Posted: 29 May 2011 08:59 PM PDT  COLOGNE, GERMANY - The Kunsthaus Lempertz Photography Auction, with approximately 200 lots, offers a cross-section through the history of the medium: from the early daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints to classical modern, from the 'fotoform' group to contemporary works. One area of interest comes from, amongst others, the photography of the Bauhaus, with names such as Lucia Moholy (Lots 29–33, € 500–2.000), T. Lux Feininger (Lots 27/28, € 600/800) and Umbo (Lots 37–41, € 2.500/3.000) represented. |
Monday, 30 May 2011
Man Ray
Saturday, 28 May 2011
" Unconcerned but not Indifferent "
Posted: 27 May 2011 04:14 PM PDT
VThe Collection on Display
Posted: 27 May 2011 05:43 PM PDT
MONTREAL.- An exhibition that fills up all of the Musée’s galleries and showcases a hundred or so major works from the Collection along a circuit that is neither conventional nor linear - that is the unique experience MAC visitors can look forward to with Déjà – The Collection on Display. These works exemplifying the history and scope of the Collection have been carefully selected, out of the 7,600 pieces listed altogether in the museum’s inventory, by Josée Bélisle, curator of the exhibition and curator of the Musée Collection. In terms of scale, this is the largest space ever devoted to displaying the Collection. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents Déjà from May 26 to September 4.
Photo Interpretations of Classic Plays
Posted: 26 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT
New York.- The Hasted Kraeutler Gallery is pleased to present "De La Mar" a new series of photographs by Erwin Olaf based on eight classic plays and starring famous Dutch actors. The project was commissioned by the DeLaMar VandenEnde Foundation for the new De La Mar theater in Amsterdam. Erwin Olaf presents his interpretations of Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, Cyrano, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Sunshine Boys, Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters. "Erwin Olaf: De La Mar" is on view at Hasted Kraeutler's West 24th Street gallery until July 1st.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Major Photography Expositions
Posted: 23 May 2011 07:19 PM PDT
Monday, 23 May 2011
Jerry Uelsmann’s Photography
Posted: 22 May 2011 10:24 PM PDT
Gainesville, FL.- The first critical retrospective of American photographer Jerry Uelsmann’s work will open at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida on June 14, 2011. Jerry Uelsmann, known for his iconic, surreal style and his innovative composite printing techniques, has spent more than 50 years challenging and advocating for the acceptance of photography as an experimental art form. "The Mind’s Eye, 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann", organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts will feature 89 works from every phase of the artist’s wide-ranging career, including a selection of rare pieces that have never before been on public view. Additional works from the artist’s collection will be on view only during this leg of the exhibition, open through September 11.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
'Transoxiana Dreams'
Posted: 17 May 2011 06:50 PM PDT
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents 'Transoxiana Dreams', Kazakh artist Almagul Menlibayeva’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery from March 24 through May 14, 2011. Menlibayeva films mythological narratives placed and staged in the vast landscape of her native Kazakhstan ravaged by 60 years of Soviet occupation. She leads her audience to the brutally changed region of the Aral Sea where its indigenous people live in the Aralkum, the desert of a once thriving region now entirely devoid of water due to radical Soviet irrigation politics.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Visual vocabulary - Pae White
Posted: 15 May 2011 08:58 PM PDT
CHICAGO - The diverse work of Pae White engages art, architecture, and design to heighten the experience of site and context. Growing up in the “modernist mecca” of Southern California in the late 1960s and 1970s, White developed a visual vocabulary drawn from a variety of influences that range from consumer culture to “high” art—Eames furniture, Vera Neumann scarves, and Milton Glaser graphics, among them.
Tom Murray’s Photos from the Beatles Last Group Publicity Shoot
Posted: 16 May 2011 01:03 AM PDT
LONDON.- For almost 30 years, renowned photographer Tom Murray’s images from the Beatles last group publicity shoot were stored in the back of a drawer. And now for the first time ever, these rarely seen images will be available for public purchase on an international art site. Rock Paper Photo, which launches this week in New York, will be the most comprehensive online gallery of pop culture fine art photography.
Founded by Guy Oseary (Madonna’s manager) and with investment from Live Nation, the site deals exclusively in largely unpublished hand signed limited edition images.
