Fine Arts
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin’s 17th Century Former Royal Hospital Kilmainham
By: - Dec 08th, 2013Relaunching after renovations the Irish Museum of Modern Art presented two special exhiitions- Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) the Irish born furniture designer, and architect and Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) a British-born–Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist. Her mother was Irish.
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Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil
Vast Installation at Mass MoCA on View for a Year
By: - Dec 05th, 2013Building Five of Mass MoCA is one of the largest and most magnificent spaces for contemporary art in North America. It is always fascinating to see how artists respond to the daunting challenge. Izhar Patkin: The Wandering Veil is now on view for the coming year.
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Trinity College and the Book of Kells
Viewing Ireland's National Treasures
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013During the 1979 traveling exhibition Treasures of Early Irish Art I first viewed the Book of Kells. Given the long line of visitors it proved to be a brief encounter. That also was the case during a recent visit to the Old Library of Trinty College in Dublin. It was an absorbing and enchanting experience of the essence of Irish heritage.
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Laure Prouvost Wins Britain's Turner Prize
Based on Video Installation Wantee
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Laure Prouvost, winner of the fourth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has been awarded the prestigious Turner Prize for her video installation Wantee, tribute to a fictional grandfather inspired by Kurt Schwitters.
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Malcolm Morley at Britain's Ashmolean Museum
Beyond Photo Realism
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013Malcolm Morley is not a Photorealist. His painting can convey a Photo-realist quality when reproduced in a publication, but to the eye of the viewer there is a subtle yet conscious energy to the paint. There is covert mark-making in Morley’s Superrealist works. If an “ism†was to be found it was in the artist’s self-categorisation—before discarding the method and the category of Superrealism in order to follow an expressionistic route—a route already alluded to in his noticeably surreptitious energy.
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London's Hot New Tryon St Gallery
Near the Saatchi Museum
By: - Dec 03rd, 2013The new Meridian exhibition at the recently launched Tryon St Gallery, (just a stone’s throw from London’s Saatchi gallery), explores the universal human fascination with finding our place in the world and recording it through maps and mapping.
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New York Bound, Islip Museum, Long Island
International Book Art Biennial, until December 29, 2013
By: - Nov 26th, 2013Artist and curator, Dorothea Fleiss of East-West Artists, Stuttgart/Germany, has brought exceptional and imaginative works by book artists from around the globe to East Islip, Long Island, New York. 100 pieces are on display by more than 70 artists. They will touch visitors in many different ways.
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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life
At Atlanta's High Museum Through January 12
By: - Nov 21st, 2013The first installation of the collaboration between the musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art explored the birth of American landscape painting through the works of Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand. American Encounters: Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America premiered at the Louvre in January 2012.
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2014 Whitney Biennial
Museum Announces Participating Artists
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Yet again controversy surrounds who's in and who's out with the release of the list of artists selected for the 2014 Whitney Biennial. To stir the pot this time three outside curators will be given one floor each of the museum. With no compromises that will ensure the individual taste of the designated curators. The museum's curators will advise on the installations.
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Spiraling Downward: From Minimal to Material
Systems of Abstract Art
By: - Nov 20th, 2013Robert Linsley's New Abstraction has an interesting blog post on the notion of symmetry that got me thinking about several of the artists that he mentioned and an earlier blog on Stella who is his “main man†in Modern painting.
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Mira Schendel at Tate Modern
Retrospective of Brazilian Modernist
By: - Nov 20th, 2013While described by critics as the Doyenne of Brazilian modernism the work of Mira Schendel (Zurich, Switzerland, 1919 - São Paulo, 1988) is not well know outside of her adopted country. The Swiss born artist is the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London through January 19.
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Ana Mendieta at London's Hayward Gallery
Outstanding Among Feminist Museum Exhibitions
By: - Nov 19th, 2013For a variety of social and political motivations the majority of modern and contemporary museum level exhibitions we viewed recently in Dulin and London featured feminist reclamation projects for women artists of varying degrees of obscurity. Of these the large restrospective of work by the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta at Hayward Gallery required no PC underpinnings. Her work clobbered us with its primal power and originality.
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Ladykillers Revived in the West End
Reconfiguring the Classic Alec Guinnss Comedy
By: - Nov 18th, 2013We opted to end a run of theatre in Dublin and London on a light note. Ladykillers in the West End was as warm and soothing as a nice cup of tea. The wonderfully crafted play was as richly satifying as the indelible classic 1955 film, released by Ealing Studios, which specialised in those wonderful, now iconic comedies.
