| "Nomads and Networks" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery presents the artistic side of Iron Age nomadic life | | Five decades of paintings, watercolours, prints and drawings by John Bellany at Open Eye Gallery | | Berlin Art Week : A response to increasing competition among the world's art centres | 
Plaque of Standing Argali. Gold, Turquoise, Shilikty 3, Kurgan 82, 8th-7th C. BCE. H x W x D: 4.1 x 3.97 x .55 cm. Central State Museum, Almaty: KP 26860. Photo: © The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first U.S. exhibition devoted entirely to the nomadic culture of ancient Kazakhstan makes its Washington, D.C., debut yesterday at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan,” on view through Nov. 12, dispels the notion that nomadic societies were less developed than sedentary ones. More than 150 objects of gold, horn, precious gems, and organic materials, most excavated within the past 15 years, reveal a powerful and highly sophisticated culture with strategic migratory routes and active networks of communication and exchange. “The topic of nomads and ‘networkers’ has special relevance to Washington, D.C.,” said Alexander Nagel, curator of Ancient Near Eastern art at the Freer|Sackler. “Washingtonians are by nature nomads who are travelling through ... More | | 
John Bellany, Budapest Family, oil on canvas, 68 x 60 inches
EDINBURGH.- Exhibition of five decades of paintings, watercolours, prints and drawings by John Bellany preceding a major retrospective of his work at the Scottish National Gallery to celebrate his 70th birthday. John Bellany is the most influential Scottish painter since the war, re-establishing a native, figurative art at a time when Modernism and abstraction seemed invincible. Born at Port Seton in 1942 into a family of fishermen and boat builders and steeped in Calvinism as a child, his art is profoundly religious in its intimation of mortality and recognition of evil; facts reinforced in 1967 by a traumatic visit to the remains of the Buchenwald concentration camp. But Bellany's life voyage has proved every bit as perilous as the sea voyage of his ancestors. Throughout his career he has painted elemental allegories encompassing the complexities of the human condition and anchored in the rich poetry of the sea; but after moving to London in 1965 to study at the Royal College ... More | | 
Paul McCarthy, The Box, 1999. Mischtechnik, Holz, 594 x 1666 x 404 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof. © Paul McCarthy, Foto: Wolfgang Siesing.
BERLIN.- Berlin Art Week will be the new fall Art Highlight in 2012. Planned for the second week in September, from 11–16 September 2012, the event will provide a week that for many years was shaped by Art Forum with a new face, featuring privately organized fairs such as abc – art berlin contemporary, Preview Berlin Art Fair, Berlin's major institutions of contemporary art (Nationalgalerie, Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlinische Galerie, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein [n.b.k.], Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst [NGBK] e.V., c/o Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,and Akademie der Künste), and shows at hundreds of galleries, all with the support of the Senate Chancellery for Economics and the Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs. Berlin Art Week seeks to underscore the importance of the city as a centre for contemporary art with a platform that presents Berlin ... More |
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| Renovations and a new work by Grayson Perry add to Morris Gallery's rich tapestry | | Resident artist Mike Osborne's photographs on view at Artpace San Antonio | | Elmhurst Art Museum opens six rambunctious. full bodied and gregarious exhibitions | 
William Morris Gallery. Photo: © Oliver Dixon / Imagewise.
LONDON.- Spanning from wall to wall of the William Morris Gallery's new exhibition space, Grayson Perry's Walthamstow Tapestry is a magnificent sight: bold, rich and relevant. It’s the perfect match for a gallery whose recent renovations foreground Morris’s passion for textiles, significance in his local community, and influence on artists of future generations. In every room, the gallery teases out less well-known threads in Morris’s story with an easy curatorial touch, befitting the life of a man who believed the arts should be for everyone. His contemporaries knew him better as a writer than an artist, and the gallery explores his work with books at length, from the utopian novel News from Nowhere to his Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer – completed a few weeks before Morris’s death, and still considered one of the masterpieces of publishing. The new displays range in s ... More | | 
Mike Osborne, Floating Island, 2012. Installation detail. Photo by Todd Johnson.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced its International Artists-in-Residence exhibition. New works by resident Mike Osborne (Austin, Texas) are on view through September 23, 2012. The residents were selected by guest curator Sarah Lewis, an independent curator and historian. Combining a documentary style with sometimes cinematic qualities, Mike Osborne’s photographs capture the reality and fantasy of specific, sometimes charged places. Exploring subjects such as architecture, public space, landscape, and technology, his work reflects his interest in the perpetual flux of the contemporary world, which can be observed in projects such as Enter the Dragon (2006-2008) in Beijing, Taipei, and Shanghai, China; Underground (2009-10) in Stuttgart, Germany; and Floating Island (2012) in the Great Basin Desert in Wendover, Utah. At Artpace, Osborne continued work on Floating Island, a project he began during a recent resi ... More | | 
Billy Tokyo. The Girl With .... 2012.
