ArtDaily Newsletter: Sunday, September 27, 2009

The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Sunday, September 27, 2009   Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf Opens Overview of the Works of Per Kirkeby Danish artist Per Kirkeby poses for a photograph in front of his paintings at Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf. A retrospective exhibition of his works opened today. Photo: EFE/Federico Gambarini. DUSSELDORF.- Born in 1938, Per Kirkeby is the best known Danish artist of his generation and one of the most important contemporary European artists. After a degree in geology and several expeditions to Greenland, Kirkeby turned his attention entirely to the world of art in the mid-1960s and embarked upon a journey that involved researching the vast diversity of painting options while also working as a sculptor, architect, printer, illustrator, film maker and author. The Per Kirkeby exhibition, set up in cooperation with the Tate Modern in London and extended for museum kunst palast, comprises some 250 works # paintings, drawings, sculptures, books and films # that provide an overview of the works of this universal artist. An extension of the exhibition in Düsseldorf can be found at Insel Hombroich near Düsseldorf. These brick buildings, erected by Per Kirkeby, are walk-in sculptures that exemplify his work at the int ... More LACMA Presents First U.S. Exhibition of Luis Meléndez Still Lifes in Twenty-Five Years Luis Meléndez, Self Portrait, 1746. Oil on canvas, 38 1/2 X 31 7/8 in. Musée du Louvre. Reunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, the first U.S. exhibition in twenty-five years of eighteenth-century Spanish painter Luis Meléndez (1715-1780). Meléndez is now recognized not only as one of the greatest Spanish painters of the eighteenth century, but also as one of the most accomplished still life painters of the time. Drawing works from major American and European museums as well as private collections, the exhibition will showcase nearly thirty paintings by Meléndez—many of which have never been exhibited before. In addition, a ... More   MFA Houston Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Man's Landing on the Moon Neil A. Armstrong´s photograph of Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., on the Moon, 1969, 93.199.10 The MFAH, the Target Collection of American Photography, gift of Target Stores. HOUSTON, TX.- To mark the 40th anniversary of man´s landing on the moon, this September the MFAH presents The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed." This exhibition chronicles man´s enduring fascination over five centuries with our nearest planetary neighbor. Ranging from moonlit landscapes by the Old Masters and the Impressionists, to Ansel Adams´ iconic Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) and shots famously taken on the moon by the members of Apollo 11, the exhibition provides a dazzling overview of five centuries of moon-gazing. In addition, early scientific instruments, books, moon ... More   Guy Hepner Contemporary Presents Heidi Does Hollywood: Photos by Mark Seliger Heidi Klum (Untitled 3), GQ, 2002, 30 x 40 inches, Edition of 10, 50 x 60 inches, Edition of 5. Digital c print photograph on paper. Hand signed, numbered and dated on a label verso by Mark Seliger. Photo: Courtesy of Guy Hepner Contemporary. WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- Photographer Mark Seliger's 2002 "Heidi Does Hollywood" series for GQ is now for sale at Guy Hepner Contemporary. As one most celebrated editorial photographers of today, Mark Seliger has had the rare opportunity to photograph the world's most famous faces. Mark Seliger is currently under contract with Conde Nast Publications where he has shot countless covers for Vanity Fair and GQ. In 2002, Mark Seliger created a stunning collection of photographs for GQ of Heidi Klum. Resulting from his emotional proximity to Heidi Klum, Mark Seliger was able to create ... More John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Now Online Tampa theatre designed by architect John Eberson. Photo: Gordon Myhre, Grown Man Films. MIAMI BEACH, FL.- The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive is one of the major architectural holdings of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, documenting the work of the firm John and Drew Eberson, Architects from 1909 through 1988. Thanks to major grants from the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, The Wolfsonian has been working for over a year on arranging and processing the archive, which includes records for more than 420 projects and totals more than 7,600 items. That work is now completed and information on the archive, including a finding aid ... More   As a Leading Authority on the Art of Framing, Eli Wilner's Keen Eye is Legendary Eli Wilner amidst the extensive collection of antique frames gracing his eponymous Manhattan gallery. NEW YORK, NY.- For as long as he can remember, Eli Wilner has understood the importance of a frame to a work of art. "My great uncle was an art collector," he recalls "and he insisted that everything had to be in an antique frame, so even as a kid my paintings were always framed. Then they would be placed next to a Chagall or a Klee, so I thought I was a great master." Since opening his gallery in 1983, Wilner has established himself as a leading authority on the art of framing, with a client roster that includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the White House." ... More   New Book Tells How Soldiers Saved Works of Art During World War II The Venus Fixers is an adventure story with the gorgeous tints of a Botticelli landscape as its backdrop. NEW YORK, NY.- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, recently published The Venus Fixers : The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II. In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions of life and death to realize that victory wasn't the only thing at stake. So was the priceless cultural heritage of thousands of years. In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and ... More Landscape Treasures Features 50 Paintings from the Parrish Museum's Collection Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935), Church at Old Lyme, 1906. Oil on canvas, 30 ⅛ x 25 ¼. Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY. Littlejohn Collection, 1961.3.131 SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, an exhibition of some fifty paintings from the Museum's permanent collection, will be on view at the Parrish from September 27 through November 29, 2009. Ranging from such early nineteenth-century painters as Thomas Doughty and Asher B. Durand to contemporary artists Jennifer Bartlett and April Gornik, the exhibition traces the progression of American landscape painting from the Hudson River School to the present and affirms the historical importance and ongoing vitality of landscape painting in the history of American art. American Landscapes has been organized by Alicia Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education. ... More   Jill Magid's First Solo Exhibition at Yvon Lambert New York Opens Installation Image of Jill Magid's Objects to be Handed Over or Destroyed at Yvon Lambert New York, September 12- October 24, 2009. NEW YORK, NY.- Yvon Lambert presents Objects to be Handed Over or Destroyed, Jill Magid's first solo exhibition at Yvon Lambert New York. In Objects to be Handed Over or Destroyed Magid explores the nature of government secrecy and obligatory silence through her work with the Dutch secret service. This show will run concurrently at Yvon Lambert with an exhibition of new work by Ian Wallace. Both exhibitions will be on view until October 24, 2009. Magid also has a solo exhibition at Tate Modern through January 3, 2010. Under compulsion to commission an artwork for its new building, the AIVD—the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands, or the Dutch secret service—decided to use it as an opportunity to improve ... More   Baibakov Art Projects and Paul Pfeiffer Announce Project for Third Moscow Biennale Paul Pfeiffer, Caryatid (Red, Yellow, Blue), 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. MOSCOW.- Baibakov art projects announced a collaboration with American artist Paul Pfeiffer, a special project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Opening October 22, 2009 "Perspective Machine" is the artist's first solo exhibition in Russia. For this site-specific project, the artist will develop on his critique of the spectacle, converting the unique space of the former Red October Chocolate Factory into a "Perspective Machine." Almost forty years ago, the theorist Guy Debord formulated what he called the "Society of the Spectacle," a world regulated by images in which one experiences the representation of reality rather than reality itself. Paul Pfeiffer is part of a new generation of young artists taking on the contemporary spectacle, in a society where advances in digital technology have reinvented the idea of an ... More Quang-Tuan Luong Featured in Ken Burns PBS Series the National Parks The series is scheduled to air on PBS channel this Sunday, September 27th at 8PM. SAN JOSE, CA.-Terra Galleria announced that Quang-Tuan Luong, a San Francisco Bay Area resident, has been featured as one of the few living characters in Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan's latest documentary about the American National Parks. The series is scheduled to air on PBS channel this Sunday, September 27th at 8PM. The footage about Luong and his work is part of Episode 4; includes a sequence of Luong working on location in Glacier Bay National Park and a short interview. Visiting from France, Luong fell in love with the US National Parks and decided to photograph them ... More   First Caspar David Friedrich Exhibition in Scandinavia to Open at Nationalmuseum Caspar David Friedrich View of a Harbor © Berlin 2009 / Rudolf Schäfer / Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. STOCKHOLM.- Caspar David Friedrich, the leading painter of the German Romantic era, is nowadays regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of art. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown in Sweden outside art history circles. This October, Nationalmuseum will set out to change this by presenting Scandinavia's first monographic exhibition of works by Friedrich. In all, over 90 artworks will be on show, including some 40 paintings. In his paintings, Friedrich depicts the Romantic belief in an animated nature where the divine permeates everything. ... More   Manhattan Art Company Opens World's First Art Gift Registry Eastern Essence. © Alexandra Pacula. NEW YORK, NY.- A Manhattan art company recently launched an innovative option for gift giving. nAscent Art New York, which represents almost 50 emerging artists, introduced a new art gift registry in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. The registry also helps newly engaged couples seeking a unique expression of their love. Called ArtWish, the nAscent Art gift registry provides a different way to shop and celebrate. Using ArtWish, lovers of art create registries of original artwork for their friends and families to purchase as gifts. nAscent's unique service allows art to be accessible to anyone at a reasonable price. Many people can support the ... More More News Pinakothek der Moderne Presents Thomas Steffl's Naked Nation MUNICH.