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• The Blanton Museum in Texas Shows "About Face ~ Portraiture as Subject"
• ¡Cuba! A Voyage through This Island's Art ~ A Retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Our Editor Tours The Magnificent Malmö Konsthall Museum In Malmö, Sweden
• National Gallery of Canada exhibits ~ The 1930's: The Making of The New Man
• Andreas Hofer Exhibits at Charles Riva Collection in Brussels
• Victoria & Albert Museum opens Art Objects from the Horace Walpole Collection
• The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition
• ART 20 & Modernism Art Fairs Become One and Open at Park Avenue Armory
• De La Warr Pavilion Opens Antony Gormley's "Critical Mass" Exhibition
• Metro Pictures debuts André Butzer
• Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Celebrates 'Surrealism Returns'
• The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents " Five Decades of Bruce Head "
• Braunstein/Quay Gallery Hosts CCA at 100 ~ Alumni Looking Forward
• Aime Maeght and his Famous Artists opens at Royal Academy of the Arts
• The Surreal Universe of Salvador Dali at the William Bennett Gallery
• Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Explores Role of Modern Fashion Models as Muses
• Indianapolis Museum of Art features Rare Exhibition of Spanish Sacred Art
• The Getty Center shows Manet’s 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère'
• The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu Hawaii ~ A Delightful Contemporary Art Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Blanton Museum in Texas Shows "About Face ~ Portraiture as Subject" Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:57 PM PDT Austin, Texas - From April 30 through September 4, "About Face: Portraiture as Subject" will be on view at the Blantom Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. "About Face: Portraiture as Subject" is a unique exhibition organized by The Blanton, featuring 35 portraits in diverse mediums from antiquity to today. Drawn mostly from The Blanton's notable collection, along with several choice loaned objects, the exhibition includes works by artists known for their probing investigations of the genre, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, John Singer Sargent, Diego Rivera, Sir Jacob Epstein, Antonio Berni, Alice Neel, Chuck Close, Robert Henri, Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, Oscar Muñoz, and Kehinde Wiley. Annette DiMeo Carlozzzi, Blanton deputy director for Art and Programs remarks, "Just as we are fascinated with faces, so too have artists explored portraits as subject matter since ancient times. From a Roman bust to a contemporary video portrait, from allegorical attributes of rank and privilege to penetrating psychological studies, About Face examines how personality and aspects of character are portrayed in art. The variations in approach are considerable and invite visitors to ask: Who are these people? What does the artist want us to know about them? How does this portrait disclose insights about both its subject and its maker?" Historical and contemporary notions of portraiture are considered throughout several intimate groupings in the exhibition. Two galleries offer a traditional overview of the subject, with works in multiple mediums and styles ranging from bronze and oil (Sir Jacob Epstein's unaffected sculptural bust of entertainer Daisy Dunn and John Singer Sargent's painted portrayal of the patrician Madame Belleroche) to two paintings based on photographs: Andy Warhol's iconic Pop image of the late Farrah Fawcett and Jim Torok's meticulous likeness of fellow artist Michael Smith. Another section highlights self-portraits and the ways in which artists reveal themselves. A diminutive Rembrandt etching and an expressive lithograph by Diego Rivera offer straightforward yet emotionally resonant representations of the artists' faces, while lush photographs by Nicola Constantino and Yasumasa Morimura exemplify the contemporary performative practice of role-playing. A grouping of recent works by Chuck Close, Byron Kim, Oscar Muñoz and others explores how facets of character, rendered abstractly, complicate individuality, sometimes questioning the facts of appearance and identity. Oliver Herring's Patrick, for example, a favorite work of Blanton visitors though rarely on public view, comprises many hundreds of studied photographic details reassembled to form a pensive, fully three-dimensional figure. A fourth section of the exhibition examines portraits such as Dürer's Erasmus of Rotterdam and Antonio Berni's Retrato de Ramona, in which sitters are identified and characteriz The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the foremost university art museums in the country, and has the largest and most comprehensive collection of art in Central Texas. The Blanton's collection comprises over 17,000 works of art in a variety of mediums, with particular depth in Western European art from the fourteenth through twentieth centuries and modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Through the collecting of art, preserving it in optimal condition, and creatively displaying and interpreting these objects, The Blanton serves as an intellectual and social portal connecting the university and the rest of the world through visual art and culture. The art museum of The University of Texas at Austin was born of a generous gift from an unexpected source. In 1927 Archer M. Huntington, a New Yorker and the son of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, donated four thousand acres of land in Galveston, Texas, to the university with instructions that it "be dedicated to the support of an art museum." The proceeds from the eventual sale of that land created an endowment for museum operations and provided a portion of the cost for the construction in 1963 of a new building for the art department of the university, including some gallery space that was formally named the University Art Museum. All told, the Blanton collection today numbers more than 17,000 works. the museum takes enormous pride in the great depth they have achieved by concentrating their collecting efforts on works from specific periods, movements, and artists. The long-held vision of a new museum building became a reality with the groundbreaking for a new facility in October 2003. The new complex, designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, is comprised of the Mari and James A. Michener Gallery Building, a 124,000-square-foot space that houses the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions; the 56,000-square-foot Edgar A. Smith Building features a café, museum shop, classrooms, auditorium, and offices; and a 145,000-square-foot public plaza and garden designed by Peter Walker and Partners. As the only art museum in Austin with a permanent collection of substantial range and depth, the Blanton has embraced a mission of serving as a "cultural gateway" between the university and the community. Visit the museum's website at ... http://blantonmuseum.org

