Jumat, 09 September 2011

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Harper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style at the International Center of Photography

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:27 PM PDT

artwork: Ralph Gibson - Caroline Winberg (Harper's Bazaar, May 2005) - Courtesy of International Center of Photographsilver print. © Estate of Yousuf Karsh. - At the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

NEW YORK, N.Y.- In the ten years since Glenda Bailey became Editor in Chief of Harper's Bazaar, she and Creative Director Stephen Gan have carried on the magazine's tradition of publishing innovative, high-impact photography. Harper's Bazaar: A Decade of Style, on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from September 9, 2011 through January 8, 2012, distills that decade into a choice group of nearly thirty images by some of the most important photographers working today. To emphasize the work's original context and the magazine's award-winning design, the exhibition will include several vitrines with issues open to display extended stories alongside the striking covers, swept clean of cover-line text, that are sent to Bazaar's subscribers.

Photographers in the exhibition include Peter Lindbergh, Jean-Paul Goude, David Bailey, William Klein, Patrick Demarchelier, Terry Richardson, Camilla Akrans, Sølve Sundsbø, Mark Seliger, Tim Walker, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. The magazine has also regularly featured artists who are not usually associated with fashion, so Nan Goldin, Ralph Gibson, and Chuck Close are in the mix, along with two photographers who have a long, legendary history at Bazaar, Hiro and Melvin Sokolsky.
In addition to inventive fashion images in a wide range of styles, from classic to cinematic, there are vivid portraits of designers Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, and Diane Von Furstenberg, and celebrities, including Daphne Guinness and Lady Gaga.

artwork: Lady Gaga appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar in May, she was then featured with protruding cheek bones. Side by side the current Harper's cover with no makeup.

"Fashion magazines have always considered it an important part of their mission to combine art and commerce," said ICP Guest Curator Vince Aletti, who organized the exhibition. "Harper's Bazaar has a particularly distinguished history of hiring great photographers, printing important writers, and training a keen eye on the arts."

"Fashion reflects what's going on in our world, and Bazaar makes pop culture fashionable," said Bailey. "This exhibition is the culmination of a decade in a new world where every popular phenomenon comes with a fashion spin."

Under Bailey, Bazaar has been especially alert to shifts in the culture, casting Ellen DeGeneres as a successful presidential candidate in one wish-fulfilling fashion feature and imagining the second chapter in the life of an abruptly downsized female exec in another. Photographers are encouraged to borrow freely from the wide world of pop, so Seliger is inspired by iconic shots of Barbra Streisand for his black-and-white portraits of Jennifer Aniston, Demarchelier casts Stephanie Seymour as a Warhol superstar, and Julianne Moore looks like she stepped out of a John Currin painting in Peter Lindbergh's witty transformation.

An accompanying book, Harper's Bazaar: Greatest Hits collects these alluring, lively, and humorous visions into a single volume that celebrates the best of Bazaar from 2001 to 2011.

artwork: Harpers Bazaar UK Magazine (Dec 2009) - Victoria Beckham 594 x 401 cm.

Aletti previously co-curated ICP's dramatic "Year of Fashion" in 2009, including the shows Avedon Fashion 1944–2000, Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, and This Is Not a Fashion Photograph.

Interpreting the power and evolution of photography, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. ICP creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. These include exhibitions, collections, and education for the general public, members, students, and professionals in the field of photography. Photography occupies a vital and central place in contemporary culture; it reflects and influences social change, provides an historical record, is essential to visual communication and education, opens new opportunities for personal and aesthetic expression, has transformed popular culture, has revolutionized scientific research, and continually evolves to incorporate new technologies. Visit : http://www.icp.org/

Jane Hammond Shows Painting & Photography at Galerie Lelong

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT

artwork: Jane Hammond - "Girl Lying Down", 2011 - Acrylic paint on mica over plexiglass with silver, gold, copper and palladium leaf,  (74.9 x 115.6 x 9.5 cm.) © Jane Hammond - Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York - On exhibition 8 September through 22 October.

