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Mark Bradford will represent US at Venice Biennale

Mark Bradford will represent US at Venice Biennale in 2017, commissioned by Rose Art Museum.

Mark Bradford will represent US at Venice Biennale

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is pleased to announce that Mark Bradford will be the representative for the United States at La Biennale di Venezia 57th International Art Exhibition, the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event. Bradford, one of today’s leading international artists, is known for his work across media inspiring cross-cultural dialogue on social, political, and economic issues facing underserved urban communities.  He will create a new site-specific installation for the U.S. Pavilion in Venice, Italy, to be on view May 13–November 26, 2017.

The U.S. Pavilion is commissioned and co-curated by Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass, and Katy Siegel, Rose Art Museum Curator at Large and Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University.  Bradford’s exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion will be the first Venice Biennale project presented by the Rose Art Museum.

“The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is honored to present the work of Mark Bradford as the official United States Representative to the 2017 Venice Biennale,” commented Bedford. “As the leading American abstract painter of his generation and a vigorous advocate for the interests of under-represented urban communities in the U.S. and beyond, Bradford creates work that embodies art’s capacity to both inspire wonder and catalyze enduring social change.  Similarly, the Rose’s renowned collection of postwar art is rooted in a commitment to material invention and expanding knowledge through culture, while Brandeis’s investment in social justice as a core value permeates the work of every teaching and research unit of the University. It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce our collaboration with Mark Bradford: no artist could be better aligned with the character of our institution or better positioned to represent the United States in the 21st century.”

Based in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford’s sweeping canvases recapture mid-century American art’s capacity to conjure the sublime and evoke deep feeling, while incorporating layers of social comment.  In parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles-based not-for-profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context. These equivalent commitments to formal invention and social activism anchor Bradford’s contribution to culture at large, embodying his belief that contemporary artists can reinvent the world we share.

ABOUT THE ARTIST.

Mark Bradford was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, where he lives and works. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States, Bradford’s richly layered and collaged canvases represent a connection to the social world through materials. Bradford uses fragments of found posters, billboards, newsprint and custom printed paper to simultaneously engage with and advance the formal traditions of abstract painting.

Solo exhibitions include Scorched Earth at the Hammer Museum (2015), Sea Monsters at the Rose Art Museum (2014), Aspen Art Museum (2011), Maps and Manifests at Cincinnati Art Museum (2008), and Neither New Nor Correct at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007). In 2009, Mark Bradford was the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Award. In 2010, Mark Bradford, a large-scale survey of his work, was organized by Christopher Bedford and presented at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, before traveling to the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

His work has been widely exhibited and has been included in group shows at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014), Whitney Museum of American Art (2013), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), Seoul Biennial (2010), the Carnegie International (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2006), and Whitney Biennial (2006).

** Presented by the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Commissioner and Co-Curator: Christopher Bedford, Director of the Rose Art Museum. Co-Curator: Katy Siegel, Curator at Large for the Rose Art Museum and Chair in Modern American Art at Stony Brook University.

TV Shows Today, April 19: The Flash, Limitless, NCIS

Well, it’s Tuesday and, as always, we heva great television shows to watch. Our Top#1 TV Shows Today is for The Flash. Today’s episode: Versus Zoom. Season 2. Episode 18. 8:00 pm. CW. From Wikipedia: The Flash is an American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, airing on The CW. It is based on the DC Comics character Barry Allen / Flash, a costumed superhero crime-fighter with the power to move at superhuman speeds.

Our second choice is for the series Limitless. Today: Finale: Part One! Season 1. Episode 21. 10:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for NCIS. Today’s episode: Return to Sender. Season 13. Episode 21. 8:00 pm. CBS.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, April 19 Video: The Flash | Versus Zoom Trailer | The CW

Birthdays Today, April 19: James Franco, Tim Curry, Kate Hudson, Maria Sharapova

He won a Golden Globe Award for his role in Pineapple Express., he’s James Franco and he is our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, April 19. He was born in Palo Alto, California in 1978. From Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special dau. Congrats and happy birthday, James Franco!

