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Written by Claudia Nahson
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 02:44 |
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New
York, NY – The Jewish Museum will present a new
exhibition, Curious George Saves the Day:
The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey, from March 14 through August 1, 2010. Curious George, the impish monkey
protagonist of many adventures, may never have seen the light of day were it not
for the determination and courage of his creators: illustrator H. A. Rey (1898 –
1977) and his wife, author and artist Margret Rey (1906 – 1996). They were both born in Hamburg, Germany, to Jewish families and lived together in
Paris from 1936
to 1940. Hours before the Nazis
marched into the city in June 1940, the Reys fled on bicycles carrying drawings
for their children’s stories including one about a mischievous monkey, then
named Fifi. Not only did they save
their animal characters, but the Reys themselves were saved by their
illustrations when authorities found them in their belongings. This may explain why saving the
day after a narrow escape became the premise of most of their Curious George
stories.
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Read more... The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey opens at The Jewish Museum
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Written by Karen Templeton
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 02:04 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents an exhibition of new
works by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (B. 1967). Eliasson's sixth
solo show at the gallery continues his exploration of and experimentation with
modes of perception and the experience of space and time.
Focusing on movement, color, and light - and the interplay between the
three phenomena - the exhibition involves the viewer in a collaborative creative
process. Throughout his career, Eliasson has challenged the notion of
the artwork as a static object, instead suggesting that the meaning and
generative potential of each work lies in the exchange between the piece and the
viewer. It is the visitor's experience, his or her subjective perception and
mediation of the work that activates it; in turn Eliasson's installations,
public projects, photographs and paintings prompt a new awareness in the visitor
of his or her own methods of interpreting the world. On view through 20
March, 2010.
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Read more... New Works by Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
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Written by Bonnie Casper
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 01:36 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Tony Shafrazi Gallery is holding an exhibition of works
by Keith Haring which celebrate the 20th anniversary of the passing of the
artist born in Reading, Pennsylvania. Haring died in 1990 of AIDS-related
complications. Haring achieved his first public attention with chalk drawings in
the subways of New York. The exhibitions were filmed by the
photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Around this time, "The Radiant baby" became his
symbol. His bold lines, vivid colors, and active figures carry strong messages
of life and unity. Starting in 1980, he organized exhibitions in Club 57. He
participated in the Times Square Exhibition and drew, for the first time,
animals and human faces. In 1981 he sketched his first chalk drawings on black
paper and painted plastic, metal and found objects. On view through 3
April, 2010.
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Read more... Keith Haring Anniversary Show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York
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Written by Willy Hampshire
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 01:35 |
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LONDON.- The French/Algerian artist Alice Anderson
(b.1976) will fill Riflemaker in Soho with thousands of metres of hair as part
of an installation, including film, sculptures and photographs, based on
fictional childhood memories, A catalogue to accompany the exhibition will
include an essay by Marina Warner. On view 2 March through 24 April
2010. Anderson considers time, or more particularly the way
that time shapes itself, to be her most significant working material. For her,
memories can be described as reconstructions, often distorted to the extent that
each becomes a creation or fiction itself. She views memory as the ‘master of
fiction’, whereby the passage of time may lead to a remembrance being more akin
to fiction than fact.
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Read more... Alice Anderson Will Fill London's Riflemaker with Thousands of Meters of Hair
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Written by Hans Ulrich
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 01:35 |
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MUNICH.- To start off a cooperation between Henn
Gallery, Munich and Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, the
German photographer Thomas Wrede (*1963) will show works from his series
Manhattan Picture Worlds. The Vernissage will be on Thursday, 4th
March, 7 p.m. at Henn Gallery, Augustenstrasse 54 in Munich, with introductory
words by Dr. Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Head of Department Photography and New
Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
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Read more... Thomas Wrede to Show Works from Manhattan Series at Beck & Eggeling International
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Written by Steve Taylor
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 01:35 |
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Now-legendary figures as well as
younger artists who have revolted against the aesthetic orthodoxies of
their times are featured in the Walker Art Center exhibition Abstract
Resistance on view February 27–May 23. Nearly 40 works ranging from the
1950s to a brand-new commission do not conform to a single theme, but are
united in challenging what is expected of art, from the way it looks to
the role it plays in society at large. The exhibition considers
“resistance” as a complex formal and political force, as is suggested by
the title it borrows from a featured sculpture by Thomas Hirschhorn.
