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- The Katherine Cone Gallery Presents Works by Jill Greenberg
- Woodward Gallery Shows Trendsetting Grafitti and Street Artists
- Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert present Zefrey Throwell Ocularpation: Wall Street
- 2012 Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation
- The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery to Show the Arts of Japan
- DC Moore Gallery Shows The Creative Spirit of the Art of David C. Driskell
- Pioneering American Photojournalist Eve Arnold Dies at Age 99
- Pablo Picasso painting of Notre-Dame to highlight Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction
- The Corning Museum to show Tiffany's Artistic Innovations of Blown Favrile Glass Works
- American Folk Art Museum features "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis"
- Bowers Museum hosts Major Retrospective by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero
- Eli Klein Fine Art hosts The Best of Chinese Contemporary Artists
- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts Jane Hammond ~ 'Paper Work'
- Christie's New York to offer Prints & Multiples: A Range of Style the Summer Sale
- Berkeley Art Museum surveys Enrique Chagoya 'Borderlandia'
- Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens "From Gaudí to Picasso"
- Palazzo dei Diamanti exhibits GiorgioMorandi / the Art of the Etching
- "Split Second"~ Todd Siler’s Ninth Exhibition at the Feldman Gallery
- High Museum of Art Hosts Masterworks from the Louvre’s Collections
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
| The Katherine Cone Gallery Presents Works by Jill Greenberg Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:49 PM PST  Los Angeles, California.- The Katherine Cone Gallery is pleased to present "Commentary and Dissent", an exhibition of works by artist Jill Greenberg, on view at the gallery from January 7th through February 4th. There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 7th , from 6-9 p.m. Despite Greenberg's known disdain for patriarchal constructs, the show's title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to her patrilineal history. Her husband's grandmother was the managing editor of "Commentary" when it was still progressive, and her father-in-law was a contributor to "Dissent." The images in this exhibition aggressively reassert the power of the image to confront and attack the viewer, and affirm Greenberg's practice as a transgressive, yet Pop, artist. The works refer back her days at Rhode Island School of Design, where she confronted viewers with socio-scopic commentary on the multiple iterations of power relations. Greenberg's unique lighting approach has become a visual meme, imitated everywhere, and her ability to record emotion and intense connection with the subject is recognized in her portraits of animals and children. "Commentary and Dissent" comprises several parallel series and related works. The largest project represented is "everyonehateseveryone". Whereas some of Greenberg's previous series showed animals to have human personalities, these exhibit people behaving like animals. The graphic figure studies are aggressively treated in post-production, destroying the boundary between painting and photography. While many painters use photographs as reference, painting photorealistically, she paints atop the image itself, making the photograph appear painting-like. The skin tones are reworked and colorations are added with a deft skill, which evinces the 22 years she has utilized digital manipulation. The scenes in the photographs all actually occurred as photographed. Ms. Greenberg digitally hand painted on these works with her stylus, in Photoshop, only to enhance the surface qualities, not to fabricate actions.   Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated with honors in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography. Greenberg moved to Los Angeles in 2000 where she met her husband Robert. In 2007 Greenberg was selected by French Photo Magazine for their 40th anniversary issue to represent one of the 40 most important photographers. She has done commercial work for corporations such as Philip Morris, Microsoft, Polaroid, Dreamworks, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Disney, Fox, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Smirnoff, MTV, Warner Bros., Sony Music, and Atlantic Records. Her photos have appeared on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Wired, Fast Company, Entertainment Weekly and numerous other publications. Celebrities and CEOs who have used her head shots and portraits include Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Jenkins.Her artwork has been featured in Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic and several other publications. Her monkey series has been purchased by art collectors worldwide. Her work has been shown at CLAMPART in New York and Fahey/Klein in Los Angeles. In addition, her artwork has been exhibited in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Paris, France; Adelaide, Australia; San Francisco; Chicago; and various other cities. Greenberg is credited by some within the commercial photography industry as having produced several unique styles that have since been emulated by other photographers. "Like LaChapelle and Avedon, Jill has pioneered a new style of photography, and her impact can be seen throughout the entertainment industry", the creative director