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Whats happening in the World of Arts

2011-11-30T22:47:00.000-08:00

Camera-Less Photography

As part of its Shadow Catchers exhibition on camera-less photography, the V&A has commissioned a short film on each of the five international artists featured in the show: Floris Neususs, Pierre Cordier, Gary Fabian Miller, Susan Derges and Adam Fuss
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/

Management and Business Studies Portal

The British Library has just launched its new Management and Business Studies Portal, bringing together full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants to help you get timely access to emerging research findings. As well as these digital documents, you'll find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/

As a special feature in issue 20 of their online magazine TateShots, Tate online has provided this video remembering the art and humour of the Young British Artist Angus Fairhurst who died in March 2008. Artists Gavin Turk and Mat Collishaw, as well as Tate Director Nicholas Serota, recall their memories of Fairhurst, an English artist, who worked in installation, photography and video, alongside images of his huge range of work on exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol. This video can be viewed online or downloaded as an MP4 on a range of media player software such as iTunes and QuickTime player. A transcript of the commentary is also available.
http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/?item=18099

Google Art Project
Seventeen leading art galleries and museums across the world have been announced as the initial participants in Google Art Project, a version of the idea which allows visitors to navigate corridors and pore over the minute details of canvasses from the Rijkmuseum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. UK representatives include Tate Britain and the National Gallery.
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Ideas Factory
Launched by the National Library of Scotland, and developed in conjunction with their Writer-in-Residence, the Ideas Factory is an interactive online workshop designed to help you create and write stories. It shows how stories are put together, and takes you through the story-writing process

http://digital.nls.uk/ideas-factory/

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2011-08-22T02:23:00.000-07:00

Paul Rand

Steven Heller has posted a free pdf of his rare book “Paul Rand: A Designer’s Words.” Edited along with Nathan Garland and Georgette Ballance, the thin volume was created to commemorate the April 1998 Paul Rand Symposium held at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/catalogs_rand_designers_words.pdf

Cinemetrics

Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

http://cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de/

2011-06-07T22:33:00.001-07:00

The Performing Arts on Film & Television
A new catalogue is now available to download, detailing film and video materials held by the archives and collections of the British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council England, LUX and Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue is intended for use by curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers. It gives an account of the histories of theatre, acting, dance, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television, through references in around 3,500 titles from the collections above.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/performing-arts/

About the National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

Yale Digital Commons

Yale University has released about 250,000 images and audio files on its Yale Digital Commons platform. All content is available to use free of charge under creative commons license terms. Search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio and video.
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

Genius of Photography
The BBC website has provided this gallery on the `Genius on Photography' to showcase what they describe as "some of the best photography ever taken" from 19th century photographers, such as Eadweard Muybridge and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, to 20th century photographers, Man Ray, Robert Capa, Ed Ruscha, Richard Billingham and Cindy Sherman. The gallery is organised in six sections, featuring the work of three different photographers in each section. This selection has been taken from a television series broadcast by the BBC, and the gallery features one key image representing the photographer, together with an extract from the televised programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/

Typographic Archives
The Typographic Archives website aims to "preserve valued web contents on typography and history of printing and writing" by archiving the contents of relevant websites that no longer exist. At the time of writing the site includes short biographies of a few of the more famous names in the history of typography, including: William Caxton; Johannes Gutenberg; and William Caslon, as well as a glossary of typographical terms and an excerpt from Beatrice Warde's lecture to the British Typographers' Guild.
http://www.typographia.org/

Robert Rauschenberg Prints
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from 28 October, 2007 to 30 March, 2008, this website provides information about prints made by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The website concentrates on the 1960s, with his "painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines", 1970s when the artist established his own print facility, Untitled Press, and 1980s and 1990s when he traveled extensively and started to use his own photographs in his art, partly for copyright reasons.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2011-01-14T00:43:00.000-08:00

The Power of Cartoons
New on TED Talks: in a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/patrick_chappatte_the_power_of_cartoons.html

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The archive is a work in progress and currently includes a catalogue of more than 296 productions, 75 video clips, and online videos of over 30 full productions.
http://globalshakespeares.org/

Music Treasures Consortium
The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives. Researchers can search or browse materials and view digital images.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html

The Future Designer
The first of a series of ThinkTanks from the V&A Museum on future issues facing contemporary design. This ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer. Watch the videos and join in the online debate.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/thinktank1/

Syd Mead
Exclusive MP3 interview with Syd Mead, the influential conceptual designer of cinematic cult classics such as Tron, Blade Runner and Aliens. What is the role of dreaming in envisioning the future, why flying cars have not become science-fact yet, and what has Syd learned about designing for the real world from designing classic sci-fi space odysseys.
http://khotanharmon.com/audio/Syd%20Mead.mp3

Prunella Clough
Tate Online has provided this resource on the archive of the artist Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This archive was acquired by the Tate after the artist`s death and has been organised under two headings `Inspirations' and `Working Methods'. Clough wrote detailed descriptions of things that caught her eye, as well as making thumbnail sketches which later informed her work. `Working Methods' shows images she cropped to create effects, reworked postcards, materials, notes on colour, descriptions of artwork and the artist at work.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/prunellaclough/interactive.shtm

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2010-08-18T20:58:00.001-07:00

Unconventional Art
Today’s TED playlist exhibits art that transcends the museum wall. These speakers, all artists or creators, talk about their unusual means to remarkable ends. Jonathan Harris creates digital artscapes out of Eskimo feasts, balloon wishes and the Internet’s feelings. Robert Lang revolutionizes a centuries-old paper pastime through simple (or maybe not-so-simple) mathematics. Vik Muniz finds art supplies in unlikely places — dirt, chocolate, diamonds, clouds. Miru Kim explores massive abandoned underground places — and then photographs herself in them, nude, to bring these dark spaces into sharp focus.
http://blog.ted.com/2010/08/11/unconventional-art-todays-tedtalks-playlist/
John Cage and Contemporary Art

BALTIC Curator Alessandro Vincintelli talks to artists Graham Gussin, Katie Paterson and Sam Belinfante about the new Cage Mix exhibition and the influence of John Cage on contemporary art practice.
http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/

Silent Animation

This website gives online access to the UCLA archive of animations from the silent era of cinema. At May 2010, 11 vintage films from 1900 to 1928 are freely available for online viewing. Also available are commentaries from the preservationists involved, film notes, and information on the historical context. A Study Guide is available for download in PDF format. Films are also available for download in either MPEG2 or MP4 format.
http://animation.library.ucla.edu/
Roomle
Roomle is an online design tool which allows you to create floor plans, room layouts and designs simply and easily for free.
http://www.roomle.com/
Digital Comic Museum
Digital Comic Museum is a very large website archive of U.S. comic books known to be in the public domain. As such, it includes a wealth of high-quality scans of vintage comics, freely available for reading. Most comics are from the 1940s and 1950s. Some newspaper comic strips are also included. Files are in the standard CBR (Comic Book Reader) format, for which Comical is possibly the best free viewer. Free registration is required to download the comics, but not to search the website. The Digital Comic Museum will be a valuable resource for those researching the history of comics in the U.S., as well as for those interested in the dynamic hand-made typography of the medium, the depiction of stereotypes during the 20th century, and the ways that the standards and politics of the time were presented to children.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
AdViews

AdViews: a digital archive of vintage television commercials' is an online collection from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The archive contains "thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s ... created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles". Videos can be browsed or searched, and viewed via iTunes service. The archive seems especially rich in animated U.S. adverts from the 1950s and 1960s. It will be useful for those interested in branding, product design, post-war typography, mass media depictions of stereotypes, commercial animation, and the history of advertising in the USA.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/

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Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2010-05-17T17:19:00.000-07:00

MIT Visualizing Cultures
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).
Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

RSA Talks and Events
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts has made available a huge number of downloadable videos and podcasts on its website. Particular subject areas include sociology, politics, economics, design and environment.
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision

Steve Mellor Comics
Samples of 80s comic book work by Steve Mellor.
http://cartoonretro.blogspot.com/search/label/Steve%20Mellor

Archigram Archival Project

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/

Screen Search Fashion

Screen Search Fashion is an online resource that provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress, as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East (SASE)'s collections. The vast potential of non-fiction film as a resource for students, who are interested in fashion and dress is highlighted by this resource, which has the potential to contribute to dress historians' developing interest in everyday fashions. The site provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion, as depicted in over 200 newly digitised stills and clips, enabling the researcher to discover key aspects of fashion and dress of the period in their historical and design contexts. The site includes links to records in Screen Archive South East's online database, where the films can be explored in further detail.
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/fashion/

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2010-04-06T17:37:00.000-07:00

Ten Contemporary Chinese Photographers Show their Work at Sanatorium

ISTANBUL,TURKEY - Sanatorium opened "Passing China: Contemporary Chinese Photographers. This exhibition brings together the work of ten emerging and established artists whose work has been displayed worldwide Chen Qiang, Lian Dongya, Li Wei, Liu Bolin, Maleonn, Miao Xiaochun, Pan Yue, Wang Yiquing, Zuoxiao Zuzhou. Using photography, these artists delve into the conflict between China’s past and future and the plight of the individual caught amidst the transition. On exhibition through 24 April.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-06-00-07-31-ten-contemporary-chinese-photographers-show-their-work-at-sanatorium.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Opens 11th Collection Exhibition

HELSINKI.- In an exhibition, visitors are accustomed to watching, listening and observing art alone and with others. But what happens when the role of an observer becomes more active? What kind of an event is a set-up? Just like contemporary art itself, the 11th collection exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is open-mindedly crossing all kinds of borders. The leading role is given to the artist as well as to the viewer. It’s a Set-up is about the experiential and participatory aspect of art, and considers such themes as time and duration, the presentation and staging of artwork, performance and human relationships.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-21-45-21-museum-of-contemporary-art-kiasma-opens-11th-collection-exhibition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image at Museum of Contemporary Art
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of Cory Arcangel, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art. The exhibition Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and will be on view through May 9, 2010.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-23-06-02-cory-arcangel-the-sharper-image-at-museum-of-contemporary-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

The Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art database is now available to researchers free of charge via the Getty Institute.
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals.
Link: http://library.getty.edu/bha

Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smarthistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Audio and video conversations about works of art are created, opening up the possibilities of Web 2.0 to create communities and foster collaboration.
Link: http://smarthistory.org/

Wim Crouwel

The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making, including an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9xtc6e

Whats Happening in the World of Arts and Design 2010

2010-01-07T17:33:00.000-08:00

Welcome to All Staff and Students of LASALLE

What Things Do is a new self-publishing platform for comics artists Jordan Crane and Sammy Markham. Several comics can already be freely accessed and read online, with more to follow in the future.
Link: http://whatthingsdo.com/

Victorian Infographics Bibliodyssey.
Link: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html

Antony Gormley
The Tate's website has provided this online resource about the sculptor, Anthony Gormley. This series of videos includes an introduction to Gormley's art by Dr Richard Noble, Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College. Four examples of Gormley's work can be explored in individual video files, 'Bed'; 'Natural Selection'; 'Sound II'; and 'Another Place'. Gormley also discusses his work in an online interview. Alternatively the video can be viewed in segments where Gormley answers individual questions: 'Is modern art for everyone?', 'What significance does the body have in 21st century art?' or 'Has being an artist been liberating for you?'
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/

Marcus du Sautoy on Symmetry
The world turns on symmetry, from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. In the latest TED talk, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.
Link: http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/symmetry_realit.php

Shakespeare Quartos
The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place. This initiative is jointly led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
Link: http://www.quartos.org

Peter Doig
The Tate Britain's website provides this online resource to accompany a retrospective exhibition on the artist Peter Doig, which ran from 5 February to 11 May 2008. This online resource featured selected works displayed in each of the eight rooms of the original exhibition. The online exhibition begins with paintings from his time at the Chelsea School of Art 1989-1990, when his landscapes were unlike anything else in the London art scene at this time. It continues with selected works providing a comprehensive overview of his work to date, and tracing his recurrring motifs and his approach to image-making. A video is provided in which the artist guides the visitor around his exhibition, and other resources show the works by Doig in the Tate collection, and an article from the Spring 2008 issue of Tate Etc on Doig and his artwork.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/peterdoig/rooms/

Design for a Living World
The Nature Conservancy's Web site provides information on their project 'Design for a Living World'. Ten designers, including Ted Muehling, Kate Spade, Ezri Tarazi and Maya Lin, were invited to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Photographs illustrating how the materials used by the designers connect to real people and real places, and are included in the sections on each designer. The Web site is organised under place, ranging from Australia to China; materials used for each item and the designer. A slide show for the object or for the designer are accessed via hyperlinks. There are video interviews with each designer. The exhibition will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York from 14 May 2009 to 4 January 2010.
ink: http://www.nature.org/design

Whats Happening in the World of Arts and Design

2009-09-02T17:32:00.000-07:00

Intypes (Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project), is an online database providing a consistent... "typology of contemporary interior design practices". This
free and well-designed website was launched in July 2009 at the NeoCon World's Trade Fair in Chicago. The Project, said to be "13 years in the making", has been worked on by Cornell University faculty and sixteen graduate students. The database has an advanced search form, and may also be accessed by intuitive illustrated A-Z indexes that are clearly linked from the front page. The website also has a full description of the project and project staff, and two founding partners - the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Interior Design magazine.
Link: http://intypes.cornell.edu/

Computer Baroque Launched in March 2009 at Tate Modern in London, 'Computer Baroque' is an online archival collection of exemplary and innovative short films, all made using computer animation between 1982 and 1995. 15 short films from this period are freely available to view on the website, and are presented using Flash video. Films are accompanied by substantial curatorial notes by curator Richard Wright. The collection aims to represent a period... "in which computer animation was the focus for audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology".
Link: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque

Su-Mei Tse presents New Multi-Media Installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In 2007, Luxembourg- and Berlin-based visual artist Su Mei Tse lived at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, drawing inspiration from the museum’s rich collection, its history, and the Dutch Room, where the empty frames remain as an ever-present reminder of loss and absence. This summer, the 2003 the Golden Lion award-winner returns to present a solo exhibition and new sound installation in Floating Memories, on view July 16th through October 18th, 2009. Programming during the run of exhibition includes artist and gallery talks, a book signing, and a musical performance featuring Su Mei Tse, contemporary visual artists Lee Mingwei and Cliff Evans, songwriter and performer Niko Hafkenscheid, gallery owner Peter Blum (Peter Blum Gallery, New York), curator Enrico Lunghi, Director of the Mudam Museum in Luxembourg, and Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Gardner Museum, will accompany the exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-07-15-00-59-17-su-mei-tse-presents-new-multi-media-installation-at-the-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum.html

This website is the online companion to the exhibition `Fashioning Felt' hosted by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The exhibition took place from the 6th March until the 7th September 2009. The exhibition focuses on felt that has been produced by hand or by machine-felting process but it excludes non-woven felt and techniques in order to emphasise the essential elements used in felt making. There are three main sections. The section on objects, shows images and details of exhibits as well as links to related designs. The section on process includes photos showing how a Turkmenistan carpet is made. There is also a blog. One can browse objects by keyword such as architecture, fashion or furniture or by designer.

http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/

Art and Design News

2009-02-08T21:28:00.000-08:00

Thread
This is the website of the BBC's online magazine Thread, which deals with the concept of eco-fashion. The website can be viewed in an Adobe Flash version or as HTML. It contains a collection of feature articles, including: Reports on subjects such as sustainability, ethical designers, working conditions, fair trade and waste management; Columns from regular writers; How-To Guides, including conservation and construction tips, and instructions on finding ethical fashion; Galleries including current trends and recommendations. There are a number of BBC videos on the website including interviews with designers, and in depth reports. An archive of Style Files contains photo shoots of eco-fashion looks with details of suppliers and prices.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/thread/

The National Film Board of Canada’s new film site makes hundreds of animated films, documentaries, and experimental films freely available online.
Link: http://www.nfb.ca/

Katherine Dunham Collection
This website provides access to a range of materials taken from the Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library of Congress. Comprising a selection of photographs, videos and texts, this web presentation documents the life and career of a woman who has been credited with changing the face of American modern dance, largely through introducing African and Caribbean dance movement to the public. Photographs are taken from the Library of Congress, the Missouri Historical Society, and Southern Illinois University. The database allows searching by keyword, and searching can be limited by factors such as name of ballet, and format. Other features include a chronological timeline, featuring photographs of Dunham.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/dunham/dunham-home.html

Public Art Resource+Research Scotland
This is the website of Public Art Resource+Research Scotland (PAR+RS), a new initiative developed by the Scottish Arts Council to "promote excellence and innovation within public art". The website has a news section with opportunities and developments, and there are also a number of featured articles available in full-text. The 'Blogs and Reflections' section of the website has blogs from invited writers reporting on live and complete projects and events. The 'Archive' provides details of previous public art projects and includes information about the commissioning process, funding and outcomes. Other content on the website includes information about how to contribute, a forum for registered users and a tools section, which includes links to useful information for artists on external websites.
http://www.publicartscotland.com/

Florida Broadsides
This website forms part of the Florida Memory website maintained by the State Archives of Florida. It provides free access to a collection of more than 200 digitised images of broadsides (posters, leaflets, petitions, flyers, advertisements, political cartoons) and other ephemeral such as pamphlets and newspaper articles relating to the social, political and economic history of Florida during the period 1800-2000. Themes of particular interest to social scientists include political cartoons relating to US national and local elections; materials relating to race and slavery.
http://www.floridamemory.com/collections/broadsides/

Artists' Illustrated Letters
The Getting the Picture website provides a selection of artists' illustrated letters from the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. The collection encompasses "exuberant thank you notes, winsome love letters, lively reports of current events, graphic instructions and other personalized communiqués from the early nineteenth century through the 1980s." It gives a wonderful insight into the private world of the artist. Artists include: Alexander Calder; Dale Chihuly; Marcel Duchamp; Thomas Eakins; Winslow Homer; Roy Lichtenstein; Man Ray; Eero Saarinen; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry; and Andy Warhol.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/exhibit-illustratedletters/

Marcel Breuer Papers
Marcel Breuer Papers 1920-1986' is a website which provides access to the papers of Marcel Breuer in the Archives of American Art, at the Smithsonian Institution, New York City Research Center. They were digitized in 2005 from 32 reels of microfilm, totaling 42,734 images. Architect and furniture designer Breuer was born in Hungary in 1902 and died in 1981 in New York City. He studied and taught at the Bauhaus until 1928. The collection contains biographical material, correspondence, business and financial records, writings, project files, interviews, notes, sketches, exhibition files, and photographs.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/breumarc/

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2009-01-14T21:45:00.000-08:00

Haus der Kunst to feature William Eggleston's Retrospective of Photographs & Video
Munich, Germany - William Eggleston's early photographs were black and white. In the 1960s he began to photograph in colour and - almost single-handedly - heralded in the era of fine art colour photography. A solo show at the MoMA in 1976 made him famous. Eggleston's snapshot aesthetic and his psychologising use of colour was still unusual at the time; in an annual review, the MoMA show was even called, "The most hated show of the year." Today Eggleston enjoys a cult status among younger generations of photographers and film directors. On exhibition at the Haus der Kunst from 20 February through 17 May, 2009.http://www.artknowledgenews.com/William_Eggleston.html

"Superabundant ~ A Celebration of Pattern" to open at Turner Contemporary
KENT, UK - " Superabundant " is an exhibition that creates a sense of celebration, of joy and delight through the power of pattern. The exhibition features work by nine artists who make use of pattern and decoration in very different ways, some adopting a systems approach to pattern whilst others are more fluid and organic. For this exhibition, many of the artists have created new and sometimes site specific work especially for the Turner Contemporary Project Space. On view 24 January through 22 March, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Turner_Contemporary_Project_Space_Celebration_of_Pattern.html

The Film Forum to Premiere Chiara Clemente's Portrait of 5 NYC Women Artists
NEW YORK, NY - The Film Forum will present the New York theatrical premiere of OUR CITY DREAMS, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente, beginning Wednesday, February 4. It’s an affecting love letter to the city which strings together the self-told narratives of five women artists (ages 30 – 80), each of whom has a passion for art-making inseparable from her devotion to New York . Swoon, the youngest, exhibits cut-outs directly on city walls and subways, and exudes idealism and energy while carrying a two by four the way some women would carry a briefcase. Cairo-born Ghada Amer mixes media -- embroidering with painting -- to confront sexual taboos that cross cultural boundaries.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//The_Film_Forum.html

The Goethe Institute Newsletter Jan 2009

2009-01-13T00:31:00.000-08:00

The Arts Newsletter - January 2009

Reality and Theatre - a Report on Echt!, the 7th Festival of Politics in
Free Theatre. Theatre for an audience aged under three is still in its baby shoes in
Germany, unlike Italy, France and the Scandinavian countries. However German
theatres for children and young people have made a start on learning to walk
in these shoes.
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/iub/en4059237.htm

ARCHITECTURE

Enjoying Historic Monuments in Germany - and Caring for Them
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/en3997639.htm

DESIGN AND FASHION
A Manufacturing Renaissance - German Porcelain Blazes New Trails
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/des/dth/en4011750.htm

Prized Dresses Made from Worthless Materials - the Fascination of Stephan
Hann's Creations
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/mod/thm/en4013207.htm

FILM

Swelling Turnout at Independent Berlin Festival "Around the World in 14
Films"
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en4012107.htm

In the Realm of the Shades: Christian Petzold's Films
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en4055772.htm

LITERATURE

Dossier: Independent Publishing Houses in Germany
Lilienfeld Publishing House - Outstanding Books
http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/dos/uav/lil/en4025885.htm

MUSIC

Avant Garde Electronica from East Germany: Raster-Noton
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/prh/en3991360.htm

A Concert Hall with a "Radially" New Flair
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/idd/en4056101.htm

THEATRE

The German Children's and Youth Theatre Prize 2008
http://www.goethe.de/kue/the/thm/iub/en4012141.htm

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

You Have to Go to the Brits for a Pee
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/idd/en3993518.htm

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Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2008-11-19T16:43:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-19T16:19:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-16T17:19:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-07T18:35:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-02T17:21:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-02T17:16:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-02T16:36:00.000-08:00

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

2008-10-09T17:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-09T17:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-07T22:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-07T02:38:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-22T18:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-22T05:58:00.000-07:00

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.

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2008-09-21T16:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-20T04:15:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-16T21:50:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-16T19:48:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-12T19:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-12T19:10:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-08T19:19:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-07T21:43:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-07T20:36:00.000-07:00

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

Whats happening in the world of arts

2008-08-21T04:27:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-08-20T23:44:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-18T05:48:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-04T17:29:00.000-07:00

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/

Arts Management Newsletter No. 84 (July 2008)

2008-07-25T21:11:00.000-07:00

ARTS MANAGEMENT NEWSLETTER
Monthly information service by Arts Management Network
ISSN 1610-238X | Issue No. 84 - July 2008

Some of the latest news and developments in arts management.

An exclusive interview with Philip Kotler. Kotler
is said to be one of the best marketing experts in the world, who has also co-edited
books for arts marketing. In the interview with Arts Management Network, he underlined the importance of management and marketing for the arts. He also introduces some of the latest results of his research in audience development and value-based
marketing.

CONTENT OVERVIEW
1. Interview: Philip Kotler, marketing expert, Kotler Marketing Group
2. Book: Museum Marketing. Competing in the Global Marketplace
3. Magazine Digest: Museum and Society
4. Review: 2008 EUConsult Conference
5. Preview: The Northern Urban Regeneration Exhibition and Conference
6. Preview: Arts Reach Nat. Arts Development & Arts Marketing Conference

TOPICS & BACKGROUNDS
1. Interview: Philip Kotler, Kotler Marketing Group

AMN: Prof. Kotler, you are one of only a few marketing experts, who pay attention with your management theories to the specific requirements of the arts. Does the arts sector – as opposed to the business sector - need its own management and marketing concept and system? And if yes, why?

Philip Kotler: I have had a great interest in the question that you raised about the applicability of current management and marketing theory to the arts. It is
the reason that I co-authored two books on the arts,namely Museum Strategy and Marketing and Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing
Arts.

I discovered that current management and marketing theory, when read by managers in the arts,opened up their minds to new perspectives and applications.Perhaps the major revelation is to think of art patrons as consumers (as wellas potential givers) with varying needs, wants, and preferences.

This leads to managing the arts organization from a "customer perspective." It leads the arts organization to develop multiple programs providing different offerings and satisfactions for different customers. Some people come to the museum to contemplate the great art, others come for a class, others come to meet their friends or to meet new people. As for performing arts organizations, they have to prioritize their market groups. A symphony orchestra must prepare different programs to satisfy the tastes of different audiences that the symphony orchestra values.

AMN: In both the business and the arts sector, there are always crises from
time to time, which can lead to factory closings and unemployment. Does this
happens because of wrong or missing management decisions?

PK: In the U.S., several symphony orchestras closed down because they couldn't draw
a sufficiently large attending audience or sufficient funding from patrons or granting organizations. Some museums close down for the same reason. There are usually early warning signs of a declining audience, declining giving, or both. This is a crisis time that requires fresh thinking about how to improve the programs, services, and audience experiences.

AMN: What are the current discussions in marketing and management research?
Are there new developments? Your speak, for example, about valuebased
marketing? What does it mean for the arts sector?

PK: Arts organizations should pay attention to the following developments:
1. The increasing importance of branding and differentiating the organization from its competition.

2. The use of relationship marketing strategies to build loyal audiences who not only
attend but who will act as advocates and bring in new members. Arts organizations
must start to understand how to stimulate word-of-mouth and buzz about their activities.

3. Treating the audience not as passive recipients but as active partners in developing programs and experiences. This is called co-creation strategy.
Kotler Marketing Group: http://www.kotlermarketing.com
Kellogg School of Management: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.eduStanding Room Only: http://www.artsmanagement.net/Books-id-14.htmlMuseum Marketing and Strategy: http://www.artsmanagement.net/Books-id-770.html

BOOKS & RESOURCES
2. Book: Museum Marketing. Competing in the Global Marketplace
Museums have moved from a product to a marketing focus within the last ten years.
This has entailed a painful reorientation of approaches to understanding visitors as
customers; new ways of fundraising and sponsorship as government funding decreases;
and grappling with using the internet for marketing.

This book brings the latest in marketing thinking to bear on the museum sector taking into account both the commercial issues and social mission it involves. Carefully structured to be highly accessible the book offers: a contemporary and relevant and global approach to museum marketing written by authors in Britain, Australia, the United States, and Asia;an approach that reflects the particular challenges museums of varying sizes face when seeking to market an experience to a diverse set of stakeholders: audience;funders; sponsors and government; a particular focus on museum marketing in the 'Information Age'; and, major case studies at the beginning and end of each section of the book, and smaller case studies within chapters.The hugely experienced author team, includes both leading academics and practitioners to ensure the book has broad appeal and is both relevant, innovative and progressive in approach.
It will be essential reading for students in museum studies, non-profit marketing, and arts management and marketing. It will also be equally relevant for professionals working in and managing museums and galleries, heritage attractions and ministries of arts. This is the most up-to-date treatment of marketing museums with a global approach. There is a blend of academic and practitioner expertise to appeal to students and professionals seeking a contemporary and relevant approach. It features a range of international case studies that demonstrate the museum experience and draw out the particular challenges that museums and galleries of varying sizes and types face in the global marketplace.
Author : Ruth Rentschler, Anne-Marie Hede
296 pages, Butterworth Heinemann (July 2007)
Details: http://www.artsmanagement.net/Books-id-791.html

3. Magazine Digest: Museum and Society
March 2008 , Volume 6 No. 1
Content:
1) Private and public memories of Expo 67: a case study of recollections of Montreal's World's Fair, 40 years after the event, by David Anderson and Viviane Gosselin 2) The Micro-history of a world event: intention, perception and imagination at the Exposition universelle de 1867, by Volker Barth
3) On the boundaries and partial connections between amateurs and professionals, by
Morgan Meyer
4) Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester Museum, by Rebecca Machin Book Reviews
5) Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald (eds), Exhibition Experiment, by Haidy Geismar
6) Arthur MacGregor, Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the
Sixteenth to the Nineteenth century, by Sam Alberti
7) Richard Sandell, Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference, by Andrew
Newman
More information: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html

Arts Management Bookstore
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Skate's Art Investment Handbook
Skate's Art Investment Handbook describes a rational approach to investing in art with valuation drivers and market statistics,an analysis of how the art market compares to other investment markets, and a special supplement carrying the ratings of the world's 1000 most expensive paintings. Another product of Skate's is its Art Valuation Letter - a unique art investment aide that focuses on pre-auction assessment of significant works of art for upcoming auctions. It gives updated
ratings and segment tables for Skate's Top 1000 artworks as well as earnings reports and research updates on Skate's Art Stocks. The newsletter is published monthly with additional special issues published in the middle of each auction season.
Owners of major art collections, both in the public and private sector, art funds and
art investment foundations can benefit from Skate's auditing services, provided by
an experienced multinational team of specialists.
More: http://www.skatepress.com

Details: http://www.artsreach.com/conference.htmlArts Management Newsletter No. 84 (July 2008)

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2008-07-24T00:31:00.000-07:00

Beat Generation Companion to a 2008 exhibition that "explores the lives and works of the artists who made up the 'Beat Generation.'" Features a slideshow about Jack Kerouac's scroll manuscript of "On the Road," photos and other images from the exhibit, a "Beatnik questionnaire" from 1960 for you to fill out, and some original Beatnik poems visitors recently composed. From the Harry Ransome Center, University of Texas at Austin
Link: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2008/beats/

Robert Rauschenberg Prints Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from 28 October, 2007 to 30 March, 2008, this website provides information about prints made by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The website concentrates on the 1960s, with his "painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines", 1970s when the artist established his own print facility, Untitled Press, and 1980s and 1990s when he traveled extensively and started to use his own photographs in his art, partly for copyright reasons.

Link: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/

Whats Happening in the World of Media Arts

2008-07-24T00:17:00.000-07:00

ACADEMIC AND PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS –PERFORMING ARTS

2008-07-23T23:31:00.000-07:00

16 journals belonging to subject: Performing Arts

Applied Theatre Researcher
ISSN: 14431726
Subject: Education --- Performing Arts
Publisher: Griffith University, Brisbane
Country: Australia
Language: English, French, Spanish
Keywords: education, theatre
Start year: 2000
http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/centre-cultural-research/publications/applied-theatre-researcheridea-journal

Bright Lights Film Journal
ISSN: 01474049
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Bright Lights - Gary Morris and Gregory Battle, Portland, Oregon
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: movie analysis, international film, motion pictures
Start year: 1996
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/

CCAHTE: Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education
ISSN: 19119755
Subject: Medicine (General) --- Performing Arts --- Education --- Arts in general
Publisher: Cheryl McLean
Country: Canada
Language: English
Keywords: interdisciplinary creative arts research, health, training, education
Start year: 2006
http://www.cmclean.com/

Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today
ISSN: 13214853
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: King’s College, London, University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: theatre, drama, classics
Start year: 1994
http://www.didaskalia.net/journal.html

Film-Philosophy
ISSN: 14664615
Subject: Performing Arts --- Philosophy
Publisher: Film-Philosophy
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, French
Keywords: film, philosophy, aesthetics, world cinema
Start year: 2006
http://www.film-philosophy.com/

Genders
ISSN: 19363249
Subject: Languages and Literatures --- Gender Studies --- Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Colorado
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: gender studies, sexuality, humanities, literature, art, film, history, media studies, social science
Start year: 1998
http://www.genders.org/

The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
ISSN: 20090374
Subject: Languages and Literatures --- Performing Arts
Publisher: Trinity College, Dublin
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Keywords: gothic and horror studies, literature, film, television
Start year: 2006
http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/

The Journal of Religion and Film
ISSN: 10921311
Subject: Religion --- Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Nebraska, Omaha
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: religion, film, communication science, theology
Start year: 1997
http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/

Journal of Religion and Theatre
ISSN: 15448762
Subject: Performing Arts --- Religion
Publisher: Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Religion and Theatre Focus Group
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: theatre, religion, ritual
Start year: 2002
http://www.rtjournal.org/

New Voices in Classical Reception Studies
ISSN: 17506581
Subject: Performing Arts --- Languages and Literatures
Publisher: The Open University
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: classical reception, drama, poetry, historiography
Start year: 2006
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/newvoices/

Papers of Surrealism
ISSN: 17501954
Subject: Arts in general --- Performing Arts
Publisher: AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: surrealism, Dada, visual arts, cultural theory, contemporary art
Start year: 2003
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal8/index.htm

Participations
ISSN: 17498716
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: audience and reception studies
Start year: 2003
http://www.participations.org/

Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
ISSN: 17510171
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Royal Holloway University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: performance, drama, theatre
Start year: 2006
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/

