Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Pinakothek der Moderne hosts ‘Passionately Provocative’ ~ The Stoffel Collection

Munich, Germany - Passionately provocative major works of contemporary art were collected by the Stoffels from the 1970's onwards. ‘Passionately Provocative’: the Modern Art Collection at the Pinakothek der Moderne is now showing a large part of this splendid collection for the very first time with some 120 works exhibited over more than 1,200 m.http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Pinakothek_der_Moderne_Stoffel.html

Wyer Gallery opens Annabel Emson's "An Other Space"
London - Wyer Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Annabel Emson. An Other Space opens with a private view on Thursday 20th November 2008. Teetering on the edge of abstraction and representation, Emson’s paintings reflect the patterns that arise naturally in the structure of the world around us. However, despite drawing inspiration from both the natural and manmade environment, she does not depict recognizable landscapes in existence somewhere but, working intuitively and spontaneously from memory, alludes to some less tangible or fleeting place or space, rooted in memory perhaps but which has become something other, independent, self-determining and lawless.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Wyer_Gallery_Other_Space.html


Agora Gallery features Shifra in "Altered States of Reality"

NEW YORK, NY -The Agora Gallery is proud to present Shifra in Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography. Scheduled to run from November 19th through December 9th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Shifra's dynamic photographs. Shifra's photographic explorations of the city highlight dynamic attributes of steel, stone, and glass that are easily overlooked in daily life. Dissembling space and skewing the conventions of perspective, her large format photography allows audiences to encounter the world from unusual points of view. http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Shifra.html

Nasser Azam Homage to Bacon Sold for $332,500 at Phillips de Pury Auction
LONDON - A painting by acclaimed London artist Nasser Azam was sold on Friday 14th November for $332,500 in New York at Phillips de Pury’s Contemporary Art Part II auction. Azam’s work, Homage to Francis Bacon: Triptych I was the second highest bid of the day, selling for $75,000 more than the high estimate. Nasser’s work was one of the surprise successes, fetching more than pieces by Banksy and Gilbert and George during an otherwise cautious day.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Nasser_Azam.html

Art Paris Abu Dhabi 08 ~ Modern & Contemporary Art Fair

ABU DHABI - For its second edition, artparis-AbuDhabi is returning to the Emirates Palace to present a broad and impressive panorama of artistic creation of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year, the fair is strengthening its policy of selection and participation of contemporary art galleries active in the international market. In 2007, artparis installed itself for the first time in Abu Dhabi, creating the largest fair for modern and contemporary art ever organized in the United Arab Emirates. The result: a turn over of USD 15,867,000 for a fair that attracted 9,200 visitors and collectors in just three days.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Art_Paris_Abu_Dhabi_08.html

Art and Design News

ArtisanCam provides an insight into the lives of contemporary artists. Using a mixture of video and interactive activities, it introduces learners to the world of contemporary visual art before encouraging them to have a go themselves in fun and exciting ways.The website is divided into the Artists Zone, which contains classroom-based activities and the Activity Zone, which is full of games and fun interactive activities, designed to encourage students to continue their learning at home. On this interesting site you’ll find everything from Antony Gormley to Roy Lichtenstein and all in glorious technicolour.http://www.artisancam.org.uk/home.php

Histografica is an online repository holding historical images of locations across the globe. The archive is the result of users uploading their own images to the common pool. Many of the images are copyright free and all are tagged with information on copyright status and linked to a Google map highlighting the location, as in this example of Edinburgh University from 1827.http://www.histografica.com/


The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection has been made available on the University of Toronto library website. Hollar (1607-1677) is considered one of the finest etchers of all time, and he produced around 2,700 etchings during his lifetime. The etchings in this digital collection are organised under the following headings: religious prints; mythology, satire etc.; historical prints; geography and maps; portraits; costumes; natural history; sports; architecture; title pages and initials; and heraldry, numismatics and ornament. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/

This website provides free access to a collection of over 6,000 photographs from Tibet which were taken by British photographers during the period 1920-1950. They are taken from the holdings of the the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London) and constitute a rich source of information on the social, economic and political history of the region as well as constituting a valuable visual ethnography.
It is possible to search the website by place name, subject or photographer and to browse original albums and slideshows. Topics covered include materials relating to the Dalai Lama; buddhism in Tibet, the British in Tibet and other Tibetan religious and political ceremonies.http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.php

The largest collection of British social and political cartoons went live on the 6th of November. Over 120,000 images from the British Cartoon Archive based at the University of Kent are available, including work by over 250 leading cartoonists including work by Giles, Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell
http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/

Art and Design News

The Coming Asian Art Shift The Independent (UK) 11/16/08
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-remarkable-renaissance-in-chinese-art-1020489.html

Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product
The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum website provides this online version of their exhibition, `Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product' which was held from 9 November 2007 to 10 September 2008. Sample books that contain examples of a product or technique have been around "for more than 300 years for the merchandizing and recording of design alternatives in many areas of the decorative arts, including wallcoverings, ceramics, and textiles". This website provides an introduction on the origin of the sample book, and includes images of samples of tableware, interior decoration, textiles and fashion, as well as paper and colour, to which is added a glossary of relevant terms. A video is also provided of a late 18th century to early 19th century French salesman's sample book, which featured in the exhibition. The Curator of the exhibition, Sarah Scaturro, has contributed a blog to this website.http://cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/multiple_choice/site/


ROCK STAR! (Brought to You by HUGE ADVERTISER!)
A Miller-McCune interview with Bethany Klein of the University of Leeds, who’s researching the increasingly close relationship between pop music and Madison Avenuehttp://www.miller-mccune.com/article/rock-star-brought-to-you-by-huge-advertiser

A Perilous Future For Detroit Institute Of Arts
Detroit Free Press 11/09/08http://www.freep.com/article/20081109/ENT05/811090316/1035/ENT