- With his sculptures and video installations the artist Thomas Steffl directs our attention to the relations between body, nature and society. His work is concerned first and foremost with representations of naturalness and corporality that are to be experienced as cultural constructions. For him, engagement with ones own body and that of others is not a process dependent exclusively on personal decisions. In a wider context it is the specific expression of a culture captured at a particular moment in time and subject to constant change. The exhibition presents a new complex of the artist's works. They take up the ... More Cornerhouse to Present First Major UK Survey of Polish Artist Artur Zmijewski MANCHESTER.- Cornerhouse will present the first major UK survey of Polish artist Artur Zmijewski, one of the most consistently challenging, provocative and profoundly thoughtful artists in Europe at the moment. The exhibition will include the major installation work, Repetition (2005), in which !mijewski revisits Professor Zimbardo's 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. Alongside Repetition (2005), expect a number of other works, including the critically acclaimed and tersely didactic video work, Them (2007), first shown at Documenta 12. Set in a non-descript warehouse in Warsaw, Them documents representatives from different factions that shape contemporary Poland and the ensuing exchanges between them. Devout Catholic women, a Gay and Lesbian group, members of the neo-nationalist Union of Polish Youths, Jewish teenagers and young left-wing activists were brought together and charged with the task of creating an emblematic image ... More L.A. Marler has Created a Conceptually Brilliant Exhibition with a Purpose SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Future is here, Environmental change is happening now! While the Alternative Car Expo is happening, take a relaxing stroll down memory lane through the story that is told by these images... Then fast forward to the current cars that make science fun and sexy. L. A. Marler's artistic expression fuels the alternative transportation movement. This enchanting exhibit is a welcome respite to the hectic, bustling car show. Louise Anne Marler is a Santa Monica based photographer, environmentalist and curator, known for the Oil Is History® grassroots campaign she has created from her junkyard cars photo series. Her work has been shown in galleries nationally. This is a rare opportunity where the artist throws open the hangar door and invites everyone to come in and see her creative genius hide-away. Driven by her eco conscious vision of the world, L.A. Marler sees an object, such as an abandoned car very differently than the average person. L.A. Marler sees the hi ... More Frye Art Museum Exhibition Explores American Modernism SEATTLE, WA.- Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in the Frye Collection, on view from September 26, 2009 through January 10, 2010, presents works from the Frye Collection that explore how American artists created distinctly American subjects for American audiences. In the early twentieth century, artists grappled with this concept as they attempted to image a United States that was no longer a colony, nor an unwanted offspring of a grand European vision. Modernism, a complex and contested term, is used to describe America's self-conscious break from past European traditions in the visual arts. Intense debate about American modernism began with two important New York City exhibitions, the Macbeth Gallery exhibition of The Eight in 1908 and the International Exhibition of Modern Art—the Armory Show—of 1913. Both exhibitions incited criticism and brought into productive tension and high relief Europe ... More Crocker Art Museum's First Director Receives First Solo Museum Exhibit SACRAMENTO, CA.- Meadows and Mountains celebrates the work of William F. Jackson, Sacramento's leading painter from 1880 to 1936 and the first director of the Crocker Art Museum. This first solo exhibit of Jackson's work, opening November 6, 2009, brings together 20 of his painted landscapes, including views of Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe and California hillsides. At the urging of his friend Margaret Crocker, Jackson became "custodian" of the newly founded E. B. Crocker Art Gallery in 1885, a position he faithfully fulfilled for 50 years. From 1886 to 1900, he was the head of the Sacramento School of Design, the art school conducted in the Museum's ornate Victorian Ballroom. Modest and diffident about promoting himself and his works from his studio in a small city off the beaten track, Jackson was never appreciated to the full extent of his talent. "The timing of this exhibit coincides exactly with our ... More Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Announces Exclusive Representation of Edward Burtynsky NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Hunt Kraeutler announced the exclusive representation of Edward Burtynsky in the United States. Hasted Hunt Kraeutler opens with "Edward Burtynsky: Oil". The exhibition runs from October 1 until November 28, 2009 with an artist's reception on Tuesday, October 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. "Oil" consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky's obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century - politically, economically and socially - on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. His obsession with oil has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East. The New York exhibition at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler is presented in conjunction with the pub ... More 'New York Sleeps' Christopher Thomas at Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich MUNICH.