PARIS.- Mountain, sun, galaxy, people from the past, poetry; are all collaborators. Shadows and curtains are characters. Heart has language; rhythm moves ink. Something is certain; something is deeply precarious. Imagine this coming together to form a …
Jeu De Paume Brings Together Works for "False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library"
PARIS.- The works brought together in the exhibition “False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library” present micro-narratives articulated around personal experiences, anecdotes or testimony. Situated on the margins of mainstream history and repo…
Jeu De Paume Brings Together Works for "False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library"
PARIS.- The works brought together in the exhibition “False Friends / An Ephemeral Video Library” present micro-narratives articulated around personal experiences, anecdotes or testimony. Situated on the margins of mainstream history and repo…
The Royal Academy of Arts Announces Cindy Sherman as Honorary Member of the Royal Academy
LONDON.- Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 1954. She studied art at Buffalo State College (1972–6), concentrating on photography. Her photographs are portraits of herself in various scenarios that parody stereotypes of woman. A pan…
Retrospective of the Work by Filmmaker and Artist Harun Farocki Opens in Austria
BREGENZ.- With Harun Farocki, the Kunsthaus Bregenz presents a filmmaker and artist whose work has had a strong influence on the history of the political film since the late 1960s. His great importance to the visual arts is reflected not only in the re…
Twenty-Five Years After His Death, André Kertész Gets Exhibition at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- Twenty-five years after his death, André Kertész (1894–1985) is today a world-famous photographer who produced images that will be familiar to everyone, but he has yet to receive full recognition for his personal contribution to the lang…
Twenty-Five Years After His Death, André Kertész Gets Exhibition at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- Twenty-five years after his death, André Kertész (1894–1985) is today a world-famous photographer who produced images that will be familiar to everyone, but he has yet to receive full recognition for his personal contribution to the lang…
Twenty-Five Years after His Death, André Kertész Gets Exhibition at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- Twenty-five years after his death, André Kertész (1894–1985) is today a world-famous photographer who produced images that will be familiar to everyone, but he has yet to receive full recognition for his personal contribution to the lang…
Israel Museum Awards Michal Heiman First Shpilman International Prize
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, has selected artist Michal Heiman to receive the first Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. Created in partnership with the Israel Museum, the new biannual prize aims to catalyze and supp…
William Kentridge at the Louvre: Egyptian Sketchbooks
PARIS.- The South African artist William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, is chiefly known for his drawings, dominated by pastel and charcoal and usually conceived as the basis for animated films. But Kentridge also works in engraving, collage …