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Opening of Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA  •  Bechtler Museum of Modern Art,  •  2 January 2010 - 2 January 2015
 
The museum is named after the family of Andreas Bechtler, a Charlotte resident and native of Switzerland who inherited and assembled a collection of more than 1,400 artworks created by major figures of 20th-century modernism. He donated the collection to the public trust. The Bechtler collection reflects most of the important art movements and schools from the 20th century with a deep holding of the School of Paris.

The collection comprises artworks by seminal figures such as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Jean Tinguely, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Le Corbusier, Sol LeWitt, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Stael, Barbara Hepworth and Picasso.

The 35,600-square-foot Bechtler museum building was designed by the Swiss architect  Mario Botta.



Bechtler Museum of Modern Art


Please click here for a Culturekiosque article on the opening of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Contact: Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
420 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tel: (1) 704 353 92 00

Beauford Delaney: Internal Light: Selections from his Paris period (1953-1972)
NEW YORK  •  Levis Fine Art  •  9 May - 15 June 2013
 

Beauford Delaney's (born Knoxville 1901-died Paris 1979) depictions of the streets, parks, and jazz clubs of Harlem and Greenwich Village, dating from 1929 to 1953, convey the energy of the city, while his layered, captivating abstract compositions from his Paris years (1953-1979) demonstrate his sustained exploration of colour.

It is broadly recognized, however, that Delaney’s Paris works are among the most significant to his body of work. A number of this Paris-period works to be shown were rescued from Delaney’s apartment shortly before his death. About to be seized by the French Government and auctioned to satisfy delinquent accounts, the paintings were shipped to New York through the efforts of a coterie of the artist’s devoted friends including James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Richard Powell and Richard Long. These paintings would form the core of the 1978 retrospective.

After thirty-five years of uncertain fate, and the enormous efforts over the past seven years by the estate’s court-appointed Administrator, Derek Spratley, many of these estate paintings have been recovered and are being presented for the first time. A fully illustrated color catalog with an essay by New York-based independent curator and art critic, Lily Wei is available from Levis Fine Art. 



Levis Fine Art Website


Contact: Levis Fine Art
514 West 24th Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 646 620 50 00

Between Art and Politics: Hans Richter’s Germany
LOS ANGELES  •  Los Angeles County Museum of Art  •  23 March - 11 August 2013
 

This exhibition focuses on the interaction of political and aesthetic movements in Germany from the 1910s to the early 1920s, and the influence such movements had on the artistic development of Hans Richter (1888–1976); it complements Hans Richter: Encounters, on view in the Resnick Pavilion, 5 May – 2 September 2013.

The works of Paul Cézanne, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and Oskar Kokoschka exposed the young Hans Richter to the full range of contemporary art from Expressionism to abstraction. Gallerists, writers, and editors of influential cultural and political magazines introduced new artistic movements such as Futurism and Cubism to the German art world and promoted the work of aspiring artists, including Richter. World War I put a stop to this cultural activity and exchange. The exhibition also explores how Richter and many of his fellow artists became politically involved during and after the war, and how they consequently expressed in their work a yearning for a new social order, presaged by new forms of art.



Los Angeles County Museum of Art Website


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Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Bill Brandt: <EM>Jean Dubuffet</EM>, 1960Gelatin silver printThe Museum of Modern Art, New York© 2012 Estate of Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt: Jean Dubuffet, 1960
Gelatin silver print
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
© 2012 Estate of Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light
NEW YORK  •  The Museum of Modern Art  •  6 March - 12 August 2013
 
Bill Brandt  (1904-83) is a major figure in photography’s modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a critical reevaluation of his career. Brandt’s distinctive vision — his ability to present the mundane world as fresh and strange—emerged in London in the 1930s, and drew from his time in the Paris studio of Man Ray. His visual explorations of the society, landscape, and literature of England are indispensable to any understanding of photographic history and, arguably, to our understanding of life in Britain during the middle of the 20th century.

The Museum of Modern Art Website


Contact: The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497



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Bill Traylor: Untitled (Man in Blue Pants), ca. 1939–47. Poster paint and pencil on cardboard, 10 5/8 x 7 ¼ in. High Museum of Art, T. Marshall Hahn Collection, 1997.115
Bill Traylor: Untitled (Man in Blue Pants), ca. 1939–47. Poster paint and pencil on cardboard, 10 5/8 x 7 ¼ in. High Museum of Art, T. Marshall Hahn Collection, 1997.115
Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Art
NEW YORK  •  American Folk Art Museum  •  11 June - 22 September 2013
 
The exhibition features the work of a major figure in American and African-American art history: Bill Traylor (1854 – 1949), a draftsman from Alabama. A self-taught artist from Montgomery, Alabama, Traylor’s depictions of life in rural and urban Alabama have made him one of the most acclaimed artists of the twentieth century. Beginning when he was in his early eighties, in a prolific decade of art making, Traylor produced more than 1,200 drawings in graphite, colored pencil, poster paints and crayon. Many of his works were created on shirt cardboard, cast-off signs and other shaped supports, whose unusual forms often influenced his designs. Traylor used these materials to create geometrically based representations of human and animal figures, often combining them in complex compositions that included abstracted buildings or “constructions.”

The show features over 60 rarely seen drawings from the two largest public collections of his work, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. 

An exhibition catalogue is available.

American Folk Art Museum Website


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2 Lincoln Square
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New York, NY 10023
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Birds in the Art of Japan
NEW YORK  •  The Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  2 February - 28 July 2013
 
Birds in the Art of Japan, a presentation of some 150 works in various media from medieval times to the present in which Japanese artists depict birds of every variety. Highlights include a unique, early seventeenth-century pair of ink-painted screens showing a flock of 120 mynah birds in flight or strutting on the shore; and a set of four enormous paintings of birds of prey by the nineteenth-century master Kawanabe Kyōsai, each over nine feet high. Displays of paintings will be juxtaposed with examples of modern and contemporary textiles, ceramics, lacquerware, and bamboo art.

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Bruce Davidson:<EM> Untitled</EM>, [Close Up of Boy and Girl with Faces Together]from <EM>East 100th Street</EM> series, 1967–68, printed 1969Museum purchase with funds donated by Haluk and Elisa Soykan and the Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund.
Bruce Davidson: Untitled, [Close Up of Boy and Girl with Faces Together]
from East 100th Street series, 1967–68, printed 1969
Museum purchase with funds donated by Haluk and Elisa Soykan and the Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund.
Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  •  19 January - 8 September 2013
 
This exhibition celebrates the MFA’s recent acquisition of the 43 prints by renowned New York photographer Bruce Davidson that were originally showcased in his groundbreaking show, East 100th Street, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970. These powerful images capture the gritty reality of life on the block between First and Second Avenues, which had been described during the 1950s as the most dangerous in the entire city. Davidson began the project in 1967, when this section of East Harlem was slowly improving. Carrying his bulky, large-format camera and tripod, Davidson returned almost daily for nearly two years recording the strength and diversity of the inhabitants of this Harlem neighborhood. Gradually gaining the trust of the residents meant that Davidson was able to make intimate, close-up portraits like this young pair on the street.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Website


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Avenue of the Arts
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Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (1) 617 267 93 00

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
PORTLAND, OREGON  •  Portland Art Museum  •  2 February - 19 May 2013
 

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Carrie Mae Weems is internationally recognized for her photography-based art that investigates issues of race, gender, and societal class. Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video presents more than 200 photographs, videos, and installations tracing the evolution of Weems’ career.

Carrie Mae Weems was introduced to photography in the late 1970s after working as a professional modern dancer and grassroots political activist in California.  She was attracted to the medium because of its ability to give tangible, visual form to abstract political and social theories, particularly those related to African American experiences.  Weems is also a poetic storyteller; powerful written or spoken-word narratives often accompany her images.  In her earliest work, the artist looked to her own life and family as case studies for exploring contemporary African American identity.  Weems’s narrative soon broadened to more general aspects of the African Diaspora, from the legacy of slavery to the perpetuation of both debilitating stereotypes and nourishing folk traditions.  A desire to more deeply examine the underlying causes and effects of social injustice spurred Weems to explore the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, as well as the southeastern United States.

An illustrated exhibition catalogue is available.

 

 



Portland Art Museum Website


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1219 SW Park
Portland, Oregon

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Christian Marclay: The Clock
SAN FRANCISCO  •  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  •  6 April - 2 June 2013
 

Christian Marclay's celebrated video installation The Clock (2010) is composed of thousands of film clips referencing the time of day, intricately edited into a 24-hour-long montage that matches real time minute for minute — a tour de force of appropriation that is also a functioning timepiece.

 



San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Website


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151 Third Street
San Francisco

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Claes Oldenburg: <EM>Mickey Mouse with Red Heart</EM>, 1963
Claes Oldenburg: Mickey Mouse with Red Heart, 1963
Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties
NEW YORK  •  Museum of Modern Art  •  14 April - 5 August 2013
 

Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929, Stockholm, Sweden) has not only been a major artist in Pop Art, Performance Art and Installation Art but, in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, also a strong influence on art in public spaces with his monumental Large Scale Projects in numerous major cities worldwide. With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects he is one of the most important and admired artists since the late 1950s. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as a commodity which, in ever-new metamorphoses of media and form, becomes a conveyor of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the modern world.

Organized by the mumok, this is the largest show ever of Oldenburg’s ground-breaking and emblematic early work of the 1960s. Numerous icons of Pop art are on view in the exhibition, beginning with the installation The Street and its graffiti-inspired depictions of modern life in the big city and continuing to the famous consumer articles of The Store to the spectacular everyday objects of the modern Home: telephone, toilet bowl, bathtub, fan, saw, and light switch. Another chapter is dedicated to Oldenburg’s first designs for the colossal monuments of his consumer objects for public spaces. The exhibition concludes with mumok’s Mouse Museum a walk-in miniature museum in the form of a Geometric Mouse, for which Oldenburg collected 385 objects. With its souvenirs, kitsch objects, and studio models, the Mouse Museum demonstrates the incredible cultural variety—and mysteriousness—of capitalist society. With its reduction to abstract basic figures of formal invention, the Geometric Mouse, a central motif within the artist’s oeuvre, represents a dovetailing of high art and popular culture. It also functions as Oldenburg’s alter ego.

Curator
Achim Hochdörfer

After New York, this exhibition, organized by mumok, will travel to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (September 13, 2013–January 12, 2014).





Museum of Modern Art Website


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Female Figure. Egypt, from Ma’mariya. Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa (circa 3500-3400 B.C.). Terracotta, painted. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art
Female Figure. Egypt, from Ma'mariya. Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa (circa 3500-3400 B.C.). Terracotta, painted. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art
Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  Brooklyn Museum of Art  •  20 October 2004 - 30 December 2013
 
Completing the final phase of the reinstallation of the Egyptian Galleries, nearly 600 objects, including some of the most important works of ancient Egyptian art in the world, are on view in four newly designed galleries on the Museum's third floor. These works, some not on view since the early 20th century, date from the Predynastic Period (circa 4400 B.C.) to the 18th-Dynasty reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1353 B.C.). Included are such treasures as an exquisite chlorite-stone head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C., a relief from the tomb of Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over 5,000 years ago. The new galleries are arranged chronologically, starting with the oldest pieces, and include thematic displays exploring such topics as the connection between art and writing and the relationship between Egyptians and other ancient peoples. Additionally, computers and video monitors provide in-depth information about the objects.

Brooklyn Museum of Art Web Site


Contact: Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-605

Tel: (1) 718 638 50 00

Garry Winogrand: <EM>Metropolitan Opera, New York, ca. 1951</EM>Gelatin silver printGarry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona© The Estate of Garry WinograndCourtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Garry Winogrand: Metropolitan Opera, New York, ca. 1951
Gelatin silver print
Garry Winogrand Archive, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
© The Estate of Garry Winogrand
Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Garry Winogrand
SAN FRNACISCO  •  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  •  9 March - 2 June 2013
 

The first retrospective in 25 years of work by artist Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) — the renowned photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s — brings together the artist's most iconic images with newly printed photographs from his largely unexamined archive of late  work, brings together the artist's most iconic images with newly printed photographs from his largely unexamined archive of late work. 

More than 300 photographs in the exhibition and more than 400 in the accompanying catalogue attempt to create a portrait of Garry Winogrand — a chronicler of postwar America.

After serving in the military as a weather forecaster, Winogrand first began working as a photographer while studying painting on the G.I. Bill at Columbia University (1948–51).

The Bronx-born Winogr was enormously prolific but largely postponed the editing and printing of his work. Dying suddenly at the age of 56, he left behind approximately 6,500 rolls of film (some 250,000 images) that he had never seen, as well as proof sheets from his earlier years that he had marked but never printed. Roughly half of the photographs in the exhibition have never been exhibited or published until now; over 100 have never before been printed.

Winogrand photographed business moguls, everyday women on the street, famous actors and athletes, hippies, rodeos, politicians, soldiers, animals in zoos, car culture, airports, and antiwar demonstrators and the construction workers who beat them bloody in view of the unmoved police.

The exhibition catalogue Garry Winogrand (448 pages; $85 hardcover; $50 softcover)—published by SFMOMA in association with Yale University Press serves as the most comprehensive volume on Winogrand to date and the only compendium of the artist's work.  Five new essays and nearly 400 plates trace the artist's working methods and major themes.

After San Francisco, Garry Winogrand will travel to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2 March through 8 June 8 2014); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (27 June through 21 September 2014); the Jeu de Paume, Paris (14 October 2014 through 25 January 2015); and the Fundacion MAPFRE, Madrid (3 March through 10 May 2015).



San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Website


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San Francisco, CA 94103

Tel: (1) 415 357 40 00

El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born 1944). <EM>Red Block</EM>, 2010Aluminum and copper wire, Two pieces, each 200 3/4 x 131 1/2 in. (509.9 x 334 cm)Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photograph by Andrew McAllister, courtesy of the Akron Art Museum
El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born 1944). Red Block, 2010
Aluminum and copper wire, Two pieces, each 200 3/4 x 131 1/2 in. (509.9 x 334 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photograph by Andrew McAllister, courtesy of the Akron Art Museum
Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  Brooklyn Museum  •  8 February - 4 August 2013
 
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in Nsukka, Nigeria; and the global history of abstraction.

In the 1970s, Anatsui began to manipulate broken ceramic fragments. With their allusions to ancient Nok terracotta sculptures, West African myths about the earth and cultural references to the use of clay, the ceramic works piece together shattered ideas and histories to form a new whole. In the same decade, he also made sculptures that brought together signs and symbols from various cultures and languages, created by chopping, carving, burning and etching wood.

In the 1990s, Anatsui made a crucial shift from working with hand tools to carving with a power saw, which enabled him to cut through blocks of wood, leaving a jagged surface that he likened to the scars left by European colonial encounters with Africa.

In his most recent metal wall sculptures, Anatsui assembles thousands of West African liquor-bottle tops into moving patterns of stunning visual impact, transforming this simple material into large shimmering forms. When I Last Wrote to You about Africa includes the largest compilation of Anatsui’s works ever assembled, including massive wall pieces and large-scale floor installations. "I think of myself as an artist," Anatsui said in an interview with Agence-France-Presse. "And I'm an African." 



Brooklyn Museum Website


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Hans Richter: <EM>Dragonfly</EM> (Counterpoint in Red, Black, Gray, and White), 1943Oil on canvasPrivate collection© Hans Richter Estate.
Hans Richter: Dragonfly (Counterpoint in Red, Black, Gray, and White), 1943
Oil on canvas
Private collection
© Hans Richter Estate.
Hans Richter: Encounters
LOS ANGELES  •  Los Angeles County Museum of Art  •  5 May - 2 September 2013
 

Hans Richter: Encounters examines the evolution of German artist Hans Richter’s practice based on his interaction with other artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers. In
Richter’s most significant retrospective since the 1980s, the
multidisciplinary exhibition showcases 175 works by the artist,
complemented by approximately sixty works by his contemporaries, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, scrolls, photographs, architectural models, ready-mades, wall reliefs, and films.

Born in Berlin in 1888, Richter attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the Academy in Weimar, and the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1914 after World War I broke out, he was inducted into the German army and was seriously wounded within a few months. Soon after being discharged from military service in 1916, Richter joined the Zurich Dada Group and participated in several group exhibitions. In 1921, he produced his first abstract film, Rhythmus 21, and in 1923, he established and managed the avant-garde magazine G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung (G: Materials for Elemental Form-Creation). Avoiding the horrors of World War II in Europe, Richter emigrated to the United States and began teaching at the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York. He continued collaborating with his contemporaries in different fields, such as Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, and in 1964 published his seminal book Dada: Art and Anti-Art, translated into nine languages. Throughout his career, Richter participated in over eighty exhibitions and is included in the collections of major museums across the world.

The 224-page catalogue Hans Richter: Encounters is co-published by LACMA and DelMonico Books/Prestel.

On the occasion of this exhibition and appearing in English for the first time is Encounters from Dada till Today by Hans Richter, which is being published as a print-on-demand and e-book by LACMA and DelMonico Books/Prestel in a translation by Christopher Middleton. First published in German in 1973, this volume documents in Richter’s own words the collaborative aspirations of a generation of modern artists — including
Joseph Cornell, Federico Fellini, and Hannah Höch, among others.



Los Angeles County Museum of Art Website


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Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Claude Monet: <EM>Camille </EM>(<EM>The Woman in the Green Dress</EM>),&nbsp;1866Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Claude Monet: Camille (The Woman in the Green Dress), 1866
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
NEW YORK  •  The Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  26 February - 27 May 2013
 

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity presents a revealing look at the role of fashion in the works of the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Some eighty major figure paintings, seen in concert with period costumes, accessories, fashion plates, photographs, and popular prints, highlight the vital relationship between fashion and art during the pivotal years, from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, when Paris emerged as the style capital of the world. With the rise of the department store, the advent of ready-made wear, and the proliferation of fashion magazines, those at the forefront of the avant-garde—from Manet, Monet, and Renoir to Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Zola—turned a fresh eye to contemporary dress, embracing la mode as the harbinger of la modernité.

First on view at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, this show is quite popular with New Yorkers. Expect crowds. 

A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.



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<P>Martín Rico: <EM>The Tower of Las Damas at the Alhambra, Granada</EM>1871Oil on canvas, 63,5 x 40 cmMadrid, Museo Nacional del PradoLegado Ramón de Errazu.</P>

Martín Rico: The Tower of Las Damas at the Alhambra, Granada
1871
Oil on canvas, 63,5 x 40 cm
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Legado Ramón de Errazu.

Impressions of Europe: Nineteenth-Century Vistas by Martín Rico
DALLAS, TEXAS  •  Meadows Museum  •  10 March - 7 July 2013
 

Meadows Museum in Dallas presents the first monographic exhibition on the Madrid-born landscape painter Martín Rico (1833-1908), one of the most important Spanish artists of the second half of the nineteenth century and a pioneering figure in the introduction of realist landscape. Organised in collaboration with the Museo del Prado in Madrid, where this exhibition was presented earlier this season with the title The landscape painter Martín Rico (1833-1908), and made possible through the support of the Regional Government of Madrid, this exhibition brings together more than forty paintings that are shown alongside a large group of watercolours, drawings and notebooks, most of which have never been exhibited in Spain.

Rico’s international reputation is largely based on the fact that he established a career outside Spain after he was awarded a State grant in 1862 to study landscape painting abroad. For more than forty years and until his death the artist worked in Paris and Venice where he captured the beauty of these two cities and established contacts with leading artists such as Camille Pissarro, one of the first generation of Impressionists, and Daubigny, the Barbizon School landscape painter.



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Dallas, TX 75205

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Hiroshi Hamaya: <EM>Man in a Traditional Minoboshi Raincoat, Niigata Prefecture</EM>, 1956Gelatin silver printThe J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009.34.18.© Keisuke Katano
Hiroshi Hamaya: Man in a Traditional Minoboshi Raincoat, Niigata Prefecture, 1956
Gelatin silver print
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009.34.18.
© Keisuke Katano
Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
LOS ANGELES  •  J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center  •  26 March - 25 August 2013
 

This exhibition presents the work of two 20th-century photographers, Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto, who represent important but alternate paths in Japanese photography.

The Taishō era (1912–1926) was a brief but dynamic period in Japan’s history that ushered in a modern state with increased industrialization, shifting political parties, radical fashions, and liberal thinking in many areas. However, this era of heightened experimentation ended with the arrival of an international depression, the promotion of ultranationalism, and the country’s entry into what would become the Greater East Asia War.

Reflecting both sides of this dramatic transition, two disparate representations of modern Japan are displayed together in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center. Curated by Judith Keller, senior curator of photographs, and Amanda Maddox, assistant curator of photographs, the exhibition includes photographs from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection, the Toyko Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the estate of Hiroshi Hamaya, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and other public and private lenders.

Born during the Taishō era, photographers Hiroshi Hamaya (1915–1999) and Kansuke Yamamoto (1914–1987) responded to Japan’s rapidly-changing sociopolitical climate in very different ways. While Hamaya focused inward toward rural life on the back coast of Japan, Yamamoto found inspiration in the art of European Surrealists. As the ebb and flow of Japan’s political, economic, and social structures persisted across the 20th century, Hamaya and Yamamoto continued to pursue divergent paths, thus embodying both sides of modern Japanese life: the traditional and the Western, the rural and the urban, the oriental and the occidental.



J. Paul Getty Museum Website


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Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!
CHICAGO  •  The Art Institute of Chicago  •  21 February - 11 August 2013
 

The contemporary American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969) —widely recognized for her exploration of issues of race, gender, and sexuality through the 18th-century medium of cut-paper silhouettes is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation. For Walker, the simplified details of a human form in the black cutouts resonate with racial stereotypes. She has said, "The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."

Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! at the Art Institute of Chicago

Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! at the Art Institute of Chicago

Set in the American South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. 

In the Chicago exhibition, she returns to the cut-paper medium in monumental form for a new commissioned installation that she has designed especially for display at the Art Institute. The installation, titled Rise Up Ye Mighty Race! (2013), includes five large framed graphite drawings and 40 small framed mixed-media drawings along with the cut paper silhouettes. The title refers to comments made by Barack Obama in his 1995 book, Dreams from My Father, about the challenges of community organizing in Chicago, in which he quotes the Jamaican political leader Marcus Garvey (1887–1940). Merging handwritten text with the images in the drawings, the work takes a diaristic form that revolves around The Turner Diaries, written in 1978 by the white nationalist William Luther Pierce, and investigates the notion of the “race war” as it exists in the contemporary imagination. Walker has referred to the work in progress as, “a kind of paranoid panorama wall work — with supplemental drawings large and small, to chronicle what can be called a diary of my ever-present, never-ending war with race."



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Late Roman and Early Byzantine Treasures from the British Museum
CHICAGO  •  11 November 2012 - 25 August 2013
 

The unveiling of the Jaharis Galleries also celebrates the opening of a special exhibition of more than 50 incomparable works of late Roman and early Byzantine art lent by the British Museum. Comprised of luxurious yet portable items such as silver vessels, carved ivories, and gem-encrusted jewelry, these artworks reflect the splendor of wealthy households and important ecclesiastical sites between A.D. 350 and 650.

These centuries saw great shifts in the Roman Empire: Constantinople replaced Rome as the imperial capital, Christianity became the official imperial religion, and Greek eclipsed Latin as the official administrative language. Beautifully illustrating these transitions, the objects in the exhibition were employed in a variety of civic, domestic, and sacred contexts. For example, a gilded silver chest for bathing accessories and perfumed oils that belonged to a Roman noblewoman named Projecta stands as an eloquent witness to the intersection of classical iconography and Christian belief; above the inscription indicating that its owner was indeed a Christian appears a seductive image of the goddess Venus. The gradual stylistic shift from a classical naturalism towards a Byzantine aesthetic can be seen in the Reliquary of St. Menas. Carved in ivory during the sixth century and markedly different in style from the earlier objects in the exhibition, the imagery—charged with spiritual import—is more abstract, static, and hieratic. For its part, The Lycurgus Cup vividly exemplifies the refinement and spectacle of lavish tableware proudly used throughout the late Roman Empire. In a display of technical virtuosity, this cup appears green in reflected light but turns a brilliant red when light is transmitted through it, thanks to the addition of gold and silver particles to the molten glass.

Most of the treasures in this exhibition have never before traveled to the United States.



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Photography and the American Civil War
NEW YORK  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  2 April - 2 September 2013
 
Approximately 1,000 photographers worked separately and in teams to produce hundreds of thousands of photographs—portraits and views—that were actively collected during the period (and over the past century and a half) by Americans of all ages and social classes.

Among the highlights of the exhibition is a selection of early wartime portraits of soldiers and officers who sat for their likenesses before leaving their homes for the war front. In these one-of-a-kind images, a picture of American society emerges. The rarest are ambrotypes and tintypes of Confederates, drawn from the renowned collection of David Wynn Vaughan, who has assembled the country’s premier archive of Southern portraits. These seldom-seen photographs, and those by their Northern counterparts, will balance the well-known and often-reproduced views of bloody battlefields, defensive works, and the specialized equipment of 19th-century war.

The exhibition features works by Mathew B. Brady, George N. Barnard, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O’Sullivan, among many others. It also examines in-depth the important, if generally misunderstood, role played by Brady, perhaps the most famous of all wartime photographers, in conceiving the first extended photographic coverage of any war. The exhibition addresses the widely held, but inaccurate, belief that Brady produced most of the surviving Civil War images, although he actually made very few field photographs during the conflict. Instead, he commissioned and published, over his own name and imprint, negatives made by an ever-expanding team of field operators, including Gardner, O’Sullivan, and Barnard.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue written by Jeff L. Rosenheim. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and distributed by Yale University Press.

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Piero della Francesca: <EM>Saint John the Evangelist</EM>, 1454–69Oil and tempera with traces of gold on poplar panelThe Frick Collection, New York
Piero della Francesca: Saint John the Evangelist, 1454–69
Oil and tempera with traces of gold on poplar panel
The Frick Collection, New York
Piero della Francesca in America
NEW YORK  •  The Frick Collection  •  12 February - 19 May 2013
 

Piero della Francesca  (1411/13–1492) was revered in his own time as a “monarch” of painting. Yet by the end of the sixteenth century his achievements had sunk into obscurity. During the nineteenth century, however, British and American collectors on the European Grand Tour rediscovered the master’s works and resurrected his reputation, and today Piero della Francesca is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of the Italian Renaissance. The Frick was a beneficiary of this renewed interest and holds four of Piero’s paintings, more than any other institution outside of Europe.

The Frick now presents the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist, featuring its four panels together with works from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Together these seven paintings—all created for Borgo San Sepolcro, the city of Piero’s birth—demonstrate the richness of Piero della Francesca’s oil technique and the monumentality of his compositions for which he is celebrated.



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Installation view from Piranesi, Rome and the Arts of Design.
Installation view from Piranesi, Rome and the Arts of Design.
Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA  •  San Diego Museum of Art  •  30 March - 7 July 2013
 
Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778) was a printmaker, architect, antiquarian, art dealer, theorist, and designer—one of the foremost artistic personalities of the 18th century, whose views of Rome remain the city’s defining image. Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design sets out to show the range of the artist’s genius in a 21st-century approach to his creative endeavors. More than 300 original prints have been selected from the world renowned collection of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. These prints are combined with modern-day interpretations in new technologies such as video, photography, and digital modeling.

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Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux.
CHICAGO  •  The Field Museum  •  20 March - 8 September 2013
 

The cave paintings of Lascaux (Lass-KOH) are the world’s premier example of prehistoric art. Discovered in 1940 in southwest France, these masterpieces were made by our early ancestors almost 20,000 years ago. French officials closed the cave in 1963 to preserve the paintings but now, thanks to the latest digital technology, the cave has been painstakingly re-created with full-sized replicas of the artworks including some shown for the first time to the public.

