| SERAPHINE – THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S GREATEST ARTISTS |
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Winner of seven French Academy awards, including Best Picture, the critically acclaimed Séraphine is the incredible true story of the artist, Séraphine Louis.
In the early 1900s Séraphine worked as a cleaner in Senlis, a small town outside Paris and for many years painted in the evenings in secret until her work was eventually discovered by a German art collector and brought to public attention. However, Séraphine struggled for the rest of her life with her gift and the success that it would bring her. A passionate, inspiring and deeply moving drama, Séraphine is released in UK cinema... read more and play video... |
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| ARTISTS AUDITION FOR SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S REALITY TV SHOW |
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NYArtBeat films the long line of artists waiting to show their work to the judges of Sarah Jessica Parker's art reality TV show. Bravo's casting for the show took places in many cities across the US and in July 2009, including New York where this film was made. In the series, 13 contestants will compete for a gallery exhibition, a cash prize and a sponsored national tour. No dates for transmission have been given yet. |
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| NANCY SPERO 1926 - 2009 |
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This film by artpopulus celebrates the work of Nancy Spero, who died on 18 October 2009. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and lived most of her life in New York City. She was married to and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Spero's career spanned 50 years. Her work engages with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns, and with the representation of women from prehistory to the present. |
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| LUC TUYMANS AT THE WEXNER CENTER, OHIO |
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The curators behind the first retrospective of Luc Tuymans in the US discuss his work and enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. The most comprehensive presentation of his work to date, the exhibition spans every phase of Tuymans' career and features more than 70 key paintings from 1978 to the present.
Luc Tuymans
September 17, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 N. High Street
Columbus, OH 43210
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| OLIVER BEER: WINNER OF NEW SENSATIONS 2009 |
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Profile of Oliver Beer, the winner of New Sensations 2009, an art prize for UK graduates organised by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4. The film is produced by Tenement films. New Sensations
The New Sensations 2009 exhibition is at the A Foundation, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, Club Row, London E2 from 9-19 October. |
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| NICK GOSS: A FINALIST OF NEW SENSATIONS 2009 |
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Profile of Nick Goss, a finalist of New Sensations 2009, an art prize for UK graduates organised by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4. The film is produced by Tenement films. New Sensations
The New Sensations 2009 exhibition is at the A Foundation, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, Club Row, London E2 from 9-19 October. |
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| ANDREAS BLANK: A FINALIST OF NEW SENSATIONS 2009 |
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Profile of Andreas Blank, a finalist of New Sensations 2009, an art prize for UK graduates organised by the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4. The film is produced by Tenement films. New Sensations
The New Sensations 2009 exhibition is at the A Foundation, Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, Club Row, London E2 from 9-19 October. |
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| WALKING IN MY MIND AT THE HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON |
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'Walking in My Mind' (until 6 September) explores the inner workings of the artist's imagination through immersive, large-scale installation art. Ten international artists transform the Hayward Gallery's indoor galleries and outdoor sculpture terraces into a series of gigantic sculptural environments, each of which represents an individual mindscape. Interior worlds of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams collide with exterior reality, blurring the boundaries between inner and outer space.
Artists include:
Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Yayoi Kusama, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Mander... read more and play video... |
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| ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG BY ART21 |
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"Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)"
-- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for o... read more and play video... |
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| DASH SNOW: 1981 2009 A Community Memorial at Deitch Projects, NYC |
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James Kalm visits the Lafayette House, a loft on the Bowery and a newly painted mural on Houston and the Bowery as well as the memorial exhibition at Deitch Projects in and attempt to document some of the important final locations in the short life of Dash Snow. Since the 2007 cover story in New York Magazine that launched him to the pinnacle of bohemian chic, Dash snow was seen as an avatar of hip. Long-standing drug and alcohol problems and a tumultuous family life (Snow was the scion of the incredibly wealthy de Menil family) no doubt added to the stress that contributed to this tragic loss... read more and play video... |
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| RICHARD JACKSON AT THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM |
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Richard Jackson works on the final canvas for his work 'wall painting' in the exhibition TARGET PRACTICE Painting under attack 1949-1978 at the Seattle Art Museum, until September 7, 2009. 'Target Practice' is an international, historical survey of the attacks that painting endured in the years following World War II. For the artists in the show, painting had become a trap, and they devised numerous ways to escape the conventions and break the traditions that had been passed down to them over hundreds of years.
