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George Segal was born in New York on November 26, 1924 to a Jewish couple who emigrated from Eastern Europe. His parents first settled in the Bronx where they ran a butcher shop. They later moved to a New Jersey poultry farm. George spent many of his early years working on the poultry farm , helping his family through difficult times. For a while George lived with his aunt in Brooklyn so that he could attend Stuyvesant Technical High School and prepare himself for a future in the math/science field. It was here that George first discovered his love for art. During World War II he had to curtail his studies in order to help on the family poultry farm. He later attended Pratt, Cooper Union and finally New York University where he furthered his art education and received a teaching degree in 1949. It was during these years that Segal met other young artists eager to make statements based on the real world rather than the pure abstractionism that was all the rage. He joined the 10 th ...

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http://www.byebyekittyart.com/ BYE BYE KITTY!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art Friday, March 18 — Sunday, June 12 Bye Bye Kitty!!! is a radical departure from recent Japanese exhibitions. Moving far beyond the stereotypes of kawaii and otaku culture, Japan Society’s show features sixteen emerging and mid-career artists whose whose paintings, objects, photographs, videos, and installations meld traditional styles with challenging visions of Japan’s troubled present and uncertain future. ADMISSION $15; students & seniors $10; Japan Society Members and children under 16 free. Admission is free on Friday nights, 6 - 9 PM. GALLERY HOURS Tuesday-Thursday 11am - 6pm; Friday 11am - 9pm; Saturday & Sunday 11am - 5pm; Closed Mondays

"New French Writing" 2011 à New York Rencontres | Etats-Unis - New York 24/02/2011 La littérature d’expression française sera à l’honneur à New York du 24 au 26 février 2011. Les services culturels de l’ambassade de France, en partenariat avec l’université de New York (NYU) et l’Institut français, proposeront en effet la deuxième édition du « Festival of New French Writing », qui fut lancé avec succès en février 2009. En savoir + http://frenchwritingfestival.com/index.html

EXAMPLE D"ARTICLE QUE VOUS POURREZ LIRE,...... ......."Original comme cadeau ! Pour son 100ème anniversaire, la New York Public Library s'est offert un lifting intégral de façade. Il s'agit, plus précisément, de la façade de son bâtiment principal, le Stephen A. Schwarzman building, sur la 5e avenue, que la pluie, la pollution, les gaz d'échappement et les fientes de pigeons avaient sacrément abimé. Alors pendant trois ans, toute une équipe a minutieusement restauré la pierre, les colonnes et les statues de marbre. Désormais, les rosaces sont nettoyées, les têtes de lions sur les fenêtres ont retrouvé leur superbe, l'éléphant n°3 a récupéré ses oreilles et sa trompe et les visages féminins sont pleins et gracieux. Le résultat est saisissant et la facture aussi : 50 millions de dollars ! 100 ans, pas une ride et plein de projets ! "Le but était de rendre le bâtiment aussi beau qu'il l'était à l'origine" a déclaré Paul Leclerc, le Prési...

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin. His father was a lawyer and a well-known portrait painter. Yeats was educated in London and in Dublin, but he spent his summers in the west of Ireland in the family's summer house at Connaught. The young Yeats was very much part of the fin de siècle in London; at the same time he was active in societies that attempted an Irish literary revival. His first volume of verse appeared in 1887, but in his earlier period his dramatic production outweighed his poetry both in bulk and in import. Together with Lady Gregory he founded the Irish Theatre, which was to become the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. His plays usually treat Irish legends; they also reflect his fascination with mysticism and spiritualism. The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), The King's Threshold (1904), and Deirdre (1907) are among the ...

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Initials L.G. features portraits and rare images of the iconic French singer and artist Serge Gainsbourg from photographers Helmut Newton, William Klein, Patrick de Spiegelaere, Tony Frank, and other noted artists. The exhibit coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Gainsbourg’s untimely death in March 1991. A tribute to the artist’s subversive flair and vivid imagination, Initials L.G. was first shown to great success on the tenth anniversary of the Fifty One Fine Art Photography gallery in Belgium and at Sotheby’s Paris in February of 2011, before making its U.S. debut at FIAF. Most of the prints on display will be for sale. The exhibition at Sotheby's in Paris received rave reviews from numerous publications. Check out this article in the Wall Street Journal. Exhibition curated by Roger Szmulewicz. Courtesy of Fifty One Fine Art Photography Gallery . SOURCE http://www.fiaf.org/events/spring2011/2011-03-24-gallery.shtml?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_con...

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NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s on 12 April 2011 auction of Russian Art in New York will feature paintings and works of art with exceptional provenance and art-historical importance. The paintings on offer are highlighted by works from iconic Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan, Nicholas Roerich, Boris Grigoriev, and Yuri Pimenov, whose canvas The Pianist leads an impressive group of works by the Soviet Realist artist (est. $500/700,000*). The works of art are led by An Important and Rare Micromosaic Table by Gioacchino Barberi after Alexander Orlovski Made for the Russian Court 1830-33, one of the rarest and most extraordinary micromosaic tabletops known to exist, which was likely made for Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia from 1825-55, or a member of his court (est. $400/600,000). The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 7 April, alongside the auctions of Magnificent Jewels and Important Watches. ... if i...

