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- The Winnipeg Art Gallery Stages Contemporary Interventions in the 'Collection on View'
- The Art Museum of Southeast Texas to Show Texas Artists Meredith Jack & Robert Pruitt
- Fuse Gallery to Show Drawings & Sculpture by Kevin "Spanky" Long & Nina Milner
- The Walker Art Gallery features Paintings & Sculpture by John Kirby
- Survey Exhibition of Famed Artist Niki de Saint Phalle at the Max-Ernst-Museum
- Jorge Wilmot ~ Distinguished Mexican Artisan ~ Dies at Age 83
- The Scott Nichols Gallery Shows the Photographs of Ralph Steiner
- Recent Work by British illustrator Quentin Blake opens at the Foundling Museum
- The Coutourier Gallery Shows New Works by Cuban Painter Flavio Garciandia
- Design Museum hosts the First UK Retrospective of Spanish designer Javier Mariscal
- National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection
- Our Editor Is Greeted At The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The Mudam) In Luxembourg
- Architect Frank Gehry Likes What He Sees with His New Las Vegas Building
- Alika Cooper solos at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
- Fifty Important Works by Andy Warhol on View at Hay Hill Gallery
- New Illustrated Book Celebrates the World's Most Iconic Coca Cola
- "Pick-up Sticks" Fun at Beaver Street Gallery in Flagstaff
- At Fondation Beyeler in Basel First Exhibition in Switzerland devoted to Surrealism
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
| The Winnipeg Art Gallery Stages Contemporary Interventions in the 'Collection on View' Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:09 PM PST  Winnipeg, Manitoba.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents "Contemporary Interventions in the Collection on View", in the galleries until August 31st 2012. Selected contemporary works from the permenant collection have been strategically placed within the "Collection on View" series of exhibitions: European Renaissance and Baroque Art 1500-1700; The Academic Tradition in Europe and Canada 1700-1900; and The Modernist Tradition 1900-1950. The purpose of including these special pieces is to create symbolic, iconographic, and thematic links thereby augmenting the visitor experience. Hanging contemporary works adjacent historical works is becoming more commonplace in museums today. The subtle presentation of these unexpected guests is intended to leave it to you to discover, interpret, and learn through new associations. However, by virtue of the color, composition, and subject matter, these contemporary works certianly stand out and draw attention, providing you the opportunity to approach the art in your own way. Adad Hannah is an artist working at the intersection of video, photography and performance. The photograph presented in this exhibition is part of an ambitious project which staged a version of Théodore Géricault's monumental painting "The Raft of the Medusa" (1818-1819) in 100 Mile House, a community of 2,000 people in central BC. On May 2nd and 3rd, 2009 in the community hall the tableaux vivant was performed for several live audiences, and Hannah's video and still cameras. The models held their poses for between five and ten minutes, creating an uncanny replica of Géricault's painting rendered in living flesh. Joel Sternfeld's colour pictures of the United States document the land and the people. Sternfeld's approach to picture making was a quest to reveal the exciting and fascinating aspects of a place, in many cases finding these qualities in the most unlikely of areas. The work on display by Sternfeld is of a town named after a local miner, Joseph. Having a population of less than 300 people and composed of under a square mile of land, it is one of these intriguing places celebrated by this significant photographer. These are merely some of the thought-provoking highlights, but there are many more contemporary works that have been included to provide a fresh take on the historical collection. Come see what other artworks are waiting for you to re-discover!  Although a modern painting, William Kurelek's "Hell (The Worm That Dies Not)" (1962) appears quite at home in gallery 1, alongside much older scenes of spiritual suffering and martyrdom. Although living and working in Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s, Kurelek was a devout Roman Catholic and identified immensely with the painterly iconography of northern artists in pre-Reformation Europe. Sandwiched between two turn-of-the-20th-century portraits in Gallery 2 is Janet Werner's unsettling painting titled "Karen" (1999-2000). Werner has been painting portraits of characters that are significantly inward and withdrawn for almost a decade. This painting is an exceptional example of how contemporary artists are pushing the genre of portraiture forward. In gallery 2, Yves Gaucher's "3rd Study for 'Signals' - Red Oxide" (1966) provides an arresting backdrop to Barzanti's "Crouching Venus" (c. 1890). Although one might imagine no greater contrast to exist, the two works share a concern for precise and rational form. While Barzanti does so in Neo-Classical terms, idealizing the human form in such a way as to remove all sense of the figure's individuality and particularity, Gaucher's painting is pristinely modern in its reductive meditation on pure colour relations, absolved of any subject matter. Much like the William Kurelek painting in gallery 1, Alex Colville's late 20th century painting