One of the paintings of all times that I like the best!

van Eyck
Arnolfini Wedding

art Paris

Bien des dictons nous sont familiers, et certains très usités selon nos circonstances. Pour l'événement de cette semaine, nous optons pour le fameux « Qui se ressemble s'assemble ». Faciliter les échanges et les rencontres avec les artistes sans intermédiaire, tels sont les objectifs communs de Artween et de son partenaire, l'association d'art contemporain Mac 2009. Parce que tout talent mérite d'être reconnu et exposé, Mac 2009 recevra 130 artistes dans le souci de faire percer les talents d'aujourd'hui, du 19 au 22 novembre Porte de Champerret à Paris. Et parce que Mac 2009 a pour vocation de défendre la création d'aujourd'hui, notre partenariat se prolonge et offre un espace privilégié sur le salon Mac 2009 à l'élève Aurélie Billat lauréate du concours Artween en 2008.

Retrouvez toutes les informations du salon sur www.mac2000-art.com.

Many sayings are familiar to us and some are much used in certain circumstances. For this week’s event, we’ve chosen the well-known ‘Birds of a feather flock together’. Artween and its partner, the contemporary art association Mac 2009, share the aim of facilitating direct exchanges and meetings between the key players of the art world. Because all talent is deserving of being recognised and exhibited, Mac 2009 is inviting 130 artists to the Porte de Champerret in Paris between 19 and 22 November in order to showcase the talent of today. And because Mac 2009’s role is to promote contemporary artistic creation, our partnership offers a specially reserved space at the Mac 2009 Salon to the student Aurélie Billat, winner of the Artween competition in 2008.

Find out more about the Salon at www.mac2000-art.com.

Anish Kapoor: Memory at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

http://www.vernissage.tv | Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, Anish Kapoor created a site-specific work. The sculpture, titled "Memory", is a 24 ton Cor-Ten steel tank, that sits tightly within the Deutsche Guggenheim's gallery space. Thus, the viewer has two distinct views of the work. In addition to that, a staircase leading down from the Deutsche Guggenheim's store offers a view into Memory's dark, cavernous interior through a two-meter square aperture window. By this, the viewer has three perspectives he has to put together again in his memory.
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai, India. He lives and works in London. The exhibition has been curated by Sandhini Poddar. The show will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York at a date to be announced.
This video contains statements by the curator of the exhibition, Sandhini Poddar, and an interview with Anish Kapoor.
Interview: Daniel Miller. Video: Lizza May David. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin / Germany. November 28, 2008.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-00mnncg0&NR=1&feature=fvwp

North Sea Circle episode 3 The Archaeologist

"magnificent buildings in the middle of the desert..."

Alexander Gorlizki and Richard Coldman present miniature biographies of seven anonymous celebrities. The narrator is Marcia Farquhar and the music is by Jem Finer. Additional artwork is provided by Nick Eagleton and Mahali Ohare and the rostrum camerawork is by Ken Morse.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK9QOjcoYMI

Francis Alys: Interview

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwmug-DW58M&NR=1

Toronto- The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: some glimpses

To contact this gallery:
thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com

Now 2 exhibitions:
Lawrence Weiner - The Other Side of a Cul-de-Sac
and
Carey Young - Counter Offer
(I have appreciated both, but this last one in particular - beautiful artist and very interesting art!)
see also:
www.thepowerplant.org

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Link:

http://www.ica.org.uk/

London Art Fair January 2009 - some atmospheres...

About his Fair:
www.londonartfair.co.uk
14-18 January
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photos voj jan. 2009

Los amantes de Magritte y la lejana mitología

Pinturas: René Magritte.
Texto: Lila Calderón.
Voz: Luis Fernández.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVnknyMVt5k&feature=channel_page

Paul Delvaux

Pinturas: Paul Delvaux
Música: Wim Mertens

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40QeKl0_hM

DELVAUX MUSEUM

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pqqRvCSp5w

very interesting book

Critical Terms for Art History (2nd ed.)
edited by
Richard S. Nelson and Richard Shiff
536 pp.
The University of Chicago Press, 2003

