SCAD FASH is delighted to present “Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken,” the first U.S. exhibition of London-based artist, stylist and designer Daniel Lismore, whose distinctive flamboyant style has earned him the title “London’s Most Outrageous Dresser” by Vogue. Lismore is known for his outfits that brilliantly combine haute couture garments with charity-shop finds, […]
Category Archives: ART
JACKSON FINE ART: ANDREW MOORE, WILLIAM KLEIN,
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ANDREW MOORE Andrew Moore was born 1957 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He is best known for his richly colored images of architectural and urban scenes particularly in Cuba, Russia, and Detroit. He teaches in the Photography M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work is represented in the collections […]
THE HIGH: IRIS VAN HERPEN- TRANSFORMING FASHION
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Iris van Herpen works at the nexus of fashion, design, technology, and science. With a dynamic and path-breaking body of work, she is widely heralded as a pioneering new voice in fashion. Fashion is about quick deadlines, international platforms, and a voracious need for the next new thing. It is a discipline that requires tremendous […]
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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The Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta is an engaging cultural attraction that connects the American Civil Rights Movement to today’s Global Human Rights Movements. Our purpose is to create a safe space for visitors to explore the fundamental rights of all human beings so that they leave inspired and empowered to […]
THE HIGH- HABSBURG SPLENDOR:MASTERPIECES FROM VIENNA’S IMPERIAL COLLECTIONS- PART 2
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This exhibition takes viewers on a journey that explores six hundred years of art collecting by the Habsburg family, one of Europe’s most powerful and long-lived dynasties. The Habsburgs served as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the highest secular authority in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Centered in Vienna, Austria, their empire extended to the […]
THE HIGH- HABSBURG SPLENDOR:Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections- PART 1
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This exhibition takes viewers on a journey that explores six hundred years of art collecting by the Habsburg family, one of Europe’s most powerful and long-lived dynasties. The Habsburgs served as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the highest secular authority in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Centered in Vienna, Austria, their empire extended to the […]
SCAD FASH: OSCAR DE LA RENTA
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SCAD FASH proudly presents “Oscar de la Renta,” the inaugural exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s new museum of fashion. “Oscar de la Renta” celebrates the illustrious life and designs of the storied couturier whose work set the standard for timeless elegance, and it also introduces the work of Peter Copping, the […]
MO WILLEMS- A DECADE OF ART & WHIMSY
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Since the publication of his first picture book in 2003, Mo Willems (American, born 1968) has delighted children and parents alike with his prodigious contribution to children’s publishing. After a successful stint in television, Willems turned to writing and illustrating picture books. The beginning was auspicious; Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2003) garnered a Caldecott […]
THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF STILL LIFE
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The Musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art will present the final installation in their four-year collaboration focusing on the history of American art. American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life explores how late 18th- and early 19th-century American artists adapted European […]
THE HIGH: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART- PERMANENT COLLECTION
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The High’s collection of modern and contemporary art comprises more than 2,400 works dating from 1946 to the present and includes paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings by many of the most influential artists of our time. Installed on the Skyway level of the Susan and John Wieland Pavilion, the modern and contemporary collection features several […]
MASON FINE ART – OUTSIDE IN
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Outside In features nine major graffiti artists with strong Atlanta connections. Combined, their careers touch each of the past four decades. The exhibition features major large scale works as well as smaller, more affordable pieces. Artists include WON 2, POEST, SHIE 1, SB ONE, Dr. DAX, VIPER, WEB 1, BASER and Frank Morrison. Co-curated by POEST, Joe Dreher, and Jacob Hall. Text courtesy […]
ACP- MASON FINE ART – WOMEN IN FOCUS XXII- JURIED BY LUCINDA BUNNEN, TEEN SPIRIT, VIEWS OF PORTRAITURE,
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WOMEN IN FOCUS Women In Focus is a non-profit artist-initiated organization of women photographers who have joined together to support and promote the photographic arts. Founded in 1993 by a group of women who recognized the need for a formal network of women photographers who could assist in each others’ personal, professional, and artistic growth, […]
NYC OPERA TRIP FALL 2015: WHITNEY MUSEUM INAUGURAL EXHIBITION: AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE
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Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection,America Is Hard to See takes the inauguration of the Museum’s new building as an opportunity to reexamine the history of art in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Comprising more than six hundred works, the exhibition elaborates the themes, […]
NYC OPERA TRIP FALL 2015: NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS- FRIDA KAHLO- ART GARDEN LIFE
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Today Frida Kahlo is acknowledged worldwide as one of the leading artists of the 20th century. Together with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, Kahlo created a beautiful garden at the Casa Azul (Blue House), her lifelong home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, which served as both a creative refuge and a source of artistic inspiration. NYBG […]
THROCKMORTON FINE ART- WOMEN PIONEERS MEXICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 1
