Once a novelty, giant film screens and web feeds are transforming our experience of live performance As the print media struggle with the impact of the digital age, what is the effect of technology on live performance? Are we finally entering a time, predicted by that great maverick pianist Glenn Gould a generation ago, when technology supplies all our needs – when public concerts will cease,...
LONDON.- Peter Campus is a seminal figure in the history of video art. In a distinguished career that spans four decades, he has been crucial in developing the potential of video within a gallery space and he has been a major influence to artists from Bill Viola to Douglas Gordon. This new exhibition, opening on 11 December at BFI Gallery brings together some of his key works alongside a new commission...
Sitting before Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on an audience of contemporary artists to embark on "a quest for beauty."
If Bill Hunt had not told me about Bill Viola 's show at James Cohan Gallery I would have missed it. The show consists of video pieces, for the most part displayed on large panels in darkened rooms. It's hard to describe the effect of those video pieces. I felt as if I was watching photography unfold in a very unexpected way, with image after image after image appearing - but not in the trivial sense...
The exterior of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. Howdy folks. Sorry I’ve been out the past week or so… I had a personal matter to attend to. Anyway, here’s some cool news. The Orange County Museum of Art is presenting a special free student night and lecture tonight. The speaker is Bill Viola, [...]
It's not often that artwork by Leonardo da Vinci makes the journey to Los Angeles. But in December, three drawings by the Renaissance master will go on display at L.A.'s Italian Cultural Institute along with a video installation by Bill...
Some things that caught my eye despite the busy -ness and the drawing and the screaming and crying and mm-hey . - The Sauropod Gallery over at Art Evolved launched last week, and as expected those cuddly lumbering giants brought out the best in some of today's hottest young paleo-artists. The diversity of animals in this group of dinosaurs is matched by the many many styles. -Macabre artist Chris Zenga...
The visual arts have never (and when I say never, I mean "in my lived experience") been a strong feature of the New Zealand International Arts Festival . Sure, shows have coincided with the Festival, but there's not be a strong sense of planning. The 2010 Festival looks like an exception, with: Janet Cardiff at City Gallery Wellington Bill Viola at the Dowse Anthony McCall at the Adam Art...
More than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola will meet Pope Benedict XVI this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday. The November 21 meeting at the Sistine Chapel will be "a representative moment showing the will to dialogue between the church and the art world", said Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical...
a trip to Amsterdam in three parts; firstly water and boats. on my first day in the Netherlands I visited Tilberg with S to see the mina perhonen exhibition at the Texteil Museum which was enchanting and beautiful and inspirational. afterwards we were persuaded to go to the de Pont Museum nearby, to see the building - an [...]
Bill Viola . Incarnation , 2008 Color High-Definition video on plasma display mounted on wall; two channels amplified sound 61.2 x 36.4 x 5 in (155.5 x 92.5 x 12.7 cm) 8:55 minutes
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