via www.artdaily.com on 7/22/09
| Following its Recent Rediscovery and Cleaning, Titian's 'Triumph of Love' Now on View |
 Titian and workshop, An Allegory of Prudence, About 1550-65. © National Gallery, London. |
July 22, 2009
Titian and workshop, An Allegory of Prudence,
Together into the Future
via www.artdaily.com on 7/22/09
Frankfurter Kunstverein Celebrates German Election Year with Exhibition
Michaela Schweiger, "Der Augenblick ", 2008. Filmstill © michaela schweiger / steph ketelhut 2008.
FRANKFURT.- Frankfurter Kunstverein presents the group exhibition "Together into the Future", relating to artistic investigations into the relationship between society and community, group and the individual. Thirteen artists and artist duos present works that are on the one hand concerned with aesthetics and the rhetoric of incorporation and, on the other, about forms of exclusion that occur therewith.
Research Centre for Material Digital Culture : Centre for Material Digital C...
via www.sussex.ac.uk on 7/22/09
Centre for Material Digital Culture
A DECADE after the first Internet boom and the parallel explosion of the connected fields of new media studies, techno-cultural studies, cyber-cultural studies, new medium studies, there is still much discussion of innovation, but there is also an understanding that the first moment of the new has passed. New media has a history, as well as present and future - and of course, it always did. Today, the dynamic of continuity and transformation intrinsic to the relationship between technology and culture can be drawn differently. Innovation continues. Technologists declare web 2.0; the stress shifts from the screen-world to the penetration of the real-world environment by pervasive and intimate forms of new media. New forms of new media continue to arrive; content develops and original modes of use, forms of association, ways of writing or thinking together, spring up. Continuity reasserts itself. Processes of remediation transform old media, but not beyond all recognition. Much remains of 'good old television' in the world of digital TV, the aesthetics of radio persist as it is delivered to us over the net or as a pod-cast, and the conventions and economy of the traditional cinematic apparatus translate into the world of DVD and digital screening in forms we recognize and find familiar. Even the truly innovative media forms, those springing up out of digital technology, now have substantial development histories, their own traditions, and increasingly their own conventions. These last are expressed in code, articulated in the physical architecture of new media networks, found in the dispositions or habitus of users, evident in the consolidation of various genres, and evident also in the contested but provisionally secured cultural capitals circulating around various new media formations.
July 20, 2009
The Video Vortex Reader
via creativity/machine by Jean on 10/11/08
The Video Vortex Reader is a new collection of critical essays on online video, edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer published by the Institute of Network Cultures. It has just been launched, and it's available for free download as a pdf!
July 19, 2009
A Graphic Master: Charles White
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
via Eye Level by Jeff on 7/14/09
Joann Moser, Senior Curator, wrote the following blog post about one of our recent acquisitions to American Art's collection.
Untitled, by Charles White, 1950, ink and graphite on paper, 29 3/4 x 20 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Julie Seitzman and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
It is rare that we have an opportunity to exhibit an artwork soon after the museum acquires it, so we are particularly excited about the drawing by Charles White featured at the entrance to our current exhibition Graphic Masters II—Untitled, (1950)—a recent addition to the American Art Museum's unparalleled collection of African American art.
Charles White (1918–1979) was a leading African American artist of the twentieth century and is best known for his masterful drawings. White grew up in poverty and faced special discrimination for his political affiliations. In searching for his pieces, we especially wanted to acquire a drawing that captured the anger and sense of displacement that fed the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.
In this intense composition, two figures stare out of a narrow window. The young girl cradles a large doll in her arms. The doll is missing a head, arms, and feet. The larger second figure is possibly an older brother, or perhaps her mother. The cramped space of this composition, made even more confined by the two horizontal planks across the window frame, creates a feeling of tension and claustrophobia. At what are the figures looking? What is their relationship? Why is the doll missing parts of its body? Do the two boards across the window simply confine the figures, or do they also represent the restrictions imposed on people of their race? This drawing is charged with ambiguities and possibilities and seems to express the anxieties of African American people in pre-civil rights days. The subject recalls another work in our collection, Fright, a watercolor by William H. Johnson, in which a family appears frightened by an unseen threat.
When we purchased this drawing by White, the gallery had named it Untitled (Two Children). As I studied it, I realized there seems to be a significant age difference between the two figures. Although the figure at the right could be an older sibling, I think it is the girl's mother. What do you think?
Explore the slide show for Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to see more images of artworks included in the exhibition. Go ahead and post here your thoughts on other pieces in the show.