blends almost seamlessly into its 19th century surroundings. Its eerie stillness, however, marks it as a contemporary painting. The placement of "St. Croix Rider" (1997) within a display of romantic and largely European selection of works helps to highlight the dramatic changes representational painting underwent following modernism's crescendo in the mid-20th century. Unwilling to merely replicate formulae from the past, Colville constructs a contemporary scene that nonetheless stands as a continuation of the Western landscape painting tradition. With his bronze sculpture entitled "Manitoba", Joe Fafard makes use of one tradition in Western art—the genre of the odalisque—to humorously destabilize certain assumptions that commonly underpin the representation of landscape in Canadian art. In the Western European tradition, the odalisque usually refers to a painting of a nude or semi-nude young woman, reclined on her back or side, amidst a scene of Eastern luxury. Its effect is to both eroticize the female form and exoticize a particular, non-European, culture. Although in Manitoba, the subject appears in the odalisque pose, the significance of the pose—its traditional alignment with sexual desire, cultural exoticism, and colonialism—is undercut by the subject's identity, that of a middle-aged Aboriginal man. Placed in the gallery amid a selection of paintings by members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, the sculpture's reference to a particular geographical region—the province of Manitoba—takes on new significance. By using a First Nations person to symbolize a territory, Fafard reminds us that landscape is as much about the people who inhabit it as the lakes and vegetation of which it is composed.  The WAG was established in 1912 when a group of Winnipeg businessmen, recognizing "the civilizing effects of art," each contributed $200 and rented two rooms in the old Federal Building at the corner of Main and Water Streets. Thus, the WAG was born, becoming the first civic art gallery in Canada. Now approaching its centenary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery has developed from a small civic gallery to Canada's sixth largest gallery with an international reputation. As it expanded, the WAG relocated premises several times to accommodate its growing collection, including its former residence in what is now the Manitoba Archives Building on St. Mary Avenue. The 1950s witnessed the beginning of several of the WAG's specialized collections, including that of Inuit Art. The WAG is now home to the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world with over 10,730 works. The Decorative Arts collection, another area of specialized collecting, also began in the 1950s since when the WAG has amassed over 4,000 pieces of decorative art, covering diverse media of ceramic, glass, metal, and textiles dating from the 17th century to the mid-20th century. The third specialized collection began considerably later in the 1980s with the designation of the photography collection which now numbers some 1,300 works, largely of contemporary Canadian origin. Designed by Winnipeg architect Gustavo da Roza, built of pale Manitoba Tyndall stone, the current WAG building rises like the prow of a ship on its own triangular "ocean." It was opened by Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, on September 25, 1971. In addition to eight galleries, the building contains a 320-seat auditorium, a rooftop sculpture garden and restaurant, a research library, a gift shop, and extensive meeting and lecture space. The WAG footprint expanded in October 1995 with the opening of the new WAG Studio Building next door in the renovated Mall Medical Building. Home to the Gallery's art classes, the WAG facility is the largest program of its kind in Canada, offering children and adults art classes taught by professional artists. Visit the museum's website at ... http://wag.ca  |
| The Art Museum of Southeast Texas to Show Texas Artists Meredith Jack & Robert Pruitt Posted: 14 Jan 2012 11:08 PM PST  Beaumont, Texas.- The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) is proud to present its winter exhibitions showcasing artwork by two prominent Texas artists. "Meredith Jack: Back in Black" and "This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt" will both be on view at the museum from January 21st through April 8th 2012. An opening reception for both exhibitions will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, January 20th, both Meredith Jack and Robert Pruitt will be present to conduct discussions about their work.  |
| Fuse Gallery to Show Drawings & Sculpture by Kevin "Spanky" Long & Nina Milner Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:55 PM PST  New York City. Fuse Gallery is proud to present "Spanky and Nina: Drawings and Sculpture", on view at the gallery from January 18th through February 15th 2012 with an opening reception on Wednesday, January 18th from 7-10pm. Hailing from different cultural and artistic backgrounds, artists Kevin "Spanky" Long and Nina Milner examine their diverse creative origins through a practice of visual dialogue. While both artists make occasional appearances in one another's independent work, a collaborative component steers Long and Milner on a more abstract track as they work in response to and in support of one another's creative instincts.  |