NEW YORK, NY.- To inaugurate Galerie Lelong's fall season, multidisciplinary artist Jane Hammond presents her latest body of work, the "dazzle paintings-"—a stunning combination of painting and photography in which the artist infuses the still image with a sense of flow, interactivity, and mutability. Paired with the dazzle paintings there is also a new collection of the artist's silver gelatin prints. Light Now: Dazzle Paintings and Photographs opened to the public on Thursday, September 8 and on view until 22 October.

Sotheby's Announces Auction of Fine Classical Chinese Paintings in New York

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 11:09 PM PDT

artwork: Anonymous, Portraits of Jade Emperor and the Heavenly Kings. Ink and color on silk, framed. Est. $60/80,000. Photo: Sotheby's.

NEW YORK, N.Y.- On Tuesday 13th of  September Sotheby's will present Fine Classical Chinese Paintings, the first dedicated New York auction in this category for over a decade. The sale is made up of 80 diverse works from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as a small selection of modern and contemporary works that were executed clearly in the classical manner. The pre-sale exhibition opens on Friday 9 September. Thatched Hut in Autumnal Mountains by Dong Bangda, who was admired and highly praised by Emperor Qianlong, is a further highlight (lot 23, est. $180/250,000). The grandly composed landscape executed on silk conveys such free, refined brushwork that it is conspicuous among the artists repertoire.

ABC Art Berlin Contemporary "About Painting" Exhibition Opens

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 10:53 PM PDT

artwork: Sean Dawson - "Spiral Blast", 2008 - Oil on linen, 3 parts, 275 x 579 cm.- Courtesy of Buchmann Galerie // André Buchmann, Berlin

BERLIN.- This year's edition of abc art berlin contemporary is themed about painting and takes place in Berlin from September 7th to the 11th. The show features some 130 artists represented by 125 international galleries. Conceived as a showcase of contemporary painting, the exhibition also features installations, works on paper, video, photography and sculpture which deal thematically with painting as a medium. Alongside with prominent contemporary paintings and works by international artists dealing with the medium, abc also presents an historical timeline of sorts on the discourse of painting: here, the medium is re-cast as an artistic alternative or possibility, not an ideology.

New Exhibition at Blain/Southern Features Romanian Artist Marius Bercea

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:51 PM PDT

artwork: Marius Bercea - "Truths With Multiple Masks", 2011 - Oil on canvas,   h: 280 x w: 385 cm. - Photo by Serban Savu On exhibition at Blain|Southern in London from Sep 8 until Oct 1, 2011

LONDON.- The imposing architecture of the former Soviet Union dominates many of the paintings featured in Remains of Tomorrow, Romanian artist Marius Bercea's debut exhibition at Blain|Southern. Initially these edifices appear like props in a futuristic movie – Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) offers an immediate point of comparison. This is further enforced by the verdant landscapes in which they sit, an environment where bathers plunge into crystalline swimming pools while others stare in apparent wonderment at the giant, modernist designs surrounding them. However, closer inspection reveals the buildings to be crumbling, the whitewashed concrete degraded with age and neglect. And while the skies in some paintings are an idyllic blue, most are an ominous, sulphurous yellow, hinting at a terrible Chernobyl-like disaster, or worse.

Iconic Works by Banksy and Shepard Fairey at Bonhams Urban Art Sale

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:50 PM PDT

artwork: Banksy (b.1975) - "Monkey Detonator". - Photo: Bonhams.

LONDON.- Several works by the renowned graffiti artist Banksy are to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Urban Art sale on 21 September 2011. Leading the way is a work featuring one of Banksy's most iconic images, the monkey, entitled Monkey Detonator, which has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £70,000 – 90,000. Executed in 2000, this canvas displays the typically dark sense of humour which has endeared Banksy to both art collectors and the general public. Other original Banksy's featured in the sale include HMV Dog (estimate £10,000 – 15,000); Precision Bombing (£15,000 – 25,000); Watchtower Collaboration – Blu (estimate £10,000 – 15,000); and Balloon Girl (estimate £20,000 – 30,000).

Gallery Nature Morte Berlin presents ASIANART-SUSTAIN Exhibition

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 09:42 PM PDT

artwork: Gallery Nature Morte has become synonymous in India with challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, photographic, and installation genres within a commercial market that remains fixated on painting.

BERLIN, GERMANY - Gallery Nature Morte Berlin presents ASIANART-SUSTAIN, an exhibition curated by Tereza de Arruda in the framework of the 8th Asia-Pacific Weeks, a bi-annual forum for political, economical, educational, and cultural exchange between Germany and the Asian-Pacific region. The focus of this year's Asia-Pacific Weeks are Water, Food, and Health, issues which determined the selection of the artists from China, India and Japan.

Sotheby's London to Sell a Private Collection of 20th Century Italian Art

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:26 PM PDT

artwork: Giorgio Morandi - "Natura Morta", 1948-1949 - Estimate: £600,000-800,000. - Photo: Sotheby's.

LONDON.- Sotheby's announces that it will offer for sale an exceptional private collection of Italian Art that spans the whole of the 20th century. The collection, Italian Identity, which will be offered in Sotheby's annual 20th Century Italian Art Sale on Thursday, October 13th, represents all of the major developments in Italian Avant-garde art and is highlighted by the most comprehensive group of 'Arte Povera' ever to come to the open market. The collection, which includes pieces by Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Alberto Burri, Piero Manzoni, Alighiero Boetti and Michelangelo Pistoletto, is estimated to realise in excess of £7 million. Prior to the pre-sale view in London, the collection will also be on view in Italy both in Turin and in Milan.

The Carnegie Art Museum Shows Works By Sean and Benjamin Anderson

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:09 PM PDT

artwork: Sean Anderson - "Pink Hut (Adaptation)", 2010 - Oil and fluorescent enamel on canvas  - Courtesy the artist. On view at the Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA in "The Brothers Anderson: Benjamin Anderson-Portraits/Sean Anderson-Influential Pigments" from September 11th until November 20th.

Oxnard, CA.- The Carnegie Art Museum is proud to present "The Brothers Anderson: Benjamin Anderson-Portraits/Sean Anderson-Influential Pigments", on view from September 11th through November 20th. The exhibition features recent paintings by co-curators/owners of Anderson Art Collective, Carpinteria. Recognized for portraiture by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Benjamin Anderson shares recent portrait commissions. Sean Anderson continues his series connection mass marketing tools with America and its 3rd world counterparts.


Heather James Fine Art Shows Self-Taught Modernist Earl Cunningham

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 08:08 PM PDT

artwork: Earl Cunningham - "Springtime Fantasy", circa 1968 - Oil on fiberboard - 16" x 24" - Courtesy Heather James Fine Arts. On view in "Earl Cunningham: American Fauve" from September 9th until October 29th.

Jackson, WY.- Heather James Fine Art is pleased to present "Earl Cunningham: American Fauve", on view from September 9th through October 29th. Earl Cunningham was a twentieth century American modernist who romanticized the American landscape with simplicity. A self-taught artist who painted mostly landscapes of the coasts of Maine, New York, Michigan, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Cunningham used vivid colors, flat perspective, and a few recurrent themes. His works depict the many small interactions of the Atlantic coastal ecosystem, the dockworkers, harbor pilots, fisherman, farmers, waterfowl and American Indian tribes. Cunningham's work is modern and nostalgic at the same time, flattened forms with a palette often described as "fauve", characterized by the emphasis of painterly qualities and strong color comparable to the paintings of Fauve leaders Henri Matisse and André Derain.


His paintings show he was a natural with color with a sophisticated understanding of composition. Cunningham moved to Saint Augustine, Florida in 1949 and opened an art gallery and curio shop. In 1961 he sent a painting titled "The Everglades" to Jacqueline Kennedy that is on display at John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. There have been thirty-four one-man museum shows of his work, the most recent at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. where an astounding 186,000 people came to view the show.

artwork: Earl Cunningham - "Blue Waterfall," circa 1975 - Oil on fiberboard - 16" x 37" Courtesy Heather James Fine Arts. On view until October 29th.

