| Postermania!: Handpicked gallery favorites on view at International Poster Gallery in Boston | | National Gallery of Ireland presents a programme of new displays from its Irish and European collections | | British Museum celebrates a year of generosity with gifts from button badges to Picasso | 
Arnold Skolnick, 3 Days of Peace & Music (Woodstock), 1969. Photo: Courtesy of International Poster Gallery.
BOSTON, MASS.- International Poster Gallery presents Postermania!: Handpicked Summer Favorites, a show and sale of original vintage posters chosen by the gallery’s knowledgeable staff. The term “Postermania” was originally coined during the Belle Epoque and refers to the poster fever that swept Paris during the 1890s. Fittingly, the gallery’s 19th annual summer exhibition features a diverse selection of posters by subject, genre and period, each selected by IPG staff members to reflect their individual tastes. Included are works by renowned poster artists like Edward Penfield and Roger Broders alongside lesser known, but remarkable staff favorites. Postermania! runs through September 3, 2012 at International Poster Gallery, 205 Newbury Street in Boston. The gallery is open daily from 10am – 6pm and Sunday from noon – 6pm. For additional information, please visit www.International ... More | | 
William Hogarth (1697-1764), The Reward of Cruelty, (Tom Nero ' s body is dissected after he has been hung). Photo © National Gallery of Ireland.
DUBLIN.- A varied programme of exhibitions and thematic displays from the National Gallery of Ireland’s collection will feature a more expansive representation of the Gallery’s holdings which have not been on public view for some time. The limited exhibition space available to the Gallery over the next two to three years due to the refurbishment of the historic complex at Merrion Square will be an opportunity to open up the permanent collection to a wider audience. Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland says: “the Gallery is committed to making more of its collection accessible to the public at a time when the historic Dargan and Milltown Wings are undergoing refurbishment for the next three years. Displaying a representation of the Gallery’s distinctive Irish collection, in addition to new thematic displays around the European collection, will be key in keeping the ... More | | 
Portrait of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, ambassador to England from the King of Barbary (Morocco), unknown artist, England, c. 1600. Oil on panel. © Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon (University of Birmingham.
LONDON.- The collection is the lifeblood of the Museum and in 2011/12 the BM was fortunate to be able to acquire a wide range of objects, from the large-scale to the humble, due to the unstinting generosity of individual donors, fundraising bodies and foundations. Acquisitions include: the funding from Hamish Parker to acquire a complete set of Picasso's Vollard Suite produced in the 1930s (currently drawing crowds to the Prints and Drawings gallery); an extraordinary set of 17th century private tokens from London which provided small change for local goods and services across the city; and the Museum's most recent acquisition – made just last week was a donation of a pin badge commemorating the visit of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the UK, which shows her as a modern saint ... More |
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| Jayson Musson finds inspiration in Coogi sweaters for new exhibition at Salon 94 | | New investigations in representational painting on view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash | | Chief Joseph war shirt fetches $877,500 at annual Coeur d'Alene Art Auction | 
Jayson Musson, An Invitation To Look Somewhere Else. Photo: Courtesy of Salon 94.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jayson Musson: One spring night in 2011, while combing the internet, I came across an image of a hooded sweater made by Coogi, an Australian clothing company. Coogi brand sweaters are commonly known for their vibrant textured knits and most commonly conjure a generational association with Bill Cosby as Clifford Huxtable on The Cosby Show, or the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. of Bed-Stuy, NY. As someone raised on rap music and its signifiers of status, Coogi sweaters always possessed a kind of peculiar allure - the garments revered as a status symbol. The thing I found most alluring about Coogi sweaters was how painterly they were. They seemingly lingered on the borders of gestural abstraction. I made the joke, "That Coogi looks like a Pollock". Over the course of the following weeks, I began collecting images of the sweaters, studying their composition. They seemed to defy the traditional logic of the textile, opting instead to appear spontaneous and created by han ... More | | 
Van Hanos, Lilly's Gaze, 2012. Oil on linen, 40 by 48 in. 101.6 by 121.9 cm. Photo: Courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces In plain sight, a summer group exhibition which explores new investigations in representational painting by New York based artists Anna Conway, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Van Hanos, Nancy de Holl, Timothy Hull, Andrew Kuo, Jeanette Mundt, Nolan Simon, Mamie Tinkler and Roger White. The exhibition is on view in the Chelsea Gallery from July 19 through August 17. In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the popularity of abstract painting by emerging artists, with figurative or representational work being seen as limited or overburdened. After all the rhetoric and debate surrounding the death of the medium, why would a contemporary artist still choose paint out of the endless options one has to capture reality? To wit, the role of a photograph at present can be as subjective as that of a painting– easily manipulated and made unreliable. To make new ... More | | 
By: Martin Griffith, Associated Press
RENO (AP).- A war shirt worn by Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce tribe that can be seen in a painting hanging in the Smithsonian Institution sold Saturday for $877,500 at auction, organizers said. Mike Overby, an organizer of the annual Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, said the shirt that sold in Reno is considered to be one of the most important Native American artifacts to ever come to auction. It had been expected to bring from $800,000 to $1.2 million at auction, he said. "Anything associated with Chief Joseph is highly desirable, and that's a pretty special shirt," he told The Associated Press. Chief Joseph wore the shirt in 1877 in the earliest known photo of him, and again while posing for a portrait by Cyrenius Hall in 1878. That painting, which was used for a U.S. postage stamp, hangs in the Smithsonian. The poncho-style war shirt was made of two soft skins, likely deerskin. It features beadwork with bold geometric designs and bright colors. Warriors kept such prestigious garme ... More |
| Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's exhibition of the work of Erik Parker focuses on his lyrical maps | | Frieze Foundation: Frieze Projects East opens six new public art projects as part of London 2012 Festival | | LACMA presents dual exhibition of California-based photographers Katy Grannan and Charlie White | 
Erik Parker, Texecuted, 2001. Hort Family Collection.