| The Walker Art Gallery features Paintings & Sculpture by John Kirby Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:28 PM PST  LIVERPOOL, UK - From 13 January until 15 April 2012 the Walker Art Gallery hosts the first retrospective of work by the Liverpool born artist John Kirby. "The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby" explores the themes of gender, religion, sexuality and race and Kirby's complex relationship with each of them. Comprising over 50 paintings and 10 sculptures The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby brings together a group of work spanning over three decades, from early paintings made at the Royal College of Art in the 1980s to more recent works. Highlights in the exhibition include Lost Boys (1991), an image of fighting altar boys that references Kirby's Catholic upbringing and is one of the artist's favorite paintings and White Wedding, (2006), depicting a civil partnership. The sculptures in the exhibition are a more recent development in his artistic practice but also a continuation of it, with his ceramic sculptures of heads and figures bearing a striking similarity to the figures found in his paintings.  |
| Survey Exhibition of Famed Artist Niki de Saint Phalle at the Max-Ernst-Museum Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:27 PM PST  BRUEHL, GERMANY - The Max-Ernst-Museum is showing the wide-ranging œuvre of the multifaceted artist Niki de Saint Phalle, undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the 20th century, in a large survey exhibition. Through her paintings, assemblages, shooting paintings (tirs), sculptures and installations, this artist created a unique cosmos which established her international reputation. Niki de Saint Phalle, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1930 and died in San Diego, California, in 2002, had a defining influence on the art of her day, feminine features of which she celebrated and shaped. Like no one before her, she found a valid form for the elemental force of femininity, particularly in her Nanas. The exhibition at the Max-Ernst-Museum provides an extensive overview of her œuvre, from the early paintings to the late sculptures. Play with me, the title both of the exhibition and of one of her first paintings, is also directed at the viewer. It is an appeal to the individual's creativity, an invitation to make an attempt and participate in the artist's unbridled joie de vivre. That joy was evident in all the phases of her creative life. Her œuvre unites her interest in the originality of life and her own experiences. Niki de Saint Phalle cannot really be categorised, nor was she shy of contradictoriness. Whether she engrossed herself in sources like the tarot or Indian culture, or drew on subjective experiences, such as her childhood memories, everything flowed directly into her art and involved a broad creative spectrum. Painting, drawing and printing, the colossal but also miniature sculptures, reliefs, gardens, and also books, letters and written records, up to and including films form a unique cosmos – and the essence of her creative work.  The exhibition of more than 150 works, curated by Guido Magnaguagno, former director of the Tinguely Museum in Basel, embraces the sculptures on loan from the Niki Charitable Art Foundation in California and Paris, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and the Musée d'art moderne in Nice, to all of which Niki de Saint Phalle made generous donations of her works. The show also features works from numerous private and public lenders. It has been complemented moreover by quintessential works by Jean Tinguely, her partner of many years, and paintings by her first teacher, the still largely unknown Hugh Weiss. The presentation also involves the artist's films, which illustrate her dream worlds and her engagement with the patriarchy, and which are frequently dealt with quite separately from her other work. The Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR is the first and only museum worldwide dedicated to the large œuvre of Max Ernst (1891-1976), artist of a century and cosmopolitan. It offers a review of the versatile work of the Dadaist and Surrealist whose imagery worlds are characterised by a stunning creativity and a remarkable force of inspiration - barely known with any other artist of the twentieth century . Visit : www.maxernstmuseum.lvr.de/fachthema/englisch/MaxErnst/  |
| Jorge Wilmot ~ Distinguished Mexican Artisan ~ Dies at Age 83 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:17 PM PST  MEXICO CITY.- Jorge Wilmot was one of the most distinguished artisans of Mexico, and has been credited with the introduction of stoneware and other high fire techniques to the country. His work is also known for its more austere, Oriental-inspired designs blended with Mexican motifs. His work has been widely sold and exhibited both in Mexico and abroad and he has trained and influenced generations of ceramicists at the school he established in Tonalá, Jalisco. Jorge Wilmot died January 12, 2012 in Tonala, Mexico, at the age of 83 years. Jorge Wilmot was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1928. He began artistic studies at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas in the Academy of San Carlos in the early 1950s before going on to Europe. There he studied at the Instituto Franco-Italiano in Paris in 1953 and worked in Sweden with ceramicist Limberg Koge Londgren. He had further studies in Basel, Switzerland, in design at the Escuela de Oficios from 1953 to 1957.  |
