Robert Dighton
Outrigger canoe model
wood, palm leaf, shells, and beads
circa 20th century
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Museum of Photographic Arts: The Model Wife
In each case, the
photographer/spouse collaboration resulted in the creation of some of the artists most
lasting and significant work. The Model Wife includes many image...
Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Johan Thurfjell: Eight Dreams and the Places Dreamt About (2001)
He describes his own work as follows:
There is a place outside Norrtälje that really means a lot to me. The
little, red house there was built by my grandfather's grandfather, who
dragged the logs over the ice at the turn of the last centur...
Tate Gallery: Herzog & de Meuron at Bankside
Starting from a base camp at the entrance of Tate Modern, which displays a large scale
model of the building, visitors can embark on a journey of discovery and revelation as they
are led to the different locations. Each station is ...
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA): Model City: An Installation by Kendall Buster
Solo projects include "Highrise" at the Houston Centre for Contemporary Craft, "Model City" at Drake University, Iowa and "Inventory of Imagined Places" at the Kreeger Museum in Washington. She was recently included in the 2005 American Academy of...
Vadim Bora Gallery & Studio: Faces You Might Know – Celebrating the Freedom of the Portrait Genre with Vadim Bora
“True freedom is capturing what that person gives you in a subconscious way to materialize his or her spirit on the flat surface,” says sculptor and painter Vadim Bora.
They are bold, moody, sensual, abstract, expressionistic, realistic, imp...
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong: Norman W. M. Ko: 25 Years in Retrospect
A representative figure in contemporary Hong Kong sculpture, Ko is a founder
member of the Hong Kong Sculptors Association, alongside veteran artists
Cheung Yee and Van Lau in 1982, the first local group of its kind. Around 80
examples of his w...
Focal Point Gallery: Hidden in Plain Sight: Rik Pinkcombe
The techniques Pinkcombe uses create images that look like photographs of artificial model worlds. In fact, these ''theatre-images'' are entirely real. The model-like images seem staged and ask the viewer to question who is in control of this visi...
ArtSpace: MODEL CITIZENS and MY SUN
Model Citizens: Their Urban Strechnology Kit and info-mercials illustrate broader issues of d.i.y activism, access, personhood, and the changing climate towards technology and identity. Distributive Justice, created by a Croatian team of artists, ...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Patrick Pound: The Memory Room
Patrick Pound has exhibited widely throughout Australia and New Zealand and his work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Dunedin Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand. Poun...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Keith Tyson: Large Field Array
For Tyson, the systematic assemblage, which incidentally reflects the huge formations of radio telescopes in the Arizona Desert, forms one large field where the fundamental forces of reality, its infinite possibilities and cause-and-effect relatio...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Robert Adrian X
It’s all about this fuzzy territory between different media, it’s about the vanishing of demarcating definitions.” Quotes from classical modernity, advertising, and media technology or arms-industry artifacts are placed in new, often flowing-spati...
Tacoma Art Museum: ARTificial Intelligence: Toy and Model Robots, Pulp-fiction Space Adventure Novel Covers, and Other Robot Memorabilia
These conflicting images and ideals -- robot as protector versus robot as servant -- set the stage for TAM's exhibition, which explores interpretations of the robot in literature, film and pop culture.
Vintage movie posters and lobby cards f...
The Theatre Museum: TIME AND SPACE
Work displayed by award winners at the 1999 Prague Quadrennial includes Elizabeth Ascrofts Alices Adventures in Wonderland - a
promenade performance in Williamson Park, Lancaster, which becomes an installation piece; Paul Browns costume designs a...
Modern Museum: The Path of Resistance. MoMA meets Moderna 1960 - 2000
Following World War II, the conquering USA experienced a decade of success
and confidence. The next decade saw an abrupt end to all of this: the
Kennedy murder, the Vietnam war and the icy -cold relation with the eastern
block revealed a gash i...
Photographer's Gallery: Corinne Day: Diary
Alternately shocking and sad, bleak and tender, the series draws
comparison with the work of Nan Goldin and Larry Clark for its uncompromising
honesty, its hard-hitting subject matter, and its understa...
Speed Art Museum: Two Shows Celebrating Abraham Lincoln
In Beyond the Log Cabin, the Commonwealth’s signature Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, the untold story of Lincoln’s lifelong engagement with Kentucky and Kentuckians is revealed. Through engaging imagery, art, historical objects, portraits, and L...
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...
Hudson River Museum: Boating on the Hudson: Navigating Through History
From Native American dugout canoes, to tugs and barges, this exhibition will examine the
effect of boats on the social, cultural and economic development of the Hudson River Valley. Photographs, paintings,
models, navigationa...
Kunstihoone: CAPITAL (It Fails Us Now)
The exhibition in Tallinn is the second half of a two-fold project, with the first part taking place at UKS in Oslo, Norway 8 Oct 6 Nov 2005.
Curated by Simon Sheikh. Produced by NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, in collaboration...
Watermans: Perfectly Real: Women in Bits and Bytes
At PERFECTLY REAL—an exhibition created in conjunction with cutting edge publishers TASCHEN who published ‘Digital Beauties’ to much acclaim last year—you can witness the process involved in making a virtual woman from the initial sketch through t...