Ultimately, Abstract Resistance proposes an alternative framework for
aesthetically inventive, ethically engaged, and politically defiant art.
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Read more... The Walker Art Center features An Exhibition of Abstract Resistance
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Written by Peter Glassing
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 01:34 |
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FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- The Jens Fehring Gallery will
be opening an exhibition entitled i'm so grouchy featuring works by sculptor
Niklas Klotz (born in 1968), a native of Dresden, Germany. The
exhibition will open at 7:00 p.m. with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Achim Preiß
from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In the not too distant future, it will only be
possible to experience large chunks of our culture digitally. By contrast,
Niklas Klotz takes the totally opposite approach. He designs digital
humans on the computer only to then realise the matrices in traditional
materials, such as marble and wood, although sometimes he also chooses high-tech
solutions, such as 3-D aluminium prints.
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Read more... New Sculptures by Niklas Klotz at Jens Fehring Gallery in Frankfurt
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Written by John Liebes
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Monday, 01 March 2010 06:12 |
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a
major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of
American artistic achievement during an epochal century and a half, from the
colonial era through the period leading to World War I. American
Stories—the first survey of American narrative painting in more than thirty-five
years—features over seventy works, including loans from leading museums and
private collections, as well as key works from LACMA’s collection. LACMA’s
presentation—the exhibition’s only West Coast showing—will be on view in
the museum’s Art of the Americas building from February 28 through May 23,
2010.
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Read more... LACMA Presents 150 Years of American Masterpieces
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Written by Herman Singer
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Monday, 01 March 2010 05:42 |
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AMSTERDAM.- Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso,
Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be
seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at the
Hermitage Amsterdam in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of
modern art from the Hermitage. For this exhibition about 75 paintings have been
selected from the Hermitage St.- Petersburg, which has one of the world’s finest
collections of French painting of the early twentieth century. Apart from the
world-famous French masters, such equally celebrated Russian contemporaries as
Malevich and Kandinsky will be represented. These artists are seen as the
pioneers of Modernism. Almost all the works exhibited are on permanent
display in St.- Petersburg. Most come originally from the Moscow collections of
Morozov and Shchukin.
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Read more... Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage
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Written by Wilbur Garrison
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Monday, 01 March 2010 04:31 |
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PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The world of Cleopatra, which has
been lost to the sea and sand for nearly 2,000 years, will surface in a new
exhibition, “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” making its
world premiere in June 2010 at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, with
cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the European
Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), the exhibition will feature more
than 250 artifacts, and take visitors inside the present-day search for
Cleopatra, which extends from the sands of Egypt to the depths of the Bay of
Aboukir near Alexandria. On view 5 June through 2 January,
2011.
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Read more... New Cleopatra Exhibition to Make World Premiere at Franklin Institute
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Written by Nord Wennerstrom
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Monday, 01 March 2010 03:45 |
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Washington, DC – Industry Gallery will
open “Hands On”
March
20, 2010, 6‐8PM, the first
solo U.S. exhibition for renowned and innovative Dutch
designer Tejo Remy, a founding designer at the Droog
Design collective, and René
Veenhuizen, his design partner of the past
decade. The exhibition will run through
May 8 and will premier a prototype for a new series of poured
concrete furniture.
Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands,
is critically acclaimed
for its product and furniture design, and noted for using simple
materials in strikingly
original ways. “Hands On”
will feature approximately a dozen works created
from
concrete, bamboo, tennis balls, and old woolen blankets.
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Read more... Industry Gallery to Host Internationally Acclaimed Designers Remy & Veenhuizen
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Written by Craig Hungerford
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Monday, 01 March 2010 03:44 |
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LONDON.- As the end of February fast approaches,
the fundraising total for the Staffordshire Hoard campaign has reached
£1million. So far, the total raised towards saving the most valuable treasure
found on British soil is £1,080,000. Of this, almost £500,000 comes from members
of the public. The Art Fund is spearheading the campaign to save the
Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands . The charity is delighted to have
reached this landmark figure, just seven weeks into the campaign, which began on
13 January.
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Read more... Campaign to Save the Staffordshire Hoard has Reached £1 million
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