The Museum of Modern Art will remain open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, from January through June 2010, the museum announced on Wednesday. These evenings, called MoMA Nights, will include music by D.J.s, a cash bar and gallery talks. A prix fixe dinner created by the chef Lynn Bound will be available in the museum’s Cafe 2 and gallery talks. Regular museum admission applies. While the museum has been opening at night in the summer, this is the first time that MoMA has established an ongoing evening program. The first MoMA Night will feature DJ AJ Slim, and the Anne Aghion’s documentary, “My Neighbor, My Killer,” will be screened in MoMA’s Theater 2. Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com |
Three years after reaching a tentative agreement with the city, the Whitney Museum of American Art is forging ahead with plans to build a second museum at the entrance to the High Line, the abandoned elevated railway line that has recently been transformed into a public park. |
The museum signed a contract last month with the New York City Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site at Washington and Gansevoort Streets, in the meatpacking district, for $18 million. That is about half the appraised value of the property, a sign of the city’s interest in drawing visitors to the area. |
According to the final agreement, the Whitney has up to four years to close on the purchase of the land and five years to begin construction of the building, designed by Renzo Piano. The museum will make nonrefundable monthly payments of $50,000 to the city until the closing date, which has not been determined. These payments will be credited toward the purchase price. (The balance is due at the closing.) Read more at www.nytimes.com |
| P.S.1 presents a large-scale wall installation by the artist Chitra Ganesh, for the second installment of the new series “On-site” which continues P.S.1’s long standing tradition of commissioning site-specific, wall based projects. Ganesh’s new wall piece, The Silhouette Returns (2009), was put on view in the P.S.1 lobby this October 1, 2009 and will continue through April 5, 2010.
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Chitra Ganesh creates wall installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and animations that make use of an expansive visual vocabulary that ranges from Bollywood films, comics and graphic novels, to iconic feminist imagery. For P.S.1’s lobby, she presents The Silhouette Returns (2009) which features elements in Sumi and India inks, cut paper, washes of color, and found objects like sequins, plastic fruits, and fake hair. For this installation – her brightest wall piece to date – the artist draws from the aesthetics of glam rock and the kitsch of The Rocky Horror Picture Show which is evident in the use of glitter and the vivid orange and yellow hues. The piece draws inspiration from the character, The Silhouette, in Alan Moore’s 1980s graphic novel Watchmen. As one of the original superheroes in the comic book series, The Silhouette is discriminated against and ultimately murdered for coming out as a lesbian.
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As a whole, the work suggests links between myth, ritual, and high and low culture as well as connections between countries and continents. Like in past installations, she seeks to excavate and circulate buried narratives typically excluded from the official canon.
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“Someday,” Bob Dylan sang, “everything’s gonna be different when I paint my masterpiece.” Is this different enough to qualify? Nearly 100 paintings made by Mr. Dylan, an artist better known for his throat than for his palette, will go on display next year at the Statens Museum for Kunst (Danish National Gallery) in Copenhagen, Reuters reported. The exhibition, which is planned to open in fall 2010, will include the world premiere of 30 acrylic paintings from Mr. Dylan’s “Brazil Series,” as well as paintings from his “Drawn Blank” series that were previously shown in Britain and Germany. (Before you ask, a representative for Mr. Dylan told Reuters that he did not know what the new paintings would depict or how the singer chose the names of his series.) In a statement, the museum’s chief curator, Kasper Monrad, said, “Bob Dylan’s visual artistic practice has only been discussed by art historians to a limited extent so critical examination and interpretation are called for.” Dylanologists will recall that a sample of the singer’s painting can also be found on the cover of his not exactly beloved 1970 album “Self Portrait.” Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com |
| NEW YORK, NY.- Fourteen contemporary artists have created works about Mary Magdalene for Gallery Met, inspired by the company’s new production of Puccini’s Tosca, which opens the 2009-10 season on September 21. The exhibition Something about Mary features original works by Hugh Bush, Paul Chan, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, John Currin, Rachael Feinstein, Barnaby Furnas, Elizabeth Peyton, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Shahzia Sikander, Rudolf Stingel and Francesco Vezzoli. Artists Marlene Dumas and Kiki Smith are lending previously created works on the same subject. The exhibition opens on September 22 and runs through the end of January. … MoreRead more at www.artdaily.org |
| the Picasso Museum in Paris closed its doors on Sunday and will not reopen them to visitors for more than two years as it undergoes an extensive renovation, The Associated Press reported. The 32,000-square-foot museum, which opened in 1985 in Paris’s Marais district, holds about 5,000 pieces of art by Picasso, including paintings, sculptures and sketches, but was only able to display between 250 and 300 at a time. During the renovation, which is expected to cost about $28 million and begin next year, the museum will be expanded and made more accessible, as well having electrical problems fixed.Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com |
| Notable Japanese Mandalas Go on View at Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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NEW YORK, NY.- A loan exhibition featuring an impressive group of Japanese mandalas, graphic depictions of the Buddhist universe and its myriad realms and deities, will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 18. Showcasing more than 60 magnificent works—painting, sculpture, drawing, metalwork, stoneware, textiles, and lacquer—drawn from major museums and collections in the United States, Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars will illustrate the exceptional and complex world of Esoteric Buddhist art in Japan. Highlights of the exhibition include a set of monumental 13th-century mandalas on loan from the Brooklyn Museum—this pair was selected by the Japanese government to be conserved in Japan. Displayed in tandem with iconographic drawings that explain the character and placement of the deities, the mandalas will introduce the viewer to the supreme Buddha Dainichi Nyorai, the principle buddha of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, and his innumerable emanations and avatars across the Buddhist cosmos.
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The Museum will offer an array of educational programs in conjunction with the exhibition, including Under the Gaze of the Stars: Astral Mandalas in Medieval Japan, a lecture by Bernard Faure, Kao Professor in Japanese Religion, Columbia University (November 7), and Collectors and Collections, a panel discussion with collectors Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, moderated by Sinéad Kehoe (November 14).
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