- This is New York! Or are they dream worlds, chimeras, inventions, or perhaps testimony to a past era? Viewers are astonished, recognizing the places and getting lost in memories. A city of silence, beyond the turbulence of everyday life, a metropolis with no people, as if a spell had been cast on it: Grand Central Station, Fifth Avenue, the Flatiron Building, Katz's Restaurant, the Brooklyn Bridge-familiar, but never seen this way before. When we unsuspectingly removed these photographs from a drawer-seven views, all taken in 2001 (before September 11), softly sketched as a result of long exposure times, printed on deckle-edge paper with the streaky border of a Polaroid-we urged the photographer to return to New York, where he had lived now and again over an extended period, in order to continue the series. Over two more years, including stays in each of the seasons, he produced a portfolio of photographs, of which the present volume presents a selection of nearly eight ... More New Missouri Bank Crossroads "Artboards" to Debut First Friday in October KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Missouri Bank Crossroads Branch will debut four new large-scale commissioned images, by Kansas City based artists Grant Miller and May Tveit, on its "Artboards" in time for First Friday October 2, 2009. An Art through Architecture "Art Achievement" project, the Missouri Bank "Artboards" launched fall 2008, when the building's existing double-sided billboards were renovated and converted into a highly visible site for work by area artists as part of the bank's purchase and renovation of the building to house its Crossroads Branch, completed by Helix Architecture + Design. Grant Miller will present two east-facing images, which are croppings of recent acrylic on wood paintings. Interweaving hard-edges and painterly drips, and built up through many layers, these painting are Miller's attempts to physically portray the abundance of information that surrounds us at all times in a myriad of forms. Informed by an intere ... More 28th Annual Bruce Museum Outdoor Arts Festival will Take Place in October GREENWICH, CT .- The Bruce Museum's 28th Annual Outdoor Arts Festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, on the grounds of the Museum at 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich, CT. The Festival is a juried event featuring more than 90 artists selected from across the country. Their paintings, photography, drawings, prints, sculptures, and mixed media pieces are all available for purchase. The Festival also features live music on both days as well as a variety of food choices. Many fun, educational family activities are on hand, including a children's drawing contest and entertainment geared towards a younger audience. Exhibitors compete for cash prizes in six categories: oils and acrylic on canvas; watercolor and acrylic on paper and under glass; graphics and drawings; mixed media; sculpture; and photography. In addition to individual category prizes, there are two major awards give ... More The Human Eclectic: An Exhibition Curated by Kent Williams at Merry Karnowsky Gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- What is becoming of the 'us' – the 'each of us'? Where will all of our technology leave us? Maybe it's our detachment from the reality of mass human destruction, or the invited dehumanization of our existence through computers and online interactions. It could be our growing desensitization to cruelty, to violence and to suffering through the television invasion. Whatever it is, it appears we have stopped celebrating, or even acknowledging, the very thing that defines our entire race – our humanity. We are offering it up, as though sacrificially, to the machines we create and worship. Because of this almost inevitable crisis of self, we find it important again, maybe now more than ever in the history of art making, to cling to our most basic possession – the human form. Call it a quiet revolution – the lone artist embracing the representation of man again – slowly and deliberately turning himself back around to ... More Statewide Arts and Cultural Organizations Meet with Governor and Legislative Leaders HARRISBURG, PA.- On Wednesday, leaders from the state's arts and cultural organizations met with key legislative officials including Governor Rendell to protest the proposed tax on cultural activity. Julie Hawkins (VP Cultural Policy) and April Williamson from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; Mitch Swain (CEO) and Ryan Freytag (Mgr Cultural Policy) from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council; and Abbi Peters (ED) from the Elks Council on the Arts attended a series of meetings in Harrisburg. "We had frank discussions with legislative leaders, but the prognosis does not look good," said Julie Hawkins VP of Cultural Policy at the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. "We will continue to fight this tax, we think it doesn't make sense and will adversely impact everyday citizens who attend the thousands of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations around the state."The visit was prompted b ... More Dig Along Upper Hudson Opens Window to Old NY Fort FORT EDWARD, NY.- A mistake made along the Hudson River is offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into how colonial military engineers built wooden forts, including the key stronghold constructed here by the British during the French and Indian War. A formal excavation of the original Fort Edward was called after crews dredging PCB-contaminated sediment from the Hudson River last month accidentally ripped out wooden beams thought to have been part of the original fort, which was built in the 1750s. Redcoats, rangers, American Indians and settlers mingled at the site as England and France fought for control of North America. ... More This is not unsolicited email. You were sent this ezine because you entered your email in our list at http://www.artdaily.org To unsubscribe from this Newsletter please send us an e-mail from the address you want to cancel to newsletter-request@list.artdaily.com with subject Unsubscribe.