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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists in Germany...
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Susan Tomes: Pianist & writer (Free subscription) | yesterday
An intriguing hour at ‘The Sacred Made Real’, a National Gallery exhibition of Spanish religious art from 1600-1700. Although it had some wonderful paintings, its main focus was a series of statues – of Christ, of Mary, and of various saints – carved from wood and beautifully painted by artists who specialised in making the facial features [...] ‘The Sacred Made Real’...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
She may not be as iconic as her peer Coco Chanel, but the great French designer Madeleine Vionnet is arguably as influential, as a spellbinding exhibition of her work in Paris demonstrates, writes
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- Jointly organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Tate Modern, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, the most comprehensive overview of Roni Horn’s work to date, integrates three decades of the American artist’s sculpture, photography, installations, drawings, and books. Opening on November 6, 2009, the exhibition remains on view through January 24, 2010. Following the Whitney’s...
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Makura no Soshi (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I am scheduled to give my first school tour in eight years to elementary school children in a few weeks. I will be touring them through our new acquisitions exhibition and our Keith Carter shows. We have a big elephant in the room that I need to get my head around talking about - because JP Witkin's photo from his Mexico Morgue series is displayed so prominently, that there is simply no ignoring it....
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The exhibition "Rome: The Painting of an Empire," at the Scuderie del Quirinale through Jan. 17, offers a panoramic view of unusual broadness and depth of Roman painting.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Whitney Museum has accorded two full floors to Roni Horn’s exhibition of sculpture, drawings and photographs. In places the show is so spaciously installed that her work looks lost.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Milwaukee, WI - Abstract Expressionism, film noir , Beat poetry, and the New Journalism are all widely recognized aftershocks of World War II, representing a broad aesthetic revolution that championed spontaneity and subjective interpretation as the guiding principles of creative practice. Postwar photographers in many ways set the rhythm and tenor of this new approach, not least because the hand-held...
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If you're in or near Portland, Oregon this weekend, a couple of things to keep in mind: First, the China Design Now exhibition is on, and it's a thing of beauty. One of only two American museums to host it, the Portland Art Museum has done a great job of taking viewers on a crash course of China's rise from global factory to independent creative voice, through surveys of the design scenes in Shanghai,...
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Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Artist Manny Vega in front of his mosaic of poet Julia de Burgos on on the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and East 106th Street. While New York can be a hard city to live in, there are small pleasures that that make it all worth while. Take for insistance the lovely winter afternoon I spent yesterday in the presence of artist Manny Vega. Meeting for the first time at the East Harlem Cafe (153...
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Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Ziba Design helped create the massive exhibition, "China Design Now," which is reaching beyond museum walls and spidering into Portland, Oregon. For the last few weeks, Steve McCallion has reported on how the experience transformed the city. As I mentioned in previous posts , the Portland Art Museum brought China Design Now , the London Victoria & Albert exhibit, to Portland to attract...
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On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This arresting print by the young South African artist Nandipha Mntambo uses cowhide moulded to fit the human body to - 'Challenge and subvert preconceptions regarding representation of the female body ... to disrupt perceptions of attraction and repulsion'. Part of a diptych titled Mlwa ne Nkunzi, it is one of the exhibits in Life Less Ordinary at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham. This exhibition...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Buckaroo Kid Bonfires, what Mark McGowan did next, fireworks, jazz, sparklers, skeptics, explosions, jumble, the Berlin Wall and photography: all available very cheap this week. Tonight: Bonfire Night! Get your gunpowder, treason and plot entirely free at Roundwood Park, Harlesden Road (fireworks 8pm), Brockwell Park, Clapham Common and Streatham Common (fireworks 7.30pm) and at Southwark Park...
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Gurney Journey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tomorrow the Joseloff Gallery of the University of Hartford in Connecticut will open the exhibition "Enchantment Then and Now: Drawing Connections." The exhibition includes J.L. Gerome, William Bouguereau, Howard Pyle, NC Wyeth, Graydon Parrish, Walton Ford, and a selection of other contemporary painters whose work addresses the theme of enchantment, narrative, and romanticism. Above: Howard...
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Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
When Architect Adi Purnomo of Mamostudio set out to design a live, work, and exhibition space for a photographer/painter client, he knew that maximizing natural light would be a necessity. Purnomo also pushed his studio’s creative design process to maintain the temperature of the home’s interior spaces through passive means whenever possible. The resulting [...]
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artandyou | 03/12/2009
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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darelbxz | 01/29/2009
Sam and Mel’s nephew snaps a photo of them in an intimate moment which he plans to show at a school photography exhibition.Now you can Download Worst Week 1.14 The Sex Full Episode .For more information click here
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worldgallery | 10/17/2008
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