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The Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans Displays Works by Tina Girourard & Robert Gordy

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:01 PM PDT

artwork: Robert Gordy - "Rimbaud's Dream #2", 1971 - Acrylic on canvas - 82" x 64". New Orleans Museum of Art. On view at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans in "Patterns and Prototypes: Tina Girouard & Robert Gordy" until September 25th.

New Orleans.- The Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans is proud to present "Patterns and Prototypes: Tina Girouard and Robert Gordy", on view at the center until September 25th. Of the many art movements that took place in the United States during the latter part of the 20th century, few have consistently lacked critical and historical reassessment to the extent experienced by the Pattern and Decoration (P&D) movement that took the New York art world by storm from the mid 1970s until the early 1980s. During its heyday, such stars of the P&D movement as Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnell, Joyce Kozloff, and Robert Zakanitch promoted a freeform, sensual use of patterned motifs in their work, fusing abstraction and representation in a distinctively pleasure-based aesthetic that was embraced as a significant departure from the more conceptualized approach of Post-Minimal art and Earthworks.


Unbeknownst to most casual observers, two Louisiana artists-Tina Girouard and Robert Gordy-played a formative role in the P&D movement, and as part of its 35th Birthday program, the CAC presents "Patterns and Prototypes", an exhibition focused on early works by these two pioneering figures.

Tina Girouard was originally from Louisiana, but moved to New York in the 1960's attracted by the creative fever of the city's contemporary art movements. In New York, she met and worked with musicians Richard Landry and the Philip Glass Ensemble and performance artists such as Gordon Matta Clark, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, Laurie Anderson, Sonnier, Deborah Hay and the Natural History of the American Dancer, among others. She was an early founding participant of many cutting edge artistic developments, including, 112 Greene St., FOOD, the Clocktower and PS1, Creative Time, Performance Art and the Fabric Workshop. After a fire destroyed her building in 1979, she her main studio back to Louisiana. From her base there, she helping to promote Louisiana's culture by creating visual arts venues and an international festival. Since 1990, she has maintained a studio in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Girouard has received numerous fellowships and grants, and her works are in museums and private collections around the world.

artwork: Tina Girouard - "Accordian Home", 1984-1989 - Sequins, beads, and pearls on hand-printed silkscreen cotton - 38" x 42". - Collection Carol Goodden. On view at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans until September 25th.

Louisiana artist Robert Gordy was known for his complex acrylic paintings which featured patterning and repetition, and linear shapes in a flat pictorial space in closely-keyed colors. In the early 1980s, the human head began to emerge as an important element in his paintings and in a series of monotypes created in Santa Fe. Invited to a residency at Graphicstudio in 1983, Gordy created his first etchings in aquatint. Many works make direct references to African sculpture, which Gordy collected. Gordy had solo exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York and the Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans. He was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial, and the 21st National Print Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, among many other exhibitions. Born in Louisiana in 1933, Gordy died in 1989.

The Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans is a multi-disciplinary arts center, dedicated to the presentation, production and promotion of the art of our time. The CAC is a cultural leader. As such, it organizes, presents and tours curated exhibitions, performances and programs by local, regional, national and international artists. It demonstrates proactive local and regional leadership by educating children and adults; cultivating and growing audiences; and initiating and encouraging collaboration among diverse artists, institutions, communities and supporters. The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) was formed in the fall of 1976 by a passionate group of visual artists when the movement to tear down the walls between visual and performing arts was active nationwide. The CAC began as an artist-run, artist-driven community organization in the nearly empty arts district of New Orleans. As the burgeoning arts district grew, so did the CAC, evolving to meet the increasing needs of a diverse audience and artist communities. Renovated in 1990, and donated to the CAC in 1999, the CAC's building mixes the timelessness of New Orleans' historic architecture with contemporary materials and usable open spaces. Throughout the CAC's 35 years, the center has remained active in the visual and performing arts and arts education communities, continuing to represent an era of creative freedom and multi-disciplinary expression.

artwork: Robert Gordy - "Boxville Tangle #4", 1972 - Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. - At the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans until September 25th.

