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LACMA Presents the First International Survey of Women Surrealists in Mexico & the USA

Written by Charles Naismith Friday, 27 January 2012 21:59

Los Angeles, California.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is proud to persent "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States", on view at the museum from January 29th through May 6th. Co-organized by LACMA and the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Mexico City, "In Wonderland" is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America. Past surveys of surrealism have either largely excluded female artists or minimized their contributions. This landmark exhibition highlights the significant role of women surrealists who were active in these two countries, and the effects of geography and gender on the movement.

Spanning more than four decades, "In Wonderland" features approximately 175 works by forty-seven extraordinary artists, including Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, and more. Surrealism called for the destruction of bourgeois culture and traditional standards and advocated intellectual and political liberty. When promoted in North America, these ideals flourished especially among the supposedly “second sex.”In standard studies on surrealism, female artists have been cast primarily as mistresses, wives, or muses—the inspiration for the male fetishized subject matter. This exhibition however explores the legacy of the movement in the United States and Mexico through its influence on several generations of women artists. Unlike their male counterparts, these artists delved into the unconscious as a means of self-exploration that enhanced an often haunting self-knowledge in their quest to exorcise personal demons. For women surrealists—whether natives by birth, émigrés, or temporary visitors—North America offered the opportunity for reinvention and individual expression, a place where they could attain their full potential and independence. "In Wonderland" illuminates the work of a diverse group of artists—both well-recognized and lesser known—who were active during a period that witnessed both the internationalizing of surrealism and the professionalizing of women in the visual arts in urban centers such as Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The survey presents an extensive range of work, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, photographs, and film. The works date primarily from about 1930 (the period when Lee Miller and Rosa Rolanda first experimented with surrealist photograph techniques) to 1968 (the year that Yayoi Kusama, working in New York City, presented one of her landmark happenings, “Alice in Wonderland,” in Central Park). A selection of later works is also included to illustrate surrealism’s historical overlap and influence on the feminist movement. "In Wonderland" is organized according to nine major themes that demonstrate recurrent issues in the women’s lives and art: Identity; The Body and Fetishes; The Creative Woman; Romance and Domesticity; Games and Technical Innovations; North America: The Land, Native People, and Myths; Politics, Depression and the War; Abstraction; and Feminism. Most prominent in the show are portraits and self-referential images, ranging from bluntly honest to disturbing, that reveal unresolved issues haunting the artists. Equally telling are the many double, couple, and group portraits, and narrative fables that exemplify the women’s friendships, loves, and families, and convey the difficulties and dramas often involved in such relationships. For instance, the portrayal of love and marriage ranges from storybook romances by Sylvia Fein and Remedios Varo; cynical, somewhat eerie courtship scenes by Leonora Carrington and Gertrude Abercrombie; and an obsessive fascination for a lover (i.e., Diego Rivera) by Frida Kahlo. The struggle of motherhood and domesticity versus an artistic career is often cast in terms of houses, dolls or other toys in the works of Carrington, Ruth Bernhard, Louise Bourgeois, Gerri Gutmann, and Kati Horna.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection extending from ancient times to the present. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually. Among the museum’s special strengths are its holdings of Asian art, housed in part in the Bruce Goff-designed Pavilion for Japanese Art; Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world. LACMA has its roots in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, established in 1910 in Exposition Park. In 1961, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a separate, art-focused institution.

In 1965, the fledgling institution opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location, with the permanent collection in the Ahmanson Building, special exhibitions in the Hammer Building, and the 600-seat Bing Theater for public programs. Over several decades, the campus and the collection have grown considerably. The Anderson Building (renamed the Art of the Americas building in 2007) opened in 1986 to house modern and contemporary art. In 1988, Bruce Goff's innovative Pavilion for Japanese Art opened at the east end of campus. In 1994, the museum acquired the May Company department store building at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, now known as LACMA West. Most recently, the Transformation project revitalized the western half of the campus with a collection of buildings designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. These include the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a three-story 60,000 square foot space for the exhibition of postwar art that opened in 2008. In fall of 2010, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world, with a rotating selection of major exhibitions. Ray's restaurant and Stark Bar opened in 2011, invigorating the central BP Pavilion near Chris Burden's iconic Urban Light. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.lacma.org