| The Scott Nichols Gallery Shows the Photographs of Ralph Steiner Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:04 PM PST  San Francisco, California.- Scott Nichols Gallery is pleased to present "Ralph Steiner, A Point of View, a Collection of Contact Prints", on view at the gallery until February 25th 2012. Ralph Steiner was a modernist photographer and filmmaker known for his clear, sharply focused images of everyday America. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in chemical engineering he studied at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York (1921-22). In 1927 he met Paul Strand and became a founding member of the New York Film and Photo League. Born in Cleveland, Steiner studied chemistry at Dartmouth, but in 1921 entered the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography. White helped Steiner in finding a job at the Manhattan Photogravure Company, and Steiner worked on making photogravure plates of scenes from Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North. Not long after, Steiner's work as a freelance photographer in New York began, working mostly in advertising and for publications like Ladies' Home Journal.  |
| Recent Work by British illustrator Quentin Blake opens at the Foundling Museum Posted: 14 Jan 2012 10:03 PM PST  LONDON.- Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain's first Children's Laureate. Showing at the Foundling Museum, Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work commissioned by four hospitals in the UK and France. This exhibition of over sixty works enables visitors to reflect on artists' continuing contribution to hospitals and child welfare. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the thousands of children brought up in the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned babies and London's first public art gallery. Hanging alongside Blake's work are paintings by William Hogarth and his contemporaries who donated paintings and sculptures to the Foundling Hospital in the 1740s. The Museum's art collection, spanning more than four centuries, provides visitors with an unexpected and resonant backdrop; one that situates Blake within a tradition of great artists making work for hospitals.  |
| The Coutourier Gallery Shows New Works by Cuban Painter Flavio Garciandia Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:40 PM PST Los Angeles, California.- The Coutourier Gallery is pleased to present " Flavio Garciandia : No Man Is A Brush", on view at the gallery from January 14th through February 25th 2012. Probably Cuba's most influential contemporary painter, Flavio Garciandia, will have his second solo exhibition at Couturier Gallery. Garciandia (b. 1950) is best known for his abstract paintings. The thirteen abstract paintings included in the show represent a new body of acrylic work painted on aluminum and canvas, a recent departure from his oil works on canvas. The opening reception was Saturday, January 14th. Garciandia's earlier works from the late 1970s and '80s employed photorealism, with bright "kitsch" iconography in dimensional paintings and installations questioning Cuban middle-class ideals and the problems that contemporary society has posed for art.  |
| Design Museum hosts the First UK Retrospective of Spanish designer Javier Mariscal Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:29 PM PST
 The exhibition space will be a fully illustrated environment, rich with orchestrated scenarios and installations, each telling the story of Mariscal's pivotal projects, designs and the drawings that shaped them. Sketches, designs, films and photographs will be on display alongside furniture and textiles. Mariscal will also design and paint an elaborate mural for the exterior of the Design Museum showcasing his unique vision and signature design style. Mariscal's intense relationship with drawing and illustration is central to his career and has become the basis for his designs over the last 30 years. He gave Barcelona its graphic identity as it emerged from the Franco era, illustrating a sunny and optimistic city full of possibilities. In 1992 he introduced the world to Cobi, the official Olympic mascot of the Barcelona games. Mariscal has designed furniture for leading manufacturers such as Moroso and Magis, created interiors for bars and hotels as well as a retail and graphic identity for Camper and the interior of the recently opened H&M flagship store in Barcelona. Javier Mariscal was born in Valencia in 1950, since 1971 he has lived and worked in Barcelona. In 1979 he opened his first bar in Valencia, together with Fernando Salas, the Duplex, for which he designed one of his most famous pieces, the Duplex stool. Throughout the 1980s Mariscal designed several textile collections for Marieta and Tráfico de Modas and exhibited at the Sala Vinçon gallery in Barcelona. In 1989, Cobi was chosen as the mascot for the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Mariscal opened the Estudio Mariscal in 1989 and has collaborated in several projects with designers and architects such as Arata Isozaki, Alfredo Arribas and Pepe Cortés. His most notable works include the visual identities for the Swedish socialist party, Socialdemokraterna, the Spanish radio station Onda Cero, the Lighthouse Centre in Glasgow and the London postproduction company, Framestore. In 1995, Twipsy was chosen as the mascot for the Hanover 2000 World Expo. In 1995, he also designed the Amorosos Furniture collection for the Italian manufacturer Moroso. In 2002 Mariscal designed the Gran Hotel Domine Bilbao, which is positioned between the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the ria. Mariscal has also collaborated on animation and audio visual shorts including Colors, which premiered in Barcelona in 1999 and starred the robot Dimitri. In 2005 Mariscal designed a range of items for the children's collection, Me Too, by Magis. Collaborations continue with Camper, H&M and The America's Cup. Mariscal is currently working on the full-length cartoon Chico y Rita with Fernando Trueba, due for release next year. Mariscal is also working on a series of books about his career and on furniture designs for Vondom, Uno Design and Magis. Visit The Design museum in London at : http://www.designmuseum.org/  |
