Two Community Projects: Dred Scott in Philadelphia and Hassan Hajjaj in Cardiff
I ran into Dred Scot t in New York, which is how I learned that he’d done a work for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program . Dred Scott and Mural Arts? Scott describes himself as making revolutionary art to propel history forward. 'Danny,' detail from Dred Scott's installation across from Juvenile Court His work has been discussed in books with titles such as Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions and Transgressions: The Offences of Art , which says something about its reception. Did Mural Arts really invite him to Philadelphia to create something other than a mural? Well, you wouldn’t know it from their website, but the piece is well-documented on Scott’s website , with documentation of the process and film interviews with the participants.
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Two Community Projects: Dred Scott in Philadelphia and Hassan Hajjaj in Cardiff
Are you searching for the perfect piece of art to grace your mantle? Waiting to run into a vase the exact size and color you need to fill that huge void above your entertainment center? Look no further! The Hudson area has some fantastic art resources to take advantage of. Seasons on St. Croix is located on Second Street in Downtown Hudson, and represents dozens of local and regional artists in all media. From textiles to pottery, glass to paintings, you will find it here. They have a brand new gallery, and an artist reception event on the first Friday of every month. Visit their website at http://www.seasonsonstcroix.com/ for more information
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Art Along the River
It’s rare, but much more interesting, to find serious museums who are willing to take a focused look at art of particularly local interest rather than seeing yet again the same handful of artists who are fashionable at the moment throughout international art circles. I saw fascinating exhibits in July at The Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Project Arts Centre of two generations of artists whose themes are Irish national identity (not individual identity, as was of interest to Americans since the 1980s) during periods of change. Timothy Hawkesworth The Sower at Night 1986 While much of the work would stand up to international viewing it all concerns specifically Irish questions that would require footnotes elsewhere.
Help from the Computer LabIt’s not often that I find myself heading for lectures sponsored by applied mathematicians, but last Spring I went to the Math department at the University of Pennsylvania to hear David Stork talk about the usefulness of computer modeling for art historians. computer study of Velazquez’s Las Meninas And I wasn’t the lone art historian. I found myself sitting beside David Stone of the University of Delaware and behind us was Chris Poggi, University of Pennsylvania, with a student of hers. Stork, the chief scientist at Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University was always interested in art and has studied art history. He’s also pioneered the field of computer imaging of art , the talk’s subject. What’s interesting about Stork’s work is that it doesn’t begin with a thesis. Rather he’s developed a range of tools which he can bring to pre-existing art historical questions: exactly what is happening in Las Meninas ? How accurately did Vermeer reproduce the scenes and/or figures that he represented? And most sensationally, is David Hockney correct in his theory that Renaissance painters used optical devices to create such highly realistic looking paintings?
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Help from the Computer Lab
– – Muskrat Falls is an impressive natural 50 foot waterfall on the lower Churchill River. The hydro power potential of Muskrat Falls was recognized more than a hundred years ago when investors proposed constructing a dam and paper mill there. It wasn’t built, but the hydro potential of the site remains under review today in a controversial plan for electric power development. – . Muskrat Falls Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale. Inquiries email mavis.penney@gmail.com www.mavispenneystudios.com Visit “Off the Highway” our “100 Days 100 Paintings” blog to see more landscapes from Labrador, Canada and Nebraska, U.S.
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Muskrat Falls
Hot summer nights and un-air conditioned galleries can make for sweaty openings, and I expect nothing less tonight at Katherine Mulherin's August exhibition of Shauna Born's portraits. Soft-focus and ethereally oblique, Born's portraits use delicate colours and imprecise brush strokes, that give the paintings, which are less than 12″ tall, typically, a mysterious, not-quite-there quality (intentionally, I'm sure; the titles are equally indirect, like This Charming Man, for a bearded hipster in a cowboy shirt, or Steel Town, for a simmering young woman, glaring out in quiet contempt). There's a roughness to these pictures that makes them seem kind of urban folksy, and I can't quite tell if it's intentional, or the product of still-developing skill.
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Tonight: Shauna Born at Katherine Mulherin
Michael Klein breaks the summer-show trap of dusting off whatever's in storage, just to keep the walls covered, with the curious curatorial conceit of going back to his roots for School of Art, which opened on Saturday. Klein, who went to art school in Winnipeg, convenes here a selection of works from his various teachers, some of whom continue to teach at his alma mater, the University of Manitoba's School of Art.