Of the many paintings on display, "Seminole Paradise" is a prime example of Cunningham's unique expression of color and composition. The painting depicts an imaginative scene of Seminole's engaged in various activities among a lush tropical fantasy landscape painted in vibrant blues, greens, and yellows. Flowering trees provide resting places for a variety of multi-hued wildlife and Norse style boats, large and small, float along a mocha colored river. Cunningham's visual narrative creates an expert mash-up of culture and nature. Since the Europeans crossed the Atlantic to reach the Americas and as the Norse were the first known explorers of the area, Cunningham's reference to them in his paintings conforms with his recurring and comprehensive theme of the sea. Critical to this American origin is not only the European experience but also that of Native Americans, who regularly appear in many of Cunningham's paintings.

The exquisite paintings of Cunningham are from the collection of Marilyn and Michael Mennello, founders of the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, Florida. The Mennello's began their collection of the artist's work in 1969 with Marilyn Mennello purchasing a painting directly from Earl Cunningham. Following Cunningham's death, the Mennello's began a quest to purchase as many paintings as possible, eventually capturing the majority of Cunningham's 405 known works. Passionate advocates of Cunningham, they dedicated their time and resources to restoring the paintings and preserving the artist's legacy. In 1998, the Mennello's opened the Mennello Museum of American Art with a core group of Cunningham paintings central to the museum and continuously on display.

artwork: Earl Cunningham - "Seminole Paradise", circa 1930 - Oil on fiberboard - 17" x 41" - Courtesy Heather James Fine Arts.

Heather James Fine Art is located at 172 Center Street in Jackson, Wyoming and features a wide array of art ranging from Impressionist and Modern art to Post-War and Contemporary, American, Latin American, Old Master, Photography and Design. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.heatherjames.com







The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:48 PM PDT

artwork: Roelandt Savery - "Landscape with Birds", 1622 - Oil on oak panel - From the Czech National Gallery collection An exhibition of Roelandt Savery's work starts in June 2011 at the Schwartzenberg Palace. in Prague

The National Gallery in Prague in the Czech Republic comprises a number of different sites spread around the city. Originating in February 1796 when a group of prominent patriotically oriented Czech nobility, along with several scholars from among the enlightened bourgeoisie decided to form a corporation, named "The Patriotic Friends of Art" that could then establish two important institutions that were lacking in Prague: An Academy of Arts and a publicly accessible picture gallery. In 1918, the Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art turned into the central art collection of the new state of Czechoslovakia and ultimately the National Gallery. The Collection of Prints and Drawings (SGK) of the National Gallery in Prague, which is situated in Kinsky Palace in the Old Town Square, keeps some 320,000 prints and 60,000 drawings from the Middle Ages to the present. The National Gallery in Prague is also a research organization whose main purpose is to conduct basic and applied research and experimental development and to disseminate the results through scientific publications, exhibitions, educational programs, methodologies, or technological transfer. The National Gallery collects, records, stores, processes and provides public access to works of painting, sculpture and other graphic works as well as new media, both from domestic and famous foreign artists. With multiple individual galleries locations devoted to art from specific periods or regions, scattered around Prague, the National Gallery is colossal and it would take several days to visit every location. Two of the largest galleries are the Schwarzenberg Palace (near the castle) which contains much of the gallery's Czech Baroque collection, and the "Fair Trade Palace" (which is located a short distance from the city centre), which houses the gallery's modern and contemporary art collection. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.ngprague.cz

artwork: The Schwartzenberg Palace, Prague, Czech Republic. Now home to some of the National Gallery's collection of baroque and renaissance art. Designed by the Italian master builder Agostino Galli and built between 1545 and 1576 for Count Jan Lobkowicz the Younger, the palace is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture in Prague.  © Janaks Texas

