| Aperture Foundation announces dynamic first app: Merce Cunningham: 65 Years | | First exhibition worldwide by photographer Romney Müller-Westernhagen opens at Camera Work | | MoMA retrospective explores the avant-garde works by moving image artists The Quay Brothers | 
Screenshot from Merce Cunningham: 65 Years (Aperture and Cunningham Dance
Foundation 2012); Designer: Didier García, Developer: Larson Associates.
NEW YORK, NY.- Merce Cunningham: 65 Years is a dynamic multimedia app celebrating the unique legacy of the late choreographer, dancer, and artist. This invaluable primary resource offers a vibrant and comprehensive account of Merce Cunningham’s life and career, and serves as an important complement to the Cunningham Dance Foundation’s Legacy Plan, conceived to ensure the ongoing celebration and preservation of Cunningham’s lifetime of creative achievement. Cunningham’s own interest in engaging with technology was in itself a principal motivation for creating the interactive app, which marks Aperture Foundation’s first major venture into the world of digital publishing. Launched in conjunction with Aperture Foundation’s sixtieth anniversary and the centennial of John Cage’s ... More | | 
Wladimir Klitschko, post-fight, 2010. © Romney Müller-Westernhagen.
BERLIN.- Camera Work presents the first exhibition worldwide by photographer Romney Müller-Westernhagen from August 11, 2012. For the first time, the solo exhibition »Beyond Faces« offers insight into the work of the artist as a portrait photographer and shows a unique series in the context of contemporary portrait photography that features over 40 effortlessly aesthetic portraits of politicians, actors, artists, athletes as well as South African gang members among the varied motifs. From Frank-Walter Steinmeier, chairman of the parliamentary group of the German political party SPD, to a tattooed gang member from Cape Town, and from boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko to her husband, musician and actor, Marius Müller-Westernhagen. When ways of life differ, exterior characteristics and facades often determine how a person is seen by others, and photography becomes the only way to show a person’s pure »soul«. Romney& ... More | | 
The Comb [From the Museum of Sleep]. 1990. UK. Quay Brothers. Image courtesy of the filmmakers.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets, the first major retrospective encompassing the full range of work by the Quay Brothers, August 12, 2012–January 7, 2013. The identical twin brothers have labored together in their London studio, Atelier Koninck, for over 30 years, creating avant-garde stop-motion puppet animation, live-action films, and graphic design that challenge easy categorization. Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets presents the full scope of their achievements: animated and live-action films (including never-before-seen early work), puppets, décor, drawings, paintings, graphic projects, calligraphic works, and installations. The exhibition is organized by Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. As film- ... More |
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| Back by popular demand: Famed Dutch and Flemish masterpieces return to Peabody Essex Museum | | Leslie Sacks Fine Art opens an exhibition showcasing the most recent additions to the collection | | Jupiter Artland in Edinburgh unveils exciting line up of three artist commissions for 2012 | 
Barber, Surgeon Tending a Peasants Foot.
SALEM, MASS.- Following the tremendous public and critical acclaim of Peabody Essex Museum's 2011 exhibition, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, the museum once again exhibits works from the renowned Van Otterloo collection. Featuring 17th century paintings, Golden Light, Selections from the Van Otterloo Collection explores Dutch art and life in the 1600s through masterworks by Hendrick Avercamp, Frans Hals, Pieter Claesz, Jan Brueghel the Elder and notable others. Golden Light will be on view at PEM starting today and running through September 1, 2013. Over the last two decades, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo have assembled one of the world's best private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art. Superb in condition and impeccable in provenance, the Van Otterloo collection boasts exemplary paintings, furniture, and decorative arts from the Golden Age - an era of unsu ... More | | 
Marino Marini (1901-1980), Nudo, 1945. Ink, pastel and gouache on paper. Signed in ink lower right, 13 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood presents an exhibition showcasing the most recent additions to the gallery’s collection of works by modern and contemporary masters. Among the works featured in this final summer exhibition is a rare color etching with aquatint by California luminary Richard Diebenkorn entitled Touched Red from 1991. There has been a recent resurgence of attention, recognition and demand for Diebenkorn’s work following a blockbuster traveling exhibition of his acclaimed Ocean Park Series, which recently closed its West Coast leg at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach. Touched Red echoes the Ocean Park paintings, but brings the famous motif of the historic works into the more intimate space of the print through Diebenkorn’s mastery of etching and aquatint. Other important ... More | | 
Tania Kovats’ Rivers, a major new installation sited along the banks of the lake at Jupiter.