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Going home again: School of Art @ MKG127
An inaugural presentation as America transitions from Bush to Obama: George Grosz at the Hirshhorn ; The Abu Ghraib photos and the national collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress: part one , part two ; The Hirshhorn acquires Martha Rosler’s ‘The Gray Drape;’ Bruce Nauman at the Venice Biennale: Double Steel Cage Piece (1974) and America’s torture of Abu Zubaydeh ; with a look at Nauman’s hanging chair sculptures in Chicago and Washington: part one, part two; and Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi : A foundational painting. As discussed by Gerhard Richter Portraits at the National Gallery (UK), as discussed by Art of Two Germanys at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Table of contents: Torture and national responsibility on MAN
While I started my curatorial career creating mostly thematic group shows, I have always been most interested in solo or one-person exhibitions. I strongly believe that it takes more than one or two examples of an artists work to really understand the work and get a grasp of what the artist is doing or trying to say. A well curated or developed solo show can provide the viewer with a detailed or comprehensive look at a specific body of work, or of a survey of a longer period of artistic production
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Miquel Barcelo @ the Spanish Pavillion – 53rd La Biennale di Venezia
We have been back in Toronto for just over 72 hours now. As I stated in an earlier post this was my first trip to Venice and to the La Biennale di Venezia . I have to admit that I fell in love with Venice, and had moments where I contemplated phoning my parents and asking them to send us Pookie (our adorable little toy poodle) as I wanted to stay in this somewhat unreal environment of art, architecture, perfect weather and no cars! Pookie in Gallery Window Brayham Contemporary Art Toronto, ON Of course the reality is that we don’t speak Italian, Phil has teaching and research commitments at the University of Waterloo, I have the gallery and am in the midst of my PhD
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Navigating Venice and the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia without an expense account
Propped against the wall throughout the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini of the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia were Andre Cadere’s Barres de bois rond . These colourful wooden bars seemed purposefully out of place. They had no apparent relationship to the work they were exhibited with, and they were scattered around throughout the exhibition pavillion placed adjacent to other artists’ work, or almost tucked away in forgotten spaces.
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Andre Cadere & Art Interventions at the 53rd La Biennale Di Venezia
This trip to Syria isn’t just about the charming locals, I’m also interested in the former inhabitants of this lovely place : the Assyrians and the Romans – fascinating folk, both of them. Picking up some ancient goodies would also be nice, there’s nothing like an artefact or two in the drawing room to impress one’s friends…not that I have a drawing room as I live out of a rucksack, silly me! I’m starting with Damascus, and of course, I’ll be staying in the Old City, which is right in the middle of town. I know in a few weeks I’ll be staying in a bedouin tent and milking goats – probably smelling and looking like one…SO I’m pleased to be staying at the Beit Al Mamlouka – a very cool 17th century “palace” in Old Damascus which is now a boutique hotel. At $150 + for four-star digs and five-star character, it’s very reasonable
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SYRIA – Notes from Damascus
In an attempt to define his own reputation William Blake mounted an exhibition of his own work in 1809, above his brother’s shop in Soho. It was not a success. Installation of William Blake's 1809 Exhibition; Sam Drake/Tate Photography Few people saw the sixteen watercolors and tempera paintings in the exhibition and the single review was scathing. Robert Hunt, writing in the Sept. 17, 1809 Examiner , wrote: … when the ebullations of a distempered brain are mistaken for the sallies of genius by those whose works have exhibited the soundest thinking in art, the malady [madness] has indeed attained a pernicious height, and it becomes a duty to endeavor to arrest its progress. Such is the case with the productions and admirers of WILLIAM BLAKE, an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement, and consequently, of whom no public notice would have been taken, if he was not … held up to public admiration by many esteemed amateurs and professors as a genius in some respect original and legitimate
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William Blake’s 1809 Exhibition recreated at Tate Britain
Cheryl Ratcliff AJ LaGasse Cecil Irving Sue Deutscher Justin Clayton Scott Hammond Kevin Webster Karla Nolan Mark Webster Cheryl Pass Nicole Leigh Smith Nancy Rhodes Harper Barbara Haviland Andrew Orr Joan Marie Giampa Walter Lynn Mosley Janice Warriner Greg Storer To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings | Daily Painters | Painting a Day Artists
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gloucester, England, United Kingdom I arrived on the Sunday afternoon, after being subjugated to hours of boring people and their conversations on a National Express Coach when coming into Gloucester . I was dropped off at pretty much the city centre, and given that it was isn’t a particularly big place at all it’s easy just to walk from one side of the town to the other in a matter of minutes
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Gloucester – from Football to Preachers – Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
If you’ve been following me long enough, you’ll remember me mentioning a few times that my paintings have been displayed in the International Photography H all of Fame….It recently came to my attention that a number of people have tried contacting the Hall of Fame to ask about my paintings, only to find out that the Hall of Fame h…So in case you were one of the people who got in touch with the Hall of Fame, I hope this paints a clearer picture for you =)… Here is the original post: Painting A Clearer Picture
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Painting A Clearer Picture
Brilliant summer sunlight shining through layers and layers of leaves, each leaf reflecting different shades of greens and yellows onto whatever is next to it. Greens and greens and greens! . Dappled Light Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale – $100. USD – shipping extra Inquiries email mavis.penney@gmail.com www.mavispenneystudios.com Visit “Off the Highway” our “100 Days 100 Paintings” blog to see more landscapes from Labrador, Canada and Nebraska, U.S. A.
