Visiting guest artist Luiz Gonzalez Palma on October 1, 2009
Comienza entonces a llover (Then it starts to rain), 2004
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Luis Gonzalez Palma @ AIB
Strauch-Mosse Lecture Series
Visiting guest artist Luiz Gonzalez Palma on October 1, 2009
Comienza entonces a llover (Then it starts to rain), 2004
Visiting guest artist Luiz Gonzalez Palma on October 1, 2009
Comienza entonces a llover (Then it starts to rain), 2004
LALLA ESSAYDI: Le Femme du Maroc
DECORDOVA MUSEUM & SCULPTURE PARK
Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery
September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Lalla Essaydi, Le Femme du Maroc: Reclining Odalisque, 2008Lalla Essaydi is a New York-based, Moroccan-born photographer, painter, and installation artist. Over the past decade, she has risen to international prominence with her timely and beautiful work that deals with the condition of women in Islamic society, cross-cultural identity, Orientalism, and the history of art. Like her feminist Muslim expatriate contemporaries—Ghada Amer, Ambreen Butt, Emily Jacir, Sherin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander—Essaydi has developed a powerful and personal artistic voice that calls into question prevailing myths, power hierarchies, and traditions that limit human freedom. (press release)
Gallery Talk
Senior Curator Nick Capasso: Saturday, November 21, 3 pm
Panel Discussion
Women, Culture, and Islam: A Cultural Historian's Perspective on Lalla Essaydi's Photographs: Sunday, October 11, 1 pm
DeCordova welcomes Senior Resident Scholar Elinor Gadon from Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center for an afternoon discussion of Lalla Essaydi's photographs. Framed within the context of anthropology, art, and religion, Gadon brings her unique perspective as a cultural historian to this intriguing exhibition.
Women, Culture, and Islam: A Cultural Historian's Perspective on Lalla Essaydi's Photographs: Sunday, October 11, 1 pm
DeCordova welcomes Senior Resident Scholar Elinor Gadon from Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center for an afternoon discussion of Lalla Essaydi's photographs. Framed within the context of anthropology, art, and religion, Gadon brings her unique perspective as a cultural historian to this intriguing exhibition.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Alec Soth @ MassArt
Dog Days Bogotá by Alec Soth
September 9 - November 28, 2009
Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art + Design
Boston, MA
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Artist Lecture: Monday, October 26, 6:00 PM
In 2002 Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl, Carmen. Carmen's birthmother gave her a scrapbook book with this note; "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." Taking this message to heart Soth set out to capture the city during the two months it took the courts to process the paperwork. As in his other series, Sleeping By the Mississippi and NIAGARA, beauty makes itself apparent through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals, and the complexities of human relationships. Because of the very personal nature of this journey, Dog Days Bogotá is both poetic and haunting, he says, "I wanted to share my honest impressions, including my fears." Soth has exhibitions on view this fall at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, and in 2010 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. This exhibition was organized by Magnum Photos. (excerpt MassArt press release)
September 9 - November 28, 2009
Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art + Design
Boston, MA
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Artist Lecture: Monday, October 26, 6:00 PM
In 2002 Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl, Carmen. Carmen's birthmother gave her a scrapbook book with this note; "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." Taking this message to heart Soth set out to capture the city during the two months it took the courts to process the paperwork. As in his other series, Sleeping By the Mississippi and NIAGARA, beauty makes itself apparent through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals, and the complexities of human relationships. Because of the very personal nature of this journey, Dog Days Bogotá is both poetic and haunting, he says, "I wanted to share my honest impressions, including my fears." Soth has exhibitions on view this fall at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, and in 2010 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. This exhibition was organized by Magnum Photos. (excerpt MassArt press release)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
BORDER @ Davis Museum
Michal Rovner: Border
DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
Wellesley, MA
March 11 - June 14, 2009
“This is not a true story.” Thus begins the seminal art video Border, which Michal Rovner shot along the boundary between Israel and Lebanon during 1996-1997.
