Sometimes the best shows are not on Manhattan, but not too far away. Like this show in the
Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase NY that’s on now. There are more than sixty works of art from America’s most inventive artists between late 1920s and early 1940s American Vanguards, a group including Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Adolph Gottlieb, combined their identities and shared aspirations by friendship. They had a new idea about what a painting or sculpture could be.

In the 1920s through 1940s, the enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886–1961) and his circle of New York artists, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine ideas of what painting and sculpture could be. They, along with others in Graham’s orbit, such as Jackson Pollock and David Smith, played a critical role in developing and defining American modernism.

American Vanguards showcases more than sixty works of art from this vital period that demonstrate the inter-connections, common sources, and shared stimuli among the members of Graham’s circle.

This exhibition, curated by notable scholars William C. Agee, Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin, will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by the Addison and Yale University Press. This critical reconsideration sheds new light on the New York School, Abstract Expressionism, and the vitality of American modernism between the two world wars.

The exhibit will be open from January 29–April 29, 2012. Neuberger Museum of Art is located just 45 min. from Manhattan (or 10 min from White Plains) on Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY.

Be sure to check out the museum’s associated programs. This is a great museum with lots of going-ons.

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The above books are the all-time favorites, while these here below are the latest books on O’Keeffe:

My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

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The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference is a dynamic, two-day event focused on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. For the first time, the Conference will be free and open to the public.

Six ninety-minute panel sessions will be held, covering such topics as the state of artists’ books criticism, new pedagogical approaches and audiences, artists’ books in Latin America, and samizdat as a model for radical distribution. This year’s keynote speaker is artist Tauba Auerbach, who will discuss artists’ books as a central part of her practice, including her recent oversized pop-up books.

The regular sessions will be followed on Friday, September 30, by an hour-long pecha kucha, or lightning round, in which invited guests will each present for five minutes, discussing one or more artists’ books, zines, or multiples; and on Saturday, October 1, by a reception and book launch for Adventures (see below), the new publication that benefits the conference.

The Conference is organized by the CABC Committee, a national group of art library professionals (listed below). Funding for the Conference is supported by generous donations from David Teiger and from Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons.

In conjunction with the Conference:

Adventures, a new publication to benefit the Conference

Bringing together language-based artworks, poetry, and image-text dialogues, Adventures will pay homage to assembling practices developed by mid-twentieth century artists’ periodicals. Adventures is edited by David Senior and will include contributions from Alejandro Cesarco, Eve Fowler, Dora Garcia, William E. Jones, MPA, Carl Pope, Scott Reeder, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, among many others. Artist and designer Aaron Flint Jamison coordinated production of the edition at YU, Portland, OR. Sales will support the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, which for the first time will offer free admission to all visitors. For more information, call (212) 925-0325 or write shannon@printedmatter.org.

Loose Leaf: Publications as Assemblage, related exhibition

Semina, the art and literary journal published by artist Wallace Berman from 1955–1964, will be proudly featured alongside a number of other assembled magazines from the 1960–70s as part of “Loose Leaf.” This special exhibition will examine an era during which the composition of printed matter was performed, transmitted, and scrambled, generating new possibilities for published artworks. “Loose Leaf” is organized by David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library.

CABC COMMITTEE:
Kate Adler
AA Bronson, NY Art Book Fair
Stephen Bury, Frick Art Reference Library
Matthew Carson, International Center for Photography Library
Deirdre Donohue, International Center for Photography Library
Ryan Evans, Museum of Modern Art Library
Ryan Haley, New York Public Library
Milan Hughston, Museum of Modern Art Library
Deirdre Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum Library
James Mitchell
Rachael Morrison, Museum of Modern Art Library
Faith Pleasanton
Sara Rubinow, Pratt Institute
Lori Salmon, Museum of Modern Art Library
David Senior, Museum of Modern Art Library
Jennifer Tobias, Museum of Modern Art Library
Tony White, Indiana University Library

About the NY Art Book Fair

Printed Matter, Inc. presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 30 to October 2, 2011, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty-one countries.

Hours

Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6 pm–9 pm
Friday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, October 1, 11 am–7 pm
Sunday, October 2, 11 am–7 pm

Printed Matter, Inc.

Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications.

Support

Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Morris B. and Edith S. Cartin Family Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The ERSTE Foundation, Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, Shapco Printing, Inc., the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals worldwide.

www.nyartbookfair.com/conference
www.printedmatter.org

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Contains interview video clips, commentary and visuals of Ansel Adams’ outstanding nature photography and source materials.

PART 1

Part 2 of this series will be published Wednesday.

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Adams always had a eye for the extra-ordinary in nature.  His photography of the Yosemite National Park and natural reserves in and around California is breathtaking. He received his first camera, a Kodak Brownie box camera, at age 16 on his first trip to Yosemite, an event which changed his life forever.

Moon and Half Dome, Yosem… Ansel Adams Buy From Art.com

It is also well-known that Ansel Adams was one fo the greatest environmentalists of the twentieth century. By exhibiting & publishing his art and writings, his presidency over the Sierra Club, Ansel Adams effectively advocated the preservation of America’s wilderness.

Ansel Adams Books

However, besides being a fantastic photographer and an environmentalist, Ansel Adams also was a great teacher of his art.   He did the whole gamet: wrote series of instructional books, taught photography workshops and college classes, and was involved in research. At first, Adams published essays in photography magazines. Then in 1935, he wrote his first instructional book ‘Making a photograph: An introduction to photography. ’. This is now a ‘rare’,photography ‘how to’- book.

Another well-known book by Ansel Adams is ‘The Camera‘. It is a photography classic, which is illustrated with some of the most welll-known photos by Adams.  A second book is called ‘The Print’. And a third instructional manual is called The Negative‘. These three books form the core of the legendary series of technical instructional manuals, first published by And Adams in the early 1950s.

Ansel Adams Workshops & Classes

In 1940 he began teaching a series of workshops, which then evolved into the annual photography workshops he led in Yosemite – Carmel from 1955 to1984.  He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. There is well known for his work in codifying a method for negative and print exposure, called the Zone System. The zone system is still taught today at the institute and beyond, amongst others as the basis for intuitive photography.

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1. MA Curatorial & Critical Studies;  Frankfurt, Germany

2. Gwangji Bienanale Int’l Curator Course, China

3. MFA Graduate Programs, Maryland Institute College of Art, US

The opportunities to study art are as diverse as art itself.

::  Details   ::

1. Goethe University Frankfurt / The State Academy of Fine Arts – Staedelschule

Two-year Master of Arts Program by Goethe University Frankfurt and the State Academy of Fine Arts – Staedelschule – in cooperation with Staedel Museum, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, the MMK Museum fuer Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, the Historisches Museum Frankfurt and the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt am  Main

Start: Winter Semester (Wintersemester) 2011/12

Application deadline: May 31, 2011
www.kuratierenundkritik.net

Master of Arts Program in Curatorial and Critical Studies

Conception:

The main focus of this Master of Arts Program Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik is the scholarly examination of the complex tasks of curating and art criticism, with an emphasis on their theoretical and practical application. It is the aim of this program to combine an object-related approach with theoretical expertise. While other programs have primarily focused on contemporary art, here the examination of curating and art criticism includes earlier periods and different fields of cultural studies as well.

In a globalized art world, and in response to developments within contemporary art, the presentation of art and art historical objects has become a complex challenge, which necessitates the consideration of art historical as well as cultural, social, political and philosophical aspects. Museums and other art institutions have to face the task of rephrasing the notion of the public realm. The repercussions apply not only to institutions directly involved with contemporary art. In fact, the shift is as fundamental as to be of concern to the operations of traditional art historical, ethnological and historical collections.

Program description:

The Master’s study program provides prospective curators, exhibition organizers and art critics with a theoretical and practical basis for their future occupation. Already during their master’s program, students have the opportunity to combine academic expertise with curatorial skills and practical knowledge. The Frankfurt program of study features a cooperation—unique in Germany—of committed university departments, outstanding museums and an internationally renowned academy of fine arts.

Program structure:

During the first year students are in constant contact with the cooperating museums. University seminars provide an opportunity for the participants to extend their expertise. Furthermore, criteria and categories of art criticism as well as academic principles of art theory and aesthetics will be discussed.

A course module on the history of the museum and exhibitions complements the program. A two-month-long internship, preferably resulting in the collaboration on an exhibition project, offers insight into the curatorial departments of a museum or exhibition institution. Fundamental to the second year is the development of the master’s thesis, and in-depth work on object-related approaches combined with theoretical inquiry.

Exams:

The master’s thesis consists of the theoretical and methodical substantiation of a curatorial and critical project, yet there is no set format. A scholarly text is obligatory in each case. One part of the master’s thesis may be submitted in a different format, for example an exhibition concept or a documentation of an exhibition.

The degree "Master of Arts" (MA) is being jointly awarded by Goethe-University and the Staedelschule; respective competencies acquired will be certified by a "Diploma supplement".

The Master of Arts Program Curatorial Studies – Theorie –Geschichte –Kritik creates the opportunity for admission to a subject-specific doctorate.

Teaching Staff and Lecturers:

Staff includes university teachers at Goethe-University and the Staedelschule as well as directors and curators of the Staedel Museum, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, the MMK Museum fuer Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, the Museum der Weltkulturen and the Portikus. Additional experts will be brought in for individual events and projects. The program is taught in German and English. Proficiency in English is expected.

Number of Students:

Annual admission of between 12 and 15 students ensures a small and intensive research experience in specially arranged seminars and events.

Application requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree with a minimum of 6 semesters, with at least 120 CPs in art history, archaeology, art education, philosophy, ethnology or history. Fine art graduates may also apply.

Applications must be sent in by August 31, 2010 (postmark), and include a single-page statement of purpose (SoP), résumé (CV) as well as copies of relevant certificates, to the following address:

Kunstgeschichtliches Institut der Goethe-Universitaet, Studiengang Curatorial Studies – Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik, Senckenberganlage 31, 60325 Frankfurt. Please also send your application via email to the following address: kuratierenundkritik@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de. Further information on the program and the application process is available on our website.

2.

Gwangju Biennale

Call for Applications: The 3rd Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course

August 8–September 3, 2011

Application deadline: May 17, 2011

http://www.gb.or.kr

? Hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation & the Metropolitan City of Gwangju
? Chaired by Yongwoo Lee (Executive Vice President, Gwangju Biennale)
? Directed by Co-Directors, 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale (Ai Weiwei, Seung H-sang) 
Co-Artistic Directors, 2012 Gwangju Biennale (Nancy Adajania, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Mami Kataoka, Sunjung Kim, Carol Yinghua Lu)
? Visiting Professor: Ute Meta Bauer (Associate Professor & Director of Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning)
? Sponsored by Chosun University

The Gwangju Biennale hosts its third edition of International Curator Course. The course, which has attracted much attention from young curators across the globe since its inception in 2009, takes place in parallel with the Gwangju Biennale and the Gwangju Design Biennale.

The visiting professor for this year’s course will be Ute Meta Bauer, an internationally acclaimed curator and professor at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. She was co-curator of Documenta11 (2002), artistic director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), and founding director of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (2002–2005.) Her exhibitions include Architectures of Discourse at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona (2001), First Story – Women Building / New Narratives for 21 Century, a main exhibition for the European Cultural Capital Porto 2001 and the Mobile_Transborder Archive for InSite05, Tijuana /San Diego. Most recently she served as the director of SITAC VI What’s left…What remains? SITAC VI (Mexico City 2008.) The first visiting professor was Barbara Vanderlinden, founder and artistic director of the Brussels Biennial, followed by Dan Cameron, artistic director of Prospect New Orleans Biennial.

This year, the course will include practice in preparation of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, which will start on September 2. The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today’s market-led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

The course consists of special lectures by visiting professor Bauer along with discussions and practices under the guidance of artistic directors and curators of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale as well as 2012 Gwangju Biennale. Co-Directors of 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale, Co-Artistic Directors of 2012 Gwangju Biennale, Prof. Maurizio Bortolotti of NABA, Milan, and Nader Tehrani, architect and Head of Department of Architecture at MIT who participates in 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale will join the lectures and seminars.