¡Cuba! A Voyage through This Island's Art ~ A Retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:55 PM PDT Montreal, Que., Canada - Organized and presented by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from January 31 to June 8, 2008, ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today, which brings together some 400 works of art, is the most important exhibition ever presented to showcase the art of this Caribbean island, which Christopher Columbus described as "the most beautiful land eyes have ever seen." Thanks to the collaboration of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Fototeca de Cuba, and of many collectors and museums in the United States, including the MoMA, this exhibition draws a broad panorama of Cuban art and history.

Our Editor Tours The Magnificent Malmö Konsthall Museum In Malmö, Sweden Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:52 PM PDT In the Malmö Konsthall most of the gallery has a ceiling constructed like a latticework of 550 domes with both natural and artificial light sources. The height of the ceiling varies. The light well - with the higher ceiling - has a big sloping skylight towards the north. Klas Anshelm got inspiration for the construction when visiting the sculptor Constantin Brancusi in his Paris studio. The result is a gallery that is both functional and aesthetic. An exhibition space that presents the artist with endless possibilities. The Malmö Konsthall was renovated in 1994. At that time the exhibition hall and the adjacent older brick building known as Hantverkshuset (the Craft Building) were linked together. This created new spaces for a bookshop, restaurant, Hall C and space for children's activities as well as a smaller exhibition space called Mellanrummet (the In-between Space). Malmö Konsthall's primary mandate is to exhibit both international and national art ranging from the classics of modernism to current experiments. Over the years exhibitions have featured such artists as Munch, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Klee, Miró, Giacometti, Keith Haring, Andres Serrano, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Greenaway and Tony Cragg. The boundaries between the various art forms are kept fluid by associated special events: theatre, film, poetry, video installations, multimedia, music, lectures and debates. In conjunction with the exhibitions Malmö Konsthall organizes extensive educational activities for both children and adults. It is also possible to book private tours of current exhibitions. Each year Malmö Konsthall has around 400,000 visitors.The museum arranges exhibitions with an international focus which encompasses both the classics of modern art and current experiments.

National Gallery of Canada exhibits ~ The 1930's: The Making of The New Man Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:51 PM PDT Ottawa, Canada - Power, pathos, beauty and destructive force are all words that characterize the National Gallery of Canada's (NGC) summer exhibition, The 1930's: The Making of "The New Man." Presented by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, this rich and thought-provoking exhibition comprises 206 works, created by some the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. It will be on view exclusively at the NGC until September 7, 2008.