Today, the CAC is one out of a handful of nationwide arts organizations who have remained solvent and successful while serving a truly multi-disciplinary mission. Currently dedicating two floors, about 10,000 square feet of gallery space, on the 4-story building to rotating exhibitions throughout the year, the CAC is home to artists' bold experiments in painting, theater, photography, performance art, dance, music, video, education, and sculpture. Since 2006, the CAC has awarded $350,000 in grants to individual New Orleans' artists who were affected by Hurricane Katrina through the CAC Theatre Arts Fund and the SweetArts Katrina Fund. Offering creative outlets and opportunities, the CAC's education department successfully engages over 10,000 children and adults annually, including those with special needs and those from economically deprived backgrounds. The CAC's education and outreach projects offer intimate arts education settings where students, most for the first time, work together with artists, generating a greater impact through more personal, interactive experiences. The CAC's significance and role in the cultural community of New Orleans has and always will be cemented in its broad community-based programs and initiatives. Visit the center's website at ... http://www.cacno.org

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Hosts Emerging Artist Hiro Sakaguchi

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

artwork: Hiro Sakaguchi - "Bear Fishing", 2008 - Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of © the artist. On view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in "Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go" until August 28th.

Philadelphia, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is proud to presents "Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go", on view at the museum until August 28th. The series of exhibitions by emerging artists continues with a presentation of works by Philadelphia artist Hiro Sakaguchi. A 1996 graduate of PAFA, Sakaguchi creates fictional worlds in drawings, paintings, and sculptures where human endeavor and interconnections are juxtaposed with natural forces in images that explore the tension between dreams and reality. In Sakaguchi's world, the violent event is defused and diffused through the miraculous transformations that drawing and painting can effect. The ammunition shot from tanks and planes in "Explosion Flowers" (2010) bursts into a bouquet of colorful blooms, while a volcano erupts in "Secret of Mt. Asama" (2010) like an engine spitting jetliners into the sky and taking passengers to far off places.


Eva Struble's Third Solo Exhibition of Paintings at the Lombard Freid Projects

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:49 PM PDT

artwork: Eva Struble - " Navy Yard ", 2011 - Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 x 78 inches. - Photo: Courtesy Lombard Freid Projects.

NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard Freid Projects presents Landsmen, Eva Struble's third solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery. Having explored decaying corners of Baltimore, Brooklyn and Barcelona through a socio-environmental lens for painting, Struble has returned her focus on an abandoned pocket of America's most populated city: the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With her audacious use of pinks, reds and greens combined with a sensual application and removal of paint, Struble continues to seduce the viewers as she investigates the edge of real landscape and visceral abstraction. On view 30 June until 29 July.

The Woodlawn Cemetery Designated National Historic Landmark

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:36 PM PDT

artwork: The Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx is one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. Established in 1863, the cemetery is 400 acres of rolling lawns, spectacular trees and impressive memorials designed by many of the nation's most accomplished artists and architects.

BRONX, NY.-
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that The Woodlawn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark—the highest recognition accorded to the nation's most historically significant properties. Woodlawn, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary beginning next year, is one of the nation's finest examples of a 19th-century garden cemetery. It is home to the largest and most distinguished collection of historic mausoleums in the nation, and is a still active cemetery. The designation recognizes its outstanding landscape design and collection of art and architecture. The designation also recognizes Woodlawn's significant role in memorializing and celebrating prominent Americans, who shaped American history and culture. Since Woodlawn's founding in 1863, 310,000 people—from Gilded Age magnates to pioneers for women's rights to Harlem Renaissance writers and musicians, as well as artists, athletes, and ordinary citizens— have been interred on the cemetery's 400 acres.

Anja Kirschner & David Panos Open the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart's Archives for Exhibition

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:22 PM PDT

artwork: George Grosz - "Menschen in der Straße", 1920/21, in: Blatt 9 in: Im Schatten, Berlin, Malik-Verlag, 1921, Lithographie auf elfenbeinfarbenem Papier, Blatt: 38,5 x 48,2 cm, Darstellung: 32 x 38 cm. - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011.

