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ARTSPACE: LECTURE BY DR EDDIE CHAMBERS (UK)
Eddie Chambers is an artist, curator, arts administrator, critic and writer based in Bristol. In 1989 he established the African and Asian Visual Artists' Archive (AAVAA) and was its co-o...
Physica Room: A Painting and A Sculpture, Martin Creed and John Nixon, curated by Nicholas Chambers AND A Painting and A Photograph, Reuben Keehan and Darren Sylvester, curated by Nicholas Chambers
A Painting and A Sculpture is one of a series of exhibitions Chambers has
developed, wherein very established artists are approached with a view to
exhibiting their work not in a museum or biennial but in a more local
context such as artist-r...
Chambers Fine Art: The Way of Chopsticks: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen
Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen drive the idea of collaborative work to a new level where trust becomes invaluable. In one project, they individually create an 8-meter long chopstick without revealing or discussing aesthetics or process with each other....
Chambers Fine Art: Elegant Gathering, Hong Hao’s Opening
For the exhibition Hong Hao’s Reading Room held at Chambers Fine Art in 2004, the gallery space was converted into the reading room of a provincial library, gathering together examples of his multi-layered graphic works as well as a series of thre...
Dia Center for the Arts: Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square3
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Chambers Fine Art: Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua
Unlike the younger generation of artists who have for the most part turned their back on oil painting, Qiu Shihua found his initial inspiration in the French Impressionists whose work he saw in person for the first time in the mid-1980s. In 1989, ...
The House of Detention: The Colosseum Project @ The House of Detention
The Colosseum Projects latest exhibition at the House of Detention is an
underground exhibition of underground art. The artists of the Colosseum
Project will create a wonderland of film, video, installation and
performance within the strange s...
Chambers Fine Art: Viewpoints: Chinese Photography Today
Only in the work of Weng Fen, represented in the exhibition by two works of 2002, Bird's Eye View: Shenzhen and Bird's Eye View: Haikou , is there a glimpse of the overwhelming scale of urban developments in China today. The focus of his photograp...
Chambers Fine Art: AsianLens Presents: August 2002 Photo Exhibit
First-, second-, third-generation
Asian American photographers are touched by a different set of issues and
concerns that explore multiculturism, immigration, displacement, identity, and
ethnic self-consciousness.
The exhibition emphasizes the...
Chambers Fine Art: Shi Jinsong: Na Zha Baby Boutique
Through his razor-sharp sculptures and related works, Shi Jinsong initiates a dialogue, at once menacing and ironic, between the forms of mythic Chinese culture and modern day globalization. “Na Zha” is here recast as the brand name for an outrage...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective
Offerings of rice and pollen, ritualistically arranged,
feed the spirit and mind. The surface of solid stone seems to
liquify when milk mysteriously melds with marble. Laib in...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion
The Gallery will be transformed into a series of immersive spatial experiences – both physical and virtual. The works range from the phantasmagoric to the meditative – some intangible, others humourous or uncanny. Environments are created, chamb...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: THE FUTURE OF COMFORT: International Artists Search for Place in a Virtual World
As art critic Johnathan Crary explains, One of the crucial paradoxes of ‘globalization’ is this: the greater the technological capacity for connection, for speed, for exchange and circulation of information, the more fragmented and compartmentaliz...
Courtauld Institute of Art: Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836
Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836; it is the experience of those exhibitions that the Courtauld seeks to recreate. Some 300 Royal Academy exhibits, all of which first went on public view at Somerset House, will be brought tog...
Tate Britian: William Blake
The exhibition will contain four sections, each of
which will look at a facet of Blake's art and life. One of
these sections Ch...
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania: Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens
The prolific and soft-spoken Nara is internationally recognized for his neo-pop style paintings and sculptures that feature big-eyed, alternately sad, mischievous, or even malevolent children. Born in 1959, Nara was raised during an era in Japan d...
Tullie House Museum and Art Services: Eyemusic, the Creators of ColourDome: Fabulous Sound Machines
All of the individual sound sculptures are framed in a world of colour created by artist Peter Jones and composers Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher. Other contributors include Johannes Bergmark, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley, Dan Knight and Will ...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: 2005 Ranamok Glass Prize
Finalists include: Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Christian Arnold, Nicole Ayliffe, Joanna Bone, Lee Brogan, Rozlyn de Bussey, Emma Camden, Scott Chaseling, Cobi Cockburn, Rod Coleman, Scott Coleman, Matthew Curtis, Tali Dalton, Evelyn Dunstan, Nicola Edwar...
La Petite Mort Gallery: RIDE ME / The Art of Urban Transport
In artfully, delicious ways La Petite Mort in union with local and not so local artist is bringing the environment, custom design and the beat of urban culture to a pavement near you. From August 1st to August 31st 2008 La Petite Mort will be fea...
