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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Whats Happening in the World of Arts

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

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

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


Agora Gallery features Shifra in "Altered States of Reality"

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

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

Art Paris Abu Dhabi 08 ~ Modern & Contemporary Art Fair

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

Art and Design News

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

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


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

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

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

Art and Design News

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

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


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

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

The Goethe Institute Newsletter

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

Art and Design News

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

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

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

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