Entirely renovated, this gigantic Renaissance Palace located on Hradčanské Square (in front of the Prague Castle), adorned with "diamond point" sgraffitti, is worth a visit in itself. Its spacious rooms are bathed in light under sculpted wooden ceilings or beautiful vaulted frescoes, and the windows reveal unique panoramic views of the Petřín park, the ochre roofs of the Malá Strana and the Castle Square. The Palace was built between 1545 and 1576 for Count Jan Lobkowicz the Younger. Designed by the Italian master builder Agostino Galli, the palace is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture in Prague. Opened on March 28, 2008, the new permanent exhibition of Czech Baroque art in the Schwarzenberg Palace on Hradčany Square supplements the unique selection of exhibitions of art collections dating from different periods staged in the area of Prague Castle. Monumental stone sculptures welcome visitors when they enter the building, including the renowned stone sculptures by Matthias Bernhard Braun from the attic of the Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague (1714-1716) and the two Angels from the hermitage near Lysá nad Labem, accompanied by the Moor figures from the gate of Kounice Castle, created by Maximilian Brokof. Three interconnected rooms on the ground floor present an exhibition conceived according to traditional chronology and showing the stylistic periods of the Early, High and Late Baroque. Adjoining space shows the best-quality surviving examples of everyday workshop practice in art studios of the time, particularly those of the 18th century. The main galleries on the 1st and 2nd floors of the palace contain paintings presented chronology by stylistic cycles, spanning the time from the Late Renaissance, as represented by the works of artists active at the Prague court of Emperor Rudolf II, to the final waning of Baroque culture in the late 18th century. The collection includes all the great names of local fine arts of the 17th-18th centuries, with the emphasis on key figures including paintings by Hans von Aachen, Bartholomaeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Michael Willmann, Johann Christoph Liška, Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, Anton Kern, Johann Peter Molitor, and Norbert Grund. The world of late Renaissance collections – cabinets of arts and curiosities – is recalled in a partial reconstruction of just such a collection with characteristic examples of small pictures and sculptures, and samples of the crafts of the period. The most important figures of Baroque painting in Bohemia – Karel Škréta and Peter Brandl – have intentionally been allocated prestigious spaces which do justice to the qualities of both the collections, considered the gems of the Gallery's Collection of Old Masters. One of the rooms on the 1st floor also presents in deliberate confrontation the portraits by Peter Brandl, and those by Johann Kupecký. Both painters explored similar (French and Dutch) sources of inspiration found in European portraiture. Painting collections of 18th-century artists are accompanied by carefully selected samples of small-size carving of destinctive character, coming from the Prague studios of Franz Ignaz Weiss, Karl Joseph Hiernle, Johann Anton Quitainer, and Ignaz Franz Platzer, installed in modern glass cases with perfect lighting. Exhibitions are regularly held at the the Schwartzenberg Palace, the next being a collection of works by Roelandt Savery, court painter of Emperor Rudolf II, which opens on 12 June 2011.

artwork: Albrecht Dürer - "Feast of the Rose Garlands" (1506) - Oil on poplar panel - painted for the church of San Bartolomeo, Fondaco dei Tedeschi, Venice. From the Czech National Gallery collection, on display at the Sternberg Palace in Prague in the Czech Republic.

The Czech art collection in the Schwartzenberg Palace is supplemented by the collections shown in the Sternberg Palace and Prgue Castle Gallery. The Sternberg Palace permanently houses the collection of old European Baroque Art, including paintings by El Greco, Rembrandt (portrait Scholar in his Study 1634) and Rubens. The gallery's proudest possession is Albrecht Durer's Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506). Other works include Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Jan Gossaert and the Brueghels, both father and son. The Chinese cabinet and and two fine Spanish works, El Greco's Head of Christ and a portrait by Goya of Don Miguel de Lardizabal. Italian renaissance works are represented by Andrea dells Robbia, Sebastiano del Piombo and Pietro delta Francesca. The Prague Castle Picture holds a vast collection of works of art gathered during and after the reign of Rudolf II, a big lover of art, who made Prague the cultural centre of Europe in his time. The permanent exhibition at the Prague Castle Picture Gallery offers the best 107 paintings and 3 statues selected from over 4,300 works of art in possession of Prague Castle. The oldest works in the collection come from the time of Rudolf II's, even though only a few of them remained. The exhibition shows paintings collected during the centuries. Among the artists, whose works are on display in the Prague Castle Picture Gallery, belong Adriaen de Vries (a copy of a bust of Rudolf II), Titian (The Toilet of a Young Lady), Rubens (The Assembly of the Olympic Gods), Guido Reni (The Centaur Nessus Abducting Deianeira), Master Theodoric, Paolo Veronese, Czech Baroque artists Jan Kupecky and Petr Brandl, and many others.

