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E-Slant: LaChapelle,Grant, Boltanski, Bettag

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the slant from Los Angeles Sep 30th, 2008 An explosive E-Slant week!  Feeling a little undone?  Take a chill with our Slant picks. Hopping at the Galleries Charlie Schultz into LaChapelle in N Y Anna Ayeroff gets Kippenbergered in LA Thea Liberty Nichols goes Alternative in CHI Christina Richards opines on Rattke in SF Frances Guerin hearts Boltanski in PAR New Faces in the Rackroom Alexandra Grant in LA Susannah Bettag in SF Our Community - Eyes on You Joe Mangrum - eyes have it Thailan When - lots of eyes See some art.  It helps. (Image: ArtSlant thinking of Cai Guo-Qiang)   IN TOWN WITH ANNA AYEROFF Heavyweight Champion Martin Kersels at Santa Monica Museum of Art Kippenberger at MOCA Martin Kippenberger at MOCA - The Geffen Contemporary   INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDRA GRANT Alexandra Grant's new work at Honor Fraser involves a mixture of the senses, the development of one sense (the visuality of painting) to stand in for taste, smell, touch, and hearing. Grant adds th... [more]   THE BUZZ from other SLANT cities New York Martha Colburn, Folkert de Jong, Xu Zhen, David LaChapelle Paris Christian Boltanski, Wolfgang Tillmans Chicago Greg Cook, Kari Percival, Renee Prisble Una San Francisco Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Joan Brown, Fred Dalkey, Eileen David, Richard Diebenkorn, Arshile Gorky, Edward Hopper, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, Henri Matisse, Giorgio Morandi, Ed Musante, Manuel Neri, Henri Rousseau, Vonn Sumner, Wayne Thiebaud, Suong Yangchareon, Gwenaël Rattke   If you no longer wish to receive Artslant emails, please unsubscribe

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Home   Still Life Exhibition From the Prado Museum Opens at Caja Inmaculada in Zaragoza The Spanish Still Life in the Prado features 60 paintings by the leading artists working in this genre in Spain, including Van der Hamen, Arellano, Meléndez and Goya. Photo: EFE / Javier Cebollada. ZARAGOZA.- Following the success of the first phase of Travelling Prado, a programme that brought a major group of portraits to 600,000 people Caja Inmaculada is opening its headquarters in Zaragoza with a new travelling exhibition from the Museo del Prado, devoted to the still life....More Lynda and Stewart Resnick Donate $55 Million to LACMA LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today it has received a gift of $55 million from Los Angeles-based philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, including $45 million toward LACMA’s ongoing Transformation, a campaign to unify the museum’s campus and refurbish and expand its gallery spaces. Additionally, the Resnicks have promised LACMA ...More Important November Russian Art Auction Announced at Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC NEW YORK.- Gene Shapiro Auctions LLC has announced an important auction of Russian, European, and Latin American art, to take place on November 5, 2008 in New York. The catalog for the auction has now been posted online at http://www.geneshapiro.com, and the printed full color catalog is available for purchase. ...More Christie's to Offer an Exceptional Auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai DUBAI.- Christie’s, the world’s leading arts business, announce their fifth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai which will take place on 30 October 2008 and which will offer the strongest and most important selection of works to date in the region. The auction will present 157 exceptional paintings and sculptures from the leading artists of the UAE, Iran, Iraq, Syria,...More SBMA Celebrates Decade of Photography Acquisitions SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art celebrates the gifts made possible by PhotoFutures, the avid collector’s group that has helped to build the Museum’s permanent photography collection as well as support photographic exhibitions. Founded in 1998 by William Brian Little and Mrs. Kingman Douglass, PhotoFutures enters their tenth year. In acknowledgement, ...More Turn and Widen: 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale SEOUL.- The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2008) is being held in Seoul Museum of Art until November 5, 2008. Seoul International Media Art Biennale has continued and prospered the event and its quality through the past four biennale since 2000, being much recognized both domestically and internationally as a notable media art festival....More Sotheby's London to Hold Inaugural Sale of Modern and Contemporary Design in October LONDON.- Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that on Saturday, October 18, 2008, it will be staging its first-ever dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary Design to coincide with its October series of Contemporary Art sales. The sale has also been scheduled to overlap with the ever-popular London Frieze Art Fair and the second Design Art London....More "Water Planet" Showcases Connection Between Water and Life SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- and life is the subject of an innovative new exhibit that will open on September 27 as part of the new California Academy of Sciences. Silvery, sculpted walls and dramatic lighting set the scene for a unique foray into...More Christie's to Offer Fine Chinese Art From the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in March 2009 NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s is pleased to announce the single owner sale of Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, which will be offered on March 18, 2009. This is the first of a series of auctions consigned by the Arthur M. Sackler Collections Trust of its part of the large collection amassed over many decades by the internationally well-known collector Arthur M. Sackler. The sale is ...More Danish Filmmaker Jesper Just has U.S. Premiere at Brooklyn Museum BROOKLYN, NY.- A new film by the critically acclaimed Danish artist Jesper Just is having its United States premiere in his first solo exhibition at a New York museum. On view at the Brooklyn Museum through January 4, 2009, Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions also includes three of his widely praised earlier films: Bliss and Heaven (2004, 8:10 min), The Lonely Villa (2004, 4:30 min), and No Man ...More Treasures from the British Museum Going to Royal BC Museum VICTORIA, BC.- A visit to the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) in the spring and summer of 2009 will be a journey through the evolution of civilization across hundreds of thousands of years and all parts of the globe. Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum, which makes its North...More Miyako Ishiuchi - Photographs 1976 - 2005 at FOAM Fotografiemuseum AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents, in cooperation with Dutch photographer and curator Machiel Botman, the first European retrospective of Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi (b. 1947). While the artist brought attention to herself at Biennial 2005 in Venice with her ...More South Street Seaport Museum Exhibition Explores Roosevelt's Passion for Collecting and the Allure of the Sea NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's driving love of sailing and his irrepressible passion for collecting will be celebrated in Treasures of a President: FDR and the Sea, an exhibition opening at the South Street Seaport Museum on October 22, 2008....More Tacoma Art Museum Announces the 9th Northwest Biennial Participants TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum has announced the artists selected to participate in the 9th Northwest Biennial, which will be on view from January 31 through May 25, 2009. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration and Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art for Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum...More

International Art News: September 29, 2008

ARTS NEWS: September 29, 2008 Top Stories Call for Artists: Artist In Residence Program (AIR) Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Andy Warhol: Pop Politics Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH USA United States of America Maria Lassnig: Preeminent Austrian Painter's First US Exhibition Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH USA Dennis Jones ...just the tip... Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI USA United States of America Call for Artists: Artist In Residence Program (AIR) Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA USA United States of America Raid Projects Los Angeles is offering one of our two bedrooms and a studio for artists to come to Los Angeles, make new work, network with commercial galleries and curators, and explore Los Angeles at a rate of $1000 US per month (The AIR program will rise in cost for 2009 to $1200 US). The following dates are still available for the 2008 and 2009 Program: December 2008 - January 2009- February 2009, January 2009 - February 2009 - March 2009, March 2009 - April 2009 - May 2009. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Andy Warhol: Pop Politics Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH USA United States of America Andy Warhol - one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century - captured the likeness of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of the 20th century. Images of John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mao Zedong, among others will hang side-by-side when the Currier Museum of Art presents Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27, 2008 through January 4, 2009. Pop Politics displays together for the first time more than sixty of Warhol's paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs of political figures. His portraits of American presidents and presidential candidates, queens, Communist dictators, and other political figures reveal intriguing, yet until now unexplored insights into Warhol's own celebrity status and political leanings. Warhol's images of these powerful personalities comment on the interrelationships between politics and celebrity culture in the late twentieth century - connections that remain ever present today. Timed to coincide with the 2008 presidential election, this exhibition offers a probing and entertaining look through the eyes of America's most famous Pop artist at the leaders who shaped the twentieth century. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Maria Lassnig: Preeminent Austrian Painter's First US Exhibition Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH USA The Contemporary Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of vibrantly colorful, dramatically intense oil paintings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig. Initiated and organized by the Serpentine Gallery in London and curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill, the exhibition features work made during the most recent ten years of Lassnig�s career, as well as seven films made between 1971 and 1992. Maria Lassnig opens to the public September 27, 2008. The prolific, 89-year-old Lassnig is recognized as one of Europe�s most inventive and influential artists. Raphaela Platow, CAC�s Alice and Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator, has spent many years studying Lassnig�s work, visiting her studio and learning about the artist�s process, methods and extraordinary artistic production. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Dennis Jones ...just the tip... Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI USA United States of America Dennis Jones will be featured in a one person exhibition titled ...just the tip... at The College for Creative Studies Center Galleries, in Detroit from September 27 through October 25, 2008. A closing reception will be held Friday, October 24th. The exhibition consists of 301, 11'x14' charcoal drawings along with an audio cd of my reading aloud each drawing. This body of work continues to grow and now includes nearly 700 drawings. This new series of drawings focuses on the discourse that takes place between the artist and the work at hand. Jones states, 'I'm intrigued by the way the drawings communicate between each other and how they speak of notions that are far larger than me alone suggesting a panoramic view of human interaction.' Dennis Jones has been a Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2004. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   L�Image Mystique/Les Vues Sacrees (Sacred Image/Sacred Views) Enclaves Gallery, Philadelphia, PA USA United States of America New Orleans visionary artist and ordained Vodou priestess, Sallie Ann Glassman, joins one of Philadelphia's most prolific and respected �Spiritual� artists, Gerard (Jerry) DiFalco, at The Enclaves Gallery from September 28 - November 2, 2008 in a show entitled, L�Image Mystique/Les Vues Sacr�es (Sacred Image/Sacred Views). The gallery is located at 2900 Sheaff Lane in South Philadelphia, near the intersection of Penrose and Pattison Avenues. An alumna of The New Orleans Art Institution, Haitian-ordained Manbo, Sallie Ann Glassman, is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in highly-acclaimed one-woman and group shows. Gerard (Jerry) DiFalco, who is profiled in both Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, has won grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. DiFalco has been a Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2002. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Get your exhibition press release on the desks of the world's art journalists in time for their deadlines. Use arts media contacts for promoting your visual arts events. www.artsmediacontacts.com If you are looking to promote the visual arts, then try out arts media contacts. This online resource equips you with a directory of over 8000 art journalists worldwide, a press release design system and spam-free email tools. You can then manage all your press campaigns from one website. Recently enhanced, arts media contacts has been used by major art museums and galleries for over 12 years. Artblogs - Art Blogs: The Dichotomy of Rare and Plentiful Barney Davey, USA Can art, a singular creation, be both rare and plentiful? Unquestionably, any work in its original medium would automatically be rare. When a piece of art is reproduced, what happens to the value of each piece? Obviously, singular, rare and well respected will always be valuable. A recent notable high example is the Picasso Cubist work, Arlequin. Not seen in public since 1945, it will go under hammer at Sotheby's this November with an expected price of $30 million. Purchased for $12,000, it makes the work an incredible investment. It goes without saying the vast majority of artists will never see a fraction of such monetary appreciation of their work in their lifetime or thereafter. Given the level of competition, (I've seen estimates of 10,000 new fine art students graduating annually. Looking at ArtSchools.com list of nearly 2,000 art schools in its database, such an estimate seems plausible.), and the realities of the marketplace, it is to be understood making millions from one's art is a rarity in itself. Add all those newly minted artists to the tens of thousands already in the pool and a crowded competitive marketplace exists. FEATURED PORTFOLIOS Mildred A. Utroska "Metallic Spirals" Painting Acrylic, 2007 US$ Sold purchase this work add to MYabsolutearts Bradley H. 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