Andreas Hofer Exhibits at Charles Riva Collection in Brussels Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:50 PM PDT BRUSSELS.- Charles Riva Collection presents the exhibition about the work of Andreas Hofer, one of the leading German contemporary artists. The show will display drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures. In his work, Andreas Hofer creates complex visual worlds based on narrative structures. His thematic and formal references defy any categorization. His vocabulary ranges from Christian, Satanist, astrological or mythological symbolism to recollections from art history.  He juxtaposes figures from the fifties, pop culture and comic strip with icons of modernism or science-fictions, and confronts elements of horror from western mass media with the disgraced, banned stylistic features that marked the art of the Third Reich.

Victoria & Albert Museum opens Art Objects from the Horace Walpole Collection Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:48 PM PDT LONDON.- A new V&A exhibition will examine Horace Walpole's extraordinary collection and evoke the magnificent interiors of his house Strawberry Hill, Britain's finest example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture. Following extensive restoration by the Strawberry Hill Trust the house is set to reopen in 2010. The exhibition will bring together more than 250 works owned by Walpole and not seen together since 1842, when they were auctioned by his heir. It will show the breadth and significance of his collections ranging from paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Van Dyck to his unrivalled collection of portrait miniatures, from a pair of gloves that Walpole believed belonged to King James I to an Aztec mirror used by the Elizabethan magician and astrologer Dr Dee. On view through 4 July, 2010.

The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:47 PM PDT   WASHINGTON, DC - A focus exhibition of works by American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) at the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a new series of shows in the Tower Gallery of the East Building that center around developments in art since the 1970s. A dramatic and meditative space, the Tower is among the most elegant in the I.M. Pei building, which opened in 1978. On view February 1 through September 13, 2009, In the Tower: Philip Guston includes works drawn largely from the Gallery's own collection and features a six-minute film specially made for the exhibition.

ART 20 & Modernism Art Fairs Become One and Open at Park Avenue Armory Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:46 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Sanford L. Smith & Associates' two fall fairs become one superlative art and design event this year. In the past, ART20 occupied the historic Park Avenue Armory in early November, with Modernism directly following. From November 13 – 16, 2009, the fairs will combine, creating a singular opportunity to explore the very best of an era. Since the two fairs have always celebrated the same time periods in distinct ways, the combination promises an excellent opportunity to catch the aesthetic dialogue between art and design of the last century.

De La Warr Pavilion Opens Antony Gormley's "Critical Mass" Exhibition Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:45 PM PDT EAST SUSSEX.- Critical Mass, one of Antony Gormley's best known works, is an installation made up of 60 lifesize cast iron body forms which is being displayed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion. The artist comments: "This is the return of the lost subject to the site of Modernism. It is great to have a chance to test this piece of sculpture against the clarity of Mendelsohn and Chemayeff's English masterpiece. I am excited to see these dark forms in the elements against the sea and in direct light. It will be like a sky burial. How these masses act in space is very important. The challenge is to make the distance intimate, internal."

Metro Pictures debuts André Butzer Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:44 PM PDT   New York City - For his New York debut at Metro Pictures,  André Butzer will show 12 new brilliantly-colored paintings that survey the ongoing motifs of his work.  Butzer's paintings reference German and American history, culture and politics (both historical and contemporary), art history, science fiction, comics and animation. On exhibition 28 March - 3 May, 2008. Opening: March 27, 6-8 pm.

Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Celebrates 'Surrealism Returns' Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:43 PM PDT   CHELTENHAM, UK - Significant Surrealist works of art return to Gloucestershire at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum to celebrate a momentous chapter in the history of Surrealism. Drawn from collections all over Britain, visitors can enjoy seeing pictures and sculptures by key artists of the movement including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Man Ray, Edward Burra and Yves Tanguy.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents " Five Decades of Bruce Head " Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:41 PM PDT   Winnipeg, Canada - Graduating from the University of Manitoba, School of Art in 1953, Bruce Head has been a leading painter and designer in Winnipeg for than 50 years. Head Space looks at Bruce Head's artistic career in the context of his experimentation and innovation with materials. Along with Frank Mikuska, Winston Leathers and Tony Tascona, Head was an innovator of the "ink graphic" in the late 1950s, gradually moving into an exploration with a painterly and lyrical approach to organic abstraction.  On view 11 September until 23 November, 2008 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Braunstein/Quay Gallery Hosts CCA at 100 ~ Alumni Looking Forward Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - In celebration of the California College of the Arts' (CCA) one-hundredth anniversary, Braunstein/Quay Gallery presents a group show of alumni organized by guest curator Mary Snowden, the Chair of Painting and Drawing at CCA.  The five artists chosen for this exhibition are among her most recent, memorable, and talented students.

