Sebastien Bourdon
[The Holy Family resting among the ruins on the flight to Egypt]
etching
17th century
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Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Flight Patterns
Examining
different approaches such as formal photographic treatments,
conceptual pieces exploring cultural history, and
issue-oriented art that address complex environm...
Dayton Art Institute: Orville and Wilbur: The Wright Brothers' Legacy
This exhibition portrays the beginning of powered flight with photographs
and original lithographs from the first two decades of powered flight,
said Alex Nyerges, Director and CEO of The Dayton Art Institute. According
to Nyerges, the imag...
Plains Art Museum: Taking Flight: Paintings by Margo Selski
Selski’s paintings are oil on canvas, with an added layer of beeswax to enhance the texture of the surface. This process allows the surface of the paintings to crack and appear older, giving them the look of early Northern European paintings from ...
Chisenhale Gallery: Dryden Goodwin: Flight
Evoking the fear of pursuit and a restless inability to settle and relate to people, place and self alongside the hope of liberation, the transformative quality of the animated interventions suggests a superimposed fantasy or reverie.
Goodwin...
Art Institute of Chicago: Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical Research
Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA's Aeronautical Research features the architecture and engineering of wind tunnels with more than 65 artifacts from NASA's collection, including designs and models for wind tunnels from the 1930s t...
Arts Catalyst, the Science-Art Agency: 2nd UK Space Art Forum: Call for participation - ideas for zero gravity
This year's Space Art Forum will be around a specific theme:
performances and objects that could be made for different states of
gravity, such as earth orbit or parabolic flight (see below).
Dancers, choreographers, circus and theatre pract...
Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Mats Hjelm: Kap Atlantis
All parts of the trilogy portray the visual structures of the memory, a rhythmic and non-chronological stream of images placing equal emphasis on the personal as well as the collective, historical consciousness. Recurring themes are issues such as...
BildMuseet, Umeå: White Flight, Man to Man, Kap Atlantis: A Video Trilogy by Mats Hjelm
In White Flight (1997), the Black Power-movement is a point of departure, presented through footage from a journey to Detroit in 1968 by Lars Hjelm. Mats Hjelm travels in his father’s footsteps and returns to the capital of the American automobile...
Arts Catalyst, the Science-Art Agency: Call for Proposals from Artists: ZERO GRAVITY
One of the most fascinating aspects of manned space flight is the state of
zero gravity or weightlessness: astronauts and objects floating in air. But
it is only recently that this extraordinary 'by-product' of the space
programme has been r...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Requiem for the Staircase: Curated by Architect Oscar Tusquets
Professor Juan
Antonio Ramirez has selected a few very important paintings and drawings
representing the entire history of art, in which each of the stairways has
been represented by great artists. These are accompanied by film footage
and lit...
Australian Center for Contemporary Art: Rosemary Laing: Melbourne-Osaka Exchange project
...
SCA Project Gallery, Pomona Art Colony: Inverse and Brush with Weight and a Dance: Painting, Sculpture and Sound
Artists participating in Inverse express their views
on the complex phenomenon of being reciprocal,
opposite or reverse in relationships existing in the
worlds of natural and unnatural, macro or micro or
ethnic or social.
SCA Project Gal...
Art Institute of Chicago: FOCUS: Stan Douglas
Douglas’s work has been featured in several one-person museum exhibitions
and included in nearly every major international exhibition of contemporary art in recent years,
including Johannes...
Dia Center for the Arts: Panamarenko: Orbit - First Major Exhibition in the United States of Belgian Artist
This exhibition will pair the Belgian artist's key work,
Aeromodeller, built from 1969-71, with a new piece created
this year. Mixing the scientific with the artistic, the
monumental Aeromodeller solidified Panamarenko's thinking and
establish...
Arti et Amicitiea: Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction
Transmission/Reconstruction
we project the other in order to construct our identities
Topics (b)reached include: issues of marginality and community, assimilation of a new identity crucial in any consideration of civil rights history, ...
Art Institute of Chicago: 2001: Building for Space Travel
Historical components focusing on the aesthetics of the space race in the Cold War will include
works by Soviet engineers and designers and noted American industrial designers, such as Raymond
...
