Is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art suffering from Tut envy?
Since opening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16, 2005, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," the second coming of bling from the boy king's tomb, has played to some 5.5 million people in the United States and 1.1 million in London.
The Met was given first dibs on the show of 130 artifacts from Tut and other more powerful rulers from his lineage. But its leaders declined, back in 2004...
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM
Salwa Zeidan, gallerist and an organiser of the inaugural Abu Dhabi International Sculpture Symposium (ADISS), (25 February to 7 April 2010 at Zayed University) talks to Art Radar about the mission of ADISS, government sponsorship of the arts and her favourite Emirati sculptor.
Her gallery, the Salwa Zeidan Gallery. has collaborated with Zayed University to bring ADISS to Abu Dhabi. Its theme is “Bridging Societies Through the Language of Art,” and invol...
Robbie Cooper, BradfordRobbie Cooper hides video and still-photo cameras in TV and computer screens to watch the watchers. There's the flush and blush of the porno-viewer, the zombie stare of the horror fan, the enchanted wow of children's TV toddlers, the incredulous recoil of the unwilling witnesses of disastrous news. On the one hand, this is alarming, as Cooper demonstrates how our perceptions are mediated by technology, so removed from first-hand sensory contact. On the other hand, as I vie...
More on 'Exhibitions picks of the week' ›
Published 13-Mar-10
Source:
www.guardian.co.uk
In photographs and, more recently, films, Judy Fiskin has for more than 30 years looked into the deep, perhaps bottomless chasm between the art world and the rest of the world. Witty and poignant, her work succeeds in part because it never grants a privilege to one side over the other. She plainly lives in both, and the art world and the rest of the world are both revealed to be irrevocably nuts.
At Angles Gallery, "Guided Tour" is her latest film, an 11 1/2-minute journey through a p...
More on 'Art review: Judy Fiskin at Angles Gallery' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
feeds.latimes.com
Eight raucous and deftly handled new paintings by Michael Reafsnyder continue his delirious engagement with painterly hedonism. Drizzled, dribbled, smeared, scraped, scuffed and slippery swipes of bright, wet, acrylic color engulf the canvases like nontoxic spills. Inevitably, a small arc topped by a couple of little circles emerges somewhere in the boisterous field –Reafsnyder's signature take on a smiley face, squeezed directly from the paint tube.
Amid all the high-spirited energy at Wes...
More on 'Art review: Michael Reafsnyder at Western Project' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
feeds.latimes.com
Artist: Meredyth Sparks
Venue: Elizabeth Dee, New York
Exhibition Title: Extraction
Date: February 27 – April 10, 2010
Click here to view slideshow
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
Images courtesy of Elizabeth Dee, New York
Press Release:
Elizabeth Dee is pleased to present Extraction, an exhibition of new collages, sculpture and wall installations by Meredyth Sparks, her second solo-show at the gallery.
Using the docum...
More on 'Meredyth Sparks at Elizabeth Dee' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
feedproxy.google.com
This video shows an excerpt of the performance Strange Attractors by Aki Sasamoto at the Whitney Museum of American Art on the 26th February 2010. Aki Sasamoto’s contribution to the Whitney Biennial 2010 consists of the “careful arrangement of sculpturally altered found objects and insistent repetitions of performance that change and add to the feelings of the installation; the objects themselves provide guidance for the artist’ structured improvisation. Sasamoto demonstrates and develops a kal...
More on 'Aki Sasamoto: Strange Attractors / Performance / Whitney Biennial 2010' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
vernissage.tv
Ai Weiwei is first artist from Asia Pacific to create installation in Tate’s Turbine Hall
Ai Weiwei, Remembering 2009, 2009
Prominent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will be the next artist in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for the Unilever series (12 Oct 2010-25 Apr 2011). He will be the first artist from the Asia-Pacific region to undertake an installation there.
In the past year, Ai Weiwei has created the installations Remembering 2009, a memorial to schoolchildren who were victims in the 2008 Sic...
More on 'Ai Weiwei is next artist in Unilever Series at Tate Modern' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
artradarasia.wordpress.com
Michael Rakowitz?, Victory Arch, 2009?, plastic toys, books, wood, foam, plaster ?8’ x 18.5’. ?Installation view at Tate Modern?Courtesy of the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects.
Tate Modern, Level 2
January 22 - May 3, 2010
“The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one’s own,” the exhibition of works by Michael Rakowitz on view at the Tate Modern, explores the links between Western science fiction and military-industrial activities in Iraq during and after the period of Sa...
More on 'Michael Rakowitz: Star Wars Meets Saddam' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
artpulsemagazine.com
Transforming Tate Modern. Exterior view from the south, © Hayes Davidson and Herzog & de Meuron.
On January 6, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, launched the start of preparatory building works on the new Tate Modern development. The event took place in the oil tanks of the former power station from which the new building will rise. Two of the oil tanks will be retained as raw spaces for art and performance. Also underway is the installation of 185 piles that will strengthen the existing T...
More on 'Tate Transformation Underway' ›
Published 12-Mar-10
Source:
artpulsemagazine.com
You must be logged in to review