ArtDaily Newsletter, Saturday, January 3, 2009

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Home   Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art's Acquisitions Pieter Brueghel the Younger, “Paying the Tax (The Tax Collector)”, oil on panel, 1620 – 1640, USC Fisher Museum of Art, The Armand Hammer Collection. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art presents the exhibition Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art, a selection of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection. Organized by USC Fisher Museum of Art curator Ariadni A. Liokatis, the exhibition will be on view through February 8, 2009. Seven Decades of Collecting will showcasesome ofthe museum’s most prized possessions as well as recent acquisitions ranging from 16th century European paintings to 21st century Spanish and Latin American art. Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art traces over 70 years of collecting with art from the founding collection of Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, the Museum’s namesake and founder, and Armand Hammer. A selection of 16th& 17th c Italian and Dutch masterworks, 17th & 18th c European portraits...More The Impressionist Eye On View at Marmottan Monet Museum PARIS.- The Marmottan Monet Museum presents Monet, The Impressionist Eye, on view through February 15, 2009. The way in which the painter represents the world has been studied from many different angles: historical, cultural, social, religious, and particularly since the advent of modern art, from the point of view of the artist’s own psychology. The eye and its vision are a complex filter. When this filter...More Last Days to See Rembrandt: Painter of Stories at The Museo del Prado MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is about to close the exhibition Rembrandt: Painter of Stories. Among the great masters of northern European painting, Rembrandt (Leyden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669) is one of the least represented in Spanish collections, including that of the Prado, which only has one autograph work by the artist, Artemisia of 1634. For this reason the Museum has decided to ...More The Clark Exhibits Rarely Seen Italian Drawings From the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A magnificent group of rarely seen and unpublished sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Italian drawings will be highlighted in Drawn to Drama: Italian Works on Paper, 1500-1800, an exhibition on view the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on view through January 4, 2009. Selected from the Clark's impressive...More The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate Philippe de Montebello's 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the curators of the Museum organized an exhibition of approximately 300 of the more than 84,000 works of art acquired during his tenure. This unique project – The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, which will be on view in The ...More Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004 - A Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau BERLIN.-Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946–2004 - A Retrospective, on view through January 19, 2009. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the American star photographer Richard Avedon since his death in 2004. Many epoch-making and pioneering pictures are on show: the picture of the famous model Dovima,...More Time and Time Again: An Evening of Performance Art - The East Wing Collection LONDON.-Following the highly acclaimed East Wing opening night in January 2008, the collection celebrates its first anniversary with a re-launch party on 13th February 2009 presenting a rich and varied performance programme. This exclusive and innovative evening offers visitors the opportunity to interact with the exhibition at a new level and enjoy performances in often unconventional ways. ...More Museum Presents the First Retrospective Devoted to James Castle PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the art of James Castle (1899-1977), one of the most enigmatic and remarkable self-taught artists to emerge in the United States during the 20th...More Claudia Schwalb and Dick Sebastian at The Reading Room at the Hudson Park Library NEW YORK.- The Reading Room at the Hudson Park Library presents Claudia Schwalb and Dick Sebastian, on view through February 28, 2009. Animation in contemporary cartooning as well as in its theory behind Renaissance painting place the audience in an advantageous position. Whereas Minimalism is more about the worship of icons, a very good tool in teaching beginners, those ...More Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag at The Nevada Museum of Art RENO, NV.- The Nevada Museum of Art presents Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, on view through February 22, 2009. Arguably one of the most recognizable icons in the world today, the American flag has enjoyed a long history of graphic renderings and artistic re-interpretations. Although the Continental Congress agreed in 1777 that the United States flag should be comprised of stars and stripes in red, white, and blue, more than a ...More The Upper Belvedere Presents Intervention: Franz Kapfer VIENNA.-At the outermost edge of the ceiling fresco in the Marble Hall of the Upper Belvedere two Turkish slaves eke out their existence among allegories of princely virtues. The young Austrian artist Franz Kapfer positions large mirrors exactly underneath these pictures of lamentation and tyranny, on a floor covered with blood-red foil. A purist lattice structure rises up between the mirrors like an ...More Theaster Gates: Temple Exercises at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago CHICAGO.