Pablo Genovés solos at Galería Pilar Serra in Madrid

Written by Henry Harrison Friday, 27 January 2012 21:39

MADRID.- Following "Precipitados" (Precipitates), Pablo Genovés’ first individual show in the Galería Pilar Serra, now presents Cronología del ruido (Noise Chronology), an exhibition in which he returns to his particular process of re-signification of symbolic spaces of western culture from the combination of media and signs, and his liking for contrast and the unexpected. “Is renovation possible when catastrophe rises up before us as the natural and eternal state of things? In the images of Pablo Genovés, destruction transgresses the laws of time and establishes its own chronology. The symbols and fictions of our culture apparently succumb in the face of the irruption of the untameable: mechanical natures, monumental in their disproportion and now out of all control. But hiding behind this aggression is a secret pact of compromise. The pre-existing and its end are offered each aware of the other, in the warmth of a historical intimacy. In this Cronología del ruido, the spaces of representation – museums, theatres or churches – are revealed as enormous apparatuses of engineering: machines for the generation of myths which when cracked show their steel innards. In his images, Genovés locates our myths and values in an arc of time and he tenses them to their limit, up to the moment immediately prior to tearing, necessary for the percussion. Like the metal which, when struck, faithfully reproduces a noise of storm.” . . . Lucía Carballal

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Artist John Miller transforms Metro Pictures into a Bizarre Public Space

Written by Franklin Houseman Friday, 27 January 2012 21:26

NEW YORK, NY.- John Miller elaborates on many of the tropes he has masterfully cultivated throughout his thirty-plus year career in “Suburban Past Time,” his latest exhibition at Metro Pictures. Through artificial rocks and plants ranging in scale from massive to ordinary, wallpaper, store-bought and handmade decorative elements, Miller transforms the gallery into a bizarre yet familiar public space. The works included in the exhibition are a continuation of the artist’s ongoing sociological investigation into so-called middlebrow culture, which focus on artifice in Western consumer societies. Also on view are a series of flash animations Miller created with long time collaborator Takuji Kogo under the name Robot. Lifting the text from personal ads and setting them to MIDI voice recordings, cultural hierarchies related to age and wealth emerge from the borrowed lyrics of these videos projected on the gallery’s walls.

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Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Written by Editor, Art Knowledge News Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:39
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The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Shows "Rembrandt & Degas: Two Young Artists"

Written by Carolyn McCarthy Friday, 27 January 2012 02:01

Williamstown, MA.- A selection of portraits by two great masters will be on view at the Clark in the intimate exhibition "Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artists", a first-time exploration of Rembrandt van Rijn’s influence on Degas presents portraits by both artists side-by-side. The portraits and etchings on view will include Rembrandt’s "Self-Portrait as a Young Man" (c. 1628–29) from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and "Self-Portrait as a Young Man" (c. 1628–29) from the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, and Degas’s "Self Portrait" (c. 1857) from the Clark’s collection. "Rembrandt and Degas: Two Young Artists" comes to the Clark from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Following the Clark, the exhibition will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in February. The exhibition was organized by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the works are drawn primarily from the holdings of each institution.

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RISD Museum Shows Art Created and Inspired by 19th Century Italy

Written by Philippa Bashforth Friday, 27 January 2012 01:43

Providence Rhode Island.- With its lush landscape, storied history, and magnificent architecture and art collections, Italy has long served as a source of inspiration for artists—enthralling, in the 19th century, such masters as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, J M W Turner, John Singer Sargent, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. The RISD Museum of Art’s new exhibition, "Pilgrims of Beauty: Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy", offers a window into this remarkable period of experimentation and artistic collaboration with more than 60 works all drawn from the Museum’s collection. Pilgrims of Beauty opens February 3rd and runs through July 8th. “Italy’s magic is both familiar and fresh,” says RISD Museum Director John W. Smith. “Every work within this show is a unique and intimate journey into this timeless world. As we explore Rome’s grand ruins and the sparkling Venetian canals through these artists’ eyes, we discover how each developed a distinctive, often highly personal, visual experience of this one special place.”

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The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

Written by Andrew Robinson Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:05

Sedalia, Missouri.- The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the State Fair Community College campus will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the museum’s opening with the exhibition “10! The First Decade” on view from February 4th through May 27th. The museum-wide survey of the Daum’s permanent collection will feature 125 artworks ranging from 1966 to 2010, including painting, ceramics, graphics, photography, and mixed media collections. Some selections are making their debut and others are familiar pieces in the collection. They will be arranged in groupings that show shared traits among objects that date from different decades, represent distinct media or conform to disparate movements.

The museum opened to the public in January 2002. It is named for collector and benefactor Harold F. Daum, M.D., and contains nine galleries devoted to the exhibition of art created since the mid-20th century. At its founding, the permanent collection comprised 300 artworks collected by Daum. Today, the collection includes more than 1,000 works of art in various media by some of the most celebrated artists of the last 60 years.Daum’s core collection continues to determine the nature and kind of all subsequent additions to the permanent collection.

