DELAWARE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS THE ART OF DAVID MACAULAY

Sunday, 08 October 2006 23:34

Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay, an exhibition of the world-famous author and illustrator’s original drawings, paintings, and studies on view from October 14, 2006, through January 7, 2007.  Macaulay uses art to communicate complex concepts in a fun and accessible manner.  His imaginative and often humorous illustrations are sure to inspire and delight the whole family.  Macaulay’s most popular book to date, The Way Things Work, is an entertaining and whimsical illustrated guide to the inner workings of machines.  In more than a dozen additional books, he has displayed the construction of intricate architectural structures, examined a centuries-old sailing vessel from past and present perspectives, and taken readers on journeys into his unique imagination.  Building Books explores both Macaulay’s work and his artistic process.

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Design Made in Africa at McColl Center for Visual Art

Sunday, 08 October 2006 23:30

Charlotte, North Carolina – McColl Center for Visual Art will present this vibrant exhibit which explores the vitality and diversity of contemporary design from across the continent of Africa.  On exhibit November 17 – January 6, 2007.

Originally organized by Samuel Sidibé, Director of the Mali National Museum of Bamako and AFAA/Afrique en Créations for the Biennale de Design de Saint-Étienne in 2004, Design Made in Africa now travels across the globe to highlight African contemporary creativity in the world of design.

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Christie's To Sell Four Restituted Gustav Klimts / on 8 November

Sunday, 08 October 2006 22:42

NEW YORK City - Christie’s President Marc Porter announced the sale at auction of four paintings by Gustav Klimt that were restituted to the heirs of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer earlier this year.  Their sale at auction will accent one family’s heroic battle to recover cherished treasures and tell a profound story of lives destroyed through Nazi persecution.  The sale will also reinforce the Bloch-Bauer heirs’ effort to share these masterpieces with the world, having concluded blockbuster exhibitions on both the West and East coasts as well as the record setting sale of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I to the Neue Galerie in New York -- considered to be the most expensive painting ever sold.

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Muse and Model - Woman in the Paintings of the Hamburg Secession

Saturday, 07 October 2006 12:45

Hamburg, Germany - This new exhibition with works of the Hamburgische Sezession from the collection on loan from the Hamburger Sparkasse is devoted to the depiction of women and reveals a broad range of different possible stylistic approaches to one and the same subject.

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Sonoma Valley Museum of Art to Exhibit Sculpture by Karen Bamonte

Saturday, 07 October 2006 12:33

SONOMA, Calif. – The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) will present the wire mesh sculpture of Karen Bamonte from Saturday, November 18, through Sunday, December 24.  Entitled “Traces,” the exhibition will appear in the LaHaye Sculpture Gallery at the museum entrance and will showcase more than 30 pieces created by the artist between 2003 and 2006.

Bamonte is known for ethereal figures that evoke human forms, movements, and characters.  “Her sculpture pries into our collective psyche,” said Lia Transue, SVMA’s executive director.  “‘Traces’ continues our commitment to showcase the work of national and international artists.”

The pieces on display will come from three different series of Bamonte’s work.  The most recent works, “The Four Seasons” are life-size, scarecrow-like figures that walk the line between tragic and comic.

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AMERICAN IDOLS ~ ANNIE LEIBOVITZ ~ AT THE DIA

Saturday, 07 October 2006 12:01

Detroit, MI - Aretha Franklin, The White Stripes, Willie Nelson, Etta James ... and the beat goes on.  These are just some of the greats of American music whose images were captured by the keen eye of one of America’s most renowned photographers: Annie Leibovitz. The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) presents Annie Leibovitz: American Music until Jan. 7, 2007.

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Goddess: Divine Energy at The Art Gallery of New South Wales

Saturday, 07 October 2006 11:20

Sydney NSW , Australia - Countless images of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses depict her variously as seductive, benevolent, malevolent: a loving mother, a compassionate saviour or rage personified.  With her male counterpart she can be the compliant consort, the passionate lover, or a symbol of blissful Awakening.

This exhibition surveys the innumerable, imaginative expressions of the divine female found in the art of India, Tibet and Nepal through over 120 paintings and sculptures, dating from the early centuries CE through to the 20th century.  Major public and private collections of Asian art around the world are lenders to the exhibition.  From 13 October 2006 - 28 January 2007.

The all-powerful Goddess has been a source of inspiration and guidance to followers for centuries. 

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Lasting Tribute: The Conill-Mendoza Chase Collection

Saturday, 07 October 2006 11:09

Melbourne, FL – Lasting Tribute: The Conill-Mendoza Chase Collection celebrates the life and legacy of collector Enrique Conill-Mendoza.  At 1,000 Chase pieces, counting color, shape, and metal variations, Conill-Mendoza built what is considered the most complete collection of Chase Brass & Copper Co. objects, part of the permanent collection of the Brevard Museum of Art and Science.  Select portions of the collection will be on display. Chase objects are recognized among America’s foremost Art Deco designs in the decorative arts.  The exhibition is on view through October 29, 2006.

