New curators with eclectic backgrounds are helping to define how art is viewed by the next generation of museumgoers. All still in their 30s, four from top New York City institutions talk about their jobs.
From the NYTimes
24.3.10
young curators speak
New curators with eclectic backgrounds are helping to define how art is viewed by the next generation of museumgoers. All still in their 30s, four from top New York City institutions talk about their jobs.
From the NYTimes
twombly decorates the louvre
"The Louvre's ceilings already abound with decorative paintings: There are plenty of frolicking maidens, epic battles and racing chariots, not to mention cherubs holding cornucopias.
American contemporary artist Cy Twombly had something different in mind — something simple.
Twombly, the first artist given the honor of decorating a Louvre ceiling since Georges Braque in the 1950s, came up with a geometric design — a deep blue background punctuated with floating disks and emblazoned with the names of sculptors from ancient Greece.
The 400-square-meter (4,300-square-foot) ceiling, inaugurated Tuesday, floats over a gallery of antique bronzes like a deep blue sky. It opens up the long gallery but doesn't overpower it, as was Twombly's intent."
Angela Doland for the Associated Press
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See more of Twombly's work here
11.3.10
mona hatoum wins
"Sophie Calle and Mona Hatoum have been recognized for their work with awards. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, Calle has won the Swedish Hasselblad Prize for Photography for 2010 from the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, while Hatoum was awarded the German Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis for 2010 from Berlin’s Akademie der Künste...
In Hatoum’s case, the jurors lauded the centrality of the “human body caught between violence, power, and fragility” in her work. Hatoum, who was born in Lebanon in 1952, moved to London in 1975 and now divides her time between London and Berlin. The Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis is endowed with $16,800."
From Artforum
In Hatoum’s case, the jurors lauded the centrality of the “human body caught between violence, power, and fragility” in her work. Hatoum, who was born in Lebanon in 1952, moved to London in 1975 and now divides her time between London and Berlin. The Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis is endowed with $16,800."
From Artforum
4.3.10
philagrafika 2010
Oscar Munoz
Gunilla Klingberg
Art HazelwoodPhilagrafika 2010 is the first presentation of what will become a recurring event in Philadelphia, celebrating the role of print in contemporary artistic practice.
The Philagrafika 2010 festival contends that the printed image lies at the heart of contemporary art. Concepts of imprinting, multiplicity, reproduction, and seriality, as well as physically printed forms are frequently used by artists who do not think of themselves as printmakers. As artistic vocabularies have expanded and mixing media has become commonplace, artists have increasingly drawn from inherent characteristics of the print to achieve specific aesthetic and expressive goals.
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Philagrafika 2010
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