Art & Artworks

Rivane Neuenschwander at Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden)

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Rivane Neuenschwander: At a Certain Distance Malmö Konsthall 11 September – 14 November 2010 In her poetic works the Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (born 1967) explores themes like communication, migration and consumption. She works primarily with installations, film and photography. Her art has a special sensitivity and is not always based on the visual but also on sound, smell and sensation. Related posts:

Julián Zugazagoitia: Director & CEO of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Julián Zugazagoitia begins his post Wednesday, Sept. 1, as the fifth Director & CEO of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. An international scholar, museum director and consultant, he has served for the past seven years as the Director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York. Related posts:

Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

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Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico Art Institute of Chicago September 16, 2010 - January 2, 2011 On September 16, 2010, Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the 1910 Revolution that led to the formation of its modern republic. In recognition of these significant anniversaries, the Art Institute of Chicago joins dozens of other cultural organizations around Chicago to participate in the citywide celebration Mexico 2010. Related posts:

Peter Fischli David Weiss at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan)

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:45:12 +0000

Peter Fischli, David Weiss 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art September 18 - December 25, 2010 Traveling through an endless tunnel of changing light and color. A rat and bear go out on the town and through art and philosophy offer insights into the absurdities of the human condition. Everyday items teeter, precariously balanced. Energy passes by a whisker from one piece of junk to another, in a series of seemingly impromptu chain reactions. Airport scenes from across the globe float alongside a panoramic selection of this world's doings, big and small, rendered in ninety or so pieces of clay. Related posts:

Leonard Baskin at Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, USA)

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Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr Delaware Art Museum September 26, 2010 – January 9, 2011 The Delaware Art Museum presents Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr., featuring more than 70 drawings, prints, sculptures, and books, on view September 26, 2010 – January 9, 2011. In the 1950s, Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) emerged as an important American artist. Placing the human figure at the center of his work, Baskin set himself against the abstraction and formalism that dominated art production and criticism at the time. Related posts:

Jitish Kallat at Art Institute of Chicago (USA)

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Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3 Art Institute of Chicago September 11, 2010 - January 2, 2011 This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museum's own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil. Public Notice 3 , a site-specific installation, brings together two key historical moments: the first Parliament of the World's Religions, opening on September 11, 1893, in what is now the museum's Fullerton Hall, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 108 years later, on that very date. Public Notice 3--the first major presentation of Kallat's work in an American museum--will be on view September 11, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Related posts:

Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Swiss)

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:37:36 +0000

Larry Sultan / Mike Mandel – Evidence Fotomuseum Winterthur 11.09.-14.11.2010 In 1977 Larry Sultan (1946-2009) and Mike Mandel (*1950) combed through thousands of photographs in the archives of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Departments of the Interior, the Stanford Research Institute and a few dozen other companies, administrations and educational institutions. They were looking for photographs taken specifically for maximum objectivity. They ended up selecting a series of photographs which they printed with great care in a limited edition, as if they were art prints, with the simple title Evidence on the cover. Related posts:

Stefan Burger at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur, Swiss)

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Stefan Burger – Under the Circumstances Fotomuseum Winterthur 11.09.-14.11.2010 We have a penchant for cladding, disguising, draping, varnishing and covering up – the crooked wall, the aging face, the leaking oil rig, the dented bodywork. We have a penchant for fixing the world around us to hide the way it came about, the way it evolved or the way it works, so that it can just sit before us to be appreciated and admired like a perfect, glistening box. Actions disappear in the outcome, cracks, defects and mistakes are concealed, spaces edited out. We like the outcome, the performance, the action, the event and the glamour – and we get rid of what’s in between, what’s absent, dull , the anticlimax, we wipe away everything we don’t want, tossing it into the real or virtual trashcan. Related posts:

Amy Martin at Cartoon Art Museum (San Francisco, USA)

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:44:12 +0000

Amy Martin: Small Press Spotlight Cartoon Art Museum September 18 – December 12, 2010 Beginning on September 18, 2010, the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press Spotlight will feature the art of Amy Martin. Amy Martin is a cartoonist from Chicago who now lives in San Francisco. She has been self-publishing comic books since 2004, and has completed twelve books. She is the creator of The Single Girls, Bachelor Girl, and The Girls Are Mighty Fine. Related posts:

Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art

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Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art Art Institute of Chicago September 25, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Over the past 45 years, Richard Gray, one of America's foremost modern and contemporary art dealers, and his wife, art historian and author Mary Lackritz Gray, have gathered a remarkable collection representing seven centuries of creativity. On September 25, 2010, the Art Institute of Chicago will present the first-ever exhibition of their collection. Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, on view through January 2, 2011, in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing (Galleries 124-127) of the museum, features 121 works from the 15th through the 21st centuries--from Francesco Salviati through Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney--and includes a generous promised gift of nine works to the museum's Department of Prints and Drawings. Related posts: