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Written by Gunder Schmidt
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:49 |
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BERLIN.- The Ahlen Art Museum will be presenting
in this exhibit the historical developments, contextual significance, and
especially the artistic reflections of the topic 'bathing.' In the exhibit, 140
works by 90 artists will be presented, including Pierre Bonnard, Louise
Bourgeois, Gustave Caillebotte, William N. Copley, Gregory Crewdson, Edgar
Degas, Albrecht Dürer, Eric Fischl, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Xenia Hausner, David
Hockney, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Édouard Manet, Bettina
Rheims, Norbert Tadeusz, and Bill Viola. On view 31 January through 25
April, 2010.
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Read more... Ahlen Art Museum to Present a Special Exhibition "Intimacy! Bathing in Art
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Written by Maggie Jackson
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:45 |
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NASHVILLE, TN.- The highly acclaimed art of Dale
Chihuly, exploring the visual relationship of glass and nature, will appear in
the glorious setting of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art opening
May 25, 2010 and on display through October 31, 2010. The show, Chihuly
at Cheekwood, features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on
display throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and
within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center. Chihuly’s
spectacular creations are found in more than 200 museums worldwide including
: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria and Albert
Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Garden exhibitions of his work
have been mounted at the New York Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
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Read more... Dale Chihuly Exhibition In 2010 will Dazzle Audiences at Cheekwood Museum of Art
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Written by Eleshiva Blum
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:35 |
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JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today
announced a $12-million gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the
Mandel Supporting Foundations. This gift marks the completion
of its $100-million capital campaign to support the comprehensive transformation
of its 20-acre campus. The Mandel gift supports the reconstruction,
reinstallation, and endowment of the Museum’s Jewish Art and Life Wing, housing
the world’s preeminent collection of Judaica and Jewish Ethnography. The Wing
will be named the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life
in honor of the family’s generous support, and it will present objects from
sacred and secular Jewish traditions together for the first time in a newly
combined permanent display.
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Read more... Israel Museum Gifted $12-Million Gift from Mandel Family
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Written by Bernd Singer
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:37 |
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BONN, GERMANY - Franz Ackermann who was born in
Neumarkt St. Veit (Bavaria) in 1963 is one of the most innovative painters of
the past ten years. Since 2001 this internationally acclaimed artist
has also been employed as a professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in
Karlsruhe. Time and time again, he manages to make an impression with his room
filling and extremely colourful pictures, drawings and installations which
effortlessly combine elements of globalised society with apparently purely
pictorial aspects. On exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn through 21
February, 2010.
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Read more... Kunstmuseum Bonn displays Franz Ackermann's Very Colorful Paintings
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Written by Casey Hampton
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:36 |
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LONDON.- Still hard at work well into his late 70s,
Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s images have lost none of the potency
that would make his 1960’s nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal
measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary announced the first
exhibition of his work in the UK, which will focus on his most iconic
series – Birth, Twin, Death Valley, Brown Lilly and Phantom, as well as studies
of a dancer, also from the 1960s. Shinoyama was born in Tokyo in 1940 and at the
age of three underwent ordination rites to become a Buddhist priest.
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Read more... Michael Hoppen Contemporary to Present Photographer Kishin Shinoyama
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Written by Audrey Fields
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:06 |
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PASADENA, CA.- Pacific Asia Museum presents a
multi-cultural exhibition that explores the idea of art as a strategy for
breaking down concepts of painting/writing, legibility/illegibility,
insider/outsider and Asian art/Western art. Guest curated by Collette
Chattopadhyay, Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art
will be on view through January 17, 2010 and
includes works by artists : Apex, Chaz Bojorquez, Vince Cavallo,
Cre8, Desi W.O.M.E., Duce, Fung Ming Chip, Gronk, Gu Wenda, Julianna Hernandez,
Keo, Leo Limon, Man One, Minette Lee Mangahas, Mear, Sano, Scud, Toons, John
Valadez, Vyal, Xu Bing, Yu Kun Yang, Zhang Dali, Zender and Chongbin Zheng. The
exhibition is trilingual and features text and labels in Spanish, Chinese and
English.
