Author: Darko Topalski

LONDON.- An innovative art project developed by the
National Gallery is giving a group of stroke survivors the chance to get their
creative juices flowing. Ageing Creatively is an outreach
programme that aims to make it possible for people who may be isolated,
vulnerable or unable to visit the Gallery independently, to access and enjoy the
collection. During November, members of the Greenhill Aphasia Group
took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia
is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs
following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.

DUSSELDORF.- Running in parallel with the Per
Kirkeby show, Museum Kunst Palast is holding an exhibition of 83 paintings and
84 drawings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf (1735-1783). A number of
interesting parallels emerge from the simultaneous showing of the two artists.
After all, Wolf has been described by the Danish artist as one of his !old
favorites” and indeed as a “tip for insiders”. “Wolf is a painter of the lofty,
gentle, yet terrifying beauty of Switzerland. He penetrated more deeply into the
ice and snow of the Alps and their snow-clad peaks than any enthusiast or artist
before him.” (Karl Gottlob Küttner, 1786). On view 26 September through
10 January, 2010.

BREMEN.- Susanne M. Winterling works primarily in
film, collage and photography. The various media of the individual installations
developed for each of the exhibition contexts lead, altogether, to a
whole. Her works produce thereby a system of concrete references,
without resulting in the telling of a distinct story or following any clear
narrative threads. But instead, meaning emerges in a delicate weave of
references; narrative volatilizing and branching out. Literature, music, art,
architecture and in particular film history become artistic materials for
Winterling in just the same ways as everyday objects are staged in her works.
They can be of a porcelain cup from an erstwhile family manufacturer, a bird’s
feather that changes colour in differing light, the delicate flying fiery spikes
of a sparkler or of the historical inscription discovered at an exhibition site.
On exhibition at GAK through 7 February, 2010.

NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark exhibition on the
extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479
BCE ) will be on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 though June
13, 2010. “Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” will focus on the
teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly
synonymous with Chinese culture. Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius
and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls,
album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements,
wood-block prints and textiles. The works are on loan for the first time
in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius
Museum in his hometown of Qufu.

NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark exhibition on the
extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479
BCE ) will be on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 though June
13, 2010. “Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” will focus on the
teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly
synonymous with Chinese culture. Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius
and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls,
album leaves, bronze vessels, stone carvings, jade ceremonial implements,
wood-block prints and textiles. The works are on loan for the first time
in the U.S. from the Shandong Provincial Museum in Jinan and the Confucius
Museum in his hometown of Qufu.

LONDON (REUTERS).- Christie’s is confident the recession is
well and truly over in the world of fine art, with a record old masters
sale in London next week that includes important works by Rembrandt,
Raphael and Il Domenichino. The world’s largest
auctioneer is calling its December 8th old masters and 19th century
auction a “landmark,” and pre-sale estimates range from 45-63 million
pounds ($75-105 million), its highest ever for such a sale. “This auction promises to be a
landmark sale for the art market,” said Richard Knight, international
co-head of old masters at Christie’s. 

CORAL GABLES, FL.- This December, the world famous
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will present Yayoi Kusama at Fairchild as part
of its annual visual art program. The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known for
her distinctive sculptures and paintings that involve hand-worked repetition and
bold patterning, will be exhibiting works from the exuberant new sculptural
ensemble Flowers that Bloom at Midnight (2009), a group of her classic
Pumpkins, as well as Guidepost to the New Space, a multi-part floating work
specifically conceived for Fairchild’s Panandus Lake.