The course will be delivered in English. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the process of installation and preparation for the biennale as assistants of artistic directors and curators. They will make group presentations in the final week before guests including biennale participating artists and curators. Visits to museums, galleries, and artists’ studios in Gwangju and Seoul are also scheduled.

The Gwangju Biennale will grant tuition and accommodation to participants during the entire course in Gwangju. Participants will be responsible for their roundtrip airfares to Gwangju and living expenses during their stay in Gwangju. Since the course aims to give young curators opportunities to receive in-depth training, an age restriction has been set at 35 and under.

The application must include:

1. Application form (download from http:// www.gb.or.kr)
2. Curriculum Vitae
3. Motivational statement illustrating the applicant’s interests and explaining the reason for application (1,000 words max.)
4. A copy of the most relevant published texts and reports of realized curatorial projects.

Send your application by email: curatorcourse@gb.or.kr

3. Maryland Institute College of Art

Graduate Programs at MICA Provide Cutting-edge Approaches to Art & Design

New MPS in Information Visualization

http://www.mica.edu

For over a decade, MICA has created robust educational programs that balance fine arts with design and electronic arts. This trend continues as the college offers an expanded array of graduate offerings, launching six new and innovative programs in 2011. MICA is also developing additional programs for 2012, including a MPS in Information Visualization, the first professional degree of its kind offered by an art college.

New Graduate Programs at MICA

The MFA in Curatorial Practice, the first such MFA in the country, prepares students to expand the definition of the practice and bring new audiences to visual art through a variety of curatorial projects.

The MFA in Community Arts program allows artists to use their artmaking in support of community development and investigate the relationship of the citizen artist to community building.

MFA in Illustration Practice candidates elevate their artistic and business abilities, blend media within new cultural contexts, and integrate research and critical analysis into their work.

MA in Social Design candidates explore the belief that social change can happen through design by participating in collaborative projects supporting a range of community-defined objectives.

The unique MPS in the Business of Art and Design provides a comprehensive, highly concentrated education in business management specifically for artists, designers, and related professions.

The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Graphic Design offers students an intensive immersion in the practice, preparing them for advancing their careers and applying to competitive MFA programs.

In Development for 2012

The MPS in Information Visualization, the first such program offered by an art college, will allow artists and designers to translate their existing skills to the visualization industry and related fields. The program is designed for artists and designers as well as professionals in fields where the access to and management of large amounts of complex data through visualization is essential—including architecture, urban planning, homeland security, strategic planning, health, social networks and more.

Additional Graduate Programming at MICA

• Graphic Design (MFA)
• Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA)
• Mount Royal School of Art  (Multidisciplinary MFA)
• Photographic & Electronic Media (MFA)
• Rinehart School of Sculpture (MFA)
• Studio Art (Summer Low-Residency MFA)
• Art Education (Online/Low-Residency MA)
• Community Arts (MA)
• Teaching (MAT)

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts

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The Dalí’ Museum, A New Era

In line with Dali’s amazing sense of lines and space, the museum is an  amazing structure in about itself. The ceremony was symbolic of one of the surrealist’s works – and of the birth of a new era for the museum. The $35 million project, on the waterfront just south of Mahaffey Theatre, will contain 66,540-square-feet of exhibit and meeting space. The design features a glass sculpture that flows along the south side of the building. Architect Yann Weymouth said he tried to create an abstract expression of Dali’s style.

Dalí’ Museum Collection

With oils spanning from 1917 through 1970, the collection provides an excellent overview of Dalí’s major themes and symbols. Characterized by its diversity, it includes the Impressionist and Cubist styles of his early period, abstract work from his transition to Surrealism, the famous surrealist canvases for which he is best known, and examples of his preoccupation with religion and science during his classic period.

The 68,000 square feet structure houses the biggest collection of Salvador Dalí’s artwork outside Spain:

a. 2140 pieces of Dalí’s work

    b. 96 oil paintings

    c. Eight master works (measuring over 5′)

It is already called one of the most acclaimed collections of a single modern artist in the world.  The core collection was donated by Cleveland industrialist, A. Reynolds Morse and his wife Eleanor. It represents the culmination of a 45-year friendship between the Morses and Dalí and his wife, Gala. The old Dali museum first opened on March 7, 1982.

