. 1965© The Estate of Diane Arbus.
WINTERTHUR.- Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land, photographing people she discovered during the 1950s and 1960s. She was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the facts. Her contemporary anthropology—portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities—stands as an allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, ... More |
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A magnificent and exceptionally rare silvery bronze octalobed mirror with cranes from the Tang dynasty (618-907). Estimate: $100,000-150,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 22, Christie’s will present the sale of Luminous Perfection: Fine Chinese Mirrors from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection. Prominent dealer, collector, and author Robert H. Ellsworth is a legendary figure in the field of Asian art. He began to collect Chinese bronze mirrors more than sixty years ago when there were relatively few references available to him. Regardless, Ellsworth was able to amass a superb collection of rare and important mirrors that span more than 2,000 years from the Warring States period (475-221 BC) through the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Comprising 70 lots, the sale is expected to realize in excess of $1.2 million and will be led by a magnificent and exceptionally rare silvery bronze octalobed mirror with cranes from the Tang dynasty (618-907) (estimate: $100,000-150,000). Fashioned from a high tin-content bronze to produce a bright, silvery patina, these mirrors ofte ... More |
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Former United Press International photographer Stan Stearns holds his photo of John F. Kennedy Jr. AP Photo/The Capital, Joshua McKerrow, File.
By: Jessica Gresko, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The photographer who took the iconic picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin during the slain president's 1963 funeral has died. Stan Stearns, 76, died Friday at a hospice in Harwood, Md. His son, Jay Stearns, said the cause was cancer. Stearns was assigned to cover John F. Kennedy's funeral on Nov. 25, 1963, as a photographer for United Press International. He would later describe standing outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington and being squeezed into a roped off area with 70 other photographers. Stearns stood by as the president's flag-draped casket was loaded on to a horse-drawn caisson after the funeral. Through his telephoto lens, he watched as Jacqueline Kennedy leaned down to whisper to her son, who turned 3 years old ... More |
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| Les Enluminures gallery announces exhibition of the history of rings in the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
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At a news conference, families oppose 9/11 remains at memorial museum in New York |
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The Antagonist: Sanam Khatibi, Daniel Medina, and Jamie Shovlin exhibit at waterside contemporary |
Renaissance memento mori ring, England 16c gold black and white enamel 9.3gr 51mm.
PARIS.- Les Enluminures gallery has announced that it will stage a Special Exhibition at TEFAF in Maastricht March 16 – 25, of historically interesting Finger Rings, titled “RINGS THROUGH THE AGES.” Galerie Les Enluminures founder, Dr. Sandra Hindman, says she is delighted to have such a wide range of interesting and historical rings to show, with 15 examples on view. They range from a braided Viking Ring dating to the 9-11th century, to a Devotional Iconographic Ring of the Virgin and Child from late 14th century England, to a Renaissance Memento Mori Ring from the 16th century and a Baroque Gemstone Ring from Bohemia. Les Enluminures has for twenty years been known primarily for its museum quality Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Miniatures and Art . But Hindman, a Ph.D. in art history who twice headed the department at Northwestern University, has always been fascinated with Finger ... More |
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Museum Pavilion Interior with Tridents-Created by Squared Design Lab, Provided by National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
By: Verena Dobnik, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Families of Sept. 11 victims on Sunday called for congressional hearings to establish federal protocols on how to handle human remains after disasters like the terror acts that took thousands of lives in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. At a news conference near the Sept. 11 memorial, family members spoke days after Pentagon officials revealed that partial remains of several victims were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill. The families said they oppose a plan to place unidentified human remains of the New York victims in an underground repository at bedrock they say "desecrates" the memory of their loved ones. "Are our loved ones' remains marketable?" asked Rosaleen Tallon, sister of firefighter Sean Tallon, who died ... More |
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Daniel Medina, IS ON, 2011 (detail). Photo: Courtesy waterside contemporary.
LONDON.- waterside contemporary presents The Antagonist, an exhibition in which the artists, the viewers and the characters trade their places. Using the quotidian, the historical and the fictional, the artists explore situations in which subject and object become synonymous. In painting, the archive, and the readymade, the works reflect on personal loss, political power and the ego. Each of these inquiries introduces ambivalence to the conventional producer – consumer – content relationship. Daniel Medina scrutinises systems which govern both the broad and minute aspects of life – from political borders to individual self-regard. His work dissects maps, plans and images in an unfamiliar way, re-assembling them into systems that require viewers to assume alternative frames of reference and dimensions. In New Order, for instance, the world is re-composed as in a puzzle game, without apparent ... More |
| The Hague Museum of Photography is first museum to exhibit a survey of Pieter Hugo's work |
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Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art presents Ebbe Stub Wittrup: The Voice of Things |
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Renowned Spanish Architect Rafael Moneo to receive prestigious Thomas Jefferson Foundation Award |
The differences between the West and Africa, rich and poor, white and black are confronted in Hugo’s vivid compositions.