TARGET PRACTICE: Painting under attack 1949-1979
Until 7 September
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| STUTTER AT TATE MODERN, LONDON |
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Tate Modern's current show 'Stutter' encompasses a wide range of artistic practices that incorporate repetition and interruption in order to convey meaning, whether through language, gesture, sound or images. This documentary looks at at the work of international emerging artists and their interpretations of the connections between thought, language and art. It includes interviews with up and coming London artist Anna Barham and curator Vannessa Desclaux. The exhibition is on until 16 August. |
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| BEN LEWIS: THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE |
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Ben Lewis's new documentary 'The Great Contemporary Art Bubble' investigates the reasons behind the boom and bust of contemporary art. 'The Great Contemporary Art Bubble' can be watched on BBC iPlayer until Monday 25th May.
Art critic and film-maker Ben Lewis spent 2008 following the contemporary art market; travelling to art fairs, auctions, museums and the offices and homes of billionaire art collectors. He spoke to dealers, auctioneers, gallery-owners, art market analysts and art collectors try... read more and play video... |
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| FREE THE ARTISTS ON CNN |
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'The art equivalent of YouTube', Jonathan Jones, Guardian
On 22 April 2009, the Saatchi Gallery and Clear Channel Outdoor launched a national outdoor poster campaign across the UK to help artists and people interested in buying art during the financial recession. Saatchi Online provides a free global platform for artists to show their work to an international audience and to sell it to collectors without the usual 50% commission taken by galleries.
CNN featured the campaign this week, interviewing Saatchi Online artist, Whitney McVeigh.
"It's innovative ideas like Saatchi Online which... read more and play video... |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 6 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 5 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 4 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 2 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 3 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| FRANCIS BACON DOCUMENTARY PART 1 |
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Part of The South Bank Show series, this documentary about British painter Francis Bacon is directed by David Hinton. The programme includes interviews with the artist, commentary by South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg, a tour of his studio and the drinking and gambling haunts Bacon frequented in London. |
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| GUERRILLA GIRLS |
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Two founding members of the feminist activist group the Guerrilla Girls present their ideas and mission as part of a panel on Activism/Race/Politics which took place at MoMa in 2007. The Guerrilla Girls assume as pseudonyms the names of dead female artists, such as Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, believing that their own anonymity is the best way to further their aims.
All images are courtesy of the Guerrilla Girls.
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| STRANGE BODIES AT THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM, WASHINGTON DC |
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'Strange Bodies' brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the Hirshhorn's collection to show how expressionistic and surrealistic impulses toward human representation have evolved from the early and mid-20th century to recent decades. The exhibition features works by Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Balthus, René Magritte , Magdalena Abakanowicz, Georg Baselitz, Lucian Freud, Robert Gober, Julian Schnabel, Franz West, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, John Currin, Ron Mueck, and Lisa Yuskavage.
Strange Bodies: Figu... read more and play video... |
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| SOL LEWITT AT MOMA, NEW YORK |
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Over the course of his prolific, influential career, Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) produced more than 1,200 wall drawings. This installation, which fills a single large gallery, features one of LeWitt's celebrated examples from MoMA's collection, 'Wall Drawing #260' (1975). The work's subtitle serves to describe the installation: "on black walls, all two-part combinations of white arcs from corners and sides, and white straight, not-straight, and broken lines." Although LeWitt's wall drawings evoke the tradition of Italian fresco paintings, they have esta... read more and play video... |
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| BAM SILENT AUCTION |
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BAM will be holding it fifth annual BAMart Silent Auction, with Kehinde Wiley serving as Honorary Artist Chair. This year's auction, which culminates in a final reception on 9 May, features work by over 150 local, emerging and established artists and designers in many mediums, at great prices, and with all proceeds to benefit BAM. There will also be a very special work by Robert Rauschenberg on offer which will benefit the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Works can be viewed and bid upon on the BAM website, BAM.org. Once the live exhibition and bidding both begin on ... read more and play video... |
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| JERRY SALTZ ON MARTIN KIPPENBERGER |
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Kippenberger, who died in 1997 at the age of 44 from cirrhosis brought on by his prodigious drinking, was a live wire. He spoke in pungent aphorisms. He called exhibitions "a running gag." Art schools were "the most stupid of all educational institutions." The art market was like "screwing your dick to the wall." Early in his career he settled in Florence, trying to become a film actor. Then he moved to Berlin, where he co-founded the gallery/crash pad "Kippenbergers Buro," ran a nightclub, and started a punk band. In one memorable incident, he went into a bar and acted like a Nazi until patro... read more and play video... |
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| JERRY SALTZ ON TAKASHI MURAKAMI |
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Saatchi Online contributor and senior art cirtic of New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz gets to grip with the work of Takashi Murakami, on view at the Brooklyn Museum in New York until 13 July.
