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absolutearts.com Arts News: November 26: 2003
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ARTS NEWS: November 26, 2003
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Five New Painting Galleries to Open Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Paul Klee - Late Works Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Early Hong Kong Brothels: Photographs from the Collection of Mr. CHENG Po Hung University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, HK Hong Kong
Thanh Chuong - Lacquer Paintings Art U, Osaka, JP Japan
Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, NY USA United States of America
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
Five New Painting Galleries to Open
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The VandA will display 200 works from its extensive paintings collection in a new suite of five galleries. These galleries were originally built to house the Museums paintings collection during the 1850s and will showcase works given by John Sheepshanks and other collectors between 1857 and 1901. On display will be Constables revolutionary oil sketches donated to the Museum by the artists daughter, landscapes by Constable, Turner and Gainsborough, and famous works by Blake, Landseer and Millais. One room will be devoted entirely to the collection of Constantine Ionides, a leading Victorian collector and friend of Rossetti who collected European Old Masters and nineteenth century paintings. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Paul Klee - Late Works
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE
Approximately 100 pieces from the Beyerler Foundation collection and from the Sprengel Museum Hannovers permanent collection show some of the first and, indeed, most significant works realised by this important Modern artist late in life. Klees work at the time was subject to the restraints that came with Hitlers rise to power as well as ill health and exile. These were Klees most productive years, despite his severe illness, which lead him to further simplify his visual vocabulary, reducing his work to what he considered to be its essentials. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Early Hong Kong Brothels: Photographs from the Collection of Mr. CHENG Po Hung
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, HK Hong Kong
Hong Kong brothels have a long history. In the mid-19th century, the earliest brothels were established in and around Lyndhurst Terrace where western prostitutes concentrated. Chinese brothels which were known as “Tai Ping Shan Brothels” were found around the Tai Ping Shan area near Po Hing Fong. The brothels gradually moved to Possession Street. In 1903, they relocated to Shek Tong Tsui which rapidly developed into a prosperous red-light district. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Thanh Chuong - Lacquer Paintings
Art U, Osaka, JP Japan
In Vietnam, the art of traditional lacquer handicraft had met Western painting during the period of colonial rule by France, and saw development of a new genre of art unique to Vietnam, called lacquer painting. Still today many are the artists who work in this privileged medium, among them Thanh Chuong distinguished himself by exploring bucolic theme and attracting a worldwide audience. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, USA United States of America
Generations of late 19th-century art students, including Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, made active use of a series of 200 lithographed drawings of the nude figure created by a little-known French artist, Charles Bargue (1825/26-1883). Bargue, hugely talented and probably self-taught, first published the exquisite collection of plates called the Cours de Dessin in Paris with Goupil & Cie between 1868 and 1873. Goupil connected Bargue with one of his best selling artists, Gérôme, and together they published and sold thousands of these teaching manuals. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
The first large-scale exhibition in Ireland by Louise Bourgeois, one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time includes an extraordinary group of life-size sewn fabric busts, a series of cell-like vitrines, housing curious scenes of torture and ecstasy, and a small group of totemic figures, reinterpreting in fabric Bourgeois’s very first sculptures of the late 1940s and ‘50s. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
Call for Artists: 2004 / 2005 Programming
Le Centre d'art et de diffusion Clark, Montreal, CA Canada
Centre dart et de diffusion CLARK is currently seeking proposals from artists, collectives, curators and programmers for its 2004 / 2005 programming. Residency projects are also accepted for the same period. The deadline for submission is December 20, 2003. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
The aim of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative is to provide exceptional young artists with opportunities to grow creatively, helping make them future leaders of their professions.
Álvaro Siza, recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1992, recently completed his year as a Mentor in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Launched in 2002, this international programme seeks out extraordinarily gifted young artists and pairs them with contemporary masters in their fields. Siza's Protégé was Sahel Al-Hiyari, a 39-year-old Jordanian architect who studied at Harvard and the University of Venice.
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