Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage (Art Institute of Chicago)
Word on the Street (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Art Institute graduate students Katherine Pill, 26 (right), and Francesca Wilmott, 24, operate the Concertina Gallery out of their own apartment. Brian J. Morowczynski for RedEyeBy Ryan SmithFor RedEyeMost curators don't make a habit of sleeping next to their exhibits,...
My Photography (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Two weeks ago I was sat in one of possibly the most boring lectures I had experienced, and I was lost at the connection between the paintings I was being shown, and photography. The lecturer began talking about photographs seeing us seeing them. Although I was confused by this statement, she had grabbed my attention. The next photograph that flashed on screen was Art Institute of Chicago II by Thomas...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Oprah Winfrey says she's keeping singer BeBe Winans off her show until domestic violence charges against him are resolved. The gospel singer had taped appearances on Winfrey's "karaoke challenge" and was on last Friday.
Hankblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Lecture by Sylvia Wolf > Polaroids: Mapplethorpe Friday, November 6, 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Henry Auditorium FREE: Henry Art Gallery Members, PCNW Members, SPE Participants, Students, Staff, and Faculty with [...]
Art (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
[ November 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010. ] Masterpieces in Miniature Delaware Art Museum November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010 [ad#lb] The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present the fourth annual Masterpieces in Miniature exhibition, on view November 7, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Masterpieces in Miniature is the Museum’s signature holiday display, featuring three-dimensional miniatures...
NJD Miniatures (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
...from the Thorne Miniature Rooms Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago... ...it's hard to believe that these rooms are 1:12 scale and even harder to believe that they were all built between 1932 and 1940 (no precision laser etching back then!). There are 68 rooms in total showcasing interiors from the late 13th Century through to the 1930's. Donated to the Art Instute by Mrs James Ward Thorne,...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
* We are 1100 plus subscribers of our Daily Digest email. Click here and follow quick instructions to join if you wish to receive one-email summary of posts. His Highness the Aga Khan in United States – October 2009 His Highness the Aga Khan and Governor Rick Perry sign an agreement between the Ismaili Imamat and [...]
Columbia College Chicago (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
INTRODUCING STUDIO CHICAGO A Year-Long Collaboration Celebrating the Working Artist and Creative Spaces October 2009 – October 2010 Program kicks off at Artists at Work Forum on October 29 at Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, in...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
D'Amelio Terras 525 West 22nd Street, 212-352-9460 Chelsea November 7 - December 23, 2009 Opening: Saturday, November 7, 6 - 8 PM Web Site D’Amelio Terras is pleased to present its fourth exhibition with Japanese sculptor Yoshihiro Suda. This gallery exhibition of new works coincides with the artist’s solo exhibition: “Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus,” on view at the Asia Society through...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
PICK D'Amelio Terras 525 West 22nd Street, 212-352-9460 Chelsea November 7 - December 23, 2009 Opening: Saturday, November 7, 6 - 8 PM Web Site D’Amelio Terras is pleased to present “Blossom,” the debut of a new sculpture in five examples by Tony Feher. This fan-fold sculpture marks the artist’s latest venture with a familiar material in a new form as well as a shift in scale...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Kouros Gallery 23 East 73rd, 212 288-5888 Upper East Side November 12, 2009 - January 2, 2010 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Kouros Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of collage paintings by the renowned master collagist, Fred Otnes. Otnes’ collage paintings are works of subtle, mysterious and refined beauty, combining art historical references ranging from the ancient...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Outside the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, the not-so-fine art of dodging drivers may soon be going the way of prehistoric cave painting. The City of Chicago plans to install a painted crosswalk between the Modern Wing and Millennium Park, perhaps by the end of the year. The crosswalk, accompanied by push button-activated warning lights, will be designed to end a spate of dangerous jaywalking...
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
August 21, 2009–January 3, 2010 Gallery 186 Overview: Zarina Bhimji’s Out of Blue, one of the most critically celebrated artist’s films of recent years, is an abstracted narrative of guilt, mourning, and loss, rooted in specific geopolitical, historical, and autobiographical facts. An artist of Indian descent, Bhimji was eight years old and living in Uganda with her [...]
core77.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Full-time Faculty in Designed Objects School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois The Designed Objects program focuses on the critical and creative re-thinking of the tools, furnishings, networks, and products that constitute everyday life. Borrowing from industrial design and disciplines such as systems design, furniture design, experience design and interaction design, Designed Objects...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
“James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, walks us through the Museum's Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing. He explains how the addition, a "luminous box" that opened in May, creates optimal conditions for viewing art.” I like the old Museum. I prefer that museum design not distract from the art. Don’t care much for scrims, flying carpets and curtain...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 05/23/2009
Original works by Mary Cassatt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide This survey of Mary Cassatt's work included 46 paintings and 10 color prints. It was the first comprehensive showing of Cassatt's work since the National Gallery's 1970 exhibition. The showing in Washington included works from the Chester Dale collection, which, by terms of the Dale gift, can only be shown at the National
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