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...
The Answer, My Friend... All that energy spent pushing air around by all those fans, and for what? It never circulates out of this box. Is this SuttonBeresCuller's sly statement about being an artist in Seattle—that being an artist in Seattle means being a solitary figure all locked up despite whirring and whirring? How many roads must a man walk down, this piece asks, titled The Answer, My...
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...
The Los Angeles Times reports that Eli Broad, who'd originally entertained dropping down his new art museum in Beverly Hills, is also considering Santa Monica, as well as a third unnamed city, as the site for his museum. And while everyone may know what cities are involved, the architect behind the project remains a mystery . Via the Los Angeles Times : "The conceptual drawings for the Beverly...
The average tourist will travel to the British Museum with a tick-list of treasures they're after. The Rosetta Stone , Elgin Marbles , Assyrian Lion Hunt , Lewis Chessmen and, for now at least, the Staffordshire Hoard will score highly on any visitor's I-spy scrapbook. Those hunting for Mesopotamian treasures will find themselves gravitating towards the magnificent monuments at the back end of the...
Man Ray has one of the coolest names in the history of art. However, he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky. He rejected his birth name moved to Paris in 1921 and became the sole American in the vanguard of Parisian Modernism. This transformation represented a conflicted identity and his deep desire to escape the limitations of his Russian Jewish past. "Le Violon d'Ingres," 1924. Rosalind and Melvin...
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...
Nohra Haime Gallery 41 East 57th Street, 212-888-3550 Midtown November 12 - December 5, 2009 Web Site CAROL K. BROWN : PAPERDOLLS , a captivating exhibition of a series of acrylic paintings over photographs on paper will be on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery from November 11 through December 5. In her most recent body of work, Brown has shifted her focus to the subject of femininity and human, albeit...
I've just finished browsing the very well produced web site for the Bauhaus exhibition at MOMA (see my previous post for a discussion of the exhibition design). The Bauhaus was a German design and craft school, in existence from 1919 until it's closure by the Nazi regime in the early '30s. Its proponents maintained that the building was the ultimate form of art, and that art and craft were not separate...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In case you find yourself in New York City on Nov. 26, 2009 looking for something to do besides share a bird with your beloved family members, here are some places that will be open on Thanksgiving Day in NYC : The Macy’s 83nd Thanksgiving Day Parade will begin at 9 a.m. at 77th Street and Central Park West. The new route this year starts out the same, traveling south down Central Park West...
Architecture lovers and foodies come together in a new package that combines a private tour of the P hilip Johnson Glass House site in New Canaan, Connecticut with a three-course dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. This exclusive package is available for $400 per person and includes a two-hour tour with access to five Johnson-designed structures - Glass House, Painting Gallery, Sculpture...
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...
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.
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...
Five years ago, contemporary art collector Frieder Burda opened a museum right in the heart of Baden Baden, Germany. As one of the world's original resort towns, tradition tends to trumps trendiness in Baden Baden, and this museum, in a building designed by Richard Meier , and the modern and contemporary art exhibits on offer, definitely set tongues a-wagging in town. When I visited this past Spring,...
Exhibition of Spanish Painters and Sculptors Benefiting to Vicente Ferrer Foundation "Without a good action the world would be empty and would make no sense" Under the chairmanship of the Hon. Sr. D. Jose Bono Martinez President of the Congress of Deputies Which will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Conde Duque c / Conde Duque, 9 / 11 Madrid 13th November 2008 at 19:30 Art and Humanitarian
Exhibition of Spanish Painters and Sculptors Benefiting to Vicente Ferrer Foundation "Without a good action the world would be empty and would make no sense" Under the chairmanship of the Hon. Sr. D. Jose Bono Martinez President of the Congress of Deputies Which will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Conde Duque c / Conde Duque, 9 / 11 Madrid 13th November 2008 at 19:30 Art and Humanitarian
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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