Campden Gallery: Skateboarders: New Paintings by Terry Setch
His
rejuvenated interest takes flight in acute angles of knees and shoulders,
ballooning trousers and prized trainers, jutting elbows and gleeful faces.
The raucous assemblies of youth behind stations or in dingy subways that
older bypassers s...
Raid Projects: Call for Artists: International Artist-in Residence Program
The applications must include a resume/cv, images of
work and a statement of purpose - why the residency is
important to do in LA rather than elsewhere. This
should direct attention towards a body of work that
the artist will develop during ...
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong: Norman W. M. Ko: 25 Years in Retrospect
A representative figure in contemporary Hong Kong sculpture, Ko is a founder
member of the Hong Kong Sculptors Association, alongside veteran artists
Cheung Yee and Van Lau in 1982, the first local group of its kind. Around 80
examples of his w...
Cambridge Galleries: Let's Get Lost: The Summer Vacation Show
But the exhibition has also been influenced by many artists, both contemporary and historical, for whom the experience of art may be founded in a desire to describe ecstatic moments - moments of heightened experience and awareness - moments that h...
Kunsthalle Basel: Hannah Villiger: Photographic Works
In the early 1980s, the artist began using a Polaroid camera
to explore her own body. In a solitary and unending dialogue
with herself, she took photographs from so close up that the
Pola rushed straight at my body. Parallel to the images of
h...
Figureworks: Jacquelyn Schiffman: Sitting on Air
Ms. Schiffman entitled this show Sitting on Air. She says "Sitting on
air is tricky, you don‚t know if you're about to fly or to fall down."
Her figurative imagery is based on real people, some famous, some
familial, some models. These introspe...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: Otherworlds: Images of Fantasy and Fiction
Minister for the Arts Matt Foley said this was the first
Queensland Art Gallery exhibition curated and designed
specifically for the youth audience to tour Queensland.
'Fantasy, surrealism and science fiction are genres
which ...
Workmens Cirle: A Shenere Velt Gallery: The Peaceable Kingdom: Sculpture by Stanley Schwartz
Stanley Schwartz's creations not only pay tribute to the particular genius
of each animal, but are also homage to his varied materials. The viewer
stands back, or crawls up close, in awe of a mind that could perceive in the
rawness of a block o...
Arts Catalyst, the Science-Art Agency: Call for Artists: Opportunity for Art or Science Projects in Variable Gravity
A parabolic flight provides up to 20 cycles of 30-second periods of
weightlessness (zero gravity/microgravity) in freefall, interspersed with
periods of double gravity (2g acceleration) and normal gravity.
This is the pilot project of the ...
VRT - Vlaams Radio and Television Station: Superstar Neil Diamond is charmed by the Art of a Belgian Action Painter
The selection turned out to be very representative for the works of mr Diamond: from the raw " cherry cherry " performance in 1972 to the sensitive "flight of the Gull" from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, these musical jewels strengthen the efforts ...
Capacitor at ODC Performance Gallery: Ripple: Why are we here... Where is here
Capacitor artistic director Jodi Lomask joins composer Thomas Day for Ripple, the first section of a fall 2000 premiere, Within Outer Spaces, an interpretive look at the astronomical high tech search for the earth's place in the universe.
...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Standing Still: Simryn Gill
Standing still was an ambitious undertaking. Gill travelled through Malaysia between 2000 and 2003 photographing debilitated buildings, deserted apartments, mansions and even mini towns. The series is reminiscent of Gill's other photographic table...
Skirball Cultural Center: A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays Works by Mark Podwal
At the Skirball, the exhibition will feature twenty of the original paintings that comprised the show at the Israel Museum and the book. In addition, ten works on paper created especially for the Skirball will be premiered. Throughout the fancif...
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: Humberto Castro: The Paris Years (1989–1999.)
A focal point of The Paris Years is a large mixed-media installation entitled The Wailing Wall addressing the Cuban Diaspora. The exhibition also features numerous canvases done by Castro in Paris during his ten year residence as well as a...
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