The Goethe Institute Newsletter

ARCHITECTURE
Urban Laboratory: Temporary Architecture
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3802817.htm
Bunker and Eco Power Station - New Uses for Buildings from Sinister
Times
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3803646.htm
DANCE
What Is the Origin of "Quality" in Contemporary Dance?
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/zwi/en3785561.htm
Something in us that we didn't even know existed
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/idd/en3870592.htm
DESIGN AND FASHION
Ten Litres of Pure Design - the Mobile Burgdesign Shop
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/des/dth/en3823074.htm
From Old to New - Recycling Fashion
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/mod/thm/en3823212.htm
FILM
New Forms of Fictionalisation in Documentary Film
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/flg/en3870568.htm
Schlingel, Lucas, Goldener Spatz & Co - Children's Film Festivals in
Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/kuf/en3870903.htm
LITERATURE
Literature and Migration - on the Need for a Clearer Conceptual and
Critical Framework
http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/thm/lts/en3819297.htm
Forty Years on: 1968 in Literature
http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/thm/idd/en3870998.htm
MUSIC
The Finer View: Young Women Directors
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/idd/en3871192.htm
Smack on Target: The Absurdity of Our Society as the Deeper Sense of Art
- On the Death of the Composer Mauricio Kagel
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/nem/en3814450.htm
The End of the Monarchy: Bayreuth in the Wake of the Decision
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3870496.htm
THEATRE
Feeling, Touching, Experiencing the World
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/idd/en3824118.htm
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in the Theatre
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/zwi/en3847886.htm
VISUAL ARTS (Painting, Sculpture and Graphic, Photography, Media Art)
Berlin Temporary Art Gallery - A Showcase for Contemporary Art
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/msi/en3870746.htm
A Solid Core in Elegant Wrapping: the New Museum of the Brandhorst
Collection in Munich
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/msi/en3870679.htm

Art and Design News

Fact.Tv
Fact, Liverpool's centre for Film, Art and Creative Television, has just launched Fact.tv, its innovative platform of exclusive videos and interviews with artists and filmmakers. The channel also provides views of exhibition previews, tips and behind-the-scenes footage.
Link: http://www.fact.tv/

Life of a City
Produced by the Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division on their American Memory website, the Life of a City website brings together a collection of films of New York City dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. There is also background information on New York at the turn of the century to put the material shown in the films into context.
Twenty-five of the films in this collection were made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, while the remaining twenty were made by Edison Company Productions. In addition there is a selected bibliography and a selection of resources related to the collection. One can search the collection by keyword, browse the subject index or view a list of the film titles. This resource would be of interest to film historians and students concerned with the history of film.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html

Le Garde-Meuble
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries website provides this online edition of their run of the periodical, `Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne' (Furniture repository, ancient and modern). The Cooper Hewitt has an almost complete set of the periodical and it is the only known library collection in the United States.
This bi-monthly periodical exerted an enormous influence by promoting French styles in furniture, fabrics and interior decoration for nearly a century, from 1839. Created by furniture designer and publisher Désiré Guilmard (ca.1810-ca.1885), the periodical "consisted entirely of illustrations of designs for furniture, window treatments and room settings". The collection of nearly 400 hand coloured plates, for the period 1841 to 1851, can be browsed by style/period of furniture ranging from Directoire through to Rococo Revival and Troubadour, or by type of furniture: floor plans, window treatments, furniture-casework and seating. The plates can also be browsed by volume. Larger images are available by clicking on the thumbnails in the galleries, and this visual resource is of great value to restorers, curators, historians, and furniture designers.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/Art-Design/garde-meuble/

Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage
This website is a comprehensive directory of the publicly accessible sources of material related to the history of moving images and sound in the United Kingdom. It combines the former BUFVC Researcher’s Guide Online (RGO) with a new directory of artefacts produced by the UK Screen Heritage Network.
You can search for both moving image content and artefacts, as well as sound collections across the UK. The Advanced Artefacts search enables you to refine your search across ten categories including TV, Video and Digital, Animation, Film-making, Sets and Costumes, Cinema and Sound.
http://joseph.bufvc.ac.uk/rgo/index.php

Frieze Art Fair Podcasts

The Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. It features around 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world. The fair also includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a prestigious talks programme and an artist-led education schedule.
This year, Frieze have made a series of podcasts available on their website. The podcast series includes Music critic Simon Reynolds chairing a panel that examines the notion of a subculture; Artist, writer, architect, educator, ecologist and radical gardener Fritz Haeg giving a keynote talk exploring populist projects; Raqs Media Collective performing a selection of reports and conversations gathered from their nomadic practices as artists, curators and theorists; and many, many more.
Link: http://www.friezeartfair.com/podcasts/
Access: Free

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

The Art Fund sponsors ' The WOW Factor' an Art Research Study Posted: 30 Oct 2008 10:39 PM CDT LEICESTER, UK - What links a neuroscientist with a social anthropologist and the UK’s premier independent art charity? The answer is the visual perception of art. When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art in a museum or gallery? These are the questions to be examined between the world renowned Department of Museum Studies and the Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with The Art Fund.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//The_Art_Fund-UK_Wow_Factor.html

The Cult of the Jeff Koons ~ Celebration ~ at the Neue Nationalgalerie Posted: 31 Oct 2008 12:09 AM CDT Berlin, Germany - Neue Nationalgalerie presents today Cult of the Artist: Jeff Koons ~ Celebration ~, on view through February 8, 2009. A National gallery Exhibition, made possible by the Friends of the National Gallery, supported by E.ON. Jeff Koons is rated as one of most successful artists of the present day. He is surely one of the few living artists who largely owes his popularity to the cult he has systematically built up around his own personality: the way he presents himself in and through pictures has time and again proved to be an essential component of his artistic work.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Neue_Nationalgalerie_Celebration.html

Miami Art Museum shows Yinka Shonibare "A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman & Child" Posted: 31 Oct 2008 01:04 AM CDT MIAMI, FL.- As part of its ongoing New Work series, Miami Art Museum presents Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, a new installation created specifically for MAM. The site-specific work will explore Miami’s role as a destination for both tourists and immigrants and as a symbol of freedom and promise. Shonibare’s installation will premiere on October 31 and will remain on view in MAM’s “New Work” gallery through January 18, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Yinka_Shonibare.html

