Whats Happening in the World of Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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