Aime Maeght and his Famous Artists opens at Royal Academy of the Arts Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:38 PM PDT   LONDON.-This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works selected from the collections of the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. The exhibition tells the story of the remarkable role played in the history of twentieth-century art by Aimé Maeght, the outstanding art-dealer, exhibition-maker and publisher. With his wife Marguerite, Maeght founded the celebrated Galerie Maeght in Paris at the end of 1945. The gallery, which embodied an adventurous new spirit in post war Paris, opened with a show of Matisse's drawings, and in 1947 mounted the notorious 'Surréalisme en 1947' exhibition, organised by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp. During the years that followed, the gallery hosted significant exhibitions of the work of many artists, focusing particularly on Miró, Calder, Giacometti and Braque, who were most closely linked to the gallery and to the Maeght family.

The Surreal Universe of Salvador Dali at the William Bennett Gallery Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:36 PM PDT New York City.- The William Bennett Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its newest show, "The Surreal Universe of Salvador Dalí". Featuring exceptional unique works, rare prints and the unveiling of Dalí's never before seen Twelve Signs of the Zodiac bas-relief sculptures. The bas reliefs are vivid expressions of the 12 signs of the zodiac --- Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. Each offers Dalí's impressive interpretations of these popular signs.

Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Explores Role of Modern Fashion Models as Muses Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:35 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renowned Costume Institute Benefit – the annual black-tie dinner to benefit the Museum's Costume Institute – took place on May 4, 2009, celebrating the exhibition The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, which will be on view from May 6 through August 9. The stars were out in full force showing the latest in fashion. Brooke Shields, Gisele Bundchen, Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen, Katy Perry. Bono, Kanye West, Heidi Klum, Lauren Hutton, Justin Timberlake all were at the red carpet posing for photographers.

Indianapolis Museum of Art features Rare Exhibition of Spanish Sacred Art Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:34 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS, IN (AP).- El Greco's vision of the veil of Veronica hangs near a golden crown with 447 emeralds. Just a few steps away, a recumbent sculpture of the crucified Jesus Christ rests before its return to a Spanish hermitage in time for Holy Week. The free exhibition, which continues through Jan. 3, 2010,  has thrilled experts and other visitors alike. Harvard Art Museum curator and cultural historian Ivan Gaskell said it inspired him intellectually like no other exhibition he has seen this year. "Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art is drawing visitors from around the world for an unprecedented exhibition of 71 pieces from 45 lenders — many of them private — in Spain, Mexico, Peru and other countries. Madrid's Prado has loaned five works alone.

The Getty Center shows Manet’s 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergère' Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:32 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA - Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, one of the great masterpieces of 19th-century French art, is coming to the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center this summer.  To celebrate this loan from the Samuel Courtauld Trust, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery in London, the Getty Museum has organized the special installation Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère to showcase the painting and its visual complexities.  The painting will be on view concurrently with the Drawings Department's exhibition of 19th-century French works of art on paper Defining Modernity:  European Drawings 1800-1900, an exhibition also featuring works by Manet and several loans from the Courtauld. On exhibition June 5 - September 9, 2007.