artwork: Raoul Dufy - "Female Nude", 1930 - Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 inches French Fauvist painter, his decorative style became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles. Private Collection on long term loan to the Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Veletrzni (Trades Fair) Palace in Prague.

Art of the 20th and 21 century, is displayed on three floors of the Trade Fair "Palace". Works by some of the world's best known artists of the last two centuries including Delacroix, Monet ("Two Women among the Flowers"), Renoir, Degas, Gauguin ("Flight"), Van Gogh ("Green Rye"), Cézanne, Matisse, Schiele, Klimt, Munch, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Pablo Picasso is represented by quite a few contrasting paintings, ranging from an impressive, primitivist Self Portrait, dating from 1907, to Clarinet (1911), a classic example of analytic Cubism. There are also works by Vlaminck, Derain, Braque, Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Leger, Marie Laurencin and Albert Marquet. The collection also includes sculptures from Rodin and Henri Laurens. Over 2,000 exhibits, varying from architecture, furniture, fashion, design, photographs, and paintings, are on show on a 13,500 square meter area. Until 27th March, the Trade Fair Palace is showing a selection of drawings by John Štursa (1880 -1925). Also on view are the finalists of the National Gallery's "333" competition for young artists. Other galleries included under the National Gallery umbrella include the Museum of Czech Cubism at the "house of the Black Madonna", focussing on the years 1910-1919, ie the most important stage of Cubism in the Czech lands. Painting is represented by works by Emil Filla, Bohumil Kubišta, Vincent Beneš, Josef Čapek, Antonín Procházka, Václav Spala, John Zrzavý, Otakar Nejedly and Otakar Kubin, with sculptures by Otto Gutfreund. The National Gallery's collection of Asian art is housed in the Zbraslav Chateau, The Monastery of St. George gallery shows 19th century Czech works, while the Monastery of St. Agnes gallery show medieval Bohemian art.

Eleanor Antin ~ "Historical Takes" solos at San Diego Museum of Art

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:47 PM PDT

artwork: Eleanor Antin - Judgment of Paris  (Blonde Helen), from the Helen's Odyssey series, chromogenic print, 62 x 118 in. - 2008 - Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts

SAN DIEGO, CA - The San Diego Museum of Art presents Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes, on view through November 2, 2008. Organized by SDMA, this solo exhibition features the work of celebrated conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin's recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based on Greek and Roman history and mythology, which are presented together for the first time.

Miami-Based Artist Hernan Bas Solos at the Brooklyn Museum

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:46 PM PDT

artwork: Hernan Bas - The Swan Prince, 2004 - Acrylic & gouache on canvas 30 x 40 in. - Rubell Family Collection, Miami,FL

BROOKLYN, NY.- Thirty-eight works of art in various media from one of Miami's most celebrated young artists, Hernan Bas, will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection draws from art collected over the past ten years by the Rubell family. Designed like the chapters of a book, this exhibition presents the development of Bas in a manner that can be read symbolically and literally. This exhibition will be on view from February 27–May 24, 2009 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Leonora Carrington ~ The Talismanic Lens ~ at Frey Norris Gallery

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:45 PM PDT

artwork: Leonora Carrington - Queria ser pajaro - Oil on canvas - 1960 46 ¾ x 35 ½ inches - at Frey Norris Gallery, SF

SAN FRANCISCO, CA . – Frey Norris Gallery presents "The Talismanic Lens," the result of a five year endeavor of collecting, studying and getting to know Leonora Carrington, one of the last surviving Surrealist artists and writers. It has been almost ten years since such a major collection of her work has been on display (her last solo exhibition in California was at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco in 1991). On exhibition 7 February through 30 March, 2008.

