Great review in Artlies click on image to read.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
GEORGE MICHAEL SPECIAL SCREENING
Heads up George Fans!! This is your chance to experience the singing sensation on the big screen, and do something good for those in need, too! All ticket sales benefit the Goss-Michael Foundation’s scholarship program. With funds raised, we will create a brand new scholarship for college students so they can continue their education and complete their degree. A portion of the proceeds will also be donated to the North Texas Food Bank. The doors will open at 6:45 and the feature will begin at 7:15. GEORGE MICHAEL: LIVE IN LONDON
Special Screening
December 16, 2009
Studio Movie Grill, Royal Lane
Doors open at 6:45pm
Doors open at 6:45pm
Please purchase your tickets now through our online store
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON ! !
This month we will be launching our new website so please keep checking back with us.
Its going to be brilliant but not boombastic.
Its going to be brilliant but not boombastic.
STEVE MCQUEEN TO DIRECT FELA
Focus Features has picked Steve McQueen to direct Fela, a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti—the subject of the recently opened Broadway musical Fela!McQueen, the British artist who made his feature directing debut last year on the Irish hunger strike with the drama Hunger, will write the script with Biyi Bandele, based on the Michael Veal book Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon. The recent musical is not connected to the film project: Focus is basing its picture on a rights package consisting of screen rights to Fela’s music and his life story, plus Veal’s book.
Fela lived large—with some twenty-seven wives—and paid a high price for speaking out against oppression in Nigeria. In one attack on his home, Fela’s seventy-eight-year-old mother was killed after being thrown from a second-story window. Fela responded by placing her coffin on the steps of the Nigerian leader’s residence.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
RICHARD WRIGHT WINS 2009 TURNER PRIZE
Scottish artist Richard Wright is the winner of the 2009 Turner Prize.
For his main piece in the Turner Prize show he has filled a whole wall of a big gallery with a symmetrical abstract design that looks like a giant inkblot in a Rorschach test. Painted in gold leaf, it shimmers on an end wall, like a mirage that might disappear at any moment.
For his main piece in the Turner Prize show he has filled a whole wall of a big gallery with a symmetrical abstract design that looks like a giant inkblot in a Rorschach test. Painted in gold leaf, it shimmers on an end wall, like a mirage that might disappear at any moment.He is represented by Modern Institute Gallery
Saturday, November 14, 2009
NEW CURATOR FOR FRIEZE 2010
London-based Sarah McCrory has been announced as the new Curator of Frieze Projects, the unique programme of artists’ commissions which takes place annually as part of Frieze Art Fair.
McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists. In the past she has worked with artists including Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.
McCrory is known for her support and work with emerging, young and underrepresented artists. In the past she has worked with artists including Charles Atlas, Nairy Baghramian, Spartacus Chetwynd, Enrico David, Donald Urquhart and Cathy Wilkes.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL OPPOSES LONDON MAYOR
Boris Johnson and the Arts Council, London are battling it out. Earlier this month, the mayor was thwarted in his attempt to nominate a political supporter, Veronica Wadley, as head of the council. Critics including current Arts Council England head Liz Forgan said that Wadley had “almost no arts credibility,” while culture secretary Ben Bradshaw blocked the nomination, saying it violated conventions against cronyism.
Boris Johnson has refused to back down. After at first threatening to leave the post open, he has now started the search to fill the position from scratch, suggesting that he would pick Wadley if she applied again.
Boris Johnson has refused to back down. After at first threatening to leave the post open, he has now started the search to fill the position from scratch, suggesting that he would pick Wadley if she applied again.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL SELECTS 12 ART PROJECTS FOR UK's 2012 OLYMPICS
A giant human puppet of Lady Godiva and three thirty-foot crocheted lions are among the artworks selected to showcase British culture at the 2012 Olympics, reports the BBC. The selected artists and groups are: the Pacitti Theater Company, Shauna Richardson, Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu, the Owl Project and Ed Carter, Anthony McCall and Fact, Brian Irvine and John McIlduff, Craig Coulthard, Lone Twin, Alex Hartley, Marc Rees, Imagineer Productions, and Leeds Canvas.
More than two thousand entries were received in what the Arts Council dubbed the most ambitious and wide-ranging art prize in the UK.
The twelve winning designs, from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the nine English regions, will share nearly nine million dollars. Each project is inspired by its location and celebrates the Olympic Games.
The twelve winning commissions will be developed across 2010 and 2011, among them a full-size football pitch created within woodland in the Scottish Borders and an environmentally sustainable watermill.
More than two thousand entries were received in what the Arts Council dubbed the most ambitious and wide-ranging art prize in the UK.
The twelve winning designs, from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the nine English regions, will share nearly nine million dollars. Each project is inspired by its location and celebrates the Olympic Games.
The twelve winning commissions will be developed across 2010 and 2011, among them a full-size football pitch created within woodland in the Scottish Borders and an environmentally sustainable watermill.
FEW PICS FROM FRIEZE
Here are several highlights from the Frieze art fair in London that took place last week.
Walead Beshty at Thomas Dane
Damien Hirst at Tate
TWO BY TWO FOR AIDS AND ART
This weekend is the amfar 2x2 annual gala which is held at The Rachofsky House
There are some amazing artits on view and for purchase.
Click here to find out more about the charity.
Thanks to the phenomenal support of the participating artists, dealers, sponsors and patrons, Two by Two for AIDS and Art’s annual gala and art auction has raised $21 million in its first decade in support of amfAR’s AIDS research initiatives and the DMA’s contemporary art acquisition program. An eagerly anticipated event that quickly sells out, the benefit features a seated dinner for 400 guests with both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art and unique luxury items.
