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Written by Carrie Springer
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:21 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of
American Art
focuses on the work of the visionary artist Charles Burchfield
(1893-1967) in an
exhibition curated by acclaimed sculptor Robert Gober. Heat Waves in a
Swamp:
The Paintings of Charles Burchfield features more than one hundred
watercolors,
drawings, and paintings from private and public collections, as well as
selections from Burchfield’s journals, sketches, scrapbooks, and
correspondence.
Organized by the Hammer Museum, in collaboration with the Burchfield
Penney Art
Center in Buffalo, the exhibition provides the most comprehensive
examination to
date of an underappreciated modernist master. Whitney senior curatorial
assistant Carrie Springer is overseeing the installation in the
third-floor
Peter Norton Family Galleries, where it will be on view from June 24
through
October 17, 2010.
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Read more... [Major Survey of the Work of Charles Burchfield at the Whitney Museum]
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Written by Alice Pfeiffer
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:18 |
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LONDON - The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms will present The Adam and Ron Show, on view May 2-31, 2008. When Adam Neate was still an unknown artist leaving his painted cardboard works out on the street, he wrote to Ron English in New York to say how much he admired his work. For the first time, The Adam and Ron Show brings together these two urban art painters, both masters of their own style, in a major heavyweight show at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms.
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Read more... [The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms to exhibit "The Adam and Ron Show]
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Written by Evelyn Rooney
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:17 |
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HAMBURG,GERMANY - The Russian dancer Vaslaw Nijinsky
(1889-1950) and the ballet company Les Ballets Russes had their European
premiere in Paris. Nijinsky immediately became an unrivalled star
on the stages of Europe, and ranks as the most important dancer of the
twentieth century until today. Apart from his exceptional career
as a dancer and choreographer, Nijinsky also created large numbers of
coloured paintings and gouaches in 1918 and 1919. These works are
here for the first time presented comprehensively. With finely-drawn
coloured circles and ellipses and strongly-coloured plane surfaces,
Nijinsky produced series of images where space and line are interwoven and
rhythm and colour are transformed into a painted choreography of intense
emotions. On view through August 16th,
2009.
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Read more... [Dance of Colours: Vaslaw Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction at Hamburger Kunsthalle]
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Written by Calvin Waterman
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:15 |
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St. Louis, MO - Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, Germany has reemerged as a potent intellectual and creative center within the international art world. In February 2007, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the first thematic museum exhibition to examine how contemporary artists have dealt — both directly and indirectly — with the social, economic and political ramifications of German unification. On exhibition 9 Feb. - 29 April, 2007. |
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Read more... [Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to Present 'Reality Bites']
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Written by Henry Wentworth
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:14 |
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NEW YORK, NY - Featuring approximately 150 drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's collection, Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance investigates the work that results when artists design for theater, dance, and opera. The exhibition highlights set and costume studies, as well as more abstract suggestions of light and mood, from the total theaters of the Ballets Russes and the Bauhaus, to Lincoln Kirstein’s formation of the New York City Ballet, to Pop performances and contemporary epic opera. The works, many rarely on view, span a century of visual experimentation on the stage, demonstrating how artists have used drawing strategies to translate texts into dramatic mises-en-scène, articulate illumination and shadow, imagine the form and presentation of character, manipulate bodies in space, and express duration.
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Read more... [MoMA presents Stage Pictures ~ Drawing for Performance ~ Explores Visual Stage Art]
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Written by Verena Dobnik, AP writer
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:08 |
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NEW YORK, NY -The Agora Gallery is proud to present Shifra in Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography. Scheduled to run from November 19th through December 9th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Shifra's dynamic photographs. Shifra's photographic explorations of the city highlight dynamic attributes of steel, stone, and glass that are easily overlooked in daily life. Dissembling space and skewing the conventions of perspective, her large format photography allows audiences to encounter the world from unusual points of view. |
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Read more... [Agora Gallery features Shifra in "Altered States of Reality]
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Written by Fionna Barber
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:07 |
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VIENNA.- The Liechtenstein Museum is staging the
exhibition Structure and Ornament which presents a cross-section of the history
and typology of the frame from the late medieval period to the 19th century. It
also showcases the various different techniques involved, from construction to
finishing, gilding and patination. Around 100 objects
from the Collections’ holdings are complemented by works from important private
collections in Britain, France and Germany as well as by major loans from
national and international museums. The exhibition illustrates the phenomenon of
the frame in context with furniture, metalwork and textiles as well as graphics
and engravings of ornamental motifs together with miniature paintings in
precious settings. On exhibition through 12 January,
2010.