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Women Pioneers Mexican Photography I September 24th, – November 14th, 2015 Throckmorton Fine Art presents views of women, myth, and photography intertwined through nine pioneers who embrace new attitudes for women. Since 1896 through the present, freedom earned through personal decision and efforts includes the early social risks taken in a still-traditional society. Where women […]
SPRAWL! DRAWING OUTSIDE THE LINES
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Following up on the High Museum’s successful 2013 exhibition of drawings by Atlanta-based artists titled Drawing Inside the Perimeter, this exhibition presents more than one hundred drawings acquired by the High between June 2013 and May 2015. The exhibition acknowledges drawing as an independent artistic discipline with a long, rich history, one that represents a manner […]
THE HIGH: MONSTER DRAWING RALLY 2015
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Saturday, September 12 1-4PM Get in on the action and watch Georgia artists at work during the High’s second Monster Drawing Rally! In conjunction with the exhibition Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines and made possible by the Gudmond Vigtel Works on Paper Fund, the rally showcases approximately 75 local artists working in three one-hour shifts […]
THE HIGH: SERIOUSLY SILLY: THE ART AND WHIMSY OF MO WILLEMS
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Since the publication of his first picture book in 2003, Mo Willems (American, born 1968) has delighted children and parents alike with his prodigious contribution to children’s publishing. After a successful stint in television, Willems turned to writing and illustrating picture books. The beginning was auspicious; Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (2003) garnered a Caldecott […]
THE HIGH: SPRAWL! DRAWING OUTSIDE THE LINES
posted by Layla
Following up on the High Museum’s successful 2013 exhibition of drawings by Atlanta-based artists titled Drawing Inside the Perimeter, this exhibition presents more than one hundred drawings acquired by the High between June 2013 and May 2015. The exhibition acknowledges drawing as an independent artistic discipline with a long, rich history, one that represents a manner […]
THE HIGH: ALEX KATZ, THIS IS NOW
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Alex Katz emerged in the 1950s as a figurative painter in an age of abstraction, challenging critics who shunned imagery in art, especially the figure. While rejecting Abstract Expressionism’s abandonment of imagery, Katz embraced its energy and formal logic. Although best known for his portraits, Katz has painted landscapes both inside the studio and in […]
PAUL ECKE & THOMAS SCHOOS EXHIBITION OPENING- LOS ANGELES
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Paul Ecke is a mid-career painter of contemporary non-figurative and figurative works on canvas and panel. His works are an amalgam of color, texture and movement achieved through application of oil and acrylic paints to canvas, all applied by brush, hand and even trowel. The results are magnificent, colorful, thought and emotion-provoking images that convey […]
ANTIGUO COLEGIO DE SAN IDELFONSO- MURALS- MEXICO CITY
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MUSEO JUMEX- IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI & JERZY GROTOWSKI- MEXICO CITY
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CURATED BY ARTISTS: FERNANDO MESTA EVA SVENNUNG BERNADETTE VAN-HUY SUSANA VARGAS PETER WÄCHTLER NICOLAS CECCALDI POSSE PHOTOS:
MUSEO JUMEX – GUSTAV METZGER- MEXICO CITY
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Colección Júmex is believed to be the largest contemporary art collection in private hands in Latin America, with special emphasis on Mexican contemporary artists. POSSE PHOTOS:
CHAPULTEPEC CASTLE- HILOS DE HISTORIA / HISTORIC GARMENTS – MEXICO CITY
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY- MEXICO CITY
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The Coyolxauhqui monolith discovery in 1978, enabled the archaeologists to find the exact place where the pyramid stood, since the Huitzilopochtli myth tells that he threw his sister down from Coatepec mountain. The archaeological excavations of the Coyolxauhqui monolith that took place between 1978 and 1982 on the site of what was once the Main Temple of Mexica […]
SALA DE ARTE PUBLICO SIQUEIROS: FRANCIS ALYS- HOTEL JUAREZ- MEXICO CITY
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SALA DE ARTE PUBLICO SIQUEIROS- MEXICO CITY
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In 1973, the artist Siqueiros donated this building, which was his home and studio, to the people of Mexico. POSSE PHOTOS:
MUSEO CASA ESTUDIO DIEGO RIVERA Y FRIDA KAHLO – SAN ANGEL- MEXICO CITY
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The Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo is comprised of four buildings, three houses and a photo lab studies, which were designed and built by noted architect Juan O’Gorman Mexican artist Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo who inhabited the property from 1934. The museum is dedicated to the promotion, preservation and promotion of […]
TEOTIHUACAN – CITY OF THE GODS- MEXICO- PYRAMID OF THE SUN, TEMPLE OF QUETZALPAPALOTL, AVENUE OF THE DEAD
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FROM VISITMEXICO.COM: The so called City of the Gods, Teotihuacan, preserves the remains of one of the most important civilizations in Mesoamerica. Regardless of where you will be starting you tour, you will be amazed by the beautiful constructions and by the mystery kept within the wall of the Pyramid of the Sun, the Temple […]
MUSEO FRIDA KAHLO CASA AZUL- APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING; FRIDA KAHLO’S WARDROBE – VOGUE EXHIBITION
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CASA AZUL FRIDA KAHLO MUSEUM- MEXICO CITY
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THE BLUE HOUSE: THE INNER WORLD OF Frida Kahlo By Hilda Trujillo Soto “Feet do I want if I have wings to fly” Frida Kahlo When you dig deeper into the knowledge of the work of Frida Kahlo and has the privilege of knowing your home, the intense relationship between discovered Frida, his work and his home. His […]
MUSEO SOUMAYA – MEXICO CITY
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A part of the Fundación Carlos Slim, A.C., Museo Soumaya opened its doors to the public in 1994. A non-profit cultural institution, its vocation is to collect, research, conserve, and exhibit the artistic heritage of Mexico and Europe principally. It aims to promote the understanding and enjoyment of works of art through a range of […]
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