National Gallery of Art: The Triumph of the Baroque:
Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
The exhibition begins in the central galleries on the ground floor of the West Building with the baroque in
Rome. It will continue along the spine of the building, then upstairs to the West Garden Court and alon...
Bayly Art Museum: Art of Stan Winston Studio
Through the presentation of bronze sculptures, drawings, production photographs, a video, and a scale model of a raptor, the exhibition explores the
various elements involved in realizing a special effects creation. Featured in Jurassic Par...
BildMuseet: RIEN – Is That All?: Veli Grano and Tuovi Hippelainen
The installation 'Islands' by Veli Granö, a model train fitted with video cameras, is one of the exhibition’s centrepieces. The train runs on a circular track interlinked by several miniature winter landscapes (in sugar) – a model railway that tak...
Wiener Secession, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler: Rita McBride, Secession Tower
McBride's technique can best be compared to transformation and alienation. She assumes that the material of an object is in itself a
carrier of meaning. Ignoring the seemingly obvious coupling of form, function and material, Rita McBride works wi...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Susan Purdy: New Branches on an Old Tree
The comprehensive and original archive of photogram images that make up New Branches on an Old Tree are the culmination of four years collaboration between artist Susan Purdy and Terry Smyth, the Curator of the Southern Chinese Collection within t...
Santa Monica Museum of Art: Last Chance: Callum Morton - International Style
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Walker Art Gallery: George Romney 1734-1802: British art's forgotten genius
At the height of his career he was more fashionable than Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough as a society portraitist, but all his life he wanted to paint elevated historical and literary subjects. He lacked the confidence to carry out ma...
Courtyard Gallery: Sublime: New Works by Ling Jian
Ling's modern "Buddha" portraits stand akin to the sublime visage of a top Chinese fashion model such as Lu Yan. In each of Ling's portraits - whether Buddha or model/mortal - the sensuality of slightly parted lips, half-closed sultry eyes, and s...
gallery twenty-four: Call for Artists: Artist Representation Program
The representation program is scheduled to begin on April 15, 2007. Representation is open to artists working in any genre. Artists interested in submitting materials for consideration should follow the guidelines set forth on the gallery's main...
Pump House Gallery: Shake It : An Instant History of the Polaroid
Besides work by some of the most important artists working with the medium, the show will also include Polaroids from other diverse professions and disciplines such as forensics, archaeology, medicine, filmmaking and fashion, as well as those of a...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions--Ron Mueck
Ron Muecks sculptures, though inanimate, seem alive---eyes are wet,
vessels swell with blood, and you can almost feel the heat and breath
emanating off the body, says Lawrence. The skewed sizes of the figures give
this realism a psychological e...
Portland Museum of Art: Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti includes 13 drawings, ranging from precise and light-filled interiors to the haunting stare of a masterful late
drawing of his brother and frequent model, Diego. Lithography and etching became a natural extension of his drawing...
MAK Center for Art and Architecture: TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists
The projects engage the house as subject, investigating its forms, functions and significance while imagining a wide variety of prototypes for living. Presenting renderings, models, video and an interactive installation, the artists and architects...
Andy Warhol Museum: The Arts of Jean Cocteau
The Cocteau exhibition at The Warhol will reflect the far-ranging
nature of Cocteau's work, including artworks, archival material, films,
...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Fiona Tan: Correction
In Correction, Tan uses video portraiture to explore stereotypes and representation by filming approximately 300 prison inmates and guards in four U.S. facilities. Each forty-second portrait features an anonymous inmate or guard standing as still ...
SOUND ACCESS PROGRAMME: BUILDING A NETWORK OF CONTACTS FOR ORGANISATIONS
INVOLVED WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE ARTS
A SIMILAR MODEL, ART LINK, PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES IN THE VISUAL ARTS AND VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES.
THESE PROGRAMMES RUN FOR TWO YEARS AND STUDENTS WORK AND TRAIN WITH PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD.
THEY ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT B...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Callum Morton: More Talk About Buildings and Mood
Gas, a new work created for the exhibition, sets an architectural masterpiece - Philip Johnson’s iconic Glass House from the
late 1940s – against its manifestation as a drive-in petrol station. As a 1:10 scale model, Johnson’s design is reconstru...
Rooseum: Mariko Mori: Dream Temple
The central work in the Rooseum exhibition is Dream Temple, 1999, whose three main themes are energy,
meditation, and technology. These are manifested in a complex, multi-media and spiritually high-tech temple, into
...
California State Fullerton Main Art Gallery: As Above, So Below: Art as Political and Cosmological Space
Golden State had the misfortune of being completed just as Governor Gray Davis was in the midst of a recall battle hinged upon his handling of the budget. It is reported that the cost of the complex will ultimately be recouped but, understandably,...
shift e.V.: Barak Bar-Am: Hebeschiebewerk
The installation Hebeschiebewerk consists of several elements:
'CPU ATRIUM' basic shape is that of a large simple box with P.V.C surfaces on
all 4 sides. The top has been removed to allow us to view its inner structure. The
work invites the spe...
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