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20.05.2010 19:53
Impressionist Masterpiece by Edouard Manet to Be Auctioned by Sotheby's
LONDON.- On June 22, 2010, in its evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London, Sotheby’s will offer a masterpiece by the father and a key figure of Impressionism, Edouard Manet: Self-Portrait with a Palette, estimated at £20–30 million*. Charles Moffett, Sotheby’s Executive Vice President and co-curator of the 1983 landmark Manet exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, describes the painting as “not only the greatest Manet portrait in private hands, but also one of the very greatest self-portraits in the entire canon of art history”.
20.05.2010 19:50
Media Artist Katrin Jakobsen Exhibits at ZKM Museum
KARLSRUHE, GERMANY - The exhibition “everything is going to be alright” comprises mixed-media installations, a photo series, and two videos on the current topic of child abuse. The France-based media artist, Katrin Jakobsen, born in Hamburg in 1958, explains that the idea for this project developed from one of the photo series she did for the Swedish magazine Elle in 2006 on UNICEF’s aid to HIV positive children in Thailand and Cambodia. On exhibition: May 8th through July 25th, 2010.
20.05.2010 19:47
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Patrick Graham ~ "Fact of the Matter"
Los Angeles, CA - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will present a major exhibition of monumental paintings and drawings by Patrick Graham, widely regarded as Ireland’s most important contemporary artist. “Patrick Graham - fact of the matter” will feature Graham’s most recent works and a number of the artist’s most iconic, large-scale paintings of the last 25 years. The exhibition will open May 22 with a reception from 6:00 to 9 p.m., with Patrick Graham in attendance, in a much anticipated Los Angeles appearance. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. On view 22 May through 31 July.
20.05.2010 19:41
Aaron Johnson and Barnaby Whitfield Solo at Irvine Contemporary
WASHINGTON, DC.- Irvine Contemporary is the result of an artistic friendship and a personal dialog about being artists intensely engaged in new directions for painting. Their paintings and mediums are to presents an exhibition of new paintings by Aaron Johnson and Barnaby Whitfield, Don’t Be Afraid, You’re Supposed to Be, on view through June 5. This extraordinary exhibition is very different and highly individuated--Johnson working with acrylics in a multi-layered reverse painting process, and Whitfield in pastels on paper--but they share important strategies and interests: setting up Romantic beauty and the grotesque as codependents, using eroticism and unrestrained, ambiguous sexuality as a way to connect the personal and the public, turning pop culture and art history inside out, and directly engaging the viewer’s gaze in seduction and recognition.
20.05.2010 19:37
The Smithsonian To Develop Haitian Cultural Recovery Project
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian is leading a team of cultural organizations to help the Haitian government assess, recover and restore Haiti’s cultural materials damaged by the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. A building in Port-au-Prince that once housed the United Nations Development Programme will be leased by the Smithsonian. The 7,500-square-foot, three-story building will serve as a temporary conservation site where objects retrieved from the rubble can be assessed, conserved and stored. It will also be the training center for Haitians who will be taking over this conservation effort in the future.
20.05.2010 19:22
Dutch Artist Piet van den Boog Solos at Mike Weiss Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents new large-scale works by Dutch artist Piet van den Boog. Influenced by Dutch painters Frans Hals and Vermeer, van den Boog evokes an array of emotion in the spectator by allowing him/her to be present in a profoundly intimate setting. In this new series of paintings, the artist illustrates the dichotomy that the human ability to make choices both affords us and denies us control over our lives. Heavily influenced by the writings of Sylvia Plath, the artist based these works on a passage from Plath’s 1963 novel in which a fig tree metaphorically describes the situation that we often find ourselves in when faced with difficult choices:
20.05.2010 18:38
Dutch Artist Lily van der Stokker To Exhibit at Tate St. Ives
CORNWALL, UK - Lily van der Stokker is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam and New York. Her bold, colourful works most often take the form of large-scale decorative wall drawings, and have a child-like innocence and an adolescent naivety. They deal, in a disarmingly unashamed and exuberant way, with ideas of beauty, love, relationships, family and the everyday. Despite, or perhaps because of, their apparent simplicity, van der Stokker’s works are often challenging and she has come to be seen as an increasingly important artist in the growing discourse of post-feminist practice. This show will be the largest exhibition of her work to date in the UK.
20.05.2010 18:33
Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection
DUBLIN.- An exhibition presenting artworks recently acquired for IMMA’s Collection, marking the first occasion that these works have been shown at the Museum as part of that Collection, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 19 May 2010. Collecting the New comprises some 42 works which have, for the most part, been acquired since 2005, through purchase, donation and loans. Twenty-six Irish and international artists are represented, including Amanda Coogan, Patrick Hall, Stefan Kürten, Catherine Lee, Janet Mullarney, Makiko Nakamura, Hughie O’Donoghue, and Susan Tiger. The exhibition reflects the Museum’s acquisition policy that the Collection should be firmly rooted in the present, concentrating on acquiring the work of living artists, but also accepting donations and loans of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from the 1940s onwards.
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