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Read more... [Liechtenstein Museum Presents a Cross-section of the History & Typology of the Picture Frame]
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Written by John Spaik
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:05 |
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Frankfurt, Germany - Beginning around 1825, a wave of enthusiasm for the American Wild West arose in German-speaking Europe. Set into motion primarily by the translation of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales it was further encouraged by both the performances of “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” in Germany and Austria and, of course, Karl May’s books. |
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Read more... [I LIKE AMERICA : Fictions of the Wild West at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]
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Written by Douglas Reaves
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Friday, 03 September 2010 04:03 |
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HAMBURG, GERMANY - The period between 1780 and 1830 is
considered the “golden era” of English caricature. During this time the
genre first became recognised as an art form, which against the backdrop
of the struggle for freedom of the press bore a strong influence on social
and political opinion in Great Britain. Artists unsparingly
parodied developments in day-to-day politics and social issues, wielding
their innovative, trenchant means of expression to create an “arena of
ridicule”. On exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 5 July
through 27 September, 2009.
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Read more... [The Arena of Ridicule: English Caricatures 1780-1830 opens at Hamburger Kunsthalle]
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Written by Rob Taylor
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Friday, 03 September 2010 03:59 |
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CANBERRA (REUTERS).- An Australian council is rueing
a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they
painted over
a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist
Banksy.
Melbourne Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley last week sent a clean-up team
into
Hosier Lane, renowned internationally for its colorful street art, to
clean up
garbage in the graffiti-lined passage after local residents complained.
In 2008, a London wall bearing one of his stencils was said to have sold
on eBay
for almost $500,000.
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Read more... [Cleaners Paint Over Priceless Graffiti Stencil of a Rat by Banksy]
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Written by Barney Compton
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Friday, 03 September 2010 03:56 |
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Frankfurt, Germany - Städel Museum presents “REAL – Photographs from the Collection of the DZ BANK”, on view through September 21, 2008. The Städel will present a selection of outstanding works from the DZ BANK art collection. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the DZ BANK’s founding, the exhibition will provide a broader public with the opportunity to gain an impression of the quality and diversity of a corporate collection whose uniqueness is by no means limited to Germany.
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Read more... [Photographs from the Collection of the DZ BANK at the Stadel Museum]
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Written by Jon Cotton
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Friday, 03 September 2010 03:52 |
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Edinburgh, Scotland - The National Galleries of Scotland, hosts Foto: Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945 a thought-provoking and beautiful exhibition that explores the breathtaking success of modernist photography in Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria, during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval. Organised by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, this will be the only European showing of Foto, and it will include many stunning works on display in Britain for the first time. On view 7th June to 31st August 2008.
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Read more... [Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art hosts 'Foto: Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945']
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Written by Augustine Wisner
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Friday, 03 September 2010 03:50 |
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PARIS.-
The National Museum of Modern Art (Centre
Pompidou) opened, on level 5, the new presentation of its collections
from 1905
to 1960. The exhibition is entirely dedicated to artists, movements and
themes
of the founding history of modern art of the twentieth century. There
are so
many landmarks for visitors which illuminate the journey throughout a
century of
creation. Centre Pompidou has dedicated over 7000 m² to a
thematic and
chronological dialogue between works emblematic of all disciplines:
visual arts,
photography, architecture, design and film.
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Read more... [New Presentation of the Modern Collection at the Centre Pompidou]
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Written by Editor, Art Knowledge News
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Friday, 03 September 2010 03:49 |
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