ON YOUR WAY TO NYC??

From MoMA website: William Kentridge. Drawing from Stereoscope 1998–99. Charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil on paper, 47 1/4 x 63" (120 x 160 cm).

New Kentridge exhibition about to open at MoMA NYC.
Should be worth a visit...........even online!

OLAFUR ELIASSON MICROSITE NOW LIVE!

To coincide with the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opening 10 December, the MCA has launched a microsite dedicated to all things Eliasson.

Regularly updated posts feature artist profiles, interviews and articles about Eliasson's large-scale installations. All this and more at eliasson.com.au

BUZZ FOR THE KALDOR PROJECTS EXHIBITION

WHAT Kaldor Public Art Projects

WHO John Kaldor and Anthony Bond

WHEN Tuesday 6 October @ 6:00pm

WHERE College of Fine Arts, Main Lecture Theatre (EGO2), Cnr Oxford Street & Greens Road, Paddington

COST Free & Open to the Public

October 6th

KALDOR PEER2PEER (done by North Sydney Girls HS students)

View the video

CURRENT WHITELEY STUDIO EXHIBITION

ICONIC WHITELEY 12th September 2009 - 4th April 2010

This collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings at the Whiteley Studio represents many facets of Brett Whiteley’s career. Several works are well-known favourites from his early success in Europe and Australia, from his late teens and early twenties, including the Abstraction, Christie and Zoo series, through to his popular Lavender Bay, Paris and Bird series. From Brett Whiteley Studio Website

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

Come and have a look at this years offerings to the holy HSC God:)
KP:)

LATE NOTICE FOR EXHIBITION OPENING

Susan Milne and Greg Stonehouse - An exhibition of public art process and installation.
Manly Art Gallery Friday 1st May 6-8pm
Ms Invite v2
Also a catalogue for the event.

This would be a very useful event to attend, as these artists eloquently describe their works and the realities surrounding the making and installation of public art projects.
KP

NEW EXHIBITION @ THE MCA - I WALK THE LINE: NEW AUSTRALIAN DRAWING

From the MCA...I LOVED this exhibition showing new approaches to drawing - comprehensive and engaging.

All the best,

Sal

I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing

17 MARCH - 24 MAY 2009

Drawing is enjoying a renaissance in contemporary Australian art. This exhibition examines new approaches to drawing and the reinvigoration of drawing practice by many (mostly young) artists from across the nation who have spear-headed its resurgent popularity.

The exhibition adopts the traditional definition of drawing as ‘mark-making’, but its focus extends to performative works that feature the production of marks as well as art objects. As a result it includes both drawings and works about drawing.

The range of works comprises collaborative and performative drawings, animation, as well as works that feature the cross-over between drawing and the graphic arts. From MCA website

YAYOI KUSAMA @ MCA

Took my Year 12 class to ARTEXPRESS last week and after they were finished "being intimidated" by some of the beautiful and innovative work there we moved on to the MCA.

We went to see the Simryn Gill exhibition (and it was very good) but then we had about 25 mins to spare, so we visited the Mirrored Years by Yayoi Kusama and it was FANTASTIC!!

The perfect "upnote" to end the excursion on. Some of the exhibits have been shown here before, but the mirrored room (Fireflies on Water) and the room covered in fluoro dots have to be seen to be appreciated!

The students were very impressed and it doesn't hurt that she is part of our next case study! If you have a chance to visit, you won't be disappointed. At the MCA Sydney until 8th June 2009.

Working across different media and forms that include painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film, as well as performance and its documentation, Kusama creates works that reveal a fixation with repetition, pattern and accumulation. Describing herself as an “obsessive artist”, her work is intensely sensual, infused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content.

From MCA website

Image from Time Out Sydney (review there too).

Enjoy
KP:)

JENNY HOLZER @ THE WHITNEY

Jenny Holzer is having a show @ The Whitney in NYC. The site resources look really fantastic, with images, video and even the exhibition brochure (they use Scribd too).

Have a look and let's see how we can develop this as a resource!

PROTECT PROTECT

Jenny Holzer's pioneering approach to language as a carrier of content and her use of nontraditional media and public settings as vehicles for that content make her one of the most interesting and significant artists working today. Alternating between fact and fiction, the public and the private, the universal and the particular, Holzer's work offers an incisive social and psychological portrait of our times. PROTECT PROTECT centers on Holzer's work since the 1990s and is the artist's most comprehensive exhibition in the United States in more than fifteen years.
Text from The Whitney website; Image from Art das Kunstmagazin

KP;)