A Highlight-  The Curator’s Choice

Le désir hyperrationnel

1984

Pâte de verre and bronze 249/300

This most elegant of Dalí’s Surrealist objects, Le désir hyperrationnel (The hyperrational desire)- utilizes the Venus de Milo, the most famous antiquity in the Louvre. In 1936, Dali created the Venus de Milo with Drawers by cutting six drawers into the famous statue. By perforating the Venus, Dalí engages in the defacement of a classic symbol and demonstrates his preoccupation with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories.
Dalí’s later interpretations are based on his obsession with modern physics and contemporary scientific discoveries. In this new version, Venus’s head and abdomen are "dematerialized" from the body to an adjacent pedestal demonstrating the dissolution of gravity and the divisibility of matter.

Dalí’ Museum Mission

The Museum aims to regularly change exhibitions showcasing the large and varied permanent collection and frequently incorporate historical and contemporary art borrowed from top worldwide museums and collections. A specialized schedule of films, lectures, music series, adult and family friendly tours, and education programs for all ages are developed for each new exhibition.

Photo: HOK/Moris Moreno

The new Dali Museum Opening

Salvador Dali look-alike burst from a giant egg today as part of an elaborate groundbreaking for the city’s new Salvador Dali Museum.

photo/info: www.salvadordalimuseum.org

Reference:

Some of Dali’s Most Famous Works of Art

Dream Caused by the Fligh… Salvador Dali Buy From Art.com

Soft Watch at the Moment of First Exp… Salvador Dal?? Buy From Art.com

Rose Medidative, c.1958 Salvador Dal?? Buy From Art.com

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• Art and Design Education
• Fashion Design
• Film/Video and Photography

All three departments are located on Pratt’s historic 25-acre campus in the culturally rich and diverse neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. We seek exceptional applicants who will bring the experience necessary to assume the academic and administrative leadership of their respective departments, and the vision to build for the future. These administrative appointments carry a 12-month per year workload and a three-year contract that may be renewed.

Pratt provides one of the most comprehensive professional art and design educations available, supported by a distinguished faculty and exceptional technical and studio resources. Gifted students from across the United States and around the world collaborate and learn at Pratt, weaving creative energy and opportunity into an unmatched educational experience.

The faculty is composed of professional artists, designers, critics, historians, and practitioners, whose works, projects, and publications are recognized and respected around the world and whose ranks include numerous recipients of prestigious awards such as the Tiffany, Fulbright, and Guggenheim fellowships.
Two major objectives guide every department. The first is an emphasis on professional skills development. The school’s students gain the techniques, skills, methodology, and vocabulary required for success as productive artists, designers, and scholars.

The second objective—imperative so that professional expertise is not simply technical training—is development of the critical judgment and historical perspective needed to become a problem solver. Art and design history, melded with studies in the liberal arts and sciences, provide the context for stimulating intellectual and creative inquiry.

In addition to the outstanding curricula and faculty, the School of Art and Design offers a diverse range of degree offerings. Art and design programs are also enriched by Pratt’s distinguished professional programs in architecture and in information and library science, all within the broader cultural campus of New York City.

RESPONSIBILITIES of the chair will include oversight of budget and course scheduling; curriculum development, program reviews, and assessment; recruitment of faculty and students; participation in fundraising and development; and establishment of linkages with relevant professional organizations and leading practitioners.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Art and Design Education
We require an earned doctorate in a related field (ABD considered); at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience; and recognized standing in the field. Applicants must have proven achievement in publications and/or scholarship.

Fashion Design
We require a terminal degree in fashion design or its equivalent in a related field; at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience with the rank of associate or full professor; and recognized leadership in the field. Achievement in publications and/or scholarship is a plus.
Film/Video
Applicants must have proven professional achievement in the discipline of film/video. A record of film broadcasts and/or exhibitions is desirable; a record of publications and/or scholarship is a plus. We require a terminal degree or its equivalent in film, video or a related field; at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience with the rank of associate or full professor; and recognized standing in the field.

SALARY: Commensurate with experience and qualifications.