The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu Hawaii ~ A Delightful Contemporary Art Museum Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:30 PM PDT Located on Oahu in the Honolulu neighborhood of Makiki, on a hill overlooking the city and the ocean, the Contemporary Museum (TCM) is the only museum in Hawaii that is devoted exclusively to contemporary art and features artworks from 1940 to the present. TCM provides an accessible forum for provocative, dynamic forms of visual art, offering interaction with art and artists in a unique Island environment. TCM presents its innovative exhibition and educational programs at two venues, in residential Honolulu at the historic Cooke-Spalding house, and downtown at the First Hawaiian Center. In addition to preserving art from 1940 to the present, the Museum also maintains and presents the historic Cooke-Spalding house and gardens for the enjoyment and enrichment of Hawai'i's residents and visitors. The structure that houses TCM was built as a residence in 1925 by Mrs. Charles Montague Cooke. At the same time, The Honolulu Academy of Arts was being built on the site of her former home on Beretania Street. The Makiki Heights home was designed by Hart Wood and later enlarged by the firm of Bertram Goodhue and Associates. The Honolulu Academy of Arts acquired the estate as a bequest from Anna Rice Cooke's daughter, Alice Spalding, in 1968 and operated it as an annex from 1970 to 1978. After passing through the hands of a private developer in the late 1970s, the property was acquired by a subsidiary of The Honolulu Advertiser. In 1986 the Twigg-Smith family offered it as a site for The Contemporary Museum. Following interior renovation by The CJS Group Architects and the construction of the Milton Cades Pavilion, the museum opened to the public in October 1988. TCM includes a variety of off-the-beaten-path treasures. In the Café, visitors can sit indoors in a gallery-like atmosphere amid changing displays of art or outdoors in a garden setting. The J. Russell and Charlotte McLean Cades Library welcomes visitors to stop by and enjoy the collection of information on contemporary art and artists. The library houses 900 volumes of surveys, monographs, catalogues, periodicals and artist files, and is used daily by artists, students, writers, and the museum's curators and educators. In addition, books from recent TCM exhibitions are on the library shelves, including 'Enrique Martínez Celaya' and 'Drawing is another kind of language'. Another highlight of The Contemporary Museum is the gardens, which encompass 3.5 acres. These sculpture and meditation gardens are called Nu'umealani (heavenly terrace), and they are so beautiful that the museum won the American Society of Landscape Architects Millennium Award for preserving and maintaining them. Designed to provide a place to retreat, meditate and experience the harmony of nature, the gardens include a sprawling lawn, a tropical terraced garden, walking paths and places to sit. The grounds display sculpture by Satoru Abe, Charles Arnoldi, Deborah Butterfield, Jedd Garet, George Rickey, Toshiko Takaezu, DeWain Valentine and Arnold Zimmerman, and regularly changing murals on the walls. The Contemporary Museum can even provide picnic baskets for visitors who want to enjoy their lunch in the gardens. They are open to the public during museum hours. A satellite facility is located in downtown Honolulu in the First Hawaiian Center, the corporate headquarters of First Hawaiian Bank. Opened in 1996, the changing program of exhibitions focus on Hawaiian art and are underwritten by First Hawaiian Bank. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.tcmhi.org/ The Contemporary Museum has a growing collection of works in all media spanning 1940 to the present by local, regional, national and international artists. Among artists represented are Vito Acconci, Josef Albers, Robert Arneson, Jennifer Bartlett, Deborah Butterfield, Enrique Chagoya, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, William Kentridge, Sol Lewitt, Robert Motherwell, Vik Muniz, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Price, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Frank Stella, Masami Teraoka, Mark Tobey, Richard Tuttle, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, and Peter Voulkos. Approximately one-third of the works in the collection are by artists of Hawai`i. The remainder largely comprises works by artists from the continental United States, with a growing representation of artists from Europe, Latin America, Japan and Australia. TCM's collection has greatly expanded since its inception to reflect the achievements of both established and emerging artists. The collection comprises more than 3,400 works in the following categories: paintings; sculpture and installations; drawings and watercolors; prints; photographs and video works; assemblage; ceramics; glass; wood; metal; and fiberworks/textiles. The Museum have a particularly strong collection of ceramic including three works by Robert Arneson (amongst them, the monumental 'Temple of Fatal Laffs'), and important examples by Stephen De Staebler, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Ron Nagle, Adrian Saxe, Mark Burns, Nancy Carman, Robert Brady, and Daisy Youngblood. TCM has assembled significant holdings by artists who explore the tradition of the vessel in ceramic, wood, fiber, metal and glass. Among the artists