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World Art - December 2006

HACKED BY DARK LORD: Deborah Kelly downloadable prints

December 31st 2006 23:06
At the Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney. Currently exhibiting are works by Deborah Kelly. They cover an array of print mediums from stickers, postcards and downloadable pdf prints which can be inserted neatly into contemporary visual life so as to be almost at the point of disappearance as artworks. In terms of the ‘rules’ of printmaking this kind of work also throws up a series of questions that interrogate the very nature of the print, the multiple and the original work of art. Is the ‘print’ the outputted document or is it the pdf file itself? Is the matrix the file or the printer?


12 October 2006 - 25 March 2007
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Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art

December 31st 2006 22:51
Gifted pays tribute to Mollie Gowing, one of the most significant champions of contemporary Indigenous art and her ongoing support for the Gallery. Included are major acquisitions by Emily Kam Ngwarray, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Queenie McKenzie, Ken Thaiday and others.

2 December 2006 - 15 April 2007 at NSW Art Gallery
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Anne Landa Award

December 31st 2006 22:39
This is the second award exhibition for the moving image and new media in Australia and has been established in honour of Anne Landa. It includes DVDs, animations and digital media from some of Australia's most innovative artists.

Featuring Philip Brophy • Daniel Crooks • James Lynch • Tony Schwensen • Grant Stevens • Monika Tichacek • Daniel von Sturmer
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The 10 most memorable art shows of the year

December 31st 2006 01:36
From the Toronto Star - check out what it rates as its 10 most memorable art shows of the year. controversial to say the least. You can find the list here

Although one exhibition I loved was "Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964" at the Art Gallery of Ontario. "Supernova" made for a sharp, smart show at its debut at the Walker Arts Centre in Minneapolis. It was even better once re-curated here with the addition of films chosen by David Cronenberg - really good.
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Douglas Gordon: '24 Hour Psycho'

December 31st 2006 01:31
Douglas Gordon won the 1996 Turner Prize on the basis of a single work: his famous '24 Hour Psycho'. First shown at Glasgow's Tramway 13 years ago, it was and will always remain the one work synonymous with his name - It is Gordon's shark, his bed, his bloody head. Now it is being reexhibited at the Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA.


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Video Killed the Painting: Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery, Amsterdam,

December 31st 2006 01:27
Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, is currently presenting ‘Video Killed the Painting’, an exhibited curated by Bart de Koning Gans, which will be on view from December 27, 2006 until February 3, 2007.

The exhibition argues that our language of immediacy has made us hungry for quick imagery, however video art teaches us to 're'-observe by taking our time to look. True it is very annoying when it is bad but when it is good the reward is worth the wait. Video forces us to view, listen and take time to adjust. Paintings and sculptures can more easily be divided into bad and good with a brief glance, yet with video it demands your time.
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Maurizio Cattelan: more shocking images

December 29th 2006 23:41
I recently covered how Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan caused a stir in Milan where he has created a work depicting three children hanging from a tree. You can see the image by clicking here.

The life-sized dummies angered Milanese residents so much that one resident, Franco Di Benedetto climbed the tree and cut the dummies down, concussing himself in the process. Local residents had grown increasingly angry about the work, one resident, Alessandra Pieroni, commenting:
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Call for Artists: THE PINCH, A Literary Journal

December 29th 2006 04:57
The Pinch, the literary journal of the University of Memphis, seeks art to be featured in forthcoming issues. Published twice yearly by U. of M., printed by Hignell, and distributed nationally by Ingram, the journal serves as a forum for both established and emerging writers as well as visual artists.

Included is the award-winning Art on Paper, is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to covering art in the paper medium. Each issue presents a carefully balanced selection of periods (contemporary, modern and old master), with comprehensive, informative, yet readable feature articles and exciting special sections. Art professionals, collectors, and artists read Art on Paper regularly to increase their knowledge and to stay on top of the latest developments in the art world.
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Sun donates art of rival HP co-founders

December 28th 2006 05:12
In what has been described as a coup for business interests, For five months, Sun Microsystems Inc. owned a life-size painted cutout depicting the co-founders of its rival, Hewlett-Packard Co., the product of a zany, cross-country art project.

