How well do you know your MoMA? It’s summer, so what better time to test your knowledge of collection works currently on view in the Sculpture Garden? 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, August 13), along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge.
And if you don’t already know, MoMA is open late the first T...
-- Possible duet: The financially troubled Washington National Opera is considering a merger with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. (The Wall Street Journal)-- Impass: Contract talks with Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians break down. (Detroit News)-- Master plan: Denver International Airport reveals designs by architect Santiago Calatrava for its redevelopment program. (Artdaily)-- Cancellation: Pop artist James Rosenquist has pulled out of his planned September show at Brandeis U...
Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery has a knack for drawing compelling artists to the Rocky Mountains. The current duel artist exhibition features Parson’s Educated and current Philadelphia resident AJ Fosik. Fosik’s 3-dimensional sculpture build from wood, paint, and found objects. The Animal formed through a series of symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns, the sculptures are at once figurative and hypnotic. Vibrant colors further embellish the pieces, adding to the rhythm.
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Published 30-Jul-10
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Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery has a knack for drawing compelling artists to the Rocky Mountains. The current duel artist exhibition features Parsons educated and current Philadelphia resident AJ Fosik. Fosik’s 3-dimensional sculpture build from wood, paint, and found objects. The Animal formed through a series of symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns, the sculptures are at once figurative and hypnotic. Vibrant colors further embellish the pieces, adding to the rhythm.
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Titian's art drinks in the air and light of his native city and breathes it out across the worldTitian is an artist who travels well. The very name we know him by in the English-speaking world, derived from Tiziano, is testament to his capacity to take root in cultures remote from his own. In his later life, he painted for export, sending paintings by ship from his native Venice to his employer, the Spanish king. Amazingly, he was on salary as a Habsburg court artist, paid lavishly first by Char...
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Published 30-Jul-10
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30 July – 29 AugMondays–Fridays (11am–6pm)Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm) @ Annroy Gallery
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NEW YORK, NY.- After a long awaited settlement regarding the Portrait of Wally, a 1912 oil painting by artist Egon Schiele, the painting will be on view to the public at the Museum of Jewish Heritage ? A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from July 29, 2010 through August 18, 2010 before it is placed on display at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. The Museum of Jewish Heritage was chosen to host the painting by the Bondi Jaray estate who wanted "a setting that would memorialize the suffering of s...
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Published 30-Jul-10
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LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition explores why artists have drawn over the centuries ? from copying other works to making life studies ? and the role of sketching in the creation of artworks. Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto 22 October 2010 to 2 May 2011 features 29 drawings from the Old Master collections of the Lady Lever and Walker Art Galleries. Works by some of the great Italian Renaissance and Northern European artists between 1500 and 1800 are used to examine the reasons for p...
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Published 30-Jul-10
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Every Friday, we try to make things easier for you by bringing you a roundup of events going on this weekend. If you're in the mood for a little night music this weekend, have a look at our Midweek Music Preview.
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Feel like showing off your cooking skills tonight? OZNZ is doing a crazy little potluck, where you bring a dish of food in exchange for... well, the company of friendly strangers, we suppose. Best tasting dish gets drink prizes. Get there in time for dinner at 7:30pm.
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