STUTTGART, GERMANY
- In the series "Open Archives" the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart invites artists to work with its collection. The series takes its starting points from the works and areas of the collection held in the archives of the museum —usually closed to the public —and from a discussion of the archive itself as a place of conservation and categorisation. "Open Archives" shows what has never been shown, what is rarely or not currently exhibited. From contemporary artistic and curatorial perspectives it activates the contents of the extensive collection and archives of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. On view through 9 October.

Cheim & Read Celebrate Their 15th Anniversary with Group Exhibition of Women Artists

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:03 PM PDT

artwork: Louise Fishman - "The Mirror of Ink", 2011 - Oil on linen, 39 x 66 in. 99.1 x 167.6 cm. - Photo: Courtesy Cheim & Read.

NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of the gallery's fifteenth anniversary, Cheim & Read present a group exhibition of the women artists with whom they work: Ghada Amer, Diane Arbus, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Fishman, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel and Pat Steir. John Cheim and Howard Read have worked with several of them – Arbus, Bourgeois, Neel and Steir - since the early 1980s. In 1996, the two opened their gallery with an exhibition by Bourgeois and Holzer. Since its founding, Cheim & Read has brought several women artists to the gallery's roster – their selection, impressive in its scope, evolved in response to the artists' individual work. On view until17 September.

Kueppersmühle Museum of Modern Art Exhibits Photographer Hans-Christian Schink

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:45 PM PDT

artwork: Hans-Christian Schink - "Pyongyang Metro 4", ( North Korea),1989 -  C-print , 33.5 x 40 cm. , Edition of 7 - Courtesy of the artist.

DUISBURG, GERMANY - "The best present of my life was most probably the simple role-film camera I received for my seventh birthday", recalls Hans-Christian Schink, one of Germany's leading contemporary photographers. The works by the Erfurt-born photographer, who today lives in Leipzig and who regularly travels the globe to create his photo-series, are represented in public and private collections worldwide. His photographs are also on view in the MKM's presentation of the Ströher Collection since many years. The MKM is now showing the most comprehensive exhibition to date of works by Hans-Christian Schink whose oeuvre has wielded a crucial impact on German photography. Approximately 100 large-format works afford an illuminating insight into his output until the present day, and impressively chart the development of his own distinct artistic signature.  On view until 3 October at MKM.

Tony Shafrazi Gallery Exhibits Revolutionary Film Posters from the Era of Russian Constructivism

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:38 PM PDT

artwork: Anatoly Belsky - "5 Minutes", 1929 - Color lithograph, 41 x 27 inches / 104 x 69 cm. - Courtesy Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Shafrazi Gallery is presenting the exhibition, "Revolutionary Film Posters: Aesthetic Experiments of Russian Constructivism, 1920-33," a comprehensive collection of rare and exquisite Russian film posters, on view through July 30. Culled from the world's largest collection of Russian Film Posters from the great era of Constructivism, the 95 examples of the medium on view represent a unique opportunity to survey how one of the most significant movements in the early 20th Century avant-garde informed a radical graphic style that has had a dramatic influence on the development of fine art and design over many subsequent generations. Most of the work shown, though originally produced in the hundreds, constitutes the only surviving examples, and few have ever been publicly exhibited before.

The Whitechapel Gallery Shows Works From the British Government's Collection

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:37 PM PDT

artwork: L S Lowry - "Lancashire Fair. Good Friday. Daisy Nook", 1946 - Oil on canvas - 72 x 92 cm. © The Estate of L S Lowry, 2010/Courtesy of the UK Government Art Collection. On view at the Whitechapel Gallery in "Government Art Collection: At Work" until September 2012.