"Art" has always been contested terrain, whether the object in question is a medieval tapestry or Duchamp's "Fountain," But questions about the categories of "art" and "art history" acquired increased urgency during the 1970s, when new developments in critical theory and other intellectual projects dramatically transformed the discipline. The first edition of "Critical Terms for Art History" both mapped and contributed to those transformations, offering a spirited reassessment of the field's methods and terminology. Art history as a field has kept pace with debates over globalization and other social and political issues in recent years, making a second edition of this book not just timely, but crucial. Like its predecessor, this new edition consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from "sign" to "meaning," "ritual" to "commodity," Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art. For example, Richard Shiff discusses "Originality" in Vija Celmins's "To Fix the Image in Memory," a work made of eleven pairs of stones, each consisting of one "original" stone and one painted bronze replica. In addition to the twenty-two original essays, this edition includes nine new ones--"performance," "style," "memory/monument," "body," "beauty," "ugliness," "identity," "visual culture/visual studies," and "social history of art"--as well as new introductory material. All help expand the book's scope while retaining its central goal of stimulating discussion of theoretical issues in art history and making that discussionaccessible to both beginning students and senior scholars. Contributors: Mark Antliff, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Stephen Bann, Homi K. Bhabha, Suzanne Preston Blier, Michael Camille, David Carrier, Craig Clunas, Whitney Davis, Jas Elsner, Ivan Gaskell, Ann Gibson, Charles Harrison, James D. Herbert, Amelia Jones, Wolfgang Kemp, Joseph Leo Koerner, Patricia Leighten, Paul Mattick Jr., Richard Meyer, W. J. T. Mitchell, Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, William Pietz, Alex Potts, Donald Preziosi, Lisbet Rausing, Richard Shiff, Terry Smith, Kristine Stiles, David Summers, Paul Wood, James E. Young"

Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0226571688/ref=sib_rdr_dp

Vision, Reflection and Desire in Western Painting

Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
by
David Summers
The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

"Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, "Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting" demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illustion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present. Using examples from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, David Summers argues that scene-painting (architectural backdrops) and shadow-painting (in which forms are modeled or shown as if in relation to a source of light) not only evolved in close association with geometric optics toward the end of the fifth century B.C.E., but also contributed substantially to the foundations of the new science. The spread of understanding of how light is transmitted, reflected, and refracted is evident in the works of artists such as Brunelleschi, van Eyck, Alberti, and Leonardo. The interplay between optics and painting that influenced the course of Western art, Summers says, persisted as a framework for the realism of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Goya and continues today in modern photography and film.

About the Author
DAVID SUMMERS is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He is author of three previous books, including "Real Spaces: World Art History" and "The Rise of Western Modernism". "

Source of this information:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reflection-Western-Painting-Allison-Lectures/dp/0807831107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230290437&sr=1-1

Dominique Gonzalez Foerster Tate Modern 2058

This video is based on an interpretation of the intriguing installation by the artist. Key to appreciation of this half science fiction installation is the ventrance text that is integral part of the instalation.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3jUcYZCpv8

TateShots: Cildo Meireles

Brazillian artist Cildo Meireles at Tate Modern. From TateShots Issue 17 www.tate.org.uk/tateshots

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNz3ybrEe3I

Tate Modern

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsJzSV4mhE&feature=related

Turner Prize

Three women and a man described as a "modern day dandy" are on the shortlist for the $50,000 Turner Prize, which is awarded to British artists under the age of 50. As usual, the work created by the finalists are controversial and full of debate that has the public wonder, "Is it ART?"

In episode #84 of pop!talk, Yellow Peril shares who's who on the shortlist and looks to viewers like you for answers.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh7KgJaj4Bo

Turner prize winner Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey, this year's Turner prize winner, talks to The Guardian's Jonathan Jones about having an effect on British culture

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th7ycfdJBg8&NR=1

TateShots Issue 16 - Turner Prize 08 part two

Critic Nick Hackworth introduces nominees Runa Islam and Mark Leckey

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHFfg-bzX-w&feature=channel

TateShots: Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon

Damien Hirst talks about his admiration of the work of Francis Bacon. From TateShots Issue 17 www.tate.org.uk/tateshots

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIrSytVdnI&feature=channel