Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya (Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University)
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
“Icons of the Desert” at the Grey Art Gallery focuses on Aboriginal works from the early 1970s that feature bold, diagrammatic compositions, finely coordinated colors and dotted patterns.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grey Art Gallery at New York University will open the first U.S. exhibition focusing on early acrylic paintings from the Australian Indigenous settlement of Papunya, Icons of the Desert features approximately 50 paintings , including many rare and spectacular examples dating from the 1970s. The exhibition opens on September 1st and runs through December 5, 2009. The exhibition opened...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
BEAT CIRCUS (two shows to celebrate the release of "Boy from Black Mountain" - the full tour will be in February!) September 11 - Middle East Downstairs - 472-480 Massachusetts Ave. - Cambridge MA (with O'Death, Larkin Grimm) September 12 - Knitting Factory - 361 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn NY (with Mucca Pazz)...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University will present A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections from July 18 to October 18, 2009. Conceived to exemplify the breadth and strength of the complex artistic output of the Bloomsbury artists, the exhibition will include over 190 paintings, watercolors, drawings, books from the Hogarth Press, and decorative...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 01/23/2009
Ithaca, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya. The e xhibition of some of the earliest and rarest paintings by Indigenous Australian artists. Beginning on Tuesday, February 10, visitors to the Johnson will have the unprecedented opportunity to see two Aboriginal artists create a ten-foot-square “ground...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art presents today Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, on view through April 5. In the more than thirty-five years since its advent at the tiny settlement of Papunya in the desert heart of Australia, the so-called “dot-painting” movement has
Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
Sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard has taken home the $25,000 Rappaport Prize, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park has announced. She is the ninth winner of the award, which was started in 2000 thanks to the support of the Jerome Lyle...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
DURHAM, NC.- Nearly a century ago, the Bloomsbury group took hold of the cultural imagination, their name becoming synonymous with wit, intelligence, political activism and avant-garde art and literature in the Anglo-American world. "Bloomsbury", named for a then slightly disreputable neighborhood surrounding the University of London, was centered on writers such as Leonard
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
ITHACA, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission, on view through January 4, 2009. This exhibit displays over fifty images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites. This selection, by Cornell members of the Cassini project, was made from almost two hundred thousand images that have been transmitted...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents An-My Lê: Small Wars, on view from September 6 to October 26, 2008. This exhibition is comprised of two photographic series by the American photographer, born in Vietnam in 1960, in which she explores the conflicts that bracket the last half-century of American history: the war in Vietnam and the
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art • Cornell University: ... in 1886 , (Thomas) Eakins was taken to visit Walt Whitman for the first time at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by their mutual friend and Philadelphia journalist, Talcott Williams. Whitman generally refused to pose for photographers, but because of his respect for Eakins's artistic skill and educational beliefs, he made an exception...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Hurry on Sundown: The Multimedia Work of Marc Swanson, on view from August 23 to October 19, 2008. Hurry on Sundown features a selection of work from the last several years by the
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
LOS ANGELES.- More than half a century has passed since the Holocaust — enough time to digest a plethora of scholarship, museum exhibitions, monuments, documentaries and artistic reckonings — but still not enough time to understand. Into this mix, we can now add Richard Ehrlich's photographs. His portfolio of the Holocaust Archives at the International Tracing Service at Bad
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Malibu resident, Dr. Richard Ehrlich, shares insights on an upcoming exhibit of his photos documenting a secretive Holocaust archive.
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