Why Tom? Why These Photos? Here are some of the facts:
Tom Murray is a world-renowned photographer, having worked alongside some of the biggest names in fashion, music, art and even Royalty. His subjects include Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, HRH Princess Margaret, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren (just to name a few). He was the youngest photographer to ever be commissioned by the Royal Family
Tom had no idea that he would be shooting the Beatles on that legendary summer day in 1968. All he knew was that he was attending a publicity shoot for an unnamed rock and roll group.
The collection of photos from Tom’s impromptu and iconic shoot with the Beatles is known as “The Mad Day: Summer of ‘68” Consisting of the 23 best images taken during the shoot, each picture provides an intimate look at the Beatles and their individual personalities.
These images have been hailed by the media as some of the best photographs ever taken of the Beatles and have helped to raise over 6 million dollars for charities worldwide.
Tom was the first person to capture the death of John Lennon, 12 years before it happened! At one point during the shoot, John Lennon spontaneously dropped to the ground and decided to play dead. The whole incident was over in seconds, yet somehow captured by Tom. Years later, when Lennon was shot, Time Magazine considered this photo for its cover, yet ultimately deemed it too spooky.
All 23 images from the “Mad Day” series will be available for purchase on Rock Paper Photo. These signed and limited edition prints come in a 20 x 24 inch size and/or a 30 x 40 inch size. Tom Murray is an award-winning photographer whose work spans portraiture, theater, fashion, advertising, newspapers and magazines. He perfected his craft working for newspapers, becoming the head of photography for The Sunday Times Colour Magazine, London’s first Sunday magazine. He then worked alongside master photographers Helmut Newton and Lord Snowdon. At 25, he received a commission from the Royal Family, becoming the youngest person to receive this honor, and has since immortalized subjects such as Angelica Huston.
In the summer of 1968, Mr. Murray was invited to a publicity photo shoot for a popular rock and roll group by a fellow photographer. As it turned out, the band that they were shooting was The Beatles.
From two rolls of film, Mr. Murray kept 23 negatives which are considered the most important color photographs of the group from that period of their career. The impromptu shoot took Tom and the band on a mad dash around London; the collection of photographs has become known as The Mad Day: Summer Of ‘68.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world and has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers like GQ, Vogue, The New York Times, and The London Times.
Tom is a dedicated fund-raiser who now devotes much of his time to charities around the world and in his own community where he regularly donates to a local association for the blind. He began in 1969 when he photographed HRH Princess Margaret and chose to donate a portion of those earnings to her favorite charities. Since then, he has been involved with the Make a Wish Foundation (In the US, UK and Sweden), Project Angel Food, Friends in Need and the Caron Foundation, personally helping to raise over 2 million dollars. Through auctioning his prints for charities or donating them outright, he has raised an additional 6 million. Realizing the importance of local charities, wherever his work is exhibited, he generously donates a photographic print to a charity of the gallery’s choice.
A three time World Press Photo award winner, Tom has received numerous international awards for his work on newspaper and magazine assignments, theatre and advertising commissions as well as specialist portrait commissions in Europe, Africa and The United States of America.
Sunday, 15 May 2011
"8 Key Figures of China's New Generation of Artists"
Posted: 14 May 2011 06:12 PM PDT
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Karen Bystedt's Photograph Art of Hollywood Stars
Posted: 11 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT
'Flesh and the Color'
Posted: 11 May 2011 05:14 PM PDT
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
André Kertész
Posted: 10 May 2011 06:27 PM PDT
PORTLAND, MAINE.- André Kertész (1894–1985) is recognized as one of the world’s most significant and influential photographers. André Kertész: On Reading is a collection of 104 black-and-white photographs that highlight Kertész’s signature style of visual poetry and choreography in everyday life. The photographs were taken during a 50-year period, beginning in 1925. André Kertész: On Reading will be on view August 30 through November 16, 2008 at the Portland Museum of Art.
Comprehensive Retrospective of Yayoi Kusama
Posted: 10 May 2011 06:42 PM PDT
Madrid.- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presents a comprehensive retrospective monographic exhibition about Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama from May 11th through September 18th. It is organised in collaboration with Tate Modern, and it will offer a global vision of a career that spans six decades. For the Spanish public, this is the first chance to visit a large scale Kusama exhibition. She is considered to be the most famous living artist in Japan. After the show in Spain, the exhibition will travel to other main international art centres: the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum in New York. The exhibition on display at Museo Reina Sofía, curated by Frances Morris, Tate Modern’s Permanent Collections Curator (International Art), aims to show the width and profoundness of Kusama’s production, giving priority to the artist’s most intense moments of innovation through 150 pieces from her own collection, galleries and private collections, as well as some of the most important museums in the world: the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington), The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokio) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokio), among others.