EDINBURGH.- Jupiter Artland announced newly commissioned installations by artists Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy and Tania Kovats. The 100-acre Jupiter Artland sees three spectacular site-specific commissions; Anya Gallaccio’s underground amethyst folly, Andy Goldsworthy’s challenging Coppice Room and Tania Kovats’ delicately presented Rivers. The site for each new work has been chosen by the artist and reflects Jupiter Artland’s commitment to commissioning new work by leading international artists. Currently living in Southern California, USA, Anya Gallaccio has returned to Scotland and her roots to install a contemporary amethyst folly in the grounds of Jupiter Artland. Light Shines Out of Me consists of a three-square-metre underground chamber entirely clad in amethyst crystals mined in Brazil and surrounded by a field of obsidian volcanic glass, collected by the artist in the northwestern Unite ... More |
| Painterly video animations of abstract and figurative scenes by Jacco Olivier on view at Artpace | | Summer series of exhibitions at Quint Contemporary features works by Kim MacConnel | | Small Skyscraper by artist Chris Burden towers over Pasadena, California | 
Jacco Olivier, Cycle, 2012. Installation view. Photo by Todd Johnson.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio presents its International Artists-in-Residence exhibition. New works by resident Jacco Olivier (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) are on view through September 23, 2012. The residents were selected by guest curator Sarah Lewis, an independent curator and historian. Jacco Olivier creates short, painterly video animations of abstract and figurative scenes depicted on series of small panels, photographed in stages of progress. Inspired by nature, domestic life, and the fluidity of paint, his dream-like videos fuse the traditional medium of painting with high-definition photography. While pieces such as Stumble (2009) depict a recognizable subject (a painterly beetle righting itself), other pieces such as Landscape (2010) employ a minimal sense of realism with a vague strip of land passing beneath a bird’s eye view. Regardless of subject matter, all of his animations highlight luscious brushst ... More | | 
Kim MacConnel, Untitled, 1973 (detail). Gouache on paper, 19-1/2" x 22-1/2" framed, 14" x 17" paper size© Kim MacConnel. Photo courtesy Quint Contemporary Art.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art announced a summer series of short exhibitions. A large portion of the gallery is under renovation and the gallery is using a portion of their space to introduce new artists, and showcase artists they have worked with in the past. The first exhibition, which opened July 21st focuses on new figurative paintings by Los Angeles-based artist John Millei. An abstract painter who up until recently had not used the figurative in his paintings, John Millei is now ready to explore painting built out of abstract marks that in the end come together to resemble a human head. The portraits are unrecognizable as any particular person and the colors do not relate to human flesh. Portraits of You are paintings that render the world metaphorically, in which scale is discontinuous, space is abstract, and ... More | | 
Chris Burden, Small Skyscraper (Quasi Legal Skyscraper), 2003. One Colorado installation shot in progress August 9, 2012. Photo: Gregory Michael Hernandez.
PASADENA, CA.- Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado, in Pasadena, California, present Small Skyscraper, a temporary, large-scale, outdoor sculpture by world-renowned artist Chris Burden. Small Skyscraper will be sited in the One Colorado Courtyard, located in Old Pasadena, and will be on display from August 11 - November 11, 2012. In conjunction with ArtNight Pasadena, a free, city-wide arts festival, a reception will take place on Friday, October 12th, from 6 -10pm. Generous funding of Small Skyscraper comes from One Colorado. Small Skyscraper is a sculpture as well as a prototype for a hypothetical dwelling. Described by Burden as “a modern-day log cabin,” Small Skyscraper represents a quasi-legal structure that exploits a loophole Burden discovered in the Los Angeles County building codes. This loophole, since closed, ... More |
| Steve Bandoma: New Work from Kinshasa on view at Jack Bell Gallery in London | | Jessica Rath's "take me to the apple breeder" opens at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York | | Exhibit at the National World War II Museum focuses on scientists' role in Holocaust | 
Bandoma, Out of Guantanamo (from wanted series), 2011. Collage on paper, 40x50cm.
LONDON.- Jack Bell Gallery presents a new series of works on paper by Congolese artist Bandoma, in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Bandoma describes his work as recycling found objects, appropriating imagery from contemporary advertising and magazines, in order ‘to breathe new life into them’. In his most recent series, the artist creates imagined portraits of the inhabitants of Congo’s sprawling capital Kinshasa. A shape shifting species of genetic mutations, his images are contemporary embodiments of traditional African gods and fetish objects. Bandoma combines acrylic, watercolour, felt-tip pen, ink, and collage, often on handmade paper to give these works a tangible energy. Splashes of paint and and bursts of colour add violence and urgency to his portraits. Inspired by the chaos of daily life and the fast moving media that make up Kinshasa’s street culture, the artist’s aesthetic approach and choice of materials reflect a dyna ... More | | 
Jessica’s sculptures, photographs and installations investigate intimate points at which human intervention has changed the course of the natural world.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery presents selections from take me to the apple breeder, a three-part project steeped in plant genetics. Edible fruits are not born of nature, but are cultural objects carefully preserved through grafting. Isolated from natural selection, their finely-tuned genetics geared to our consumption have created an Achilles’ heel in terms of their own survival. Resulting from visits to Cornell University’s agricultural research stations, the show reflects both the desire of Cornell’s apple curator Philip Forsline who has traveled the world to rescue fastdisappearing varieties, and the work of Dr. Susan Brown, one of only three apple breeders in the country inventing new apples for mass production. Rath’s porcelain sculptures allude to the odd forms and luminescent hues of little known and endangered varieties, while large- ... More | | 
Examples of faces based on real people that Nazi doctors and scientists used as a guide for creating their master race. AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Chris Granger.
