Art & Artworks

The PHI Centre: Montreal’s very own smart building for art

prnewswire — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:29 +0000

The PHI Centre: Montreal’s very own smart building for art MONTREAL, May 17, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Rumour has it the arts and creative world will soon have a new home. And it’s true! On June 1st, the PHI Centre will open in Old Montreal, at the corner of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul. The PHI Centre has everything artists and creators could wish for: exhibition spaces, cinema screening rooms, recording and editing facilities, a performance venue, and more. Established in a historic building dating back to 1861, the PHI Centre is yet another ... Related posts:

Hopper

ghibellini — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:50:18 +0000

Hopper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 12 June - 16 September 2012 The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Réunion des musées nationaux de France are presenting the exhibition Hopper to be shown first in Madrid then in Paris. It will bring together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by the US artist ever to be shown in Europe, with loans from major museums and institutions including the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in addition to various private collections and with a particularly generous loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The latter is sending 14 works from the Bequest of Josephine N. Hopper, the artist's wife. Related posts:

Sarkis Zabunyan

pivari — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:44:59 +0000

Sarkis Ballads Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2 June - 30 September 2012 The Submarine Wharf in Rotterdam’s docklands is currently undergoing a true transformation. The construction of the various monumental sculptures that make up Sarkis’ installation ‘Ballads’, commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Port of Rotterdam, is well under way. They include an 18-metre bell tower and a 16-meter lampshade in which a spotlight rises and falls to the rhythm of the artist’s breathing. Related posts:

Montréal Museums Day 2012

prnewswire — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:10:49 +0000

Montréal Museums Day 2012 The Board of Montréal Museum Directors invites everyone to its 26th Museum Open House, on the Promenade des Artistes in the Quartier des spectacles, on Sunday, May 27, 2012. MONTREAL, May 15, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – The Board of Montréal Museum Directors announces its eagerly awaited annual celebration: Montréal Museums Day (MMD), to be held on Sunday, May 27. Presented by QUEBECOR, in co-operation with the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), this 26th MMD will leave from the Promenade des Artistes in the Quartier des spectacles. Shuttle ... Related posts:

Marilyn Monroe Files at Blue Book Model Agency Recovered in the Netherlands 50 Years After her Death

prnewswire — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:34:37 +0000

Marilyn Monroe Files at Blue Book Model Agency Recovered in the Netherlands 50 Years After her Death THE HAGUE, the Netherlands, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – The files of the Blue Book Agency, Marilyn’s first model agency in Los Angeles, recovered in The Hague, the Netherlands. Miss Emmeline Snively, founder of the agency in 1939, discovered Marilyn Monroe (then Norma Jean Dougherty) in 1945 as a model. The files go all the way back from 1945 until 1969, the year that, as Miss Snively mentioned in a interview, “She put it away forever”. The ... Related posts:

Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960

pivari — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:49:59 +0000

Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum June 8–September 12, 2012 From June 8 to September 12, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960. Comprising approximately 100 works by nearly 70 artists, the exhibition explores international trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building opened in October 1959, when vanguard artists working in the United States and Europe pioneered such influential art forms as Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, and Art Informel. Related posts:

David Winthrop

ghibellini — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:02:21 +0000

First Major exhibition of David Winthrop’s Notebooks Master Drawings London 27 June – 5 July 2012 As part of this years Master Drawings London Day & Faber is holding the first major exhibition of drawings and notebooks by David Winthrop (1948), ex saxophonist of Supertramp and draughtsman. Related posts:

Jeff Wall – Photographs

ghibellini — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:11:46 +0000

JEFF WALL Photographs Art Gallery of Western Australia 26 May - 10 September 2012 Jeff Wall is recognised throughout the world as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together twenty-six mostly large-scale photographs to present an overview of his extraordinary achievements and features major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art form it is today. Related posts:

Christian Zanotto

pivari — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:26:16 +0000

AsAbaroK - Christian Zanotto's Personal Exhibition Red Stamp Art Gallery 20 April - 26 May 2012 Virtual artworks, through a photographic exposure process, condense themselves on gleaming crystal sheets, becoming mirrors in which, next to our reflected image, beautiful, perfect and smooth entities of elsewhere appear. Mysterious sacred and profane female figures, madonnas and virtual porn-stars configured as icons of power and luxury, hieratic goddesses of perversion and voluptuousness; an unknown language, covered by enigmas and soaked with magic. Related posts:

Christian Vogt – Today I’ve been you

Art Institute of Chicago has commissions Katharina Fritsch for a site-specific, sculptural installation

ghibellini — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:30:52 +0000

The Art Institute of Chicago has recently commissioned Katharina Fritsch for a site-specific, sculptural installation. The German artist's curious cast of characters--oversized versions of a hand, fern fronds, an apple, an egg, a human skull, St. Michael, and a Madonna, among others--will be on display on the Bluhm Family Terrace atop the museum's Modern Wing through October 28, 2012. These nine brightly colored sculptures, divided up into three distinct groups of works (1. Stilleben/1st Still Life, 3. Stilleben/3rd Still Life, and Apfel/Apple) , were produced between 2009 and 2012. Fritsch's fastidiously crafted objects--rendered in bronze, copper, plastic, and epoxy--offer visitors an alternative, perhaps unsettling, view of these often iconic forms. Related posts: