Leading figures warn that cutting investment in the arts, which have thrived over the past decade, will affect economic recoveryArtists and arts chiefs from north-east England joined forces yesterday to warn of the dangerous impact of "deep or hasty" funding cuts.The north-east has been a cultural success story over the past decade, from the arrival of the Baltic for contemporary art and the Sage for music to theatrical success at Northern Stage and Live Theatre.Yesterday playwright Lee Hall, wh...
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GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a new work by renowned Argentinean artist and architect Tomás Saraceno. For 14 Billion (Working Title) Saraceno enlisted the aid of spider experts to create an oversized model of the web of the Latrodectus mactans (Black Widow) spider. This new work, previously unseen in the UK, opened at BALTIC on Saturday 17 July. Through his work Saraceno explores possible visions of a better world; his interest in architectural projects is part of this ...
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Published 18-Jul-10
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Several weeks ago, I made note of the KedsWhitney sneaker collection featuring the work of Jenny Holzer. The partnership also includes sponsorship of the Whitney Museum’s summer season (through September 2010). In this venture, KedsWhitney has taken over windows at the Bloomingdale’s flagship (59th and Lexington Ave, New York, NY), displaying both the sneakers and offering a special venue for live painting.
Through July 21, 2010, three MFA students – Jee Young Choi, Natalia Yovane and Erica Gre...
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Published 14-Jul-10
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Towards the end of his life, avant garde composer John Cage turned to visual art, using the same methods of random composition for his drawings and prints he used for his music. The results are strangely sereneIn 1950 John Cage, who by the age of 38 had acquired some notoriety as a percussion composer and pioneer of the "prepared piano", was presented with a small book by his new composition student Christian Wolff. The precocious 16-year-old, later a noted composer and political activist, was t...
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Published 09-Jul-10
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MONTREAL.- For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer?s work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities. In this exhibition, which centers on her work from the mid-1990s to the present, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty. Using language as her principal medium ? either printed on posters and T-shirts or scrolling on LED (light-emitting-diode) displays ? Jenny Holzer?s text-based art provides a range of opinions and voices while addressing the interplay...
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Published 04-Jul-10
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MONTREAL.- For more than thirty years,
Jenny
Holzer’s work has paired text and installation to examine personal and
social
realities. In this exhibition, which centers on her work from the
mid-1990s to
the present, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty. Using
language
as her principal medium – either printed on posters and T-shirts or
scrolling on
LED (light-emitting-diode) displays – Jenny Holzer’s text-based art
provides a
range of opinions and voices while addressing ...
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Published 04-Jul-10
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How well do you know your MoMA? Above are images of works from the MoMA collection that are currently on view throughout the Museum. If you think you can identify the artist and title of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—in two weeks (on Friday, July 16), along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.
ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE:?
So, where did everyone go last week? There we...
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Published 02-Jul-10
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© 2010 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.Photo: Attilio MaranzanoDHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art
June 30 – November 14, 2010
For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer's work has paired text and installation to examine personal and social realities. In this exhibition, which centers on her work from the mid-1990s to the present, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty. Using language as her principal medium – either printed on posters and T-shirts or scro...
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Published 29-Jun-10
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Published 27-Jun-10
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