Cave Paintings of Lascaux Hall of Bulls
Hall of Bulls, North Wall, contains 36 images of bulls, horses and stag. One bull measures 17 feet long — the largest animal depicted in cave art. © LRMH

Exhibition visitors will experience the thrill of walking through the cave and discovering beautiful, ancient artworks lit by simulated torch light. Along the way, they will encounter a lifelike stone-age family – an old man, an adolescent, a woman, and a child – created by sculptor Elisabeth Daynès. The exhibition also features rare stone-age artifacts from the Museum’s collections. Videos and interactives explain how Paleolithic people lived and how the cave paintings were made, but the purpose of the paintings remains a tantalizing mystery. The Field Museum is the first North American venue for this  exhibition.



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Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT  •  Yale University Art Gallery  •  12 December 2012 - 14 July 2013
 

This exhibition charts the development of the influential Société Anonyme and its establishment as one of the greatest collections of modernist works in America. Including approximately 200 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Société Anonyme Collection, the exhibition features works by such diverse and renowned artists as Josef Albers, Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Calder, Arthur Dove, Louis Eilshemius, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Arshile Gorky, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Stella, and Jacques Villon among many others.

The Société Anonyme was formed by Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp in order to disseminate modern art in America through a succession of exhibitions and lectures during the 1920s and 1930s that introduced the American public to European and American avant-garde artists. In 1941, Dreier and Duchamp transferred the Société Anonyme Collection to Yale University in order to continue the educational aspirations of the organization.



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<EM>The Only Baby Among the Africans</EM>, 1860Harpers Weekly NewspaperMel Fisher Maritime Museum Collection.
The Only Baby Among the Africans, 1860
Harpers Weekly Newspaper
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum Collection.
Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY  •  Frazier History Museum  •  2 February - 16 June 2013
 

Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade displays nearly 150 historical objects covering more than 350 years. 

The 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition is in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the turning point it represented for thousands of enslaved people at a pivotal point in the American Civil War. It’s the first exhibition of its kind to examine the entire history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from the 16th through 19th centuries, while also presenting the most up-to-date research and discoveries to the public. These include the latest marine archaeological discoveries, new research on key African societies and an exploration of the slave trade’s modern day legacies.

Visitors can view authentic artifacts from the wreck of an actual slave ship, such as restraints, tools, plates and trade goods, as well as dozens of other objects from West African societies that show the uniqueness of the individual cultures they represent. These include religious objects, bronze- and beadwork, pottery and jewelry. These compelling artifacts, along with maps, paintings and illustrations, create a provocative picture of this tragic era, while also engendering a sense of pride in the legacy of strength these enslaved people left behind.



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Amalia Pica: <EM>Venn Diagrams (under </EM><EM>the spotlight),</EM> 2011
Amalia Pica: Venn Diagrams (under the spotlight), 2011
Amalia Pica
CHICAGO  •  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago  •  27 April - 11 August 2013
 
Amalia Pica was born in 1978 in Neuquén, Argentina. She lives and works in London. Interested in the social acts of listening and technologies of mass communication, Pica explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through drawings, sculptures, large-scale photographic prints, slide projections, live performances, and installations. The MCA exhibition Amalia Pica is the artist’s first major solo museum show in the United States and includes approximately fifteen of her most significant works from the last seven years, in addition to new commissions. Using simple materials such as photocopies, lightbulbs, drinking glasses, beer bottles, bunting, cardboard, and other found materials, Pica creates work that is formally beautiful and conceptually rigorous while addressing fundamental issues of communication—such as the acts of delivering and receiving messages (verbal or nonverbal) and the various forms these exchanges may take. She is particularly interested in the role of the artist in conveying messages to audiences and the translation of thought to action, idea to object.

Born during Argentina’s dictatorship and so-called “Dirty War”—a seven year campaign against suspected dissidents and subversives—Pica long ago became  interested in what it means to have a platform from which to speak and the limits and failures of language. Raising questions about individual speech versus collective speech, and extreme political situations such as those in 1970’s Argentina, the artist shines light on how open communication is a protected, individual right in some regions of the world while a privilege in others.


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Donald Judd
LOS ANGELES  •  Los Angeles County Museum of Art  •  2 February - 4 August 2013
 

Considered one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, Donald Judd pioneered Minimalism, an art movement that privileged conceptual framework over traditional craft or artistic skill. In his 1965 essay Specific Objects, Judd identified a new classification of artwork that falls into neither of the conventional categories of painting or sculpture. Judd utilized deceptively simple, pristine geometric forms as complex expressions of an aesthetic of wholeness or total impact, arguing that traditional illusionism and complicated composition dilute an artwork’s power. Judd explained, “Abstract art has its own integrity, not someone else’s ‘integrations’ with something else. Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, popularizing abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist’s artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.”

 



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Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran
WASHINGTON, DC  •  Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries  •  4 February 2012 - 15 June 2013
 

The exhibition features more than 40 works fashioned in silver and gold between the founding of the Achaemenid Empire ca. 550 B.C.E. and the beginning of the Islamic period in the seventh century.

The vessels on display include finely hammered bowls, cups, plates, ewers and bottles. Many of the objects were intended for elaborate, multicourse banquets, for which the Iranians were known throughout the ancient world. Others were used for more solemn religious ceremonies.  

Among the most celebrated works is a silver-gilt royal hunting plate with the portrait of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.), a Sasanian ruler recognizable by his distinctive crown. Fashioned out of 19 separate components, the plate is also one of the earliest Sasanian examples to depict a king hunting-one of the most enduring royal images from the ancient Near East.   

Vessels depicting rulers or royal hunting scenes, an activity long associated with kingship in the ancient Near East, had yet another function: they were used primarily as diplomatic gifts and sent as symbols of imperial authority to far-flung corners of the Iranian Empire and along the Silk Road as far as China, to strengthen diplomatic and commercial relations. Military conflict between Iran and its western neighbors, first with Alexander of Macedonia, which brought the Achaemenid Empire to a close in 331 B.C., and later with the Romans, who vied for territorial and economic control, introduced new techniques and motifs into Iranian metalwork. For example, the figure of Dionysus, the Roman God of wine, together with his female companions, appears on several vessels.  

Another rare and remarkable object from the Sasanian period is a wine horn, terminating in the head of a gazelle with a small spout, used for pouring out wine. Horn-shaped drinking cups of this type were continuously popular for at least a millennium.



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One Man’s Search for Ancient China: The Paul Singer Collection
WASHINGTON, DC  •  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  •  19 January - 7 July 2013
 

Trained as a psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Singer is best remembered for his wide-ranging Chinese art collection, which he assembled largely at a time when American contact with China was severely restricted. Born in Hungary in 1904 and raised in Austria, Singer made his first purchase of East Asian art at the age of seventeen. He collected most aggressively after he immigrated to this country in 1939, making discoveries at art dealers, auction houses, and thrift stores alike. By the time of his death in 1997, Singer’s holdings had grown to some five thousand objects, mostly Chinese works of art, that he displayed in his modest two-bedroom apartment in Summit, New Jersey.

The Singer collection is particularly strong in ancient ceramics, metalwork, and jades. He referred to Chinese archaeological findings as a guide in building his holdings. He was also drawn to the unique and surprising, hoping that archaeologists would eventually prove them to be authentic. As he recalled, “A fairly large portion of my collection, acquired in the distant past, consists of objects that had been rejected by experts. Those same pieces were later recognized as being genuine as a result of information provided by archaeological excavations.



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<P>Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2011, Wax, pigments, wicks, steel, <A href="http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/giambologna.html"><STRONG>Giambologna sculpture</STRONG></A>: 57 7/8 x 57 7/8 x 248 1/8 in. (147 x 147 x 630 cm)Collection Maja Hoffmann, Installation view, “ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations,” Venice Biennale, 2011,© Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. Photo: Stefan </P>

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2011, Wax, pigments, wicks, steel, Giambologna sculpture: 57 7/8 x 57 7/8 x 248 1/8 in. (147 x 147 x 630 cm)
Collection Maja Hoffmann, Installation view, “ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations,” Venice Biennale, 2011,
© Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. Photo: Stefan

Urs Fischer
LOS ANGELES  •  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  •  21 April - 19 August 2013
 

An engineer of imaginary worlds, in the past the Swiss-born artist Urs Fischer (b. 1973) has created sculptures in a rich variety of materials including unstable substances such as melting wax and rotting vegetables. In a continuous search for new plastic solutions, Fischer has built houses out of bread and given life to animated puppets; he has dissected objects or blown them out of proportion in order to reinvent our relationship to them. In 2007, in a now-legendary exhibition, he excavated the floor of his New York gallery, digging a crater within the exhibition space.

At MOCA Grand Avenue, Fischer presents a survey of works from the last two decades. Among the subjects addressed are his sly and humorous approach to the human figure as represented by a group of skeleton sculptures, partial figures seated on top of furniture, and the head shots of 1950s film stars similarly obscured and defaced. Everyday furniture and objects have experienced a material transformation as stiff structures droop and collapse and others magically appear suspended in space.

Throughout his work, with ambitious gestures and irreverent panache, Fischer explores the secret mechanisms of perception, combining a Pop immediacy with a neo-Baroque taste for the absurd.



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Lucien Hervé: Le Corbusier in India
NEW YORK  •  agnès b. Galerie Boutique  •  10 May - 30 June 2013
 
 

Self-taught photographer Lucien Hervé began working with the maverick architect Le Corbusier in 1949. As the "official" Le Corbusier photographer, Hervé documented the architect's work and projects until Le Corbusier's death in 1965. Le Corbusier once said, "Not only your remarkable vision of my work makes it more complete, but you have the soul of an architect and know how to look at architecture."

During the 16 years they worked together, Hervé took thousands of photographs of Le Corbusier's projects. All of the photographs in this exhibition were taken during two trips to India, one in 1955 and one in 1961. During this time he photographed the Ahmedabad Mill Owner's Association Building (1951) and the Villa Shodhan (1951). In Chandigarh, he photographed the High Court of Justice (1952), the Secretariat Building (1952) and the Palace of the Assembly (1955), which Le Corbusier considered his greatest work.

The exhibition Lucien Hervé: Le Corbusier in India explores two aspects: the humanistic vision, as well as the architectural dimension. Favoring high and side-angle views, a deliberate affinity for abstraction and the use of stark blacks and whites are characteristics of Lucien Hervé's very personal style. Noted for his sharp sense of framing and formal elegance, Hervé patiently built one of the major photographic œuvres of the 20th century.

Born on August 7, 1910 in Hungary, László Elkán moved to Paris in 1929. First attracted to painting, music and fashion, he started to work as a photographer for Marianne Magazine. Politically active in France, he joined the Conféderation Générale du Travail (CGT) union and the French Communist Party, from which he would be excluded twice, in 1938 and in 1947. Adhering to strong personal convictions, and following his escape from the Hohenstein war prisoners' camp, he joined the anti-Nazi French Resistance movement in 1941 under the pseudonym Lucien Hervé. He resumed his photography work after the war. Close to the postwar French humanistic movement, his career took a decisive turn when he met Le Corbusier in 1949, remaining his "official" photographer until Le Corbusier died in 1965.

Lucien Hervé died in Paris on June 26, 2007, at the age of 97.



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<SPAN class=pie>Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Treachery of the Moon, 2012. Color video, with sound, 12 min., 37 sec., edition 1/7Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkGuggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund© Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Photo: Courtesy Tyler Rollins Fine Art</SPAN>
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Treachery of the Moon, 2012. Color video, with sound, 12 min., 37 sec., edition 1/7
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund
© Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Photo: Courtesy Tyler Rollins Fine Art
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
NEW YORK  •  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  •  22 February - 22 May 2013
 
 
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. The New York presentation features work by 22 artists and collectives representing voices in South and Southeast Asia today. Focusing on the region's shifting spectrum of creative practices, the exhibition traces networks of intellectual exchange and influence, and considers the various impacts of ethno-nationalism, colonization, and globalization on national identity. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, photography, video, works on paper, and installation, the majority of which will be on view in the United States for the first time. All works have been newly acquired for the Guggenheim’s collection under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund. Following its presentation in New York, No Country will travel to Asia Society Hong Kong Center, October 2013 - February 2014. The exhibition is also expected to travel to Singapore.

The artists in the exhibition are:
• Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India)
• Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (b. 1957, Trad, Thailand)
• Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (b. 1978, Bandung, Indonesia)
• Aung Myint (b. 1946, Yangon, Myanmar)
• Bani Abidi (b. 1971, Karachi, Pakistan)
• Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976, Singapore)
• Khadim Ali (b. 1978, Quetta, Pakistan)
• Navin Rawanchaikul (b. 1971, Chiang Mai, Thailand)
• Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City, Philippines)
• Poklong Anading (b. 1975, Manila, Philippines)
• Reza Afisina (b. 1977, Bandung, Indonesia)
• Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, Mumbai, India)
• Tang Da Wu (b. 1943, Singapore)
• Tayeba Begum Lipi (b. 1969, Gaibandha, Bangladesh)
• The Otolith Group (est. 2002, London)
• The Propeller Group (est. 2006, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Los Angeles, California)
• Tran Luong (b. 1960, Hanoi, Vietnam)
• Truong Tan (b. 1963, Hanoi, Vietnam)
• Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Saigon, Vietnam)
• Vincent Leong (b. 1979, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Wah Nu (b. 1977, Yangon, Myanmar) and Tun Win Aung (b. 1975, Yalutt, Myanmar)
• Wong Hoy Cheong (b. 1960, George Town, Malaysia)



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Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn's Faience Manufacturing Company
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  Brooklyn Museum  •  3 May - 19 June 2013
 
 

This exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American, 1833–1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett’s talent and adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faience, a company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that earned acclaim for producing ornamental wares that introduced a new standard of excellence in American ceramics. These bold and eclectic pieces synthesized Japanese, Chinese, and Islamic influences characteristic of the Aesthetic movement and were sold in the United States’ foremost art ware emporiums, including Tiffany & Company.