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA Public Programs On The Death of Tom Wednesday, March 23 8 pm Glenn Ligon’s latest video work, The Death of Tom (2008), offers an abstractionist recreation of the final scene in Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 silent movie Uncle Tom’s Cabin , based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe . Ligon asked experimental jazz musician, pianist, and composer Jason Moran to create a soundtrack for this piece, playing to changes in light on the screen. Join us tonight as Moran re-scores Ligon's film in a live and improvised setting. The film and performance will be followed by a conversation between Ligon and Moran, moderated by Terrance McKnight. Reflections on the Midcareer Retrospective Thursday, April 21 7 pm What does a midcareer retrospective mean for an artist, and how is a career defined? This roundtable takes up these questions on the occasion of Glenn Ligon’s midcareer exhibition. The Whitney has long supported living artists at key moments in their careers,...

Maître Capello est décédé dimanche à l’âge de 88 ans, annonce ce matin le site de tele 7 jours . “Il se sera battu toute sa vie contre les dérives de la langue française, traquant impitoyablement les fautes d’orthographe et de grammaire tous azimuts. Dimanche, à l’âge de 88 ans, Maître Capello a tiré sa révérence " indique le site de l’hebdo télé auquel il a fourni pendant de nombreuses années ses grilles de mots fléchés. Car telle était la passion de ce drôle d’enseignant du secondaire, de son vrai nom, Jacques Capelovici, agrégé d’Anglais et polyglotte célèbre. Les téléspectateurs des jeux de 20 heures, qu’il illumina à la fin des années soixante-dix et pendant les années quatre-vingts, ne risquent pas d’oublier ce personnage, pas plus que les anciens du Lycée Lakanal (en région parisienne). Prompt à distribuer les heures de colle, cette figure avait aussi pour habitude de faire faire à ses élèves, en guise d’interros écrites, des…mots croisés dont il dessinait la grille sur le...

I CAN'T RESIST to pass the information on, even though I left Singapore just before the opening ....Next time.. Source: http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/artscience-museum-opens-in-singapore/ Singapore has a bauble to add to its collection: the ArtScience Museum , which opened last month in a building designed by Moshe Safdie. The museum adds a brainy element to the Las Vegas-style Marina Bay Sands development, which includes a casino, 2,561-room hotel, seven restaurants from big-name chefs and a park on the roof. Some design features are a tribute to the museum’s content. For example, the lotus-blossom-shaped building funnels rainwater from the roof via a 115-foot waterfall through the central atrium to a lily pond in the lobby and, later, the restrooms. About 50,000 square feet of interior exhibition space covers the creative overlap of artistic and scientific invention, including a suspended model of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine. Touch-screen computers survey...

Asia Week New York 2011 is an unprecedented collaboration among Asian art specialists , 5 auction houses, and 18 museums and Asian cultural institutions in the metropolitan New York area from March 18-26, 2011. Simultaneous exhibitions presented by 34 prominent Asian art dealers from the U.S. and abroad, auctions at Bonhams , Christie’s , Sotheby’s , Doyle New York and iGavel , as well as dozens of special events are planned for this period. Asia Week New York will co-host with Asia Society the opening reception and a mid-week reception with Japan Society . All exhibitions, auctions, and events are listed in a comprehensive 88-page guide with maps, available at the participating galleries, auction houses, and cultural institutions as well as on the Asia Week New York web site, asiaweekny.com. “As a result of our combined efforts, we are confident that this dynamic week will be stronger and more unified than it ever has been for the collectors, curators and scholars who converge ...

ART REVIEW By HOLLAND COTTER Big Continent, Much to See A quick guide to the highlights of Asia Week at galleries around New York. Not so long ago Manhattan’s annual spring Asia Week was feeling diminished. The Asian Art Fair had folded. Gallery shows were scattered around town. Collective energy was low. READ MORE http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/arts/design/asia-week-offers-many-highlights.html?ref=design Enlarge This Image Nancy Wiener Gallery “Emaciated Siddhartha” can be seen until Thursday at the Nancy Wiener Gallery.

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Joyce Kozloff is known for paintings with flat, colorful, abstract patterning and for repetitive geometric forms that produce strong variations of line, shape, and color. Her work is intended to be purely decorative and pleasureable and not tied to any particular culture. In the 1980s, she did numerous site-specific works with tiles and mosaics including the "New England Decorative Arts" for the Harvard Square Subway Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and two works for One Penn Plaza in Philadelphia. A later project involved a series of thirty-two watercolors, each twenty-two inches square titled Patterns of Desire . Kozloff earned her BFA degree at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1964, and her MFA from Columbia University in 1967. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York City; Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey' and the University of Florence in Italy. She has held teaching positions i...

http://artparis.fr/2011/en ARTPARIS 2011 L'événement reflétant la vitalité du marché de l’art au printemps Le salon ARTPARIS, réunit plus de 120 galeries internationales d'art contemporain, d'art moderne et de design. 17 pays sont représentés, et plus de 48.000 visiteurs attendus. ARTPARIS présente de nombreux projets artistiques exclusifs, et de nombreux événements culturels inédits pour une édition 2011 toujours plus surprenante !

February 2, 2011, 5:58 PM Karsan’s Taxi Introduces Itself to Potential Passengers By PHIL PATTON Karsan, the Turkish company whose taxi design is one of three finalists in New York’s Taxi of Tomorrow competition, showed off the first prototype of its body at a press event in Manhattan on Wednesday. Currently circulating on the city’s streets are 16 different taxi models, but as early as 2013, a single taxi design will be on the road and will carry the designation for 10 years, with annual sales of 2,650 vehicles. The Karsan V1 is in competition with the Ford Transit Connect and Nissan NV200, although the Taxi and Limousine Commission has said it may not chose any of the three....... read more http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/karsans-taxi-introduces-itself-to-potential-passengers/

ARTIST PROJECT NEW YORK **ARTIST PROJECT ** March 17-20 After the Armory Show,...let's go again Pier 92 but this time meet the artists..without the galleries....Be sure to stop and say hello to BRUCE THURMAN more info B R U C E T H U R M A N ( booth # 411) The Artist Project New York - Pier 92 - March 17 - 20 2011 The standardized format of the books (mixed media on wood), offers a neutral surface onto which I stage my little dramas, project memories and vent anxieties. They are make-believe sketchbooks, pasted over and cut up, storyboards with movable pages. Referential in nature and constructivist in process, they could be looked upon as modern day (miniature) diptychs. I try not to plan them out too much in advance or pre-design them. They have an unfinished feel, a grit due to their being themselves both studies and works in progress. In a sense, the notebooks are a parody of the design process itself, a virtual sketchpad that has become my personal narrative. Bruce Thurman was...

SINGAPOUR DEBAT SUR L’ART - Rencontre avec un des acteurs de la place artistique Écrit par florence notte 0 Commentaires Alors que la Biennale d’Art contemporain* a ouvert ses portes ce dimanche, le galeriste François Grossas nous livre son opinion sur la place et l’évolution de l’Art à Singapour Travaillant dans le monde de la finance, François a commencé à collectionner des œuvres d’Art à Washington. Il faudra attendre son second séjour à Singapour pour que l’idée d’ouvrir une galerie prenne vraiment forme. Galerie Waterton ouvre ses portes en 2009 et se spécialisera dans la peinture du Sud Est Asiatique. François avouera qu’il est rentré dans le monde de l’Art grâce et à cause de la peinture indonésienne qu’il trouve très créative contrairement à celle du Vietnam trop imitative à son gout. Il assiste alors au premier Art Singapore Show, en 2000, fréquente de nombreuses galeries implantées à l‘époque dans des shop- houses et y rencontre des collectionneurs, peu nombreux mais...

Cindy Sherman Untitled, 1989 Color photograph,(Image) 48 7/8 x 41 15/16 inches, Edition of 6 Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum January 29, 2011 - April 23, 2011 The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, is pleased to announce its major winter exhibition featuring the work of one of today’s most influential artists, photographer Cindy Sherman. Opening Saturday, January 29, 2011, and on view through April 23, 2011, Cindy Sherman: Works from Friends of the Bruce Museum is comprised of approximately 30 works, including large-scale black-and-white and color photographs, drawn from ten local collections in Greenwich and the surrounding communities. The exhibition features the artist’s favored themes and suggests something of the chameleon-like diversity of her art. Click here for programs related to the exhibition. Although Sherman is the model for her photographs, she is essentially serving as the material for her work, as an...

one of our discovery in Singapore is.......Australasian Arts Projects Australasian Arts Projects Information: Contact: Gabrielle Cummins and Simone Lourey Email: gbbat@sprint.net.au Phone: 9771 8974 Address: 303 Tanglin Road Singapore 247952 readabout their past Project: Each with two decades of arts management experience, Gabrielle Cummins and Simone Lourey have joined forces to create a new arts event company in Singapore – Australasian Arts Projects. The Utopia Story is their first project. Combing their skills and interests, Gabrielle and Simone have established Australasian Arts Company to encourage the growth of the arts in Singapore, and beyond. Having met whilst completing their fine art and literature degrees at the University of Melbourne, Gabrielle and Simone graduated to professional careers in marketing, public relations and events management in the arts industry. Their experience lies in publishing, performing and visual arts in Australia and with Simone, in Asia as well...