Jimmie Durham:A Matter of Life and Death and Singing M HKA museum (Antwerp) Exhibition Dates:May 24 – November 18 My work might be considered ‘interventionist’ because it works against the two foundations of the European tradition: Belief and Architecture. My work is against the connection of art to architecture, to the ‘statue’, to monumentality. I […]
The Albertina Marks the 150th Anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s Birth
Vienna.- To mark the 150th Anniversary of his birthday, the Albertina is showing more than 170 drawings by the phenomenal artist Gustav Klimt. The exhibition “Gustav Klimt. The drawings” opens on March 14th and remains on view through June 10th. On …
Fashion Photography of Richard Avedon at the Norton Museum of Art
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Avedon Fashion 1944-2000
will be on view at the Norton Museum of Art from February 9 through May 9,
2010. The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon’s
fashion work, it will feature over 150 objects, including photographs from
throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work
in context and materials demonstrating his creative process. Richard Avedon is
the most significant and influential photographer to have taken fashion as one
of his subjects. He began working for Harper’s Bazaar in 1944, when he
was only twenty-one, and revolutionized fashion photography, dispensing with its
prevailing mannered and statically posed formulas and introducing a more
youthful, spirited, and distinctly American style.