Among the ceramics on view are 39 Faience pieces, including a number of large-scale vases. Also on view are Lycett’s formula books, family photographs, and other ephemera; rare examples of ceramic works by his three sons; and other Brooklyn-made ceramics from the Museum’s collection.



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Art in the Street: European Posters
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  •  15 December 2012 - 21 July 2013
 
 
The international poster mania of the 1890s made fine art accessible to the masses, bringing it out of the salon into the streets and shop windows. Great posters proliferated, however, long after this “golden age,” as revealed by the standout images in Art in the Street from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s. With about 40 posters in all — highlights from the Museum’s collection of some 2,500 — the show takes in virtually every major style in poster design of this era, from Art Nouveau to Russian photomontage. Also on view are major works by Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pierre Bonnard, as well as less familiar work from Northern Europe, including a Secession poster by Wassily Kandinsky and a selection of Dutch posters from around 1910. The show concludes with several Swiss “object posters,” bold illustrations of an isolated product that dispense with text.

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<SPAN class=pie>Benny Andrews (1930-2006), <EM>The Way to the Promised Land (Revival Series),</EM> 1994. Oil on canvas with painted fabric collage, 72" x 50 3/4" x 1/4", signed and dated. Photo: Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.</SPAN>
Benny Andrews (1930-2006), The Way to the Promised Land (Revival Series), 1994.
Oil on canvas with painted fabric collage, 72" x 50 3/4" x 1/4", signed and dated.
Photo: Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
Benny Andrews: There Must Be A Heaven
NEW YORK  •  Michael Rosenfeld Gallery  •  19 March - 18 May 2013
 
 
A specialist gallery in modern and contemporary African-American art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Benny Andrews: There Must Be A Heaven, an exhibition of thirty-six works that span from 1964 to 2005. It is the first comprehensive survey since Andrews’s death in 2006.  The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims and a foreword by Congressman John Lewis, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Georgia).

A self-described “people’s painter,” Benny Andrews (American, 1930-2006) was born in Plainview, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. In 1948, he received a small scholarship to attend college, but eventually had to drop out. He joined the US Air Force in 1950, served for the duration of the Korean War, and received an honorable discharge in 1954. With funding from the GI Bill, Andrews returned to school, enrolling in the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1958, he received his degree and left Chicago for New York City.

Settling in a tenement on the Lower East Side, he developed the “rough collage” technique that became a hallmark of his style. As Sims in her catalogues essay explains, “Andrews’s use of collage came out of that fact that he found oil painting ‘too academic’ and imbued with more ‘sophisticated’ associations. He found the textural quality of collage appealing, and he used it to ‘keep himself off balance.’ . . . Andrews’s work, with its calculated awkwardness, unconventional techniques, and Southern focus, exists provocatively alongside that of self-taught artists. But as art historian and Andrews scholar J. Richard Gruber would caution us, despite Andrews’s predilection for ‘realistic subject matter, he was intrigued by the fundamental issues associated with abstract art.’ While he was often in conflict with his instructors and peers over the emphasis on abstract expressionism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . . . he would come to be ‘increasingly more convinced that all art was fundamentally abstract.’”

By the 1960s, Andrews had mastered this technique and exhibition opportunities followed. In 1965, with funding from a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Andrews traveled to Georgia and began working on his Autobiographical Series. He continued to paint, exhibit, travel, write, and teach until his death from cancer at age 76. During his lifetime, he lectured extensively and received numerous fellowships, grants, and other awards from prestigious international institutions. His work is featured in over thirty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, High Museum (Atlanta, Georgia), Art Institute of Chicago, Studio Museum of Harlem, and Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC).


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Chinese Lacquer 1200–1800
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  •  16 November 2012 - 8 September 2013
 
 

Chinese lacquer, derived from the sap or resin of trees native to China, has been made for more than 2,000 years. Technically challenging and time-consuming to create, lacquer was considered a luxury material, on par with gold and silver, and was created for the Imperial court and wealthy elite, as well as scholars and eventually the merchant class.

This exhibition highlights the Museum’s Chinese and Ryukyu island (better known as Okinawa) lacquers and includes many important loans, showcasing the wide variety of techniques, styles, and forms of lacquer, as well as its uses. It also shows the transfer of imagery and themes across different media including paintings and porcelains, furniture, presentation boxes for special occasions, incense boxes, sutra covers, and even birdcages.



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John Vachon (American, 1914-1975) <EM>Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio,</EM> 1942 or 194335mm color transparencyLibrary of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, FSA-OWI CollectionLC-USF35-276.
John Vachon (American, 1914-1975) Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943
35mm color transparency
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
LC-USF35-276.
Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN  •  Milwaukee Art Museum  •  22 February - 19 May 2013
 
 

The exhibition charts — from magazine pages to gallery walls, from advertisements to photojournalism — the interconnected history of color photography in the United States from 1907 to 1981 through nearly 200 objects.

Among the artists represented in the exhibition: Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Nan Goldin, Jan Groover, Barbara Kasten, Saul Leiter, Susan Meiselas, Joel Meyerowitz, László Moholy-Nagy, Nickolas Muray, Paul Outerbridge, Eliot Porter, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Joel Sternfeld, and Edward Weston.

An exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition.



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Edward Hopper (1882–1967):<EM> Male Nude</EM>, circa 1903–4Graphite and charcoal on cream paper, 24 x 9 5/8 in. (61 x 24.4 cm)Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton Ostrow, 82.253.2
Edward Hopper (1882–1967): Male Nude, circa 1903–4
Graphite and charcoal on cream paper, 24 x 9 5/8 in. (61 x 24.4 cm)
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morton Ostrow, 82.253.2
Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  Brooklyn Museum  •  8 March - 26 May 2013
 
 
Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum presents a selection of over 100 of the finest, rarely seen drawings and sketchbooks from the Museum’s world-renowned collection of American art. Produced between 1768 and 1945 in a wide range of media (including graphite, pen and ink, crayon, charcoal, and pastel), the featured objects represent a variety of iconographies, styles, and practices in the history of American graphic arts. More than seventy artists are represented, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Marsden Hartley.

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Florian Morlat: <EM>Cannonball</EM>
Florian Morlat: Cannonball
Florian Morlat: Sticks and Stones, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
LOS ANGELES  •  Cherry and Martin  •  4 May - 6 July 2013
 
 

Florian Morlat's first solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin includes works made from materials like cardboard, paint, plaster and wood. It also features a selection of new cast and painted aluminum pieces. This is a new direction for the artist. Morlat has long incorporated everyday materials into his sculptures and wall works. In his first exhibition at Cherry and Martin, he goes even further, adding organic materials like straw, French bread, and bananas.

Morlat was born in Munich. The physical components of his work recall his roots in a German-language post-war artistic tradition. At the same time, Morlat's visual pursuits, particularly with regard to shape, suggest an aesthetic born of 1960s California pop culture - he's lived in the state almost 20 years -- and a familiarity with American modernist icons. In Morlat's work we sense the rawness of Franz West, the freedom of Alexander Calder, the poetry of David Smith. Florian Morlat's pieces are subjective, stylized representations of people and things; at the same time, they are objective investigations into form and mass, color and, especially, shape: the tension of an encounter with the 'one-sideness' of Morlat's pieces is only resolved through circumnavigating them and getting a sense of their totality from all sides.



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Florian Morlat: Sticks and Stones, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2

Pt. 1 - 4 May - 1 June 1, 2013
Pt. 2 - 8 June - 6 July 2013

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Frames of Reference: Latin American Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection
MIAMI  •  Miami Art Museum  •  14 March - 2 June 2013
 
 

Frames of Reference explores 45 works of Latin American art from the Jorge M. Pérez art collection, gifted to the Museum December 2011.  The show is curated and presented through an art historical lens, emphasizing the creative and conceptual contributions of artists such as José Bedia, Beatriz González, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta Echaurren, Diego Rivera, and Joaquín Torres-Garcia, among others. The exhibition is the last in the Museum’s current space and marks the start of its transition to its new Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility in Museum Park. The Museum will reopen as Pérez Art Museum Miami in honor of Pérez’s now $40 million gift of cash and art.

The complete collection of 110 works will be integrated into the Museum’s existing collection and displayed in the new facility. Other major works in the collection which will be highlighted at future dates, including works by Antony Caro, Chuck Close and Robert Rauschenberg.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book, featuring full-page color images of each work featured in the exhibition alongside comprehensive descriptions. The book also includes a conversation between Ostrander and Pérez and an essay by scholar Elizabeth Cerejido.



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Cyprien Gaillard: <EM>Westwood Cracks (Ice Age)</EM> (detail).201212 Polaroids with mats and aluminum and Plexiglas frames40 1/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (103 x 73 x 4.5 cm) framed. Copyright Cyprien Gaillard.Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London
Cyprien Gaillard: Westwood Cracks (Ice Age) (detail).
2012
12 Polaroids with mats and aluminum and Plexiglas frames
40 1/8 x 28 3/8 x 1 5/8 in. (103 x 73 x 4.5 cm) framed. Copyright Cyprien Gaillard.
Courtesy Sprueth Magers Berlin London
Hammer Projects: Cyprien Gaillard
LOS ANGELES  •  Hammer Museum  •  20 April - 4 August 2013
 
 

According to Hammer Museum Ali Subotnick, Cyprien Gaillard's work manifests in a variety of forms from videos and photographs to collages and sculptures. In his work, he reflects upon meanings and memories of monuments and landscapes that have been erased and replaced by the effects of time and social and cultural transformation. The French artist (born 1980, Paris) investigates time and historical remembrance as demonstrated in forgotten monuments, wrecked ruins, and artifacts. During his residency at the Hammer, Gaillard traveled around California discovering hidden ruins, destroyed landscapes and other remnants of the recent past. This exhibition will feature an installation of recent sculpture and a series of photographs produced during his residency at the Museum.

Cyprien Gaillard has had numerous solo exhibitions, including those at the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2012); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011, 2008); the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2011); the Zollamt/Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany; the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2010); the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany and the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (2009). Most recently he had a solo show at MOMA P.S.1, New York which was on view through 18 March 2013.



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<SPAN class=plac>Llyn Foulkes: <EM>Who’s on Third, </EM>1971-1973Oil on canvas. 48 x 39 in. (121.9 x 99.1 cm)John Jones Collection.</SPAN>
Llyn Foulkes: Who’s on Third, 1971-1973
Oil on canvas. 48 x 39 in. (121.9 x 99.1 cm)
John Jones Collection.

Llyn Foulkes
LOS ANGELES  •  UCLA Hammer  •  3 February - 19 May 2013
 
 
The Hammer Museum presents a career retrospective devoted to the work of the American painter and musician Llyn Foulkes (b. 1934 in Yakima, Washington). One of the most influential yet under recognized artists of his generation, Foulkes makes work that stands out for its raw, immediate, and unfiltered qualities. Some consider that his diverse body of work — including painted landscapes, mixed-media constructions, portraits, and narrative tableaux — resists categorization. The show features approximately 150 artworks from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe, some of which have not been seen for decades. The exhibition explores the entire scope of the artist’s career, including early cartoons and drawings, his macabre, emotionally-charged paintings of the early 1960s; his rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his “bloody head” series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America (especially Disney), which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, blended into the painted surface to create an illusion of depth. The show also features a video of Foulkes playing his Machine, a one-man instrument consisting of horns, bass, organ pipes, percussion and more. Llyn Foulkes is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue including essays by novelist and art critic Jim Lewis, writer Jason Weiss, and curator Ali Subotnick.

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Loïs Mailou Jones
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  •  19 January - 14 October 2013
 
 
Loïs Mailou Jones presents 30 paintings and drawings by the distinguished, internationally acclaimed graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Born and raised in Boston, Jones attended the SMFA during high school and earned a scholarship that enabled her to receive her degree in Design with honors in 1927. In 1937, she took a sabbatical from her teaching job at Howard University and spent a year in Paris, where she attended the Académie Julian, frequented museums and galleries, and noted in an interview in the Women’s Art Journal that she was far freer as an African American woman in Paris than she was in the art world in the United States. After her marriage to Haitian graphic artist Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noël in 1953, Jones found inspiration in the spiritual beliefs, sights, and sounds of Haiti. A trip to Africa in 1970 to meet with contemporary artists there brought to fruition Jones’s earlier interest in African art. This exhibition presents works from every stage of Jones’s artistic career, beginning with her early copies after objects in the Museum’s collections, her teaching career at Howard University, and the travels that shaped her distinctive vision and contributions to American art.

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Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field
SAN FRANCISCO  •  Crissy Field  •  22 - 26 May 2013
 
 

Eight large-scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero rise at historic Crissy Field this May for a free yearlong exhibition presented by SFMOMA in partnership with the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.  Brought together  from across the Unitied States, the steel structures are set against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, a structure that has inspired the artist throughout his career.

Coinciding with di Suvero's 80th birthday, the exhibition not only marks five decades of work, it also holds particular significance for the artist who emigrated from Shanghai to San Francisco at the age of seven. His passage beneath the Golden Gate Bridge—which opened a few years before his arrival—proved to be a lasting inspiration, as the scale and color of the structure have inspired di Suvero throughout his life. di Suvero notes, "It was like a rainbow, a bridge coming to the New World starting a new life. The woman who chose the color of the bridge, Malo Lowell, taught me how to work wood as a teenager and from there, all was freedom."



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McArthur Binion : Ghost: Rhythms
CHICAGO  •  Kavi Gupta  •  9 April - 22 June 2013
 
 

Like many of his peers at the time, Binion was influenced by the Abstract Expressionists and developed a deep interest in visual communication and Modernism. Entitled Ghost: Rhythms, the work from this exhibition was originally curated into a show at the Artists Space New York during its inaugural year by Carl Andre, Sol Lewitt, and Ronald Bladen.