THE HAGUE.- The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known around the world. He has already won numerous awards including the KLM Paul Huf award in 2008 and was recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. The Hague Museum of Photography is the first museum to exhibit a comprehensive survey of Hugo’s work from 2002-2011. Together with many previously unseen works, the exhibition includes a curated selection of his most well-known series: The Hyena & Other Men, the bizarre Nollywood and the striking Permanent Error. His impressive portraits tell personal stories about recurring themes throughout his oeuvre, namely those people who inhabit the margins of society in Sub-Saharan Africa. The differences ... More |
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Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Eight Cards, Card#4, 2011 C-print, 40x30 cm.
COPENHAGEN.- The question of what is real has been debated throughout the entire history of humanity: Is it what our senses tell us, or is there a world beyond what we can immediately perceive? In this philosophical field, Ebbe Stub Wittrup explores life’s enigmatic layers in the extensive solo exhibition The Voice of Things by highlighting phenomena and material drawn from the periphery of culture. The front exhibition space on the ground floor of Overgaden lies in semi-darkness. A thick white curtain screens off the exhibition from the city outside, in a theatrical gesture that marks our entry into a universe where the usual concepts of reality are suspended. Here, the film installation Mary Rose – A Play in Three Acts (2011) is presented, which, in three 16 mm films, meditates on dimensions other than those our senses can perceive. Physical places and concrete objects act as metaphors ... More |
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Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. EPA/CABALAR.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture on April 13 to Rafael Moneo, the Spanish architect known for innovative modern buildings that respect existing environments. The medal will be presented on Jefferson's birthday by U.Va., which he founded in Charlottesville in 1819, and by the foundation, the independent, nonprofit organization that owns and operates his home, Monticello. Also being honored: · George Mitchell, former U.S. senator and statesman who brokered a peace accord in Northern Ireland, will receive the 2012 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law. · Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the global think tank, will receive the 2012 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen Leadership. Moneo divides his professional life as an architect between teaching and practice. In both, he assumes a criti ... More |
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| PRISM presents Miss You by Brazilian artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo: Os Gemeos |
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Blackwell the Arts and Crafts House exhibits works by four artists made from natural materials |
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British artist Alice Channer creates an installation of entirely new works at South London Gallery |
In Miss You, Os Gemeos continue to play with fantastical notions of magical realism. Photo: Courtesy of the Artists and PRISM; Photos: Colin Day.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- PRISM presents Miss You, an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures and installation by famed Brazilian artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, better known as Os Gemeos. In Miss You, Os Gemeos continue to play with fantastical notions of magical realism. Like their earlier installations, these recent works expand on the artists’ imagination and creative use of space. Their signature yellow character, a mainstay in their work, exists in a dreamlike space. What compounds this effect is the duos’ inclusion of nature, faces and human-esque objects. The pair brings the aforementioned to life with rich colors and unique patterns that are so thoroughly considered that they too become characters in this fantasy realm. Yet, dream is primarily an aesthetic function, and in these works ... More |
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Mary Butcher, Baskets.
CUMBRIA.- The exhibits in Woven from Nature are – literally – just that. This exhibition brings together four contemporary artist-craftswomen whose work is either entirely or partially woven and which has the ‘common thread’ of being made from natural materials: wool, cotton, willow, paper and vellum. This is a show that brings together traditional and contemporary practice in the most exciting ways. Two established leaders in their respective fields, basket-weaver Mary Butcher and tapestry weaver Jilly Edwards, have each nominated a fellow maker working within the same discipline, whose work may not yet be as well-known as their own. It makes for a show in which experience has informed the curatorial approach, and which offers an fascinating breadth of work. Jilly Edwards trained at West of England College of Art in Bristol, and the Edinburgh College of Art Tapestry Department; she has since taught, published and exhibited widely. Jilly is now based in Devon ... More |
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Alice Channer, Slip. Mirror polished stainless steel, elastics, accordion pleated hi-tech lame. Image courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London.