Scenario
ISSN: 16498526
Subject: Performing Arts --- Education
Publisher: University College Cork
Country: Ireland
Language: English, German
Keywords: drama, theatre, pedagogy, language education
Start year: 2007
http://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/

Scope: an on-line journal of film studies
ISSN: 14659166
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Nottingham, Institute of Film Studies
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: film
Start year: 2000
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/

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

2008-07-22T19:03:00.000-07:00

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center shows 'Facebook / Images of People in Photographs' Posted: 18 Jul 2008 12:46 AM CDT POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental lifelong project to document the residents of his native Westerwald, near Cologne.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Frances-Lehman_Loeb-Art_Center.html

Chinese Gardens for Living ~ Illusion into Reality at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Posted: 18 Jul 2008 12:23 AM CDT Dresden, Germany - This summer an exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in association with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, will be presenting contemporary art from China. “Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality” will show works by famous Chinese designers, architects, painters and photographers who have explored the philosophy behind the Chinese garden.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Chinese_Gardens.html

Maurice de Vlaminck’s Exhibit at Musee du Luxembourg in Paris Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:45 PM CDT PARIS - This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck’s (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck’s career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenalia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Maurice-de_Vlaminck.html

Sea Creatures in Glass at Harvard Museum of Natural History Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:24 PM CDT CAMBRIDGE, MA - Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the “Glass Flowers,” father and son artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka meticulously shaped glass and wire into lifelike models of marine animals. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka marine invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout world during the 19th century. Sea Creatures in Glass will be on display through January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Leopold_and_Rudolph_Blaschka.html

Painting for Eternity ~ The Tombs of Paestum at Martin Gropius Bau Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:12 PM CDT BERLIN - With its three large Doric temples, Paestum became a well-known site early on thanks to engravings by Piranesi (1777/78) and Goethe’s impressive descriptions in his Italienische Reise (1787). However, many people are unaware that Paestum contains one of the greatest treasure troves of ancient fresco paintings: During excavations in the 1960s, around 200 richly painted tombs from the Lucanian period (4th century B.C.) were discovered.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Paestum.html

History of New Arrivals to America at Minnesota History Center Posted: 17 Jul 2008 09:21 PM CDT ST. PAUL, MN.- For many, Ellis Island is the ultimate symbol of American immigration and the immigrant experience. The Minnesota History Center opened a new exhibit celebrating the stories of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the New York City federal immigration station. On exhibition through 21 September, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Augustus_Frederick_Sherman.html

JMW Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld at Wordsworth Museum Posted: 17 Jul 2008 08:58 PM CDT GRASMERE, UK - Outstanding works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), from The Courtauld in London, will be displayed together for the first time in this exciting exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. The variety of style and technique seen in these works is evidence of the Turner's extraordinarily inventive approach to the making of landscape in watercolour.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner.html

Greek Olympic Art Exhibit from the British Museum at the Shanghai Museum Posted: 17 Jul 2008 08:44 PM CDT SHANGHAI.- Less than one month before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing, the famous discus thrower and more than a hundred sculptures and porcelains from ancient Greece have visited China, where thanks to a temporary exhibit in Shanghai have been discovered by over 330,000 Chinese visitors at the Shanghai Museum.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Shanghai_Museum.html

Stanley Kubrick Archive

2008-07-10T19:04:00.000-07:00

2008 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of director Stanley Kubrick and the 40th anniversary of the release of one of his most iconic movies, '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Following the deposit of his Archive to University of the Arts London, the Archives Hub has highlighted ten items from a collection to illustrate the breadth, depth and richness of the Archive that covers disciplines such as set design, costume, photography and script writing as well as paperwork associated with film production. There are also links to selected websites and suggested reading.
Link: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/jul08.shtml
Access: Free

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

2008-07-10T18:38:00.000-07:00

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life, 1990-2005 at Maison Européenne de la Photographie Posted: 09 Jul 2008 12:21 AM CDT PARIS - The Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents an internationally touring exhibition of works by celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz. This special exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes more than 200 photographs, featuring well-known work made on editorial assignment, as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” On exhibit through 14 September, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Annie/Leibovitz.html

Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao exhibits ~ Pioneers of Photography Posted: 08 Jul 2008 11:31 PM CDT BILBAO, SPAIN - The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao opens an exhibit featuring the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. which includes the pioneers of photography ranging from the years 1845-1930. One of the most important collections of photography in the world in private hands, the Ordóñez-Falcón collection comprises more than 1.500 works from different times, with a broad range of tendencies and techniques, by the leading authors in the history of photography. On view through 14 September, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Museum_of_Fine_Arts-Bilbao.html

Wexner Center for the Arts shows ~ Jeff Smith " Bone and Beyond " Solo Posted: 08 Jul 2008 11:03 PM CDT COLUMBUS, OH - Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond, the first museum exhibition of work by the influential, Columbus-based comic book artist and writer—best known for his epic graphic novel Bone will be on view through August 3, 2008 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The exhibition includes a selection of original comics whose artists Smith cites as direct influences, among them examples from Walt Kelly's Pogo, Carl Barks’s Uncle Scrooge, Will Eisner's The Spirit, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, and E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jeff_Smith_Bone_and_Beyond.html

Tria Gallery 'Summer Cocktail' ~ A Group Exhibition of Mixed Media Works Posted: 08 Jul 2008 09:25 PM CDT New York, NY - Tria Gallery presents its “Summer Cocktail” from June 26 through August 1, 2008. On display to help viewers escape the heat will be a cool mix of artwork, including mixed media sculpture by Monica Banks and Howard Kalish, prints and woodcuts by Karen Kunc, and paintings by Jenny Nelson, Annamaria Suppa and Joanne Topol.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tria/Gallery.html

National Museum Cardiff Launches a Welsh Landscape Exhibit
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 09:00 PM CDT Cardiff, Wales - National Museum Cardiff Launches Four New Galleries with a Welsh Landscape Exhibit.All four galleries have a particular focus on the art of Wales and landscape painting, and all of these elements come together in the Welsh Landscape Gallery, a spectacular space which explores how artists have responded to the changing inspirational land of Wales for over more than three hundred years.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//National_Museum_Cardiff.html

Cesar: An Anthology of the French Sculptor by Jean Nouvel Opens at The Fondation Cartier Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:35 PM CDT
PARIS - The Fondation Cartier presents a major exhibition of the work of French sculptor César on the tenth anniversary of his death. Jean Nouvel —the Fondation Cartier’s architect and a close friend of the artist—has been invited to select the works as well as design their presentation, thus offering a fresh perspective on the work of an artist who passionately explored the formal and expressive possibilities of industrial materials. Through this exhibition, the Fondation Cartier will celebrate an artist who played a major role in its history, from its inception in 1984 until his death in 1998.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cesar_Baldaccini.html

Shelburne Museum hosts a Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit
Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:25 PM CDT SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt’s signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits and Cassatt’s personal correspondence add fresh insight into the artist’s world.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Mary_Cassatt.html

Memorial Art Gallery Receives Edith Lunt Small’s Midtown Plaza 1962–1987
Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:15 PM CDT ROCHESTER, NY.- As the city of Rochester moves ahead with plans to raze Midtown Plaza, the property’s former owner has donated a commemorative painting of the historic mall to the Memorial Art Gallery. Edith Lunt Small’s Midtown Plaza 1962–1987 is a virtual Who’s Who of Rochester during the era. The 4-by 6-foot work, a gift of Midtown Rochester Properties, LLC, went on public view on July 2.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Edith-Lunt-Small.html

Detroit Institute of Arts shows 'People at Play in American Prints & Drawings', 1890–1945 Posted: 06 Jul 2008 11:08 PM CDT Detroit, MI - This exhibition of approximately 100 works on paper serves as a corollary and thematic complement to Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925. It is drawn almost entirely from the DIA’s collection and is dominated by the prints of John Sloan, George Bellows, Glenn O. Coleman, and Martin Lewis. On view through 3 August, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Detroit_Institute-of-Arts.html

Christie’s to sell the contents of Langford Hall, Nottinghamshire
Posted: 06 Jul 2008 11:00 PM CDT SOUTH KENSINGTON, UK - Christie’s is selling the contents of Langford Hall, Nottinghamshire. Both Patrick Radford and his wife Evelyn were fascinated by antiques and design and over the course of their lives together at Langford Hall, collected a variety of items that filled the Georgian house and family home. Patrick Radford trained as a cabinet maker for the family firm Stag Furniture, and his eye for quality craftsmanship and design is reflected in the broad range of furniture offered in the Collection.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Christie-s.html

Rare Luis Buñuel Photographs on View at the Spanish Film Library Posted: 06 Jul 2008 10:50 PM CDT MADRID - Luis Buñuel is, without a doubt, one of the best known movie directors. A lot has been written about him and many exhibitions on him have been organized. But,there are some aspects of his works that are not known, and we have not resisted temptation to show some of these. In the archives of the Spanish Film Library, there is a collection of photographs made by him when he was looking for exterior locations for the films he made in Mexico and the organizers wanted to show this work that illustrates the work he did prior to making a movie, and that also shows us another face of Buñuel.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Luis_Bunuel_Photographs.html

Smart Museum of Art exhibits ' Images of New York ' by John Sloan Posted: 06 Jul 2008 10:34 PM CDT Chicago, IL - John Sloan's images of New York helped define the city in the popular imagination. In gritty depictions of urban life, Sloan celebrated the metropolis of New York by focusing on street scenes, elevated trains, public spaces, and the lives of ordinary Americans. Yet Sloan's vision was a subjective one, tied to his particular observations of the neighborhoods in which he lived and the individuals he encountered. More than a series of distinct locations, Sloan's images of New York reflect the artist’s own movement through and experience of the city. On view through 14 September 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//John-Sloan-Image-sof-New-York.html

ArtsProfessional Magazine

2008-07-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

The UK's leading Arts Management Magazine presents the latest

ArtsProfessional podcast

A major national conference on UK arts participation and voluntary and amateur groups, took place recently at The Barbican in London.

The latest APod was recorded at the event and will be of interest to people working across the arts sector, particularly those in local authorities, voluntary, community and charitable organisations.

Available online now are the keynote speeches from:

Alan Davey
Chief Executive, Arts Council England

Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP
Minister for Culture
Our Creative Talent was organised by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England and Voluntary Arts England.

http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/podcasts/archive.cfm

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

2008-06-26T18:27:00.000-07:00

The Tibor de Nagy Gallery exhibits Paintings & Paste-Ups of Jess

New York City - The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of works by the celebrated painter and collage artist Jess (Collins), a leading light of the San Francisco art scene from the 1950s until his death in 2004, and one of the most original artists of the second half of the 20th century. On view through 31 July, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Jess_Collins.html

Architect David Fisher Announces the World's First Rotating Skyscraper

NEW YORK - Visionary Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced the launch of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion, to be constructed in Dubai and Moscow with other locations planned worldwide. Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd headed by the Dynamic Group, announced the opening on June 24 of the reservations list for the first Dynamic Tower in Dubai. The company has also revealed the design and floor plans of the rotating building which will have 80 floors and be 420 meters (1,380 feet) tall. Apartments will range in size from 124 square meters (1,334 SF), to Villas of 1,200 SM (12,916 SF) complete with a parking space inside the apartment.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Architect_Dr._David_Fisher.html

Luce Foundation Awards VMFA $200,000 For New American Installation

Richmond, VA - The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for reinstalling and reinterpreting its collection of historical American art—from painting, sculpture and works on paper to the decorative arts of furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. The largest amount of the permanent-collection gallery space in a new wing—approximately 11,200 square feet—will be devoted to the exhibition of VMFA’s current American collection, more than doubling its previous footprint.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Henry_Luce_Foundation.html

Sotheby's Sale of Contemporary Art to Feature Works by Indian Contemporary Artists

LONDON - Indian artists such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art – in addition to the company’s regular dedicated sales of Indian Art – and this summer’s major series of Contemporary Art sales in London will see this trend gather further momentum still. The sales on Tuesday, July 1 and Wednesday, July 2, 2008, will present a total of eight works by these cutting-edge and highly sought-after names and together the works are estimated in excess of £2 million.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Indian_Contemporary_Artists.html

Milestones in Automotive Design at Mercedes-Benz State Museum

Munich, Germany - Striking in their radical posture – already from a distance they arouse our curiosity: Extremely rare examples of cars bearing the star symbol of Mercedes-Benz. Never before have they been seen in this particular composition, stringently focused on aerodynamics, speed and Gestaltung (form giving processes). On exhibition at Mercedes-Benz State Museum.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Mercedes-Benz_State_Museum.html

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
VENICE, ITALY - From June 28 to October 12, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s. The exhibition will be installed in the recently renovated temporary exhibition galleries and will chronicle the transformation that occurred in a century of American art from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, from a literal depiction of nature to an abstract interpretation of universal ideas.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Peggy_Guggenheim_Collection.html

Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008
Boston, MA - During her residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, artist Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883. The Italian-born, New York-based artist returns to the Gardner Museum this summer to present a new contemporary exhibition: Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008, on view June 27 through September 28, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Luisa_Rabbia.html

Whats Happening in the World of Arts IV

2008-06-22T23:17:00.000-07:00

Floral Frocks

The Floral Frocks website was published to accompany an exhibition, entitled 'Pick of the Bunch: the floral printed dress in the 20th century', held at the Fashion Museum, in Bath, England, from 17 July to 27 August, 2007. Pick of the Bunch was a collaborative project between the School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University and the Fashion Museum. The website provides detailed access to six British floral dresses from the 1940s to the 1960s. The six case studies "include an object analysis (description) of each garment, the socio-historical context from which each dress emanates, key designers of the time, new fabric technology, themes for discussion, bibliography," and 360 degree views of each dress. Also included are details about prints and dyes, dye recipes, and patterns for some of the dresses shown.
Link: http://www.floralfrocks.org/
Access: Free

Prunella Clough

Tate Online has provided this resource on the archive of the artist Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This archive was acquired by the Tate after the artist`s death and has been organised under two headings `Inspirations' and `Working Methods'. Clough wrote detailed descriptions of things that caught her eye, as well as making thumbnail sketches which later informed her work. `Working Methods' shows images she cropped to create effects, reworked postcards, materials, notes on colour, descriptions of artwork and the artist at work.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/5senmg
Access: Free

Covering Photography

The Covering Photography website looks at the history of photography and book cover design, and how photographs get transformed when they are used on book covers. The website provides a book cover image database, which is browsable by photographer, author, publisher, publication date, and designer. Each thumbnail image in the database contains information about the book, including: photographer, author, publisher, publication date, designer, photo genre, book genre, and group.
Link: http://www.coveringphotography.com/covering_photography.html
Access: Free

Chinese Jade

Part of the British Museum's website, this is an online tour that shows the development of Chinese jade from around 5000 BC to the modern period. From earliest times, the Chinese have carved intricate designs from this tough stone and it became a material that was worn by royalty and nobility. The website features images and descriptions of carved jade artefacts from various Chinese dynasties.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/6zmzcx
Access: Free

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

2008-06-22T23:01:00.000-07:00

The Legion of Honor hosts Women Impressionists ~ Morisot, Cassatt, Gonzales, Bracquemond SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In a day when a woman leads the House of Representatives and another campaigns for President of the United States, it might be hard to imagine a time when the work of four women painters was marginalized because of strict social rules and the artists’ gender. For many decades, the four artists celebrated in Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond were treated with critical ambivalence and lacked major public exhibitions. It is only now that their innovative styles and contributions to Impressionism are showcased in a groundbreaking exhibition this summer at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the exclusive U.S. venue. Women Impressionists is on view from June 21 to September 21, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/The_Legion_of_Honor.html

Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico at The Phillips Collection WASHINGTON, DC - While Richard Diebenkorn has long been celebrated as one of the 20th century’s most important artists, the pivotal 30-month period he spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico between 1950 and 1952 has been largely overlooked. The Phillips Collection presents Diebenkorn in New Mexico, the first in-depth examination of this key time in the abstract expressionist artist’s creative development. Featuring 46 works, including paintings, works on paper, the exhibition marks the first time these pieces, now in public and private collections across the country, have been exhibited together since they were created more than 50 years ago. The Phillips Collection is the final venue for the exhibition, which opens on June 21 and remains on view through Sept. 7, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Richard_Diebenkorn.html

Paintings by Boris Grigoriev to be Sold by The Berkshire Museum at Sotheby's NEW YORK - On November 4, 2008, Sotheby’s New York will present for sale three important paintings by the Russian artist Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev on behalf of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Included in the offering is Grigoriev’s Pipe Players, a preeminent example of the artist’s Visages du Monde (Faces of the World) cycle of 1920-31. Shepherd of the Hills, which depicts Russian poet Nikolai Klyuev, and Man with Pipe will also be offered.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Boris_Dmitrievich_Grigoriev.html

Political Architecture Debate Underscores the Complex Decisions of Designing Architecture NY TIMES - FOUR months ago the architect Daniel Libeskind declared publicly that architects should think long and hard before working in China, adding, “I won’t work for totalitarian regimes.” His remarks raised hackles in his profession, with some architects accusing him of hypocrisy because his own firm had recently broken ground on a project in Hong Kong. In the long run does architecture transcend politics and ideology? If the architect’s own vision is progressive, can architecture be a vehicle for positive change?
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Political_Architecture_Debate.html

Update on the World of Arts and Design III

2008-06-17T19:00:00.000-07:00

Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland and Tate organised a study day at Tate Britain called “The Archival Impulse:
Artists and Archives” 3 papers based on presentations from the study day have just been published online in the Spring 2008 issue of Tate Papers.
2 audio podcasts are also available.

Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/08spring/
Access: Free

Typographic Archives

The Typographic Archives website aims to "preserve valued web contents on typography and history of printing and writing" by archiving the contents of relevant websites that no longer exist. At the time of writing the site includes short biographies of a few of the more famous names in the history of typography, including: William Caxton; Johannes Gutenberg; and William Caslon, as well as a glossary of typographical terms and an excerpt from Beatrice Warde's lecture to the British Typographers' Guild.
Link: http://www.typographia.org/
Access: Free

Analysing Paintings

"Analysing paintings" is an online tutorial that introduces the tools and techniques of formal art analysis. Developed with students of modern languages in mind - who may be taking a module in the visual arts but have no prior knowledge of art analysis - the tutorial is nonetheless suitable for anyone interested in learning more about art.
Divided into clear sections, which allow students to dip in and out of the course as they see fit, the tutorial covers some of the key aspects of form, such as: colour and line; space and perspective; light; composition; portraiture; and medium and support. Examples ranging from medieval to modern works of art are provided throughout (by means of links to external online art galleries), together with guided activities.
Link: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/analysingpaintings.htmAccess: Free

Trigger Happy:

The Inner Life of Videogames

The personal blog of British author Steven Poole gives access to a free PDF version of his book 'Trigger Happy: The Inner Life of Videogames' (Fourth Estate, 2001). This PDF ebook is unrestricted and it includes the full text of the revised 2nd edition. The Web page also links to the full text of an Afterword chapter that was written for the 2004 U.S. edition subtitled "Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution".

Link: http://stevenpoole.net/blog/trigger-happier/
Access: Free

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

2008-06-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

235 Media Art

On the initiative of the media art agency 235 MEDIA and the City of Düsseldorf the first non-profit foundation imai is dedicated not only to the distribution of media art, but also to conservation and research issues is created.

Starting in the 1980s, the founders of 235 MEDIA, Ulrich Leistner and Axel Wirths have built up an extensive archive of video art as well as an international distribution network. Thanks to the active commitment of
"Kunststiftung NRW" and the support of "Kulturstiftung der Länder" and in cooperation with "NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft" and "stiftung museum kunst palast" both the collection and the distribution structure of 235 MEDIA have now been transfered to imai - inter media art institute.

http://art.235media.de/

For further informations and concerning all requests for video art works, please contact imai:
imai - inter media art institute
Ehrenhof 2
40479 Düsseldorf

++49.(0)211.237099961
www.imaionline.org

Art Knowledge News

2008-06-13T19:14:00.000-07:00

Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art...

American Pop Exhibition Coming to the Crocker Art Museum

Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Early 20th-Century of Abstract Art

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/

Research at Gray's School of Art

2008-06-02T21:49:00.000-07:00

The website divides research practices into four themes: Art and the Public Sphere – concerned with the development of cultural meaning and value; Challenging Making - exploring the poetics of form through individual practices responding to technological, economic and ecological change; Art and Design Pedagogy - applied research in the teaching and learning of art and design; Design Research – creative and innovative collaborations with business and service organisations.
Within these broad areas, specific projects, ranging from the exploration of the rapidly changing values of ‘craft’ to specific public art projects are described (in the website’s ‘Initiatives’ section). Additionally the website includes research staff profiles and details of past and current doctoral projects, and doctoral opportunities. The website also describes the well established ‘Guests@Grays’ lecture series which draws in a wide range of speakers from diverse international backgrounds and disciplines.
Link: http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/ats/research/general1.html

Methodology.co.uk

2008-06-02T21:01:00.000-07:00

The Research Methods Resource Centre

Methodology.co.uk provides a free resource to researchers, students and university teachers who are interested in learning more about anything to do with research methods.