While Binion was interested in the formal qualities of medium, shape, and color like his contemporaries, he also found a powerful voice in the language of modernism to share personal and African-American narratives. McArthur Binion was the first African American to graduate from Cranbrook University with an MFA, after which he would move to New York City and eventually to Chicago, where he has lived and worked for the last thirty years. His experience as a child picking cotton in rural Mississippi was also an influence on Binion's practice of labor-intenstive mark making, grinding wax crayon into canvas, panel, and aluminum creating hard-earned layers over time. A large part of this exhibition focuses on his large tarp-like works on unstretched canvas that simulate aerial views of rural landscapes, abstracted and made of repetitive and diligent mark making.

McArthur Binion (b. 1946) lives and works in Chicago. McArthur Binion is in numerous private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Detroit Institute of Art.



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New Work Miami 2013
MIAMI  •  Miami Art Museum  •  21 November 2012 - 2 June 2013
 
 

Miami Art Museum presents recent and newly commissioned work by approximately a dozen Miami-based artists in New Work Miami 2013.

New Work Miami 2013 Artists:
Gideon Barnett (b. 1982 Jasper, Tennessee)
Bhakti Baxter (b. 1979, Miami)
Loriel Beltran (b. 1985, Caracas)
Consuelo Castañeda (b. 1958, Havana)
Moira Holohan (b. 1976, New York)
Sinisa Kukec (b.1970, Zagreb)
Emmett Moore (b. 1988, Miami)
George Sanchez-Calderon (b. 1967, New York)
Tom Scicluna (b. 1974, London)
Odalis Valdivieso (b. 1969, Caracas)



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NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
NEW YORK  •  New Museum of Contemporary Art  •  13 February - 26 May 2013
 
 

Centering on the year 1993, the exhibition NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is conceived as a time capsule, an experiment in collective memory that attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics.

Conflict in Europe, attempts at peace in the Middle East, the AIDS crisis, national debates on health care, gun control, and gay rights, and caustic partisan politics served as both the background and source material for a number of younger artists who first came to prominence in 1993. At the same time, an increasingly active international network of artists, curators, and dealers contributed to a burgeoning global art world, amplified by the nascent tools of digital information.

NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star draws its subtitle from the eponymous album that the New York rock band Sonic Youth recorded in 1993 and captures the complex exchange between mainstream and underground culture across disciplines, which came to define the art of the era. The New Museum’s exhibition includes a number of historical reconstructions of important installations and exhibitions from 1993, while other works are revisited and reinterpreted from the vantage point of today.

The exhibition features over seventy-five artists including: Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Art Club 2000, Lutz Bacher, Alex Bag, Matthew Barney, Sadie Benning, Lina Bertucci, Nayland Blake, Gregg Bordowitz, Kathe Burkhart, Peter Cain, Larry Clark with Lisa Bowman, Martin Kippenberger, and Sally Webster, Patricia Cronin, John Currin, Jessica Diamond, Devon Dikeou, Cheryl Donegan, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Renée Green, Michael Joaquin Grey with Randolph Huff, Peter Halley, Ann Hamilton, David Hammons, Rachel Harrison, Todd Haynes, Derek Jarman, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Byron Kim, Jutta Koether, Alix Lambert, Sean Landers, Annie Leibovitz, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, Kerry James Marshall, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Paul McCarthy, Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett for Bureau, NY, Suzanne McClelland, John Miller, Frank Moore, Christian Philipp Müller, Cady Noland, Kristin Oppenheim, Gabriel Orozco, Pepón Osorio, Elizabeth Peyton, Jack Pierson, Steven Pippin, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Julia Scher, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Rudolf Stingel, Lily van der Stokker, The Thing, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nari Ward, Gillian Wearing, Jack Whitten, Hannah Wilke, Sue Williams, and Andrea Zittel.

The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with key historical texts from 1993 by Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Judith Butler, Laura Cottingham, Thelma Golden, and J. Hoberman. The catalogue also includes reflections by Massimiliano Gioni, Megan Heuer, Jenny Moore, Margot Norton, and Ethan Swan and Claire Lehmann.



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Pouran Jinchi
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Museum of Fine Arts Boston  •  20 February - 14 July 2013
 
 

"Blue and white" means, at its simplest, cobalt pigment applied to white clay. Over the course of a millennium, blue-and-white porcelain has become one of the most recognized types of ceramic production worldwide. With roots in the Islamic world and Asia, and strong presence in Europe and the Americas, various cultures adapted blue-and-white, from the Willow pattern to isznik. Taking inspiration from global blue-and-white traditions, today’s artists continue the story, creating works that speak to contemporary ideas. They tackle diverse issues, ranging from the public (the political landscape, cross-cultural interchange), to the personal (family, memory, the act of collecting), to the aesthetic (abstraction, pattern, the role of decoration).



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Richard Misrach: <EM>Cypress Swamp, Alligator Bayou, Prairieville, Louisiana</EM>Negative 1998, print 2012
Richard Misrach: Cypress Swamp, Alligator Bayou, Prairieville, Louisiana
Negative 1998, print 2012
Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA  •  Cantor Arts Center  •  27 March - 16 June 2013
 
 
The exhibition Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley highlights the severe environmental degradation of the Mississippi River corridor from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The show features 19 large-scale color photographs and 14 contact sheets.

Through this series, the American photographer Richard Misrach (born 1949, Los Angeles) presents a stark social commentary about the concentration of petrochemical complexes located along this 100-mile stretch of the Mississippi River. Misrach's portrayals of this once pristine riverine corridor, now known as Cancer Alley, document the far-reaching and ongoing devastation generated by more than 140 industrial plants: eroded ecological systems and the economic deprivation of local, and mostly poor African-American, communities. At the same time, the images engage the viewer with serene pastoral scenes, meandering watercourses and misty marshlands. But his images do more than hint at pollution and death: The petrochemical industry reveals itself as an omnipresent and brazen specter through the photographs’ rusted pipelines, mammoth tankers and tangles of steel, concrete and smokestacks belching noxious fumes and toxins into the air and water.

Throughout Cancer Alley, homes, schools, and playgrounds are situated yards from behemoth industrial complexes. Residents within a one-mile radius of factories are subjected to significant air and water pollution as well as noxious odors and industrial noise. Many communities along the River Road live in abject poverty. The quality of life in Louisiana has been rated one of the lowest in the nation. In contrast, extremely favorable taxation policies have helped draw industry to the region. One-quarter of the nation’s petrochemicals are manufactured here.

— Richard Misrach

This series of photographs was originally commissioned in 1998 by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of the High Museum’s Picturing the South series. This exhibition marks the culmination and publication of this body of work in 2012, more than a decade after the project was initiated.

The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication from Aperture Foundation entitled Petrochemical America, which features Richard Misrach’s photographs of Cancer Alley, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff’s Ecological Atlas —a series of drawings developed through research and mapped data from the region. Their joint effort offers creative scenarios of how the area could be repurposed and its social and environmental health restored.



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Sergio Vega: Series <EM>Parrot Color Charts</EM>
Sergio Vega: Series Parrot Color Charts
Sergio Vega
MIAMI, FLORIDA  •  KaBe Contemporary  •  6 April - 1 June 2013
 
 

The works of Sergio Vega are best understood in the context of what Paulo Herkenhoff defines as "the inexistent plausible." This term indicates that the very nature of the work is to be entirely hypothetical, yet persuasive in its plausibility. In the case of Sergio Vega's work, his hypotheses furnish a plausible reality: that of "Latin American Art."

The series Parrot color charts involves photographs of parrots cropped and presented as sources of colors. Cloned from individual pixels in the photographs these colors are reproduced in the adjacent geometric planes that make up the grid composition. This tautological relationship between referent (photo) and signifier (color) could be equivalent to exhibiting a painting and along with it, the paint tubes, the palette and the brushes used to mix the colors that went into the making of the painting. In addition, the visual harmony created by the color scheme and the contiguity of photographic image along with non­representational abstract form point to a paradoxical impossibility of translation. The artist sustains that: "Based on Roland Barthes' assertion that photography is a message without a code, the unavoidable result of abstraction would be to produce a code without a message."



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Speedy Graphito: <EM>Start Over</EM>, mixed media on wood, 51 x 44 in.
Speedy Graphito: Start Over, mixed media on wood, 51 x 44 in.
Speedy Graphito: Newworlds
LOS ANGELES  •  Fabien Castanier Gallery  •  11 May - 8 June 2013
 
 

French street artist Oliver Rizzo, aka Speedy Graphito (born 1961) began painting on the streets of Paris in the early 1980s at a time when the scene there was just beginning, and since then has gone on to influence many of the younger artists who have followed. His inspiration can be found in many diverse areas of modern culture, including Manga cartoons, video games and 1950s America, the resulting images a vibrant clash of Pop and Street visuals. Graphito has been working extensively in Los Angeles in recent years, and in 2011 he took part in the city's Dogtown Artists United Art Crawl. 
 
At the Fabien Castanier Gallery in Los Angeles, Speedy presents all new work that explores the mutation and perception of the image through a variety of different mediums, from sculptures and paintings to installations.



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<P>From the series "Portraits" by Stephen Dupont, part of his Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography work. </P>

From the series "Portraits" by Stephen Dupont, part of his Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography work.

Stephen Dupont:: Papua New Guinea Portraits and Diaries
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS  •  Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology  •  2 May - 2 September 2013
 
 
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University presents a new exhibition by award-winning Australian photographer Stephen Dupont. As the Museum’s 2010 Robert Gardner Photography Fellow, Dupont returned to Papua New Guinea and explored the mountainous Highlands, the serpentine Sepik River and the dangerously gritty capital city, Port Moresby. His photographs and artist’s journals document tremendous social change caused by globalization, HIV-AIDS, migration, poverty, and new wealth. 

In his travels across Papua New Guinea—located north of Australia, on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea —Dupont set up temporary outdoor studios and made innovative portrait photographs.

“I use white and black bed sheets to create an outdoor studio that not only captures my sitter but also allows me to reveal the audience gathering and the environment around the sheet," says Dupont. "You feel as if you are on the streets of Mt. Hagen or in a Sepik village."

Dupont's portraits, landscapes, and diaries are a journey through Papua New Guinea's villages, cities, mines, valleys, and traditional tribal ceremonies.

Piksa Niugini: Portraits and Diaries, the accompanying book—two volumes in a special slipcase (Peabody Museum Press/Radius Books) — may be purchased at the event.

Stephen Dupont is a photographer, artist and documentary filmmaker. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Aperture,Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire,  Le Figaro, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, and Vanity Fair.

Dupont has held major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, China’s Ping Yao and Holland’s Noorderlicht festivals.

Dupont’s handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in the selected collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, The New York Public Library, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, and the Boston Athenaeum.



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Street
NEW YORK  •  Metropolitan Museum of Art  •  5 March - 27 May 2013
 
 
 

My intention was to give the dreamlike impression of floating through a city full of people frozen in time, caught Pompeii-like, at a particular moment of thought, expression, or activity…a film to be viewed 100 years from now.

—James Nares

Street, a new video by the British-born artist James Nares, forms the centerpiece of this exhibition. Over the course of a week in September 2011, Nares—a New Yorker since 1974—recorded sixteen hours of footage of people on the streets of Manhattan from a moving car using a high-definition camera usually used to record fast-moving subjects such as speeding bullets and hummingbirds. He then greatly slowed his source material, editing down the results to one hour of steady, continuous motion and scoring it with music for twelve-string guitar composed and performed by his friend Thurston Moore, co-founder of Sonic Youth.

Accompanying Street in its New York premiere are two galleries of objects from the Museum's permanent collection, chosen by Nares to provide different points of entry into aspects of his work. The artist's selection spans 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1987—from the first urban places to contemporary cities—though not every object has a one-to-one correspondence with the video. A few, for example, are meant to evoke the dynamism and abstract energy of the metropolis or to show early attempts at capturing motion in photography and film.



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Anthony Gormley: Untitled&nbsp;Sculpture&nbsp;inspired by Gormley’s 2002 visit to Pompeii.
Anthony Gormley: Untitled 
Sculpture inspired by Gormley's 2002 visit to Pompeii.
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection
CLEVELAND, OHIO  •  Cleveland Museum of Art  •  24 February - 7 July 2013
 
 

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s, centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous, this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers.

Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the title of the exhibition, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection, is inspired by Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii, an incredibly popular 1834 novel that combined a Victorian love story with sensational subplots of pagan decadence, Christianity and volcanic eruption. The book was presented as archaeologically accurate and helped transform Pompeii into a place to stage fiction.

Mixing chronology and media, the exhibition featuring nearly 100 works breaks down according to three broad themes. Decadence looks at why we consider Pompeii as a place of luxury, sex, violence and excess. Apocalypse explores Pompeii as the archetype of disaster—the cataclysm to which all others are compared—from the American Civil War and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 9/11. And Resurrection considers how Pompeii has become a place to re-create and recast the ancient past.



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Tel: (1) 216 421 73 50

The Naked Museum: Celebrating 50 Years of Architectural Beauty
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA  •  Sheldon Museum of Art  •  1 May - 30 June 2013
 
 
To focus on Sheldon's Philip Johnson–designed building during the commemoration of its 50th anniversary, all artwork has been removed from the galleries and Great Hall.

The Sheldon's permanent collection has more than 12,000 objects and includes works by such artists as Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.


Sheldon Museum of Art: Website


Contact: Sheldon Museum of Art
12th Street
Lincoln, NE 68508

Tel: (1) 402 472 24 61

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK  •  Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Vassar College  •  12 April - 30 June 2013
 
 
This survey exhibition brings together ground breaking Polaroid pictures by forty artists spanning the period from the initial release of the SX-70 camera in 1972 until the present. The exhibition centers on experimentation and examines how the invention of instant photography—in particular Polaroid, a brand known for its innovation and responsiveness to artistic endeavors—has influenced and inspired amateurs and professionals for nearly forty years.

