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Arts News For:
September 28, 2006
Call for Artists: Treasure Postcards Arts Contest
Arts For Global Development Network - Art4Development.Net -
, TR Turkey
Treasure Postcards Arts Project (Contest and Exhibition) aims to
emphasize the role of arts in economic development and highlight the
significance of preserving and protecting humankind's major cultural
heritage sites and artistic creations. Deadline for participating in
the arts project is October 25, 2006. Interested amateur and
professional artists from across the globe are invited to share their
visual voices, and creative perspectives on arts' role in economic
development and cultural preservation as well as arts added value in
poverty reduction and empowerment! Read Indepth Article
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Drawings, Lithographs and Limited Edition Signed prints by David Hockney
Andipa Gallery -
London, UK United Kingdom
Some 50 drawings, lithographs and limited edition signed prints by
David Hockney, priced between 00 and 000, will be for sale at Andipa
Gallery this autumn. The highlight of the show is a very rare
preparatory drawing, believed to have been sketched at Tyler Graphics
studios in New York. Swimming Pool, 1978, brown ink on paper, depicts
a Californian swimming pool and diving board, showing the play of the
shadow on the water and with an instruction to blend the colour of the
unseen background into the wavy lines of the pools water. Andipa
Gallery offers this work for sale at 000. Read Indepth Article
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Els Opsomer: Shadows and Snow
Galerie Erna Hecey -
Brussels, BE Belgium
Erna Hecey is pleased to present the exhibition Shadows and Snow, the
first (solo) exhibition of Els Opsomer in the gallery. Els Opsomer
travels around the world, updating an 'urban archive' of pictures that
she keeps on expanding. The slide installation SNOW / today presented
at Galerie Erna Hécey is a result of documenting her New York, Brazil
and China sojourns. Opsomer photographs ordinary fragments of urban
reality, elements we no longer notice. They are snapshots in the margin
of an ever-changing world. In this respect, her observations bear some
resemblance to phenomena defined by anthropologist Marc Auge as
'non-lieux': places characterised by a mono-functional use, leading to
a high degree of anonymity. Examples of these 'non-places' are parking
lots, highways, motels, airports, etc. These 'non-places' deny the
specific uniqueness of a city while contributing to the likeness of all
cities. The phenomenon of mutually exchangeable cities leads to what
Rem Koolhaas has called 'the Generic City': Read Indepth Article
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SKIN: An Exhibition Curated by Heide Hatry
Pierre Menard Gallery -
Cambridge, MA USA United States of America
Pierre Menard Gallery is pleased to announce SKIN, an exhibition
curated by Heide Hatry.In this group show Hatry brings together work by
seven emerging artists from the United States, South America and
Europe, aligning certain practices and tendencies relating to an
unusual and controversial art material.Skin has become the medium in
which a small but thoughtful and obsessed subculture of artists has
fashioned an expanding body of work in which fundamental existential
and aesthetic questions are addressed, sometimes subtly, sometimes with
all the force and immediacy to which the medium gives them access. Read Indepth Article
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Reinhardt Sobye: Part of the Tomio Isahai Collection
Takasaki Museum of Art -
Takasaki, JP Japan
Three major art museums in Japan -- Takasaki Museum of Art, Museum of
Modern Art, Gunma, and Shoto Museum of Art -- are showcasing a
significant art collection by
Tomio Isahai, through the end of
December, 2006. Mr. Tomio Isahai died in 2001.
The collection includes 2 works by Reinhardt Sobye, one of
which is the image for the show poster and the front marketing image
for entire exhibition. This collection, now on display, consists of
western artists such as:
Man Ray, Wols, Odilon Redon, Picasso, Magritte,
Sol Lewitt, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer,
Chagall, Dubuffet, Dali, Alechinsky, Jasper Johns... in
addition to many Japanese artists. Read Indepth Article
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Artblogs - Art Blogs: 
A New White Canvas
Alberto Sughi
I've just removed the painting I've been working on from the easel: a
girl with one hand on her chest holding a white sheet that partly
covers her body is peering through a half-open doorway. We don't know
what she is looking at: our only hint being her astonished and
frightened expression.
It may seem odd, but often the painter doesn't know much more about
what is going on in a painting than the spectator.
This means that everyone can come to their own conclusions and, in some
senses, complete the artist's work, which is why I often say that the
act of painting does not 'recount', but rather 'represents'; it
represents something around which the viewer constructs his/her own
story.
Current Artist Blogs:
L. Kelen: Driveway Trees
Alaaddin Cakirerk: Less Than A Dollar Oil paintings!
Lynda Lehmann: In Response to the Idea of Artistic Doubt
Brad Michael Moore: September 22, 2006 / An Artist Prayer
Lynda Lehmann: Don't Ask Me WHY!
Jose Freitas Cruz: doubts, questions & certainties
Matthew Bates: Still Life Gallery
Ron Anderson: Artwork by Ron Anderson included in CCAD Faculty Exhibition 2006
This Week in the Arts:
Patrick Gysemberg: Action Painting Portraits - de Zalm
Gerard Di Falco: VISIONS X - Kentucky's Most Prominent Spiritual Art Exhibition - Cathedral Foundation, Inc.
Rodin: All about Eve - Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge
: Reformatting the Still Life - ARTROM
Call for Aritsts: New Media / Digital Art - Undisclosed Recipients at FLEFF 2007 - Ithaca College - Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF)
Cafe Culture: Art and Society in Early 20th Century Austria and Germany - Galerie St. Etienne
SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa - Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung
Yin Zhi Xin - Solo Exhibition - Art Scene Warehouse
Elizabeth McAlpine: White Elephant - Laura Bartlett Gallery
Call for Artists: ATTENTION fine art photographers working with HOLGA cameras - Photomedia Center
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