Photographic exhibition titled “Garden of Eden”, by Andrzej Maciejewski, will be presented in The Camerawork Gallery in Portland Oregon, from August 20th to September 23rd, 2011. Andrzej Maciejewski – Garden of Eden: Still Life with 4024(USA), 4025(USA), 4049(Honduras), 4410(USA) and 4026(USA).
John Martin “Belshazzar’s Feast” When the 19th-century visionary painter John Martin exhibited his best known canvas Belshazzar’s Feast at the British Institution in February 1821, the 8ft high and 5ft long picture had to be cordoned off to keep the crowds at arm’s length. For Belshazzar’s Feast is painting as theatre. Against an architectural phantasmagoria [...]
It’s 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what’s next? A few years earlier he painted a killer picture, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” People had thrown up their hands in alarm; his friends hardly knew what to say. Energized by the fuss, he punched out variations on the theme: paintings of sharp-elbowed, wood-brown [...]
A 100 kilogram pile of ceramic sunflower seeds by Ai Weiwei is to be sold at an estimate of £80,000 to £120,000 Ever since Chinese artist Ai Weiwei opened his installation of 100 million (150 tonnes) ceramic sunflower seeds in Tate’s Turbine Hall, there has been speculation as to when a handful might turn up [...]
File photo of British artist duo Italian Gilbert Proesch (L) and George Passmore (R) Telephone kiosks, tourist postcards, advertisements for prostitution and the urethra are the subjects of the latest art exhibition from British art duo Gilbert and George. “The Urethra Art of Gilbert and George”, on show at London’s White Cube gallery, features a [...]
Projections of Paolo Veronese’s “Wedding at Cana,” part of “Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway,” shown during a press preview at the Park Avenue Armory. If you had tied on a blindfold, suspended disbelief and allowed yourself to be carried last week to a particular location just off Park Avenue near 66th Street, [...]
“Robert Rauschenberg,” a survey at Gagosian Gallery, includes “Palladian Xmas” (1980), with acrylic, fabric and collage on wood. Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of a chock-a-block time capsule of a show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, was an optimist and a doer. He not only did what artists normally do: make paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs. [...]