Artists represented include such pioneers of instant photography as Ansel Adams, Ellen Carey, Chuck Close, Walker Evans, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joyce Neimanas, Andy Warhol, and William Wegman as well as a new generation of artists including Anne Collier, Bryan Graf, Catherine Opie, Lisa Oppenheim, Dash Snow, Mungo Thomson, and Grant Worth.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Vassar College Website


Contact: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center - Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

Tel: (1) 845 437 52 37

The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art
NEW YORK  •  Acquavella Galleries  •  10 April - 24 May 2013
 
 
Curated by renowned art historian John Wilmerding, the Pop art survey will include over 75 important works by Robert Arneson, Vija Celmins, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Edward Kienholz, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Marjorie Strider, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, John Wesley, Tom Wesselmann, and H.C. Westermann.

The central focus of the exhibition is the development of Pop art in the United States and still life’s role in the context of Pop. Two major innovative ideas are explored in the exhibition: the expansion of still life beyond painting into multidimensional sculptural forms, and the presentation of a variety of new media as modes of expression. To achieve
this, Wilmerding has organized the exhibition into four major themes: food and drink, the garden, body parts, and clothing and housewares. For example, Tom Wesselmann’s laser-cut steel drawings of flower bouquets are presented alongside Roy Lichtenstein’s graphic black flowers in oil on canvas. The juxtaposition reveals the various pioneering styles and techniques each artist employed while paying homage to earlier traditions of painting.



Acquavella Galleries website


Contact: Acquavella Galleries
18 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075

Tel: (1) 212 734 63 00

Events in Classical Music

Bates: Liquid Interface: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
CHICAGO  •  Symphony Center  •  30 May - 4 June 2013
 

Bates: Liquid Interface
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates created Liquid Interface in 2006, inspired by the various states of water, from frozen to evaporated. The work was composed after the time Mason Bates spent living on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee. Liquid Interface explores water in various climates. Movement by movement, Bates’ music explores increasingly warmer regions, one of which is New Orleans, dubbed the Crescent City because of its geographical location along a bend in the Mississippi River.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
David Fray, piano



Chicago Symphony Orchestra Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Symphony Center
220 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604

Tel: (1) 312 294 30 00

Marc-André Hamelin, piano
CHICAGO  •  Symphony Center  •  19 May 2013
 
Berg: Sonata, Op. 1
Fauré: Impromptu No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 31
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 42
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Hamelin: Variations on a theme by Paganini

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Symphony Center Website



Detailed schedule information:
3:00 pm

Contact: Symphony Center
220 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60604

Tel: (1) 312 294 30 00

Orchestra of St. Luke's : Steven Isserlis, cello
NEW YORK  •  Carnegie Hall  •  1 June 2013
 
Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Haydn: Cello Concerto in D Major, Hob. Vllb: 2
Mozart: Ballet music from Idomeneo
Haydn: Symphony No. 99

Orchestra of St. Luke's
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello

Carnegie Hall Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 247 78 00

Simone Dinnerstein, piano
NEW YORK  •  Le Poisson Rouge  •  9 June 2013
 
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Le Poisson Rouge Website



Detailed schedule information:
6:30 pm

Contact: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 505 34 74

The MET Orchestra: Evgeny Kissin, piano
NEW YORK  •  Carnegie Hall  •  19 May 2013
 
Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major
Schubert: Symphony No. 9, "Great"

The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Evgeny Kissin, piano


Carnegie Hall Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Carnegie Hall
57th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 247 78 00

Los Angeles Philharmonic: Juanjo Mena, conductor
LOS ANGELES  •  Walt Disney Concert Hall  •  30 May - 2 June 2013
 
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 6, 5

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor



Los Angeles Philharmonic Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30pm

Contact:

Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012



Tel: (1) 323 850 20 00

Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott, piano
NEW YORK  •  Mozart, Schubert, and Mussorgsky  •  4 June 2013
 
 
Mozart, Schubert, and Mussorgsky

Alice Sara Ott, piano

Le Poisson Rouge Website



Detailed schedule information:
6:30 pm

Contact: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 505 34 74

Conrad Tao, piano
NEW YORK  •  Le Poisson Rouge  •  21 May 2013
 
 
Music by Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Meredith Monk, and Conrad Tao

Conrad Tao, piano


Le Poisson Rouge Website



Detailed schedule information:
6:30 pm

Contact: Le  Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 505 34 74

Either/Or
NEW YORK  •  The Kitchen  •  30 - 31 May 2013
 
 

The experimental music ensemble Either/Or presents its 8th annual Spring Festival of contemporary chamber music at The Kitchen. Ranging from 'post-rock reverie' to Western swing and drawing on E/O's unique instrumentation including cimbalom, komungo, and cracked analog organs, the 2013 Festival maps a broad cross-section of the ensemble's aesthetic interests - exploring the intersection of American experimentalism and the European avant-garde.

In its 2013 Festival, E/O brings its unique focus to world premiere works from New York composers Anthony Coleman, Jin Hi Kim, Miya Masaoka, and John Zorn. Also represented are recent projects from Richard Carrick, Erik Griswold, Thomas Meadowcroft, Ian Power, François Rose, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.



The Kitchen Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

Tel: (1) 212 255 57 93

Evolution: Mavericks of the Americas
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA  •  The Abbey  •  6 June 2013
 
 

Manuel Ponce: Sonata 
Silvestre Revuelta:Tres Piezas para violín y piano
Keith Jarrett: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Dances of J.S. Bach, Dances of Aztecs and Mayans
Works for Jarocha Harp

Jazz and Blues from Mexico and selections from Magos Herrera's new album "Mexico Azul"

Artists:

Magos Herrera, vocalist
Cuauhtemoc Rivera, violin
Horacio Franco, recorder 
Celso Duarte, harp
Stephen Prutsman, piano



Mainly Mozart Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact:

The Abbey
2825 Fifth Avenue
Downtown San Diego, CA


Tel: (1) 619 466 47 82

Venetian Vespers : Bach Collegium San Diego
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA  •  St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church , San Diego History Center  •  17 - 18 May 2013
 
 

Venetian Vespers 

First Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin (ca. 1640s)

Bach Collegium San Diego
Ruben Valenzuela, music director

Vespers at St Mark's Basilica during the seventeenth century was magnificently elaborate, becoming something of a Concert Spirituel. By tradition, Venice was founded on this great Marian feast day when the Doge attended vespers, the Pala d' Oro was on full display, and the vastness and richness of the cappella were required to perform music of the highest standard.

Rigatti: Dixit Dominus á 8
Grandi: O intermerata
Monteverdi: Laudate pueri
Monteverdi: Laetatus sum á 6
Usper: Sonata á 8
Rigatti: Nisi Dominus
Cavalli: Lauda Jerusalem
Rigatti: Magnificat á 7



Bach Collegium San Diego Website



Detailed schedule information:

Friday, 17 May 2013 - 7:30 pm
St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
San Diego, California 

Saturday, 18 May 2013 - 7:30 pm
San Diego History Center, Balboa Park
San Diego, California 

Contact: e-mail: info@bachcollegiumsd.org
Tel: Ruben Valenzuela

Yarn/Wire + Peter Evans + Tyondai Braxton
NEW YORK  •  ISSUE Project Room:  •  23 May 2013
 
 

Yarn/Wire performs new pieces for percussion and piano quartet by two New York musicians, composer/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton and trumpeter/composer Peter Evans. The evening features two world premieres for the quartet, a solo performance of Peter Evan's signature trumpet improvisations, and a duo set from Tyondai Braxton + LAAND, a visual & sound manipulation project by Grace Villamil.

 



ISSUE Project Room Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: ISSUE Project Room
22 Boerum Place
Brooklyn 11201

Tel: (1) 718- 30 03 13

Events in Dance

DanceAfrica 2013
DanceAfrica 2013
DanceAfrica 2013
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  BAM  •  17 - 27 May 2013
 

For three decades BAM’s DanceAfrica festival has been a Memorial Day Weekend tradition in Brooklyn. A lively and diverse blend of African and African-American dance, music, film, and art devoted to preserving traditions and educating new generations, DanceAfrica’s spirit is personified by Founding Elder and Artistic Director Baba Chuck Davis.

For the Memorial Day weekend performance, DanceAfrica 2013 welcomes Umkhathi Theatre Works from Zimbabwe, Giwayen Mata from Atlanta, and Harambee Dance Company from New York, plus Brooklyn’s own BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble.

Rhythms of Africa / Giya Africa / Mandingindira e Africa
Artistic Director Chuck Davis

Umkhathi Theatre Works (Zimbabwe)
Giwayen Mata (Atlanta, Georgia)
Harambee Dance Company (Bronx, New York)
BAM/Restoration DanceAfrica Ensemble



BAM Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact: Peter Jay Sharp Building
Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY


Tel: (1) 718 636 41 00

Rioult Dance NY
NEW YORK  •  The Joyce Theater  •  4 - 9 June 2013
 
Pascal Rioult and his troupe offer a world premiere set to live music by Michael Torke. This American modern dance company continues to captivate audiences with Pascal Rioult's compelling choreography and his dancers' extraordinary technique. Also on the program, Prelude to Night, a surreal journey through time and space; the shimmering On Distant Shores; and Rioult's signature work, Bolero.

The Joyce Theater Website



Detailed schedule information:
Mon-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm

Contact: The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 242 08 00

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
NEW YORK  •  The Joyce Theater  •  14 - 26 May 2013
 
 
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

The company's Joyce season consistx of two programmes and features works by important choreographers on the international scene: Mats Ek, Ohad Naharin, and Aszure Barton.

The Joyce Theater Website



Detailed schedule information:
Mon-Wed 7:30pm; Thu-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm & 8pm

Contact: The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 242 08 00

Events in Jazz

Kenny Garrett Band
NEW YORK  •  Iridium Jazz Club  •  16 - 19 May 2013
 
Kenny Garrett Band

Garrett, like all of the other great musicians and artists that came before him, just keeps moving forward in still another of his many creative directions. The latest of those ideas became Sketches of MD, a capricious excursion into open-ended melodies over grooves that reflect the artistry of key sidemen from Miles Davis' many groups – from John Coltrane to Kenny himself. Consisting of five compositions (and clocking in at just under an hour), Sketches of MD is a relaxed yet live record of some music Kenny performed at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City with his band (Benito Gonzales on piano, Nat Reeves on bass, and Jamire Williams on drums) and special guest, tenor saxophone legend Pharoah Sanders.




Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm, 10:00 pm

Contact: Iridium Jazz Club (51 street)  
1650 Broadway
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 582 21 21

Regina Carter
Regina Carter
Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival
WASHINGTON, DC  •  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  •  16 - 18 May 2013
 

The Kennedy Center continues to bring female jazz artists into the spotlight with the 18th Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. This annual three-night event, hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater features an impressive line-up of veteran and up-and-coming jazz artists, the roster for 2013 includes on Thursday, May 16--Tineke Postma Quartet, Amina Claudine Myers Trio, and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton; on Friday, May 17--Regina Carter, the Helen Sung Quintet, and the vocal trio Tillery featuring Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, and Rebecca Martin; and on Saturday, May 18--Nicole Mitchell, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and Cindy Blackman-Santana.

In addition to the ticketed events featuring headliners and their respective ensembles in the Terrace Theater, the Center also presents free performances on the Millennium Stage and Explore the Arts educational events.

 



The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566

Tel: (1) 202 467 46 00

Lee Ritenour
NEW YORK  •  Iridium Jazz Club  •  3 June 2013
 

Lee Ritenour with The Les Paul Trio - In celebration of Les Paul's 98th birthday

In the 90s, Ritenour was a founding member of Fourplay, the most successful band in contemporary jazz, with keyboardist Bob James, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. The first Fourplay album in 1991 spent an unprecedented 33 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart. Adding to this legacy is his latest CD Smoke ‘n’ Mirrors; the recently completed Grammy nominated recording Amparo, (a followup with Dave Grusin to their highly successful 2001 Grammy Award nominated contemporary classical crossover CD) and producer of Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band’s latest CD Act Your Age (which is nominated for 3 Grammys.



Iridium Jazz Club Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 & 10:00 pm

Contact: Iridium Jazz Club (51 street)  
1650 Broadway
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 582 21 21

Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos
NEW YORK  •  Le Poisson Rouge  •  10 June 2013
 
Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos with  Edmar Castaneda


Le Poisson Rouge Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 505 34 74

Evolution: Mexico's Next Wave of Classics and Jazz
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA  •  The Abbey  •  6 June 2013
 
 

Manuel Ponce: Sonata 
Silvestre Revuelta:Tres Piezas para violín y piano
Keith Jarrett: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Dances of J.S. Bach, Dances of Aztecs and Mayans
Works for Jarocha Harp

Jazz and Blues from Mexico and selections from Magos Herrera's new album "Mexico Azul"

Artists:

Magos Herrera, vocalist
Cuauhtemoc Rivera, violin
Horacio Franco, recorder 
Celso Duarte, harp
Stephen Prutsman, piano



Mainly Mozart Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact:

The Abbey
2825 Fifth Avenue
Downtown San Diego, CA


Tel: (1) 619 466 47 82

Miles Davis Festival
NEW YORK  •  Iridium Jazz Club (51 street)  •  23 - 25 May 2013
 
 
Electric Miles featuring: Randy Brecker, Jeremy Pelt, Paul Bollenback, Lonnie Plaxico and Steve Smith


Iridium Jazz Club Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm,  10:00 pm

Contact: Iridium Jazz Club (51 street)  
1650 Broadway
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 582 21 21

Sandra Booker
LOS ANGELES  •  Los Angeles County Museum of Art  •  31 May 2013
 
 
Sandra Booker is regarded as one of the emerging and important voices in modern jazz vocal music, and was selected as finalist last autumn in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Website


Contact: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tel: (1) 323 857 60 00

Events in Opera

<EM>The Giacomo Variations</EM>
The Giacomo Variations
The Giacomo Variations
NEW YORK  •  New York City Center  •  30 May - 2 June 2013
 
 

The Giacomo Variations is a chamber opera play written by Michael Sturminger. The music concept is by Martin Haselböck and based on opera scenes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. This is a story about the late Giacomo Casanova (John Malkovich), who, in the face of his approaching death, is still trying to find out, what he was living for, if not only to be coveted and desired by the woman he loves.