Artists Ligorano/Reese 'Meltdown the Economy' Close to the Heart of Wall Street Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:25 PM CDT New York City - On October 29, 2008, the 79th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression in 1929, artists Ligorano / Reese melted down the “Economy.” In a new, time-based event, called Main Street Meltdown the artists installed the word “ECONOMY,” carved in ice, in Foley Square, using the New York Supreme Court as a back drop. The event began on Wednesday, October 29th and will last 24 hours.... or until the Economy melts.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Main_Street_Meltdown.html

The Arts Scene in America

E-Publication of Americans for the Arts

MySpace Music Points Way To Free Music Economy
Wired, 10/1/2008
"The internet was supposed to level the playing field between signed and unsigned artists, giving each a way to reach fans without middlemen or kingmakers. And we might get there still. But judging from the major labels' equity stakes in MySpace Music (not to mention imeem and LaLa among others), music's future as a free economy could actually turn out more restrictive than its past, until these sites figure out how to compensate artists of every stripe fairly."
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/myspace-music-p.html


‘Creative economy : Results of three-year study discussed
Benton County Daily Record (AR), 9/11/2008
"A group of 50 leaders in the government, civic and arts communities met at Compton Gardens in Bentonville [AR] on Wednesday morning to hear and discuss results from a three-year study on Arkansas' Creative Economy. . . . The study revealed that although Arkansas has been known primarily as a manufacturing state, the slowing economy is making way for more and more creative industries to be pursued. . . . Upon the recommendations of the study, the move now goes to push for state funding to enhance the creative economy."
http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/65585/


Will Artists and Designers Save the Economy of the Los Angeles Region?
MarketWatch - PRNewswire, 10/1/2008
"Artists, designers and 'creative types' drive the diverse economy of the Los Angeles region, according to a new report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC). Data shows that 'creativity' is the #2 business sector in Los Angeles and Orange County, generating nearly 1 million jobs and over $100 billion in sales/receipts from the arts, design and entertainment industries combined. (Tourism and Hospitality is the # 1 business sector in the Los Angeles region.)"
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/artists-designers-save-economy-los/story.aspx?guid=%7B09C17F86-EEFA-4162-B519-09BC7B032FCF%7D&dist=hppr


Arts Organization Calls for Preservation of Arts Spaces in Overcrowded Public Schools
MarketWatch - PRNewswire, 10/3/2008
At a rally at City Hall and at a City Council hearing, "[t]he Center for Arts Education sounded a call for the preservation of disappearing arts spaces in New York City's public schools. 'Easing overcrowding and providing adequate classroom space for public school students should be a top priority for New York City,' said Doug Israel, Director of Research and Policy for The Center for Arts Education (CAE), 'however, this should not be done by seizing and converting dedicated facilities necessary to support learning in the arts. Unfortunately, music rooms, dance spaces, black box theaters and art studios have been divided, walled, and turned into academic classrooms or commandeered for other purposes.'"
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/arts-organization-calls-preservation-arts/story.aspx?guid=%7BBA676100-C364-40A3-AFA0-339FA9947C92%7D&dist=hppr



Although she describes the relationship between art and higher education as "long and uneasy," Marjorie Garber argues, "It may be that the time has come for the university to become a patron of the arts, embracing and funding the actual making of art on a new scale, and bringing to bear all its institutional traditions of judgment, peer review, and freedom of ideas. An open-minded patronage, providing courses taught by the most talented artists - in the same way that the university seeks the most talented philosophers, psychologists, and physicists - could change both the way we learn, and the way we encounter the world."
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/10/05/higher_art/


Program uses art to reinforce core curriculum
KSL-TV (Salt Lake City, UT), 10/2/2008
"Nearly 60 elementary schools in Utah are using art to help students get smart. It's all because of a new state-funded art program. Research suggests that art can actually help students with core subjects like math, science and English. The Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program is helping schools mix the two together. . . . The program was funded by the Legislature back in March, and almost $16 million will be paid out over the next four years."
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4424358


Report urges city to invest in the arts
Portland Press Herald (ME), 10/2/2008
"A steering committee wants the Portland City Council to start and help fund an agency that would promote creative enterprises and innovative investment in Maine's largest city, according to a report to be released today. The Creative Economy Steering Committee recommends that the council establish a nonprofit corporation to attract more artists, designers, engineers and other creative people to Portland. The Creative Portland Corp. would be the driving force in a public-private partnership that would build on the more than $30 million generated by arts and cultural organizations in the city each year. The 19-page report also recommends that the council establish a Creative Economy Tax-Increment Financing District, where a portion of new property taxes could be used to finance the corporation and its programs."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=213453&ac=PHnws

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Saint Louis Art Museum shows 'Action/Abstraction ~ Pollock, de Kooning & American Art' The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the October 19 opening of "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976", the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to re-examine Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed. Prior to traveling to St. Louis, Action/Abstraction opened at The Jewish Museum in New York. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., is the exhibition’s third and final venue. On view in Saint Louis October 19th through January 11th, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Saint_Louis_Art_Museum_Action_Abstraction.html

Musée d'Orsay Opens Picasso / Manet ~ The Luncheon on the Grass. In tandem with the exhibition Picasso and the Masters at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Musée d’Orsay is presenting around forty paintings, drawings, engravings and models produced by Picasso between 1954 and 1962, and inspired by Manet’s, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe [The Luncheon on the Grass]. The Musée du Louvre, for its part, is showing the variations on Delacroix’s Algerian Women [Femmes d’Alger]. This is the first time these three great Parisian institutions have come together with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux to try and reconstitute Picasso’s artistic pantheon.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Musee_dOrsay.html

