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.

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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).