Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA

Written by Joseph Gresham Saturday, 01 October 2011 22:12

San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth from October 20, 2006, to January 21, 2007.  The first North American survey of this influential contemporary German artist’s oeuvre in 20 years, this traveling exhibition brings together more than 50 major works, many of which have never before been seen in the United States.  Organized by Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth completes its international tour in San Francisco in a presentation overseen by SFMOMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture Janet Bishop.

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The Virgin, Saints, and Angels : at Cantor Arts Center

Tuesday, 01 August 2006 10:39

Stanford, CA - The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600–1825 from the Thoma Collection,” September 20 – December 31, 2006.  This exhibition of 55 paintings surveys the pictorial tradition of the Viceroyalty of Peru, which encompassed present day Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and parts of Argentina and Chile.  This is the first North American exhibition to focus exclusively on the paintings of South America’s Viceregal period.  “The Virgin, Saints, and Angels” travels to other North American venues after premiering at Stanford.

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to study the distinctive pictorial traditions that evolved as European imagery became naturalized in the Andes within a new multiracial and multicultural society.  The missionaries who followed on the heels of the conquistadors taught local artisans how to use European mediums and Christian iconography in order to produce images of God, the Trinity, the Virgin Mary, and endless saints and angels, which were used in the campaign to convert the indigenous people to Catholicism.  They also became familiar with the European portrait tradition, enabling them to portray the distant kings of Spain who ruled from afar through their viceroys and other notables.

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'Transactions With History' at The McCord Museum

Tuesday, 01 August 2006 16:11

Montréal — This summer, the McCord Museum has taken to the streets! Visitors strolling along McGill College Avenue in downtown Montréal will witness some intriguing Transactions.  To take advantage of the fine weather, the McCord Museum is delighted to present its first outdoor photographic exhibition.  “The chance to show our collections to such a large audience, on such a grand scale, is a very exciting opportunity for the McCord,” says the Museum’s Executive Director, Victoria Dickenson.

Through October 16^th, along the west side of McGill College Avenue, the exhibition Transactions plays with the idea of the transaction – the basis of trade and commerce – but also at the root of social, cultural, and personal life.  The poignant, often playful pairings of photographs present stunning color images of objects from the Museum’s renowned collections, as well as black and white historic photographs from the Notman Photographic Archives.

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Howard Hodgkin Prints at the Laing Art Gallery

Wednesday, 02 August 2006 10:04

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - Howard Hodgkin Prints, A Life In Colour is a prestigious new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery. Visitors will be able to enjoy the work of this major modern British artist whose bold, colourful prints have not previously been displayed in such a comprehensive way.  This will be the only opportunity to see this Barbican Art Gallery touring exhibition in the North East.

Hodgkin is one of Britain’s most celebrated painters, and his prints represent an extraordinary body of work, which is a parallel and very different achievement from his painting.  They have been internationally celebrated and passionately collected, but never brought together until now.

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Lines of Enquiry : Drawings at Kettle's Yard

Wednesday, 02 August 2006 14:28

Cambridge, UK - Even in a digital age, with cameras in our phones, sometimes only a drawing will do.

'Lines of Enquiry' looks across disciplines at the almost universal use of drawing as an exploratory and explanatory tool.  From the wobbliest doodle to elaborately detailed expositions, the exhibition shows how we draw to think through problems, find out how things work, visualize concepts, order information, and communicate to other people.

Exhibitors include physicists, geologists, architects, engineers, zoologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geneticists, surgeons, historians, geographers, philosophers, and composers, as well as artists.  On exhibition until 17 September, 2006.

Among this feast of drawings are:
Sir Roger Penrose's reformulations of Einstein's relativity equation,
Sir John Sulston's human genome explorations,
Sir Colin St John Wilson's original ideograms for the British Library,

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Natural Moderns: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries

Written by Carrie Lazarus Saturday, 08 January 2011 22:00

Cincinnati, Ohio – Visitors to the Cincinnati Art Museum will see the beauty of the American landscape through the eyes of four 20th-century masters in Natural Moderns: Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Contemporaries.  This one-gallery survey exhibition is on display Aug. 12, 2006 to Jan. 14, 2007.