ELMHURST, IL.- Call summer 2012 at Elmhurst Art Museum rambunctious. Full bodied. Maybe even, gregarious. Exquisite comic book drawings, the craziness of a dual-ego artist, larger-than life sculptures of people inlaid with a profusion of complex patterns--and a gallery of still, beseeching portraits--welcome your curious spirit. Michael Ferris Jr.'s large-scale sculptures of recycled wood take portraiture to an extreme. His figures, often of close friends and family, are massive; one torso measures more than five feet tall. Ferris' interest is in the balance of extremes; between the stoic and classical compositions of his sculpture and the tattoo-like patterns of painted wood on the clothing and flesh of each figure. As his process develops, Ferris' concentrates on infusing each portrait with genuine human presence. Billy Tokyo is John Dempsey. John Dempsey is Billy Tokyo. But you can call him Jack. John Dempsey's pa ... More |
| Italian man cleared of Auschwitz barbed wire theft after it was found in his luggage | | Project One Gallery presents an exhibition by Facebook's first resident artist | | Acclaimed art installation by Gordon Matta-Clark to address pollution problems in the midwest | 
Visitors from around the world pass under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei "Work Sets You Free" sign. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski.
WARSAW (AP).- Polish police say a 66-year-old Italian man has been released without charges after being questioned over the alleged theft of a piece of barbed wire from Auschwitz museum. Spokesman Mariusz Ciarka said the man was detained at Krakow airport Saturday after the wire was found in his luggage, but released after he led police to the area from where the 30-centimeter (1 foot) piece came. Ciarka said taking the wire from that particular area did not violate laws protecting the memorial of the German Nazi death camp. The area is not under protection and represents no special historic significance. The man said he had taken the wire as a memento to his father who died at Auschwitz. Some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, died at Auschwitz during World War II. ... More | | 
Jet Martinez was Facebook’s first resident artist, a respected public muralist, and director for the Clarion Alley Mural Project in San Francisco’s Mission district.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Project One Gallery presents “Microblast,” an exhibition of paintings by Jet Martinez and Kelly Ording, through September 29. Martinez and Ording, who live in Oakland with their two young children and have shared a studio for seven years, have each garnered individual acclaim for their strikingly vivid, intricately patterned public murals and studio art exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and around the world. “Microblast” is the couple’s first combined exhibit, reflecting a creative and personal bond between two artists whose work intersects and converges as they pursue similar themes, motifs, and interests. Kelly and Jet’s combined preoccupation with repetition of detail, vibrant use of color, and a juxtaposition of natural and geometric shapes results in a mesmerizing series of ... More | | 
Gordon Matta-Clark, Garbage Wall. Photo: Courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.
CHICAGO, IL.- Garbage sourced directly from the Chicago, Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers will be used to create a high-profile installation for the inaugural EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary/ Modern Art and Design, taking place at Navy Pier, September 20 - 23, 2012. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and gallerist Rhona Hoffman have worked to bring the late Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall to Chicago to highlight water pollution issues in the Midwest. The original Garbage Wall, constructed on the first Earth Day in April of 1970 at a public event in New York City, was deeply emblematic of the focus Matta-Clark placed on art, architecture, activism, and citizen engagement. For its Chicago reincarnation, the wall will highlight the Midwest’s troubling ... More |
| Converse/Dazed and the Whitechapel Gallery 2012 Emerging Artist Award shortlist announced | | Jonathan Ferrara Gallery showcases artists from the burgeoning St. Claude Arts District of New Orleans | | Manchester's Castlefield Gallery re-launches with an exhibition of new work by artist Dave Griffiths | 
Leslie Kulesh, No Fear, 4’x6’ Yarn Rug, 2010.
LONDON.- Once again this year, Dazed is partnering with Converse and the Whitechapel Gallery for the Emerging Artists Award, which offers a platform for emerging unrepresented artists under 35. The judging panel includes the Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and the Times Arts Commissioning Editor Nancy Durrant. The shortlist has now been chosen by the esteemed panel, and comprises 4 new talents: • Leslie Kulesh is a London based American artist whose work ranges from sculpture and installation to performance. She uses these mediums to address issues related to current events and popular culture. Recent work has included using television to satirize the fashion world’s adoption of green technology and politics, as well as address female representation through the HD reality show star. Kulesh’s practice capitalizes on pop aesthetics in order to locate the political just beneath the surface. • Myles Painter's recent shows ... More | | 
The St. Claude Arts District is a vibrant artist-driven group of exhibition spaces located in the St. Claude area of New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery announced the lineup of artists for the newest exhibition, St. Claude. The multi-media group exhibition showcases artists from the burgeoning St. Claude Arts District of New Orleans and opened in conjunction with the annual Whitney White Linen Night that drew over 50,000 art lovers to the New Orleans Arts District. The St. Claude Arts District is a vibrant artist-driven group of exhibition spaces located in the St. Claude area of New Orleans. Artist studios, collectives, cooperatives and performance spaces populate this area and offer some of the most innovative, experimental, and emerging art, taking place in New Orleans. Organic and grass roots, the spaces on St. Claude draw thousands to their monthly (second Saturday) openings. The spaces can run the gamut from very ... More | | 
Dave Griffiths, Babel Fiche, HD video, (film still), 2012.
