Shijji Furukawa, Untitled (Boys Playing Volleyball), 1927, the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of the Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Posted on Thursday, August 2nd 2012
Reblogged from LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
Who’s up for some #MuseumOlympics boxing today? We should probably be routing for our own team member (pictured above, Boxer’s Hands by Willard Van Dyke), but we’re pretty impressed by Harvard Art Museum’s team, pictured below:
Posted on Thursday, August 2nd 2012
Olafur Eliasson on his light show for the Olympic Games:
“For me, the Games are about being together, about sharing attention and ideals. They are about connectivity – feeling connected to people from all over the world – and physical engagement and energy. Light can be something more than just a means of illumination. Light generates action: it is an energy transmitter and as physical as anything you will see in the Olympics”
via guardian.co.uk)
Posted on Wednesday, August 1st 2012
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Warhol in Germany
For those of you planing a visit to documenta (13):
Stop by Kassel’s Galerie Krätz and check out their new show featuring photographs of Andy Warhol in Germany.
Leo Weisse: Andy Warhol in Deutschland (1971) - Fotografien runs through September 15, 2012.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Reblogged from artnet
Art Olympics: Face Gymnastics
The Athlete
Franz Xaver MesserschmidtThe Title
The Vexed Man
Perfect for #MuseumOlympics!
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Reblogged from The Getty
AQUILANO.RIMONDI SPRING 2011 RTW
PORTRAIT OF ADELE BLOCH-BAUER 1, 1907, GUSTAV KLIMT
This is very cool. Interesting fact: Klimt took three years to complete the original painting, which was created using oil paint, silver, and gold.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s Alter Bahnhof Video Walk may be one of the big hits of Documenta in Kassel, Germany, but there’s a Cardiff video walk closer to home that’s wowing audiences too.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has included Cardiff’s The Telephone Room (2001, above) in its exhibition “Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media.” The 15-minute video walk, which is in SFMOMA’s collection, starts just outside the museum’s auditorium and leads visitors through stairwells, hallways and the museum’s collection galleries. Because SFMOMA is closing in 2013 for an expansion project, this may be the last time visitors can experience the Cardiff. (SFMOMA visitors may pick up the The Telephone Room in the museum’s lobby, at the same stand that’s been set up for the Cindy Sherman audio tour.) Read more about the piece on Cardiff and Miller’s website — and hear an audio excerpt too!
On this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast, Cardiff, Miller and I discussed how they make these video walks, whether Cardiff worried that audiences wouldn’t follow her instructions, and how they hope their audience is entertainingly confused by the surreal audio + video + real world they construct.
Download the show directly to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe via iTunes, RSS. See more images and video of artwork discussed during the program.
If you’re coming to SFMOMA soon, DON’T MISS Janet Cardiff’s piece in Stage Presence. It’s an amazing multimedia experience, and this is the last time it will be on view in its original state (the work prominently features SFMOMA’s Botta staircase, which will be altered once our upcoming Expansion begins).
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Reblogged from The Modern Art Notes Podcast
This installation (which will appear at eight locations across the British coastline for the Olympics this summer), titled Peace Camp, features 2,000 ghostly tents glowing orange and pink and white between dawn and dusk. They’ll emit a soundscape of love poetry.
via The Creators Project’s guide to the best art at the Summer Olympics
Want to follow the art of the Olympics? Join the conversation on Twitter by following the #MuseumOlympics tag.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #37 (Happiness is a diffuse term), 2011; glitter and neon pen on gridded vellum; 8.5 × 11 in./21.5 × 28 cm
See more works in Wong Yap’s Positive Signs series on our blog, Open Space.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Source blog.sfmoma.org
7/30/2012 - morris and the sfmoma.
Dear Morris: your blue tie (scarf?) is dashing. We hope you enjoyed the museum. Love, SFMOMA.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Reblogged from OH SSSSNAP!
Phaidon looks at Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories.
Excerpt:
“You look at these landscapes where humans have interacted with the landscape, and you see the pictures after the tsunami, and just how much nature really does still have power over us.”
See the full article here.
Pictured: Naoya Hatakeyama - Lambda Archival Photographic Print - courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Taka Ishii Gallery
Posted on Tuesday, July 31st 2012
Source uk.phaidon.com
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