National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: SENATE BEGINS NEA MONEY DEBATE -- DEFEATS MOTION TO ELIMINATE ARTS DOLLARS
Following the action endorsing federal spending on the arts, the Senate put aside the
Interior money bill and turned its attention to the final House-Senate agreement on tax
cut legislation. It ...
Museum of the City of NewYork: Renewing a Block and the Spirit of Its People: Photographs of Carmel Hill, Harlem by Bill
Foley
Foley has also skillfully captured the change in attitudes among the block’s
residents, a transformation from despair to hope, pride in accomplishment, and the spirit
necessary to make it t...
American Association of Museums: Senate Efforts to Increase Funding for IMLS, NEA, and NEH
Please contact your Senators ASAP and urge them to support efforts to
increase funding for ALL THREE cultural agencies (IMLS, NEA, and NEH) during
consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill (S. 1292). As always,
stress how funding from the...
California Museum of Photography: Suburbia: Photographs by Bill Owens
Both an exhibition and a photographic book, Suburbia is one of the landmarks of New Topographic
photography. The 1972 volume was reissued in 1999 with additional captions by editor Robert Harshorn
Shimshak and an in...
Noorderlicht Photofestival Gallery: Bill Jacobson: Interim Thoughts, and Others
Then follows his Thought Series (1996-1998), a series of dark monochromes that continues to address the notion of the body as something both still and constantly changing. In 1999, after returning from a trip to India, Jacobson begins working in c...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day
Viola studied at Syracuse University in New York in the early 1970s, and his experimentation with electronic arts led him to produce works of sound art as well as video installation. Viola's early contact with Nam June Paik, David Tudor, and other...
National Gallery: Bill Viola: The Passions
Artists and writers have long been preoccupied with the challenge of depicting and arousing emotion. In 2000 Bill Viola began to explore these forces in his work, drawing on the art of the past for inspiration. A departure from his room installati...
Beyond the Proscenium Productions: Wild Women Theatre Workshop
Bill Ritch and Karen James will direct the workshop. Bill and Karen recently
collaborated on directing the Fair Oaks Civic Theatre's production of A
Christmas Carol. The workshop will be held on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 PM
from February 15...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Body Work: Photographs of Nudes
Edward
Steichen, as a turn-of-the-century pictorialist, idealized
the nude, making evocative, soft-focus images.
Edward Weston, working after World War I, created
Modernist images of women, often emphasizing abstrac...
Haunch of Venison: Bill Viola: LOVE/ DEATH -The Tristan Project
LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project is a museum-scale exhibition showing across two venues and will present over ten new works. Like Viola’s previous works, they range from room-sized video projections of image and sound to small, silent flat panel sc...
National Essembly of State Arts Agencies: NEA FUNDING BILL ON HOLD UNTIL SENATE DEBATE RESUMES IN
SEPTEMBER
Before adjournment, the issue of NEA funding came up in the form of an amendment,
sponsored by Sens. Robert Smith (R-NH) and John Ashcroft (R-MO), to eliminate all
money in the bill for the N...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center: Plains Indian Museum to Reopen
This nine-month renovation project is a comprehensive
reinterpretation of the Plains Indian Museum. The new Plains
Indian Museum will tell the significant story of the liv...
Aron Packer Gallery: Bill Gross: Monochrome
These smart, playful works derive from Gross’s preoccupation with the
coexistence of abstract and representational art. While his compositions
have identifiable elements, such as text from a meat packing company’s sign,
the influence of mid-cen...
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu: 51Degrees South
Gallery Director Tony Preston commented that the Tait Electronics Gallery is dedicated to Antarctic themes and the unique connection between the region and the city of Christchurch, long a starting point for Antarctic exploration and adventure.
...
Artspeak: Triple Bill: Isabelle Pauwels
Pornography is used by Pauwels as a way of investigating what an audience wants. While her textual representation of the experience thwarts the psychic economy of porn, the issue of desire remains central. The presentation of Triple Bill takes int...
Tacoma Art Museum: Bill Viola: Something Above, Beyond, Below, Beneath
In The Reflecting Pool, Viola employs the reflection of the pool as a device for perceiving the world. In it a man emerges from a forest and stops by a body of water. He jumps and time stops while he is left suspended in the air. All movement seen...
NEA, NEH: House Narrowly Defeats Move to Increase NEA/NEH Funds
While the NEA/NEH amendment was defeated, the close vote was a positive
development moving Congress away from debating the agencies' survival to
restoring them to more healthy levels of funding (historic highs for the
agencies were $179.5 million ...