- A gallery is transformed into a temple-like environment where complex issues of race, spirituality, and aesthetics are confronted with the hope of unifying disparate communities. Chicago artist and urban planner Theaster Gates, Jr. merges visual and performance art at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago to stimulate and build communal and social interaction. Gates ...More Bruce Museum Presents That Liberty Shall Not Perish: World War I Posters GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, spotlights a recent gift with a patriotic theme that has been added to the Museum’s permanent collection in the new exhibition That Liberty Shall Not Perish: World War I Posters, on view through February 1, 2009. The show features eighteen original posters from the First World War, including those created for the four ...More New York-Based Installation Artist Explores 1960's at The Galleries at Moore PHILADELPHIA, PA.- InSights: Devon Dikeou - Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci is a mixed-media installation by New York-based artist, Devon Dikeou opens January 30, 2009 and runs through March 14, 2009 at the Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The artist will be present for an opening reception will be held Thursday, January 29 from 6 to 8 pm. Tiffany & Co. will ...More Whitney Museum of American Art To Present Elad Lassry: Three Films NEW YORK.- This winter, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the first solo New York museum exhibition of the work of Elad Lassry, a Los Angeles–based artist who works in photography and film. Curated by senior curatorial assistant Gary Carrion-Murayari, Elad Lassry: Three Films opens January 22, in the second-floor Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery....More

ArtDaily Newsletter, Friday, January 2, 2009

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Home   Best of Austria. An Art Collection Opens Today at Lentos Art Museum in Linz, Austria Egon Schiele, Double Portrait of Heinrich and Otto Benesch, 1913. Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. LINZ.- Lentos Art Museum presents Best of Austria. An Art Collection, on view through May 10, 2009. How does the Cultural Capital of Europe end up with an art collection commensurate with that title? That's easy: it gathers a collection. A capital city - even if it is only for one year - needs an art collection that corresponds to this status and the concomitant responsibility to represent the country. Yet how should this collection be acquired, if not by theft? Since that is not an option, the Lentos Art Museum and Linz 09 have gathered together a collection by requesting generous assistance to enable the Capital of Culture to fulfill its role appropriately. The results is that Austria's most excellent works of art that are capable of being borrowed or transported at all will be gathered together in the Capital of Culture Linz. Over thirty Austrian museums and prestigious collections, galleries, foundations...More Alexander Stoddart Announced as Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland EDINBURGH.- Alexander Stoddart was announced as Her Majesty's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland, one of only two posts for the arts in the Royal Household in Scotland. It is a lifetime appointment which recognises Mr Stoddart's outstanding contribution to Scotland's culture and demonstrates the high regard in which his work is held. Welcoming Her Majesty's approval of Scottish Ministers' recommendation Culture Minister Linda Fabiani said:...More The Jewish Museum Recaptures The Brilliance of a Vanguard Theater, Cut Short NEW YORK, NY.- During the artistic ferment following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, major artists joined actors, choreographers, writers, and musicians in creating a daring new theater. This collaboration gave rise to extraordinary productions with highly original stage designs that redefined the concept of theater itself, attracting large, diverse audiences and garnering international critical ...More Kunst Nu - Max Sudhues at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst GHENT.- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst presents Kunst Nu - Max Sudhues, on view through February 22, 2009. The installations created by Max Sudhues have an immediate charm because of their honesty and modesty. Observing his work means entering an environment that is both poetic and threatening, balancing on the verge of dreams and nightmares. In the tradition of the ‘collage’, he creates fantastic worlds where the original objects remain visible, ...More Winter Antiques Show Celebrates Its 55th Year As America's Most Prestigious Antiques Show NEW YORK.- The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 55th year as America's most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 75 exhibitors. This year, new specialists in 20th century Scandinavian furniture, American and European 20th ...More Van Gogh Museum Closes 2008 With Nearly 1.5 Million Visitors AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum welcomed 1,470,000 visitors in 2008. In addition to the permanent collection, the exhibitions John Everett Millais and 125 Favourites: Acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association proved to be major attractions. The latter exhibition (which runs until 18 January 2009) was particularly popular among Dutch visitors. Visitors - The Van Gogh Museum attracts a distinctively youthful public. Around ...More Per Hüttner Exhibition On View at Abecita Konstmuseum BORÅS, SWEDEN.