Bernard Palissy
Plate depicting the sacrifice of Isaac
glazed earthenware
circa 1550
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Blackrock College: Art Exhibition to Feature Works by Cummiskey
From the Artist's Statement
"I am a watercolourist.
"I paint on the theme of the writings and wanderings of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and on specific themes. I have a special interest in combining literature and painting. I put my spi...
Princess Grace Irish Library: John Minihan's Literary Portraits Displayed
John Minihan spent his early years in Athy, County Kildare. When he was eleven, his family moved to London where he went on to become an office boy on the London Evening News, an apprentice darkroom printer on the Daily Mail, and the youngest staf...
studio-visit.com: The Dean St. Field of Operation
Our aim is to offer an in-depth look at an individual artist or troupe. Each
month we will offer a personal look into the artists studio along with an
interview, slides, and a resume. Since todays cultural borders are
constantly melting and ...
KZNSA - KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts: James Beckett: An Untitled Exhibition of Cut-up
After initially working with installation, sound has increasingly taken a more central role in his work. This has been a research-based activity with output ranging from radio documentaries to mock ethnic bands, as well as museum displays documen...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor
Motherwell's works are based on poems by
Rafael Alberti, and Johns' are collaborations with novelist and playwright
Samuel Beckett. Both artists have played dominant roles in the development
and maturation of twentieth-century contemporary a...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Modern Australian Women
paintings & prints 1925-1945
The exhibition reflects the challenging thinking of the time and leadership demonstrated by painters such as Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Lina Bryans, Grace Crowley, Joy Hester, Kathleen O’Connor, Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor and Grace Cossing...
Raid Projects: LoFi: Steve DeGroodt and Brian Bosworth
As in the work of John Cage, boundaries which
formerly separated intention from accident, music from noise, and especially
the fourth wall between audience and performer begin to crack and crumble.
Steve DeGroodt has shown locally and int...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Linda Karshan: Marks and Moves
The earliest drawing in the exhibition, from 1983, is like an apocalyptic
storm. But in 1994 she began to adopt a simple procedure of rhythmic
repetition, creating grids, rows and stacks, drawn with her 'wrong' hand.
Minimal in their means and ...
Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Derriere le Miroir: 35 Original Engravings from the Magazine 1946 to 1982
The magazine, itself designed as an art object sumptuously presented in a large (38 x 28 cm) format, is illustrated with original lithographs as well as a number of reproductions. Poets and writers like Aragon, Beckett, Char, Eluard, Prévert, Quen...
Gallery Sigvardson: Roger Cummiskey: Painter
Roger Cummiskey in terms of his ability is able to transform ordinary scenes of human life into moments ripe with dramatic possibility.
Roger, from Dublin in Ireland lives and works in Mijas Costa, Spain where he says he is able to find the ...
Lieberman Foundation and Gallery and ARTarget: CALL TO ARTISTS
Sister Wendy Beckett observes that the mind may be aware only of some
mysterious truth. This is the essence of spiritual art. We are taken into a
realm that is potentially open to us, (and) we are made more aware of what
we are meant to be...
De Appel: That was Then This is Now
A presentation by academic Marga van Mechelen and a lecture by French curator Guillaume Désanges shed a new light on the origins of De Appel as a performance-based space set up by Wies Smals in 1975. The production ‘Show Dance’ by Swiss-Greek chor...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: A Baroque Party
Modernity and, in particular, contemporary art, takes up on aesthetic concepts from the Baroque period rather than the 19th-century idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, say exhibition curators Sabine Folie and Michael Glasmeier.
For the exhibition, conte...
Millennium Monument Museum: Views from an Island: Works from Irish Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Since the collection is a young one, and not confined to Irish art alone, it is of course important to say that the Collection cannot and would not claim to be representative of all of the best developments in recent Irish art. Instead the Collect...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: James Coleman: Lapsus Exposure, 1992-94
James Coleman is widely regarded as having a uniquely influential role in a range of media that dominate large areas of current art practice. For more than 30 years he has used the photograph, the projected film still, the transparency, the slide ...
Hasselblad Center: Portraits as Still Lifes: the Photographs of Roger Ballen
Ballens protagonists are social outsiders. Unbelted by beauty, they, like their surroundings, often exhibit visible traces of
decay and the passage of time. They are
characters in the artists mini-dramas, in
which objects and animals have a ...
ODC Theater: STRANGE LOVE
In what will be their first full production in over three years, Fellow Travelers Performance Group will premier works developed in conversations and collaborations while fulfilling Djerassi residencies. Fellow Travelers Performance Group is a mo...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Jane Wilson: Land/Sea/Sky and Photographs by John Gruen
Jane Wilson's paintings Show
extraordinary skies anchored by low, horizontal planes of land and
ocean. Wilson's works convey an evocative power and subtle beauty.
Drawing on sources as diverse as French Impressionism, Dutch landscape
painting,...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Notations - Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni
The two works are currently on view in Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the exhibition organized by the Museum to represent the United States in the 53rd Venice Biennale. They are the artist’s most recent works in the thematic survey comprising ...
Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago: Mark Manders: Isolated Rooms
Born in 1968, Manders belongs to a generation of post-minimal sculptors whose work is unabashedly grounded in narrative. In this respect, his significant precursors include Robert Gober, Juan Munoz, Kiki Smith, and Miroslaw Balka, to name a few. ...
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