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- SMU's Pollock Gallery Presents Simen Johan's "Until the Kingdom Comes"
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum Features "Landscapes East/Landscapes West"
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Shows "Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin & Redon"
- BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum Announce Major New Year-long Partnership
- Israel Museum Welcomes One Million Visitors Since Inauguration of Renewed Campus
- The Corey Helford Gallery To Show New Solo Shows ~ Korin Faught & Joey Remmers
- Museum of Karsten Klingbeil Treasures to be Offered at Two Auctions
- Diana Thater's Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, at the Wexner Center
- The Museum of the Moving Image Opens "Jim Henson's Fantastic World"
- Art & Love in Renaissance Italy on View at the Kimbell Art Museum
- Mark Rothko's Black Paintings Unveiled at The National Gallery Of Art
- The Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts a Saul Steinberg Retrospective
- Tony Berlant solos at Barbara Mathes Gallery
- The Snite Museum of Art show The Art of Disegno ~ Italian Prints and Drawings
- Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection on View
- Tate Modern Presents Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray & Francis Picabia Exhibition
- Sotheby's to Offer The Robert Lebel Collection of Old Master & 19th Century Drawings
- Tate Modern Presents Major Retrospective of Arshile Gorky
- Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses' Airborne in San Francisco
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
| SMU's Pollock Gallery Presents Simen Johan's "Until the Kingdom Comes" Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:29 PM PDT Dallas, TX.- The Pollock Gallery of the Division of Art at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts is proud to present "Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes," an exhibition by renowned photographer Simen Johan, from August 29th through October 8th. Born in Norway in 1973 and raised in Sweden, Johan has lived and worked in New York City since 1992. He has received international recognition for his enigmatic large-scale photographs that investigate the often-uneasy relationship between the natural world of animals and the confusion and chaos created by human activity through his hauntingly beautiful scenes of animals seemingly adrift in dreamlike landscapes. The exhibit will include works shown in the recent Simen Johan exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn., and several works from private collections. In an essay that accompanied the catalogue for the Nashville show, Mark Scala, chief curator for the Frist Center, wrote, "Johan's images are completely without people….Yet the works clearly relate to human processes, beliefs, and illusions. The presentations are staged, with animals posing expressively for the camera like actors. Questions of authenticity versus artificiality arise when one recognizes that these are not all animals living in their natural habitats. Some were photographed on location in zoos or wildlife parks, farms, and museums, others show roadkill or taxidermied specimens, posed and Photoshopped into landscape, still others were taken in the wild. Which are alive, and which are uncanny imitations of life? Such ambiguity is symptomatic of the universal dualisms that give life its sense of being contingent, unfixed." In his photographs, Simen Johan explores darkly the human proclivity towards fantasy and our attempts, knowing or otherwise, to craft alternate realities for ourselves. Merging traditional photographic techniques with digital methods, Johan creates each of his images from as many as one hundred negatives, having first constructed or discovered each element and photographed it on film. Across his body of work, the viewer is urged to ponder the relationship between the real and the artificial or imagined.  In his most recent images, from the series "Until the Kingdom Comes", Johan depicts animals in scenarios where their actions or demeanor mirror human conventions. The images allude to our inclination to anthropomorphize and domesticate what we see and find around us, and they speak to realms of emotion, our fears and desires, rather than reason. In his earlier work Johan explored the unique relationship that children have with the unknown, constructing complex photographic worlds that seem to grow wild from young imaginations. In some images the children are prominently featured, wrapped up in acts of play or ritual as the makers of their own worlds, while in others they've vanished completely, leaving only the enigmatic traces of their mischief. Simen Johan's work has been widely exhibited internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Cleveland Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and other major institutions. Johan's first monograph, Room to Play, was published by Twin Palms in 2003. Born in Norway and raised in Sweden, Johan earned his B.F.A at the School of Visual Arts, in New York, where he currently resides.  