MANCHESTER.- For its re-launch, Castlefield Gallery announced Babel Fiche, an exhibition of new work by artist Dave Griffiths for its annual solo exhibition Review. With the world in considerable political, economic and cultural flux and turmoil, there has been recent evidence of a return to interests in socio-political themes in contemporary visual art and the 3 main exhibitions for 2012/13 have been programmed under the overarching annual theme of World In Transition referencing these issues as points of departure. The Babel Fiche exhibition features two ambitious new works by Griffiths, Deep Field [The Photographic Universe] and the film Babel Fiche, developed from a Film and Video Umbrella commission and co-produced with Castlefield Gallery. For the past few years Griffiths’ work has involved the use of ‘cue-dots’, microdots and microfiche, exploring a fascination with what was conceived of as ... More |
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 You can afford these stories at the tunnerl this October by the West Harlem Art Fund NEW YORK, NY.- The West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF) has been selected to create a site specific installation for the Affordable Art Fair this fall at the Tunnel. WHAF will present Brooklyn based artist Iliana Emilia Garcia to create the installation “Story Piles”. According to Executive Director & Chief Curator Savona Bailey-McClain, “We are thrilled to be working with the Affordable Art Fair. Last year we were blessed to create an installation at Times Square and a summer long exhibition on Governor’s Island”. Story Piles is a sculpture built up using antique wooden chairs and life stories. The chairs are built up upon themselves and are intertwined. At the top of the pile, the chairs disperse, and a few are suspended from the ceiling. Each of the chairs represent one person’s life story. The stories are super imposed into the chairs, and people viewing the piece can choose to put their own stories ... More Newly installed hearing aid compatible technology makes Museum visit more enjoyable BELLEVUE, WA.- When over 36-million Americans of all ages are experiencing hearing loss, it's time for public spaces to take action and promote hearing accessibility. Bellevue Arts Museum, the Pacific Northwest's center for the exploration of art, craft and design, in partnership with Let's Loop Seattle, is one of the first public venues in Washington State to be doing just that. From now on, art lovers using a hearing aid will be "in the [hearing] loop" at Bellevue Arts Museum, thanks to the installation of an induction hearing loop in two key locations: at Guest Services, where Museum visitors are greeted, and the Auditorium, the Museum's main space for educational and community programs, such as its popular Free First Friday Lecture. A "hearing loop" is a simple copper cable installed around a room, which transmits sound from a microphone electromagnetically, directly to the hearing ... More New Installation by Glasgow-based artist Mick Peter on view at Collective's space in Edinburgh EDINBURGH.- Lying and Liars is a new installation created specifically for Collective's space by Glasgow-based artist Mick Peter. The exhibition title is derived from British novelist B.S. Johnson's idea that narrative fiction is a form of 'lying' and the show explores the conflict between storytelling and formal experimentation by mixing different sculptural and architectural idioms. As well as showing Johnson’s short film Paradigm in the project space there will also be a screening event, Lying and Liars on Film at the Filmhouse, Edinburgh on Friday 3 August. A range of Johnson's short films will be seen alongside films by experimental filmmakers and artists, which mix reflexive and experimental forms as ways of investigating the inadequacies of language. This festival exhibition may be Collective’s last in its present home. The gallery is moving from its long-term home on Cockburn Street ... More Salon des Artes at W.I.P. presents: The Battle of the Artists; a live artist "Game Show" NEW YORK, NY.- Every Wednesday, upscale gallery-lounge W.i.P: Work in Progress is organizing art events with original pieces from members of Con Artist Collective. This past Wednesday, W.I.P will kick off an ongoing artist competition called The Battle of the Artists from 10pm- 2am. The Battle of the Artists is similar to a game show format with two teams of artists competing for the better piece of artwork. Each team is provided with the same size empty canvas, a subject matter and the same amount of materials. Since this is a live show, artists also are provided with newspapers of the day and have to create collages and collaborations based on current events. Each team is assigned a unique hashtag on Twitter and guests are encouraged to take pictures or retweet their favorite team during the event. At a certain time, the team with the most retweets, or most tweets with that unique ... More |
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