The Clark Art Institute Exhibits Rarely Seen Italian Drawings WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - A magnificent group of rarely seen and unpublished sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Italian drawings will be highlighted in Drawn to Drama: Italian Works on Paper, 1500 - 1800, an exhibition on view the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute October 12, 2008 to January 4, 2009. Selected from the Clark’s impressive collection of Old Master drawings and the private collection of Robert Loper, Drawn to Drama will offer a unique opportunity to view this special group of Italian drawings that are dramatic in subject, composition, and execution. Sixty-five drawings including those by Giorgio Vasari, Guercino, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Salvator Rosa, Luca Giordano, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo are featured in the exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Clark_Art_Institute.html


Cindy Sherman Honored at the Brooklyn Museum
One of the most influential conceptual artists of the twentieth century, Cindy Sherman, will be honored at the sixth annual Women in the Arts luncheon on Friday, November 6, 2008 at the Brooklyn Museum. Proceeds from the event, which is organized by the Museum's Community Committee, a volunteer organization, will benefit a wide range of Museum programs. Cindy Sherman uses photography to address the role and representation of women in the media and society, as well as the role of the contemporary artist.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cindy_Sherman_Honored.html


IVAM Collection on View at Bancaja Cultural Centre of Alicante Art and sport are two cultural expressions which are of ever-increasing interest for the general public. The exhibition The Avant-garde and Sport in the IVAM Collection, which Bancaja presents at its Cultural Centre in Alicante, is taking place thanks to the collaboration agreement between the IVAM and Bancaja which, every year, enables the Valencian museum to bring its artworks closer to the citizens of Alicante. Throughout the course of the modern age, sporting events have occupied an increasingly more important position within the wide-ranging offer of leisure time activites of industrial cities and their public spaces.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//IVAM_Collection.html


53 Lee Miller photographs showing the private life Pablo Picasso have gone on display at the Picasso Casa Natal Museum in Málaga. Miller took over 1000 photographs of Picasso during the 36 years they were friends. Exhibition director Katherine Slusher said much of Miller´s work was forgotten until her death in 1977 when her son Antony found 70,000 negatives in her attic.Her son not only found photos of Picasso but also work from Miller´s surrealist period, her time with Man Ray and the six years she spent in Egypt photographing the desert.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Lee_Miller_Picasso.html

Design at the Design Museum

Who do you want to find out about? Archigram, Arad or Zaha Hadid.
Discover more about the designers, architects and technologies featured at the Design Museum in Design Library,the online research archive of modern and contemporary design.

http://www.designmuseum.org/design

The Arts Newsletter Goethe Institute

Learning from Las Vegas
In view of dwindling oil wells, the United Arab Emirates have began to
look about for alternative sources of income, and have hit upon tourism,
art and culture. Here luxury is a matter of course. "The best of
everything" seems to be the motto. German museums are also taking part
in co-operations in Dubai.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/zwi/en3745482.htm

ARCHITECTURE

Dossier: Urban Development
A Temporary Home: Transit Architecture
More and more people are on the move, on private trips or for business. A global society requires people to be willing to lead mobile and flexible lives both at work and at home.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/dos/dos/sls/en3705975.htm

Guidebook to a Better World
While the Venice Art Biennale will be taking place for the 53rd time next year, the Architecture Biennale that is currently being held has reached its 11th edition. And the range of participants still keeps on growing. 55 countries are there this time, promoting themselves in the palazzi of Venice and the 32 national pavilions at the Giardini, in addition to which there are numerous themed exhibitions, installations and events.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3719575.htm

DANCE

The German Museum Of Dance In Cologne Opens Up New Vistas, Ideas And
Emotions
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/iub/en3718542.htm

Experimenting With The Unspeakable
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/idd/en3745546.htm


DESIGN AND FASHION


Preferably Print - The Bureau Mario Lombardo
Designs by Munich fashion designer Ayzit Bostan combine contrasts playfully: wearable without being commercial, simple and complex at the same time - and always suitable for everyday wear. Insiders have considered the label a secret tip for years. Ayzit Bostan is making fashion with substance - for women and men who don't want to be different from how they are.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/des/dsn/ijk/en3696992.htm

Substance Instead Of Spectacle: Ayzit Bostan makes Fashion for the Stage
of Life
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/mod/dsg/abc/en3701738.htm

Dossier: Communication Design in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/dos/dos/kom/enindex.htm


FILM

"You'll Never Fathom Me Out" - A Feature Film About The Life Of Romy
Schneider
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en3760311.htm

LITERATURE

Well-Known Unknowns
Everyone is familiar with book illustrations and infographics, yet most of the artists themselves are unknown. While the art of illustration is enjoying a renaissance in neighbouring countries, this has yet to be the case in Germany. The German Association of Illustrators wants to redress this.

http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/thm/zwi/en3745449.htm

MUSIC


The Elbe Philharmonic - A Musical Challenge
Construction of the Elbe Philharmonic is underway, with its opening planned for autumn, 2011. Hamburg’s creative artists are not alone in seeing a new landmark for their city in this spectacular concert hall: the image of the city as a whole will be changed by this building. Both opportunities and risks – and above all a great deal of effort to improve the Hanseatic city’s musical profile are bound up with it.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/idd/en3760233.htm

The Sounds of the Cities
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/nem/en3760663.htm

THEATRE

"After Berlin": the International Forum at the Theatertreffen
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/idd/en3693409.htm

The Sigh of the Dramatic Advisor - The Motto for this Season in
German-speaking Theatres
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/zwi/en3684449.htm

VISUAL ARTS
(Painting, Sculpture and Graphic, Photography, Media Art)

The Tropics: Hot, Sultry, Mysterious
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en3689731.htm

Learning from Las Vegas
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/zwi/en3745482.htm

ArtsProfessional Magazine UK

Patronage: Russell Miller describes how Manchester Art Galleries strive to form successful relationships with supporters and develop a strong sense of stewardship Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly reveals the importance of clearly defining what you need and why you need it when asking for money and Ann Bukanatas, Curator at National Museums Liverpool, says why she thinks financial prizes provide a temporary respite to a young and emerging artist, but are no substitute for income from regular sales, commissions or bursaries