represented are Gertrud and Otto Natzler, Beatrice Wood, Lucie Rie, Rudolf Staffel, Jay Musler, Ferne Jacobs, Richard DeVore, June Schwarz, Ron Kent, Diane Itter, and Dale Chihuly. TCM's photography collection focuses on works that are conceptually based or employ alternative processes that challenge traditional notions of photography. Artists represented include William Wegman, Robert Cumming, John Coplans and Lucas Samaras, as well as younger artists such as Catherine Opie, Gregory Crewdson, Christopher Bucklow, Candida Hofer, Bill Jacobson, Vik Muniz, Thomas Ruff, and Liza Ryan. Highlights of TCM's print collection include "Electric Chair", a series of ten screenprints by Andy Warhol; "Savarin", a monotype by Jasper Johns; "Had Gadya", a series of ten mixed-media prints by Frank Stella; and "High Green", a color etching and aquatint by Richard Diebenkorn. Other significant holdings include an untitled oil on canvas by Robert Motherwell; "Marsaxlokk Bay", a large-scale mixed-media metal relief by Frank Stella; "The White Cup", a mixed-media assemblage by Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz; and eighteen works by Dennis Oppenheim. The Contemporary Museum hosts temporary exhibitions in both the Cooke-Spalding house, and downtown at the First Hawaiian Center. The main exhibition at the Cooke-Spalding house is 'Steven & William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive' (until May 8, 2011). In keeping with The Contemporary Museum's mission of providing emerging artists with significant opportunities to expand and show their work, TCM presents Steven and William Ladd: 9769 Radio Drive, the first solo museum exhibition for these Brooklyn, New York based artists. The Ladd brothers have created a large exhibition specifically for the museum's spaces that provides a significant overview of their art and transforms TCM's galleries. The Ladds' work collaboratively and frequently draws upon their past experiences for inspiration. The current exhibition includes references to their parents, grandparents, and siblings, and 9769 Radio Drive, referenced in the exhibition title, is the address of the home in St. Louis in which they grew up. Their sculptures initially take the form of towers of handmade boxes, which are shown open in the exhibition to reveal dazzlingly elaborate sewn and beaded interiors that could be interpreted as fanciful, mysterious landscapes. Other works incorporate found objects. At the heart of the exhibition is a large installation titled Ant Epidemic, which fills TCM's largest gallery with images of thousands of small black ants. Together, Steven and William Ladd have forged a body of work that exists in a nexus of text, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, craft/design, and fashion. They have combined a range of techniques, forms, materials, and practices, forging something which is uniquely theirs. The First Hawaiian Center Gallery has three temporary exhibitions currently running (all until 15th July 2011). "Recent Photographs by Andrew Binkley and Inka Resch" presents recent works from two photographers capturing the daily lives of people in China and Dubai. Photographer Andrew Binkley layers multiple exposures in Photoshop to create images that capture the connections and paths between people on the streets of China below. Through images of enormous towers and the countless tiny figures building them, Hawai'i-raised artist, Inka Resch, reveals the oppositions, contradictions, and contrasts that characterize Dubai, the city in which she currently lives and works. Also on show at the The First Hawaiian Center Gallery is "Suzanne Wolfe: Cuptopia". As a faculty member at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Suzanne Wolfe's teaching specialty is in low-temperature ceramics media, mold techniques, and ceramics history. Her current work explores the process of developing layered glaze imagery, the transformation of found ceramic objects, and an investigation of the relationship between interior and exterior. In this exhibition, Wolfe will show more than 300 ceramic cups, each conveying a unique narrative through the application and juxtaposition of multiple image transfers. A third exhibition "In the News: Bernice Akamine, Deborah Nemad, Vince Hazen, Mac James, and Pearlyn Salvador" showcases works that are inspired by local, national, and/or international news. The artists take their inspiration from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet, using these media to create their works utilizing techniques such as collage and image transfer. The exhibition features both two- and three-dimensional multi-media works. Artists include Bernice Akamine, Vince Hazen, Deborah Nemad, Mac James, and Pearlyn Salvador. Changing exhibits of contemporary art are also shown in the Contemporary Café, where a selection of works by local artist Jill Butterbaugh is currently displayed. This selection of two-dimensional work includes large oil paintings on wood and drawings on paper done in charcoal and conte. "Vintage Girls" explores the distinct look of the 30's, 40' and 50's in larger than life portraits. Other selected works in charcoal and conte include dramatic still life drawings of various subjects from dendrobium orchids to somber looking stuffed animals.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:29 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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