The Meadows School of the Arts, formally established in 1969 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, has achieved prominence as one of the foremost arts education institutions in the United States. The Meadows School of the Arts offers instruction in advertising, art, art history, arts entrepreneurship and arts management, communication studies, dance, film and media arts, journalism, music and theatre. The goal of the Meadows School of the Arts, as a comprehensive educational institution, is to prepare students to meet the demands of professional careers. It is also committed to providing an ongoing opportunity for all SMU students to grow in the understanding and appreciation of the arts. The Meadows School of the Arts serves the public as a significant cultural center by presenting more than 400 events annually for the Dallas community and surrounding region. The cultural and intellectual partnership SMU shares with Dallas continues to flourish, and Dallas citizens form a devoted audience for the more than 400 music, dance and theatre performances, opera productions, and art exhibitions that the Meadows School of the Arts presents each year. The Meadows Museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. The museum presents major works dating from the Middle Ages to the present, including masterpieces by some of the world's greatest painters: El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. Highlights of the collection include Renaissance altarpieces, monumental Baroque canvases, exquisite Rococo oil sketches, polychrome wood sculptures, Impressionist landscapes, modernist abstractions and a comprehensive collection of the graphic works of Goya. The museum, located at 5900 Bishop Boulevard at the entrance to the SMU campus, also includes a gift shop, education areas and public event spaces, and offers membership and volunteer opportunities along with a range of public programs throughout the year. The museum also includes the Elizabeth Meadows Sculpture Collection featuring major works by such modern masters as Rodin, Maillol, Lipchitz, Henry Moore, David Smith and Claes Oldenburg. Sculptures are displayed both indoors and outside on the museum plaza. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.smu.edu/Meadows  |
| The Nelson-Atkins Museum Features "Landscapes East/Landscapes West" Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:28 PM PDT  Kansas City, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum is proud to present "Landscapes East/Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly" on view at the museum from August 27th through February 26th 2012. Artists have long been inspired to capture the beauty of nature in two-dimensional images, and Landscapes East/Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly explores the creative ways artists have responded to this universal theme. A collaboration among six curatorial departments at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the exhibition juxtaposes landscape paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by Chinese, Japanese, European and American artists from the 15th century to the present.  |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Shows "Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin & Redon" Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:07 PM PDT  Boston, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is proud to present "Two Masters of Fantasy: Bresdin and Redon", on view at the museum until January 16th 2012. The exhibition presents 43 works — 22 by teacher Rodolphe Bresdin (1822–1885) and 21 by his student Odilon Redon (1840–1916), assembled primarily from the Museum's holdings, with select loans from private collectors. Included are black and white lithographs, etchings, and charcoal drawings, as well as a watercolor and pastel. A highlight of the exhibition in the Clementine Brown Gallery is the MFA's recent acquisition, the dramatic drawing "Tears (Les Pleurs)" by Odilon Redon. Two Masters of Fantasy was organized Rodolphe Bresdin, the eccentric French artist, was a self-taught printmaker and draughtsman who was inspired by early 19th century Romantic book illustration.  |
| BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum Announce Major New Year-long Partnership Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:31 PM PDT  LONDON.- The BBC and the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) announced 'Handmade in Britain', a year-long season of programming that will be the most wide-ranging and ambitious exploration of decorative arts ever to be undertaken on British Television. Furthering the BBC's commitment to building partnerships with the arts sector that go beyond broadcast, from sharing expertise to widening public engagement in UK arts, from autumn 2011 to autumn 2012, Handmade in Britain will present three, three-part series and a selection of individual hour-long films, focusing on a wide variety of art and design disciplines: ceramics, wood, metalwork, textiles, stained glass and paper.  |