Open Studios: As well as providing space for artists to research, experiment and make work, affordable studio organisations and their tenant artists make a significant contribution to the well-being and sustainability of local communities. Val Millington, Director of the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers, emphasises the importance of good quality studio space. Ferial Evans shows how artists inviting the public into their studios in Suffolk are contributing to social and economic strategies and the tourism agenda and Mat Jenner highlights 40 years of work at SPACE, the pioneering organisation for artists’ studios, which started small but is still flourishing.
Spotlight: Rebecca Walton shares the British Council’s belief that the arts provide a unique space for intercultural conversations.

http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/index.cfm

Whats happening in the world of arts

Art Knowledge News

Picasso's Blue Period 1901-04

Have you ever wondered what is Picasso's Blue Period?
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/blueperiod

Exhibition Exploring the Life and Work of Palladio Celebrates his 500th Anniversary
Venice, Italy - This exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palladio’s birth tells the story of a remarkable life and attempts to solve a mystery: how did a humble miller’s son become the most renowned world architect in the last five centuries? The story is told in unique ‘film stills’, i.e. the works brought together from over eighty European museums and libraries by an international team of scholars from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Palladio_his_500th_Anniversary.html

The Museum of Arts and Design shows Elegant Armor ~ The Art of Jewelry
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will inaugurate the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in its new Columbus Circle home with Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. On view from September 2008 to March 2009, the exhibition explores the inspirations for contemporary jewelry, including the fine arts, the human form and the natural world. Featuring over 130 works from 1948 to the present, Elegant Armor draws from the Museum’s collection of approximately 450 modern and contemporary works, the entirety of which will be housed in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in publicly accessible study drawers

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Museum_of_Arts_and_Design_MAD.html

Modern Photographs ~ The Machine, the Body and the City ~ at Parrish Art Museum
Southampton, NY - This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its title, the exhibition also examines three prominent themes highlighted by the selection: depictions of the metropolis, modern machinery, and the human figure. On view at the Parrish Art Museum though 30 November, 2008.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Parrish_Art_Museum_Machine_Body_City.html

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents 'Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night'
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, presents Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, the first exhibition to examine Vincent van Gogh’s lyrical view of the night through nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which he often combined with other longstanding themes of his art—peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. This exhibition includes 23 paintings and 10 works on paper from all periods of Van Gogh’s career, as well as a selection of his letters and examples of the rich literary sources that influenced the artist’s work in this area by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jules Michelet, and Emile Zola. It will be on view at MoMA through January 5, 2009, and then it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where it will be on view February 13 to June 7, 2009.

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Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing'

OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The Noyes Museum of Art presents Awakenings: Art & Healing, an exhibition of contemporary Outsider Art through November 2, 2008. Awakenings explores the power of art as a tool for healing, hope and communication for people with mental and physical challenges. The featured artists are associated with Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) in New York City, an organization that is devoted to using professional artists to reach individuals in group residences and treatment programs for chronically mentally ill adults.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Noyes_Museum_of_Art_Awakenings.html


André Kostelanetz Papers Are Donated to the Library of Congress
Washington, DC - Papers of conductor and arranger André Kostelanetz are being donated to the Library of Congress by the musician’s estate, marking a significant expansion of the collection Kostelanetz provided to the Library during his lifetime. Kostelanetz, who died in 1980, was a major figure in U.S. popular music and on radio for half a century. Early in his career, he was best known for his interpretations of classical pieces, and over his lifetime he was credited with selling more than 50 million recordings that tapped a public appetite for popular arrangements of classical and Broadway music.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Andre_Kostelanetz.html

Tacoma Art Museum presents " Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire "
TACOMA, WA - Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition "Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire" from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. Many Europeans relied on published travelogues for information, but many also traveled to the region. Genre paintings, the prevalent form of Orientalist art in the nineteenth century, were greatly influenced by these artists' direct experience of everyday life in the region. The exhibition is on view Saturday, September 20, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tacoma_Art_Museum_Oasis.html


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art shows 'Spectacular Saturn ~ Images from Cassini-Huygens Mission'
ITHACA, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission, on view through January 4, 2009. This exhibit displays over fifty images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites. This selection, by Cornell members of the Cassini project, was made from almost two hundred thousand images that have been transmitted to Earth since the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cassini-Huygens_Mission.html

Whats happening in the arts and design world

Alphabet of Illustrators

This alphabet of illustrators has been provided by the Culture Archive based in Brighton and offers digital images of historical illustrations. Clicking on any name provides high quality images of scans from books and publications of the illustrator's work. Illustrations include pictures from the fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson, as well as work by the artist Walter Crane, Edward Bawden's pamphlet for Fortnum and Mason and the work of Fougasse, and many more.
http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/aoi/


Babar The Elephant
The Morgan Library and Museum in New York have launched an online facsimile of original sketches for Jean de Brunhoff's classic children's character Babar The Elephant.
This digital facsimile presents every page of a small, delicate maquette that Jean de Brunhoff created in 1930 or 1931 as he drafted the first book in the Babar series. The maquette, an extraordinary handmade booklet complete with cover and endpapers, text and illustrations, is the prototype for Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=900

Arts Journal/Artopia

Art Critic John Perreault's critical review about Larry Rivers http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/


About the Artist- Larry Rivers
American painter whose works frequently combined the vigorous, painterly brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism with the commercial images of the Pop art movement.Rivers early developed an interest in jazz, and after briefly serving in the army during World War II he studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music. One of his classmates there was Miles Davis, who introduced him to other jazz musicians, and Rivers was soon touring the United States with different groups as a jazz saxophonist. In 1945, however, he was given a book on modern art and quickly discovered he had a natural talent for painting. From 1947 to 1948 he studied in the New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, school of the prominent Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann. Rivers later studied at New York University College, graduating in 1951. His early paintings were exhibited in New York City in 1949.