Methodology.co.uk is run by SAGE and will be a vital resource for anyone conducting qualitative or quantitative research and statistics.

http://www.methodology.co.uk/

Stewardesses Fashion around the world

2008-05-30T17:55:00.000-07:00

Posted: 30 May 2008 09:57 AM CDT

Images of hundreds of retired and current airline flight attendant uniforms, mostly from the 1980s to the present. Browse though images by name of over 300 airlines such as Aeroflot, Air Berlin, Bangkok Airways, Debonair, Iranair, Kuwait Airways, South African Airways, Tikal Jets Airline, and Virgin Atlantic.
Link: http://www.uniformfreak.com/
Access: Free

ACADEMIC AND PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS –FILM

2008-05-29T05:48:00.000-07:00

Bright Lights Film Journal
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/

ISSN: 01474049
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Bright Lights - Gary Morris and Gregory Battle, Portland, Oregon
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: movie analysis, international film, motion pictures
Start year: 1996

Scope: an on-line journal of film studies
http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/

ISSN: 14659166
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Nottingham, Institute of Film Studies
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: film
Start year: 2000

Film-Philosophy
http://www.film-philosophy.com/

ISSN: 14664615
Subject: Performing Arts --- Philosophy
Publisher: Film-Philosophy
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, French
Keywords: film, philosophy, aesthetics, world cinema
Start year: 2006

Participations
http://www.participations.org/

ISSN: 17498716
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: audience and reception studies
Start year: 2003

The Journal of Religion and Film
http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/

ISSN: 10921311
Subject: Religion --- Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Nebraska, Omaha
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: religion, film, communication science, theology
Start year: 1997

Applied Theatre Researcher

ISSN: 14431726
Subject: Education --- Performing Arts
Publisher: Griffith University, Brisbane
Country: Australia
Language: English, French, Spanish
Keywords: education, theatre
Start year: 2000

CCAHTE: Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education
http://www.cmclean.com/

ISSN: 19119755
Subject: Medicine (General) --- Performing Arts --- Education --- Arts in general
Publisher: Cheryl McLean
Country: Canada
Language: English
Keywords: interdisciplinary creative arts research, health, training, education
Start year: 2006

Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today
http://www.didaskalia.net/journal.html

ISSN: 13214853
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: King’s College, London, University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: theatre, drama, classics
Start year: 1994

Genders
http://www.genders.org/

ISSN: 19363249
Subject: Languages and Literatures --- Gender Studies --- Performing Arts
Publisher: University of Colorado
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: gender studies, sexuality, humanities, literature, art, film, history, media studies, social science
Start year: 1998

The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies
http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/

ISSN: 20090374
Subject: Languages and Literatures --- Performing Arts
Publisher: Trinity College, Dublin
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Keywords: gothic and horror studies, literature, film, television
Start year: 2006

Journal of Religion and Theatre
http://www.rtjournal.org/

ISSN:
Subject: Performing Arts --- Religion
Publisher: Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Religion and Theatre Focus Group
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: theatre, religion, ritual
Start year: 2002

New Voices in Classical Reception Studies
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ISSN: 17506581
Subject: Performing Arts --- Languages and Literatures
Publisher: The Open University
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: classical reception, drama, poetry, historiography
Start year: 2006

Nouvelles
ISSN: 17128242
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: cadrage.net
Country: France
Language: French, English
Keywords: cinema, Quebec
Start year: 2004

Papers of Surrealism
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/index.html

ISSN: 17501954
Subject: Arts in general --- Performing Arts
Publisher: AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: surrealism, Dada, visual arts, cultural theory, contemporary art
Start year: 2003

Platform : Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/

ISSN: 17510171
Subject: Performing Arts
Publisher: Royal Holloway University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: performance, drama, theatre
Start year: 2006

Scenario
http://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/

ISSN: 16498526
Subject: Performing Arts --- Education
Publisher: University College Cork
Country: Ireland
Language: English, German
Keywords: drama, theatre, pedagogy, language education
Start year: 2007

ARTFACTS.NET NEWSLETTER NO.51, June 2008

2008-05-28T21:38:00.000-07:00

ARTFACTS.NET NEWSLETTER NO.51, June 2008

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ART WORLD
TALK WITH ANNEKE OELE AT ART AMSTERDAM 2008 <#news0>
HONG KONG ART FAIR - INTERVIEW WITH MAGNUS RENFREW <#news1>

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES and MUSEUMS
ART 39 BASEL <#exhib0>
THE SOLO PROJECT 2008 <#exhib1>
VOLTA4 - BASEL <#exhib2>
LISTE 08, THE YOUNG ART FAIR IN BASEL <#exhib3>
HOT ART BÂLELATINA <#exhib4>
SCOPE BASEL 2008 <#exhib5>
SHCONTEMPORARY 08 <#exhib6>
CONTRASTE <#exhib7>

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ART WORLD

TALK WITH ANNEKE OELE AT ART AMSTERDAM 2008
The 24th edition of Art Amsterdam smacks of new taste. Since Anneke Oele became director, she has given a boost to the fair, which had fell into oblivion, and, as for exhibition quality, it is now at the top of the local market.

Within the current flooded market, the fair has created a niche for itself and has become an unavoidable meeting point in the agenda of gallery owners, curators and collectors from The Netherlands, Germany and France. There is a total of 125 galleries, 32 of which are foreign galleries from 6 different countries. Germany is especially represented at this fair and is playing an increasingly important role on the international scene.

Art Amsterdam is included in the art fair calendar along with other important events, such as Brussels and Cologne, which are all held at the same time in April, and have been competitors in recent years. On the other hand, Art Basel is held in June, a prestigious fair which has grown in the last years due to the increasing number of distinguished fairs and satellite fairs devoted to debutant galleries and the newest artistic proposals.

Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

2008-05-22T23:14:00.000-07:00

An absolutely fabulous book, available online, interviews with some great designers, its a must read. The areas covered are really wide, from design philosophy, computers and human interaction, education and a bit of history. It has been rated as a classic with no rivals.Only some chapters are available for download, anything more, please come to the library for the book call.no. 004.019 MOG

http://www.designinginteractions.com/

Update on the world of arts and design II

2008-05-20T20:38:00.000-07:00

Voices in the Visual Arts Posted: 20 May 2008 04:11 AM CDT
Launched in 2004, Viva is an oral history research project by Camberwell College of Arts, one of the constituent colleges of University of the Arts London. The website includes extracts from life history recordings with former Camberwell alumni, as well as people associated with the college, and includes their reflections on living and working in the arts and creative industries.
Current interviewees include: designer Aziz Cami; painter Juliet Kindersley; publisher Peter Kindersley; designer Alex Maranzano; and ceramicist Sara Radstone.
The website also includes the Design History Society oral history project, which includes interviews with historians, academics, and writers who have shaped the field in the last 30 years. The 'context' section of the website includes a select bibliography of available texts in the areas of oral history and narrative research.
Link: http://www.vivavoices.org
Access: Free

Spode Pottery Posted: 20 May 2008 04:08 AM CDT
The website of the New York Public Library has provided this digitised version of `Spode and his successors: a history of the pottery: Stoke-on-Trent 1765-1865' a book written by Arthur Hayden, which was originally published in 1925. The forty-six images, many in colour, illustrate the various objects produced by the Staffordshire potteries of Spode and W. T. Copeland. Objects illustrated include vases, plates and dishes, as well as figures, including an earthenware bust of Josiah Spode the second. Pages from old pattern books are also included in this volume.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/6mady4
Access: Free

Peter Blake Video Posted: 20 May 2008 04:05 AM CDT
Tate Online's TateShots website has provided this MP4 five-minute video by the pop artist, Peter Blake. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of his work, which was held at Tate Liverpool from 29 June to 23 September 2007, Blake discusses the evolution of his style from his early days at the Royal College of Art, to his latest work. The video can be played on a range of media player software including iTunes and QuickTime. A transcript in RTF is also available.
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/episode.jsp?item=11307
Access: Free

Victorian Music Covers Posted: 20 May 2008 04:03 AM CDT This is a searchable database of digital images deposited with the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) by the University of Reading, of their Spellman Collection of Victorian Music Covers. Printed mainly using lithographic techniques, most of the items are colour-illustrated and many of them are examples of outstanding music illustrators of the period, including John Brandard and Alfred Concanen. Each record is accompanied by a detailed catalogue entry.
Link: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/SCVMC.html
Access: Free

Journal of Design and Manufactures Posted: 20 May 2008 04:01 AM CDT
Part of the University of Glasgow library's website, this 'Book of the Month' online exhibition features volume one of `The Journal of Design and Manufactures'. The library holds four of the six volumes published by Chapman and Hall between 1849 and 1852 under the editorship of Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave, with the aim of improving British standards of design and manufactures. This online exhibition includes a number of colour images of the actual samples of textiles and wallpapers bound into the volume, as well as examples of the steel-engraved illustrations and samples in situ on the page.
Link: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/aug2001.html
Access: Free

Artistic Practice, Teaching Practice and Research in Universities

2008-05-19T01:37:00.000-07:00

volume 4 the role of context in art & design research

An investigation of the relation between artistic practice, teaching practice and research in universities. Judith Caroll Australian Catholic University, AU
volume 4 contents journal home page conference home page copyright
abstract ° full paper
The conceptual framework that underpins both the teaching of art in universities and colleges and what is understood as research, is examined in this paper from the point of view of the artist teacher, thus the relation between teaching, research and artistic practice provides the focus of the paper. The associated question about whether art can be taught, and can be represented as research is examined alongside the equally contentious issue concerning the way in which this is and should be undertaken. The investigation on which this paper is based was focussed by the realisation that the fit between what artists do, say and think, and models of art as a discipline, is exceedingly poor. This realisation does not necessarily invalidate discipline based curriculum models of art education per se, it merely affirms that the practical reasoning underlying curriculum discourse about art as a discipline is independent of the evidence of artistic practice and therefore the two forms of reasoning ought to be kept separate. It could also be argued that current research contexts in the visual arts similarly reveal issues related to the evidence of artistic practice that gives shape to our understanding of the discipline and the way that it is represented as research.The complexities and inherent ambiguities that exist in the artist to artist-teacher relation are contextualised in this paper against the impact of the university art department, and current research imperatives, on artist/teachers, student/artists, art education and the art world in general.
to cite this journal article:Carroll, J. (2006) An investigation of the relation between artistic practice, teaching practice and research in universities. Working Papers in Art and Design 4Retrieved from URL http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/papers/wpades/vol4/jcfull.htmlISSN 1466-4917

Theatre+Dance: Interview with John Bedford about Dance and Arts Management

2008-05-16T00:57:00.001-07:00

Theatre+Dance: Interview with John Bedford about Dance and Arts Management
Postes on May 09, 2008 - 07:09 by ArtsManagementNet

Oklahoma City University hosts probably the only graduate education, which combines dance and arts management. Dirk Heinze made an interview with the director of this course, John Bedford, not only with questions about the course itself, but also about the latest trends in the dance sector.

AMN: The dance enjoy great popularity especially among the young audience. What do you think, is the reason for this popularity?

John Bedford: At Oklahoma City University’s Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management, we specialize in educating and preparing dancers and managers for careers in the global entertainment industry. So, my view about the popularity of dance is from a theatrical, "show business" perspective rather than from a non-profit concert dance view. In recent years in the United States, competitive dance programs on television have been a tremendous audience success. An example would be “Dancing with the Stars” in which a professional dancer is partnered with a celebrity to compete with other celebrity/professional couples. Couples are eliminated during each broadcast over a number of weeks until one couple remains. The celebrities provide a tremendous attraction for viewers, particularly young viewers, who then become interested in the dance as well. Because of the large viewership, other television producers have begun creating dance reality shows, such as "Step It Up and Dance", which has featured one of our own graduates, Nick Drago. For "Step It Up and Dance", the interest of young audiences is magnified by free videos available on the web.