| Israel Museum Welcomes One Million Visitors Since Inauguration of Renewed Campus Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:13 PM PDT  JERUSALEM.- In an unprecedented achievement for an Israeli cultural institution, the Israel Museum is proud to announce that it has welcomed one million plus people to its renewed campus since its inauguration one year ago. During this time, visitors have enjoyed the Museum's renewed galleries, new architecture and rich program of exhibitions, events and activities. Programming highlights included the inaugural exhibition Artists' Choices: Zvi Goldstein, Susan Hiller, Yinka Shonibare, a three-part presentation that juxtaposed works from all three of the Museum's collection wings; the major traveling exhibition William Kentridge: Five Themes, which drew over 200,000 visitors to the Museum during its five-month showing; "Contact Point," a night of one-time encounters among artists, writers, and performers with artworks through the Museum's galleries and campus; and the unveiling of two monumentally-scaled site specific installations: Olafur Eliasson's Whenever the rainbow appears (2010), and Anish Kapoor's Turning The World Upside Down, Jerusalem (2010), created for the Museum's renewal.  |
| The Corey Helford Gallery To Show New Solo Shows ~ Korin Faught & Joey Remmers Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:36 PM PDT Culver City, CA.- The Corey Helford Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of its fall exhibition schedule with the opening of new solo shows from Korin Faught and Joey Remmers on Saturday, September 3rd. Both exhibitions will remain on view through September 21st. Since 2006, Los Angeles artist Korin Faught has exhibited with Corey Helford Gallery, and this September she will unveil her new solo exhibition entitled "Voices of the Lake." Infusing her signature portraits of multiples with a modern style and timeless beauty, Faught's work captures a composed elegance within each pool of reflection. Her feminine narratives feature a refined palette that spans from pale whites to dark neutrals, revealing layers of subtle textures and hidden details in between. Inspired by her own underwater photography, Korin brings her paintings above water, aligning herself with Victorian themes and painters from The Romantic era who sought to capture such classical values as chivalry and female fragility. Seen submerged or simply standing in shallow water, Faught's subjects possess that elusive quality that leave one wondering who are the "Voices of the Lake?"  |
| Museum of Karsten Klingbeil Treasures to be Offered at Two Auctions Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:36 PM PDT  MUNICH.- The private museum of the famous Berlin sculptor, philanthropist and former construction mogul Karsten Klingbeil is going to be offered in two parts. The first auction will take place in December 2011 at Pierre Bergé & Associés in Brussels, the second half of the collection is going to be offered for bidding in June 2012 at Hermann Historica oHG in Munich. Those dates provide the unique opportunity to buy a total number of 600 significant objects that have been collected over fifty years with a lot of passion, commitment and expertise to compile this sensational collection. 40 complete suits of armour from the 15 th to the 17 th century, 120 helmets as well as pole arms, swords, daggers and shields from twelve centuries form the core of the collection. Since the legendary Hever Castle auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1983 this is going to be the most important private collection of antique arms and armours brought to market.  |
| Diana Thater's Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, at the Wexner Center Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:36 PM PDT  COLUMBUS, OH.- Diana Thater's Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, is now on view through December 30 in the Wexner Center's lower lobby. Quietly panning over pink and yellow peony blooms, the video initially appears to be a straightforward account of several flowers scattered across a watery surface. But as in most of Thater's video projects, the technical aspects of Peonies and the artist's investigations of duration and figure/ground relationships are as compelling as the work's visual and aesthetic elements. Running nearly six minutes, Peonies was shot on two full rolls of 16mm film, but it is screened on a Blu-ray disc, inviting viewers to consider how representations of color differ in analogue and digital technology. Filmed up close, the blooms transform into abstracted washes of almost psychedelic color, morphing from one image to the next. The blooms become less tangible as physical objects and function instead as a field on which explorations of color, duration, and figure/ground play out.  |
| The Museum of the Moving Image Opens "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:35 PM PDT  New York City.- The Museum of the Moving Image is proud to present "Jim Henson's Fantastic World", on view through January 16th 2012. "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" celebrates the internationally known creative genius Jim Henson, whose work encompassed film, television, and puppetry. The exhibition features over 120 artifacts, including drawings, storyboards, and props, all of which illustrate Henson's boundless creativity and innumerable accomplishments. Fifteen iconic puppets, including Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Rowlf, and Bert and Ernie, are on view, along with photographs of Henson and his collaborators at work and excerpts from his early projects and experimental films. The exhibition spans Henson's entire career, with drawings, cartoons, commercials, and posters produced during his college years in the late 1950s and objects related to the inspired imaginary world of his popular 1982 fantasy film, The Dark Crystal. The exhibition features artifacts from Henson's best-known projects, The Muppet Show, The Muppet Movie and its sequels, Fraggle Rock, and Sesame Street, in addition to materials from Sam and Friends, an early show he created in the 1950s, and his pioneering television commercial work in the 1960s. "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" was organized by The Jim Henson Legacy and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in cooperation with the Henson family, The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame Workshop.  The Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts, screening significant films and other moving-image works, presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences, and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public. Each year the Museum screens more than 400 films in a stimulating mix of the classic and the contemporary. With live music for silent films, restored prints from the world's leading archives, and outstanding new films from the international festival circuit, Museum programs are recognized for their quality as well as their scope. The Pinewood Dialogues, an ongoing series of conversations with creative professionals in film, television, and digital media made possible by the Pinewood (now Pannonia) Foundation, has brought to the Museum's stage such leading figures as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, David Cronenberg, Charles Burnett, Tim Burton, Todd Haynes, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Thomas Anderson, Forest Whitaker, Glenn Close, Jane Campion, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam, and David Mamet. Many of these conversations are available online. Engaging and immersive, Behind the Screen is the only exhibition in America that comprehensively explores how films and television shows are created, marketed, and exhibited. Behind the Screen has been thoroughly refurbished as part of the Museum's renovation and expansion, with all new monitors, computers, interactive software, and lighting, as well as new exhibits of artifacts, artworks, and audiovisual material.  Changing exhibitions at the Museum have ranged from "Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade" (1989), the first exhibition of video games ever presented in a museum, to "Interactions/Arts and Technology" (2004), presented in conjunction with Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). As part of its expansion and renovation, the Museum has a new 4,100-square-foot gallery dedicated specifically to temporary exhibitions, as well as a new amphitheater for changing video presentations, and a 50-foot-long wall in the lobby on which panoramic video works can be projected. After opening with Real Virtuality—an exhibition featuring six experiments in art and technology by artists including Bill Viola, Pablo Valbuena, and Marco Brambilla. The Museum's curriculum-based education programs are a major resource for of middle- and high-school students and their teachers. Most are from the New York City public schools and surrounding area, although the Museum regularly provides programs for international students as well. Through guided tours of its exhibitions, educational screening programs and hands-on workshops, the Museum will serve approximately 60,000 students each year in the new Ann and Andrew Tisch Education Center. The Museum also offers professional development seminars and workshops for teachers, and after-school programs that develop academic and technical skills. The Museum maintains one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of the material culture of the moving image. It provides public access to the collection through the core exhibition, Behind the Screen, and through its online Collection Catalog. Scholars may also conduct research in the collection by appointment. Online projects, such as Moving Image Source, The Living Room Candidate, and Sloan Science and Film, made available on the Museum's website, reach a global audience. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.movingimage.us   |
| Art & Love in Renaissance Italy on View at the Kimbell Art Museum Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:19 PM PDT  Art and Love in Renaissance Italy includes approximately 150 paintings and art objects dating from 1400 to 1600 that were created to celebrate love and marriage. Among these works are marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and fertility, exquisite examples of jewelry and maiolica (tin-glazed ceramic) given as gifts to couples, and some of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous subjects. The exhibition will be divided into three thematic sections. The first, Celebrating Betrothal, Marriage, and Childbirth, will feature splendid wedding gifts. For wealthy families in cities such as Florence, Venice, and Milan, the best marriage depended on a sizable dowry provided by the bride's family—not only money and property, but a variety of goods for the bride's new home. The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing. Likewise, the safe birth of a child was celebrated and commemorated with the production of finely painted deschi da parto (wooden childbirth trays) and maiolica childbirth bowls known as scodelle da parto. Trays