The show takes the visitor in a journey through time to explore, in a series of “ambients”, Kusama’s body of work and her approach to different materials and techniques, drawing, painting, collage and assemblage, installation, film, performance, edition and design. “This exhibition in focused on the moments when she worked for the first time with specific languages that are reflected exactly as they were when they appeared and absorbed the artist’s creative energy”, says Frances Morris, curator of the exhibition. Amongst the main pieces on display, there is a selection of her first works on paper, rarely exhibited before; captivating series, less known, like the hallucinated photographic collage that she created when she went to Japan (1973); and also her most praised and significative projects, such as "Infinity Net" (1960–1970) and the "Accumulation Sculptures" (1960–1965).
The show also includes several large-scale installations like "I’m Here, But Nothing" (2000), or a new depiction of infinite space, in "Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life" (2011), a montage specifically designed for the occasion. Lastly, the exhibition will conclude documentarily with the projection of some of her most polemic performances, such as "Walking piece" or "Self-Obliteration", and a room devoted exclusively to graphic documentation, where there will be photographs, newspaper and magazine covers or posters of some of her exhibitions, that will help the visitor to contextualise the artist.
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, along with the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza forms the Madrid “golden triangle” of art museums. The Reina Sofia was originally built to house the city’s hospital between 1776 and 1781 and for the next 200 years, numerous additions and renovations were made and the hospital building narrowly escaped demolition several times. However, a Royal Decree in 1977 declared it to be a National Historic Monument and plans to turn the building into a new modern and contemporary art museum were drawn up. Architect Antonio Fernández Alba was commissioned to oversee the renovation and the Reina Sofia Art Center opened in April 1986, initially providing temporary exhibition galleries on the lower two floors only. Finishing touches were added by architects José Luis Iñíguez de Onzoño and Antonio Vázquez de Castro, along with the striking steel and glass external elevators, which gave the building its contemporary look. On 10 September 1992, their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia (after whom the museum is named) inaugurated the Permanent Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the building and collection were fully opened to the public.
In 2005, a spectacular extension, designed by Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel was officially opened. The new Nouvel buildings greatly increased the overall floor space by 60% (and the display space by 50%) giving the museum 84,048 square meters, including a 450 seat auditorium, temporary exhibition rooms, a friendly bar, restaurant, library and the museum shop. The permanent collection of the Reina Sofia came from the former Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo (MEAC), supplemented by new acquisitions and transfers from other museums, including amongst other works, the arrival of Pablo Picasso’s world-famous work, “Guernica” from the Prado. The Reina Sofia is mainly dedicated to Spanish art including excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Along with the MACBA in Barcelona, the Reina Sofia now gives Spain world-class museums of modern and contemporary art to rival the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Tate Modern in London and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.museoreinasofia.es
Monday, 9 May 2011
1000 Strip Off in Spencer Tunick Tribute to Artist LS Lowry
Posted: 08 May 2011 07:17 PM PDT
Manchester, UK - More than one thousand volunteers braved the cold and stripped naked. . in the name of art. People of all ages, shapes and sizes were photographed by Spencer Tunick at eight landmark locations across Salford and Manchester. The nude mass gathering was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Lowry arts centre, with the pictures set to form part of an exhibition at the venue later in the year.The New York artist has photographed thousands of nude volunteers across the world, most recently at the Sydney Opera House last month. But he chose chilly Salford and Manchester for his first multiple site installation after being inspired by the works of LS Lowry, who also captured crowds of people in public places . . albeit with their clothes on.
Photos By Paul Dubotzki
Posted: 08 May 2011 10:49 PM PDT  SYDNEY.- Recently discovered photographs of Australia’s little known internment camps operating during WWI, reveal how the internees created an extraordinary life behind the barbed wire. The photographs, of remarkable artistic quality, show groups of civilian detainees whose only crime was to be of German or Austrian descent. |
Robert Mapplethorpe Not Obscene in Japan
Posted: 07 May 2011 06:21 PM PDT  Tokyo, Japan - The Supreme Court of Japan on Tuesday overruled a 2003 Tokyo High Court decision and decided that “Mapplethorpe,” a book of erotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), did not violate obscenity laws, The Associated Press reported. The decision should pave the way for sale of the book in Japan for the first time in eight years.  |
Monday, 2 May 2011
Contemporary Korean Photography
Posted: 01 May 2011 07:12 PM PDT
NGV Features Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz
Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:51 PM PDT
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