ArtsProfessional Magazine

Arts at the Heart of the Olympics
The powers behind London 2012 have promised that the arts will be at the heart of the next Olympic Games, according to Charlotte Higgins in the G. Sebastian Coe promises "a clear and tangible cultural legacy for the whole nation". Launching the Cultural Olympiad, Jude Kelly, chair of culture, ceremonies and education for the Olympics, unveiled a series of cultural initiatives that will build over the next four years and culminate in a celebration of British creativity in the summer of 2012. The Olympiad will not restrict itself to London but, according to Kelly, will "embrace the whole nation". At Tate Britain, Coe will take part in the Martin Creed sculpture Work 850, which involves a runner sprinting along the length of the museum’s Duveen Galleries.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/05/olympics2012

Scholar finds ‘Beethoven’s last piano work’ in library
An Australian musicologist has discovered what he believes to be the last piano work written by Beethoven five months before he died.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/scholar-finds-beethovens-last-piano-work-in-library-923491.html


Hirst auction exceeds expectations
Damien Hirst has given up smoking and drinking and, in the wake of a lukewarm reception for his works in India, is auctioning a selection at Sotheby’s. The first session has brought in £70.5m. What’ll he do with all that cash?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/02/damien.hirst.india


Leicester University invests in modern art
He may not be able to afford a Hirst, but the boss of Leicester University has been buying up art to improve the look of the campus and lift the spirits of staff and students.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/framework-for-success-why-leicester-university-is-investing-in-modern-art-925162.html

8. Playing with the Band
Oasis has teamed up with Arts Council England and music magazine NME to inspire fans to learn to pick up instruments and play music. The band is giving away a DVD featuring sheet music and lyrics to three new songs and is asking new artists to send in their interpretations before the actual songs are released next month. Musicians will submit their own versions to a special website, with the winning entrant invited to travel to an Oasis gig anywhere in the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2709308/Oasis-teams-up-with-Arts-Council-and-NME-to-inspire-fans-to-learn-to-play-music.html

Art and Research at Glasgow School of Arts

Art and Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed e-journal of Research in Fine Art Practice, focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context.
Issue 2 is focused on the work of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and includes papers from the two-day conference Aesthetics and Politics: With and Around Jacques Rancière co-organized by Sophie Berrebi and Marie-Aude Baronian at the University of Amsterdam on 20 and 21 June 2006. It includes the previously unpublished text of Rancières plenary lecture delivered at the conference and a new interview with the philosopher; it also includes a transcript of an exchange with Rancière which followed the papers presented by Stephen Wright and Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield which also appear here.
http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/

The Arts Newsletter Goethe Institute

The Arts Scene in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3645200.htm

ARCHITECTURE
Oases of Green: Gardens Conquer the Cities
Dossier: Contemporary Monument Concepts in Germany
Updated and redesigned
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/dos/dos/zdk/enindex.htm

DANCE
Constanza Macras: In the Eye of the Storm
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/idd/en3664698.htm

DESIGN AND FASHION
We redesigned our fashion and design web pages
Fashion Scene
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/mod/enindex.htm

Design Trends
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/des/enindex.htm

FILM
Recent History with Great Depth of Feeling
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en3603488.htm

LITERATURE
A Question is a Question - Writers' Soliloquies
http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/thm/idd/en3645804.htm

MUSIC
Beyond Bayreuth: Classical Music Festivals Booming in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3602442.htm

German University Schools of Music - a Changing Tradition
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3630155.htm

Germany, Europe's Festival Heartland
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/prh/en3629714.htm

VISUAL ARTS
(Painting, Sculpture and Graphic, Photography, Media Art)

Under the Spell of Fountains: The Artist Jeppe Hein
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en3614582.htm

Thorsten Brinkmann: Portrait of a Serial Collector
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/bpp/en3654577.htm

Art and Design

Czech Book Covers
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries website has provided this resource on Czech book covers of the 1920s and 1930s, which is based on the collection in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library. The overview introduces Czech book design which sprang from the journals published by the Devetsil Artistic Union. The union was a highly influential group of avant-garde poets, writers, artists and designers who were active from 1920 to 1931. The collection can be viewed by style - constructivism, poetism, surrealism or social realism; or by book designer/typographer/illustrator, including work by Karel Bedrna,Vrastislav Hugo Brunner, Gustave Dore and Adolf Hoffmeister. All these books can also be viewed by author or by date of publication. A select bibliography is also provided.
Link: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/czechbooks/

Dali and Film
This website features the online exhibition 'Dalí: Painting and Film', also showing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 29th June until 15th September 2008. Bringing together over a hundred paintings, photographs, drawings and films by Salvador Dalí, the exhibition explores the role of cinema in his work, and covers his collaborations with filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.
Link: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/dali/

Graphic Design Timeline
The Graphic design timeline is an interactive guide which acts as an accompaniment to the fourth edition of "Meggs' History of Graphic Design", by Philip P. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis. Using flash technology the site provides a chronological history of graphic design, beginning in the year 15,000 BC and the Lascaux cave paintings, and covering the invention of writing, illuminated manuscripts, the advent of printing, the industrial revolution, the Arts and Crafts Movement, right up until the present day to the digital revolution and beyond.
Link: http://www.graphicdesigntimeline.net/

Design Management Institute

DMI Review Articles

Designing the Future of Business
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2008/id20080813_677771.htm

How Tangible is Your Brand?
Mary Weisnewski, Kite, Inc
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08192WEI53.htm

Embedded Brand: The Soul of Product Development
By Guido Stompff, Océ, Netherlands
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08192STO38.htm



Designed by KTF: A Telecoms Case Study

By Won-Kik Lee, IFP Co. Ltd., and Bo-Young Kim, IDS & Associates
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08191LEE53.htm

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art.