Famous Birthdays Today, April 19: James Franco at a ceremony to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.. Source: Wikipedia. Author: Angela George

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that’s fine, I don’t mind, I’ve developed a thick skin.

James Franco

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

James Franco

More famous birthdays today, April 19: Tim Curry, actor born in Grappenhall, England in 1946; Kate Hudson, actress; and Maria Sharapova, tennis player born in Russia in 1987.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, April 19 Video: 5-Second Summaries with James Franco – Part 1

New Exhibition Project: The Women Who Made Modern Art Modern

New Exhibition Project: The Women Who Made Modern Art Modern. Opens in Miami, December 2016.

Jacob Lawrence, his wife Gwen, Terry Dintenfass

In the late fall of 1965 Martha Jackson published a small catalogue. In were a selection of works by then up and coming artists. Looking back from 2016 we can see a brilliant eye at work Not only was she a champion of such American artists as Larry Rivers, Sam Francis and Grace Hartigan but she presented to her New York clients artists from other parts of the globe: Alan Davie, William Scott, and Alberto Burri.

Two decades earlier the collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim opened her Art of the Century Gallery on 57th St. to show the ” most audacious American art to a still hesitant audience.” And who were these artists: Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette Dart and Robert Motherwell to name but three of these emerging talents.

Eleanor Ward opened her doors a few years later and to a growing audience eager to learn know and collect what was now the great trend in American art, Abstract Expressionism. Her now famous Stable Annuals presented many who are today considered the foundation of post war American art: Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann and Franz Kline. But also among these name are those of equal talent and less notoriety: Nicholas Carone, Ray Parker and Perle Fine. Later she gave Andy Warhol his first show after being turned down by Leo Castelli.

The proposed exhibition explores the careers and programs of some sixteen art dealers all of whom women and all of whom were great innovators in their day supporting and championing the new in American art. The artists they promoted, supported and exhibited now represent the pantheon of American art and artists. This might be an untold story or even an unchartered history of the small entrepreneurial businesses and personalities that help develop and promote American visual culture both here and abroad.

Among the dealers included in this exhibition included Betty Parsons, Eleanor Ward, Martha Jackson, Terry Dintenfass, Virginia Dwan among others.

Artist Neil Anderson exhibits at Bridgette Mayer Gallery

Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to announce its seventh solo exhibition with contemporary painter Neil Anderson. From May 3 to June 24, 2016.

Neil Anderson, Quartet for America No. 4, 2016, Oil on Linen, 72 x 96 inches

Quartet for America features new works, which continue Anderson’s exploration of organic forms found in nature, but the paintings on view focus more narrowly on drawing inspiration from piled cut branches, resulting in an intricate interwoven pattern of the irregular linear grid. Upon close inspection, the surface of the work is broken up into fragmentary details, but as the viewer experiences it from a distance, the pieces suddenly pull together to form the larger shapes of the composition. Anderson states that his primary concerns are: “Proportion and balance between all the parts, no one part of the painted surface is more important than any other. The whole plane is the subject of the painting. Line, color, shape and texture are the vocabulary through which I speak.”

This Quartet – four paintings facing each other, conversing with each other – is conceived through variations on red, white and blue and contrasting colors. Associations with music and the classical quartet structure inform the relationship between the works. The intensity of sound is exchanged for degrees of color contrast.

Neil Anderson received his MFA from the University of Iowa and then went on to become a professor of art at Bucknell University, teaching there for over 40 years before retiring in 1999. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others, and is included in several prominent private and public art collections nationwide. In addition, he has exhibited in numerous solo shows in Philadelphia, New York, and Washington D.C. Anderson has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, Arts Magazine, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Art in America. He lives and works in rural Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

The gallery is also pleased to announce Dina Wind: Springs!, an exhibition in the Project Vault Space. This will be Bridgette Mayer Gallery’s second exhibition of Wind’s work, following her 2015 solo-show Transformations. Dina Wind: Springs! will feature a selection of unique sculptures from the 1980s and ’90s, in addition to four editioned works created this year to coincide with the unveiling of a new public sculpture, Spring & Triangle, at the Woodmere Art Museum. Opening June 2016, Spring & Triangle is a 30-foot enlargement of the original 1986 work, which fulfills the late artist’s aspiration to realize her sculpture on a monumental scale. A selection of Wind’s outdoor works will also be on view at the museum.

Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 709 Walnut Street 1st Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

TV Shows Today, April 18: Supergirl, Scorpion, Lucifer

It’s Monday but spring has come and we’re hap’py for that. Our Top#1 TV Shows Today, April 18 is for the series Supergirl. Today’s episode: Better Angels. Season 1. Episode 20. 8:00 pm. CBS. From Wikipedia: Supergirl is an American superhero fiction action-adventure drama television series developed by Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg (the latter two having previously created Arrow and The Flash) that airs on CBS.

Our second choice is for Scorpion. Today: Chernobyl Intentions. Season 2. Episode 23. 9:00 pm. CBS.

And our last recommendation is for Lucifer. Today’s episode: #TeamLucifer. Season 1. Episode 12. 9:00 pm. FOX.

We hope you enjoy the shows. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

TV Shows Today, April 18 Video: Supergirl 1×20 Sneak Peek “Better Angels” (HD) Season Finale

Birthdays Today, April 18: David Tennant, Kourtney Kardashian, Nathan Sykes, Britt Robertson

Our Top#1 Famous Birthdays Today, April 18 is for the ac tor David Tennant. He starred in the series Casanova and he played the role as Kilgrave on the series Jessica Jones. He was born in Bathgate, Scotland in 1971 and, from Yareah, we wish him and his family all the best in this special day. Congrats and happy birthday, David Tennant!

Famous Birthdays Today, April 18: David Tennant. Source: flickr. Author: vagueonthehow

The Doctor’ is the kind of character – because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the ‘Doctor’- when you’re there, you’re in it a lot. You’re speaking a lot.

David Tennant

I’ve been quite lucky in that I’ve managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don’t know exists yet, I suppose.

David Tennant

More famous birthdays today, April 18: Kourtney Kardashian, reality star born in Los Angeles in 1979; Nathan Sykes, pop singer, member of the band The Wanted; and Britt Robertson, actress.

Happy birthday to all of them. Have a very nice day, dear friends.

Famous Birthdays Today, April 18 Video: David Tennant Talks Playing Jessica Jones’ Charming Villain – Late Night with Seth Meyers

London events. The Italian Cultural Institute presents Goodbye Dolce Vita

London events. The Italian Cultural Institute presents Goodbye Dolce Vita, a series of events which involve cinema, literature and art, running from the 19th to 23rd April 2016. The aim of the project is to show the generational changes on the Italian cultural scene: Does it still make sense to talk about “Italian Style”? What’s the relationship between Italian culture and its legacy?

London events. Goodbye Dolce Vita

Roberto Minervini, The Other Side, 2015.

Pietro Marcello, Lost and Beautiful, 2015.

As outside of Italy still prevails an idea of the country linked to old cultural categories (from Neorealism to the Decadentism of Visconti and Fellini), Goodbye Dolce Vita comes from the idea to go beyond, showing a slow but continuing change in the codes of Italian culture. Developed in London, a place always open to new ideas and other influences, the project aims to tell about a new Italy, a country more responsive to the realities of our time and yet aware of the past.

What’s the connection between the new Italian documentaries, prize-winners at international festivals, and the golden years of Cinecittà? How do the visual arts relate to the avant-gardes and the design tradition? Is there a contemporary literature that may achieve success outside the national borders as it’s happening with Elena Ferrante right now?

Goodbye Dolce Vita, curated by Stefano Cipolla and Dario Pappalardo, will involve film directors Pietro Marcello and Roberto Minervini; artists Manuele Cerutti and Emiliano Ponzi; writers Claudia Durastanti, Giorgio Falco and Cristiano de Majo. The events will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute (ICI) and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

MAD about jewelry. Alena Willroth wins inaugural LOOT Acquisition Prize

MAD about jewelry. Shannon R. Stratton, Chief Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, announced this week that designer Alena Willroth has been awarded the inaugural LOOT Acquisition Prize on the occasion of the sixteenth edition of LOOT: MAD About Jewelry, the Museum’s annual exhibition and sale of designs by international emerging and acclaimed jewelry artists.