The televising of international ballroom competitions has spawned a resurgence on interest in ballroom dance performances as something beautiful and intriguing to watch and as an enjoyable and rewarding activity. The many dance conventions and workshops in the United States and internationally have provided many young dancers with opportunities to study from excellent and prominent teachers in a multitude of techniques. These are held in many different cities, so the participants are able to mix travel with taking dance classes and participating in dance competitions.

Another area of special interest to young audiences, at least in the United States, is Broadway. Over the past 15 or 20 years, New York has transformed into a lovely city to visit, and Broadway has experienced a large measure of revitalization. Disney has become a major producer on Broadway, and characters and dance performances seen in films can be experienced live at a Broadway show. Film and live stage productions around the same concept and theme have a synergistic effect leveraging audience awareness, interest, and attendance.

AMN: Your course is unique in the world with the combination between dance and arts management. Is there a special management qualification necessary for the dance sector?

JB: We began our Bachelor of Science in Dance Management program in the early 1980's to support a wide spectrum of career interests of dancers. The goals of dance management majors are diverse, ranging from "I want to have a performing career, but I want to be able to better manage my career and myself" to "I do not want to have a performance career, but I want to work as a manager with a dance related organization" to "I want to own and operate a dance studio or academy" to "I want to be a company manager for musicals or dance companies" and more. In addition to daily classes in tap, jazz, ballet, and theater dance, Dance Management majors have significant studies in the humanities, business, and arts management. They get significant hands-on experience in production management, touring, stage management, house management, event coordination, fundraising and producing. Regardless of personal career goals, all applicants to our Dance Management program must be dancers and must audition to be considered for admission. We require ACT or SAT college admission tests and certain minimum composite test scores for eligibility to audition. The minimum composite score requirements for Dance Management are greater than the minimum required score for our dance performance degree program.

In the United States, most managers of dance and other performing arts organizations have not had formal, systematized training for the positions they hold. We have been providing a systematic approach to preparing managers for dance for over 24 years. As an aside, we offer a Bachelor of Science in Entertainment Business for those who want to be arts managers in fields other than dance.

AMN: Will all students in Oklahoma go into the dance sector after their study? What your students do exactly after leaving your course?

JB: No. The education and experiences we provide open our students' eyes to many employment opportunities in the entertainment industry and in cultural and charitable organizations. We have had dance management graduates who have become staff members of major symphony orchestras, arts councils, theatre companies, cultural heritage museums, opera companies, arts service organizations, school arts programs, artist agencies, musical theater production companies, theatrical and sports facilities, and more. Many also have found employment with dance companies such as David Parsons Dance Company, Chicago Tap Ensemble, New Jersey Tap Ensemble, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Tulsa Ballet, Western Arkansas Ballet, Houston Ballet, Ballet Oklahoma, Eliot Feld Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet School, Push Factor, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Dance Anonymous, Giordano Dance Company, and Hubbard Street Dance Company, to name some.

AMN: Which changes and challenges the dance sector is confronted with regarding financial or audience matters?

JB: Dance for the entertainment industry operates within market forces, where the production provides value to ticket purchasing audiences, or the production changes to satisfy audience needs so that there will be a ticket purchasing audience. In the entertainment industry, there are no grants or subsidies from government, so the producer must be mindful that essentially the sole source of funding for the production will come from the sale of tickets.

In the United States, ballet and modern dance companies face increasingly difficult challenges for having sufficient funding and audiences. Ballet and modern dance companies, which historically have been dependent on state and federal grants to reduce their annual operating deficits, have faced severe cutbacks for nearly 25 years, starting with the Reagan Administration. Over the same period of time, entertainment, cultural, and leisure-time choices have grown exponentially. So, there are many more activities and events competing for the same audience dollars.

Ballet companies, it seems to me, are in general challenged to be relevant to even the culturally experienced and informed. Their financial plight keeps them captive to annual productions of "The Nutcracker" where much of the audience attends as a holiday tradition and ritual rather than out of love for the dance. The development of energetic and effective boards remains a challenge for many companies. Finding financial and audience support for staging inspired dances from promising choreographers is a particular challenge.

AMN: Do you think there is still a big difference between the dance and ballet scene? Do you target both scenes with your course?

JB: We prepare our Dance Management students to manage effectively for dance of every kind in any venue. Our graduates can manage dance on cruise ships, in Las Vegas casino shows, theme park shows, television commercials, musical theater tours, Broadway shows, and for ballet and modern dance companies.

AMN: How national or international is your course?

JB: Our specialty is American dance and our affinity is the commercial entertainment industry. Our program requires extensive written projects and real-time hands-on production team work. So, our English language proficiency requirement is relatively high – a minimum TOEFL score of 600. While our affinity is the commercial entertainment industry, we include a significant non-profit arts management component in our program. Non-profit arts management is strongly tied to the United States tax code and our cultural tradition of volunteerism. Naturally, our tax code and resulting organizational structures and behaviors would not be easily transferable to other countries and cultures.

We have found that some international students have difficulty with the concepts of marketing arts activities. For example, a student from a country with an authoritarian government could not understand booking conferences or the need for them. Understanding booking conferences was fundamental to a major course project. She told me, "I do not understand … in my country, the government must approve everything, and if it wants the dance company to tour, it will tell the theater managers that they will receive it."

We do not teach how arts and culture are managed in many different counties. But, we have arranged arts management tours to other countries to expand our students’ knowledge and perspective on managing the arts in other cultures. For example, in 2005, we took a delegation of arts management students and faculty to Beijing to meet with executives of 17 different government agencies and arts organizations to learn about how China manages arts and cultural and how it is working to realize its stated goal of becoming the center of arts and culture in Asia. We have made multiple visits to the United Kingdom to meet with a variety of arts executives, theatrical producers, and arts council directors.

The fundamentals of creating a vision and implementing it through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, control, evaluating, and adapting seem universal, and we teach these in spades. The processes for creating and mounting productions is universal. So, we have much to offer to students from other countries if they are adaptable and have the necessary English proficiency to function well in our fast-paced and demanding environment.

AMN: Thank you, John, for your time just at the end of the Academic year!

Website: http://www.okcu.edu/Dance_amgt/

Note: An article by Dirk Heinze, editor-in-chief, Arts Management Network

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ACADEMIC AND PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS –MUSIC

2008-05-13T20:44:00.000-07:00

Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education
ISSN: 15454517
Subject: Music
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, MayDay Group
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: education, music, philosophy, sociology, history, psychology, curriculum studies
Start year: 2002
http://act.maydaygroup.org/

British postgraduate musicology
ISSN: 14609231
Subject: Music
Publisher: British Postgraduate Musicology
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: postgraduate musicology research
Start year: 2001
http://www.bpmonline.org.uk/

Critical Studies in Improvisation
ISSN: 17120624
Subject: Music
Publisher: University of Guelph, School of English and Theatre Studies
Country: Canada
Language: English, French
Keywords: music, improvisation, community, social practice
Start year: 2004
http://www.criticalimprov.com/public/csi/index.html

ECHO: a music-centered journal
ISSN: 15351807
Subject: Music
Publisher: Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: music
Start year: 1999
http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume8-Issue1/table-of-contents.html

Empirical Musicology Review
ISSN: 15595749
Subject: Music
Publisher: Ohio State University Library
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: systematic observation-based musicology, musicology
Start year: 2006
http://emusicology.org/v3n2/index.html

International Journal of Community Music
ISSN: 15507327
Subject: Music
Publisher: New York University, Department of Music & Performing Arts
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: community music
Start year: 2004
http://www.intljcm.com/

Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS)
ISSN: 13070401
EISSN: 13069055
Subject: Music
Publisher: Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
Country: Turkey
Language: English
Keywords: music, humanities, sciences, practically oriented disciplines
Start year: 2007
http://www.musicstudies.org/

Journal of Music and Meaning
ISSN: 16037170
Subject: Music
Publisher: University of Southern Denmark
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Keywords: music, meaning of music
Start year: 2003
http://www.musicandmeaning.net/index.php

Journal of Seventeenth - Century Music
ISSN: 1089747X
Subject: Music
Publisher: Society for Seventeenth - Century Music
Country: United States
Language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Keywords: music, music theory, aesthetics
Start year: 1995
http://sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu/

Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
ISSN: 16497341
Subject: Music
Publisher: Society for Musicology in Ireland
Country: Ireland
Language: English
Keywords: musicology, ethnomusicology, critical musicology
Start year: 2005
http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi

Min-Ad : Israel Studies in Musicology Online
ISSN: 03342026
Subject: Music
Publisher: Min-Ad
Country: Israel
Language: English, Hebrew
Keywords: musicology, Jewish Music, music education, ethnomusicology
Start year: 2002
http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/min-ad/

Music & Anthropology
ISSN: 1825621X
Subject: Music
Publisher: International Council for Traditional Music
Country: Italy
Language: English
Keywords: music, anthropology
Start year: 1996
http://www.levi.provincia.venezia.it/ma/index.htm

Music Theory Online
ISSN: 10673040
Subject: Music
Publisher: Society for Music Theory
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: music
Start year: 1993
http://mto.societymusictheory.org/index.html

Music therapy today. A quarterly journal of studies in music and music therapy
ISSN: 1610191X
Subject: Music
Publisher: Music Therapy World.net
Country: Germany
Language: English
Keywords: music, music therapy, music-ethnography, musicology, anthropology
Start year: 2001
http://www.musictherapyworld.de/

Popular Musicology Online
ISSN: 13570951
Subject: Music
Publisher: CyberStudia academic community
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Keywords: music
Start year: 2000
http://www.popular-musicology-online.com/

South Central Music Bulletin
ISSN: 15452271
Subject: Music
Publisher: College Music Society - South Central Chapter
Country: United States
Language: English
Keywords: music-related research
Start year: 2002
http://www.txstate.edu/scmb/issues.html

Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy
ISSN: 15041611
Subject: Music
Publisher: GAMUT, The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre, University of Bergen (Norway), in affiliation with Antioch University (US)
Country: Norway
Language: English
Keywords: music, music therapy, music and healing in cultural context
Start year: 2001
http://www.voices.no/

Update on the World of Arts and Design

2008-05-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Children's Book Illustration Posted: 12 May 2008 04:26 AM CDT
Baldwin Library of Children's Literature : Digital Collection in an online collection of digitised children's books at the University of Florida libraries. The collection contains volumes published in the UK and US from the early 1700s, and numbers over 3,000 titles. Specialised collections on the site include: the Afterlife of Alice and her Adventures in Wonderland, a collection of early editions of Carroll's work and works based on it; Daniel Defoe and the Robinsonades, a collection of early editions of Robinson Crusoe and works inspired by it (such as Swiss Family Robinson); and St. Nicolas Magazine, a popular US children's magazine which ran from 1873 to 1941.
Link: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/?c=juv
Access: Free

Ocean Liners 1891-1919 Posted: 12 May 2008 04:22 AM CDT
Bedford Lemere Collection : National Maritime Museum is an online collection of over 500 photographs of ocean liners taken between 1891 and 1919. Taken by Bedford Lemere & Co., a company of architectural photographers active from the late 1860s to the 1940s, the collection covers the interiors and exteriors of 35 liners. The images were digitised from 12 x 10 inch glass plate negatives which were taken with small apertures and long exposures to allow their subjects to be captured in fine detail. Each image is accompanied by metadata detailing its provenance and describing its contents, and is available in a number of resolutions.
Link: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/index.cfm/category/90536
Access: Free

