SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- Artist Ken Freeman always called himself a “Jewish Cowboy.” The world premiere of the Kenneth M. Freeman Legacy Exhibition opens at the Booth Western Art Museum in January 2010. The display consists of fifty (50) oil paintings and sculptures that feature working cowboys and cowgirls, rodeo heroes, Native American elders and children, mountain men, Western landscapes, and Buffalo Soldiers. For artist Kenneth M. Freeman, the cowboy hat and boots were not a gimmick or shtick. Neither was his Arizona attitude. Ken Freeman may have grown up in a traditional Jewish home in Chicago, Illinois but make no mistake … he was a cowboy. His early career as an artist included illustrations for books by Louis L’Amour and Will James and culminated with compelling portraits of cowboys, Native American elders and children, mountain men, Buffalo Soldiers, western landscapes and rodeo heroes. The Booth Western Art Museum, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Instit
Major Solo Exhibition of the Work of Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus at Groninger Museum
GRONINGER.- The Groninger Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Bernhard Willhelm and Jutta Kraus (both, 1972) on the occasion of their tenth working anniversary. In the course of these ten years, Willhelm and Kraus have realized more than 30 collections. The exhibition will offer an extensive selection from these, with both men’s and women’s wear. Willhelm and Kraus’s unconventional fashion is characterized by an outspoken visual language in which they give expression to the grotesque, the childish and
Exhibitionism: The Art of Display Announced at The Courtauld Institute of Art
LONDON.- The exhibition recalls Joshua Compston’s 1991 effort to fill the walls of The Courtauld Institute with contemporary art. This was the birth of the East Wing Collection and to celebrate its heritage the ninth committee will exhibit the collection of nineteen letterpress prints that formed Compston’s project, Other Men’s Flowers, never before displayed in their entirety. This includes work by YBAs such as Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk, Gary Hume and Sam Taylor-Wood. As Montaigne wrote, “Some may say of me I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own”. This too can be said of East
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Opens Critical Exhibition of Mature Artist Joram Rozov
TEL AVIV.- Joram Rozov’s (b. 1938) exhibition Landscapes and Milestones features works from the series “Landscapes” (1983-2009), which presents vistas embedding his overt and covert life story, and “Milestones” (2003-2009), which presents landmarks extracted from the vast panorama of the artist’s life: childhood, military service, engagement with wars, educational and other travels in the world. Through his immediate surroundings—landscapes of the Galilee, Hebron, Africa, Tuscany, views of foliage, trees, Sabra hedges, etc.—and their modes of symbolization, he delves into broad, intricate realities.
Sotheby’s Sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art Includes 100 Works by Leading Artists
LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, December 17, 2009 will bring together some 100 works by leading artists of the era and is expected to raise in excess of £4.2 million. Among the categories of works to be offered will be a strong contingent of classical, mythological, genre, landscape and fairy pictures. The sale will include a quintessential work by Charles Spencelayh (1865-1958). Considered his masterpiece, The Old Dealer (The Old Curiosty Shop) was immensely popular at the time of its exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1925. The subject is a purveyor of antiques surrounded by a vast array of objects. Such was the appeal of the bric-a-brac on display that Spencelayh was inundated with letters from admirers enquiring about whether they might be able to purchase the items on view. Estimated at £250,000-350,000, the painting was reproduced on the front cover of the monograph on the artist publis
MCA Chicago Announces Exhibition that Uniquely Examines the Artist’s Studio as Subject
CHICAGO, IL.- This winter, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, premieres Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out, an exhibition that uniquely examines the artist’s studio as subject. The exhibition presents an illuminating look at how some of the most compelling artists of today have demystified, remystified, and reconsidered art production spaces. Large installations, films, multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes, and life-sized fabrications of artists’ studios that explore the creative process are on view February 6 through
Robert Miller Gallery to Present Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life
NEW YORK, NY.- Objects of Life is the brainchild of filmmaker, renowned fashion photographer, and artist Steven Sebring. The title of the exhibition is derived from his acclaimed film, Patti Smith Dream of Life. Shot over 11 years, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet, style-icon and artist. Following Smith’s personal reflections over a decade, the film explores life, loss, family, Smith’s many arts and the friends and poets who inspired her: from William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan, to Robert Mapplethorpe and musician Michael Stipe. The exhibit includes fourteen
W Magazine Looks into Live Nudity at MoMA
NEW YORK, NY.- The human form, disrobed and displayed in all its glory, is arguably the most enduring motif in the history of Western art. Museums dedicated to art both ancient and modern are filled with nudes rendered every which way: painted, chiseled, molded, sketched and photographed. They’re just usually not living and breathing. But come March 14, New York’s Museum of Modern Art will host daily performances of five seminal works by Marina Abramović, three of which feature performers in the altogether. In Imponderabilia (1977), two players stand opposite each other, au naturel, in a narrow doorway.
Exhibition of Forty New Works by Fabienne Verdier at Jaeger Bucher Gallery
PARIS.- The Jaeger Bucher Gallery is staging “Painting”, an exhibition of some forty new works representing a year’s labor by Fabienne Verdier: primarily paintings based around landscapes, tree structures and circles, but also ink and charcoal paper drawings together with the most recent prints. Known for her ten-year apprenticeship in China with masters of calligraphy and painting, recounted in “The Dragon’s Brush”, then for her plain and precise pictorial style characterized by single brushstrokes, Fabienne Verdier has produced a new series of paintings in which a long-pursued
Art Institute of Chicago Launches Campaign Adopt a Dot
CHICAGO, IL.- Adopt a Dot! This year one of the Art Institute‘s most beloved paintings, Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”, 1884, is 125 years old. Help us celebrate by adopting one of the dots that compose this masterpiece! When you adopt a dot, you will receive a commemorative button pin in one of six colors chosen from the painting as well as a card describing the location of your dot. In addition, your adoption will support the museum’s conservation and curatorial departments that work tirelessly