An Israeli commander and the artist herself are the film’s two central characters. As they attempt to enter each other’s worlds, two narratives emerge. One concerns the actual political and physical border—the beautiful, rocky landscape; soldiers and civilians who populate it; and tense atmosphere. The other follows Rovner’s relationship with the commander, whose movements she chronicles and who participates in creating the film. (press release excerpt)
DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
Wellesley, MA
March 11 - June 14, 2009
“This is not a true story.” Thus begins the seminal art video Border, which Michal Rovner shot along the boundary between Israel and Lebanon during 1996-1997.
An Israeli commander and the artist herself are the film’s two central characters. As they attempt to enter each other’s worlds, two narratives emerge. One concerns the actual political and physical border—the beautiful, rocky landscape; soldiers and civilians who populate it; and tense atmosphere. The other follows Rovner’s relationship with the commander, whose movements she chronicles and who participates in creating the film. (press release excerpt)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Alessandra Sanguinetti visits Art in Context
In March 2009 Art in Context at the Art Institute of Boston hosted a talk with Alessandra Sanguinetti, which was one of the highlights of this year's visiting artist series. Alessandra was truly inspiring, insightful and gracious when she shared her experiences as one of the leading contemporary photographers.
She recently received the Peabody Award 2009.
Alessandra Sanguinetti speaks to Art in Context, March 2009
Bonnie Robinson and Alessandra Sanguinetti, Art Institute of Boston, March 2009
She recently received the Peabody Award 2009.
Alessandra Sanguinetti speaks to Art in Context, March 2009
Bonnie Robinson and Alessandra Sanguinetti, Art Institute of Boston, March 2009
THE EDGE OF VISION Abstraction in Contemporary Photography
Curated by Lyle Rexer
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York
May 15 to July 9, 2009
Talk and book signing with Lyle Rexer:
Tuesday, June 16, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer. From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision showcases the work of nineteen contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as “a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject.” Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York
May 15 to July 9, 2009
Talk and book signing with Lyle Rexer:
Tuesday, June 16, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer. From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision showcases the work of nineteen contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as “a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject.” Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference.
Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe / NYT
By Carol Kino for the New York Times
Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney Museum, where two exhibitions of his work are on view.
Photograph by Evan Sung/ NYT
IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes.”
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Art Review | Claes Oldenburg
A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag
By Kareen Rosenberg for the New York Times
Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two, 1995
Claes Oldenburg
Giant Fagends, 1967
Claes Oldenburg
slideshow
Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney Museum, where two exhibitions of his work are on view.
Photograph by Evan Sung/ NYT
IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes.”
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A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag
By Kareen Rosenberg for the New York Times
Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two, 1995
Claes Oldenburg
Giant Fagends, 1967
Claes Oldenburg
slideshow
NYT introduces LENS
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Robert Capa/ NYT article
New Works by Photography's Old Masters
By Randy Kennedy/ New York Times
A look inside Robert Capa's Mexican Suitcase, photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost.
A shot of a woman and child at a Spanish refugee camp in France, taken by Robert Capa in March 1939.
By Randy Kennedy/ New York Times
A look inside Robert Capa's Mexican Suitcase, photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost.
A shot of a woman and child at a Spanish refugee camp in France, taken by Robert Capa in March 1939.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Lisa Wiltse's essay on Teenage Pregnancy
BURN MAGAZINE
Photographic Essay by Lisa Wiltse, AIB Alumna
Parola Tondo District, Manila, Philippines
© Lisa Wiltse
Pregnant teenagers pass the time in the alleyways and slum of Parola Tondo district, Manila, Philippines
© Lisa Wiltse
Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially amongst the poor. In Manila, this contributes to overpopulation and the vicious cycle of poverty, another child borne into the ghettos and a teenage Mom bearing the burden of raising a child before her own maturity and adulthood. An estimated 70,000 adolescent mothers die each year in developing countries.
Young mothers face enormous health risks, obstructed labor is common and results in newborn deaths and deaths or disabilities in the mother.
Children are everywhere, tangible evidence of the city’s teenage pregnancy problem. Every year, 13 out of 100 girls aged between 15 and 19 of the Filipino population get pregnant. Health care for Manila’s urban poor is almost nonexistent, while opportunities to learn about contraception in this strictly Catholic country are rare. (excerpt from burn Magazine)
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