National Gallery of Canada: Bill Seaman: Red Dice
The videotape upon which the Red Dice installation is built was shot in June 1997 at several
natural and industrial sites in the Ottawa area. The mechanical loom, the mill, the player piano,
these recurrent images belong to another century yet...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Aspects of Architecture
Aspects of Architecture will be displayed in four sections: Making the
Record, Construction, Looking in Detail and Architecture as Art. The images
on display will range from Stonehenge, the Millennium Dome and the
construction of the Paris Oper...
First Street Gallery: ITALIA - Bill Creevy - Paintings and Drawings of Tuscany and Rome
Creevy's Italy is uninhabited. It's as if the Romans have left town, rolled up their paved streets, and invited the dust and grime of earlier periods to reemerge and finally overtake the vestiges of the last two centuries. All is red brick and gre...
Canessa Gallery: Bill Jehle: Fountain Paintings Series
Jehle's paintings contain two elements--field and figure--that retain suggestion, opticality and emotion. The eye delights to see the intricate images advance or recede depending on the light and viewing position. The artist has employed little t...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: NY NY: Vintage Photographs From The Photo League and The New York School work by Lida Moser, Joe Schwartz, Erika Stone and Bill Witt
The work that Photo League members Moser, Schwartz, Stone and Witt produced is beautiful, textured and disturbing. These artists worked during tough times; the effects of the depression were everywhere evident, fascism was on the rise in Europe, l...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center: John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition - Mammals of North America
Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art Sarah Boehme explains, John James Audubon is associated with artistic images of birds, with conservation issues, and with geographic locations of the Deep South. He doesn't immediately spring to mind ...
Chris Beetles Gallery: Bill Brandt : Over 50 Images by One of the Twentieth-Century’s Greatest Photographers
Brandt was a regular presence in the great photographic magazines of the time, particularly Picture Post and Lilliput, but also published numerous books including The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Literary Britain (1951) and Pe...
Whangarei Art Museum: Capital! Locating Tradition: Placing Ourselves - Art from the Victoria University of Wellington Collection
WAM director Scott Pothan approached the Adam Art Gallery with the idea of touring key works from the collection, dispersed throughout the campus to a first-time gathering outside Wellington.
Detail: Richard Killeen Welcome to the South Pacific 1...
Mobius, Fort Point Cultural Coalition: Industrial Inspiration: Images of the Old Northern Ave. Bridge
Each of the photographers examine the role of the Old Northern Avenue
Bridge played in the city's rail and port development as well as the
aesthetic value of this turn of the century industrial infrastructure. The
opening reception will be hel...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Close Encounters of the Art Kind: Work By Tania Kovats, Langlands and Bell, Sarah Lucas, Keir Smith, Richard Wilson, Bill Woodrow
Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter. Pioneering projects at the National Gallery (At Home with Constable's Cornfield, 1996) and Tate Britain (At Home With Art, 1999-2000) built on Painter's y...
Autry Museum of Western Heritage: Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Exhibits include an original 1867 Deadwood Stagecoach, bought by Buffalo Bill for $1,800 in 1911 and used during a
scene from the show The Attack on the Deadwood Stage, in which audience members participated as cowboys.
Annie Oakley's gold-plate...
Australian Center for Photography: The Liminal Body: an exhibition of the work of Jon Baturin (Can), Farrell and Parkin (Aus), Sue Fox (UK), Dieter Huber (Ost), Bill Jacobson (USA) and Diana Thorneycroft (Can).
This exhibition will explore the bacchic obverse of the apollonian Olympic
paradigm - looking to other equally (perhaps more) human limits. The body on the
brink of life/death; well...
Johannesburg Art Foundation: Jump Start, 2000
The Johannesburg Art foundation, since its conception in 1964, has offered
equal opportunities to students regardless of race and/or sex. Bill Ainslie
and the foundation's numerous talented teachers have taught and nurtured
generations of arti...
Haunch of Venison, Berlin: Bill Viola: Installations
New works will also be presented from the Transfigurations series–a cyclical progression of images that describe a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death. The first in this series was the three channel installation Ocean W...
Buffalo Bill Historical Center: Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America
I grew up on an Indian reservation and never understood the particulars of
Indian heritage, one non-native visitor wrote in the comment book. This
show does a great job of canceling stereotypes and making them
understandable.
This exhibitio...
City Gallery: BILL HAMMOND
23 Big Pictures
Hammond's work tackles social and environmental issues, conveying messages
about humanity and its status as an endangered species. He first attracted
a...
Mappin Art Gallery: Bill Woodrow: The Beekeeper
This exhibition The Beekeeper consists of a body of work made around the theme of
the beekeeper, a mysterious figure in the form of a puppet. The centre piece of the
...
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