| National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:28 PM PST
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| Our Editor Is Greeted At The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The Mudam) In Luxembourg Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:26 PM PST  The Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The Mudam) is the foremost museum dedicated to contemporary art in Luxembourg, and strives to be attentive to every discipline and open to the whole world. Its collection and programme reflect current artistic trends and appreciate the emergence of new artistic practices on a national and international scale. The building, which is the work of Sino-American architect, and Leoh Ming Pei, is a marvelous dialogue between the natural, historical, and modern environment. Standing against the vestiges of Fort Thüngen, it follows the course of the former surrounding walls, and is rooted in the Park Dräi Eechelen (planned by landscapists, Michel Desvigne and Christine Dalnoky) which offers magnificent views onto the old town. The asymmetrical V shape of the building, with 45 degree angles, rises over the ruins. Tucked into its fortified walls, the introverted shape of the fortress is still discernible in Pei's new building. The geometry of the museum is, so to speak, an extension of the fortress. The contrast with the fortress is all the more interesting because Pei's building has very geometrical volumes, and he opted for shapes that are both modern and classical. His architecture is formalist, while remaining sober and monumental. On its south-western front the building of the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean looks onto down town – the Grund, Clausen and the Pfaffenthal – while on its north side is the "Place de l'Europe" where the main entrance is situated. Access to the museum will be via two bridges that cross the dry moat and converge leading to the arrowhead that reflects the shape of the museum. After the main reception area the visitor enters a space of light. As he moves forward he comes face to face with the Grand Hall, a glass structure 33 m high, made of a metallic frame surmounted by a bell-turret with a square top: this is the heart of the museum from which one can access its other spaces. A second glass structure on the right is as impressive: in response to the contour of the hall which stems from the original layout of the ancient foundations, I. M. Pei has designed a rounded and curved glass-structure. On the left, another glass structure, symmetrical to the one to the right but flattened, highlights the design of the different elements that make up the metallic structure. The building also offers a subtle outlook on the neighboring landscapes by providing an unexpected view of the forest and its surroundings. Uniquely, a balcony that overhangs the Grand Hall offers a view of the historical city centre. The museum is spread over three levels of 4,700 m2 of surface area dedicated to the visits. Its construction was begun in January 1999 and it was inaugurated on 1 July 2006. Level -1 introduces the visitor into a more intimate space where the overhead light gives way to a twilight appropriate to exhibit luminous works. The auditorium with 120 seats is also housed here. Set back from the building is a small octagonal construction – the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion – linked by a transparent footbridge. This pavilion is surmounted by a glass-structure with a bell-turret and gives another view over the "Park Dräi Eechelen". On the first floor, two large exhibition spaces can be accessed by the large staircase which starts in the Grand Hall, or by lateral staircases that are in themselves great architectonic feats. The sheds that we find in the first floor exhibition spaces allow natural and widespread lighting without shades or reflections. The cultural aspects of the Mudam is based on a conception of art seen at a poetical distance from the world. Its key words are freedom, innovation, a critical mind, and all this, not devoid of humor. The programme favors every vector of expression while questioning our habits and our representations. It aims to capture not only a way of contemporary thinking, but also the aesthetic language of an age to come. Visit the museum website at : www.mudam.lu/  The museum presents international exhibitions and projects from all areas of contemporary art. At the time when Pei was commissioned to design the museum, the collection of art works was only just beginning. Even though Pei's design was not geared to specific works, it is nevertheless not neutral. Art and