London.- The Whitechapel Gallery is proud to present "Government Art Collection: At Work", the first in a  planned series of exhibitions featuring seldom seen works from the British Government's art collection. For over 100 years, the Government Art Collection has acquired paintings, sculptures and work in other media to promote British art and artists. Usually on display in more than 400 locations, such as embassies and trade offices all over the globe, works from the Collection are now being shown here for the first time in a British public art gallery. On exhibition through 4 September, 2012.


artwork: Vanessa Bell - "Byzantine Lady", 1912 Oil on composite paper board - 72 x 51.50 cm. - © 1961 Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett. - At Whitechapel Gallery.Owned by the British public, the Government Art Collection exhibits historical and contemporary art to visitors to government buildings in the UK and most capital cities of the world. At Work is a selection from these embassies and government departments that showcases the diverse nature of the Collection, its locations and function. Highlights include a 16th-Century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, formerly on display in the Ministry of Justice; the modern masterpiece "Lancashire Fair: Good Friday, Daisy Nook" by Mancunian artist L.S. Lowry, recently shown at 10 Downing Street; and the 1962 contribution by Derek Boshier to British Pop Art, "I Wonder What My Heroes Think of the Space Race" – previously installed at the British Embassy in Moscow.

The exhibition is curated by the Government Art Collection in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery. Other artists featured range from Tracey Emin to Walter Richard Sickert and William Marlow to David Tindle. The selectors who have chosen works are: Lord Boateng, former Government Minister and British High Commissioner to South Africa; the Prime Minister's wife Samantha Cameron; Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg; Lord Mandelson, former Business Secretary; Dame Anne Pringle, British Ambassador to Moscow; Sir John Sawers, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service; and Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. The first in a series of five displays, "At Work" is part of the Whitechapel Gallery's on going programme opening up important public and private collections for everyone.

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long track record for education and outreach projects, now focused on the Whitechapel area's deprived populations. It exhibits the work of contemporary artists, as well as organising retrospective exhibitions and shows that are of interest to the local community.The Gallery exhibited "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso in 1938 as part of a touring exhibition organised by Roland Penrose to protest the Spanish Civil War. For the history of post-war British art, the most important exhibition to have been held at the Whitechapel Gallery was This is Tomorrow in 1956. Initiated by members of the Independent Group, the exhibition brought Pop Art to the general public as well as introducing some of the artists, concepts, designers and photographers that would define the Swinging Sixties.

artwork: Osmund Caine - "Spider Hutments, Mychett Barracks, Aldershot, 1940", 1940–89 - Oil on canvas 108 x 160.5 cm. - © Osmund Caine/courtesy of the UK Government Art Collection.

Throughout its history, the Whitechapel Gallery had a series of open exhibitions that were a strong feature for the area's artist community, but by the early 1990s these open shows became less relevant as emerging artists moved to other areas. In the later 1960s and through the 1970s, the critical importance of the Whitechapel Gallery was displaced by newer venues such as the Hayward Gallery, but in the 1980s the Gallery enjoyed a resurgence under the Directorship of Nicholas Serota. The Whitechapel Gallery had a major refurbishment in 1986 and has recently completed (April 2009) a two year programme of work to incorporate the former Passmore Edwards Library building next door, vacated when Whitechapel Idea Store opened, which has doubled the physical size of the Gallery and nearly tripled available exhibition space, and which will now allow the Whitechapel Gallery to remain open to the public year round. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.whitechapelgallery.org







Our Editor Tours The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Its Renowned Vast Collection

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:20 PM PDT

artwork: Piet Mondrian - "Woods Near Oele", 1908 - Oil on canvas, 128 x 158 cm. - Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands

The Municipal Museum (Dutch: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) is an art museum, located in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum was built by the Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934) . It is renowned for its large Piet Mondrian collection, the largest in the world. His last work, Victory Boogie-Woogie, along with his earlier paintings and drawings are on display at the museum. There is a modern art collection which provides a varied overview of developments in the fine arts since the early 19th century. In the Modern Art Department’s print room you will find a large collection of drawings, prints and posters dating from the 19th and 20th century.The Gemeentemuseum also possesses one of the world's leading collections of fashion items. It includes both historical costumes and contemporary designs. The present-day music collection includes an extensive collection of instruments, illustrative visual materials and a splendid music library, which together document the history of (mainly European) music."GemAc" is a space for the development of arts and political awareness, set up within the Free Academy of The Hague in a cooperative venture with the Gemeente Museum (Municipal Museum of The Hague). GemAc offers contemporary artists, intellectuals and journalists the opportunity to embark on large-scale experimental projects using the workshops, the trainees and the exhibition space of the Free Academy and the professional support and network of the GemeenteMuseum. The organisation of GemAc is part of the GemeenteMuseum. The Modern Art Department's print room has a large collection of drawings, prints and posters dating from the 19th and 20th century. Most are by Dutch artists, but there are also major groups of foreign works. These include a fine collection of 19th-century French graphic art with an emphasis on work by Bresdin, Redon and Lautrec. German Expressionism is also well represented. The entire collection numbers around 50,000+ items. Parts of it are regularly on show in the print room. The Gemeentemuseum possesses one of the world's leading collections of fashion items. It includes both historical costumes and contemporary designs. Exhibitions focus not just on changing fashions in the Netherlands, but also on landmark designs from abroad. Accessories, jewellery, fashion drawings and prints all help to place the garments in a broader perspective. The present-day music collection includes an extensive collection of instruments, illustrative visual materials and a splendid music library, which together document the history of (mainly European) music. Finally, the music archives (in the KoninklijkeBibliotheek) contain countless manuscripts by Dutch composers. Visit website at : www.gemeentemuseum.nl/

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart to show Edward Burne-Jones:The Earthly Paradise

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:19 PM PDT

artwork: Edward Burne-Jones / Perseus und die Graien, 1892 / Oil on canvas / 153,5 x 170 cm. Courtesy of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany - Since 1971, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has been in the possession of a chief work of Pre-Raphaelite painting: Perseus , a cycle consisting of eight paintings and studies by Edward Burne-Jones. This is the most important Edward Burne-Jones collection in Germany is to be found here in the Staatsgalerie: in addition to the Perseus Cycle , the museum also holds nine of the master's drawings in its Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. These holdings serve as the point of departure for the first monographic exhibition on Burne-Jones to be presented in Germany, scheduled to open on 24 October 2009, and will continue until 7 Februay, 2010 at The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Hirshhorn Museum presents Major Retrospective of Louise Bourgeois

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:18 PM PDT

artwork: Louise Bourgeois - 'Untitled (With Foot),' 1989 - Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC - Photo: Peter Bellamy

WASHINGTON, DC - The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present a major retrospective of the works of Louise Bourgeois from Feb. 26 through May 17. Bourgeois, a leading figure in 20th century art, was born in Paris in 1911 and has lived in New York since 1938. The exhibition will fill the museum's second-level galleries with over 120 works, primarily sculptural pieces, along with paintings and drawings. The last venue on a five-city world tour, the presentation at the Hirshhorn has been expanded to include five more major sculptures. Among them is the large "Crouching Spider" (2003). The nearly nine-foot-tall bronze-and-steel spider has already been installed outside the museum's entrance, acting as an imposing greeter.

Kunstmuseum Bern shows Swiss Landscapes From 1800 to 1900 from the Collection

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT

artwork: Albert de Meuron - Rast der Gemsjäger, 1855 - Oil on canvas, 95 x 111,5 cm. - Kunstmuseum Bern

BERN, SWITZERLAND - Gottfried Keller's enthusiasm for what he sees before him is the motto for the exhibition on the 19th-century image of Switzerland from the Kunstmuseum Bern collection. The museum presents not only works that are strange or have hardly yet been seen, or visionary and realistic, but also well-known and familiar pieces from the rich fund of hidden museum treasures. With imagery that is deeply rooted in the national pictorial memory of the Swiss, a multi-facetted panorama enfolds in the exhibition that, still today, models the tourists' image of the country. On exhibition 13th July through 4th October, 2009.

The Groninger Museum exhibits 'From Collenius to Koons' with thanks to the Rembrandt Association

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:16 PM PDT

artwork: Monogrammist of Valenciennes - Ivo Fritema and his Family, ca. 1535 - Collection of the Groninger Museum
 

GRONINGEN, NL -To mark the 125th anniversary of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association), the Groninger Museum will exhibit, in the period 22 November 2008 to 12 April 2009, almost all the works that it has acquired with the assistance of this Association. Acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association, has been organised to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Rembrandt Association. The exhibition reveals the high quality and diversity of the acquisitions that have been supported by the Association. These include major works of visual arts, decorative arts, applied arts and video art.