of a Los Angeles creative agency told Brief magazine, with the publication itself characterizing her work as employing "distinctive ethereal backlighting." A president of NBC Entertainment Marketing who has employed Greenberg on a number of occasions due to what he terms her "distinct and innovative aesthetic" observed that "many other photographers follow her lead." Greenberg herself has acknowledged having made particular use of digital post production, adapting the nickname "The Manipulator" early in her career due in part to her relatively early adoption of Photoshop, a product she has used since its release in 1990. Nonetheless, she told an interviewer in 2011 that some of what her fans believe to be post production is instead the result of close attention to lighting, merely supplemented with minor "flourishes" afterwards. Greenberg suggested in a 1998 New York Times article on female gamers that her affinity for technology came from her mother: "My mom was a math buff and a science major in college. ... In 1964, she became a COBOL programmer and helped support my father through med school. She used to write programs on keypunch cards for mainframes." The Katherine Cone Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located at 2673 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles. The gallery has a particularly sharp focus on contemporary art of all types and media, and represents artists including Sean Cheetham, Jill Greenberg, Benjamin Bryce Kelley, Miles "Mac" MacGregor, Rose Masterpol, Vanessa Prager, Samuel Stabler, Anthony Michael Sneed. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.katherineconegallery.com |
| Woodward Gallery Shows Trendsetting Grafitti and Street Artists Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:30 PM PST  New York City.- The Woodward Gallery is pleased to present "Rather Unique: A Group Show Curated by Royce Bannon", on view at the gallery from January 7th through February 19th 2012. There will be an artist reception on Saturday, January 7th from 6 to 8pm. This exhibition will highlight a group of trendsetting artists who stand out in street and graffiti genres. The artists include: Cassius Fowler, Celso, Chris RWK, Cope2, Darkcloud, H.veng.Smith, Indie184, infinity, KA, Keely, Kenji Nakayama, Kosbe, Matt Siren, Moody, Nose Go, Royce B, Russell King, UR New York, Veng, and Wrona. |
| Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert present Zefrey Throwell Ocularpation: Wall Street Posted: 06 Jan 2012 10:02 PM PST  NEW YORK, N.Y.- Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert present the exhibition Ocularpation: Wall Street by Zefrey Throwell , from January 6-February 11, 2012, featuring photographs, paintings, video, and sculpture. The exhibition centers around a large-scale continuous video projection of Ocularpation: Wall Street, created on August 1, 2011, in which 50 performers directed by Zefrey Throwell, gathered outdoors on Wall Street, stripped down to nothing, and began working in a call for transparency that caught fire and spread across the globe. The experience and documentation of Ocularpation informs the varied works in the exhibition. A series of acrylic paintings, using signature Wall Street blue trader jackets sewn together as the canvas, are collaged with photographs of the performances. Fifty sculptures of everyday objects, relating to the Wall Street professions (i.e. broom—janitorial, handcuffs—police, piggybank— banker, etc.), have been coated with a thin veneer of gold enamel, thereby transforming them into precious artworks. Zefrey, who used nudity so powerfully as a symbol of exposure and transparency in the Ocularpation performance and the recent strip poker game I'll Raise you One… at Art in General, uses gold in this body of work in reference to the current American financial dream, sold as a glittering jewel, but in fact is a fantasy whose value is speculation. |
| 2012 Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:24 PM PST  PARIS.- Following the deliberations of the Contemporary Drawing Prize's committee, the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation has announced the names of the three selected artists for the 2012 award. The award ceremony will take place on the 29th of March, 2012 during the Salon du Dessin at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris. The winner will receive an endowment of 15.000 euros and the two other selected artists will receive 2.500 euros each. A work by the winner is offered by the Foundation to the Graphic Arts Department of the National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou. |
| The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery to Show the Arts of Japan Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:23 PM PST Nashville, Tennessee.- The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "The Arts of Japan", on view from January 12th through February 26th 2012. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the Fine Arts Gallery's permanent collection which houses over 1,300 Japanese works, encompassing both fine and applied art. Highlights of the exhibition will include two six-panel screen paintings: an early seventeenth-century work illustrating scenes from the Tale of Gengi and an eighteenth-century work featuring vignettes of daily life in Kyoto, each a masterful example of Japanese painting executed in mineral colors and gold leaf; a wide range of fine ceramics from blue and white porcelain to works by artists associated with the rebirth of the Japanese folk art movement; scroll paintings; over fifty woodblock prints by recognized masters of the medium; exquisite examples of lacquer, some embellished with gold and silver; and a selection of illustrated rare books. Two scroll paintings depicting winter landscapes will be on display which new research has revealed to have a surprising connection. One is by 17th century painter Kano Naonobu. The other, previously thought to be by an unknown artist, has recently been securely attributed to Kano Yasunobu, the younger brother of Naonobu. These brothers, each a skillful artist in his own right, were descendants of the Kano family who led the influential Kano School of painting. For centuries, the Kano family dominated official painting in Japan, passing their closely guarded inkpainting techniques among their family and to a select group of apprentices. "The Arts of Japan" will mark the first time these scroll paintings have been exhibited together as works by the same prominent family of artists.  The exhibition will also feature outstanding examples of graphic arts by such influential nineteenth-century Ukiyo-e artists as Utagawa Kunisada I, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Japanese for "pictures of the floating world," Ukiyo-e prints were usually characterized by themes of ephemeral beauty or pleasure, often including scenes of Japanese landscapes, attractive courtesans, and the theater. Among the featured Ukiyo-e prints, several will be from Yoshitoshi's popular series Yoshitoshi Ryakuga (Sketches by Yoshitoshi). These prints, illustrating episodes from Japanese folklore and history, show a comedic and light-hearted side of this typically dark artist. Select prints from Utagawa Hiroshige's series Fifty-Three Staions of the Tokaido Road will also be on view. This series, drawn from Hiroshige's own travels on the Tokaido Road connecting Edo, modern day Tokyo, to Kyoto, was the artist's first attempt at a landscape print series and eventually contributed to his status as the foremost artist of topographical prints of his time. "The Arts of Japan" will also allow visitors to view the evolution of Japanese printmaking in the twentieth century through examples by artists of the shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga movements. After the decline of Ukiyo-e in the late nineteenth century, the shin-hanga (literally "new prints") movement, begun in 1912, sought to revive the subjects and style of the traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e, in some instances with added traces of Western aesthetics. At the same time, the sosaku-hanga (translated as "creative prints") movement rejected the traditional division of labor in Japanese printmaking for a more Western method in which a single artist completed every step of the printmaking process, thus allowing for greater individual artistic control and expression. Examples from shin-hanga artists such as Takahashi Hiroaki (Shotei) and Tsuchiya Koitsu as well as sosaku-hanga artists such as Joichi Hoshi and Reika Iwami will be on display. The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, is a leading collegiate art gallery. Beginning with Anna C. Hoyt's generous donation of 105 Old Master and modern prints more than 50 years ago, the collection has continued to flourish and increase the depth, diversity, and number of its holdings. Now totaling more than 5,500 works, it serves to illustrate the history of world art in its most creative and comprehensive aspects. This art historical collection is the only one of its kind in the area, serving the needs of students and the wider community. The collection has grown to include strong works in East Asian art with the Harold P. Stern Collection, the Chauncey P. Lowe Collection, and the Herman D. Doochin Collection; European Old Master paintings with the Samuel H. Kress Collection; paintings from the Barbizon school; and African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian art and artifacts from the Marjorie and Leon Marlowe Collection. In recent years, the gallery has sought to increase its holdings of works by internationally recognized contemporary artists. Examples from this portion of the collection include Arion Press' Biotherm by Frank O'Hara with lithographs by Jim Dine; Louis Bourgeois and Arthur Miller's Homely Girl, A Life, published by Peter Blum Editions; Paesaggi by Mimmo Paladino, published by Waddington Graphics; Leslie Dill's A Word Made Flesh and her Homage to N.S., published by Landfall Press; and Enrique Chagoya's The Enlightened Savage, published by Trillium Press; as well as graphics by artists such as Tjeu Teeuwen, Peter Foolen, Hans Waanders, Kees Verbeck, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Long, Joseph Kosuth, Roni Horn, Mona Hatoum, Hamish Fulton, and Sol LeWitt. In addition to gifts of important pieces from university supporters, objects have been acquired through corporate and special purchases made possible with funds from the Vanderbilt Art Association, the Dr. and Mrs. E. William Ewers Gift for Fine Arts, and numerous private donors. The Fine Arts Collection is used for the development of temporary exhibitions as well as for student study and research. Therefore the entire collection is not on view in its entirety at any given time; however, the majority of the collection can be explored through our Collection DatabaseAdmission is free and the public is welcome to attend. Visit the gallery's website at ... www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery |
| DC Moore Gallery Shows The Creative Spirit of the Art of David C. Driskell Posted: 06 Jan 2012 09:01 PM PST  NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the art of David Driskell and in honor of his eightieth birthday, DC Moore Gallery's new exhibition, Creative Spirit: The Art of David C. Driskell, features outstanding examples of his work from more than five decades. In his paintings, drawings, and collages, Driskell unites a strong modernist impulse with personal vision, memory, and aspects of traditional culture. As an artist, scholar, and curator, he has made many contributions to the field that have changed the way we think about African American art. Organized by co-‐curators Julie L. McGee and Adrienne L. Childs for the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, the exhibition continues at DC Moore through February 4th. |
| Pioneering American Photojournalist Eve Arnold Dies at Age 99 Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:46 PM PST  London (BBC).- Eve Arnold, the celebrated American photojournalist whose famous subjects included Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X, has died in London at the age of 99. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in April 1912, she was the first female to be admitted to the famous photographic co-operative Magnum. Arnold shot her generation's greatest movie stars, including Paul Newman, Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor. A long standing resident of London, in 2003 she became an OBE for her services to photography. Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher and Marlene Dietrich were among her many other celebrated subjects, but she was equally well known for her pictures of migrant labourers, New York bartenders, Cuban fishermen and Afghan nomads. A sharp critic of McCarthyism, apartheid, poverty and social injustice, she lived with hippy communes and the Black Power movement. She also spent time in the Arab States, documenting life there in pictures that were published in 1971 under the title Behind the Veil. During the 1970's she was granted a rare visa that enabled her to complete a landmark project in China. According to a Magnum spokeswoman, Arnold died peacefully on Wednesday in a London nursing home. |
| Pablo Picasso painting of Notre-Dame to highlight Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction Posted: 06 Jan 2012 08:25 PM PST  LONDON.- Alongside the beautiful Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs by Amedeo Modigliani (£700,000-1,000,000), Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 at 101 New Bond Street, London, includes an exciting selection of works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall, Candido Portinari and Carlos Nadal. A stunning painting of Notre Dame de Paris by Pablo Picasso is a highlight. Here Picasso has taken a subject he knows well, via his walks to, and the view from, his studio, but he chooses to challenge the truth in order to explore artistic aims other than realism. He toys with the artistic conventions of perspective and scale to leave the viewer separated from reality and immersed instead into Picasso's own pictorial truth. Dated 1954, it is one of his later landscapes, but it shows the influence of his earlier experiments with Cubism. By October 1954, when it was completed, the artist was falling in love with a woman who would later become his wife - Jacqueline Roque. |
| The Corning Museum to show Tiffany's Artistic Innovations of Blown Favrile Glass Works Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:50 PM PST
 The decorative vases and functional vessels on view—including floral vases and cameo and Cypriot works—were made with Tiffany's signature Favrile glass, distinguished by its deeply toned, rich colors and often brilliant, iridescent finish. Trademarked in 1894, Favrile glass (the name is derived from the old English "fabrile" meaning "hand-wrought") quickly became fashionable and inspired many other designers. The pieces in Tiffany Treasures are drawn primarily from the A. Douglas Nash and Edythe de Lorenzi Collections at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and from the rarely seen Frank and Mary Elizabeth Reifschlager collection of Tiffany glass donated by the couple to the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY, in the early 1990s. "This assemblage of beautiful blown glass objects reflects Tiffany's bold departure from the often fussy, predominantly Victorian style of the times in favor of more natural, sophisticated, and modern forms," says Jane Shadel Spillman, curator of American glass. "He created some of his finest work in the first quarter century of production, between 1893 and 1918." Tiffany Treasures also includes a stunning, highly unusual Tiffany Peacock blown glass lamp. The lamp was donated to the Corning Museum fully shattered, but has now returned to its full glory after a painstaking three-month restoration process by Museum conservators. "The Corning Museum of Glass is one of the very few places where we can admire Tiffany's glass, and (in the Rakow Library) examine his original designs and his collaborators' notebooks, and see what his contemporaries accomplished, and watch glassmakers demonstrating some of the techniques that Tiffany's glassmakers used," says David Whitehouse, the Corning Museum's executive director.  