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BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
RALEIGH, NC (AP).- The Botticelli had happily hung in the North Carolina Museum of Art for more than a quarter-century, moving only a few feet over the years. But "The Adoration of the Child" was in for a surprise one October morning when three glove-wearing handlers swiftly removed the round painting in its gilded frame from the gallery entrance, placed it on a cart and pushed it through...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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...
1490 NewsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
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,”...
Isola di Rifiuti (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Vents A YEAR CCCXX Some big orchestral tutti of sun hitting a red- throat’d rubato, a high unmaestro’d O, a disc shot through with timbre- flaws and scuff marks of aimless careening angel accidents. Wash and backdrop for the morin khuur’s two horse- hair strings bow’d by a Mongol horseman who is deftly intersplicing earth (the fatter string) to sky with a series of incendiary...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
DENVER, CO.- This November, the Denver Art Museum will present Embrace!, an exhibition of unique, site-specific installations in the Museum's Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Featuring 17 new works in a range of media, Embrace! marks one of the largest exhibitions of sitespecific commissions in a U.S. museum, including never-before-seen works from Katharina Grosse, El Anatsui,...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Today The Guardian brings several allusions to the Brontës: John Mullan lists several examples of ekphrasis (the recreation in words of a work of art): Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lucy Snowe, Brontë's narrator, visits an art gallery in Villette (aka Brussels) and encounters The Cleopatra : a large portrait of a voluptuous woman ("that wealth of muscle, that affluence of flesh")...
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I guess I shoulda used these for Halloween, but decided to save them for Friday the 13th. :) ~*~ The first is from the British anthology TV series titled Journey to the Unknown , which used to scare little Daisy to death. Wikipedia link says: The series had a memorably famous whistled theme tune by [famous horror moviemakers] Hammer 's Harry Robinson and title sequence involving a deserted and apparently...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Following a glimpse of the exterior of the Prism art gallery/cultural center at 8746 Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood , here's a look at the inside of the building, which was designed by Los Angeles-based PATTERNS Architects . Last night the gallery had an opening for its debut...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Sanford Schwartz David Park: Boston Street Scene , 1954, from Helen Park Bigelow’s David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back . David Park (1911–1960) is one of those artists who isn’t widely known but whose work inspires a special loyalty and warmth of feeling among his admirers. The partisan flavor his very name can arouse is partly dependent, of course, on his not being a household...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity at MoMA. "...Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Probably my favorite story in The Grass Harp & Other Stories was 'The Headless Hawk', about a 36 year old man who lives in a basement apartment and works in the Garland Gallery . He life hasn’t taken the path he thought it would, which becomes fully acknowledged after a depthless woman enters his life, bringing with her a surrealistic painting that includes a severed head from a reclining,...
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Sarah Meadows Sarah Meadows' Time Ends Now opens tomorrow at Nationale. In her first exhibition of landscape photography, Meadows "elaborates on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, dispensing entirely with narrative and human gesture and presenting instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered." Opening reception • 6-8pm • November 13...
Life, Doctor Who & Combom (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
And that is the start if second to last story in The Sarah Jane Adventures season 3 - Episode 9, Mona Lisas Revenge Part 1. If you haven't see this yet, you need to stop reading now! Clyde is sketching K9 at school, and discussing art with Luke. Haresh Chandra announces Clyde has won an art contest and all the class are going to see the Mona Lisa at the local international gallery tomorrow as the prize....
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worldgallery | 10/08/2008
Hotel Estela Barcelona - Art Hotel and World Gallery present the exhibition of paintings by M. Assumpcio Raventos which under the title of "The Music of the sea" , offers a selection of artworks very close to abstraction with a double theme: on one hand we find a sample whose leitmotif is the Sea, and on the other hand a series which refers to the world of Music. In perfect harmony with the marine
art and you | 09/10/2008
A few months ago, Audi launched its new car. The TV ad miraculously succeeded in reminding not only of Andy Warhol but also of Andreas Gursky and Katarina Fritsch... http://www.art-and-you.com/article_203_artvertising_10.html
Josep Puigmarti | 05/27/2008
Hotel Estela Barcelona – Art Hotel and World Gallery invite you to the opening of the exhibition by the artist Gonzalo Centelles, which will take place on Sunday 8 th June 19:30 h. , and which will be open for the audience during the months of June and July. Gonzalo Centelles was born in Barcelona in 1980 . Educated at the Llotja and in the College of Fine Arts Sant Jordi, both in Barcelona . Currently,...
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