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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'Taste of Justice Fair' To Exhibit Prison Art

Saturday, 05 August 2006 11:46

Washington, DC - The Taste of Justice fair will be held in Washington, DC on Saturday, September 30, 2006.  Please revisit this site periodically for details about the fair and the prominent organizations sponsoring it.

The fair will be held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, D.C.

Justice organizations and related nonprofit organizations from across America are invited to have exhibits there.

A major attraction of the fair will be prison arts and crafts from the extensive collection of the Prisons Foundation.  There will also a stage where ex-inmate performing artists and others will entertain.

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Alberto Giacometti at Art Gallery of New South Wales

Saturday, 05 August 2006 12:18

Sydney, AU - The Art Gallery of New South Wales brings to Australia for the first time an exhibition of some 79 works by Alberto Giacometti.  Renowned for his relentless investigation of the human figure and his unique and singular vision, Giacometti stands beside Picasso and Matisse as one of the towering masters of 20^th century art.  On Exhibition 18 August to 29 October 2006.  “One of the most original and inventive artists of the 20th century”.

The 35 sculptures, 22 prints and 22 drawings in the exhibition span the two most intense phases of Giacometti’s career – the surrealist period from 1929 to 1934 and the post World War II period from 1947 to 1965, when he produced the thin and unnaturally elongated figures for which he has become best known.

The works have been drawn from the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation in the south of France, which holds one of the most significant collections of Giacometti’s work.  In 1947 the Maeght family opened a gallery in Paris specialising in modern French art and were passionate advocates of Giacometti’s work, holding exhibitions in the 1950s and early 60s.

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New York Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler

Monday, 07 August 2006 09:42

New York City - Everett Raymond Kinstler is one of America’s most sought-after portrait painters, conveying both the spirit and the likeness of his subjects by means of extraordinary technical facility and keen observation of character.  New York Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler focuses on one remarkable segment of Kinstler’s body of work: his interpretations of celebrated figures from the world of arts & letters in New York.

Fifty oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and charcoal sketches of such cultural luminaries as artists Will Barnet and Jacob Lawrence, writers Tom Wolfe and Arthur Miller, and performers Tony Bennett and Paul Newman will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York.

Planned as a celebration of the Kinstler’s 80th birthday, New York Creative is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City, his hometown.  On exhibit until 15 October, 2006.

The Museum of the City of New York embraces the past, present, and future of New York City and celebrates the city’s cultural diversity.  It does so through its rich collections, a lively schedule of exhibitions, and an array of programs for adults and children.

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Cristina Vergano~Figure of Speech~at Woodward Gallery

Monday, 07 August 2006 09:51

New York City - Cristina Vergano depicts an intriguing world where creatures, both human and animal, inhabit pastoral landscapes or rich interiors.  How they have arrived at these places, she gives no indication, only implying in their serene demeanors that they now exist there, as in the classical tradition, solid and firmly planted for all time.  On exhibition from 14 September to 4 November, 2006.

In “Figure of Speech,” Vergano introduces rebuses, word puzzles, into her paintings, adding another tantalizing layer of meaning to works already dense with allusions.  Letters of the alphabet dance across a visage or balance on foliage forming words that create statements or pose compelling questions.

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Hermitage Museum Staff 'help steal' $5M Artworks

Monday, 07 August 2006 10:11

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russia's famed Hermitage Museum reported the theft of more than 220 works, including jewelry and enameled objects, worth around $5 million.

In a statement, the St. Petersburg museum said officials noticed the theft during a routine inventory check.  It said the curator in charge of most of the collection where the theft occurred died suddenly at his workplace when the investigation began, and that his colleagues discovered the items were missing. 

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Mingei International Museum Presents ~ Carnival ~

Monday, 07 August 2006 10:19

San Diego, CA - A major exhibition exploring carnival celebrations in Europe and the Americas is at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park.  Organized by the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico and UCLA's Fowler Museum, the exhibition includes colorful, exuberant celebrations from Laza, Spain, Venice, Italy, Basel, Switzerland, Tlaxcala, Mexico, Oruro, Bolivia, Recife and Olinda, Brazil, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobango and New Orleans, Louisiana.  Each location is represented by mannequins dressed in its carnival costumes presented against a photographic backdrop showing its celebration. Videos of each celebration accompany the exhibition, which continues through September 3.

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Christie's NY To Offer 4 Bloch-Bauer Klimt Masterpieces

Written by Amie Santillo Monday, 07 March 2011 00:21

New York City – Christie’s President Marc Porter announced that Christie’s has been selected to advise the heirs of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer on the sale of four of the five legendary Klimts recently restituted to the family.  The fifth painting, Klimt’s golden masterwork Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, was recently purchased by The Neue Galerie New York through the efforts of its cofounder, philanthropist Ronald Lauder, in a transaction in which Christie’s assisted Mr. Lauder and the Neue Galerie.  All five works were exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in January this year before moving to the Neue Galerie in July, where they will remain exhibited together until September 18.