By: Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP).- A National World War II Museum exhibit about the role scientists and doctors played in the Holocaust includes a drawing copied from a brochure. It shows a young, blindfolded couple at the edge of a jagged precipice. The German-language text says, "Don't go blindly into marriage!" The image is in a section of the display about mainstream ideas from which Adolf Hitler's twisted policies grew. Dr. Benjamin Sachs, dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine, said the exhibit shows "there was a slippery path toward the extermination program" and holds important lessons for today. The traveling U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit, "Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race," will be at the New Orleans museum through mid-October. ... More |
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 Parrish road show features two new artist's projects SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- The Parrish Road Show, an off-site creative summer series designed to bring together artists, visitors, and members of Long Island’s East End community, features new installations by East End artists Alice Hope and Jill Musnicki. East Hampton artist Alice Hope’s Under the Radar is now on view at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk through August 31. Composed of thousands of ferrite magnets, Hope’s installation is situated on a 120’ x 60’ asphalt pad adjacent to Camp Hero’s iconic radar tower. “Invisible and natural forces are my medium, with a particular fascination with magnetism and metal reactivity,” says Hope, who is known for her large scale installations with metals and magnets. She selected the Camp Hero site for the history of the radar tower, its obsolescent military architecture, and the “unseen forces” claimed by conspiracy theorists. Camp Hero State Park is ... More Margaret Evangeline's Sabachthani Why have Your Forsaken Me? to be published in November NEW YORK, NY.- On May 1, 2012, American artist Margaret Evangeline heard President Obama's speech broadcast live from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan projecting the end of a ten-year war. She listened with mixed reaction, knowing that the sense of jeopardy and urgency shared by families of serving soldiers was lacking in America's national collective consciousness. MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow attests to this in her book Drift, The Unmooring of American Military Power. In the words of New York Times media critic David Carr, we've become a nation "at peace with being at war." The Obama speech sealed Evangeline's resolve to finish a personal project that she had started in 2011 to relieve the constant emotional challenge of concern for her eldest son Michael, who was in his third deployment to Iraq. The project is a collaboration that linked Evangeline to soldiers on ... More AIPAD Photography Show New York announces 2013 Show Dates NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced that The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, will be held April 4-7, 2013, at the Park Avenue Armory. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. More than 70 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The 33rd edition of the show will commence with an opening night gala on April 3, 2013, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal services to low-income women. AIPAD has also announced the addition of a new member gallery, P·P·O·W based in New York . Founded in 1983, the ... More Dreams, Imagination and Reality: Seattle's Vrijmoet selected for the 5th Beijing International Art Biennale SEATTLE, WASH.- The theme of the 5th Beijing Biennale is “Future and Reality.” It challenges the selected artist to “reflect upon the crisis that exists now, promote the crisis [of] consciousness and social cultural responsibiltiy.” The Biennale intends to collect about 600 pieces of work (mainly painting and sculpture), whose focus is to show China and the world their portrayal of our current world problems and how the artists imagine the ideal future. Vrijmoet’s painting, Naked Snow Blower has been selected for exhibition. She is one of 16 American artists will be among the 261 artists exhibiting from 82 different countries. Vrijmoet will be traveling to Beijing for the opening in September and speaking at the symposium. Other American artists include Larry Poons, Sean Scully and Paul Pfeiffer, along with Thomas Daniel, Noah Daniel Smith Schenk, Elisabeth Condon, C. Michael Norton ... More Clark House opens Prabhakar Pachpute's "Canary in a Coalmine" exhibition MUMBAI.- Prabhakar Pachpute is often amazed and perplexed that his village now rests on a series of pillars - the land beneath carved hollow from excavation. These extraordinary murals in Clark House are potent expressions of Prabhakar's descents deep into the coal mines in Chandrapur, where his family has worked for three generations in one of the oldest mines in the country. They are acute observations of the lives of miners, and convey the sublime trauma of the mine's psycholoical impact on those who work in and those who live above the mines. Electric fittings within the walls, turn to symbols of power, of the source of electricity from thermal plants, and of a manager whose socket face and broad frame is fed by power. Thin wiry bodies with pin heads, in need of energy, walk in a slow line to work, clad in shorts and miners' shoes, shovel in hand. The exhibition’s title, taken ... More |
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