architecture are automatically linked closely with each other. The architecture does not try to dominate art, it simply provides it with a framework. Mudam Collection bears witness to a particular interest in artworks anchored in the contemporary world regardless of the techniques employed (painting, sculpture, photo, installation, video...). In January 2011 the collection includes over 560 artworks by near to 300 international artists. Through the works in its collection, Mudam explores a spirit that, since Marcel Duchamp, continues to infuse contemporary artistic creation. The practices of misappropriation and irony serve the critical spirit of the artists and give them the distance and the filters necessary to bring a sense of play to the serious artistic business of their quest. The Mudam Collection bares witness to contemporary creation in all its technical and aesthetic forms, while remaining open to every other artistic discipline: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, as well as design, fashion, graphic design and new media are all put on show. Resolutely anchored in the contemporary, the collection endorses poetic variations from the great masters such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Daniel Buren, Blinky Palermo or Cy Twombly. The collection is devoted to international artworks as well as to local productions. Luxembourgish artists make up around ten per cent of artists in the collection. They are chosen for their quality and relevance, without having to fulfill any quotas . .fine art rules. The recent exhibition of Attila Csörgö leads us into a universe of scientific exploration, providing a comprehensive overview of his career, beginning from the early 1990s and reaching international acclaim in the form of major art exhibitions and awards. Empirical folding of great mathematical complexity, hypnotic plays of light resting on indecipherable mechanical movements, and other inventions that combine fantasy with curiosity about extremely varied physical and mathematical phenomena. The exhibition at Mudam is the second issue of an international series that started at Ludwig Museum. "Just Love Me"is first in a series of exhibitions showing the diversity of approaches in collecting contemporary art, in and out of Luxembourg. The fifty chosen artworks are linked to - people and their habitat - through a selection concerning forms and architecture (Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Dan Flavin, Imi Knoebel...) and the body and its presence (John Baldessari, Sarah Jones, Hermann Nitsch...). Other works reproduce the idea of private space. The visitor is invited to wander through and encounter artworks worthy of a contemporary cabinet of curiosities containing the horn of Mark Dion's unicorn, the graphic work of Bruce Nauman or Wim Delvoye, a Luc Tuymans painting as well as a small canvas by Marlène Dumas. Exhibition open until February, 2011. The exhibition by Daniel Buren in the Grand Hall of the museum is the fruit of a joint invitation to the artist from Mudam and Centre Pompidou-Metz to create a specific installation in relation to their respective spaces. As is often the case with his work, the installation the artist has conceived for Mudam is concerned with "frames" - be they aesthetic, architectural or institutional - which condition any exhibited art, by rendering certain aspects visible. Exhibition is open until 22/05/2011.  |
| Architect Frank Gehry Likes What He Sees with His New Las Vegas Building Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (AP).- Architect Frank Gehry says he wanted a swirling stainless steel structure he designed for Las Vegas to be unique — to stand out from what he called "the cacophony" of high-rise casinos and condos forming the spine of Sin City's sprawl. Getting his first look at the nearly complete Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, he declared himself satisfied. Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize - winning architectbased in Los Angeles, California. Gehry, now 81, has built his career on shapes and angles all around the world  |
| Alika Cooper solos at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:24 PM PST
San Francisco, CA - Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present new paintings and works on paper by the Oakland-based artist Alika Cooper. Cooper's new exhibition merges two seemingly disparate bodies of work. The show combines a series of portraits depicting Hollywood actresses with a series of rural landscapes. The portraits are intense, psychological, and difficult. Working with film stills taken from American movies released between 1950 and 1980, Cooper takes a "hyper-glamorized" image of femininity, and renders it grotesque. The landscapes, meanwhile, Cooper describes as landscapes of poverty. Poverty, she notes, is considered "ugly," an aesthetic judgment that also contains implicit judgments of value and morality. On exhibition July 19 - August 30, 2007.  |
| Fifty Important Works by Andy Warhol on View at Hay Hill Gallery Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:22 PM PST
