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NEW YORK, NY.- Artists and designers’ rising interest in ritual since the 1990s inspires Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, the first international exhibition to survey this phenomenon. On view at The Jewish Museum from September 13, 2009 through February 7, 2010. Reinventing Ritual features nearly sixty innovative works, created between 1999 and 2009 by leading...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- This fall, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto, the first solo museum exhibition of work by the New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein. Focusing on youth culture, rock and roll, Americana and advertising, Youth Manifesto tackles the pervasive power and symbiotic relationship between rock music and consumerism. The high-energy exhibition is comprised...
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Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ide (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
(Photo by Gladstone Gallery) Huang Yong Ping 's Tower Snake is a spiral ramp taking the form of a cast-aluminum snake skeleton . The lone installation at New York's Gladstone Gallery (through July 31), the installation is made to be walked on: head deep in the snake's ribcage, visitors walk up a creaky scaffolding constructed from bamboo posts and slats. The gallery describes the work: In transforming...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Filed under: South America , Brazil If you ask about influential artists from Pernambuco, Brazil, you'll likely hear the names Vitalino and Brennand. But despite both hailing from the same region and working with ceramics, they couldn't be more different. I've just had the chance to check out the work (and museums) of both. Mestre Vitalino was the first to create the figurinhas (figurines) that are...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bronze sculpture played a crucial role in the history of early modern French art and society—from the Renaissance court of François I at Fontainebleau until the reign of Louis XV—serving as a medium of self-representation for the French monarchy, and ultimately becoming a model imitated throughout Europe.
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The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
If you dig 60s pop art as much as I do, you're really going think this is boss. Forty-five years after being on display for just one day during the New York World's Fair in 1964, artist Robert Indiana's iconic EAT sign is blinking back into action. Part of a larger exhibition of Indiana's work, the oversized objet d'art will be up and illuminated all month at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland,...
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ArtCal (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Lab Gallery at The Roger Smith Hotel 501 Lexington Avenue, 212-339-2092 Midtown July 10 - July 31, 2009 Web Site “Bear witness to the villainous Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark !! Treacherous Cap’n Morgan and his thievin’ Chips Ahoy pirates have seized the mighty Cutty Sark Whiskey Clipper, and are commandeerin’ her straight towards no good. Woe unto Cap’n Crunch, the pathetic...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) was a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day. From humble roots, through his prodigious talent, he rose in society, eventually counting some of America's most influential people in art and literature, diplomacy and economics, technology and social policy among his friends and clients. The collection of The...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
"It is one of the country's largest spaces to showcase the best of British sculpture, so being commissioned to create an artwork for the Duveen Galleries - the central space in Tate Britain - has not just drawn in hordes of visitors but also cemented the reputations of Britain's boldest contemporary artists. Now, the gallery has selected a previously unknown artist," Eva Rothschild, "in...
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Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
MONTECITO HEIGHTS : While not sure what street this big guy lives, we do know that the people who live here run a sculpture business. Notes the Montecito Heights blog, which also has been watching the bug: "The best addition to the piece is the disco ball for the eye. The light reflections make it perfectly eerie." [Curbed Staff] SILVER LAKE : Silver Lake architecture/art studio Materials...
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Houstonist (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
ALL WEEKEND Dock Dogs . Televised on the Outdoor Channel, DockDogs competition consists of dogs jumping into water from a designated dock with the largest or highest leap earning that canine a victory. Dogs and owners travel to Houston to compete, and the competition will be open to local dogs too. At Jones Lawn in Discovery Green. See schedule here PRIDE , events throughout the weekend, culminating...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Russia IC The State Hermitage Museum opened the exhibtion “The Beautiful Has Come. Portrait Masterpieces from Egyptian Museum in Berlin” on 23 June. The exhibits displayed at the exhibition were taken away from Germany during World War Two and were kept in the State Hermitage Museum till 1958, when they were returned to the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The highlights of the exposition are...
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The Moment (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Photos by Sherry Griffin for R 20th Century Colorful robots created from recycled and re-appropriated materials by Rusti D. The words "craft fair" usually conjure images of macramé plant holders, lopsided candles and tie-dye as far as the eye can see. But Maker's Market, which opens this weekend at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, is one craft fair that comes with...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
"Of all the things going the way of the Internet these days, one is the gallery exhibition announcement card. … In most cases environmental concerns shield a certain, shall we say, cost-cutting desperation. 'Sculpture Center is Going Paperless.' 'Francesca Kaufmann is Going Paperless.' 'Going Green' (from P.P.O.W.). … Sometimes you wish they'd just come clean."...
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Louis-Emile Durandelle... The New Paris Opera (Ornamental Sculpture) (1865–72, Albumen silver print from glass negative). From Napoleon III and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "...This dossier photography exhibition will focus on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city’s narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards and...
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worldgallery | 11/14/2008
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
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Josep Puigmarti | 11/14/2008
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
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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
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