The Red Bull Art of Can exhibit debuted in Miami last night with a private gala that captured the energy of South Beach despite the unseasonable chill in the air. Traffic came to a standstill as the fabulous Elaine Lancaster made her grand entrance into the venue with a parade of Brazilian Batucada dancers to open the exhibit inspired by the iconic Red Bull can. The gala marked the opening of the event which is now open to the public on South Beach through March 14th.
“Art is everywhere,” said Elaine Lancaster, Miami’s iconic diva in drag. “I’m walking, talking, living art myself so I feel right at home in the synergy of it all. And I think Miami will embrace anything artistic.”
The collection is filled with striking pieces including a Hermes foot, a vibrant toucan spreading its wings and a captivating Medusa head. In addition to the forty-seven unique art pieces, guests were treated to couture wearable art created specifically for the gala by Project Runway alumni, Mychael Knight. Read more at pr-usa.net |
Oregon Trail artifacts displayed |
Holland and Terrell Libraries are hosting an exhibit with the belongings of a missionary wife. |
Mary Richardson Walker’s life was laid bare for all to see Friday at a new art exhibit.
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Walker was a missionary wife who traveled the Oregon Trail in 1838. The exhibit displays her personal artifacts, letters and diary transcripts.
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About 50 people gathered at the opening at the Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at Holland and Terrell Libraries.
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Thirty minutes in, MASC Interim Head Trevor Bond made his grand entrance, ringing a bell to get everyone’s attention. He thanked the curators responsible for bringing the show together. Jennifer Thigpen, assistant history professor, is the head curator of the exhibit. Walker’s artifacts were scattered all around campus when she started to put the exhibit together, she said.
Read more at www.dailyevergreen.com |
| Turkey, Germany open exhibition on Ottoman art works |
Hundreds of Ottoman works of art were restored and is on display in Germany’s Dresden Royal Palace for the first time in 70 years. |
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle and Saxony’s Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich on Saturday inaugurated the exhibition “Turckische Cammer”, in Dresden, includes works that were diplomatic gifts or bought by German aristocrats.
The Dresden Royal Palace hosts a large collection of Turkish artwork. Read more at www.worldbulletin.net |
Road Trip: Houston Artists Showcase in San Antonio |
| This past Friday night, a group of Houston artists made their way westward on I-10 to represent the city’s art scene at San Antonio’s LoneStar Studios. The artists exhibited at the one-night event included: Kelly Alison, J. Todd Allison, Michael Collins, Rene Cruz, DumpTruck (Cory Wagner & Mat Wolff), Jack Erickson, Lauren Moya Ford, Ryan Geiger, Maria Guzman, Lane Hagood, Bill Hailey, Rick Illingworth, Sharon Kopriva, El Franco Lee II, Cody Ledvina, Jonatan Lopez, Nick Merriwether, Neva Mikulicz, Rahul Mitra, Eric Pearce, Brian Rod, Troy Stanley, David Wang, and Bill Willis. |
American Indian art exhibit now open at Museum of Art |
CLEVELAND – A new exhibit, celebrating Native American artwork, is now open at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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The artwork includes masks, painted and beaded works, and all include an interesting explanation of the pieces and the artists. |
It has been a while since Indian art was featured at the Cleveland Museum of Art and some of the pieces will only be shown here in Cleveland. |
For the opening the museum is also holding a Family Day, with free activities from 1 to 4 p.m. |
Admission to this new exhibit is also free. |
| Met Museum’s Guards Show Don’t Just Watch: They Paint, Too |
Art display captures war story of survival |
About 150 people attended the opening of an art exhibit created by a woman who escaped capture by Nazi soldiers as her family was being deported to a concentration camp. |
“Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz” opened Sunday at the Butler Institute of American Art. It contains 36 needlework and fabric collage pieces that depict key scenes in the life of the artist. |
“The quality of the stitching is absolutely beautiful,” said Sandra Smith of Poland as she studied a piece that represented Krinitz’s life as a girl before the Nazi occupation of her homeland. |
A Struggling Detroit Art Museum Tries to Reach Out |
Imam Sohel Mangera photographs a Qur’an from about 1450-60 displayed at the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit, part of the museum’s new permanent gallery of Islamic art. |
| Last week, the Detroit Institute of the Arts opened its newest permanent gallery, devoted to Islamic works. The collection, which features a Timurid Koran written on gold-flecked Chinese paper, and ceramic bowls from the 15th-Century Ottoman Empire, is a bold acknowledgment by one of the country’s most venerable museums of the breadth of Islam’s influence.Read more at www.time.com |
Pancho Villa Rides Again Thanks To Mexican Archives |
| General Pancho Villa in Mexico City in 1914. |
(Courtesy of Casasola Archives.)
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| “Riding with Pancho Villa,” a new photography exhibit, has just opened in Abilene, Texas, celebrating the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, and held in conjunction with events honoring the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836-46). |
| Hosting the events is Frontier Texas!, a nearly seven-acre Disneyland-meets-the-Wild-West historical theme park of sorts, designed to revive “the Old West with the help of state-of-the-art technology.” A museum in which visitors can get up close and personal, virtually anyway, with the “people who played out their lives on the Texas frontier.”Read more at blog.seattlepi.com |
Who is the mystery collector? |
Giacometti’s L’Homme qui marche sold for a record price but the buyer is still unknown |
| By Colin Gleadell, Daily Telegraph |
In 1988, Christie’s sold an artist’s proof of Giacometti’s L’Homme qui marche for $5.87 million US to a collector from Japan. The bronze had been cast after the artist’s death in 1966, and is considered less desirable than a lifetime cast, such as the example sold this week. Nonetheless, the price was a record for the artist, and put him in a select group of about half a dozen of the most expensive modern artists at auction — a group that included Picasso, Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and Roy Liechtenstein. Read more at www.vancouversun.com |
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