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Contemporary Arts Center: Eleanor Antin's
The Little Match Girl Ballet
The Little Match Girl Ballet (1975) is Antin's adaptation of Jean Renoir's silent film
from 1928, La Petite Marchande d'allumettes, in which a little girl sells matches to
support herself. In Ant...
Southeast Museum of Photography: Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture
“The body has become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities, insecurities, ambitions, and struggles. I have documented this phenomenon and at the same time explored how this canvas is marked by the values and semiotics of the s...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: Fiona Clark: Go Girl
Both an exhibition and a catalogue, Go Girl revisits this episode, one of the most controversial in New Zealand’s photographic history. It presents for the first time Fiona Clark’s complete photographic series Dance Party, from which these two ima...
Foro de Arte y Cultura in Jalisco State: Esa luz la sombra (that light the shadow): Work by Jose Castillo
Aerial, made up of calculated subtilities, the painting reveals this mystery to us - blunts in vegetal filaments. It is the celebration of a kingdom that still is near the hand and that glance goes in search of an old consolation. The leaves stret...
Julia Friedman Gallery: Orly Cogan: Bachelor Girl
Acknowledging the history of the female nude in art, Cogan subverts the
genre's traditionally refined associations. Cogan's empowered female
figures emerge from floral patterned linen or domestic fabric to boldly
embrace their sexuality. Many ...
San Diego Museum of Art: Painting Women: Fragonard to Bouguereau
Fragonard (1732–1806) was the leading rococo painter of his generation during the second half of the 18th century in France. His exotic landscapes inhabited by frolicking lovers and intimate scenes of everyday life, such as A Young Girl Reading, w...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Miwa Yanagi: The Incredible Tale of the Innocent Old Lady and the Heartless Young Girl
The centerpiece of the exhibition at the Hara Museum will be the Fairy Tale series which the artist started in 2004, providing an indication of the artist’s most recent development.
This series uses as its base tales in which young girls and...
DFN Gallery: Cedric Smith: We
An early breakthrough in Smith’s work came through listening to the lyrics of political rap group Public Enemy, criticizing the lack of acknowledgment of achievements by African-Americans. Smith reacted by creating collages incorporating found ph...
Musée McCord Museum: Picturing Her Images of Girlhood
The exhibition presents a range of images from the 1860s to the present day, including paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from the renowned Notman Photographic Archives. Confederation-era political cartoons show girls personifying the hop...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection
While many
of the images in the exhibition are normally associated with childhood happiness,
others implicate issues of violence in society and cultural identity. Artists represented
in the exhibition include David Levinthal, Lau...
The Dahesh Museum: Highlights from the Dahesh Museum Collection
These works, along with several others by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier,
Jules-Jean-Antoine Lecomte de Nouy, Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, and Sir John
Gilbert serve as focal points for the exhibition. The biblical and
mythological subjects favored by his...
Muse at 269 Gallery: William Stok: A Solo Show of Paintings and Lens-based Media
This concept found different types of expression firstly with the frames related to perspective in his work of the ‘70’s, then in the perimeter of the painted image, and later in his sculpture where ready-made objects are encased by metal rods. Th...
The Brickyard: Love Hurts
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Boston Institute of Contemporary Art: Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits
Dia Center for the Arts: David Claerbout: Present - Download an Amaryllis, Gerbera or a Rose for Your Computer
For his first computer-based artwork, Claerbout offers visitors
the choice of three flowers to download from the internet. An
amaryllis, gerbera, or red rose will then live on each
visitor's computer for approximately one week, after which time...
Transition: Room: Delaine Le Bas
Delaine’s Romany Gypsy heritage is inherent within her work, which as a contemporary artist has been something of a double-edged sword, both fuelling her and holding her back. She is perceived by the art world as an outsider artist – naïve and fol...
BAT Centre: Blend: Photographic Images by Michelle Barrell
She has participated in several exhibitions, notably her installation 'Bed of Roses' at the NSA Gallery. Barrell's statement reads: Within the realm of the maternal are a multitude of pre-conceived expectations that are often involuntarily placed ...
Fuller Museum of Art: Crafting Tales: Grimms Reinvented
Working in wood, metal, clay, glass and fiber the artists then created artwork based on the tales. The resulting work ranges from fanciful and dream-like to dark and menacing like the colorful stories on which they are based. Text from each of the...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Marie-Ange Guilleminot. The White Transformation Parlour
For the Melbourne International Festival Guilleminot will work with children, narrative and simple materials to create a space of ritual contemplation - inviting children to make origami cranes and participate in story-telling sessions. The cranes...
CONCORDE PRO Evénements: The 22th Antique Show in St-Tropez
Among them we can quote:
In silverware Joelle LASRY, will present a service composed by 7 pieces in silver massive, French work of XIXe century,
carrying the punch of Master AUCOC. This unit is composed of a samovar, a teapot, chocolate, a milk ...
Hayward Gallery: Sam Taylor-Wood
In Pietà (2001), a large-scale video projection based on Michelangelo’s Vatican sculpture, the artist struggles to hold actor Robert Downey Jr. in the pose of the dying Christ. Third Party (1999), shown for the first time in Britain, is an absorbing ...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture
She received the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for "Young Photographer of the Year" in 1997. She was also awarded the 1997 National Press Photographers/Nikon Sabbatical Grant. Her first book, Fast Forward: growing up in the ...
Albemarle Gallery: Toby Boothman: New Paintings
Working from his East End studio, located at the heart of a creative community based in a former factory space in Bow, the artist has embraced the centuries-old "Technique Mixed", to create representations of ! modern living, and a 'visual lexicon...
Holland Tunnel: Melissa Dadourian: Awakening
Dadourian innocently wanders through images of female figures from 70s Playboy magazines, seen as an adolescent, that serve as inspiration for the paintings. From these magazines surface early memories and dreams about erotic images of the female...
Frick Collection: Unprecedented Gathering of Six Major Paintings by Velázquez
Velázquez in New York Museums is the only homage to the artist that is being offered by an American
museum during 1999, the internationally celebrated year marking the anniversary of his birth. Curating
the exhibition is Jonathan ...
BANG the Gallery: BABES
Babe/baby/n : 1 a naïve inexperienced person
2a an infant, baby
2b a girl, woman - slang; used as a noun of address
Artist and illustrator, Lilly Turner explores the first meaning of BABES.The
innocent, yet strange infant, the ...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer
“It seems to me it was from the beginning of the 1990s that I began to makeÅ@works that I felt were uniquely my own. Now, in 2004, looking back, I see myself and my artwork being polished through trial and error, for better or for worse. This is b...
De Vleeshal: THIS IS THE FLOW by The Girl Skateboard Company + Gyz La Rivière & Robert Rosenau
Two facts that are solid in skateboarding are that some
people need skateboards and some people supply
skateboards. However, the grey area that exists between
those two extr...
Australian Department of Communications, Information, Technology and the Arts: Australian FFC Appointments
Producer/Director Mario Andreacchio, producer Jan Chapman, producer Jonathon
Shiff and lawyer Gregory Vickery, have been appointed for three years.
'These appointments will add greatly to the depth and experience on the FFC
...
CONTACT 2000: North America s Largest Photography Festival
The goal of CONTACT is to celebrate and introduce the general public to the diversity of photography while also presenting new directions. Exhibit venues include commercial and public galleries, museums, artist-run centres, community spaces, res...
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Portrait of a girl: Her Document In Madness
Portrait of a Girl with a Cap
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Find in a Library: Portrait of a girl
[Full-length portrait of a girl, standing]
[Portrait of a girl astride a pony]
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