From oceans to mountains and from sunsets to moonlit nights, the 11 paintings in the exhibition demonstrate how nature inspired American painters Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Georgia O’Keeffe.  Key works on display include O’Keeffe’s Red Hills, Lake George and Dove’s Sand Barge.

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“Chaplets? Arise at North Dakota Museum of Art

Thursday, 03 August 2006 09:42

Grand Forks, ND - Six small chapels sprung up amid the peonies and granite sculpture in the garden of the North Dakota Museum of Art on August 1, 2006.  The project is the collaborative work of painter Marjorie Schlossman and architects Michael Burns, Joel Davy, Jef Foss, Richard Moorhead and sons Granger and Robert, Julie Rokke, and Philip Stahl.

A New York jazz trio; string players from the Fargo Moorhead Symphony Orchestra; a second exhibition of paintings, architectural drawings, models and plans; and busses filled with Fargo art supporters converged on the Museum Garden to celebrate the event.

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Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild Created Waddesdon Manor

Thursday, 03 August 2006 10:19

Buckinghamshire, UK - Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, creator of Waddesdon, loved France and French art.  With his French architect Destailleur and his landscape gardener Lainé, he built this Renaissance-style château in a dramatic setting.  Waddesdon has one of the best collections of French 18th century decorative arts in the world, paintings, furniture, carpets and curiosities, lovingly assembled over 35 years by Ferdinand to please his weekend guests.  Outside, his creation includes an aviary, flamboyant bedding, winding walks, colorful trees and panoramic views.

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‘Mean Season’ Hurricane Pix at Delray's Palm Beach Photographic Centre

Thursday, 03 August 2006 11:09

Delray Beach, FL - Hurricanes are horrific and awesomely destructive, but as tragic as they can be, they also make for mesmerizing photo opportunities.  “Mean Season – Florida’s Hurricanes of 2004” is a beautiful, fascinating, instructive and sobering exhibit opening Aug. 11 and running through Sept. 23 at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, 22 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach.

“Mean Season” features 60 of the best images gleaned from the recent book of the same name, published by The Palm Beach Post, as well as four large collages assembled from some of the images.  In fact, the photographic staff of The Palm Beach Post was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category. 

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Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Drawings at Norton Museum

Thursday, 03 August 2006 12:57

West Palm Beach, FL – The Norton Museum of Art is pleased to announce Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Drawings, a carefully selected exhibition featuring nine works by one of America's most admired artists.  Cassatt (1844-1926) was born near Pittsburgh and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  In 1866 she left home for Spain and France, where she settled, seldom returning to the United States during the course of her long life.  She nonetheless cherished her American citizenship and is rightly considered one of this country's most important artistic personalities of the 19th century.  Edgar Degas invited Cassatt to exhibit her work in the recently organized exhibitions of art by the so-called "Impressionists of Paris"--Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and their associates--and she enjoys the distinction of being the only American whose paintings, pastels, prints and drawings were included in those now-legendary exhibitions.  On exhibition 19 August until 29 October, 2006.

Visitors to the Norton Museum will have the opportunity to see nine works which reveal the full breadth and quality of Cassatt's art. 

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Daniel Libeskind Designs New Contemporary Jewish Museum

Thursday, 03 August 2006 15:36

San Francisco, CA – The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) announced the commencement of construction on its new Museum facility.  The new building, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, will open in the Spring of 2008 in the Yerba Buena cultural district located in the South of Market (SoMA) neighborhood near the heart of downtown San Francisco.  In addition, the Museum announced that it has reached 78% of its comprehensive capital campaign goal.  Led by board chair Roselyne “Cissie” Swig and members of the Board of Trustees, the comprehensive capital campaign aims to raise $77 million to provide financial security and long-term stability for the Museum.  The CJM’s comprehensive capital campaign includes funds for the $46 million building costs, endowment and operations.

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Burl Ives & Art of the 1930-‘40s at the Tarble Arts Center

Written by Administrator Friday, 04 August 2006 10:08

CHARLESTON, IL - A newly acquired portrait of Burl Ives is the centerpiece of the exhibition, Burl Ives and the American Scene, now at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University.  The exhibition continues through September 24.  Admission is free and the public is invited.