The Museo del Prado to show " Rembrandt ~ A History Painter "
Madrid, Spain - Of the great masters of European painting, Rembrandt is one of the least well represented in the Museo del Prado, which has only one work by his hand, the Artemisia (1634). For this reason, the Museum has decided to organise an exhibition that will allow the public to see more of the work of this remarkable artist. It includes around 30 paintings and five prints loaned from leading European and American museums and will focus on the subject of Rembrandt as a narrative painter. On exhibition 15th October 2008 to 6th January 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museo_del_Prado_Rembrandt.html


The Library of Congress Awards the Gershwin Prize to Stevie Wonder
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder—who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world—as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb. 23, 2009. As an added distinction to this year’s Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Wonder has accepted, a musical commission. He joins a group of eminent composers who have received Library commissions, ranging from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Paquito D’Rivera.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Stevie_Wonder.html

San Diego Museum of Art presents "The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota"
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, on view November 1, 2008–January 4, 2009. In conjunction with the Timken Museum of Art, SDMA is presenting a major exhibition featuring the work of internationally recognized Japanese textile artist and kimono designer, Itchiku Kubota (1917–2003). Kubota used a variety of traditional techniques and unique personal innovations to create shimmering, abstract landscapes through a complex layering of dyes and inks on monumentally-scaled kimono.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Landscapes_of_Itchiku_Kubota.html

Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd Annual Birds in Art Exhibition
WAUSAU, WISCONSIN.- The Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd annual Birds in Art exhibition, opening Saturday, September 6, offers a creative and surefire remedy to cure avian envy. With the exhibition closing on November 9th, visitors have nine weeks to take the cure. Birds in Art comprises 126 original contemporary works by 113 painters and sculptors hailing from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England,France,Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Woodson_Art_Museum.html


Jacob Philipp Hackert ~ Europe's Landscape Painter ~ at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Weimer, Germany - On the occasion of its theme-year,“Europe in Weimar 2008”, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is showing the retrospective exhibition “Jakob Philipp Hackert, Europe’s Landscape Painter of the Goethe Era” through November 2, 2008. The exhibition, which was jointly prepared by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Hamburg Kunsthalle, includes some 80 paintings as well as 120 gouaches, water-colours and drawings. It is thus the most comprehensive Hackert retrospective ever shown.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jacob_Philipp_Hackert.html


Arken Museum exhibits 'Triumph of Desire ~ Danish and International Surrealism'
Copenhagen, Denmark - Arken Museum of Modern Art presents Triumph of Desire - Danish and International Surrealism, on view through January 11, 2009. In the 1930s Surrealism spread like wildfire across Europe, led by Dalí, Magritte and Miró. Danish Surrealists from Wilhelm Freddie and Richard Mortensen to Heerup and Jorn were influenced by the international wave. But how was it expressed in their art? This is what ARKEN will spotlight in the autumn exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Arken_Museum_of_Modern_Art.html

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Nasher Museum of Art presents " From El Greco to Velazquez "


DURHAM, N.C. - The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition, El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III, the first comprehensive exhibition of art made for this Spanish court four centuries ago. Among the works of two giants of Spanish art, the show will introduce great unknown masters of painting and sculpture. El Greco to Velázquez will be on view at the Nasher Museum from August 21 through November 9, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Nasher=Museum_of_Art.html
Meselson Collection Offered at Bonhams’ September 19th Fine Japanese Art Auction

New York City - Bonhams New York announces an important sale of Fine Japanese Art is to be held on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 1 pm in its prestigious new premises at 580 Madison Avenue. This auction will showcase inro together with a selection of netsuke from the collection of the late and influential Ann Swedlow Meselson of Los Angeles, California.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Bonhams=Japanese_Art_Auction.html

Calgary Celebrates Art from Canadians at The Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Canada - The Glenbow Museum brings you the art event of the summer! The BIG Gift: Calgary Celebrates Art from Canadians opened at the museum on July 26th! Come feast your eyes on approximately 200 works of contemporary art – including painting, sculpture, videos, art installations and photography. The range is stunning. On exhibition through 14 September, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Glenbow_Museum.html


Hammer Museum Shows First Major U.S. Presentation of Paintings by Tomma Abts
LOS ANGELES, CA- The first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967) at the Hammer Museum. The exhibition originated at the New Museum in New York and is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator. The exhibition includes roughly fifteen paintings created over the past ten years, as well as a selection of colored pencil drawings. Abts’ works might be modest in size—18 7/8 by 15 inches (48 x 38 cm), but actually they are extremely ambitious undertakings. On view through 9th November, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tomma=Abts.html

Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Create a Mandala Sand Painting at JCSM

AUBURN, AL - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announced the opening of a small exhibition of works from the Nelson and Joan Cousins Hartman Collection of Tibetan Bronzes. The exhibition, Aspects of Buddha, is open now and will be on display through the fall semester. On August 21-24 monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta will create a sand mandala in the Grand Gallery of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The public is invited to see the monks at work, and take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the mandala making
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jule_Collins_Smith_Museum.html

Victoria and Albert Museum in London displays " Fashion V Sport "


LONDON - At the V&A this summer, Fashion V Sport, will explore the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands. Both industries have been inspired by street style and have been working in closer collaboration in recent years. On display will be around 60 outfits including performance sportswear, work by fashion designers such as Stella McCartney who have designed sportswear ranges, and garments such as the work of Japanese label Visvim which show the influence of sportswear on high fashion. There will also be design drawings, photographs and film to examine how these products are worn, designed, advertised and collected. On view through 4 January, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//V-and-A_Fashion_V_Sport.html


Le Corbusier "Le Grand" ~ A Spectacular Visual Biography of his Life and Work \

NEW YORK CITY - Using the same grandly oversized format as Warhol "Giant Size" (Phaidon, 2006), Le Corbusier Le Grand includes approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, featuring his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches and archival photographs. Rarely seen photographs and personal correspondences also shed new light on Le Corbusier’s relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, and many others.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Le=Corbusier_Le_Grand.html