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Read more... Pacific Asia Museum features Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art
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Written by Nonna Materkova
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:09 |
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LONDON.- Calvert22 will present Photo I, Photo
You, the fourth exhibition at the contemporary art space in Shoreditch. Curated
by Iara Boubnova, the exhibition will present works by leading Russian and
Eastern European artists who invite the viewer to reconsider, revisit
and rediscover what they think they know through a series of mixed media works.
Exhibition on view from 28 January through 28 March,
2010.
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Read more... Leading Russian & Eastern European Artists to Exhibit at Calvert 22
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Written by Adam Geary
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:49 |
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LONDON.- With help from The Art Fund and other
funding bodies, East Ayrshire Council has successfully raised the £85,100 needed
to buy a nationally significant set of watercolours which will go on display at
Dean Castle, Kilmarnock, early next year. The Eglinton
Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding
significance for the study of Scottish social history and of the Gothic Revival
in 19th century Britain. The accompanying historic shields, which were
used to furnish the knights’ tents at the 19th century tournament, have been
purchased for £7,000, along with the watercolours.
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Read more... The Eglinton Watercolours and Shields Secured for East Ayrshire
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Written by Sarah Livingworth
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:48 |
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LONDON.- Bani Abidi is one of the leading figures
from a generation of Pakistani artists who trained during the 1990s and began
exploring social contradictions through their artistic practice. Green
Cardamom presents two key works by Abidi at this exhibition – Karachi Series 1
(2009), a photographic investigation into, and a lament, of the loss of
Pakistan’s diverse cultural character in the face of the Islamisation of the
nation’s society that began in the 1980s. This work was shown for the first time
at the recent Xth Lyon Biennale curated by Hou Hanru. On view 26
February through 28 March, 2010.
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Read more... Green Cardamom to Show New Work by Pakistani Artist Bani Abidi
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Written by Bruno Caesura
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:46 |
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UDINE,
ITALY.- A series of exhibitions organized at Villa Manin di
Passariano, in Casarsa della Delizia and in Pordenone celebrates the eighty
years of Elio Ciol, one of the Italian landscape photographers better known in
the world, and sixty years of professional work of the artist.
Elio Ciol is known mainly for his photographic interpretations of
Italian landscape and for his work of documentation of artistic heritage.
The Villa Manin exhibition deals with a lesser known period of the
photographer, that of the years of his formation, between 1950 and 1964. The
exhibition is made of 140 photographs, many of which never previously shown, and
is held in a lateral building of Villa Manin, the great country palace near
Codroipo that has been one of the major exhibition sites of Friuli Venezia
Giulia county for many years
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Read more... A Series of Exhibitions in Italy will Celebrate Elio Ciol's 80th Anniversary
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Written by Betsy Corning
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:45 |
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LONDON.- Italian-born, Brazilian artist Anna Maria
Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Her new
exhibition at Camden Arts Centre will include a site-specific installation and a
selection of film works made over the last 30 years.
In a career that spans five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums
including clay, ink, film and performance, Anna Maria Maiolino’s work retains a
fundamental concern with creative and destructive processes and with identity;
from the subjective to the universal. Conducting a dialogue between opposite yet
complementary categories, Maiolino’s practice dissolves the dichotomies of inner
and outer, self and other, void and matter, ancient and contemporary.
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Read more... Camden Arts Centre Announces Exhibition by Anna Maria Maiolino
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Written by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Writer
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:45 |
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CAIRO
(AP).- Egypt's antiquities chief said Sunday he will formally demand
the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum
after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo through fraudulent
documents. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of
Antiquities, has been aggressively campaigning to reclaim treasures that he says
were stolen from Egypt and purchased by some of the world's leading museums.
Nefertiti is the 14th century B.C. wife of Akhenaton, who initiated a new
monotheistic religion that involved the worship of the sun. Her bust was
recently moved back to Berlin's Neues Museum from the adjacent Atles Museum,
part of a cluster of five art halls that make up one of Berlin's most familiar
landmarks.
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Read more... Egypt Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawass to Demand Return of Nefertiti Bust
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