The Corning Museum of Glass also hosts the largest permanent gallery of glass by Tiffany's chief artistic and commercial rival, Frederick Carder, who was Steuben Glass Works' manager and principal designer from 1903 to 1932. During the run of the Tiffany Treasures exhibition, visitors will be able to examine and compare a variety of blown works by these two contemporaries. From November 2, 2009, to April 30, 2010, the Museum's Rakow Research Library, the library of record on glass and glassmaking, will present Tiffany Treasures: Design Drawings by Alice Gouvy and Lillian Palmié, a complementary exhibition showcasing eight recently restored watercolor sketches by two of Tiffany's largely unacknowledged female employees from the enamel department of Tiffany Furnaces. Seven of the drawings bear Gouvy and Palmié's signatures, now made more clearly discernible thanks to the conservation work. The drawings depict plants and flowers in their natural state, forms that served as inspiration for much of Tiffany's work. The Rakow Research Library also holds in its collection archives from Frederick Carder and from Arthur J. Nash, Tiffany's master glassmaker. Nash developed the unique formula for Favrile glass, which he never shared with anyone, including Tiffany. This coded recipe is part of his collection of notebooks and journals, acquired by the Library in 2004 along with unpublished letters and handwritten notes. Visit The Corning Museum of Glass at : http://www.cmog.org/ |
| American Folk Art Museum features "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis" Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:49 PM PST
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| Bowers Museum hosts Major Retrospective by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:48 PM PST
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| Eli Klein Fine Art hosts The Best of Chinese Contemporary Artists Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:47 PM PST
New York - Eli Klein Fine Art is pleased to present our 2010 Winter Show. This group exhibition features the work of some of the Gallery's most-established artists as well as our highly promising emerging artists. This eclectic group includes Cathy Daley, Chen Qiang, Hung Tung-lu, Jiang Huan, Liu Yan, Luo Qing, Meeson Pae Yang, Miao Xiaochun, Sophie De Francesca, Wei Dong, Zhang Lujiang, Zhao Kailin, and Zhang Dali. On exhibition through 1 March, 2010. Eli Klein Fine Art has, over the last year, hosted several important solo exhibitions at the Gallery for artists Zhang Peng, Luo Qing, Xiao Se, and Ma Bing. For each of these artists, our show was their first solo exhibition in the United States and represented a major step in the advancement of their careers. In addition to these landmark shows, Eli Klein Fine Art has produced several significant group shows over this past year, including, Redefining Surrealism, Passing by China, and Chasing Flames. Each exhibit brought together some of China's finest contemporary artists, showcasing some of their work for the first time in the United States.
Eli Klein Fine Art is located in the heart of SOHO on West Broadway, situated amongst many of New York's finest galleries and art establishments. Its street-level location boasts 4,000 square feet of exhibition space spread over two floors. Eli Klein Fine Art's strong curatorial department collaborates with prominent museums, private collections and galleries across the world, allowing new Chinese art to become more accessible to a larger audience. Eli Klein Fine Art's artists are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other internationally renowned museums. Below is the artist statement of artist Zhao Kailin. One of the most important and critically acclaimed Chinese masters of contemporary realism working today, painter Zhao Kailin was born in 1961 in Bengbu in southeast China. Zhao Kailin felt, even as a young child, that he wanted to be an artist. "By the age of eight, I knew I wanted to be a painter," Zhao relates. "It was my second grade teacher in elementary school who taught me basic painting skills and encouraged and challenged me. Most important, she taught me how to soar with imaginary wings through the secret world of art." Under her tutelage, Zhao's painting abilities matured, so much so that his work began appearing in children's juried art exhibitions in Bengbu. In 1988, Zhao Kailin was accepted for graduate studies at the prestigious oil painting department of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, China's most illustrious and rigorous fine arts institution. "From 1988 to 1990, I studied there and learned traditional western-style oil painting," states Zhao. "It was the most important period of art studies in my life." During this period of intensive training, Zhao was exposed to the galvanizing portraits of Dutch Renaissance master Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) and was immediately taken with the work's luxuriant brushwork, jewel-like color and commanding manipulation of light and shadow inspired by Italian Renaissance painter Carravagio (1573-1610). It was during this same time that Zhao also became enamoured of the elegantly voluptuous society portraiture of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Sargent's Madame X (1884), a full-figure portrait of a mysterious porcelain-skinned woman dressed in a long black dress that scandalized Paris's Salon of 1884, most certainly has left its silky mark on many of Zhao Kailin's portrait paintings.