TO APPLY: Review of applications will continue until position is filled. Please submit your cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three professional references electronically to:

Chair Search Committee: Art and Design Education
EDChair@pratt.edu – Use subject line A&D Art & Design Education Chair
Chair Search Committee: Fashion Design
FDchair@pratt.edu – Use subject line: A&D Fashion Design Chair
Chair Search Committee: Film/Video
FVChair@pratt.edu – Use subject line A&D Film/Video Chair

PRATT INSTITUTE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND RECOGNIZES AND VALUES THE BENEFITS OF A DIVERSE WORKFORCE.

http://www.pratt.edu

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Last Saturday, November 13, 2010, the New Museum unveiled acclaimed German artist Isa Genzken’s first public artwork in the United States, installed on the façade of the Museum’s building on the Bowery. Standing twenty-eight feet tall, Genzken’s Rose
II (2007) is the second work to be presented as part of the New Museum’s ongoing Façade Sculpture Program since the building’s completion in December 2007. A crucial figure in Post-war contemporary art, Genzken is a sculptor whose work re-imagines architecture,
assemblage, and installation, giving form to new plastic environments and precarious structures. The artist represented Germany at the 2007 Venice Biennale and has shown her work in leading museums across Europe.

Part of original image by Naho Kubota

She was among a group of prominent international artists featured in the exhibition “Unmonumental,” the survey that inaugurated the New Museum’s SANAA building. Genzken’s first Rose was created in 1993 and reprised in 2007. The work can be seen as the culmination of a practice that explores the way we perceive objects and images through our senses; the implications of scale; and the integration of architecture, nature, and mass culture.

Although Genzken is a longtime resident of Berlin, she has had a forty-year love affair with New York City, which began when she first visited as a student. Looking back on
that experience, she commented, “To me, New York had a direct link with sculpture…(It) is a city of incredible stability and solidity.” The installation of Rose II can be seen as a tribute to a place Genzken continues to love. Rose II will remain on view through 2011. The New Museum Façade Sculpture Program is made possible by an endowment established by The
Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust. Rose II is on extended loan, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery, New York.

About the Artist

Isa Genzken’s diverse practice draws on the legacies of Constructivism and Minimalism and often involves a critical, open dialogue with Modernist architecture and contemporary visual and material culture.

Using plaster, cement, building samples, photographs, and bric-a-brac, Genzken creates architectonic structures that have been described as contemporary ruins. She further incorporates mirrors and other reflective surfaces to literally draw the viewer into her work. As part of her deep-set interest in urban space, she also arranges complex, and often disquieting, installations with mannequins, dolls, photographs, and an array of found objects.

Born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany, Isa Genzken studied fine arts and art history in Hamburg, Berlin, and Cologne before completing her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1977.

Genzken was the subject of a major retrospective in 2009, jointly organized by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. She represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and other notable solo exhibitions in the past decade include Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2008); the Camden Arts Center, London (2006); the Photographers Gallery, London (2005); the Kunsthalle Zürich (2003); and the Städtlische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich (2003).

Her work is included in the collections of many prominent institutions internationally, including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Genzken lives and works in Berlin.

Façade Sculpture Program at the New Museum

The first artwork for the Façade Sculpture Program was installed in December 2007. Ugo
Rondinone’s Hell, Yes! (2001), was unveiled on the façade to celebrate the opening of the New Museum’s first freestanding building at 235 Bowery. The sculpture quickly became such a pivotal part of the Museum’s new identity that it was acquired and donated to the New Museum by several museum trustees. The New Museum plans to reinstall Hell, Yes! in another location soon. The Façade Sculpture Program is made possible by an endowment established by The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust.

The New Museum

The New Museum is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to contemporary art. Founded in 1977, the New Museum was conceived as a center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists from around the world. From its beginnings as a one-room office on Hudson Street to the inauguration of its first freestanding, dedicated building on the Bowery designed by SANAA in 2007, the New Museum continues to be a hub of new art and new ideas and is a place of ongoing experimentation about what art and arts institutions can be in the twenty-first century.

source: newmuseum.org

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The life of Diego Velasquez

Art Books on Frida Kahlo

To celebrate her, may we suggest some excellent biographical and coffee-table art books on Frida Kahlo:

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