and bowls were often painted with encouraging images of a mother resting in her confinement room, with charming representations of Renaissance interiors. Marked with heraldic devices, these objects were prized possessions handed down from generation to generation. The section Profane Love will focus on erotic, at times salacious, imagery in drawings, prints, and other objects created by some of the most celebrated artists of the time, including Parmigianino and Giulio Romano. Many of these works exhibit a witty, burlesque sensibility that satirizes more intellectually elevated modes of art and literature. Classical mythology, especially the loves of the gods recounted by Ovid and other ancient poets, provided a convenient pretext for the portrayal of erotic imagery. The world of the courtesan and the luxury items associated with it will also be explored in the exhibition. Famed for their beauty, cultural accomplishments, and wit, courtesans were especially prevalent in Rome and Venice.  From Cassone to Poesia: Paintings of Love and Marriage will shift the focus to nuptial portraits and paintings on themes of love that decorated bedchambers and private quarters. Highly important and intriguing works by such painters as Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Lorenzo Lotto will be on display, including double portraits commemorating marriages, as well as rare portraits of babies, fathers with their children, and widows. Decorating the camera (bedroom) of a new husband and wife was of enormous importance, and the families would spend huge sums on cassoni and panel paintings called spalliere, which were installed about shoulder height as part of the wainscoting. Virtuous women from ancient history or the Hebrew Bible, whose stories were depicted on cassoni panels, were also the subjects of paintings that decorated the walls of nuptial chambers, serving as models of morality for the newlyweds. The poetic genius of the Renaissance will be represented by some of the most beguiling and sensual works of Titian, Palma il Vecchio, Tintoretto, and their contemporaries. Portraits of belle donne (beautiful women) reflect poetry that lauded women's beauty. The symbolism of these ravishing paintings is not straightforward, and the identity of the women portrayed continues to be debated. Are they courtesans, brides, or idealized beauties? The extraordinarily sensuous representations of Venus by Titian and other Venetians launch us into a new era of paintings that treat subjects related to love and marriage. Distant cousins of the reclining nudes found in the inner lids of cassoni in the fifteenth century, they are imbued with far richer poetic sensibilities—visual equivalents of the poems that the ancient Romans recited at weddings. Like contemporary poems and prose by writers beginning with Petrarch, these mythological and allegorical paintings speak the language of love. The great Renaissance paintings about love and marriage owe their rich complexity, and often ambiguity, to the varied ways people thought about love and marriage at the time. The exhibition offers an illuminating and engaging look at some of the most beautiful works of the period from this historical and social point of view. Visit the Kimbell Art Museum at : https://www.kimbellart.org/  |
| Mark Rothko's Black Paintings Unveiled at The National Gallery Of Art Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:18 PM PDT  |
| The Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts a Saul Steinberg Retrospective Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:17 PM PDT  |
| Tony Berlant solos at Barbara Mathes Gallery Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:16 PM PDT  |
| The Snite Museum of Art show The Art of Disegno ~ Italian Prints and Drawings Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:15 PM PDT  |
| Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection on View Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:14 PM PDT MADISON, WI.- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) presents 'An Art of Inner Necessity' : Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection in the museum's Henry Street Gallery from July 19, 2008, through July 19, 2009. An Art of Inner Necessity examines the expressionist tradition in modern and contemporary art through paintings and works on paper from the permanent collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.  |
| Tate Modern Presents Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray & Francis Picabia Exhibition Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:13 PM PDT
LONDON - Tate Modern presents Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, on view through May 26, 2008. This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives.  |
| Sotheby's to Offer The Robert Lebel Collection of Old Master & 19th Century Drawings Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:12 PM PDT
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| Tate Modern Presents Major Retrospective of Arshile Gorky Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:11 PM PDT
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| Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses' Airborne in San Francisco Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:10 PM PDT
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