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Julian Opie ~ SIGNS ~ to Debut in Indianapolis

Tuesday, 08 August 2006 09:19

Indianapolis, IN -- The Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission and the Arts Council of Indianapolis are pleased to announce Julian Opie: Signs, a public art exhibition featuring ten installations by the internationally recognized artist, Julian Opie.  Julian Opie: Signs will open in late-September and the artworks will remain in Indianapolis for one year.  Several new works by the artist will be premiered in the exhibition, which also marks Opie’s largest exhibition ever.

Artist to Open His Largest Public Art Exhibition in Indianapolis on September 28^th -- Four New Works to Debut.

In addition to Indianapolis, Opie’s work will be displayed concurrently around the world in Shanghai, China; Zurich, Switzerland; Malaga, Spain; London, England; Toronto and Ontario, Canada and Boston, Massachusetts. 

“We’re excited to bring Julian Opie, an internationally acclaimed artist to our city and expect his exhibition to build on Indianapolis’ reputation as a leader in public art in the Midwest,” said Greg Charleston, President of the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

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Views From Vanderbilt U. Fine Arts Gallery

Tuesday, 08 August 2006 09:43

NASHVILLE, TN – The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Views from the Collection I, a show of work from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection.  Views from the Collection I opens Thursday, August 17, will be on view through October 1, 2006.  All events are free and open to the public.

This is the first in a three-part series of exhibitions of art from the permanent collection.  The current show will feature a cross-section of work from Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Highlights will include Italian panel paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection that illustrate developments in painting from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  Also on view will be smaller objects used in late medieval private worship, such as the fourteenth-century carved ivory Crucifixion, which was once used by its well-to-do owner for personal devotions.  A page from a thirteenth century French illuminated manuscript, with a small image of King David accompanying the text, came from a Bible that was also likely a private commission. 

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'Factory Work': at the Brandywine River Museum

Written by Joseph Simpson Tuesday, 05 October 2010 02:18

CHADDS FORD, PA — Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth and Basquiat, on exhibition September 9 through November 19, 2006 at the Brandywine River Museum, explores the fascinating collaborations in the late 1970s and early 1980s between Pop artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and realist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), and between Warhol and New York graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988).  The exhibition provides clues to understanding these unique partnerships and offers examples of how these very different artists influenced and inspired each other.

Wyeth and Basquiat were young, independent artists with established reputations when Andy Warhol invited each of them to paint at the “Factory,” his New York studio.  Warhol mentored the younger artists who, in turn, enabled him to connect with new audiences in an evolving art world.

Wyeth, son of realist painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, had his first one-man exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in 1976 at the age of 20. 

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Miniature Thorne Rooms Reinstalled at KMA

Tuesday, 08 August 2006 13:10

Knoxville, TN - The Knoxville Museum of Art’s nine miniature Thorne Rooms have been restored, with generous underwriting from Sherri Lee in honor of Mrs. McAfee Lee, and were recently reinstalled at the museum.  Small is big news at the KMA.

“The KMA’s Thorne Rooms are among America’s most well-known miniature diorama groups,” said Dana Self, Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator of Collections and Exhibitions.

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Masters of American Comics ~ 14 Influential American Artists

Wednesday, 09 August 2006 10:18

New York, NY/ Newark, NJ -- One of America’s great popular art forms is given its first major museum examination in the landmark, two-part exhibition, Masters of American Comics, on view simultaneously at The Jewish Museum in New York City and The Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey from September 15, 2006 through January 28, 2007.  By focusing on 14 of the most innovative and influential artists – whose work will be seen in comprehensive presentations including conceptual sketches, finished drawings, rare printers’ proofs, printed newspaper pages, comic books, and graphic novels – the exhibition will vividly convey how comics have developed into a quintessential component of American culture.  Artists to be represented are: Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, Charles M. Schulz, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gary Panter and Chris Ware.

Nearly 600 objects will be exhibited by both institutions in a bright, colorful, and dynamic exhibition design to match the wealth of visual artistry on display. Comic strips from the first half of the 20^th century will be shown at The Newark Museum, and comic books from the 1950s onward will be featured at The Jewish Museum. 

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Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne

Written by Jeanne Bertoia Monday, 26 September 2011 21:39

Munich, Germany - Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is one of the most important and, at the same time, least known of the German Surrealists.  To this day, his oeuvre remains surrounded by mystery and taboos.  The retrospective in the Pinakothek der Moderne is the first exhibition for over a quarter of a century in Germany to be dedicated to Bellmer’s work and was originally organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  It assembles numerous and hitherto unknown drawings from museums and private collections, photographs, paintings, unpublished note pads and sketch books as well as some sculptural objects, among them »La poupée« (»The doll«).

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Boca Raton Museum of Art Hosts ~ Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe

Written by George Robertson Thursday, 28 October 2010 21:46

Boca Raton, FL - Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe captures the spark, sex appeal and sensation that was Marilyn Monroe through the art of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others.  This vivid and diverse exhibition of 268 objects captures Marilyn’s rise to stardom through works by more than 80 artists in styles ranging from fashion photography to Pop Art. Documenting the iconic life of America’s favorite sex symbol, this exhibition showcases one of the world’s most famous and intriguing women.

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