BROOKLYN, NY.- Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets features thirty-five representations of individual body parts from the Brooklyn Museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. This special exhibition will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from November 19, 2009, through October 2, 2011. This exhibition uses objects created as distinct...
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia 's blockbuster exhibition "Masterpieces from Paris: van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond" will be on show from December 4, 2009 to April 5, 2010. The exhibition will showcase 112 Post-Impressionist works from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and includes famous masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Georges...
If you missed out on the exhibition of the same name a couple of years ago, then the book “Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future” is a most have for any fans of the pioneering designer. This beautiful hardback book...
Studio Program, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany 16th International Studio Program of the ACC Galerie Weimar and the City of Weimar Deadline: 7th December, 2009 Beyond Desire http://www.acc-weimar.de/ The non-profit organization ACC (Autonomous Cultural Center) originated in 1987, before the fall of the Berlin wall, when students occupied a derelict Renaissance building in the center of the town where Goethe...
[ January 23, 2010 to May 30, 2010. ] The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten High Museum of Art January 23 to May 30, 2010 [ad#lb] The High Museum of Art will premier an exhibition of new work by California-based photographer Robert Weingarten in January 2010. Consisting of twenty-one large-scale (60 x 90 in.) digitally created portraits of American icons, Weingarten’s project...
Photographer Richard Mosse , interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year , has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall . [Image: Richard Mosse , " Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle " (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery ]. For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship , documenting distant sites of aviation wreckage, war ruins,...
Next to the sensuality of Botticelli or the danger of Cézanne, Poussin's haughty, bloodless landscapes leave me cold I have occasionally been accused of being an art snob, but I'm nothing of the kind. If I was (or ought one to say if one were?) I would like the artist Nicolas Poussin . For truly refined art lovers, this 17th-century master of landscape and classical myth – a Frenchman...
A six hundred foot panda dangling high above a fantastic city. A grandmother and her friends playing Mahjong in the sunlit room of a Shanghai Shikumen. An aerial view of the same city splayed out like an exploded photopie. This is the range of Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and its Contemporary Material Culture , a remarkable exhibition at Columbia College's Museum of Contemporary Photography,...
Not sure if I've mentioned it on this blog, but I once had a go at being an art historian. It was a time long, long ago, when I had been made redundant from a job in IT support (which seems to be a bit of a recurring theme in my life). Being a level headed sensible computer techie, I thought to myself 'with this redundancy cheque what I really need to get on in life is to learn about paintings'. So,...
Kumukumu Gallery 42 Rivington Street, 212-677-5160 East Village / Lower East Side November 19 - December 13, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 19, 6 - 9 PM Web Site KUMUKUMU is proud to present its second special project, Figment , curated by Florence Uchida and featuring the works of Gina Ruggeri and Rob Wynne. Gina Ruggeri’s cut-out paintings on Mylar evoke striking illusions that interact with...
It's hard to image Amsterdam's Red Light District recreated at London's National Gallery - this exhibition is fascinating and free! Check National Gallery - Kienholz - the Hoerengracht .
As you can gather from the photos, what you see here is no ordinary bicycle: Argentinian designer Pablo Lopez's "Pardo" concept (short for guepardo, or cheetah in Spanish) is designed to place the rider in a posture resembling that of its namesake animal. Power is delivered to the single rear wheel via pedals, but not of the rotating variety; the rider is meant to hunch and straighten his...
Sep 22 – Dec 12 Tuesdays (11am–7pm) Wednesdays (11am–6pm) Thursdays (11am–7pm) Fridays–Saturdays (11am–6pm) @ California College of the Arts Reception : Tues., Sept. 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. An eclectic group of 32 international artists, including Damián Ortega, Angela Bulloch, Paulina Olowska, and Richard Serra, working across multiple media, from sculpture...
A portrait of Marilyn Horne is now on display in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The portrait by John Foote was installed in the gallery's "New Arrivals" exhibition on Thursday. Foote created the portrait of Horne in 1971 to honor her debut at the Metropolitan Opera the previous year. The painting was originally displayed in “Portraits of the American Stage, 1771–1971,”...
CULVER CITY : These signs (this one was on Culver Blvd) are probably all over the place, but it's the first time we spotted one. Save 'em for the grandkids, one day these will be collectors items. [Curbed InBox] CENTURY CITY : This weekend saw the opening of the Annenberg Space for Photography 's latest exhibition: "SPORT: Iooss and Leifer," a look at sports photography by well-known photographers...
Before his solo exhibition at the Asia Society, the famous Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara presents his new works in preview at the at the Marianne Boesky gallery, until March 28th. His famous mixture of naive and aggressive figures where children and animals wear weapons already became cult.
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Josep Puigmarti is holding an exhibition at the Centre for Air Cargo of Barcelona Airport, space managed by CLASA (Centres of Airport Logistics, Inc.), where we will be able to admire a selection of paintings and sculptures created by the multifaceted artist: his paintings highlights his series "Alien Fashion" showing unreal characters that he calls extraterrestrials, formed with non-premeditated strokes
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