First Exhibition Covering Entire Oeuvre of Herlinde Koelbl Opens in Berlin
via www.artdaily.com on 7/18/09
| First Exhibition Covering Entire Oeuvre of Herlinde Koelbl Opens in Berlin |
 Angela Merkel, Bonn, 1991 and 2006 © Herlinde Koelbl. |
Newark Museum Unveils Installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE
via www.artdaily.com on 7/18/09
| Newark Museum Unveils Installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE |
 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Party Time: Re-imagine America (2009), A Centennial Commission for The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, Courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery, London / James Cohan Gallery, New York. |
NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum, located in Newark, New Jersey, has commissioned a major site-specific installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare MBE to commemorate the Museum's Centennial. One of Shonibare's most ambitious works to date, Party Time: Re-imagine America is set in the mahogany-paneled dining room of the Ballantine House, the 1885 mansion and National Historic Landmark that is part of the Newark Museum campus, where it will be on view through January 3, 2010.
The Newark Museum's Christa Clarke, Curator of the Arts of Africa and Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, and Ulysses Grant Dietz, Senior Curator and Curator of the Decorative Arts are the co-curators of Party Time: Re-imagine America.
Shonibare's longtime exploration of Victorian-era culture finds full expression in this theatrical sculptural tableau, which imagines the scene of a late 19th century dinner party midway through a multi-course feast. Eight headless figures, dressed in period costume made from the artist's signature "Dutch wax" fabric, are seated around an elaborately set table as a servant appears bearing the main course, a large peacock with gilded beak served on a silver platter. The animated body language of the guests suggests a moment in which proper Victorian etiquette has begun to disintegrate, as an indulgent celebration of prosperity tips towards misbehavior and even debauchery. The scene references the rise of wealth and quest for refinement that accompanied industrialization in the United States, where the elaborate dinner party replaced the bare-minimum meal, becoming a celebratory "eating fest" for the social and economic ruling class.
July 18, 2009
The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three
via www.artdaily.com on 7/18/09
Carnegie Museum of Art Opens Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three
Charles 'Teenie' Harris, (American, 1908–1998), Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) lifting his mother Odessa Grady Clay, in room at Carlton House Hotel, 1963, black and white: Kodak safety film H: 4 in. x W: 5 in. (10.20 x 12.70 cm) Heinz Family Fund, 2001.35.7196
PITTSBURGH, PA.- In honor of the 101st birthday of the great chronicler of African American life in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art will pair classic photographs by Charles "Teenie" Harris with 50 prize-winning snapshots by children living in Pittsburgh neighborhoods today.
Exhibitions: Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Ar...
via americanart.si.edu on 7/18/09
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 19, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Watch our Graphic Masters II Exhibition Slide Show
Stuart Davis,Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Flushing, New York), 1938,gouache on paperboard,sheet: 14 3/4 x 22 1/8 in. (37.5 x 55.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum,Transfer from the United States Information Agency through the General Services Administration
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. These exceptional watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1920s to the 1960s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth will be featured in the exhibition. Joann Moser, senior curator for graphic arts, selected the artworks in Graphic Masters.
Eye Level: Looking at 1934: Lily Furedi's Subway
via eyelevel.si.edu on 7/18/09
Looking at 1934: Lily Furedi's Subway
June 18, 2009
In Lily Furedi's homage to the New York subway, part of the current exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists, I'm captivated mostly by the woman applying lipstick on the far left—so much that I want to create a narrative for her. Unlike most of the other women in the car, she doesn't wear a hat, but rather wears her hair in a style Martha Graham often wore, called "squash blossom." (Graham copied this style from American Indian women she met in the Southwest.) It also reminds me of Princess Leah at the same time. I wonder then, is the woman in the painting a dancer on her way to rehearsal, or perhaps a performance? This I do know: Martha Graham and her contemporaries were as much products of the times as were the visual artists represented in 1934. Dancers responded to the challenges of the day through movement, turning the art form on its head.
Employment of Negroes in Agriculture by Earle Richardson / American Art
"Richardson and fellow artist Malvin Gray Johnson planned to say more about the history and promise of black people in their mural series Negro Achievement, slated to be installed in the New York Public Library's 135th Street Branch, but neither young man lived long enough to complete the project."