Jewelry. #LOOT2016 @madmuseum

“This year, we wished to formalize our previously unpublicized practice of acquiring works from LOOT Jewelry artists into the Museum’s permanent jewelry collection,” said Stratton. “The LOOT Acquisition Prize seeks to recognize a LOOT jewelry artist whose work reflects maturity in artistry and concept, exhibits superior and experimental understanding of materials and form, and demonstrates expertise in technique and execution. Alena’s unusual technique and the sophistication of her pieces really interest us. The necklace we chose is sculptural in nature and fully resolved as a work. There is no sign of a clasp or any other indicators that you might associate with jewelry. It is arresting to look at, and fits with the rest of our collection.”

LOOT: MAD ABOUT JEWELRY, APRIL 12–16, 2016.

Chaired by Stratton, the jury—Michele Cohen, Angela Cummings, Barbara Paris Gifford, Joan Hornig, Bryna Pomp and Kay Unger—selected the 2016 LOOT Acquisition Prize from a shortlist selected by Stratton and Gifford, Assistant Curator. The prize was awarded on April 11 at the LOOT opening benefit dinner.

“I was already thrilled to have been chosen to participate in LOOT: MAD About Jewelry,” stated Willroth. “I am deeply honored to receive this prize and have my work acquired by the Museum.”

Czech-born, Berlin-based jeweler Willroth creates highly intricate and playful works using the plastic polyethylene. She begins her work by hand, drawing designs in pencil before cutting the material with a surgical knife and heating it with a special welding process of her own design to create the final form. Willroth studied history and philosophy at Charles University in Prague and fashion design at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Her “Blue Foraminifer” necklace from her Slast (Czech for “delight”) collection will be acquired by the Museum.

Forty-four artists from seventeen countries—Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (the first time artists from this nation have participated), the United Kingdom and the United States—have been invited to participate in this year’s edition ofLOOT after months of travel and research by curator Bryna Pomp. The exhibition features an extraordinary array of new materials, techniques and innovations in studio and art jewelry. Past LOOT Artists that have had works acquired by the Museum include well-established art jeweler Iris Nieuwenburg and emerging jewelry artist Casey Sobel.

LOOT: MAD About Jewelry is in keeping with the MAD’s commitment to the exploration of materials and process, as well as its long-standing presentation of jewelry as an art form. MAD is the only American museum with a gallery dedicated to the display of both temporary jewelry exhibits and its own collection of contemporary and modern studio and art jewelry.

Sunday Poetry with Gypsy Woman, Jenean C. Gilstrap. Today: Home

Lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. This is a replica of the painting from the Brno museum Anthropos. The absence of the mane sometimes leads to these paintings being described as portraits of lionesses. Source: Wikipedia. Author: HTO – Own work (own photo)

home

.

his flesh bears the weight

of ten thousand years and more

weathered bones cast aside

by weary spirits

on their journey

to nowhere

.

vultures lined the chambers

of his barren heart

watching

waiting

for

for just one sliver

one shard

of life

to be gleaned

from the bleached fossils

.

his vision clouded

by the dark waters

of time

and

his taste soured

by the putrified carcasses

of dreams undreamed

his hearing deaf

now to all but

the sounds

of silence

.

ancient voices

long since mute

no longer guide his path

and the path once smooth

now cast in lost memories

and skulls of ancestors

.

he longs for

the painted days of

red ochre deer

his wolf beside him

for nights lit by torches

when ritual and magic

reached to the heavens

.

his childhood footprints

etched in the floor of clay

the only remaining remnants

of

his

life

of

him

.

he

longs

for

home

.

he

longs

for

chauvet

.

.

.

.

.

This poem inspired by the little boy whose footprints were discovered in the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in the south of France – a cave that contains the earliest known and best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet...