Robert Batty
Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829)
steel engraving
1829
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FUNOMENA: Mobile Museum of the Weird and Strange
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Reflect-arts, Inc. at Gallery 27+: Call for Artists: Strange Cities - The Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape
The opening event for Strange Cities will take place on Thursday, October 19, 2006 starting at 6 pm and will include live performance, open bar and hors d'oeuvres. Artists chosen to participate will receive invitations to distribute.
Reflec...
Musee d'Orsay: Eugene Jansson (1862-1915)
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Gallery Yujiro: Odd Couple: John Hughes and Seunghee Kang
The exhibition is titled after, 1968 film "The Odd Couple", staring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as Felix Ungar and Oscar Maddison, is the story of two mismatched roommates, one uptight, tidy and fastidious, the other slovenly, kooky and zany. I...
Libr’Art 2005: International Art Show of Contemporary Arts Opens Today
Patrick Gysemberg's Nautical and Arctic action painting impressions create a new painting series.
After a journey of seven times towards the arctic sea world around the island of Svalbard and Norway, the northern Ice border, it came clear to the ...
Reflect-arts, Inc. at Gallery 27+: Strange Cities: the Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape
The opening event for Strange Cities will take place on Thursday, October 19, 2006, 6-9 pm. The opening will include live improvisational electronic music by the vibrant duo pico fermi, and a surreal, over the top interactive art performance by Th...
Andy Warhol Museum: Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith
"Like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith isn't an artist who is easily categorized.
She moves fluidly through the genres of music, visual art, and language,"
says John Smith, exhibition curator and archivist at The Warhol. "Her work
and her career defy t...
Australian Embassy: PROBE: explorations into Australian computational space
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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 ...
Haus der Kunst: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
A newspaper photograph of the destruction of the
towers of the World Trade Center reminded her of Peter Brueghel’s The Tower of Babel (1563)
and provided the starting point for these drawings. In her book of poems Babel, published in
1978, she ...
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...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: The Arizona Photographs of Allen Dutton
Comprising thousands of images taken over 20years, Dutton's project offers a
poignant chronicle of the growing American West and reflects changing
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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Sculpture: Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical
The sculptures show what is human and everyday, and at the same time observe the disappearance and dissolution
of the ordinary in its transitions from the human/animal/organic to the machinetoollike or architectural. The
sculptures’ character ...
IBID Projects: Ross Chisholm: Corporation
Repetition of elements, a particular figure, or this mushroom or that tree, builds enigmatic
relationships between individual works. Mushrooms especially re-appear in work after work,
growing in the dark landscapes, obscuring the heads of figure...
Louvre Museum: The Strange and Marvellous in the Land of Islam
The first part of the exhibition will
be devoted to the 13th-century Iranian
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Contemporary Art Center Lacoux: Martine Clerc: The Garden, Sculptures and Other Celestial Objects
" I wanted to show the macrocosmos of unlimited and empty space with strange mineral travelling objects, and, in an other side, the microcosmos of an intimate red room with prints evocating the world of cells and biological life. This room beats l...
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts: Life-Size: Photographs by Cynthia Greig
Any sense of natural order or familiarity is disturbed by the uneasy relationships found between human subjects and the miniscule objects they attempt to master. Greigs photographs examine the betrayal of appearance, and the deception of nostalgi...
Luggage Store: Strange Tales: Nick Ackerman, David Huffman, Chris Oliveria
NICK ACKERMAN
The work is an installation of small paintings and
drawings hung together to create a larger work and
narrative, similar to words and sentences coming
together to create a story. The artistís intent is to
create using a graph...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Urban Legends: Mary-Louise Browne, Eddie Clemens, Joanna Langford, Terry Urbahn, Wayne Youle, Ri Williamson
The Urban Legends
exhibition has been curated by our former employee, Sarah Farrar. Sarah has
put together an exhibition offering six exciting and refreshing takes on the
theme of urban legends - strange stories which circulate, based on either...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Jan Nelson and Liza May Post
Included in the exhibition is a suite of 12 intimate portraits of young people on the cusp of puberty from Nelson's ongoing body of work, Walking in Tall Grass (1999-2004). Also on display are a number of photographs, paintings and two new sculpt...
Physics Room: Rudolf Boelee: her dissatisfaction
Boelee has revisited this billboard work in his new exhibition, presenting
it anew within the gallery. The scale and dimensions of the billboard are
similar to that of a movie screen and Boelee has continued his cinematic
theme throughout the e...
C'era Una Volta: Dorian Leigh: Paintings
Dorian Leigh's paintings integrate modern day spirituality with ancient cultures. Leigh stated recently "Through my art, I am able to translate the invisible dimensions that exist inside me. By relinquishing control to whatever is guiding me, ...
bitforms gallery: Michael Rees: Sculpture - Large, Small and Moving
Human legs and fingers are joined to form fluid, acrobatic bodies that become sculpture, through 3d printing. The taxonomy of this species is surprisingly diverse. Some of the creatures are functional and some decidedly dysfunctional. They struggl...