McNay Art Museum Showcases Art Collection of Tom Slick: International Art Collector

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT

artwork: Georgia O'Keeffe - Sun Water Maine, 1922 - Pastel on paper, Collection of the Slick Family - © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Tom Slick (1916–1962) is an important figure in San Antonio's history. A legendary explorer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, he founded the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Southwest Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation, among many well-known accomplishments in his short life. Slick's achievements as a collector of modern art, however, have been under appreciated. On exhibition 10 June through 13 September, 2009.

Phillips de Pury & Co. Highlights from Its New York Theme Sale

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:14 PM PDT

artwork: Cheri Samba - J'aime la couleur, 2007 - Acrylic and glitter on canvas. 214.6 x 135.3 cm.  Estimate: $60,000-80,000

NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced highlights from the forthcoming New York auction AFRICA on Saturday 15 May 2010, including works of contemporary art, photographs, and editions which reflect the spirit of the continent and its global impact, as expressed by African and non-African artists from around the world. The sale is accompanied by a special edition catalogue, an art and lifestyle magazine which includes interviews with artists, curators and collectors, art world news and more. Featured editorial includes an inside look at the technicolor dreamlike world of Yinka Shonibare MBE; an interview with the adventurous collector, Monique Barbier-Mueller; a conversation between Youssef Nabil and Karen Wright; a feature on Jakob Boeskov on Nollywood; and an interview with the notorious South African artist Kendell Geers.

KIA Exhibition Celebrates 225 Years of American Drawings

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:13 PM PDT

artwork: Mary Cassatt Sara And Her Mother

Kalamazoo, MI - A new exhibition at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts looks at the history of America through the art of drawing.  Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings opens Saturday, September 23 at the KIA and continues through Sunday, December 31.  The exhibition is on loan from the Columbus (Georgia) Museum, which owns one of the most important collections of American drawings in the Southeast.  Assembled over 25 years, the 144 works that make up Lines of Discovery celebrate the rich history of American drawing and attest to the unique properties of drawing and its status as the most intimate, immediate and versatile art medium.

Actor Robert de Niro Jr., Presents Robert de Niro Sr., The Painter at BBK in Bilbao

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:12 PM PDT

artwork: Robert de Niro poses with 'Bust on table with yellow chair' during the presentation in Bilbao of the exhibition that BBK has dedicated to the works of art made by his father, Robert de Niro Sr, the painter who died in 1993. - EFE / Alfredo Aldai

BILBAO, SPAIN - The actor Robert de Niro opened an exhibition containing 25 paintings made by his father at BBK in Bilbao. The exhibition has been curated by Martine Soria and will be on view through September 27. Grounded in European antecedents, specifically French, but unmistakably American in style, the paintings of Robert De Niro, Sr., represent one of the foremost achievements in painterly representation. De Niro's efforts to reconcile the real with the abstract through the use of brilliant draftsmanship, bold, Fauvist-inspired colors, and confident, gestural brushwork stand as one of the great achievements in postwar twentieth-century American painting.

Contemporary Arts Center presents Austrian Painter Maria Lassnig's first US Solo

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:11 PM PDT

artwork: Maria Lassnig - 3 Ways of Being (3 Arten zu Sein) 2004 - Oil on canvas, 126 X 205 cm. © 2008 Maria Lassnig Courtesy of the artist, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati & Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York 

CINCINNATI, OHIO - The Contemporary Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of vibrantly colorful, dramatically intense oil paintings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig. Initiated and organized by the Serpentine Gallery in London and curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill, the exhibition features work made during the most recent ten years of Lassnigs career, as well as seven films made between 1971 and 1992. Maria Lassnig will remain on view through January 11, 2009 in the Rosenthal Center.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:11 PM PDT

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