The primary holdings are in the areas of painting, ceramics and prints, but there are growing collections of photographs, sculpture and works on paper. The core of the painting collection includes works by artists associated with Post-Painterly Abstraction, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Friedel Dzubas, and Gene Davis. Tangents of this movement are represented by Larry Poons, Walter Darby Bannard and Laddy John Gill. The collection of ceramics is centered on large-scale sculpture and includes signature works by many of the contemporary ceramists responsible for the singular achievements made in this medium during the last 50 years, among them Peter Voulkos, Ron Nagle, Marc Leuthold, Annabeth Rosen, Ramon Elozua, and Sunkoo Yuh. The print collection includes compositions by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns; pop artists Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein; conceptualists Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close; neo-expressionists Eric Fischl and David Salle; as well as graphics by celebrated figures like Louise Bourgeois and Richard Serra.

The exhibition also presents 30 highlights of the museum’s collection of more than 450 examples of contemporary photography, ranging from documentary work and social commentary to portraiture, landscape and abstraction. Included are works by Ansel Adams, Linda Connor, Jack Welpott, JoAnn Verburg, and Joel Meyerowitz. Another significant concentration of the collection focuses on work by Midwestern artists, many of whom live in Missouri, including Keith Jacobshagen, Warren Rosser, Philomena Bennet, Lupus Garrett, Anne Lindberg, and Gary Passanise.

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art sheds light on the stimulating complexity of modern and contemporary art by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting artworks created since the mid-20th century. In concert with the faculty and students of State Fair Community College, the Daum works to enhance the cultural and educational life of the college, the city of Sedalia, and the 14-county area of central Missouri that comprises its primary audience. The educational mission of State Fair Community College guides and informs every aspect of the Museum and its operation. As part of an institution of higher learning responsive to the entire needs of the college, it works in collaboration with faculty and students. Through its educational programming, the Museum enhances the cultural life of its immediate community. The Museum is uniquely positioned to serve Missouri's central region and to specifically attract patrons traveling between its two major cultural centers, Kansas City and St. Louis. It is not duplicated in its region. The Museum constitutes a cultural "oasis," dedicated to the highest level of aesthetic and educational standards to implement innovative, humane, and enlightening programs. The Daum offers a temporary exhibition series that changes three times each year. It houses nine exhibition galleries on three levels, with a combined area of 9,300 square feet. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.daummuseum.org

Fran Hill Gallery Shows "Story-Telling" New York Artists

Written by Ronald Callaghan Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:30

Toronto, Canada.- The Fran Hill Gallery is pleased to present "In The End A Good Story Is All That Remains", on view at the gallery through February 19th. The exhibition features the recent work of eight “story telling” New York City based artists, each one unique in their focus, concerns, and manner of presentation. While much art on view today is about spectacle and requires 3 seconds to both digest and forget, the art and artists in “A Good Story" re-awaken the very act of seeing as they linger lovingly, as well as imaginatively – and so will you – on the wonders of everyday life, the so-called intricate workings of the world around us. The age of the artists in this exhibition range from the young and emerging, to mid-career and old master, the latter in a neo classical sense.

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Two Exhibitions at the Saint Louis Art Museum Showcases 120 Years of Staged Photography

Written by Tracy Wittersrand Friday, 27 January 2012 02:02

Saint Louis, Missouri.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to present "The First Act: Staged Photography Before 1980", on view at the museum from January 20th through April 29th. Apparent in the upcoming Focus on the Collection installation, the idea of staging pictures through scene setting, acting, and directing has been fundamental to the field of photography since its inception in 1839. "The First Act" provides a prehistory to the large-scale theatrical work in the concurrent feature exhibition, "An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography", which explores various elements of theatricality in photography from the last 20 years, and can be seen from February 19th through May 13th.

Photographers have visualized literary passages, constructed dreamlike imagery in darkrooms and studios, and drawn upon cinematic techniques in their pursuit of fabricating alternate realities. On view in "The First Act" will be twelve photographs spanning 120 years, including works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Clarence John Laughlin, Henry Peach Robinson, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sandy Skoglund, Edward Steichen, and Cindy Sherman. "The Theater of Contemporary Photography" is a compelling survey of contemporary photographers, many presented in St. Louis for the first time. Seen together, the works reveal the remarkable potential of the photographic medium in contemporary artistic practice. On view will be over 40 works from an international group of artists which includes Thomas Struth, Carrie Mae Weems, and Gregory Crewdson. These photographers have focused on the elements of scene setting and directing to meticulously construct environments that are mesmerizing in their large scale, absorbing in their uncanny beauty, and haunting in their elusive meaning. They inventively exploit photography's unique capacity to operate in the boundaries between fact and fiction. Each image is the product of the painstaking execution of the ambitious vision of the artist.