More recently, Zhao's work has concentrated on depicting beautiful, introspective young women, most of whom are Asian and dressed in traditional Chinese attire. Several of the latest pieces feature females with musical instruments. These paintings capture the essential aura of young women suspended between the innocence of childhood and the smoldering sexuality of womanhood, evoking a sense of longing, dreams and desire. "Every painting I do involves personal stories and memories," Zhao explains. "I am always striving to communicate not only the beauty and unspoken personal narratives of these women, but also the inherent beauty of Chinese culture and life." Zhao Kailin's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. and is a part of notable public and private art collections. Winner of a number of awards for his work, and has been an influential mentor to a number of other painters. For further information, please contact the gallery at (212) 255-4388 or info@ekfineart.com. Eli Klein Fine art is located at 462 West Broadway in between Prince and Houston streets, New York, NY 10012. Please visit our website at: www.ekfineart.com . |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts Jane Hammond ~ 'Paper Work' Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:46 PM PST  Detroit, MI - The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts the special exhibition Jane Hammond: Paper Work . The exhibition features Hammond's unique works on paper made over the last 15 years from a myriad of techniques and materials, along with prints and books. All of the objects rely on the artist's "vocabulary" of 276 borrowed images which she has manipulated endlessly to produce visually rich and mentally stimulating compositions that provoke thought, feeling, and new meaning about interaction and communication. Zany and mysterious, the works are flat and three-dimensional, large and small, painted and drawn, photographed, and printed. |
| Christie's New York to offer Prints & Multiples: A Range of Style the Summer Sale Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:45 PM PST
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| Berkeley Art Museum surveys Enrique Chagoya 'Borderlandia' Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:44 PM PST
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| Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens "From Gaudí to Picasso" Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:43 PM PST
>However, there is an exception with Gaudí, whose figure is essential to appreciate Modernism. Hence, the exhibition gives special consideration to Julio González and Joan González, and analyses themes such as Casas and Rusiñol, painters of modern life; Symbolism in Catalonia; the Gaudí phenomenon; Mir and Anglada Camarasa; Nonell and Misérabilisme; Picasso and the Catalan community in Paris; the classicist inflection; and the end of Modernism. The last great modernist painter was Isidre Nonell. Belonging to the same generation as Picasso and Julio González, his work represents the clearest manifestation of misérabilisme with a synthetic language that is combined with early European Expressionism. This theme is shared by other artists and is essential in the blue period that would place Picasso in the avant-gardes.  The 125 works that the exhibition compiles come from different museums, foundations, state and private entities, and private collectors, such as the MNAC, Museu Picasso, Museu de Montserrat, the Real Càtedra Gaudí from the UPC, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Junta Constructora del Temple de la Sagrada Família, the Masaveu Collection, the Cau Ferrat de Sitges Collection, Fundación Francisco Godia, Reina Sofía Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the El Prado Museum, and the IVAM, among others. The catalogue of the exhibition includes the works on display and texts by Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Francesc Fontbona, Mercé Doñate, Marilyn McCully, Tomàs Llorens and Boye Llorens. Catalan modernism was a short but intense cultural movement: its splendour lasted around twenty years, from the second half of the 1880 decade to the second half or the end of the first decade of the 20th century. It was an intense movement that left a deep mark in collective memory and was registered in all the manifestations of Spanish and Catalan cultural history of the contemporary age. One of the reasons is found in the association of the movement with the names of two universal artists, Gaudí and Picasso. The importance of architecture and the decorative arts in the image of Modernism is a natural consequence of the kind of economic and social changes of the time when it took place. The urban development of the city of Barcelona had a great influence on the origin of the movement, determined the sociocultural framework, and contributed to it with many of its contents. Catalan society, which had been industrialised in the second half of the 19th century, especially in the Restoration period, was a key factor in that process because of the growing role of the city like a national and international centre of commerce and communications, and because of the attraction that the city had on labour, who moved to Barcelona from the rest of Spain, making possible the industrial growth and development. With the second generation the exhibition shows the influence of the spiritualist wave on the development of Modernism. Associated with the activity in the Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc, which Gaudí belonged to, this trend rejected materialist progress and the kind of positivism that inspired the Belle Epoque, and exploited the resources of Symbolism, which extended from Northern Europe, to create a more distinctive image of Modernism.