Century of Shoes Posted: 12 May 2008 04:18 AM CDT
'Solemates' is an online feature which traces the history of shoes through the 20th Century and their importance to our cultural landscape. Produced by the staff of 4th Revolution, a California-based company, the site offers both a Flash and non-Flash version. Well-designed and easy to navigate, the site provides a decade-by-decade guide, containing, for each decade, an essay, a list of items which were 'all the rage', images of advertisements from the period and movie clips of scenes from the decade. A selection of shoe images are also available, augmented by a description, a facility to zoom in and alternate views of each pair.
Link: http://www.centuryinshoes.com/
Access: Free

19th Century American Trade Cards Posted: 12 May 2008 04:16 AM CDT
The historical collections website for the Baker Library Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School has provided this online resource on 19th century American trade cards, which were used as a form of advertising of products and businesses in the nineteenth century. As the website points out, they could be "an indicator of consumer habits, social values, and marketing techniques, [and] trade cards are of interest to scholars across many disciplines, including business history, American studies, graphic design and printing history, and social and cultural history". This website provides access to an exhibition on `A New and Wonderful Invention: The Nineteenth-Century American Trade Card', which is organised in four sections: the development of the trade card; new markets, new methods; the art of the trade card; and the public appeal of these cards.
Link: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/19th_century_tcard/
Access: Free

V&A Research Reports Posted: 12 May 2008 04:13 AM CDT
This website brings together the research reports of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The reports, dating back to 1990 present the whole range of research conducted at the museum, including lectures and exhibitions. Each (annual) report is available to download, and subjects cover the entire of the Museums interests in fine and decorative arts.
Link: http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/research/research_reports/index.html
Access: Free

Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828 Posted: 12 May 2008 04:12 AM CDT
This online version of an exhibition which ran from 21 October 2004 to 16 January 2005 on the American portraitist, Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) has been provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Arranged in chronological order this online exhibition charts Stuart's work during his time in Newport (Rhode Island), Scotland, London and Dublin from 1755 to 1793, his subsequent return to the United States, and examples of his work from his time in New York, then Philadelphia, Washington and finally Boston where he settled in 1805 and remained until his death. Each of the online galleries features an introductory text and four high quality images of Stuart`s portraits. Clicking on each image provides a very brief biography of the sitter, together with comments on Stuart's painting style. This exhibition also includes the George Washington gallery featuring six versions of Stuart`s portrait of the first President of the United States.
Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Gilbert_Stuart/stuart_gallery.asp
Access: Free

Defence Image Database Posted: 12 May 2008 04:09 AM CDT
Official Ministry of Defence imagebank, holding thousands of images from the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and MoD photographers. Includes images from Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia.
Link: http://www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk/fotoweb/
Access: Free

Platform Papers No. 17 now available in the library

2008-05-11T20:21:00.001-07:00



		The Permanent Underground: Australian Contemporary Jazz in the New Millennium by Peter Rechniewski Read the first three pages (PDF). Subscribe now! Click here to download a subscription form. Paperback. $13.95 rrp. Publication January 2008 ISBN 978-0-9802802-6-5, Series ISSN 1449-583-X
		Contemporary Australian jazz, by any measure, is flourishing, writes Peter Rechniewski. More talent, more recording, more audience development, widespread respect for our musicians overseas. So why is the jazz scene sick and like to die? Why do musicians eke out the barest living? Why do old venues close and no new ones replace them? Why is jazz held in such low esteem by the media? For all its apparent vitality, jazz remains in crisis. Peter Rechniewski is well-placed to diagnose the problems and recommend a cure. In this hard-hitting account he traces the origins of the current crisis and proposes a new National Jazz Plan to raise the profile, increase the audiences, lift income levels and enhance the career pathways of a growing number of musicians. Jazz, he writes, demands an urgent revision of both the public and governmental attitudes if we are to 'liberate jazz from its imprisonment in a permanent underground'. Peter Rechniewski has been involved in jazz for thirty years. He was one of the founders of the Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA) and is its current president and artistic director. He has written widely on jazz, been a jazz broadcaster and is a consultant to the present Australian arts festivals. This issue also includes responses to Cathy Hunt and Phyllida Shaw. *Platform Papers* invites considered responses to Peter Rechniewski for publication in the July 2008 edition.

Whats happening in the arts and design world

2008-05-05T04:47:00.001-07:00

In the Artists' Footsteps Posted: 01 May 2008 11:10 AM CDT 'In the Artists' Footsteps' is a website about the landscape painters who have worked in Dumfries and Galloway over a period of 200 years. The website is funded by the European Union, and Dumfries and Galloway Council.The website contains a wealth of biographical information, accessible via an A-Z name listing of artists. There are over 700 images of landscape paintings, accessible via a map/list of the geographical locations the works depict. There are also details of local art galleries and museums and their holdings of relevant pictures.Link: http://www.artistsfootsteps.co.uk/Access: Free Andy Warhol Posted: 01 May 2008 11:07 AM CDT The National Galleries of Scotland website offers this collection of podcasts that accompanied the Bank of Scotland totalART exhibition on Andy Warhol held in Edinburgh in 2007.This collection of six podcasts in MP3 format includes the talk by Tom Sokolowski, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh opening the exhibition; Mark Francis, Director of the Gagosian Gallery on Warhol's installations; Glyn Davis, Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of Bristol, on Warhol's screen prints of 20th century icons; Dr Jonathan Blackwood, Lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Fine Art in Dundee, who considers Warhol`s career from 1962-1970; Matt Warbican, Archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum on Warhol`s time capsules and art historian and critic, Jean Wainwright, on Warhol as a portrait artist, celebrity partygoer and media manipulator.Link: http://www.nationalgalleries.org/education/page/6:251/Access: Free Daguerrotypes at Harvard Posted: 01 May 2008 11:04 AM CDT Harvard Library has provided this website on their collection of daguerreotypes. The collection includes images taken by daguerreotypists, such as Matthew Brady and John Adams Whipple, and includes images of prominent scientists, writers and performers of the 19th century, including James McNeill Whistler, Jenny Lind and Tom Thumb. The collection also includes the first detailed daguerreotype of the moon taken at Harvard in 1851. The collection can be searched by collection, by photographer or portrait sitter and by subject.Link: http://preserve.harvard.edu/photographs/daguerreotypes.htmlAccess: Free Tiffany Posted: 01 May 2008 11:01 AM CDT This Web resource on the American artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) has been provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. Different sections feature Tiffany`s work ranging from stained glass windows to wood and metalwork, covering mosaics, favrile glass, lamps, enamels, ceramics, jewelry, paintings and drawings. Another section considers Tiffany`s architectural masterpiece, Laurelton Hall, overlooking Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Each section includes a number of pages with colour photographs of designs by Tiffany, with a description and provenance of each item. A short bibliography is also provided with a hyperlink to a list of New York area locations with works by Tiffany.Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Tiffany/menu.htmlAccess: Free Traipsin' Woman Posted: 01 May 2008 10:59 AM CDT This website provides access to a collection of over 1,000 digitised photographs that relate to Jean Thomas (1881-1982). Known as 'The Traipsin' Woman', Jean Thomas was a photographer who "traveled the mountains of eastern Kentucky taking snapshot photographs of the mountain way of life, writing, and promoting mountain folkways. She was particularly interested in the music, crafts and language patterns of the area."The images are of musical instruments, quilts, baskets, and scenes of family and community life. They also include images of the American Folk Song Festival, which was established by Thomas in September 1930.Link: http://digital.library.louisville.edu/collections/jthom/Access: Free Japanese Woodblock Prints Posted: 01 May 2008 10:56 AM CDT The Nagoya TV Ukiyo-e Museum has a collection of over 8,000 Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyoe (pictures of the floating world), and this website presents a virtual exhibition of many representative works from the 17th to 19th centuries. The site can be accessed in English and Japanese, and in various ways, and each image is accompanied by a brief description. The List section categorises the prints into: portrait; landscape; sumo and kabuki; and eccentric characters. The works of individual artists (Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi) can be accessed via the Collection section, but the images here are quite small; much larger versions can be viewed via the List section.Link: http://www.nagoyatv.com/ukiyoe/museum/Access: Free The Future Designer Posted: 01 May 2008 10:53 AM CDT The first of a series of ThinkTanks from the V&A Museum on future issues facing contemporary design. This ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer. Watch the videos and join in the online debate.Link: http://www.vam.ac.uk/thinktank1/Access: Free Royal Opera House Collections Online Posted: 01 May 2008 03:35 AM CDT This website provides access to the Royal Opera House collections' catalogue and performance database. The Performance Database is a catalogue of every performance at the Royal Opera House from 1732 to the present day. It is divided into three levels: work (creators and premieres); production (director and design team); and performance (dancers, singers, and music staff). Currently online are all the works performed by the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet (and their earlier names) since 1946, as well as all new productions and first night casts of each production. Similar data for the Birmingham Royal Ballet will be available shortly, and nightly performance records will be added on a regular basis. The database can be searched by title, person, company, character, and date. Records are linked to items in the Collections Catalogue, such as costumes worn in a certain production, and therefore searches can be undertaken across both sets of information. In addition, the website offers interactive 'Highlights from the Collections', allowing users to focus in detail on certain items, through magnifying images, brief textual explanations, and audio clips. The website launched with three highlights: the costume for Turandot worn by Amy Shuard and Birgit Nilsson, designed by Cecil Beaton in 1963; Constant Lambert's score for Frederick Ashton's ballet Dante Sonata (1940); and an architectural detail of the theatre.Link: http://www.rohcollections.org.uk/Access: Free Documentary Filmmakers Group Posted: 01 May 2008 03:31 AM CDT British documentary website run by the Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG) in association with the British Council. The DFG is a national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK. It is a non-profit organisation founded in 2001 and their aim is to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences.The website contains information on British documentaries. There is an events section where one can find listings of events happening all over the UK including screenings and training events. There is also a section on festivals with details of current festivals and upcoming submission deadlines. There is a directory of films and filmmakers which can be searched or browsed by category or theme. Each entry contains a synopsis and crew details. The resources section contains articles, interviews, links and reviews on documentary issues.Link: http://www.dfgdocs.com/Access: Free Maps: Finding Our Place in the World Posted: 01 May 2008 03:28 AM CDT Innovative interactive Flash recreation of an exhibition of historical maps that was held as part of The Festival of Maps in Chicago, 2007-2008. The website recreates the exhibition layout in a 'fly-around' isometric form. The exhibition included fictional maps, such as those by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Bernard Sleigh's 'Anciente Mappe of Fairyland'. Clicking on exhibits brings up a pop-up box with an image and text about that exhibit.Link: http://map.mapnetwork.com/venue/chicago/fieldmuseum/Access: Free

Reach Out

2008-05-02T21:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Students at LASALLE,

Hi, this is Malar from the Library. I've started this blog section, as a effort to understand the research needs of the students, and hoping to engage with you to a greater extend.