William Henry Bartlett
plate opposite page ? in the book The Christian in Palestine by Henry Stebbing (London: George Virtue, [ca. 1830])
engraving
1830
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Wallspace Gallery: The Burn : Jane Fulton Alt
Jane Fulton Alt comments, "These controlled burns imitate naturally occurring fires by removing accumulated dead vegetation and releasing seeds from dormancy. By opening the woodlands to more sunlight, the fires prepare the soil for new spring gro...
Columbia Museum of Art: Burn: Artists Play with Fire
Technique and theme merge in these dramatic works as artists explore such issues as cultural identity, environmental fragility and personal loss. Some of the featured artists include L.C. Armstrong, Chris Burden, John Cage, Willie Cole, Kathleen K...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: The Desiring Eye
The exhibition THE DESIRING EYE presents art
photography’s development from the 1840s to the
1980s. The hanging follows photography’s
chronological development, and the photographs have
been divided into six sections: early portrait ph...
Fondazione Peano: C'era: 19 candles, 1 sculpture by Domenico Olivero
A traditional copper vessel named candisuar will be used, and 19 candles will slowly burn in it, each one with its own shape and size.
During the happening some objects, given as gifts by some close friends, will be inserted into the vessel. They...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Ishiuchi Miyako: mothers
When her mother died unexpectedly Ishiuchi photographed the objects her mother left behind: old lipsticks; a hairbrush with strands of hair still entangled in it; her translucent lace undergarments. None of the photographed objects are new: all ar...
Freedom Park: Call for Proposals: Art in Freedom Park 2006
The AiFP Task Force encourages proposals for sculptures and site-specific installations from the environmental, social, historic, architectural, geographic, political, visual, theatrical and whimsical side of public art.
See the website http...
Transition: Hebson’s Grand Mal
Painting on copper and zinc with small tentative marks the paint is worked to a point of fatigue. Weeping doppelgängers and phantasms of galleons glow and fizz unnaturally in filmic negative.
Paint blooms like a psychic bruise to obscure an...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art
Over the last two decades in Australia, the use of language in contemporary art has been integrated much more so than previously.
Unscripted: language in contemporary art will bring together 22 works by some of Australia's most well-known co...
g-module: Day of War, Nights of Love: A Group of New York-Based Artists
As a group, the works of REYNOLD REYNOLDS & PATRICK JOLLEY, CHRISTOPH DRAEGER, LAURA EMRICK, JENNY GAGE, CHARLES LORETO & EMILY O’CONNOR, SETH MCBRIDE and LISA ROY share a sense of loss for a more innocent state of mind, yet without falling into e...
Waikato Museum of Art - ArtsPost: Seeing New Directions - And the Luxurious: Clay Bodvin
This collection of photomedia inkjet-paintings and prints is described by the artist as being “at the intersection of the message and the medium” and is based upon the conceptual platform of Object:Desire/Result:Luxury.
In this exhibition Bo...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover - A Celebration of Classic Scottish Literature and Contempory Scottish Art
Alison Watt has painted a characteristically understated image of blank paper to illustrate Muriel Spark's selected stories, while John Byrne has created an impish vision of James Kelman to adorn a volume of six of his best works. Calum Colvin's ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Reprocessing Information: Utilizing Information as Landscape, Medium and Commentary
Ant Farm, Media Burn, 1975
Formed in 1968 and most active between 1973 and 1977, Ant Farm (Chip Lord, Hudson B. Marquez and Doug Michaels) was an influential Bay Area collective that explored the experimental fringe of architecture, design and...
South London Gallery: Anne Katrine Dolven: Four Film and Video Works
The carefully composed, painterly images are shot in real time and left unedited. Unfolding slowly, recorded scenes provide viewers with clues about the wider scenario, but reveal nothing conclusive. Sound is significant throughout, the combinatio...
Umbrella Arts - Professional Women Photographers: Call for Artitsts: Passion
ELIGIBILITY: Open to all current PWP members paid up to date. All types of photography-based work
may be entered, including digital, alternative processes, photo collage and montage. Maximum print size is
16" x 20" or 20" x 20”. Work previously ...
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art: Re-Newal: Contemporary Art Using Wax
About encaustics
Enkaustikos-the name means "to burn in." The ancient Greeks gave the art of painting with hot beeswax more than a name, they gave it a form. The exact timeline is unclear, but at a point some three thousand years ago, Greek sh...
Sculpture Center: Anya Gallaccio: one art
The title of the work is borrowed from an Elizabeth Bishop poem whose subject is loss and the
unlikely possibility that we might master it through artful practice. one art is a tree as assisted
ready-made, building on the art historical tradit...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Dennis Oppenheim: One of the Key Figures of American Conceptual Art
Dennis Oppenheim: Land and Body features many of the revolutionary ideas which Oppenheim, and a
small group of other young artists, introduced to the art world of the 1960s and '70s. A time of great social...
Hudson River Museum: The Magic of Light: Artists Focusing on Non-Traditional Media
The Magic of Light displays the work of both established and emerging
American artists. James Turrell, part of the Light-and-Space movement of
the 1960s and 1970s along with Robert Irwin, works with pure light,
while his main goal is the viewer...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Terence Koh
Koh generates aspects of seduction and irritation – a kind of dark Romanticism hovers over all his works. His “contaminations" of cultural practice are achieved using the principle of purity underlying modern aesthetics: either completely in white...
Vegas Gallery: Pascal Rousson: The House of Pain
Museum of the Dispossessed incorporated paintings, which appropriated covers of the late 1960s D.I.Y. magazine Practical Householder. The paintings presented comical narratives that cast American modernist artists as self-obsessed bricoleurs with ...
Haus der Kunst: Yayoi Kusama. Dots Obsession - Love Transformed into Dots
Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 in Nagano, Japan, worked during the Second World War in a factory that made parachutes. In 1957 Kusama went to the United States, where, in the late 1960s, she staged numerous happenings: body painting festivals, fashion show...
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