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Dappled Light
Jump to the full entry & travel map Colchester, England, United Kingdom Weather – looks like a sunny day – yay! So we got going as quickly as we could so that we could get to Colchester Zoo for a good long visit today. And I think we set off before 9.30am, so that was pretty good I think since breakfast wasn’t available until 8.30. It was still a fair drive to the zoo – we got there about 11am
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Colchester Zoo (as seen on TV!) – Colchester, England, United Kingdom
After a week of R & R, I arrived back in SA ready to hit the junkin’ trail. The shop survived without me, so all is well, though I would’ve preferred to return to a sold-out space. Who wouldn’t, right?! I hit the flea market Sunday, finding a few things, but nothing out of the ordinary. The best buy of the day was probably a $5 pocket watch. Its case is in perfect condition and the crystal is intact. I’ve been a little more organized than usual, having sorted my new finds into piles according to their destinations. I must say that is quite an accomplishment as I’m not known for my organizational skills. But I’m seeing a big payoff for finally stocking my booth that’s almost two hours away from home. I don’t go there often, but I did a big drop over the 4th of July weekend and sales have really taken off. I’ve vowed to take better care of that space, since it’s taking such good care of me this month! I got a wild hair last night, and sketched a new design for my big space at Homestead. I started painting some mirror frames in preparation of a big re-do, as I’m considering a wall filled entirely by different shapes and sizes of mirrors. We’ll see. Early this morning, when it was nice and steamy like a sauna, I loaded the minivan then headed to get a start on the re-vamp. Sadly, I only got a small portion redone. I’m incredibly slow, even with a sketch. And I always, without fail, overestimate how much space I have. I worked this morning on creating a porch area with an iron loveseat, window screens on the wall, white sparkly wreaths, columns and broken cement pieces filled with paper flowers I made out of old patterns and coffee filters. I overestimated by only one window screen and a screen door, but the area came together quite nicely, I must say. The downside is…I have more than half the space left to work on. Like I said…slow…as in turtle slow. On the way home from the shop, I copped a curbside goodie — a long dresser that was calling my name. Luckily I had room in the minivan. I always worry that the homeowner just happened to sit whatever-my-find-may-be on the curb for a moment, never intending someone to scoop it up. Call me paranoid. So I rang the doorbell, just to make sure it was a freebie. No one answered. I loaded and bailed. Yippeeee! Free stuff makes me smile in a large way
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Lovin’ the Curbside Grab
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing Normal University, Lanhui Apartments, Beijing, China So now this is the epic catch- up post! I’m sorry I haven’t posted all of this as it was going on, but with starting to settle down into classes, china blocking a lot of the internet and trying to get around that, and going on a lot of excursions- I haven’t had much of a chance! I’m going to write a re-cap post here about the main highlights. Then, I’ve already written something for Saturday going to the Great Wall, so I’ll post that next. So last we left off, I’d been here for about 3 or 4 days and I was just starting to figure things out. Here’s what happened next: Tuesday June 30th Beihai and Jingshan Parks I spent all day with my roommate Lauren and our friends Hwanny, Shasha, Cindy, Minji, and Difan. At first we were planning on going to the Summer Palace, but then decided to wait until a day we could spend more times there. So we headed out for our first bus adventure to Beihai and Jingshan Park. They’re right next to each other just north of the Forbidden City. Beihai Park was built by Genghis Khan (or so I was told) as an imperial garden, originally connected to the Forbidden City. The lake was dug out and added to the dirt dug out for the moat around the Forbidden City to make Jingshan Hill. We went on a perfect day because the sky was clear and blue all day! It was a great way to celebrate before our first day of classes. Beihai Park was beautiful. There were all kinds of temples and pagodas. The gardens were so lush and I really enjoyed the Empress’s get-away with ponds full of Koy fish. One thing I kept seeing were photo stands, where you pay a fee and get to take a bunch of pictures in traditional Chinese dresses. We didn’t buy them, but I’ve seen them at a few tourist places, so I might still on one of my next adventures. There were boats you could rent to go on the lake, but they were a little expensive and then we were running a little late so we decided to pass on that. We walked along the Five Pavilions on the northern shore. They jutted out into the water a little bit and were connected by little bridges. As you walked into each one, you ran into different groups of people doing different things. In the first pavilion, a woman was singing as two other women were performing some very traditional dance. In the next, a man offering to draw portraits tempted you by sketching on the ground with chalk on the end of a long stick. In the next, some older men and women sat around playing games. In the fourth, someone had a radio and there were couples dancing, just for fun.
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