Sun snapped up the painting for $6,000 in August after HP refused to buy it for the company lobby, and the piece became a jocular fixture on Sun's Menlo Park campus.
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Oceanic Artefacts 'first peoples' exhibition in Sydney

December 25th 2006 23:17
Chase contemporary & tribal arts is exhibiting select high end authentic Oceanic and
South East Asian tribal artifacts created by the unknown master carvers and artists of the "first people", a rather trite term the gallery uses to describe tribal antique art.

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The Girl's Room: By The Dreier Project

December 25th 2006 23:09
The Dreier Project, a not-for-profit arts organization based in New York City, announced today the exhibition of The Girl’s Room which opened at jen bekman, 6 Spring Street New York, NY on Wednesday, December 20, 2006 and remains on view through Saturday, January 13, 2007.

The Girl’s Room is the inaugural show for The Dreier Project. The Girl’s Room is an art show featuring work done by an international group of female artists.
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Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

December 21st 2006 23:52
A look into the Nazi regime’s genocide of millions of Jews and other minorities through 'racial hygiene' is illustrated in the latest exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh USA. Contemporary ethical issues such as applied genetic research and medically-assisted suicide are evoked through this historic tale of 'science as salvation' during the Holocaust.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race presents a look into the murder of six million Jews in the name of applied biology. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race will be presented at The Andy Warhol Museum from December 17 through March 18, 2007. The exhibition explores both the then-contemporary scientific and pseudo-scientific thought of human genetic makeup that lie at the root of the Holocaust, a sobering tale at this time of world conflict and growing antisemitism
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Tony Pearson: images from the bodybuilding hall of fame

December 19th 2006 23:43
Tony Pearson is one of the greats when it comes to bodybuilding. He was born in Memphis but grew up in St. Louis. Reportedly, he wasn't focused and goofed off in school--not realizing the importance of making school academics a priority. His interests were those of a normal kid until he met Muhammad Ali speaking at a high school when he was about 14 years old. Tony calls Muhammed " my first role model and inspiration. To me, he was the epitome of athleticism".

Tony's bodybuilding career began to take flight as he worked his way through the amateur competitive ranks in 1978 winning Mr. Los Angeles, Jr. Mr. USA, Jr. Mr. America, and finally, the frosting on the cake, Mr. America. Hard work didn't go unnoticed even by the world's most famous bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who featured Tony in his first "Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding." Then, in 1979 Pearson traveled to Europe winning the Mr. World and the pro Mr. Olympus titles. Following in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony then captured the coveted Mr. Universe title in London the following year.
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Berlin's KW Institute: INTO ME / OUT OF ME

December 19th 2006 05:25
Spanning a period of over forty years of contemporary art and featuring an international group of artists, Into Me / Out of Me employs a wide range of media. The exhibition highlights the literal and metaphorical ways that humans interact with each other, themselves, and material matter. The focus is on three primordial and radical relationships between the internal and the external: metabolism (eating, drinking, excreting…), reproduction (intercourse, birth…), and violence (shooting, impaling, perforation…). These complex vital exchanges are illuminated through mythological confrontations, ritualized practices, and self-explorations. The physicality, permeability and fragility of the body has been explored to represent the human condition in contemporary life and art over the past forty years.

Among the more than 130 international artists in the exhibition are Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Ana Mendieta, John Miller, Frank Moore, Pipilotti Rist, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.
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The Bar of Modern Art: Toys - Fragmentation

December 17th 2006 22:06
Something a little different - BoMA: The Bar of Modern Art has announce and upcoming designer toy show. Unusual for the largely market oriented toy manufacturing community the show is coined Operation: Fragmentation.