Modernist enthusiasm faded away quickly in Barcelona along the first decade of the 20th century. This decline had an impact on the artists of the second modernist generation, and influenced their eventual and future contributions to the avant-gardes of the 20th century. The great figure in those years was, undoubtedly, Picasso. Around him we find other young artists like Hugué, Canals, Sunyer, and the brothers Joan and Julio González. They all lived in Paris and were known in the artistic media of the capital of France as "la bande catalane". At the end of the first decade of the 20th century there was a deep change in sensitiveness that moved towards Classicism and constituted a clear division with Modernism. This shift determined the substitution of Modernism by Noucentisme as the general trend in Catalan culture in the first years of the second decade of the 20th century. |
| Palazzo dei Diamanti exhibits GiorgioMorandi / the Art of the Etching Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:42 PM PST
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| "Split Second"~ Todd Siler’s Ninth Exhibition at the Feldman Gallery Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:41 PM PST  New York, NY - Split <-> Second, Todd Siler's ninth exhibition at the Feldman Gallery, includes paintings, sculptures, and drawings that take as their subject the processes of the brain and its connection with the physical laws of nature. An artist with a background in brain science, Siler transforms the gallery space into an observatory for contemplating what our eyes may not see but our intuitions can sense: life-changing events happen in less than a split-second. This rapidly changing reality makes countless critical decisions increasingly difficult especially as we respond to global challenges that impact our present-future. On view May 14 through June 18th. |
| High Museum of Art Hosts Masterworks from the Louvre’s Collections Posted: 06 Jan 2012 07:40 PM PST
ATLANTA, GA – In October 2006, the High Museum of Art will launch an unprecedented, three-year partnership with the Musée du Louvre that will bring hundreds of works of art from Paris to Atlanta. Through the "Louvre Atlanta" partnership, the High will present a series of long-term, thematic exhibitions featuring masterworks from the Louvre's collections, many of which have never been seen before in the United States. By Artists Such As Raphael, Poussin, Rembrandt and Velasquez. Lead patronage for the project has been provided by longtime High Museum Board Member Anne Cox Chambers, who is joined by Accenture as Presenting Partner, and UPS, Turner Broadcasting Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Airlines and AXA Art Insurance as Lead Corporate Partners. The central exhibition of the first year, "Kings as Collectors," will feature 32 works assembled during the reigns of Kings Louis XIV and Louis XVI, including two very special masterpieces from the Louvre's collection—Raphael's "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" and Nicolas Poussin's "Et in Arcadia Ego." The exhibition will be on view from October 14, 2006 through September 2, 2007 in the High's new Anne Cox Chambers Wing, which will be devoted exclusively to "Louvre Atlanta" for the entire three-year partnership.
