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Hayward Gallery: TURNAROUND: Bob & Robert Smith, 26 Instructions
26 Instructions also forms the basis of two free performances by the artist
and members of his 'choir' outside the Hayward on 30 September and 7 October
from 3-3.30pm. Turnaround: Inside Out at the Hayward is an ongoing series in which...
Art Museum of Missoula: A Gift to Montana: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith s Prints
The prints in this exhibition comprise the first selection of work from Smith, and only a small percentage of her generous gift. The Art Museum anticipates many more exciting images representing Smith's prolific career.
Although Smith liv...
DFN Gallery: Cedric Smith: We
An early breakthrough in Smith’s work came through listening to the lyrics of political rap group Public Enemy, criticizing the lack of acknowledgment of achievements by African-Americans. Smith reacted by creating collages incorporating found ph...
Andy Warhol Museum: Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith
"Like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith isn't an artist who is easily categorized.
She moves fluidly through the genres of music, visual art, and language,"
says John Smith, exhibition curator and archivist at The Warhol. "Her work
and her career defy t...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: Oliver Smith: The Best of Craft and Industry
In creating this new range of cutlery, Smith has been inspired by internationally celebrated chef, Tim Pak Poy, of The Wharf Restaurant. Pak Poy and Smith have discussed the elements of what makes good cutlery over many dinners, and the outcomes h...
MoMA QNS: Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things
Smith's passion for paper inspires her creative approaches to printmaking
and reinforces the importance of this aspect of her work. A catalogue with
numerous original interventions by the artist accompanies the exhibition.
Organized by Wendy We...
Haus der Kunst: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
A newspaper photograph of the destruction of the
towers of the World Trade Center reminded her of Peter Brueghel’s The Tower of Babel (1563)
and provided the starting point for these drawings. In her book of poems Babel, published in
1978, she ...
Red Head Gallery: Tegan Smith: Warmer
Warmer, a new installation at The Red Head Gallery, takes as its point of departure a modest if traumatic event: the burning down of Smith's garage. There is video footage Smith took the night of the fire, the garage engulfed in orange flames. P...
Cambridge Galleries, Preston: Peter Smith: Half Life
"Though I start a piece from notes in my sketch books, each work eventually takes it's own direction
and I follow."
Peter Smith was born in Toronto in 1959. He first received art lessons in lieu of rent from an artist who
lived above his fa...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Recent Paintings
She often uses her
painterly technique in combination with collaged materials that heighten her
appealingly tactile surfaces. Her widely exhibited and re...
Millennium Arts Center: Spacia: New Works by Astrid Colomar, Simon Gouverneur, Nan Montgomery, Caroline Orner, Vicente Pascual, Jeffrey Smith and Champ Taylor
The Millennium Arts Center is a new national arts center that brings
fine, visual and performing artists together under one roof. MAC
makes Washington, D.C...
Ohio Art League: RED HOT: Duane McDiarmid, Melissa Day, and Ellen Smith
Melissa Day works from materials and fabrics ordinarily assigned to the female gender, such as nail polish and panty hose, using color as a sexual lure and signifier. Duane McDiarmid's work is a literal web of sensuous crimson velvet and silk, sus...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Spot the Dog: A Sculpture-based Installation by Raymond Smith
The age old discipline of manipulating clay provides the ideal material to capture the essence in character, touch and feel of each breed. After ageing and firing the once wet clay becomes stone which cannot be altered. In this work limited editio...
American Craft Museum: Stop Asking/We Exist: 25 African American Craft Artists
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown: The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Collaborative Sculptural Installation by Alexis Smith and Amy Gerstler
The title of the exhibition comes from an ancient tale of magic and hubris,
which was adapted by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, and entered
American popular culture in 1940 when Walt Disney Studios turned Paul Dukas
symphony of the sa...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Familiar Territories: Alan Smith Page
In this exhibition I have used a number of media and subjects in an exploration of the familiar - interiors and exteriors, still life arrangements and objects of the everyday.
I enjoy working at speed. I like the uncertainty of watercolour ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825–1861
The exhibition and student pass program are made
possible by Fleet. The exhibition catalogue is made
possible through the support o...
National Essembly of State Arts Agencies: NEA FUNDING BILL ON HOLD UNTIL SENATE DEBATE RESUMES IN
SEPTEMBER
Before adjournment, the issue of NEA funding came up in the form of an amendment,
sponsored by Sens. Robert Smith (R-NH) and John Ashcroft (R-MO), to eliminate all
money in the bill for the N...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Sanford L. Smith and Associates Ltd.: The 14th Annual Works On Paper Show to Open for Preview Today
Hailed by the New York Times as a great visual adventure, and
the most important art show of its kind, Works on Paper
presents all levels of collectors the opportunity to enhance their
...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Dream Street: Pittsburgh Photographs by W. Eugene Smith
Only a fragment of the work was ever seen, despite Smith's lifelong conviction that it was his greatest set of photographs, says Sam Stephenson of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and guest curator of Dream Street. The bulk of...
Bayly Art Museum: The Heritage of Our Ancestors: Works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and
Kay WalkingStick
Quick-to-See Smith was born in 1940 on the Indian Mission Flathead Reservation in Montana.
She earned a degree in art education from Framingham State College, MA, in 1976 and an M.A.
from the University of New Mexico in 1980. She exhibit...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: The Architecture of R. M. Schindler
The
exhibition will include approximately 110 original
drawings by Schindler, approximately 15 models of
the most significant architectural works, a selection
...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown
show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and
established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned
...
Detroit Institute of Art: A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection
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Armory Art Center: 7th Annual Art of Photography
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Ohio Art League: Intricate Spaces: Cut Paper Assemblages by Roxanne Smith-Mansell
In her statement, Smith-Mansell writes:
"I have combined two of my favorite processes in this body of work. The first is watercolor, which I’ve used in a manner that is not the traditional, representational one that I am accustomed to using...
Frissiras Museum: Olympic Cities - Gods Becoming Men: Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
’Gods Becoming Men’, at the privately owned Frissiras Museum, which occupies two handsomely converted 19th century mansions in the Plaka, in the very heart of Athens, is in many ways a riposte to this - in geographical terms, in exploitation of te...
Binney and Smith Gallery, Banana Factory: Call for Artists: NSPCA 50th Annual Exhibition
The NSPCA show is open to any artist working in the United States. The entry fee is $20 for non-members, and entries must be received by Sept 10. Works eligible for submission include casein, acrylic and egg tempera paintings that have not been sh...
John Natsoulas Gallery: Sacramento Valley Landscape Painters
The collection of landscape paintings in the exhibition ranges from the very early works done in the 1930s by artists such as Maynard Dixon and Otis Oldfield, to landscape paintings by contemporary artists that include Gregory Kondos, Wayne Thieb...
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