It Came from Brooklyn Concert Series

It Came from Brooklyn Concert Series

Celebrating the Guggenhiem's 50th anniversary. Check it out pre-Halloween evening.

Artwork by Mike Paré, 2009

The Queen & Love

LONDON.- An exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace next year is set to challenge the popular image of Queen Victoria. Opening in March 2010, Victoria & Albert: Art & Love will focus on the period of Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert, from the time of their engagement and the Prince’s untimely death in 1861. Through 400 works from across the entireent in 1839 to the Royal Collection, including paintings, drawings, photographs, jewellery and sculpture, Queen Victoria emerges as a romantic and open-minded young woman, a far cry from the dour widow of 40 years with which we are so familiar.

The exhibition is the first ever to examine the couple’s shared enthusiasm for art, as well as their individual tastes. For Victoria and Albert, art was an important part of everyday life and a way they expressed their love for each other. Around a third of the objects in the exhibition were exchanged as gifts between the couple to mark special occasions. They range from the simple and sentimental, such as a beautiful set of jewellery in the form of orange blossom, to superb examples of early Italian painting, including Bernardo Daddi’s The Marriage of the Virgin, given by the Queen to the Prince for his birthday in 1846.

Jonathan Marsden, Deputy Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art and the exhibition’s chief curator said, ’This exhibition will overturn the popular image of Queen Victoria and reveal an energetic, passionate young woman who delighted in the company of artists, musicians and performers, and who idolized the opera and ballet stars of the time.

‘Commissioning and exchanging art was at the very heart of Victoria and Albert’s relationship. Such a shared enthusiasm for collecting has not been seen at any other stage in the history of the British crown.’

Victoria & Albert: Art & Love, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
19 March – 31 October 2010.

Marilyn Minter this weekend!!

Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by New York artist, Marilyn Minter. For her debut at Regen Projects, Minter presents a series of decadent paintings, photographs and her new filmGreen Pink Caviar. On view at Regen Projects II is a series the artist categorizes as the Mouth series, where tongues and lips lick, suck and drool candy–like substances. These works implicate the viewer as a voyeur in Minter's unattainable fantasy. As mouths push lusciously colored materials up against glass, the glass becomes a screen and the viewer, the object these mouths defiantly drive up against. The velocity of this movement is the ultimate jouissance blurring the boundary between pleasure and pain, attraction and repulsion. Throughout Minter's oeuvre, the artist seeks to imbue our fantasies with reality, showing the viewer that the human condition itself does not permit perfection and the notion of the ideal is impossible to obtain.

Also on view at Regen Projects II are paintings and photographs from the Pam series in which Pamela Anderson is the subject. Originally a project commissioned for Parkett Magazine, the artist works to obscure the distinction between art and advertising, using the language of both mediums to create a vocabulary that is her own. Portrayed in her natural state, the actress is depicted in an unconventional way. In Minter's works she is both vulnerable and glamorous. Evoking commercially sexualized depictions of femininity, Minter investigates the possibilities and limitations of photography through a lens of beauty.

Minter's film Green Pink Caviar, will be on view at Regen Projects as well as two moving image billboards on Sunset Boulevard that will play the film once an hour for the duration of the exhibition. Drawing upon the same subject matter depicted in the Mouth series, the video simulates painting with the tongue. Slurping and squirting these fluids become abject liquids, both visceral and foreign. Curator Joshua Shrikey writes:
"Minter shows us unruly bodies that cannot fit within our culture's carefully drawn lines: greedy, excessive bodies that ooze and leak and are marked by too much sweat, too much makeup, too much hair, too much grime. These works are about our private ruminations and self-scrutiny; they reveal bodies that, compared to the fantasies that bombard us daily, seem to be in a state of constant eruption."
(New Work:Marilyn Minter. Written by Joshua Shirkey. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 2005. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "New Work: Marilyn Minter" shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art.)

Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter has been the subject of numerous museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. She was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and featured on a series of billboards throughout New York City in conjunction with the exhibition. Her work is the subject of current solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio and The Cannery in Murcia, Spain.

For further information please contact Heather Harmon, Jennifer Loh or Brad Hudson at (310) 276-5424.


Regen Projects and Regen Projects II
633 N Almont Drive and 9016 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel. (310) 276-5424 Fax. (310) 276-7430
www.regenprojects.com

MARILYN MINTER
October 24 – December 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 6 – 8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm

I just can't put my finger on it...well Da Vinici did!!

Apparently a painting purchased by Canadian Art collector, Peter Silverman, on behalf of a Swiss friend, purchased the beauty of "Profile of the Bella Principessa", from New York gallerist Kate Ganz at $19,000 back in 2007, for which she had also purchased at auction for around the same price. Unfortunately, what they thought was just a 19th century painting, neither party 't realize was that there was a significant fingerprint that has now made the painting possibly worth $150 million dollars. As forensic art experts investigated this small fingerprint, which could be Leonard's index or middle finger, was matched as the same fingerprint on another master painting. Well, sure enough, through many x-rays and scans and lab visits, let the truth be told, she's a lovely muse of Mr. Da Vinci.




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Frankencamera!!! They've created a monster!!!