The group exhibition will feature customized creations by twenty-four renowned underground artists from around the world. The exhibition will be on view in BoMA’s first-floor Salon Gallery in Columbus, America from December 12, 2006 through January 21, 2007.
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Mexican artist Laura Castanedo's '86 Year Journey'

December 15th 2006 00:02
The border city of Tecate, Baja California Mexico on December 14, 2006, will open the exhibition 'Requiem for a Globetrotter - an 86 Year Journey', work of Mexican artist Laura Castanedo.


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Michelle Wardley: Tidal

December 12th 2006 22:09
Nomadic ocean artist Michelle Wardley has returned to her Perth stomping ground after 5 1/2 years of travelling around Australia and the indo pacific. Michelle arrived at the Vic Park Art Centre on Saturday, December 9, 2006, with her exhibition 'Tidal' after touring throughout the north west, Midwest and Goldfields with the collection of over 30 oil paintings 'inspired by the energy of the sea & the many places on my path'. The Exhibition until Sunday the 24th December 2006 and as a part of her state wide tour.Michelle Wardley has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2002.
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VH1's The Surreal Life, Season 2

December 7th 2006 23:22
I just watched the last episode of VH1's 'the surreal life'. The series saw Traci Bingham (Baywatch), Ron Jeremy (Pornstar), Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Tammy Baker (television evangelist), Eric Estrada (Chips) and Trishelle Canatella (Real World Las Vegas) living together in a house in the Hollywood Hills and basically just taped everything that went on. Sursprisingly, the show was great entertainment.

All the housemates were really thoughtful, engaging and articulate, except when smashed or raging out of control. But overall there was a great family dynamic that was established as the series progressed and the stars got to know one another. It was also really valuable for the way that it debunked a lot of the mythologies surrounding a number of the celebrities. Ron Jeremy is not a perverted sex freak, Vanilla Ice is not a lame white boy rapper, and Trischelle is not a slutty alcoholic. They all came across as regular, but often troubled, people.
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Canadian Maria Lobo’s new collection 'Circular'

December 7th 2006 23:08
Sin Sin Fine Art in Singapore is currently presenting Canada-based Maria Lobo’s new collection entitled 'Circular'. Tracking against the authoritive Singaporean regime, for this collection of new works, Lobo has been inspired by abstract Zen brushwork. The abstract expressionists, splashes of ink are juxtaposed with graphic forms and blocks of color. These contrasts and juxtapositions expand on themes that we have come to recognize in her work.

They mirror her constant themes of East and West, order and chaos, peacefulness and challenge. The paintings reflect a struggle to find a balance these themes. This ephemeral effort toward a lively balance is said to continue ceaselessly for many of us in our daily lives.
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Invoice: Santu Mofokeng

December 5th 2006 22:34
A major retrospective on one of South Africa's most important photographers is opening on 2 December at the Iziko S A National Gallery in Cape Town. 'Invoice' is a survey show of the work of Santu Mofokeng, one of South Africa's foremost photographers and, according to international curator Simon Njami, 'one of the most important photographers of his generation'.

The exhibition, which runs until 2 May 2007, includes photographs from virtually all his major bodies of work produced in the period between 1982 and 2006, and is a landmark event designed to coincide with the photographer's 50th year.
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Joshua Levine exhibition: reimagining the 'Trophy Room'

December 4th 2006 21:13
Irvine Contemporary is presently showing two concurrent exhibitions opening Saturday, December 2: The Trophy Room, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Joshua Levine.The new installation of sculptures for The Trophy Room by internationally acclaimed artist, Joshua Levine, presents a collection of fantasy animals in a “trophy room” of the future.

At a time when creating designer animals through genetic engineering is a common practice, Levine presents wonderfully designed sculptures of hybrid “game” animals as trophy fetishes, reconsidering the nature of sport, nature and the market. Find out more atArtnet.com
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