“Dissent!? Subversive History of Printmaking at Fogg Art Museum

Monday, 11 September 2006 10:05

Cambridge, MA - DISSENT!, an exhibition of 62 prints, books, postcards, posters, magazines, t-shirts, and playing cards, presents an historical survey of printed images that express resistance to oppressive religious, political, and social systems.  The exhibition, organized by the Harvard University Art Museums, will be on view at the Fogg Art Museum from November 11, 2006 through February 25, 2007.  Featuring the many forms that printed protest has taken, the exhibition looks at the important role printmaking has had in the history of dissent.  Since their inception, prints have embodied the viewpoints of their day, and over five centuries, those made in opposition to prevailing perspectives have been distributed privately or posted publicly—on walls, billboards, and now, on the web.

By their very nature, prints are an ideal medium for dissonant expression.  Because their production is uncomplicated, requiring only a printing press, matrix, and paper, prints can be produced inconspicuously, and if necessary, clandestinely.  Thousands of like images can be made inexpensively and quickly, in prompt response to an event or action.  As multiples, prints have served as the carriers of ideas, communicating information to a larger and wider audience than unique works such as paintings or sculpture.

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KIA Exhibition Celebrates 225 Years of American Drawings

Written by Bobby Currin Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:13

Kalamazoo, MI - A new exhibition at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts looks at the history of America through the art of drawing.  Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings opens Saturday, September 23 at the KIA and continues through Sunday, December 31.  The exhibition is on loan from the Columbus (Georgia) Museum, which owns one of the most important collections of American drawings in the Southeast.  Assembled over 25 years, the 144 works that make up Lines of Discovery celebrate the rich history of American drawing and attest to the unique properties of drawing and its status as the most intimate, immediate and versatile art medium.

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“SPEED? EXHIBITION AT VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Monday, 11 September 2006 11:12

Richmond, VA - An exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will explore how artists use movement to create spirited and expressive masterpieces.  “Speed” will remain on view at VMFA through Jan. 7.  The exhibition is free and open to the public.

“All over the world and throughout history, speed and motion in art can mean much more than just going fast,” says Sandra Rusak, one of the exhibition’s two curators.  “From the sleek beauty of a racing yacht to the pageantry of an African dance, expressions of speed in art can communicate motion and emotion,” she says.

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Shall We Dance: Dance in America at Winterthur Museum

Monday, 11 September 2006 11:43

Winterthur, DE - From the minuet to the waltz, and from the polka to hip-hop, dance has always been an important part of American culture, and Shall We Dance: Three Centuries of Dance in America, a new exhibition at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, will trace the social history of dance from the early 1700s to the 1900s.

Drawn from the collections in the Winterthur library, Shall We Dance? features prints and drawings, dance and etiquette manuals, dance tickets, cards, and invitations, sheet music, and paper dolls and will be on view to February 2007.

“Although dancing got off to a slow start in America due to religious objections, even the Puritans didn’t ban it completely,” said Jeanne Solensky, Librarian, Joseph Downs Collection & Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera and curator of the exhibition.  “They considered dancing to be an excellent way to teach poise and good manners.”

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New York City Revealed in Photographs by 20 Major Artists from National Gallery of Art's Collection

Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:16

Washington, DC — Photographers working in New York City in the years between the publication of Walker Evans' American Photographs in 1938 and Robert Frank's The Americans in 1958 profoundly changed the course of American photography.  This fertile period in art history is celebrated in the National Gallery of Art's exhibition of some 75 photographs by twenty prominent artists.  The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938–1958 is on view in the photography galleries, West Building, Ground Floor, at The National Gallery of Arts from September 17, 2006 through January 15, 2007.

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Coming of age : Art American Style at Addison Gallery

Written by Guy Hollars Monday, 25 October 2010 23:10

Andover, MA - In the one hundred years between the 1850s and 1950s, American art evolved from the provincial to the international and moved from literal depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals.  Focusing on the key movements during the time when American art took its place in the international arena, the Addison Gallery of American Art presents Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, on display through January 7, 2007.  The show is a central element of the Addison’s 75^th anniversary and displays many of the gallery’s greatest paintings and sculptures.

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The Timken Museum of Art Hosts : Guercino Masterpieces

Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:11

San Diego, CA - The Timken Museum of Art is presently showing an exhibit of works of art made by Guercino through January 7, 2007.  This Timken-organized focus exhibition examines the marked change in style that characterizes the early and late works of a master painter of Baroque Italy: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino (1591-1666).  The exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Guercino: Stylistic Evolution in Focus, authored by art historian Shilpa Prasad, yield a new explanation for changes in the artist's style, one that focuses on shifting conceptions of representation and spectatorship in Italy during the 1600s. 