LONDON.- For her South London Gallery exhibition, British artist Alice Channer has created an installation of entirely new works which extend her exploration of the relationship between the human body, personal adornment, materials and sculpture. In these figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies within the history of art, objects and clothing, and offers a unique perspective on manufacturing, the hand-made and consumer culture. Out of Body brings together a group of sculptural works which the artist defines as being figurative, but from which recognisable representation of the human form is as noticeable by its absence as by its presence. It is the tension born of that relationship which weaves a binding thread between pieces made in a broad range of materials, using a variety of ... More |
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 Laura Bartlett Gallery presents the work of Nina Beier in the exhibition Shirts vs Skins
LONDON.- Laura Bartlett Gallery announces the exhibition Shirts vs Skins by Nina Beier. Beier’s work is concerned with hierarchies of display and value, content and frame, and the implicit contradictions in process, practice and presentation. Shirts vs Skins is a common form in sport games of denoting team affiliations in the absence of any formal uniform. Beier suggests an antagonism at the core of the relationship between man and creation, and asserts a combative status between surface and subject, image and object. Besides having a number of similarities to a mango, Fruit, (all works 2012), here used as a paperweight, also carries a sticker ensuring freshness. This is the story of the organic object that has beaten the inevitable, and through petrification has risen to the status of permanence. In Fatigues, Beier uses vandal, stain, wear and tear resistant, ... More The consequences of our desires: Bellevue Arts Museum presents Dirk Staschke's first solo exhibition
BELLEVUE, WA.- Winner of the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence of the BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown!, ceramic sculptor Dirk Staschke returns to BAM with his first museum solo exhibition, Falling Feels a Lot Like Flying. Desire and consumption are at the heart of this lush and ultra‐realistic installation. Inspired by the bountiful Vanitas still‐life paintings of 16th‐century Northern Europe and the excessive ornamentation of the Baroque period, Staschke seduces the viewer with his voluptuous organic forms while exploring themes of excess and its effects. A master ceramicist whose work has been shown internationally, Staschke is best know for his banquet style displays of flora, fauna and food. In Falling Feels a Lot Like Flying, an exhibition specifically created for Bellevue Arts Museum, the artist takes his work to a new scale. Comprised of more ... More Mad. Sq. Art announces interactive, large-scale, mixedmedia installation by artist Charles Long
NEW YORK, NY.- Mad. Sq. Art announces Pet Sounds, an interactive, large-scale, mixedmedia installation by acclaimed California-based artist Charles Long. Sited on Madison Square Park’s expansive Oval Lawn, Pet Sounds will introduce a snaking network of vibrantly colored pipe railings creating new paths as they wind across the urban oasis. As these railings converge around a common seating area, each railing begins to grow into a unique fantastic form. While the shape of each blob suggests a different set of associations, their uncanny semblances remain wonderfully elusive. As viewers smooth their hands over the undulating biomorphic surfaces, the act of touching produces a variety of sounds and vibrations coming from within the sculptural forms. The installation, commissioned by Mad. Sq. Art, will remain on view daily from May 2 – September 9, 2012. ... More The Corning Museum of Glass launches new website
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass has launched a redesigned website at http://www.cmog.org. The site offers new content, increased access to the Museum’s collection and new user-friendly features. The front page serves as a starting point to explore 35 centuries of glass art: the site now features thousands of videos, articles, images and resources on glass and glassmaking. “The Corning Museum of Glass is the authority on glass, and we wanted to make as many of our resources available online as we could,” says Karol Wight, executive director. “We’ve made new digitized materials from our Library available, are sharing every single video we’ve ever produced and are publishing articles that address glass from many angles. Visitors to our site can easily access information about glass at any level that interests them.” The redesigned site provides a ... More Detroit Institute of Arts reaches 100,000 Facebook fans milestone
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced that yesterday it reached a milestone of 100,000 fans on Facebook. To celebrate and thank fans for their support, the DIA is offering free admission for Facebook fans during March. To receive free admission during March, visitors must be DIA Facebook fans and bring in the “free pass” that is displayed on the DIA’s Facebook page. One free pass admits up to four people. The page can be accessed at www.facebook.com/detroitinstituteofarts. The announcement came three days before the museum’s projected goal of reaching 100,000 fans on March 1. The DIA announced the March promotion to Facebook fans last Friday when the fan count was just over 97,000. Within three days, more than 3,000 new Facebook fans signed on, and Tuesday morning, the DIA passed the 100,000 mark. According to Museum Analytics, ... More |
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