Edward Burtynsky "OIL" Photographic Exhibition at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:44 PM PDT

artwork: Edward Burtynsky - SOCAR Oil Fields #6, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006 Digital Chromogenic Color Print  48 x 72" ed of 6

New York, NY - HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER is pleased to announce the exclusive representation of Edward Burtynsky in the United States. HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER opens with "Edward Burtynsky: Oil". The exhibition runs until November 28, 2009.  "Oil" consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky's obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century - politically, economically and socially - on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. His obsession with oil has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East. 

The San Diego Museum of Art Receives Significant Collection from Sana Art Foundation

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:43 PM PDT

artwork: Zulu Puppets - Size: 7 1/2" 9 1/2 "11 - Prynnsberg Estate - These Zulu puppets are a highlight of the exhibit, collected by Charles Newberry of the Prynnsberg Estate - Courtesy the Sana Art Foundation

SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is acquiring a significant collection of works of art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas (AOA) as part of a newly formed alliance with the Sana Art Foundation, one of the largest collections of its kind in Southern California.The alliance includes the transfer from the Foundation to the Museum of more than 900 works of art from these regions across the globe. This transfer will increase the Museum's collection of African art from fewer than one hundred pieces to several hundred items, and it will have an even greater impact on the size and scope of the Oceanic collection.

Famous Los Angeles Sculptor Robert Graham Died at Age 70

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:42 PM PDT

artwork: From left: 'Fountain Figure No. 1', 'Fountain Figure No. 2', and 'Fountain Figure No. 3', bronze sculptures by Robert Graham,1983 - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

LOS ANGELES, CA - Los Angeles sculptor, Robert Graham, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Graham, who had been ill for about six months, was 70. Robert Graham (born August 19, 1938, in Mexico City died December 27, 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States of America. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America. In addition to his civic art, Graham was an active member of the art community.

The New National Museum of Monaco Shows Mark Dion's "Mysterious Seas" Exhibition

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT

artwork: Katharina Fritsch - "Oktopus", 2010 - Metal, polyester, wood and paint - 140 x 120 x 120 cm. - Courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery, © the artist. On view in the  "Oceanomania: Memories of Mysterious Seas, a project by Mark Dion" exhibition in Monaco until September 30th.

Monaco.- The Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (NMNM - The New National Museum of Monaco) is showing "Oceanomania: Memories of Mysterious Seas", a project by Mark Dion until September 30th at the Villa Paloma (one of the museum's two sites within the city state). Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, Mark Dion explores the American collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental collection of curiosities, and plunges into the collections of the New National Museum of Monaco (NMNM) to create a large-scale intervention.


MoMA New York Presents Impressions From South Africa ~ 100 Works By 30 Artists

Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:40 PM PDT

artwork: Sandile Goje - "Meeting of Two Cultures", 1993 - Linoleum cut - 50.8 x 61 cm.- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This work will be on display in the exhibition "Impression from South Africa, 1965 to Now" from March 23 to August 14, 2011 at MoMA.


New York (BWW News Desk).- The exhibition Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, brings together nearly 100 prints, posters, books, and wall stencils by approximately 30 artists and collectives from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that demonstrate the unusual reach, range, and impact of printmaking in South Africa during and after a period of political upheaval. From the earliest print, a 1965 linoleum cut by Azaria Mbatha, to screenprinted posters created during the height of the antiapartheid movement, to recent works by a younger generation that investigate a multiplicity of formats in the wake of apartheid, these works are striking examples of printed art as a tool for social, political, and personal expression. The exhibition is on view from March 23 to August 14, 2011. Among the artists included are Bitterkomix, Kudzanai Chiurai, Sandile Goje, William Kentridge, Senzeni Marasela, John Muafangejo, Cameron Platter, Claudette Schreuders, and Sue Williamson, with the majority of works and artists on view for the first time at MoMA and many for the first time within a U.S. museum. The exhibition Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now is organized by Judith B. Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, at The Museum of Modern Art.

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Posted: 08 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT

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