Featured in the exhibition are two "sets" of paintings with the same subject, a recently rediscovered self-portrait-the only known self portrait by Guercino, (National Gallery of Art, Washington) --

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Georg Baselitz Retrospective at Fondation de l’Hermitage

Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:10

Lausanne, Switzerland - German painter Georg Baselitz – a surname he adopted as a tribute to the small Saxon town where he was born in 1938 – is famous for his upside-down work.  His pictures (landscapes, figures, still lifes, portraits) are not turned upside down when finished but actually painted that way. One of the explanations of this method of distancing us from the subject matter, which the artist has been using for thirty-five years now, is that it renews the fascination linking the viewer with traditional figuration.  Baselitz thus focuses on aspects of the picture’s formal organisation. 

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CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LANDSCAPES AT HARVARD’S SACKLER MUSEUM

Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:40

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The New Chinese Landscape: Recent Acquisitions, an exhibition showcasing the Harvard University Art Museums’ most important contemporary Chinese acquisitions to date, will be on display until November 12, 2006 at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.  This small exhibition of six paintings and one sculpture represents an often overlooked category of works that push the boundaries of what the term “contemporary” means in non-Western contexts.  Identified as contemporary Chinese ink paintings, these works are characteristic of both classical ink landscapes and contemporary art. 

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COURBET AND THE MODERN LANDSCAPE at THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM

Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:34

Baltimore, MD — The Walters Art Museum will present a major exhibition devoted exclusively to the landscape paintings of Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), one of the leading painters of 19th-century France.  These landscape paintings are intense, dramatic and radically innovative yet they have been largely neglected by art historians for more than a hundred years—even though they represent a significant part of Courbet’s overall output. 

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EXCEPTIONAL PORTRAITURE SHOWN AT CHEEKWOOD MUSEUM OF ART

Written by Jill Lawless Thursday, 09 February 2012 20:14

NASHVILLE, TN – Cheekwood’s holdings in portraiture, whether oil on canvas, photography, or sculpture, have become a major aspect of Cheekwood’s art collection.  Portraiture: Private Lives/Public Faces: highlights this special collection at Cheekwood through December 31., 2006.

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'Defamation of Character' at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Thursday, 14 September 2006 10:12

Long Island City, NY – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Defamation of Character, an international group exhibition exploring the iconoclastic impulse as an engine of recent creative progress.  It draws primarily from work created in the post-punk era by approximately thirty artists, and explores the relationships between face and fame, notoriety, disclosure, and erasure.  Some of the artists mine popular culture to produce scathing or defamatory indictments of consumer mores; others take the moral corruptions of public and political acts as their defamed subject; and others practice detournement—using elements of well-known media to create new work with a different or opposing message—to elevate injury and injustice into the realm of high art.  Defamation of Character will be on view in the first floor Main Gallery from October 29, 2006, through January 8, 2007.

The cradle of much of this aesthetic impulse is England, where pop culture and anti-establishment attitudes have thrived concurrently. 

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~ Undergarments and Armor ~ Tanya Marcuse at Belfast Exposed Gallery

Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:31

Belfast, Ireland - Tanya Marcuse Artist Statement ... With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship, I traveled to archives and museums in the U.S. and England photographing undergarments, armor, and the museum forms that populate the storerooms--objects like breastplates, helmets, corsets, bustles, mannequins and dress forms.  The earliest objects date from the 14th century while no object is dated past 1900, ruling out the possibility of a living owner.  I see these garments and suits of armor as sculptures of the body that, like a carapace, outlast their wearers.  These personal effects adorned, constricted and protected the body all at once.  Now they are archived as artistic and cultural artifacts, shells of the bodies that once inhabited them.  The project extends my long-standing interest in sculpture and the body, presence and absence.

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I LIKE AMERICA : Fictions of the Wild West at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Written by John Spaik Monday, 29 November 2010 21:41

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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Protest in Paris: Serge Hambourg Photographs at the Hood

Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:14

HANOVER, N.H.— The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg, featuring thirty-five photographs, many displayed for the first time.  Serge Hambourg, a French photojournalist, took these images while working for the Parisian weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. 

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ACA Galleries Host Irene Hardwicke Olivieri in NYC

Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:23

New York City - Irene Hardwicke Olivieri’s exhibition is an idiosyncratic collection of paintings executed on rising bowls and old wooden doors, ink drawing/collages made from maps as well as bone mosaics (nude figures she calls “Paleo Girls”) created from bones recovered from her dissection of owl pellets found in the wild. on exhibit until 14 October, 2006.

In the painting Like milk for a kitten somber advice is given about how to avoid being eaten by a cougar or attacked by various other animals while hiking out in the wilderness.  Some paintings are shouts of outrage over the senseless abuse of our environment and its beautiful creatures.  In Nature’s cleanup crew she expresses her solution for the leaders of our country who have been irresponsible in their policies; the ravens, vultures and necrophorous beetles make a meal of them.

The central figure in How dare you asks that question of the tiny hunters laying in their coffins as she intently protects the alluring animals with her braided embrace. The painting, Beloved and bewildered tells the story of her niece who was kidnapped as a child and 15 years later reunited with her family.

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