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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
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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.
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