"This is an unprecedented opportunity to share many remarkable masterpieces from the Louvre with audiences from throughout the Southeast," said Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art. "The 'Louvre Atlanta' collaboration continues the High's longstanding strategy of partnering with international institutions to bring the world's great art to Atlanta. The project will allow both the Louvre and the High to grow educational initiatives both inside and beyond museum walls, to deepen the visitor experience, and to advance scholarship and professional development." "This is a great opportunity for the Louvre to develop international collaborations with art institutions in new cities like Atlanta," said Henri Loyrette, President/Director of the Musée du Louvre. "The High Museum brings a level of national stature and experience to this partnership that will benefit the Louvre. We have much to learn from one another and look forward to a mutually beneficial exchange of art and ideas." "Louvre Atlanta" Year One Exhibitions
At the center of the exhibition will be a special presentation of Raphael's "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione," one of the top treasures from the Louvre's permanent collection. On view October 14, 2006 through January 28, 2007, the portrait has never left Paris to travel to the United States according to the Louvre's records. Admired over the years by art historians and artists alike—including Rembrandt and Rubens who produced their own studies of the painting—Raphael's portrait of the famous humanist embodies the same ideals of casual grace, or sprezzatura, that Castiglione himself advocated in his famous work, Raphael's portrait will be replaced by another Louvre treasure, Nicolas Poussin's "Et in Arcadia Ego." Recalling the works of Raphael and the Renaissance masters in subject matter and style, Poussin's masterpiece is considered to be the defining example of French classicism. On view through January 28, 2007, the exhibition will showcase masterworks from major early private collections, such as Eberhard Jabach and Pierre-Jean Mariette, which entered the royal collections in the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as works by major French artists who served the crown, such as Le Brun, Boel, Mignard and Coypel. Other featured artists will include Grünwald, Dürer, Rembrandt, Rubens and Watteau. A highlight of the exhibition is Raphael's "Head of an Angel," which was a study for the famous Vatican fresco "The Expulsion of Heliodorus." The second focus exhibition of the first year is "Decorative Arts of the Kings," on view March 3, 2007 through September 2, 2007. The exhibition will feature decorative arts commissioned for the courts of Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, and will explore works that convey the royal and princely tastes for the decorative arts during the last 100 years of the Ancien Régime. These works also show the dexterity and excellence of the French artisans in the royal factories, which were largely subsidized by Louis XIV and his two successors. The presentation includes fine examples of furniture, tapestry, ceramics and silver by manufacturers such as Les Gobelins and Sèvres, and artists such as Germain and Auguste, whose influence can still be seen today. "Louvre Atlanta" Year Two and Three Exhibitions
Year two will also include a focus exhibition presenting the work of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whose portraiture included some of the prominent intellectual and political figures of the time, such as Diderot and Voltaire, as well as our founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. A second focus exhibition will reassemble for the first time an important and influential collection of Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris. Year three of "Louvre Atlanta" will consider the Louvre of today and tomorrow. Exhibitions under development for this year will explore the impact of the Louvre's collections on the art world today. Partnership Support The total budget for "Louvre Atlanta" is estimated at $18 million. This includes a $6.4 million payment by the High which will go towards the restoration of the Louvre's 18th-century French decorative arts galleries. The balance of the budget offsets the development of the "Louvre Atlanta" partnership. To date, the High Museum of Art has raised more than $13 million in support of this project. Lead patronage for the project has been provided by longtime High Museum Board Member Anne Cox Chambers. For more information about the Musée du Louvre, please visit www.louvre.fr. High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org |
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Two shorter focus exhibitions featuring drawings and decorative items from the royal collections will complement "Kings as Collectors" with consecutive presentations throughout the year. On view concurrently with "Kings as Collectors" through January 28, 2007, "The King's Drawings" will bring together approximately 60 works from the Louvre's extensive holdings to become one of the most significant exhibitions of old master drawings ever mounted in the Southeastern United States. More than two thirds of these works have never been exhibited in the United States. From March 3, 2007 through September 2, 2007, "Decorative Arts of the Kings" will showcase luxury items manufactured for the Royal Families and their court—none of which, according to the Louvre's records, have traveled to the United States since they entered the Louvre's collection. 
Over the course of the three-year partnership, "Louvre Atlanta" will trace the history and development of the Louvre from the 17th century through the present. The three exhibitions in year one will focus on the genesis of the royal collection of the pre-Revolutionary Régime—the works collected by the Kings before the Louvre was converted from a palace to a museum during the late 18th century and that make up the heart of the Louvre's collections. The central exhibition, "Kings as Collectors," will be composed primarily of paintings, sculptures and antiquities from the collections of Kings Louis XIV and Louis XVI—the two most important collectors of the 17th and 18th centuries. "Kings as Collectors" will feature paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Murillo and Poussin, among others, as well as a group of sculptures that allow for a better understanding of Louis XIV's dual role as collector and patron. 
Year two of "Louvre Atlanta" will consider the Louvre's collection growth and development during the Napoleonic reign and the Enlightenment, when there was an increased interest in ancient art and archaeology. The central exhibition will feature masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include works from the Louvre's Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities departments. | You are subscribed to email updates from Art News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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