TEL AVIV.- The exhibition, extending over two halls, presents single sculptures and a sculpture installation – a selection of recent works by sculptor Zadok Ben David (born and immigrated to Israel in 1949, lives in London). The sculptures are steel cutouts of figures whose bodies are an image of boughs and foliage, or of trees whose foliage is a silhouette of human activity; sculptures that are isolated, enclosed, anonymous presences, each standing alone in space. The installation is a wide field of sand planted with 20,000 cutouts of defined, specified flowers, and its appearance transforms and astounds throughout the viewing.
Prehistoric Mammoth Site in Waco, Texas Opens to Public
WACO, TX (AP).- A site where dozens of prehistoric mammoths died in a landslide and flooding some 68,000 years ago has opened to the public in Waco, Texas. The fossils were discovered in 1978 by two men hunting for snakes. They took one of the bones to a Baylor University museum official who identified it, triggering an archaeological dig. Baylor and the city preserved the remains for two decades and, following a community fundraising effort, a permanent pavilion was built over the site, which opened to the public for the first
Carles Congost: ‘Adult Contemporary’ at Galeria Joan Prats
BARCELONA.- Galeria Joan Prats is presenting ‘Adult Contemporary’, Carles Congost’s first solo exhibition in Barcelona since 2005. The new works of multifaceted artist Carles Congost bring forth a variety of ways to approach the production of images related to the miscellaneous imaginarium of pop culture. In his recent photographic works he combines the sketch with the photo romantic novel in stories that allow aesthetic and character association in dissonant social circumstances. His visual references go from the comic strip genre, portraying camp super heroes, to celebrities from the European show
The Speed Art Museum Announces $10 Million Given for Expansion
LOUISVILLE, KY.- At its first annual Legacy Society Dinner honoring donors who have included the Speed Art Museum in their estate plans or given or pledged more than $100,000 in art or cash contributions during their lifetimes, Dr. Elizabeth Pahk Cressman announced that she and her husband, Dr. Frederick K. Cressman, have pledged $10 million to the Speed Art Museum’s upcoming renovation and expansion project. The Cressman gift is among the largest donations ever made to the Museum since its founding in 1927. The Cressmans are avid art enthusiasts and since moving to Louisville in the 1980s have been long-time supporters
Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973 by Philip Guston on View at McKee Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Although the McKee Gallery has mounted many Philip Guston shows over the last 35 years, it has never exhibited the small oil panels together as a group. The early figurative acrylic panels were begun in 1968, but the date of the first smaller oils is undetermined. The dated oil panels begin in 1969 and the last ones in 1973. Many are undated. These small oils, ranging in size from 9 x 10 to 12 x 16 inches, have always been special. Their diminutive size does not diminish their pictorial strength, whether as complex compositions of hooded figures in conversation, studio interiors, still-lifes or as paintings of single objects, such
Künstlerhaus Bethanien features Brazilian Photographer Dirceu Maués
BERLIN.- Dirceu Maués is a photographer whose oeuvre
constitutes a far-reaching investigation into the photographic process and the
techniques and equipment involved. His works, therefore, are always in-depth
examinations of the photographic mechanism as such, and this study presents him
with his own opportunity to define a camera’s functional categories. The current
omnipresence of digitally generated images is an occasion for Dirceu Maués to
reflect on more original forms of photography in his works. Deliberately setting
them apart from the predominantly functional parameters to be found in today’s
modern cameras, he constructs his own cameras using the simplest of means. Over
the course of time, in this way the so-called “pinhole” technique based on the
principle of the camera obscura has developed into his main means of aesthetic
expression.
Ben Benaouisse Presents the Performance Jan Fabre Revisited
GHENT.- Ben Benaouisse (b. 1971, Familleureux) is a dancer, performer, visual artist and especially difficult to place precisely under one of the abovementioned categories. In S.M.A.K. he presents the performance “Jan Fabre Revisited”, a re-enactment of Fabre’s Bic-Art Room in 1981. The Bic-Art Room by Fabre was a performance lasting 72 hours in which the artist had himself locked up in a white room lit by artificial lighting. Closed off
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Second in Audubon Series Flourishes at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
AUBURN, ALA.- The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents John James Audubon’s “Precursors and Contemporaries”, the second in a two-part series. The exhibition is currently on view through February 13, 2010 in the Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Gallery. This exhibition explores natural history publications and begins with some of the earliest publications about plants, specifically herbals, which were intended as references for apothecaries. This exhibition traces representations of flora and fauna