John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons, Burn After Reading, The Infernal Comedy) portrays the master scoundrel and seducer  in The Giacomo Variations, making its New York debut following the world premiere in Vienna.

Under the direction of Austrian Michael Sturminger, Malkovich and co-star Ingeborga Dapkünaité perform scenes from Casanova’s 1790 memoir, Histoire de ma vie. As Casanova reminisces about one of his close friends, Mozart’s librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, we hear excerpts from some of Mozart’s best-known operas – Cosí fan tutte, Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro – performed live by the Wiener Academy Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Martin Haselböck.



New York City Center Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: New York City Center
West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 581 121 12

Conrad Cummings Photo credit: Sandro Lamberti
Conrad Cummings
Photo credit: Sandro Lamberti
The Golden Gate: By Conrad Cummings
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA  •  Bing Concert Hall Studio  •  30 May 2013
 
 
Conrad Cummings: The Golden Gate
An Opera in Two Acts
Music by Conrad Cummings
Libretto from the novel in verse by Vikram Seth, adapted by the composer

How does an acclaimed novel-in-verse become a new opera in progress? Best-selling Indian author Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate was written while he was a student at Stanford and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing. Current Stegner Fellows and Stanford students read excerpts from The Golden Gate intercut with parallel scenes from the new opera by Conrad Cummings in high-quality video from the opera's Lincoln Center staged workshop. Cummings weaves together spoken and sung words with a candid commentary on decisions, trade-offs, faithfulness, and freedom in transforming Seth's verse into sung drama. Vikram Seth provides a video welcome. Sponsored by the Stanford English Department, the American Studies and Creative Writing Programs, and Arts Institute.

Bing Concert Hall Website


Conrad Cummings Website


Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Free, tickets required

Contact: Bing Concert Hall Studio
327 Lasuen Street
Stanford, CA 94025
Tel: (1) 650 725 27 87

The Marriage of Figaro: By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LOS ANGELES  •  Walt Disney Concert Hall  •  17 - 25 May 2013
 
 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte based on the French comedy by Beaumarchais

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Jean Nouvel, installations
Azzedine Alaïa, costume designer
Christopher Alden, director
Aaron Black, lighting designer

Cast:

Christopher Maltman, Count Almaviva
Dorothea Röschmann, Countess Almaviva
Malin Christensson, Susanna
Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Figaro
Rachel Frenkel, Cherubino
Ann Murray, Marcellina
John Del Carlo, Bartolo
William Ferguson, Don Basilio
John Irvin, Don Curzio
Simone Osborne, Barbarina
Brandon Cedel, Antonio

Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director



Walt Disney Concert Hall Website



Detailed schedule information:

7:30 pm

Contact:

Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012



Tel: (1) 323 850 20 00

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE  •  Bonnaroo Manchester Farm  •  13 - 16 June 2013
 
Headliners for the 2013 edition of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival include Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Bjork, Of Monsters and Men, Wilco, Pretty Lights, R. Kelly, Wu-Tang Clan,  Matrimony, Passion Pit, The xx and Grizzly Bear, rap and hip hop from Kendrick Lamar, Alt-J, winner of the 2012 Mercury Prize, Foals, Django Django, Charli XCX, Death Grips, A$AP Rocky, Araabmuzik, A-Trak, Haim, Milo Greene, Matthew E. White, The National, The Lumineers, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, ZZ Top, Billy Idol, John Oates, Weird Al Yankovic and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band among many others.

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Web site


Contact: Bonnaroo Manchester Farm
Manchester, Tennessee
e-mail: info@bonnaroo.com

CMA Music Festival 2013: The four-day music festival centered around country music
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE  •  LP Field  •  6 - 9 June 2013
 
The four-day music festival centered around American country music includes country music lineup staples such as Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, the Band Perry, Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood, Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Miranda Lambert, Jake Owen among others. 

CMA Music Festival 2013 Website


Contact:

LP Field
Nashville, Tennessee



Jailed in Birmingham
Jailed in Birmingham
Jailed in Birmingham
WASHINGTON, DC  •  Newseum  •  1 February - 31 December 2013
 
To celebrate the beginning of Black History Month, Washington DC's Newseum opens Jailed in Birmingham, a new exhibit featuring a casting of the original jail cell door behind which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was confined after his April 1963 arrest for leading nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Ala. It was in this cell that the civil rights leader penned his historic letter defending civil disobedience. The Letter From Birmingham Jail, written in response to a statement by a group of eight white Alabama clergymen, includes the now-famous quote, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

The door on display is a bronze casting made from the original door to King's cell in the Birmingham city jail. The exhibit also features one of the first publications of the letter, a 1963 pamphlet published by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group. The exhibit is on display in the Newseum's News Corporation News History Gallery.

On Saturday, 2 February 2013 at 2:30 p.m., Chris Jenkins, editor of The RootDC, and award-winning video journalist Garrett Hubbard will discuss King's legacy during a special Inside Media program. The two collaborated on a Washington Post video series, BrotherSpeak, which explores the experiences of black men in America. Inside Media programs are free with paid admission to the Newseum, and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

This year will mark a number of milestone anniversaries of key events in U.S. history, and the Newseum will debut new exhibits to highlight them. From 1 - 14 March 2013, a special, free exhibit will illustrate the landmark 1913 women's suffrage parade on Pennsylvania Avenue through newspaper front pages and photos of the historic event. Marching for Women's Rights will be on view to the public in front of the Newseum in the museum's Today's Front Pages cases.

Later this year, the Newseum will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with two new exhibits and an original documentary chronicling the presidency, family life and death of America's 35th president. The Newseum will host public programs and special events about the Kennedys throughout 2013 to enhance the visitor experience. The JFK exhibits and film will be on display 12 Apri 2013, through 5 January 2014.

Newseum Website


Contact:

Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20001


Tel: (1) 888 639 73 86

Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Bonamassa
NEW YORK  •  The Beacon Theatre  •  16 - 18 May 2013
 
Award-winning blues rock star, guitar hero and singer-songwriter Joe Bonamassa and his ace touring band perform in concert .

The Beacon Theatre Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact:

The Beacon Theatre
Broadway and 72nd Street
New York, NY


Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

Juanes
Juanes
Juanes
HOUSTON, TEXAS  •  Bayou Music Center  •  8 June 2013
 

Born in Medellin, Colombia, on August 9, 1972, Juanes  has perfected his distinctive fusion of rock with traditional Colombian rhythms (such as Vallenato, Cumbia and Mapale), as well as other international styles including Flamenco, Troba, Bolero and Tango.

Both as guitarist and socially conscious songwriter, Juanes is now often mentioned alongside artists such as Bono and Bruce Springsteen for his belief in the possibility of social change through music. Juanes’ musical message of peace confronts the violence of his native Colombia’s continued struggle notably the dangers of landmines in both Colombia and across the world. And while conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan grab headlines, Colombia's war kills 3,500 people ---- mostly civilians ---- every year. Another 3,000 Colombians are kidnapped each year. And the conflict is seemingly endless: two Marxist rebel groups, funded by drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping, have been battling a succession of elected governments for 40 years




Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Bayou Music Center
520 Texas Avenue
Houston,  Texas 77002

Juanes
Juanes
Juanes
LOS ANGELES  •  Nokia Theatre L.A. Live  •  25 May 2013
 

Born in Medellin, Colombia, on August 9, 1972, Juanes  has perfected his distinctive fusion of rock with traditional Colombian rhythms (such as Vallenato, Cumbia and Mapale), as well as other international styles including Flamenco, Troba, Bolero and Tango.

Both as guitarist and socially conscious songwriter, Juanes is now often mentioned alongside artists such as Bono and Bruce Springsteen for his belief in the possibility of social change through music. Juanes’ musical message of peace confronts the violence of his native Colombia’s continued struggle notably the dangers of landmines in both Colombia and across the world. And while conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan grab headlines, Colombia's war kills 3,500 people ---- mostly civilians ---- every year. Another 3,000 Colombians are kidnapped each year. And the conflict is seemingly endless: two Marxist rebel groups, funded by drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping, have been battling a succession of elected governments for 40 years.





Nokia Theatre L.A. Live Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Nokia Theatre L.A. Live
777 Chick Hearn Court
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Tel: (1) 213 763 60 30

Outside the Lines: The Link Between American Football and Brain Damage
NEW YORK  •  PBS and ESPN Television Stations  •  16 November 2012 - 16 November 2013
 

Today nearly 4,000 former players are suing the National Football League (NFL) over the link between American football and long-term brain damage. A joint investigation between ESPN's Outside the Lines and PBS FRONTLINE reveals that years before the NFL publicly acknowledged a connection between football and long-term mental disease, the NFL’s disability board was quietly paying more than a million dollars in benefits to several players with brain-related illnesses.

Based on reporting by ESPN reporters Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada, the year-long effort will examine the latest research on brain injuries and football, the impact on players, and the NFL’s effort to deal with a crisis that threatens the long-term health and popularity of the sport.

The collaboration kicks off Friday, 16 November 2012 with a segment on ESPN’s Outside the Lines (3 p.m. ET, check local listings) focusing on late Hall of Famer, Mike Webster. The former Pittsburgh Steelers center was the first NFL player officially diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy – or “football brain disease.”

The collaboration includes online companion stories published on November 16 at 9 a.m. ET on ESPN.com and PBS.org/FRONTLINE. A podcast with the brother reporting team can be found at http://www.espnfrontrow.com.

Concussion Watch, an extensive website tracking each concussion officially identified by the NFL this season will launch later this month on PBS.org/FRONTLINE. ESPN and FRONTLINE will also invite fans online to help report questionable hits and possible concussions.



PBS Website


ESPN Frontrow Website


Detailed schedule information:
PBS and ESPN Television Stations: check local listings across the United States

Contact:

Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY  •  The Frazier History Museum‎  •  2 February - 16 June 2013
 

Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade displays nearly 150 historical objects covering more than 350 years. 

The 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition is in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the turning point it represented for thousands of enslaved people at a pivotal point in the American Civil War. It’s the first exhibition of its kind to examine the entire history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from the 16th through 19th centuries, while also presenting the most up-to-date research and discoveries to the public. These include the latest marine archaeological discoveries, new research on key African societies and an exploration of the slave trade’s modern day legacies.

Visitors can view authentic artifacts from the wreck of an actual slave ship, such as restraints, tools, plates and trade goods, as well as dozens of other objects from West African societies that show the uniqueness of the individual cultures they represent. These include religious objects, bronze- and beadwork, pottery and jewelry. These compelling artifacts, along with maps, paintings and illustrations, create a provocative picture of this tragic era, while also engendering a sense of pride in the legacy of strength these enslaved people left behind.



The Frazier History Museum‎ Website


Contact: The Frazier History Museum‎
829 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202


Tel: (1) 502 753 56 63

Edward Steichen: Actor Gary Cooper, 1930Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York© Condé Nast Publications
Edward Steichen: Actor Gary Cooper, 1930
Courtesy Condé Nast Archive, New York
© Condé Nast Publications
Star Power: Edward Steichen’s Glamour Photography
WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA  •  Reynolda House Museum of American Art  •  23 February - 19 May 2013
 

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was already a famed Pictorialist photographer and painter in the United States and abroad when he was offered the position of chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair by Condé Nast. Upon assuming the job, the forty-four year old artist began one of the most lucrative and controversial careers in photography. To Alfred Stieglitz and his followers, Steichen was seen as damaging the cause of photography as a fine art by agreeing to do commercial editorial work. He revolutionized the field, banishing the gauzy light of the Pictorialist era and replacing it with the clean, crisp lines of Modernism. In the process he changed the presentation of the fashionable woman from that of a distant, romantic creature to that of a much more direct, appealing, independent figure. At the same time he created lasting portraits of hundreds of leading personalities in movies, theatre, literature, politics, music, and sports, including Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Colette, Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Jack Dempsey, Noel Coward, Greta Garbo, Dorothy Parker, Martha Graham, Walt Disney, Fred Astaire and Cecil B. De Mille.

Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Star Power brings together Steichen's Condé Nast portraits of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature, government, journalism, dance, theatre, music, fashion, and the opera.



Reynolda House Museum of American Art Website


Contact: Reynolda House Museum of American Art
2250 Reynolda Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
Tel: (1) 336 758 51 50

Kanye West
Kanye West
The Governors Ball Music Festival
NEW YORK  •  Randall's Island  •  7 - 9 June 2013
 

The 2013 edition of the Governors Ball Music Festival on Randall's Island in the East River features Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Guns N' Roses, Bloc Party, Feist, Nas, Thievery Corporation, Crystal Castles among others.

 



Contact: Randall's Island
New York City


<P>John Turturro as Halvard Solnessin Ibsen’s <EM>The Master Builder</EM></P> • <P>&nbsp;</P>

John Turturro as Halvard Solness
in Ibsen's The Master Builder

 

The Master Builder : By Henrik Ibsen
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  BAM  •  12 May - 9 June 2013
 

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Builder
Translated by David Edgar
Directed by Andrei Belgrader
Produced by BAM

Ruthless and revered architect Halvard Solness (John Turturro) is obsessively driven—until a young woman from his past stops him in his tracks. Hilde (Wrenn Schmidt, Boardwalk Empire), a force of unbridled sexual energy coupled with childlike willfulness, enters the master builder’s home and head, trailing mysterious talk of past promises. As she urges the megalomaniacal Solness to ever greater and less sustainable heights, his tragedy-haunted wife Aline (Katherine Borowitz) watches from the sidelines, an unwilling participant in an off-kilter love triangle.