NPF has it bad for the RED camera, but NPR recently released a story on a new camera that will change the face of digital photography. A few computer scientists from Standford University discovered a way to photograph images no matter the lighting and exposure...forget all the light meters and strobes... you can catch the real lights and contrasts...forget your brights being blown out or your darks being black holes, the camera's sensors pick up dual images of each contrast and combines them into one lovely lit photo. So forget playing with levels and saturation in post... Professor Marc Levoy projects, "Our goal is not to make a product. Our goal is to try and push traditional camera makers to incorporate more of these flexible ways of producing images in their cameras." It will take a few more years to develop a solid system, but the camera allows you to create as many applications into the system just like an i-phone and photoshop all in one. click the photo for the report from NPR or watch the video below from Standford University.

Stiletto Stoners

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Marnie Weber ART talk at MOCA

Art Talk
MARNIE WEBER
Thursday, October 15 at 6:30pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
MOCA Grand Avenue

On Thursday, October 15 at 6:30pm artist Marnie Weber will discuss her work
and the blurred line between performance and visual art and the place where
make-believe and fantasy come to life.

FREE
INFO (213) 621-1745 or education@moca.org
www.moca.org

Inspired by the remarkable growth of the museum's holdings through gifts and
purchases over the past decade, Collecting History: Highlighting Recent
Acquisitions surveys recent acquisitions to MOCA's world-renowned permanent
collection, with a particular focus on the last five years. While some of
the works on view have been featured in MOCA exhibitions, many others are
exhibited for the first time. Collecting History remains on view at MOCA
Grand Avenue through October 19, 2009.

www.patrickpainter.com

Irving Penn dies at 92; a giant of photography -- latimes.com

Irving Penn dies at 92; a giant of photography -- latimes.com

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Today from the MET

TODAY FROM THE MET

Charles Clifford (Welsh, 1819-1863)
Principal Doorway of the Carthusian Monastery, Burgos, 1853
Albumen silver print from paper negative; Image: 13 3/8 x 11 3/16 in. (33.9 x 28.4 cm) Mat: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm) Frame: 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005 (2005.100.65)

It's getting OLD at the NEW...

Last chance to see great exhibitions at the NEW MUSEUM in NYC...


Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt at the New Museum a collection of 50 years of South African society. From his older works of black and white to his present day color images, Goldblatt transcends his social responses and documentary photography as a question of history to compare change and future acts of changes.
Closes Oct 11

Emory Douglas: Black Panther

Black Panther, 1969
Offset lithograph
22 7/8 x 15 in (58.4 x 38.1 cm)
Collection Alden and Mary Kimbrough
© 2009 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Dorothy Iannone: Lioness

Also closing at the New Museum Oct. 18

Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks

Gallery Reception

October 08, 2009
6:00 to 8:00 pm

Echo is the first exhibition at Frey Norris Gallery to exhibit the important Surrealist masterworks in the gallery's Annex alongside artwork from the contemporary gallery. We have suggested a painting or sculpture by eight important Surrealists to eight of our Bay Area artists and asked them to respond or invent around the resonances between their own interests and the content and ideas in the historical piece. The result will be pairings, one historical with one new piece, that synthesize art from 1939 to 2009. This project highlights the often misunderstood or overlooked ideas of the historical artists, demonstrating their foresight in creating art that projects a timeless power and mystery. Similarly, the pairings present contemporary artists with a challenge, creating a bridge that will measure their visions against artwork by some of the most storied artists of the last century.

Participating San Francisco Bay Area artists are Susannah Bettag, Kate Eric, Rodney Ewing, Michal Gavish, Joshua Hagler, Dana Harel, Hayv Kahraman and Mary Anne Kluth. These will appear with Surrealist artworks by Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Gunther Gerszo, Wilfredo Lam, Wolfgang Paalen, Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo. A wide range of objects, including paintings, drawings and mixed media sculptures will be included in the exhibition.

The Letters- Vincent Van Gough

This summer I had the privilege to walk the streets of some of Vincent Van Gough's paintings, eat at the lowly cafe of La Nuit in Arles, and was welcomed into his asylum in St. Rimes, and in just a few short days, Oct. 7, The Letters from Vincent Van Gough will be released as an exhibition at the Van Gough museum in Amsterdam and will be published as a series of six volumes of text. This is an extraordinary look into the mind of Van Gough, explaining the different time periods of his life, his career as an art dealer to his intentions of being a clergyman. His letters are also a wonderful philosophy of his artwork and lifestyle. Although some of his letters have been published in the past decade or two, however some where edited out. This is the first time the whole collection of his illustrations and writings will also be released free of charge on the web until Oct. 7 that www.vangoghletters.org .

Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker (eds), Vincent van Gogh: the Letters. The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition (Thames & Hudson), six volumes and a CD with complete text versions in French and Dutch, 2,180 pp, £325 until 31 December; thereafter £395 (hb) ISBN 9780500238653

The exhibition: “Van Gogh’s Letters: the Artist Speaks”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (9 October-3 January 2010). www.vangoghmuseum.nl. Another selection of his letters will be shown in “The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters”, Royal Academy, London (23 January 2010-18 April 2010).