 Highlights include a unique collection of Andy Warhol's Indians (Native Americans) (1986), exhibited alongside the working drawings. These seventeen works of art form an important part of Warhol's oeuvre. They provide a rounded study of Warhol's graphic process in the 1980s and a fitting manifestation of his later obsession with American culture, particularly the stories, myths and legends of the American West. Based on publicity and archival photographs as well as postcards, Warhol romanticizes stereotyped and exploited images of American Indians including Mother and Child, Indian Head Nickel, Plain Indian Shield, Kachina Dolls, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Northwest Coast Mask. There is also a range of highly collectable works including The Scream (after Edvard Munch) (1984), part of a series of works based on the paintings of the Norwegian artist and Shadows (1978), from Warhol's monumental Shadow series. In the 1970s Warhol embarked on a remarkable and ambitious project, creating 102 paintings based on eight photographs of shadows that he had taken in his studio. The result is a compelling and almost hypnotic series, drifting into the abstract. Additionally there are iconic images such as Double Marilyn (1981); Hammer & Sickle (1977) and Mobilgas (1985) as well as portraits of the collector Sidney Janis (1967) and dancer Merce Cunningham (1963). "While screen-printing is one of Andy Warhol's more familiar techniques, this exhibition separates the layers of Warhol's final images to give a new and special perspective on their creation. When shown alongside the completed works, his detailed preparatory drawings reveal how hand-drawn outlines and painted brushstrokes provide a foundation for the printing process to create the final image," says Hay Hill Gallery director Mikhail Zaitsev. Hay Hill Gallery: 5a Cork Street, London W1S 3NY Tel: +44 (0)20 7439 1001, Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20 7439 2299 Fax: +44 (0)87 0056 8948, +44 (0)87 0051 8410 E-mail: info@hayhill.com, tmg@sirin.co.uk Website : http://www.hayhill.com/index.  |
| New Illustrated Book Celebrates the World's Most Iconic Coca Cola Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:22 PM PST  NEW YORK, NY- This illustrated book celebrates the world's most iconic beverage with the brand's photographs, advertisements, and designs as well as memories from film, social history, and pop culture. Decade by decade, Coca-Cola represents the zeitgeist with nostalgia and flair. For 125 years, Coca-Cola has connected with more people in more places than any other product the world has ever known. First sipped at an Atlanta soda fountain as a hot weather pick-me-up, Coca-Cola has triumphed by engaging people, one by one. The company's long-time leader Robert Woodruff sought always to have it "within arm's length of desire."  |
| "Pick-up Sticks" Fun at Beaver Street Gallery in Flagstaff Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:21 PM PST
Flagstaff, AZ - Founded in 2001, Beaver Street is Northern Arizona's premier fine arts gallery, with scheduled exhibitions year-round. Beaver Street Gallery represents artists from both the US and abroad, and in addition, BSG's own collection includes work by some of the best, and best-known, contemporary artists from around the world, including Rudy Autio, Christo and Jean Claude, Jun Kaneko, Paul Soldner, Peter Voulkos, Andy Warhol, and Betty Woodman, among others.  |
| At Fondation Beyeler in Basel First Exhibition in Switzerland devoted to Surrealism Posted: 14 Jan 2012 09:20 PM PST  BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler is devoting the first-ever comprehensive exhibition in Switzerland to Surrealism in Paris. On view will be major works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst , and many more who either belonged to the movement or were associated with it. The show will focus on the innovative forms of expression developed and employed by the Surrealists – especially object art, collage, photography and film. Surrealism was one of the most crucial artistic and literary movements of the twentieth century. After emerging in Paris in 1924, it unfolded a worldwide effect that continues to this day. Major modern artists belonged to the movement, were associated with it, or inspired by it. Its aim was radical change and expansion of the expressive means of art and poetry and their impact on society. Aspects of the psyche and creativity that had previously lay fallow were to be made fertile for artistic activity and human life as a whole. On view through 29 January, 2012.  Profoundly shaken by the experience of the First World War and under the leadership of its chief theoretician, André Breton , the Surrealists developed innovative approaches and lent form to an art that tapped poetic imagination, the world of dreams, and the unconscious mind. Their idols included Sigmund Freud and many writers, such as the scandalous Marquis de Sade, the poets Charles Baudelaire, Comte de Lautréamont, and Arthur Rimbaud, Edgar Allan Poe, and the German Romantics."Dalí, Magritte, Miró – Surrealism in Paris" comprises about 290 masterworks and manuscripts by about 40 artists and authors. These include approximately 110 paintings, 30 objects and sculptures, 50 works on paper, 50 photographs, 30 manuscripts and original editions, 15 pieces of jewelry and four films. The exhibits are arranged in the exhibition spaces partly by artist, partly by theme. The introduction is provided by Giorgio de Chirico , a pioneering predecessor of Surrealism whose cityscapes and interiors of the 1910's can be considered decisive forerunners of the movement. On view as well are valuable manuscripts and editions of Surrealist texts, including manuscript versions of Breton's manifestos. A further emphasis is placed on two major artists of the movement, Joan Miró and Max Ernst. Miró, who opened out entirely new spaces for modern art with his hovering dreamlike colored configurations, is represented by works such as Painting (The Circus Horse), 1927, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Ernst by superb works such as the renowned Wavering Woman (The Slanting Woman), 1923, from the Kunstsammlung NordrheinWestfalen, Düsseldorf. Then follows a room devoted to Yves Tanguy, whose imaginary spaces populated by mysterious objects – as in the monumental The Last Days, 1944, from a private collection – represent one of the most poetic evocations in all Surrealism. The next space is devoted to a key Surrealist medium – the object. The works on view include Meret Oppenheim's famous Ma gouvernante - My Nurse - Mein Kindermädchen, 1936/1967, from the Moderna Museet Stockholm, and Hans Bellmer's major object The Doll, 1935-36, from the Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris. Also brought together here are major drawings and paintings by Victor Brauner.  A special feature of the exhibition is the inclusion of two superb private collections of Surrealism. The presentation of that of André Breton and his first wife, Simone Collinet, represents a premiere. The couple amassed the collection in the 1920s, and after they separated Collinet expanded her share. Among the works in the collection are Francis Picabia's large-scale painting Judith, 1929, and de Chirico's The Evil Genius of a King, 1914-15, now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On view in a second room are outstanding works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection , including Max Ernst's The Antipope, 1941-42, which the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice seldom permits to travel. These works constitute an ensemble within the exhibition in which the period of the Surrealists' New York exile during World War II is virtually distilled. In addition, the presentation of the two collections permits us to highlight key aspects of private stagings of Surrealist art. The artists prominently represented in further rooms include Hans Arp, and not least Pablo Picasso , who for a time was closely associated with Surrealism. On view is his highly Surrealist painting The Artist's Studio (The Open Window), 1929. This is followed by an outstanding group of works by the visual magician René Magritte . In an inimitable way, Magritte's art captures visual reality only to subvert it again. Fine examples are the early The Interpretation of Dreams, 1930, and later major works such as The Dominion of Light, 1962, both from private collections. A concise selection of outstanding Surrealist photographs, including works by Man Ray , Raoul Ubac, Dora Maar, and Eli Lotar rounds off the picture. A screening room presents key works of Surrealist cinematic art, including ones by Luis Buñuel and Man Ray The exhibition concludes with the artist who is likely the most famous Surrealist of all, Salvador Dalí. A spectacular group of his masterpieces on view here includes The Enigma of Desire, 1929, from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the outstanding Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937, from the Tate London, and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, one Second before Awakening, 1944, from the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza in Madrid.  The exhibition links up with previous Galerie Beyeler and Fondation Beyeler projects. Ernst Beyeler early on devoted various exhibitions to Surrealism in his Basel gallery, including the 1947 "Surréalisme et peinture" and the 1995-96 "Surrealismus: Traum des Jahrhunderts," as well as to individual representatives of the movement, bringing his unique eye for this art into play. Accordingly, the Beyeler Collection now boasts key works by such artists as Arp, Ernst, Miró and Picasso. The Fondation Beyeler can likewise look back on shows of Surrealist art, including "Calder, Miró", 2004, "Picasso surreal," 2005, "René Magritte: The Key to Dreams", 2005, and, with some Surrealist works, " Giacometti ", 2009. These were supplemented by thematic exhibitions in which Surrealist art prominently figured. The current extensive Surrealism exhibition provides a panoramic view of the movement as a whole. The exhibition is curated by Philippe Büttner, Fondation Beyeler Curator Ernst Beyeler collected during his 50-year-old art gallery work always. In the 1980s he began to start thinking about the future of the paintings and sculptures. Lying close to the handover to the Basel Art Museum would have been. But as suggested, the government of the canton of Basel-Stadt, Ernst Beyeler proposals for a new home as a place for the collection, it quickly became clear that none of the rooms could do justice to the artwork. The foundation was established and the idea of building a museum was born. Ernst Beyeler was excited to unite the groups of works of great artists of the past 100 years with the sculptures from Africa and Oceania at any suitable place in one location, it was the first to create. Impressed by the work of Renzo Piano , who is responsible for the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and for the Menil Collection in Houston, was commissioned by Italian star architect without competition to build the museum. Visit : http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/  |
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