Cast:

Katherine Borowitz (Aline Solness)
Ken Cheeseman (Dr. Herdal)
Julian Gamble (Knut Brovik)
Kelly Hutchinson (Kaja Fosli)
Max Gordon Moore (Ragnar Brovik)
Wrenn Schmidt (Hilde Wangel)
John Turturro (Halvard Solness)

Costume design by Marco Piemontese
Lighting design by James F. Ingalls
Sound design by Ryan Rumery



BAM Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm

Contact:

BAM Harvey Theater
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

 


Tel: (1) 718 636 41 00

The Rolling Stones
CHICAGO  •  United Center  •  28 May - 3 June 2013
 
The Rolling Stones

United Center Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: United Center
1901 W. Madison Street
Chicago, Illinois 60612

Tel: (1) 312 455 46 50

The Rolling Stones
LOS ANGELES  •  Staples Center  •  20 May 2013
 
The Rolling Stones

Staples Center Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm

Contact:

Staples Center
1111 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, 90015



Tel: (1) 213 742 73 40

The Trip to Bountiful : By Horton Foote
NEW YORK  •  Stephen Sondheim Theatre  •  23 April - 1 September 2013
 

Horton Foote: The Trip to Bountiful

Directed by Michael Wilson

The Trip to Bountiful tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who dreams of returning to her small hometown of Bountiful, Texas one last time, against the wishes of her overprotective son and domineering daughter-in-law.

Cast

Carrie Watts: Cicely Tyson
Ludie Watts: Cuba Gooding Jr.
Thelma: Condola Rashad
Jessie Mae Watts: Vanessa Williams
Sheriff: Tom Wopat
Written by  
Horton Foote
 
Set Designer: Jeff Cowie
Costume Designer: Vsn Broughton Ramsey
Lighting Designer: Rui Rita
Sound Designer: John Gromada



Stephen Sondheim Theatre Website



Detailed schedule information:
Sunday: 3:00pm
Monday: N/A
Tuesday: 7:00pm
Wednesday: 2:00pm, 7:00pm
Thursday: 7:00pm
Friday: 8:00pm
Saturday: 2:00pm, 8:00pm

Contact: Stephen Sondheim Theatre
124 West 43rd Street
New York, NY

Tel: (1) (212 719 13 00

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
LOS ANGELES  •  The Fonda Theatre  •  3 - 11 June 2013
 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

During the past thirty-seven years Tom and The Heartbreakers have headlined some of worlds largest and most prestigious events including the legendary Isle of Wight Festival in the UK last year and the Super Bowl XLII Halftime show in 2008. This year the band will return to The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN for their second headlining appearance and will also headline Alabama’s Hangout Music Festival and Delaware’s Firefly Music Festival.

 



The Fonda Theatre Website



Detailed schedule information:
9:00 pm

Contact: The Fonda Theatre
6126 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Tel: (1) 323 464 08 08

Theatre: Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz
NEW YORK  •  Gershwin Theatre  •  30 October 2003 - 31 May 2013
 
Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch is the basis for this new musical based on a novel by Gregory Maguire.

Wicked the Musical Web Site


Contact: Gershwin Theatre
222 West 51 Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 307 41 00

AIDS in New York: The First Five Years
NEW-YORK  •  New-York Historical Society  •  7 June - 13 September 2013
 
 

AIDS in New York: The First Five Years chronicles the early history of the AIDS epidemic in New York City — from the first rumors in 1981 of a “gay plague” through the ensuing period of intense activism, clinical research, and political struggle. The exhibition uses artifacts including clinicians’ notes, journal entries, diaries, letters, audio and video clips, posters, photographs, pamphlets, and newspapers to revisit the impact of the epidemic on personal lives and public culture in New York City and the nation. 

A companion exhibition, Children With AIDS: 1990-2000, also opening on 7 June  features twenty black-and-white photographs by Claire Yaffa from her collection The Changing Face of Children with AIDS.



New York Historical Society Web Site


Contact:

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
(between 76th & 77th Streets)
New York, NY


Tel: (1) 212 873 34 00

Atomic Testing Museum
LAS VEGAS  •  ongoing
 
 

The Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas displays the work conducted at the Nevada Test Site and its impact on the Unitied States.

The 8,000 square foot permanent exhibit hall includes artifacts on loan from personal collections, the Smithsonian Institution, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and pieces of the Berlin wall and World Trade Centers. Designed to be a highly interactive experience, the exhibits include touch screens, motion-sensitive plasma TV presentations, audio interviews with former workers from the test site and various other multi-media components.

Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas

In addition to the permanent exhibits, the museum also has a 2,000 square foot changing exhibit hall, a museum store and a History Walk. Adjacent to the museum are the Nuclear Testing Archives, a collection of over 310,000 documents related to radioactive fallout from U.S. testing of nuclear devices.

Photo courtesy of Atomic Testing Museum



Atomic Testing Museum Web Site


Contact: Tel: (1) 702 794 51 51

Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group
LAS VEGAS  •  Monte Carlo Resort Hotel and Casino  •  10 October 2012 - 31 July 2013
 
 
The Blue Man Group is best known for its award-winning theatrical productions featuring three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville into a form of entertainment.



Monte Carlo Resort Hotel and Casino Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm, 10:00 pm

Contact: Monte Carlo Resort Hotel and Casino 
3770 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Tel: (1) 800.BLUEMAN

Booed at Cannes
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  •  BAM  •  8 - 23 May 2013
 
 

Another year, another scandal at the Cannes Film Festival. Contemporary filmmakers take heart—among the directors who have felt the wrath of the French festival’s fickle audiences are titans like Antonioni, Bresson, Truffaut, and Fellini. Many of their works, now heralded as masterpieces, were first met with incomprehension, disdain, and deafening jeers.

In this series, BAMcinématek gathers some of the most notorious films maudits, many of which are now revered as masterpieces. Two notable American examples are Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990).  



BAM Website


Contact: Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
651 Fulton Street
between Ashland Place and Rockwell Place
Brooklyn, New York

Tel: (1) 718 636 41 00

Tarell Alvin McCraney: <EM>Head of Passes</EM>
Tarell Alvin McCraney: Head of Passes
Head of Passes: By Tarell Alvin McCraney
CHICAGO  •  Steppenwolf Theatre Company  •  4 April - 9 June 2013
 
 
Tarell Alvin McCraney: Head of Passes
Directed by: ensemble member Tina Landau
Scenic Design: David Gallo

In anticipation of her birthday, Shelah’s family and friends gather at her home in the Head of Passes—the mysterious shifting marshlands at the mouth of the great Mississippi River. As the guests appear, so do ghosts from the past, and Shelah’s convictions about her life begin to dissolve, along with her home in the Louisiana rain. Ensemble members Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau team up again for this wise, warm world-premiere drama about faith, family and finding your place in the world.

Cast:
James T. Alfred
Kyle Beltran
Chris Boykin
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Glenn Davis
Ron Cephas Jones
Jacqueline Williams
Alana Arenas
Jon Michael Hill
Tim Hopper

Scenic Design Consultant: Collette Pollard
Costume Design: Toni-Leslie James
Lighting Design: Scott Zielinski
Sound Design: Michael Bodeen, Rob Milburn
Understudies: Brittani Arlandis Green, Rob Glidden, Joslyn Jones, Julian Parker, Austin Talley

Steppenwolf Theatre Company Website


Contact: Steppenwolf Theatre Company
1650 North Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60614

Tel: (1) 312 335-1650

International Spy MuseumWashington, D.C.
International Spy Museum
Washington, D.C.
International Spy Museum
WASHINGTON, D.C.  •  Ongoing
 
 
The International Spy Museum is the first public museum in the United States solely dedicated to espionage. It features the largest collection of international espionage artifacts ever placed on public display. Many of these objects seen for the first time outside of the intelligence community illustrate the work of famous spies and pivotal espionage actions as well as help bring to life the strategies and techniques of the men and women behind some of the most secretive espionage missions in world history.

International Spy Museum Web Site


Click here for a special news feature with photos of the Spy Museum

Contact: Tel: (1) 866.SPY MUSEUM

Joshua Radin
NEW YORK  •  Le Poisson Rouge  •  22 May 2013
 
 
Cleveland born, songwriter/performer Joshua Radin on the road in May in support of his just released SELF – RELEASED LP Wax Wings.

Le Poisson Rouge Website



Detailed schedule information:
10:00 pm

Contact: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 505 34 74

Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Eli Young Band & Kacey Musgraves
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON  •  CenturyLink Field (Formerly Qwest Field), Seattle, WA  •  1 June 2013
 
 
Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Eli Young Band & Kacey Musgraves


Detailed schedule information:
5:00 pm

Contact: CenturyLink Field (Formerly Qwest Field)
Seattle, WA

Mike Daisey: Journalsim
PORTLAND, OREGON  •  Tiffany Center Emerald Ballroom  •  21 May 2013
 
 
Daisey takes his audience on a journey through the sprawling landscape of journalism right now—how it functions, how it fails the public, and how it choses to tell our stories.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Website



Detailed schedule information:
7:00 pm

Contact: Tiffany Center Emerald Ballroom
1410 SW Morrison Street
Portland, Oregon
Tel: (1) 503 242 14 19

Of Monsters and Men
CHICAGO  •  The Aragon Ballroom  •  22 May 2013
 
 
Of Monsters and Men are an indie folk band which formed in 2010 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The band consists of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (vocals, guitar), Ragnar Þórhallsson (vocals, guitar), Brynjar Leifsson (guitar), Kristján Páll Kristjánsson (bass), Árni Guðjónsson (keyboards, accordion) and Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson (drums).


The Aragon Ballroom Website


Contact: 1106 W. Lawrence Ave.
Chicago IL 60640
United States

Tel: (1) 773 561 95 00

Red-billed PintailPhoto: Frank S. Todd Photo courtesy of Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center
Red-billed Pintail
Photo: Frank S. Todd
Photo courtesy of Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center
Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center
SCOTLAND NECK, NORTH CAROLINA  •  Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center  •  6 October 2006 - 10 October 2013
 
 

Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center operates the world's largest collection of waterfowl, including many rare and endangered species. The 8 acre avian breeding preserve in Scotland Neck, North Carolina is now home to over 170 species of birds-- more than half of the world’s known species of ducks, geese and swans--along with cranes, pheasants, parrots and many other birds.

Sylvan Heights has now embarked on a new and exciting mission--providing conservation-oriented programs and avian exhibits to the public. Building on an adjacent 18-acre property owned by the North Carolina Zoological Society, the new Waterfowl Park & Eco-Center has been open to the public since October 7, 2006.

Scotland Neck is only a few miles from the Roanoke River, an environmentally protected waterway that attracts many thousands of migrating ducks, geese and swans to the North Carolina coastal plain.  The cypress-tupelo swamp forests and wetlands surrounding Scotland Neck are a wintering home for many bird species, and provide opportunities for waterfowl, raptor and songbird observation. In fact, this area was named one of the top 500 most important bird areas by the American Bird Conservancy Guide.



Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center Web Site


Contact: Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center
4963 Hwy 258
Scotland Neck, NC 27874
Tel: (1) 252 826 31 86

Nathan Lane as Chauncey Miles in Douglas Carter Beane’s <EM>The Nance</EM>
Nathan Lane as Chauncey Miles in Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance
The Nance: By Douglas Carter Beane
NEW YORK  •  Lincoln Center Theater  •  15 April - 16 June 2013
 
 

Douglas Carter Beane: The Nance
Directed by Jack O'Brien

In the 1930s, burlesque impresarios welcomed the hilarious comics and musical parodies of vaudeville to their decidedly lowbrow niche. A headliner called "the nance" was a stereotypically camp homosexual and master of comic double entendre - usually played by a straight man.

Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance recreates the naughty, raucous world of burlesque's heyday and tells the backstage story of Chauncey Miles and his fellow performers. At a time when it is easy to play gay and dangerous to be gay, Chauncey's uproarious antics on the stage stand out in marked contrast to his offstage life.

Cast

Jenni Barber , Andréa Burns , Cady Huffman , Mylinda Hull , Nathan Lane , Geoffrey Allen Murphy , Jonny Orsini , Lewis J. Stadlen

Sets: John Lee  Beatty
Costumes: Ann Roth
Lighting: Japhy Weideman
Sound: Leon Rothenberg
Original Music: Glen Kelly
Orchestrations: Larry Blank
Conductor: David Gursky
Hair/Wigs: David Brian Brown
Choreography: Joey Pizzi



Lincoln Center Theater Web Site



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm, 2:00 pm

Contact: Lincoln Center Theater
at The Lyceum
149 West 45th Street
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 239 62 00

The Shins
CHICAGO  •  The Aragon Ballroom  •  19 May 2013
 
 
The Shins

The Aragon Ballroom Website


Contact: The Aragon Ballroom
1106 W. Lawrence Ave.
Chicago IL 60640
United States


Tel: (1) 773 561 95 00

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
NEW YORK  •  Beacon Theatre  •  20 - 26 May 2013
 
 
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Beacon Theatre Website



Detailed schedule information:
8:00 pm

Contact: Beacon Theatre
2124 Broadway
New York, NY

Tel: (1) 212 496 70 70

Women of Will, The Complete Journey : By Tina Packer
NEW YORK  •  THE GYM at Judson  •  4 April - 2 June 2013
 
 

Tina Packer: Women of Will, The Complete Journey

Directed by Eric Tucker
Featuring Nigel Gore and Tina Packer

A combination of riveting scenes and trenchant analysis, Women of Will, The Complete Journey explores themes of love, loss, freedom, control, violence and power through the heroines of Shakespeare’s text. Using performance and discussion, Packer traces the chronological evolution of Shakespeare’s female characters, and examines Shakespeare’s own journey and growth as a writer



THE GYM at Judson Website


Contact: THE GYM at Judson
55 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Tel: (1) 212 352 31 01



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