Werner Herzog

This is the official website of German film director, producer and writer Werner Herzog. There is a news section; a complete list of films giving brief information with a photo gallery; a list of his books and a list of books about him.

http://www.wernerherzog.com/

Whats happening in the world of arts

Wolfsburg, Germany - In the 14 years since it was founded, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has regularly presented the medium of photography in exhibitions devoted to the work of individual artists. These have included Lee Miller, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Pietro Donzelli and Ed van der Elsken. To mark the 70th anniversary of the City of Wolfsburg, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of work by the photographer Heinrich Heidersberger, who died in Wolfsburg in 2006, shortly after celebrating his 100th birthday. Around 170 photographs from different phases of Heidersberger’s career will provide insight into the Ingolstadt-born artist’s complex body of work.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Heinrich=Heidersberger.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has released a 140-page report on the state of the country's artists, reports the Associated Press. According to the study, "Artists in the Workforce: 1990–2005," around 2 million Americans identify themselves as artists, falling into 11 categories.


http://www.artknowledgenews.com//National_Endowment_for_the_Arts_NEA.html

THE HAGUE.- Clothes maketh the man. At times it may seem as if men simply open the wardrobe and put on the first thing that comes to hand, or as if a frivolous tie to brighten up the standard grey three-piece suit is the most daring thing they ever put on, but this summer’s exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag shows that nothing could be further from the truth. The Ideal Man, fashion for real men combines brightly coloured and extravagantly patterned eighteenth-century habits à la française with spectacular contemporary outfits from the latest collections of celebrated designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Bernhard Willhelm and Walter van Beirendonck. The evidence of the past and present reveals that men’s fashion is anything but boring.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Gemeentemuseum-Den_Haag.html


Budapest, Hungary - Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest contributes to the celebration with a unique exhibition organized in co-operation with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York. It will be the first time that such a comprehensive overview on his oeuvre is exhibited in Hungary, which is fascinatingly rich and multifaceted, although it embraces merely a decade
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Keith=Haring.html

The Arts Newsletter Goethe Institute

ARCHITECTURE

City in the Green: The Centenary of Hellerau Garden City
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3561466.htm

Dossier Urban Development
Spatial Pioneers in Brandenburg - Negative Growth as Opportunity
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/dos/dos/sls/en3561248.htm

"Billowing Sails" of Steel and Concrete - the Ozeaneum in Stralsund by Günter and Stefan Behnisch
href="http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/en3587984.htm">http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/en3587984.htm

DANCE

"Why Aren't You Dancing?" - Politics of the Body and Dance Without Movement
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/fes/en3574417.htm

Are there still "National Profiles" in Contemporary Dance?
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/zwi/en3585253.htm

DESIGN AND FASHION

F.C. Gundlach - A Master of Fashion Photography

http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/thm/mdz/en3595793.htm

Fashion with Intelligence and Style: Von Wedel & Tiedeken
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/thm/mdz/en3559569.htm

"Corporate Design" - Systemic Art
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/thm/dst/en3556656.htm

FILM

Producer Regina Ziegler Celebrates 35th Company Anniversary
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en3599233.htm

A Big Find In A Small Museum


MUSIC

Bring the Children to the Opera
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3565931.htm

A Different Perspective: Play Directors at the Opera
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3566390.htm

To Pastures New: The Bayreuther Festspiele are on Track for Modernisation
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/fes/en3581783.htm

VISUAL ARTS (Painting, Sculpture and Graphic, Photography, Media Art)

Familiar Terrain at the ZKM
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en3581406.htm

Graphic Art in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/ein/en23279.htm

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Pochoirs
This online exhibition of pochoir images is hosted by the Smithsonian Institution website. Called `Vibrant Visions' this collection of pochoir illustrations have been selected from the collection in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum library, and can be viewed either by category; by artist, illustrator, designer; or by journals and books. Artists include Sonia Delaunay and George Barbier. Particuarly popular in France in the early 1900s, pochoir prints are richly coloured illustrations that are created by using a stencil process. The 35 images in this resource feature designs for interiors, furniture, decorative book bindings, fashion plates and colourful patterns. A useful bibliography is also provided, as well as information on the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library.
Link: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/pochoir/


Industrial Drawings
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries website has provided this online exhibition of `Doodles, Drafts and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian`. The 77 objects in this exhibition represent industrial drawings in the collections of the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and range from working drawings to more finished designs, with some printed either as sales material or as part of a patent application. The exhibition is arranged under four headings; `Working it out', `Convincing', `Controlling' and 'Recording' and each image is accompanied by a brief description. The site can also be searched by the nine designers and engineers represented in this exhibition.
Link: http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/


Festival of Britain Film
The National Archives website has provided online access to a documentary film on the Festival of Britain held in London in 1951. Originally produced in 1951 as a public information film for the Central Office of Information for Commonwealth Retlations Office, this nine-minute film can be viewed with a Windows Media Player or QuickTime in either high or low quality. This colour film shows all the various areas of the festival with a large number of visitors enjoying the facilities, as well as an overview of sculptures, demonstrations and objects on display. The last section features the funfair and activities held at Battersea as part of this festival. Six film screenshots are also provided, together with a text version of the film.
Link: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1945to1951/filmpage_fil.htm


Exploring 20th Century London
The `Exploring 20th Century London' website has provided this resource on art and design that was influenced by the city itself. A general overview is given with links to more detailed information and images relating to artists and designers particularly connected with London, including the designer of the Tube Map, Henry (Harry) Beck; poster artist Tom Eckersley; station designer Leslie Green and fashion designer, Mary Quant. Pages also cover relevant organisations such as Biba, Picture Post and Whitefriars, and subjects such as Art Deco style, London Fashion designers, London Transport posters and war artists.
Link: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.37


Europa Film Treasures
Europa Film Treasures is a substantial EU-funded online archive of classic vintage films from across Europe. The 50 digitised films can be viewed online and they date from 1895 to the 1970s. The films have been drawn from film institutes across Europe and beyond. Films are presented with a short history and description.
Link: http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/