Bayly Art Museum: Virgins, Gods, Saints and Lovers: Strangeness and Style in Mannerist Prints
The term mannerism refers to works that show certain stylistic
tendencies such as the use of geometric forms, deformation or
elongation of figures, exaggerated gestures, strange lighting and
perspectives, and evocative atmosphere. The diverse s...
art-o-nivo gallery: Form Explorations: Musee Atelier Du Verre Sars Poteries France
Liliane Bettencourt Prize
The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for l'intelligence de la main 2001 was awarded to the glass sculptor Bernard Dejonghe. The jury's aim was to select a w...
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: New Work - James Angus
The Seagram Building has been bent like a banana, perhaps in high
cyclonic winds, and the basketball appears squashed as the result of a fall
from 25,000 feet. The castle has been superimposed upon...
Kunsthaus Graz: Michel Majerus: A Monographic Exhibition
Michel Majerus primary theme included new images of electronic media and their effects on
visual and popular forms of culture, extending to computer games and music. Though his pencil
was replaced by the computer, his painting, mainly with brush...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Walk On, Works by Yoshitomo Nara
Culled from his
menagerie of imaginary characters,
these three-foot tall sleepwalkers
have a gauze-like cloth surface.
Visitors entering the museum will
encounter a mass of
three-dimensional characters
swarming t...
BoMA, Bar of Modern Art: Walter King: BoMA's Inaugural Exhibition
As evidenced by this current body of work, King’s artistic tastes are eclectic and adventurous.
He uses media considered more contemporary, such as auto primers, wall paper samples, toys, and a range of modern (even industrial) application tech...
Newmark Gallery: San Francisco: The Changing City - New Paintings by Beryl Landau
Beryl Landau grew up in New York and moved to California as a teenager. She studied painting at UC Berkeley and later at the San Francisco Art Institute under Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn. She lives in San Francisco where she ...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Four Exhibtions: Alex Pittendrigh, Caroline Brunet and Tara Shield, Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey, Eugenia Raskopoulos
Alex Pittendrigh. Take care! The phantom!
Inspired by 1980s power dressing, Pittendrigh's contradictory photographic and
sculptural ensembles document the body at play. Through an examination of the
natural world, Pittendrigh contextualise...
NSA Gallery: Places: An Exhibition of Recent Works by Aidan Walsh
Walsh is known for his fascination with places of history. Not only historic spaces, buildings or sites, but also those spaces that hold personal memories. Nostalgia comes to mind, but these are also haunted sites. In his new body of work to be pr...
De Vleeshal: Anne-Marie van Sprang: New Works
Van Sprang's additions distort, but also, simultaneously, make for recognition. Small figures observe each other through binoculars, or gaze into space. In another case, an ear exhibits a growth, or figures have hands in unexpected places. Sometim...
Mint Museum of Art: VantagePoint V: Robert Lazzarini
The interest generated by three of Lazzarini’s sculptures inspired this subsequent show presenting a larger, more comprehensive survey of the artist’s work.
Lazzarini’s sculptures investigate hyperrealism, but his use of a skewed perspective...
Focal Point Gallery: Stephen Hughes: Photographs
Hughes photographs are dedicated to the peripheral, marginal zones and
strange disconnected gaps of our contemporary social landscape. In these
places people often betray the ambiguous signs of despair and longing: a
family hold hands as they p...
Art Institute of Chicago: Optical Delusions: Jokes, Puns, and Sleights-of-Hand in Photography
The photographers featured in this exhibition share a desire to both amuse and confuse the
viewer. The sense of humor involved can range from the whimsical and frivolous to the dry
and ...
Il Ramo d'Oro: No Time to Read Poems: Works by Five Artists
“Il Ramo d’oro” is a not for profit art gallery active in Naples, Italy, since the 2000. The gallery has arranged in its exhibition space many artistic, social and cultural events cooperating with regional, national and international institutions....
KZNSA - KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts: MINE : Works by 9 Artists
The provocative manipulation of matter and materials defies the traditional, adds depth to the contemporary, and re-defines the artists within the context of their highly specific lives.
MINE presents bodies of work in a sweeping variety of ...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: Perfect Day: Stefan Nikolaev
The presence of time as a theme in the work is made clear in Nikolaev's large wall text for Temple Bar Gallery, in which time is marked out in a short narrative by the inclusion of digital clocks at key intervals. His recurring focus on the ever...
Florence Lynch Gallery: Craig Fisher: Paintings
As Maurice Fréchuret (Director of the CAPC Museum, Bordeaux, France) writes,
"For Craig Fisher, the space of the canvas cannot be defined in an
unequivocal way. Rather, it is simultaneously a surface on which his
artistic ends are rigorously an...
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