Two by Two is such a successful event because it provides an opportunity to support two very worthy organizations. amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, has made great strides in essential AIDS research initiatives over the last 25 years, and Two x Two has become amfAR’s largest fundraiser in the United States. The Dallas Museum of Art has added over 70 major works of contemporary art to their permanent collection with Two x Two proceeds donated to their Contemporary Art Acquistion Fund. Two x Two is also the DMA’s largest annual fundraiser.
There are some amazing artits on view and for purchase.
Click here to find out more about the charity.
Thanks to the phenomenal support of the participating artists, dealers, sponsors and patrons, Two by Two for AIDS and Art’s annual gala and art auction has raised $21 million in its first decade in support of amfAR’s AIDS research initiatives and the DMA’s contemporary art acquisition program. An eagerly anticipated event that quickly sells out, the benefit features a seated dinner for 400 guests with both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art and unique luxury items.
Two by Two is such a successful event because it provides an opportunity to support two very worthy organizations. amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, has made great strides in essential AIDS research initiatives over the last 25 years, and Two x Two has become amfAR’s largest fundraiser in the United States. The Dallas Museum of Art has added over 70 major works of contemporary art to their permanent collection with Two x Two proceeds donated to their Contemporary Art Acquistion Fund. Two x Two is also the DMA’s largest annual fundraiser.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
IRVING PENN 1917-2009
Irving Penn, one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, whose signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide, died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan.
Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the magazine, beginning in 1943. It also brought him recognition in the art world; his photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries and are prized by collectors.
He was most famous for photographing Parisian fashion models and the world’s great cultural figures, but he seemed equally at home photographing Peruvian peasants or bunion pads.
A courtly man whose gentle demeanor masked an intense perfectionism, Penn adopted the pose of a humble craftsman while helping to shape a field known for putting on airs. Although schooled in painting and design, he chose to define himself as a photographer, scraping his early canvases of paint so that they might serve a more useful life as backdrops to his pictures.
Penn had the good fortune of working for and collaborating with two of the twentieth century’s most inventive and influential magazine art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman.
He studied with Brodovitch in Philadelphia as a young man and came to New York in 1937 as his unpaid design assistant at Harper’s Bazaar. But it was under Liberman, at Vogue, that Penn forged his career as a photographer.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
TURNER PRIZE 2009
TURNER PRIZE 2009
Tate Britain 6 October 2009 – 3 January 2010
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.
Enrico David has been nominated for his solo exhibitions How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy? at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Bulbous Marauder at the Seattle Art Museum. Enrico David is a contemporary surrealist who creates rich and profoundly original painting, drawing and sculpture which are disconcerting, confrontational and beautiful.
Roger Hiorns for his solo exhibitions Seizure, Artangel commission, Harper Road, London and at Corvi Mora, London. Hiorns creates arresting sculpture and installation combining unusual materials. His exploration of chemical processes took spectacular effect in Seizure, in which a derelict flat in South London was filled with liquid copper sulphate, which after a period of time encrusted every surface of the space with blue crystals.
Lucy Skaer for her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and A Boat Used as a Vessel at the Kunsthalle Basel. Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer's images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.
Richard Wright for the work he exhibited in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Wright creates subtle and exquisite wall paintings that respond directly to the architecture in which they are created. Often awkwardly placed in discreet locations, they combine graphic imagery and intricate patterning from sources as varied as Medieval painting, graphics and typography.
The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 21 April 2009. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.
For more info please click HERE
Tate Britain 6 October 2009 – 3 January 2010
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.
Enrico David has been nominated for his solo exhibitions How Do You Love Dzzzzt By Mammy? at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Bulbous Marauder at the Seattle Art Museum. Enrico David is a contemporary surrealist who creates rich and profoundly original painting, drawing and sculpture which are disconcerting, confrontational and beautiful.
Roger Hiorns for his solo exhibitions Seizure, Artangel commission, Harper Road, London and at Corvi Mora, London. Hiorns creates arresting sculpture and installation combining unusual materials. His exploration of chemical processes took spectacular effect in Seizure, in which a derelict flat in South London was filled with liquid copper sulphate, which after a period of time encrusted every surface of the space with blue crystals.
Lucy Skaer for her solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and A Boat Used as a Vessel at the Kunsthalle Basel. Skaer makes drawings, sculptures and films which often take found photographic sources as their starting point. Rooted in reality, yet subjected to a process of elaborate transformation, Skaer's images hover in the space between recognition and ambiguity, figuration and abstraction.
Richard Wright for the work he exhibited in the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh and his exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Wright creates subtle and exquisite wall paintings that respond directly to the architecture in which they are created. Often awkwardly placed in discreet locations, they combine graphic imagery and intricate patterning from sources as varied as Medieval painting, graphics and typography.
The Turner Prize award is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the twelve months preceding 21 April 2009. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.
For more info please click HERE
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
FRIEZE 2009
Once again the social season is off and running and next week in London will be the annual art fair Known as Frieze. The Dates are 15-18 Oct click here for more info.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
MODERN ART NOTES
If you havent read Tyler Green's blog you REALLY need to set it as a favorite.
One of the best art blogs youll ever read.
One of the best art blogs youll ever read.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
ART THIS WEEK DOT COM
Check out this link to see an interview with Marc Quinn.
Thanks to Lindey Walls and Richard Serrano for making this happen.
Thanks to Lindey Walls and Richard Serrano for making this happen.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
PRE-ORDER SIGNED MARC QUINN CATALOGUE
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