1934: A New Deal for Artists
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via americanart.si.edu on 7/18/09
1934 Earle Richardson Born: New York, New York 1912 Died: New York, New York 1935 oil on canvas 48 x 32 1/8 in. (121.8 x 81.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.183 Smithsonian American Art Museum
1934 Earle Richardson Born: New York, New York 1912 Died: New York, New York 1935 oil on canvas 48 x 32 1/8 in. (121.8 x 81.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor 1964.1.183 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Love is perfect
The installation, Love is Perfect, is the joint project of photographer, Kelley Castro, and visualization artist and scientist, Santiago Ortiz
Castro's photographs of men from the set exteriors, shown below in the Flickr slide show, are exceptional studies in their own right.
Castro's photographs of men from the set exteriors, shown below in the Flickr slide show, are exceptional studies in their own right.
Major Painting by Nicholaos Gysis to Lead Sotheby's November Greek Sale in London
via www.artdaily.org on 7/17/09
| Major Painting by Nicholaos Gysis to Lead Sotheby's November Greek Sale in London |
 Nicholaos Gysis, The Fortune Teller, oil on canvas, estimate: €230,000-350,000. Photo: Sotheby's. |
Ceramic and Lithic Vestiges Located at Las Labradas, Sinaloa
via www.artdaily.org on 7/17/09
| Ceramic and Lithic Vestiges Located at Las Labradas, Sinaloa |
 During the development of the first excavation season at Las Labradas, specialists found fragments in 5 different points where small settlements must have been located, linked to Aztatlan Culture, which had Tolteca influence. |
Filmmaker Philip Haas Presents His New Films Commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum
via www.artdaily.org on 7/17/09
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| Filmmaker Philip Haas Presents His New Films Commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum |
 The young James Ensor at Mardi Gras, from the film installation Skeletons Warming Themselves. |
July 17, 2009
Opto-Isolator, 2007, Golan Levin with Greg Balthus.
via www.artdaily.com on 7/17/09
| Victoria & Albert Museum Announces Decode: Digital Design Sensations |
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Opto-Isolator, 2007, Golan Levin with Greg Balthus. Photo: John Berens, courtesy Bitforms Gallery nyc.
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"The Isolated Art of Michael Lee Ford."
via youbentmywookie.com on 7/17/09
Stay tuned to YouBentMyWookie in the next few days because we have a great feature interview on the way with Mike Drake, The Man behind Michael Lee Ford's new book, "The Isolated Art of Michael Lee Ford."
Michael Lee Ford is currently in a Texas prison serving a 35 year sentence for a 1989 robbery. After hearing of the death of his mother in 1996, Michael was inspired to created a sculpture of Christ. Being in prison with no art supplies he followed the immortal words of Theodore Roosevelt who said "Do what you can where you are with what you have" and developed a method of turning newspaper back into paper pulp and then sculpting with it.
Along with his sculpture, Michael has also created an amazing portfolio of drawings and sketches, many of which are captured in the new book of his Artwork: "The Isolated Art of Michael Lee Ford."
Artist Profile: AJ Fosik
via Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online by katie@juxtapoz.com on 7/2/09
AJ Fosik's latest solo show, There's Aliens in Our Midst, is now on display at San Francisco's White Walls gallery. If SF is a bit out of your reach, Kwality Media stopped by to chat with the artist behind these great 3D psychedelic creatures. Watch a video interview with AJ Fosik here...
Creative designs by Pierre Marly
via Design daily news by Mirko on 7/12/09
Pierre Marly is an art director and graphic designer working in Iceland, I've been quite impressed by his portfolio and his great use of photography as illustration. You can see some of his design work here and check out more of his work on his website.
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Creative designs by Pierre Marly
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via www.oberholtzer-creative.com on 7/15/09
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
A Farm in Zimbabwe by Beezy Bailey (2009)
via www.artdaily.org on 7/16/09
| Leading Artists Donate to "Art for Africa Auction" at Sotheby's London |
 A Farm in Zimbabwe by Beezy Bailey (2009). Estimate: £6,000-8,000. Photo: Africa Foundation/Sotheby's. |
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters ( Africa )
via www.artdaily.org on 7/16/09
Leading Artists Donate to "Art for Africa Auction" at Sotheby's London
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters ( Africa ) by Yinka Shonibare, Estimate: £20,000–30,000. © Yinka Shonibare. Photo: Sotheby's.
Flickr: TGKW
via www.flickr.com on 7/15/09
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Christie's Launches New iPhone Application
via www.artdaily.org on 7/16/09
Christie's Launches New iPhone Application Allowing Optimized Access to Website
View of the main landing page. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2009
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