The Saint Louis Art Museum was founded in 1879, at the close of a decade that saw the establishment of art museums in great cities across the eastern half of the United States. This Museum's comprehensive collections bear witness to the inspirational and educational goals to which its founder aspired and the moral and democratic imperatives he embraced. What began as a collection of assorted plaster casts, electrotype reproductions, and other examples of "good design" in various media rapidly gave way to a great and varied collection of original works of art spanning five millennia and six continents. Today the quality and breadth of the Museum's collection secure for it a place among the very best institutions of its kind. The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections of artworks that include those of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes, and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. The American art collection features masterworks of paintings and sculpture from Colonial portraiture through modernist and abstract art of the first half of the 20th century. The Museum's American holdings reflect the nation's longstanding fascination with landscape and include Hudson River School paintings by Jasper Cropsey, Thomas Cole, and John Frederick Kensett, as well as scenes of the Western frontier. The local landscape is well represented in the work of Missouri artists Henry Lewis, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, and George Caleb Bingham. The Election Series, illustrating three stages of the Missouri electoral process, is one of the highlights of the Museum's paintings by Bingham. The collection also includes major works by the late nineteenth-century artists Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh as well as Impressionist compositions by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Childe Hassam, and John Henry Twachtman. Important twentieth-century work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley, and Philip Guston is also presented.

The Collection of European Art to 1800 includes exceptional examples of art made across the continent of Europe and the British isles from the seventh through the eighteenth centuries. The earliest pieces in the collection are a pair of toga pins made in Spain in the seventh century. Other examples from the medieval period include enamels and metalwork; architectural fragments; stone, wood and ivory sculpture; manuscript illuminations; and stained glass. The Museum's medieval holdings are strongest in French and German Romanesque (c.1050–c.1200) and Gothic (c.1200–c.1500) art. Highlights include a French St. Christopher, a superb alabaster Madonna, an exquisite head of St. Roch, and a German gilded Christ of exceptional quality.The collection of paintings and sculpture comprises work made in Europe between 1300 and 1800. Highlights include a late Titian masterpiece (1570–76) left in his studio at his death; a marble Pan made in Michelangelo's workshop in the 1530s; one of only 37 known works by the baroque master Bartolomeo Manfredi painted around 1615; a copper painting made in 1612 by Artemisia Gentileschi; an important Neo-Classical narrative painting by François-André Vincent exhibited in 1785; and a stunning portrait by Hans Holbein depicting the wife of King Henry VIII's comptroller of 1527. The Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs houses more than 13,000 works of art on paper. There are approximately 8,500 prints, 3,000 photographs, and 1,500 drawings, watercolors, and collages from a wide range of periods and cultures. The department has particular strengths in art from Western Europe and the United States. It is internationally known for its German works on paper, and houses the largest public collection of Max Beckmann's prints in the world. The print collection also has impressive holdings by Albrecht Dürer, Max Klinger, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jacques Callot. The collection of drawings features significant works by George Caleb Bingham, Edgar Degas, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The photography collection is strong in 20th century American with large holdings of works by Edward Curtis, Paul Strand, Andreas Feininger, and Moneta Sleet Jr. Visit the museum’s website at … http://www.slam.org

The Chrysler Museum Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement

Written by Raymond Matheson Friday, 27 January 2012 00:06

Norfolk, Virginia.- To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement, the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio will present a year-long series of exhibitions and live demonstrations featuring eight internationally known artists. The Visiting Artist Series will include a special exhibition of selected work by each artist in the Museum along with a week of live public demonstrations in the Glass Studio. The series will provide a range of educational programs on the various techniques, histories, and artistic concepts explored in glass. Audiences will enjoy exciting demonstrations and chances to meet the artists, and the companion exhibitions will enhance visitors’ appreciation of contemporary glass. The Visiting Artist Series exhibition and demonstrations are free. The first exhibition in the series will be "Benjamin Moore, Dante Marioni, Janusz Pozniak", on view at the museum from January 27th through March 18th.

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Andy Warhol ~ Headline Works presented by the National Gallery of Art

Written by Brett Zongker, AP Wednesday, 01 February 2012 21:31

WASHINGTON , DC - Andy Warhol is known for soup cans and celebrity images, not so much for painting headlines and abstract works. The late pop artist has left much to be discovered in two shows that open Sunday on the National Mall. The National Gallery of Art is opening its first Warhol exhibit with "Warhol: Headlines," an examination of his use of news headlines throughout his career. At the same time, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum will feature "Andy Warhol: Shadows," a 450-foot-long installation in the round museum that marks the first time all of Warhol's 102 abstract "shadow" paintings will be shown together as the artist intended.

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Frieze New York 2012 ~ Inaugural Frieze Projects Program Announced

Written by Herman Kendall Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:50

NEW YORK, NY.- Frieze announced the artists that have been commissioned to produce unique works as part of the inaugural Frieze Projects program for Frieze New York. The fair will be located in the unique setting of Randall’s Island Park, overlooking the East River. The eight artists that will participate in Frieze Projects New York are: John Ahearn, Uri Aran, Latifa Echakhch, Joel Kyack, Rick Moody, Virginia Overton, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and Ulla von Brandenburg. The Frieze Projects program is realized annually at Frieze New York and is curated this year by Cecilia Alemani. The majority of the commissioned projects are situated outdoors and are located throughout Randall’s Island. Artists have been invited to react to the exceptional environment of Frieze New York and to create special projects that respond to the island’s unique geography. The projects have been conceived as not only interactions with the existing architecture of the site but also participatory platforms for the fair’s visitors and existing local communities. Forming a temporary pop-up village, the commissioned artworks will provide punctuation points to the island, activating vital sites or remote locations and will provide a navigational tool for visitors to the fair and its environment.

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Frank Lloyd Wright archival reproductions now available at 1000Museums.com

Written by William Spanier Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:40

SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced a new licensing agreement with 1000Museums, the premier provider of archival reproductions from museums around the world. Now, with the help of print-on-demand technology, never-before-printed selections from the Foundation’s Archives will be available to admirers of Wright’s work. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives is the most complete collection of materials related to a single artist housed under one roof anywhere in the world. Wright’s work ranged from residences designed in the Prairie style in the late 19th century, to modern works including 'Fallingwater', the 'Usonian Homes', and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in the late 50's.

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Jenness Cortez invites a Visual Conversation through her unique American Realism

Written by Wynn Barnett Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:31

NAPLES, FL.- DeBruyne Fine Art of Naples, Florida will host an exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Jenness Cortez. On view January 26th through March 31st, "Homage to the Creative Spirit 2012," invites viewers into a visual conversation with Cortez to discuss how iconic works of art can inspire us to rediscover and revalue our own creative potential. Robert Yassin, Executive Director of the Palos Verdes Art Center calls Jenness Cortez one of the world's most eloquent and successful visual conversationalists. Yassin says that, "All art is a dialogue, a conversation through the medium of the artwork between the artist and the viewer. It is the level of that dialogue that establishes the intrinsic value of a given work. Among the many characteristics of a real work of art, two are most significant and define both the quality and significance of the dialogue. The first is that what the artist is saying must be meaningful; the second, that it is clearly communicated and understood. In Cortez' paintings, both criteria are more than fully met. The work talks to us at many levels and creates in us a sense of both understanding and well being. This happens because there is nothing arbitrary in Cortez' paintings. The choice of the painting reproduced, the elements surrounding it, the space the elements occupy, the lighting, the color, everything is carefully selected and orchestrated following a fully articulated plan determined by the artist. The paintings of Jenness Cortez make my heart sing."

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Rothko & The Abstractionists: Major canvas by Rothko at a Christie's London auction

Written by Susan Tremaine Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:15

LONDON.- The first major canvas by Mark Rothko to be presented in a London auction in a decade, the spectacular Untitled was executed in 1955 (estimate on request). Realized at the height of the artist’s celebrated classic period, it forms part of a series of abstract works exhibited and owned by a number of major international museums. Rendered in a palette of brilliant red vermillion, burnt ochre and white, Untitled comprises two rectangular forms floating within the canvas. Faced with this large-scale and vivid piece, ‘abstract sublime’ and ‘spiritual awe’ are amongst the terms used to describe this work which inevitably provokes a wealth of emotions for the transcended viewer.

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Annie Leibovitz opens new art show at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington

Written by Arnold Kornfield Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:06

WASHINGTON, DC - Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum that marks a departure from her popular celebrity portraits. Two years ago, Leibovitz was facing millions in debt and a mismanaged fortune that nearly cost her the legal rights to her own work, which includes some of pop culture's most memorable images. The ordeal was a good lesson in managing her business, Leibovitz said, but left her "emotionally and mentally depleted." At the museum she led a tour through the photographs she says renewed her inspiration with a few road trips through U.S. history. The idea grew out of a book she had wanted to make with her partner, Susan Sontag , with a list of destinations and an excuse to visit them. After Sontag died, she eventually revived the idea with her young children. On exhibition through 20th May.

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This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Written by Editor, Art Knowledge News Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:29
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