Fuller Museum of Craft: Built Books: Sculptural Objects
Curated by Boston artist Laura Davidson, Built Books features books by Davidson, Daniel Essig, Peter Madden, Nancy Selvin and Molly Van Nice. Books made of nails, clay, mahogany, brass and copper are featured alongside fiber scrolls, books bound i...
Lump gallery/projects: quad valve, an installation by Dana Raymond
quad valve
"It is always a thrill to physically fabricate spaces from my imagination. From a very young age, intriguing passageways, chambers, and valves have fascinated me. At 10 years old, I remember discovering an old carburetor in the wo...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
The highlight of the exhibition is a series of “creation chambers,” based on the artist’s description of his studio in Union Square, New York, in which some of Gorky’s most powerful and best-known paintings are being shown alongside their related ...
Plus Ultra Gallery: All the Roses that Were Ever Painted: Jon Berzinski, Limor Gasko, and Gary Peterson
The savvy abstractions by Gary Peterson stand at one end of the spectrum. Loosely suggesting systems, body parts, or worlds within worlds, they combine a geo-organic vocabulary with a playful, but disquieting palette, all the while carefully avoid...
Groundfloor Gallery: Amanda Dumas-Hernandez: Clean Thoughts
Making viewers think about what they are seeing...for them to analyze it internally...finding their
own truths, is another important aspect of her work. In this exhibiton, as in life, most often
times what you see is not entirely what you get. T...
Dallas Museum of Art: Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective
Parker Harris: Call for Artists: Northern Print Biennale 2009
The 2009 Print Awards is open to all British and International artists whose work, or elements of their practice, encounter print. Works in any medium will be considered and the award is not restricted to 2 or 3 dimensional work. Prizes include ...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: JAMES TURRELL: Infinite Light
Turrell describes his work as ...not minimalism and not conceptual work (but) perceptual work... His remarkable
creations isolate light, giving it form, depth and mass. He achieves this by manipulating the properties of light and
of hu...
Sculpture Center: Anya Gallaccio: one art
The title of the work is borrowed from an Elizabeth Bishop poem whose subject is loss and the
unlikely possibility that we might master it through artful practice. one art is a tree as assisted
ready-made, building on the art historical tradit...
San Jose Museum of Art: Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens
Nara invokes a voice that reaches and touches the masses. His works, which enjoy a cult status in Japan and are among the most recognizable of contemporary art images, appeal to a range of generations, nationalities, and temperaments and are peppe...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Fabric of Enchantment: Indonesian Batik from the North Coast of Java
These cloths not only are tours de force in technical achievement, but also are incredibly beautiful symbols of status,
notes Louise W. Mackie, CMA’s curator of textiles and Islamic art. It is a great pleasure to bring t...
Bonhams London: The Sovereign European Art Prize 2005
Commenting
on the short listing process Sir Peter Blake said ‘This was a tricky business. There were many surprises
and new discoveries. If this standard is maintained the Sovereign European Prize will quickly establish
itself as an important p...
Ohio Art League: Breaking the Mold: Julie York, Kris Lyons, Alex Hibbitt
Kris Lyons draws directly from a library of found objects re-made in Clay to create a hybrid art object that has been described as “Monsanto meets Mattel”. Her work is playful, yet thought provoking, and often informed by the world around her. Jul...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla: Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective
The exhibition is curated by Klaus Ottman.
Laib is an artist whose work deals with the spirituality of everyday
materials and objects. Living in a remote area of Germany's Black Forest, he
has since the late 1970s created work of startling ori...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Don Harvey: Invented Landscapes-A Ten Year Survey AND Intimate Majesty: Metalworks by Heather White | PULSE
Today, urban planners and wildlife activists are compelled into dialogue as sprawl, farmland, and parks compete both for available open space and a hand in urban revitalization. One of the region’s most respected artists, Don Harvey creates and l...
Sculpture Center: Ayse Erkmen: Busy Colors
Twin images of a small, jewel-like metal object (a sculpture of a landmine) are scaled up to billboard proportions and cover the entire 3,000 square foot surface of the courtyard. Inside, SculptureCenters main exhibition space remains empty of obj...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries and Prints from the Collection
The tapestries on view are:
Alexander Entering Babylon in Triumph, from The Life of Alexander, designed in 1665 and woven in 1691.
The Defeated Pompey Meeting His Wife at Sea, from The Story of Julius Caesar, designed in 1540 and wo...
Peabody Essex Museum: Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
"Joseph Cornell was an extraordinary artist whose work will capture the interest and imagination of all who see it. While self-taught, he was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and his work is renowned for fusing art, culture, ...
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: Another Line: New Forms of Drawing
Current approaches to an expansion of drawing build on achievements of 20th century art history and further develop historical approaches in a decidedly contemporary vein. Today the genre of drawing shows that it has liberated itself from academic...
Orlando Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 paintings by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s. Among the ...
National Gallery of Art: Goya: Images of Women
On view in the National Gallery of Art's West Building from 10 March through 2 June 2002, the
exhibition presents 115 paintings, drawings, prints, tapestry cartoons, and tapestries--some of which have
...
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