By: Mónica Ramírez-Montagut
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- Erik Parker bluntly sums up his choices: “It was either art or a life of vandalism…” Born in 1968 in Stuttgart, Germany, Parker grew up in Texas and speaks not a word of German, but plenty of Spanish. His father, a member of the US military, had been temporarily stationed in Stuttgart when Parker was born, and transferred to San Antonio in 1971. A pilot in the Vietnam War with the mission of picking up the wounded from the battlefields, his father had problems adjusting to family life when he returned from the war and left the service almost immediately. His mother then had problems adapting to this turn of events, which resulted in a divorce. Parker’s restless character and unruly demeanor made it impossible for him to comply with strict school regulations as a teenager. Instead of attending classes, he dedicated his time to skateboarding, going to live music ... More | | 
The projects are taking place in the six east London Host Boroughs.
LONDON.- Frieze Foundation announced that Frieze Projects East opened. Curated and produced by Frieze Foundation, Frieze Projects East is a series of six new public art projects that form part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. Frieze Projects East is Frieze Foundation’s first programme in public spaces. The artists that are taking part in Frieze Projects East are: Can Altay, Sarnath Banerjee, Anthea Hamilton & Nicholas Byrne, Gary Webb and Klaus Weber, as well as Ruth Ewan, the recipient of the CREATE art award. The series has been programmed by Frieze Foundation curator Sarah McCrory. The projects are taking place in the six east London Host Boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Barking & Dagenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest and will seek to engage both local audiences and visitors to the area. Frieze Projects East has been com ... More | | 
Katy Grannan, Anonymous, San Francisco, 2010. Pigment print, 41 1/8 x 31 1/8 in. © Katy Grannan, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Salon 94, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White, marking the first major museum exhibition to display the two photographers’ work in tandem. Grannan and White both employ portraiture to examine the fragility and resilience of individuality in a culture that has become increasingly enthralled by media representations of the ideal self. Through nearly seventy-five photos, as well as White’s video animation and a three-channel video installation by Grannan, this exhibition examines the complexity of the human condition and of modern subjectivity in particular. “Bringing together two disparate bodies of work by Grannan and White provides insight into how the traditional genre of portraiture is adapted to address ... More |
| Mori Art Museum Chief Curator Mami Kataoka announced as Walters Prize judge | | Movin' On, an interactive installation by Michelle Given, on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art | | Dayton Art Institute launches Superhero summer including animation art and memorabilia | 
Portrait of Mami Kataoka attached. Photo credit: Jennifer Yin.
AUCKLAND.- This week, the international judge for the Walters Prize 2012 is announced. Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, Japan, will decide the winner of New Zealand’s most prestigious award for contemporary art, the Walters Prize. Kataoka’s curatorial practice extends to projects the world over, including 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012) in South Korea, Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past (2012) at Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2012) at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. ‘We are honored that Mami Kataoka has agreed to judge this year’s prize. Mami brings a vast wealth of experience to the role, and her current work with Gwangju and the Hirshhorn are testimony to her truly international outlook as a contemporary curator. She is the only Walters judge who has previously traveled to New Zealand, and her close interest in contemporary art here is something I hope ... More | | 
Constructed with a 16 mm projector, family movies, a paper shredder, and a timer, viewers activate the projector to watch the footage from someone else’s vintage home movie, but in doing so, they are complicit in the destruction of the film.
EUGENE, ORE.- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has opened “Movin’ On,” an installation by artist Michelle Given that is contingent upon viewer participation. “Movin On” is on view in the Artist Project Space through Sunday, August 27, 2012. “Movin’ On” explores memory, nostalgia, and responsibility, according to the artist. “Your films hold once-in-a-lifetime moments you’ll never be able to recapture,” says Given. “Once destroyed, they cannot be replaced.” Constructed with a 16 mm projector, family movies, a paper shredder, and a timer, viewers activate the projector to watch the footage from someone else’s vintage home movie, but in doing so, they are complicit in the destruction of the film. Viewers must start the projector (timed to thirty second intervals) to see the old family movies, which then automatically go through a shredder. ... More | | 
Look Out for the Batman; 45 RPM record in printed, shaped cardboard cover, 1966. Synthetic Plastics Co.