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' Victorian romance and tragedy to life ' at Cincinnati Art Museum

Written by Administrator Friday, 06 October 2006 10:49

CINCINNATI, OHIO - Mystery and romance unfold this fall at the Cincinnati Art Museum through the exhibition, Waking Dreams - Experience the Enchantment.  Visitors will delve into an online and in-museum journey exploring the secret lives and torrid love affairs of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a band of notoriously rebellious artists in Victorian England.

The Art Museum’s first-ever integration of technology and art begins at www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org, where an adults-only Web journey challenges visitors to search for clues and symbols that reveal the true love of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  “The sensual voices of Rossetti’s lovers, the challenging clues and puzzles, the lush artwork and the mysterious stories create a truly interactive experience,” said Betsy Wieseman, curator of European painting and sculpture.  “Visitors to the website will feel privy to some of the things that went on behind closed doors in the artist’s studio and boudoir.”

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MEL BOCHNER: DRAWING FROM FOUR DECADES AT WEATHERSPOON

Friday, 06 October 2006 09:32

Greensboro, NC — The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, presents Mel Bochner: Drawing From Four Decades, the first exhibition to offer an overview of the artist’s drawing practice.  That drawing was at the center of Bochner’s art at the start of his career has been acknowledged by several exhibitions highlighting works on paper created between 1966 and 1973.  Less well known, however, is that drawing has remained key to Bochner’s art over subsequent decades, during which he both expanded upon his early work and extended his conceptual, visual, and emotional reach.  The exhibition includes approximately thirty works that suggest the density of Bochner’s approach and the role drawing has played both in the creation of unique works and as a methodology essential to installation, painting, and sculpture. On exhibit October 15 – December 23, 2006.

Bochner’s commitment to certain theoretical markers will be seen in a broader visual context than previously, conveying the impressive range of the artist’s drawings over the course of his career. 

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Caravaggio & Cranach at The Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest

Thursday, 05 October 2006 22:11

Budapest, Hungary - The sixth and at the same time the last show of the /Geniuses and Masterpieces/ exhibition series will feature Caravaggio’s masterpiece David with the Head of Goliath arriving for the special occasion from Rome's, The Palazzo Borghese.  On exhibition 12 October until 30 November, 2006.

The show is going to be an exclusive event since none of Caravaggio’s works have ever been seen in Hungary previously.  The simplicity of everyday life is a message that brings Caravaggio's realism close to the spirit of the art of Rembrandt born more than a generation later.  Despite that and despite his often brutal naturalism, Caravaggio's works faithfully preserve the discipline, harmony, monumentalness and pathos of composition, a feature of the classical tradition present from Giotto through Masaccio to Raphael and Michelangelo.  His works are pathetic but their pathos is down-to-earth and devoid of rhetoric.  The unique appeal of the highlight of the present exhibition - /David with the Head of Goliath/ - lies in its pathos devoid of superfluity, its simplicity and truthfulness, in the merging of classical "Latin tradition" and uncompromising naturalism.

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Babi Yar Remembered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

Thursday, 05 October 2006 11:23

New York City - Sixty-five years after the massacre in Kiev, Yevgeny Yevtushenko read his famous poem, Babi Yar, to commemorate the event at Babi Yar Remembered: Yevtushenko and Shostakovich in Word and Song at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on September 27 Following the reading the world premiere of the two-piano version of the first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, based on Yevtushenko’s powerful poem.  The work was performed by internationally acclaimed pianists Misha and Cipa Dichter, bass soloist Valentin Peytchinov, and a male chorus led by Patrick Gardner, made up of the Riverside Choral Society, Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir, and Rutgers University Glee Club.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust honors those who died by celebrating their lives - cherishing the civilization that they built, their achievements and faith, their joys and hopes, and the vibrant Jewish community that is their legacy today.

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Tacoma Art Museum Presents The Art of Eric Carle

Thursday, 05 October 2006 11:20

Tacoma, WA – Fireflies, rubber ducks, and other creatures take over Tacoma Art Museum this fall in the exhibition The Art of Eric Carle.  More than fifty original works on paper by the famous children’s picture-book writer and artist – most well-known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar – are on view from October 7, 2006 through January 21, 2007.

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CANNON ART GALLERY HOSTS AUDUBON’S ANIMALS OF N.A.

Wednesday, 04 October 2006 20:41

Carlsbad, CA - Seventy original hand-colored lithographs from John James Audubon’s magnum opus, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, published between 1845 and 1848, are the finest images of North American animals ever made.

The works will be shown at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery from October 22 through December 17, 2006 in an exhibition entitled Spectacular Achievements: Audubon's Animals of North America; Selected Works from the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas.  The Cannon Art Gallery is located in the Carlsbad City Library complex.

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