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TransCultural Exchange Boston 2013
Thinking Globally Acting Locally
By: - Oct 21st, 2013Attending the Boston TransCultural Exchange for the fourth time meant catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. This is a portrait gallery of many of the artists, panels and participants during the four day event attended by more that 400 delegates and speakers.
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Sargent as Court Painter to the Gilded Age
Reflections on MFA's 1999 Exhibition
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The current exhibition of Sargent's Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts prompts artist/ critic Martin Mugar to repost his review of the 1999 MFA exhibition. He compares Sargent in style and manner to Velasquez as a court painter. It is well know that Sargent's masterpiece "Daughters of Edward D. Boit" borrowed its composition from "Las Meninas" by the Spanish master.
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TransCultural Exchange Conference 2013
4th Conference in Boston
By: - Oct 20th, 2013The four day conference ended on October 13. It was titled: International Opportunities in the Arts: Engaging Minds and drew more than 400 artists, administrators and participants from many art related venues worldwide. An exhilarating experience!
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Sargent’s Watercolors at the MFA
Glorious Glitz Awash Until January 20
By: - Oct 19th, 2013The traveling exhibition "John Singer Sargent Watercolors" encourages us to view the artist as more than a glib and succesful society portrait painterr of the Gilded Age. This is an intimate study of the private Sargent painting in nature entirely for his own pleasure. It is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this aspect of his work in stunning depth and range,.
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Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to February 2
By: - Oct 17th, 2013The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents “Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Gardeâ€, the largest survey in twenty years devoted to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) through February 2, 2014.
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Guns & Poses by Natalie Giungi
When a Rose Is Not Just a Rose
By: - Oct 16th, 2013The artist Natalie Giungi is exploring thorny issues in creating a uniquely provocative rose garden. Leaning over to smell or examine a blossom there is a shock of discovering its unusual materials. She is in the process of creating an installation of this garden of unearthly delights.
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Istanbul Biennial 13th Edition
Conjuring Art out of Socio-Politics
By: - Oct 14th, 2013Biennial's reputation as a guardian of freedom has been compromised due to political unrest over Istanbul's Gezi Park in May. Limited with their interventions outdoors, artists take on urban issues within indoor venues.
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Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford to January 19
By: - Oct 05th, 2013It is hard to balance these two artists’ works. Bacon’s feverish sacks of meat are positively fervent set against Moore’s stolid immovable incapacity; Moore is like a muted child being out-screamed by a naughty sibling. Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone contrasts their work in an exhibition at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.
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Akikazu Iwamoto at NY's Stux Gallery
Eye Candy
By: - Oct 05th, 2013Hiroshima-born Akikazu Iwamoto, now forty, fills his compact solo show at Stux Gallery with wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that involve amusing and sometimes frightening bodily transformations. The result was a surprisingly confronting, and often wicked, commentary on our inflated inner desires.
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Now Dig This at Williams College
Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
By: - Oct 02nd, 2013In 2011-2012 The Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time which involved 60 cultural institutions in Southern California. The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles presented "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." The exhibition, which was awarded Best Thematic Exhibit Nationally for 2012 by the International Asssociation of Art Critics (AICA), is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art through December 1.
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Anselm Kiefer at Mass MoCA for 15 Years
Building Developed with Hall Art Foundation
By: - Sep 27th, 2013In collaboration with the Hall Art Foundation a building dedicated to works by the German artist, Anselm Kiefer, will be on view at Mass MoCA for the next 15 years. Combined with the 25 year agreement for the Sol LeWitt building this greatly enhances the museum as America's foremost destination for contemporary art.
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Kai Althof Institute of Contemporary Art
Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect)
By: - Sep 26th, 2013For his first ICA exhibition in 2005 former curator Nicholas Baume presented the German artist Kai Althoff in the exhibition Kai KeinRespekt (Kai No Respect). entering into this Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art) there was a sensation of being engulfed, overwhelmed and disoriented by a chaotic installation of drawings, paintings, photographs, clips from vintage magazines, listening stations to hear the artist’s recordings, monitors of videos, and piles of as well as a room of stuff. This review was first posted to Maverick Arts Magazine.
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