DAYTON, OH.- It’s going to be a summer of epic proportions at The Dayton Art Institute – a Superhero Summer – when the museum “unmasks” the special exhibition, You Are My Superhero, on view through September 23. Organized by The Dayton Art Institute and curated by the museum’s Associate Director, Jane A. Black, You Are My Superhero explores the iconography of superheroes, and how contemporary artists use that imagery in their own bodies of work. Beginning with images that reflect the Golden Age of comics, the exhibition includes popular figures dating from the 1940s, showing how they have changed over the years. You Are My Superhero is presented with support from Patron Sponsor Premier Health Partners and Supporting Sponsor Tridec Technologies, LLC.You Are My Superhero includes animation art and memorabilia from the collection of Dr. Lawrence and Holley Thompson, original pa ... More |
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 Chris Salter presents a large installation of light and sound produced during his residency at LABoral GIJON.- North American artist and researcher Christopher Salter presents n-Polytope. Behaviours in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis, a large-scale audiovisual performance employing today’s existing technology to reinterpret the spectacular architectural environments imagined by the Greek architect and composer in the 1960s and 70s of the last century. n-Polytope. Behaviours in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting, lasers, sound, sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’ radical installations named “Polytopes” (from Greek poly, many and topos, space), the first of which premiered at Expo ‘67 in Montreal. Far ahead of their time and little known outside of artistic circles, Xenakis’ Polytopes are, however, a major landmark in the history of the audio-visual ... More Exhibition presents an important but rarely seen series by Lutz Bacher BERKELEY, CA.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Lutz Bacher / MATRIX 242. Now a leading figure in contemporary art, Bacher had her first BAM/PFA MATRIX exhibition in 1993. She has had recent solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and Kunstverein München and was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Many of Bacher’s works utilize found objects in unexpected ways. This series, Bien Hoa (2006–07), originated with a collection of Vietnam-era photographs discovered in a Berkeley salvage store. Large inkjet reproductions of the black-and-white pictures float above handwritten notes written on the backs of the original prints. A man, known only as Walter, stationed at Vietnam’s Bien Hoa Air Force Base in 1969, is both the author of the notes and, frequently, the subject of the photographs. Viewers find Walter posing at a military desk with his section chief, in an armed ... More Galeria Nara Roesler exhibits the work by Minas Gerais state native Cao Guimarães SAO PAULO.- Galeria Nara Roesler presents Cao Guimarães show â assatempo. Water is a symbol of rebirth and an element which contains and feeds the embryo “ was the focal point for Solange Farkas curating. Passatempo is a short inventory of the obsessions that get converted to poetry in Cao Guimarães work. The show follows the path of his work as he explores the relationship between man, object, and landscape. In the photo series Gambiarras, human presence is only assumed. In Paquerinhas, it is projected onto the ironic relationship between kites and fishing rods. In Limbo, it vanishes from the world altogether, leaving empty swings. And then we get to Otto, his most recent piece and the highlight of the show. Cao named the piece after his son, and describes it as a romance film. For 70 minutes, a person, a hitherto absent symbol, is on the ... More Statue of famed Penn St. coach Paterno taken down STATE COLLEGE, PA (AP).- The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant. Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students watching chanted, "We are Penn State." The university announced earlier Sunday that it was taking down the monument in the wake of an investigative report that found the late coach and three other top Penn State administrators concealed sex abuse claims against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Meanwhile, the NCAA said that that it would levy "corrective and punitive measures" against Penn State in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving ... More Artists to build leopard house and mansion for birds at National Trust NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.- Clumber was regarded as one of the finest non-Royal houses in England, an architectural jewel, beautifully set in 3,800 acres of parkland. Built around 1765 for the 2nd Duke of Newcastle it was from an age of huge, lavish house parties and vast wealth but due to its sheer scale the house became unsustainable and in August 1938 Clumber was demolished. Once the country seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, today Clumber’s 15 square kilometres of parkland, lake, gardens and woodland are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public, the estate also provides a haven for wildlife. Internationally acclaimed artists, London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson), will take the theme of ‘The lost house of Clumber’ and re-imagine it as a series of mansions for birds in a tree borne sculpture entitled Spontaneous City in the Cedar of Lebanon. They will build a ... More London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention LONDON (AP).- It's a safe bet that most of the 200 or so countries competing in the London Olympics are already represented in the British capital, one of the world's most multicultural cities. Yet one of London's oldest communities is trying not to get lost in the clamor. Cockneys have been proud residents of London's East End for centuries — and they want to make sure the world knows it. "I'm a Cockney and I'm proud to be one," said Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets, an inner-city London borough that stretches from the Tower of London, across the East End to the edge of the city's shiny new Olympic Park. Bangladesh-born and East End-bred, Rahman may not fit the traditional image of a Cockney, but he is calling for the Cockney dialect to be recognized as an official language of the borough, whose residents already speak 126 different tongues. Traditionally, a Cockney is anyone "born ... More |
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