The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have announced the selection of Chelsea Knight, a New York-based artist whose narrative-based videos, photographs and participatory performances explore the nature of social control and the current state of democracy, will serve as the Freund Fellow for the 2011-12 academic year. Stih & Schonock, a Berlin-based … [Read more...]
Sam Fox School Dean Carmon Colangelo talks about the new exhibition of Contemporary art from Germany. In the globalized and interconnected world of today, old certainties give way to threats of climate change, economic collapse, war and terrorism. This exhibition explores some thematic connections between some of Germany's most influential contemporary artists. Also featured is a fabulous installation by Tomas Saraceno, a work that will take you … [Read more...]
Holland Cotter wrote a brilliant review for this morning's New York Times. This retrospective of de Kooning opens Sunday at MoMA and fills the entire 6th floor of the museum. The video is from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Robert Rauschenberg describing the process of creating his famous Erased de Kooning Drawing. … [Read more...]
The Museum of Pocket Art began with the idea that everyone should carry in the pocket a piece of art to share with others. This could be a better idea than a business card. … [Read more...]
Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Sheldon Art Galleries Director talks about "The Ties That Bind: Art Quilts by Members of the Fiber Artists Coalition" in the Bellwether Gallery of St. Louis Artists. … [Read more...]
The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (CAM) is showing the work of London-based Australian artist David Noonan. Noonan incorporates photographic imagery of performers in collaged, painterly, or sculptural formats. The documentary images of events and happenings are transformed into fiction. Large-scale works featuring evocative photographic images from various sources such as books about experimental theater or puppetry, as well as Japanese … [Read more...]
Craft Alliance in Grand Center Gallery presents GUERRA DE LA PAZ: Follow the Leader. Guerra de la Paz is the composite name representing the creative team of Cuban born artists, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. This installation is named after the popular children’s game where the object is to pick a leader and then fall in line. Resonating social order and natural selection, the installation transcends a child's game, touching on the … [Read more...]
Sacrifice is a universal experience. We would say it is archetypal, meaning it is one of the patterns of behavior we human beings are subject to. The root words for sacrifice mean "to make sacred," which prompts me to ask just what is it that is made sacred? And what does it mean that something is made sacred? In our modern world sacrifice is one of those experiences, like death, that we don't like to encounter, yet it is a reality of … [Read more...]
Raised in Nsukka, Nigeria Nnenna Okore was inspired by the graceful movement of the Egret, a bird she called 'Shokoloko'. Stephanie Kirkland of Craft Alliance walks and talks us through an overview of this dramatic show, in interaction of materials and processes. Craft Alliance … [Read more...]
3701 Grandel Sq. (314) 615-3624 "Are You Ready: Community Emergency Disaster Preparedness Forum | A 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance Program" Sept. 10, 2011. 8960 Jennings Station Rd. (314) 388-9840 (Open Mondays through Fridays, 10:00 to 5:00.) http://www.ulstl.org/vaughn_cultural_center.aspx … [Read more...]
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