- Abecita Konstmuseum presents a solo exhibition by Per Hüttner. The exhibition is the third incarnation of the artist’s ongoing project Democracy and Desire, where the content changes drastically for each venue where it is shown. It started as a photographic exhibition in Madrid in November 2006 and each photograph was accompanied by a drawing when it was shown in Stockholm in 2007....More Art Museum Display Recalls Golden Age of Mapmaking MYRTLE BEACH, SC.- Following the discovery of the New World in the 15th century, European mapmakers scrambled to document and map the new territories, using centuries-old technology. In contrast to today’s mass-produced, utilitarian maps, early European cartographers recruited renowned painters and miniaturists of their times who created maps that were truly works of art, richly colored and intricately decorated. ...More The Hammer Museum Presents Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting LOS ANGELES, CA.- Oranges and Sardines examines art through the eyes and minds of artists and is a testament to the persistence of the visual art object, particularly abstract painting. In this exhibition six contemporary abstract painters— Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool— were asked to select one or two of their recent paintings to be shown alongside works by other artists who have ...More Chris Dorosz' Life-Size Installation Floats New View of Sculpture SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is excited to present The Painted Room, a visually stimulating installation by San Francisco-based artist, Chris Dorosz. The exhibition runs through January 10th, 2009 in the ICA’s Focus Gallery. The Painted Room creates the illusion of a life-size living room suspended in space that oscillates between representation and abstraction. Comprised of colorful ...More Ulrich Lamsfub - Spielen & Wachsen at Galerie Max Hetzler BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler presents an exhibition of new works by Ulrich Lamsfuß. The Berlin-based artist Ulrich Lamsfuß reproduces in his paintings images found in a wide variety of media such as National Geographic, travel and fashion magazines, cinema or art related publications. Working his way across a feint pencil grid with a meticulous precision, his paintings contrast the sources on which they are based, momentary snapshots captured in a ...More City of Sydney Plans to Encourage Artists SYDNEY.- More than a dozen inner city venues could be given over to Sydney's artists under a City of Sydney plan to be considered by Council on Monday 15 December. Six sites in the City Centre and inner city suburbs could be made available for artist studios, rehearsal spaces and galleries by the end of 2009, with a further seven to be developed in the future. Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP said the City is committed to supporting Sydney's...More Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Appoints New Curator By Liam Otten Karen Butler, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant curator for collections at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. The appointment is effective January 2, 2009. Butler is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Matisse Studies at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, where she also serves as an adjunct lecturer in art history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary research ...More Jenny Morgan: Abrasions Opens at Like the Spice NEW YORK.- Like the Spice presents Jenny Morgan: Abrasions, a selection of the artist's recent figurative oil paintings, the artist's first solo show at Like the Spice and in New York. In her tensely psychological portraits, all depicting people close to the artist, Jenny Morgan scrapes and sands away the top layers of paint creating wounds that are at once repellant, humanizing and technically masterful. Like drilling down to the ...More Yoko Ono, William Wegman and Pablo Cano Donate Art MIAMI BEACH, FL.- ArtCenter/South Florida ("ACSF") proudly partners with curator and artist Carolina Salazar to present Love Cures, a contemporary charity art auction exhibition benefiting the advancement of neuroblastoma research. Fifty emerging and established artists including Yoko Ono, William Wegman, Elizabeth Peyton, Carlos Betancourt, Pablo Cano and Michele OkaDoner ...More

ArtDaily Newsletter, Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Home   Turner's Watercolours from the McNeill Bequest Opens at The National Gallery in Ireland Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), ‘A Shipwreck off Hastings ’, c.1825. Watercolour, 19 x 28cm. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland. DUBLIN.- In keeping with annual tradition, the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) will go on display in the National Gallery of Ireland from 1-31 January 2009. ...More Last Days to See Seeing the City: Sloan's New York at Reynolda House WINSTON SALEM, NC.- The Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York, a traveling exhibition focusing on John Sloan’s images of New York City in paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs to present an in-depth view of the artist’s years in the city and the city’s effect on his art. Far from ...More Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix to Open in January at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition is devoted to the activities of the experimental guitar band Sonic Youth, which profoundly influenced style in the music and art scene from its founding in 1981. This is shown by the numerous joint projects of the band with artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians, as well as by works of art that Sonic Youth has selected for the exhibition. The ...More Jeu de Paume to Open Robert Frank, a Foreign Look in January PARIS.- In his work Robert Frank (American, born in Switzerland in 1924) has developed a dialogue between photography and poetry, literature and painting, and created a language that both conveys subjective experience and continues the heritage of documentary photography....More The Photographs of Homer Page: The Guggenheim Year, New York, 1949-50 KANSAS CITY, MO.- Homer Page, a brilliant but nearly forgotten photographic talent, will be reintroduced to the public when The Photographs of Homer Page: The Guggenheim Year, New York, 1949-50 opens Feb. 14 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art....More Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Announces Two Exhibitions for 2009 DUSSELDORF.- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (K21) has announced that it will show two exhibitions in 2009. K21 will be showing the first European, solo exhibition in a museum by the Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo (born in 1963 in Havanna, Cuba, living and working in Los Angeles). Pardo, the designer of ...More Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? Opens January 10th at the Contemporary Jewish Museum SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- For his new one-man show, Bay Area performance icon Josh Kornbluth turns his attention to the subject of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's current exhibition, Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered and attempts to answer the question "Was Warhol good for the Jews?". In his ...More TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 to Open at George Eastman House ROCHESTER, NY.- Pictorialism was simultaneously a movement, a philosophy, an aesthetic,and a style, resulting in some of the most spectacular photoraphs in the history of the medium. This exhibition shows the rise of Pictorialismin the late 19th century from a desire to elevate photography to an art form equal to painting, drawing,and watercolor, and extends the historical period ...More Sotheby's to Sell Icon of American Craftsmanship: Captain Edward Allen Bombé Chest-on-Chest NEW YORK, NY.- On January 24, 2009 Sotheby’s will offer for sale The Important Captain Edward Allen Chippendale Carved and Figured Mahogany Bombé Chest-on-Chest, Probably Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1780 – one of only seven known American bombé chest-on-chests to survive. Newly discovered, never before published, and...More Emerging Artists and Photographers Present their Portfolios at Fotomuseum Winterthur ZURICH.- On the weekend of 23 to 25 January 2009 the third curated international portfolio viewing featuring young emerging European photographers will be held. As in the previous year, we have invited 42 photographers to present their work for two hours to the public and a selected team of experts. The participants have been chosen from among some 130 nominated photographers. ...More Death Counter Installed at Hiscox UK Headquarters, London LONDON.- DEATH COUNTER, a major new artwork by international artist Santiago Sierra will be unveiled on the façade of Hiscox insurers' UK Headquarters in the City of London. The giant LED sign documents the annual number of human deaths worldwide, from any cause, over the course of one year starting from zero on New Year's Eve....More Louis Cameron: Heineken Opens January 9 Saint Louis Art Museum SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the January 9, 2009 opening of Louis Cameron: Heineken, the sixteenth installation in the Museum's New Media Series. ...More Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest on View in Scotland EDINBURGH.- In keeping with a century-old tradition, New Year's Day at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh will be marked by the opening of the annual display of watercolours by J M W Turner (1775–1851). The thirty-eight works in the display were bequeathed in 1900 by Henry Vaughan, a London art collector ...More Stedelijk Museum is the Guest of the Nieuwe Kerk: Holy Inspiration - Religion and Spirituality in Modern Art AMSTERDAM.- World religions, particularly Christianity and Islam, are the subject of sometimes fierce debate at all levels of the global community. Religion is accordingly once more at the centre of public discussion. The exhibition Holy Inspiration. Religion and spirituality in modern art reflects this situation, with outstanding works from the collection of the ...More Contemporary Art Exhibition at BYU Museum of Art Invites Viewers to Rethink Household Objects PROVO, UT.- For most people a hanger is simply an object that can assist in wardrobe organization and wrinkle prevention. For Washington, D.C. based artist Dan Steinhilber, however, the hanger inspires contemplation: What is the essence of a hanger? How do hangers interact with each other? How can man-made hangers be manipulated to reflect natural phenomena?...More Artists Making Photographs to Open at the Whitney NEW YORK, NY.- Artists Making Photographs focuses on five major artists from the Whitney's collection – John Chamberlain, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol – all of whom are best known for their work in sculpture and painting, although they have each made significant works with a camera as well....More Bill Smith: Loop Web Closes January 4 at Saint Louis Art Museum SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the January 4, 2009 closing of Bill Smith: Loop Web, the fifteenth installation in the Museum's New Media Series....More Free Preschool Program Uncovers Stories in the Galleries of the Clark WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Get preschoolers off to a good start...with art (and have a lot of fun, too). The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Start with Art program is an exciting, free series for preschoolers and their parents on the second Saturday of each month through March. Special gallery talks and art ...More