Titled The Hymn Singer, the Ives lithograph is by the noted Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton.  The lithograph is the first acquisition made possible by the Mildred Grush Timmons American Scene/Regionalist Endowment of the EIU Foundation.  The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Embarras Valley Film Festival and Symposium, Burl Ives and American Film of the 1950s, to be held in September.

During the 1930s and 1940s artists, musicians, and writers from throughout the country sought to define what was “American” about the arts in America.  Like Burl Ives, who traveled the country gathering and singing folk songs, many of the visual artists represented in the Tarble exhibition traveled around the country, gathering images and ideas in their search for this “Americanism” in the arts.

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Daniel Richter Exhibits at Kuntsmuseum Basel

Friday, 04 August 2006 10:32

Basel, Switzerland - The earlier paintings by the German painter Daniel Richter (born 1962) delineated a hallucinatory universe of color, that could be positioned somewhere between graffiti and unparalleled abstraction.  Some years ago the artist turned completely to figuration and the historic image.  By reintroducing a virtually forgotten form, Daniel Richter re-politicized the genre under the contemporary auspices of painting as a medium, simultaneously establishing a link to the art of the eighties.

In his most recent work, Richter entangles art history, mass media and pop culture elements in willful worlds of narrative imagery.  The Basel exhibition shows a selection of works from the last five years together with his most recent paintings.  On exhibit until 24 September, 2006.

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Luisa Lambri & Ernesto Neto at Carnegie Museum of Art

Friday, 04 August 2006 10:44

Pittsburgh, PA - The of Art’s works of Italian photographer Luisa Lambri and Brazilian sculptor Ernesto Neto, two artists exploring the possibilities of minimal forms in space, are featured in this 57th Forum Gallery exhibition organized by Carnegie Museum curator of contemporary art, and curator of the 2008 Carnegie International, Douglas Fogle.  Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art August 12–November 12, 2006.

Luisa Lambri uses photography to investigate the relationship between subjective experience and architectural space.  She photographs decidedly non-iconic views of the interiors of well-known modern architectural structures, focusing on the idiosyncratic qualities of seemingly insignificant aspects of the interiors to convey that our experience of perceived space is personal and interpretive. 

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The Maeght Foundation: Jewel of the French Riviera

Written by Tracey Lock-Weir Monday, 15 August 2011 21:38

The French Riviera wasn't always known as a getaway for the rich and famous.  Under the glittery veneer is a subtle beauty that comes not only from the natural surroundings, but also the warmth and joie de vivre of the local residents.

The character of the Côte d'Azur began to change at the end of the nineteenth century, when neoimpressionist painter Paul Signac discovered the remarkable quality of the light in St. Tropez.  Signac brought other artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Henri Charles Manguin, and Georges Seurat.

Farther along the Riviera to the east, the medieval "perched" villages of Tourette sur Loup, Vence, and St. Paul de Vence are veritable artist colonies.  Matisse lived near Vence and designed and built the Rosary Chapel nearby.  Marc Chagall is buried in St. Paul's cemetery.  His mosaics turn up in unlikely places including a baptismal font in a church in Vence and the wall of a private garden.

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Adam Elsheimer at the National Gallery of Scotland

Saturday, 05 August 2006 10:14

Edinburgh, Scotland - Adam Elsheimer is one of the unsung heroes of the history of European art.  His paintings have an unmistakable richness of detail and invention – all the more remarkable given their small and intricate scale.  Working in Rome, Elsheimer transformed every genre he touched – narrative, landscape and the depiction of interiors – and he played a crucial part in the formation of three of the most important artists of the seventeenth century: Rubens, Rembrandt and Claude Lorrain.  Sadly, only a small number of his works survive.  Perhaps because of this, there has been no major exhibition of Elsheimer’s work since 1966, and there has never been one that focused on his paintings.

The Städelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London are now collaborating for the first time on a show that aims to gather together all the artist’s surviving paintings, and in doing so will offer an extraordinary opportunity to see all of his pictures together for the first – and perhaps even the last – time.

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