Courtesy of New York Magazine. |
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| BAS JAN ADER |
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This is a trailer for "Here Is Always Somewhere Else," the critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea. As recounted through the eyes of fellow emigrant Rene Daalder, Ader's story becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean.
For more information about this film produced by Cult Epics and AgitPop Media visit www.hereisalwayssomewhereelse.com |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT |
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Matthew Collings goes to New York to look at, and think about, the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat had his first solo show in 1982 and immediately became famous. Collings also goes to Los Angeles where he interviews Dennis Hopper, an early collector of Basquiat’s work. The film also includes interviews with Basquiat who died of a herion overdose in 1988.
To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS - THIS IS MODERN ART: PICASSO AND POLLOCK |
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Matthew Collings discusses the work of Picasso and Braque, and the relationship between cubism and abstract expressionism of the 1950s and in particular to the works of key figures in New York at the time such as Jackson Pollock. This film, from Collings' Channel 4 series 'This Is Modern Art', includes footage of Picasso in his studio, the Picasso museum in Paris and MoMA, New York.
To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS - THIS IS MODERN ART: FROM PABLO PICASSO TO SARAH LUCAS |
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Matthew Collings asks how modern art became modern, looking at key works by Picasso and contemporary artists, such as Sarah Lucas, who have been influenced by Picasso. This film, from Collings' Channel 4 series 'This Is Modern Art', includes an interview with Sarah Lucas.
To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| HANS ULRICH OBRIST AND JULIA PEYTON-JONES ON GERHARD RICHTER |
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The directors of the Serpentine Gallery in London discuss the work of Gerhard Richter, with particular reference to '4900 Colours: Version II'. An exhibition of portraits by Richter are on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London until 31 May.
'4900 Colours: Version II', exhibited at the Serpentine in November 2008, comprises 196 square panels of 25 coloured squares that can be reconfigured in a number of variations, from one large-scale piece to multiple, smaller paintings. Richter developed a new version especially for the Serpentine Gal... read more and play video... |
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| A PORTRAIT OF CLAUDE CAHUN |
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This is a beautiful film made by artpopulus about the artist Claude Cahun. Born Lucy Schwob in Nantes, Cahun was the niece of writer Marcel Schwob and the great-niece of Orientalist David Léon Cahun. She began making photographic self-portraits as early as 1912, when she was just 18 years old, and she continued taking images of herself through the 1930s. Around 1919, she settled on the pseudonym Claude Cahun, intentionally selecting a sexually ambiguous name. During the early twenties, she settled in Paris with her life-long partner and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe. For the rest of their lives... read more and play video... |
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| SAATCHI ONLINE TV REFLECTS ON 2008 AND LOOKS FORWARD TO 2009 |
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With the help of London's most influential curators presenter Saatchi Online TV Sasha Nicholl looks back at the art developments of 2008 and towards 2009. Sasha asks Serpentine curators Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist what their favourite artistic moments of their year have been and what they're looking forward to in the new year. She also speaks to independent Curator David Thorp to find out whether the capital's art scene has changed much this year and asks how the economic downturn will affect 2009. Artistic Director Kate Bush gives her views on how the Barbican gal... read more and play video... |
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| ORLY GENGER AT INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART |
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Known for transforming common nylon climbing rope into elaborate monumental sculptures, New York-based artist Orly Genger has created 'Whole', a unique site-specific installation, in response to the IMA’s Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion. Genger’s project for the IMA is her largest and most ambitious to date, incorporating thousands of feet of rope, which she hand-knots, paints and stacks, creating immense sculptures that confront the viewer. Looped and knotted by hand, Whole evokes the normally intimate processes of knitting and crocheting, yet expands them to a newly epic scale. Genger... read more and play video... |
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| AN INTERVIEW WITH AHMED ALSOUDANI |
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Ahmed Alsoudani was born in Baghdad, and fled Iraq after the first Gulf War, going first to Syria and later to Washington, D.C., for political asylum. He spoke no English when he arrived in the US, but last year graduated from Yale and became a US citizen. He makes paintings and drawings which overtly deal with war: “Most of my work deals with the war. The war for me is a life-and-death issue. I've been dealing with it since before I've been here, and it's hard to step away from it. I'm not interested in showing blood and war. I'm working really hard to capture the moment between when the ai... read more and play video... |
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| SCULPTURE DIARIES: MARC QUINN |
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Waldemar Januszczak's series 'Sculpture Diaries' was aired by Channel 4 in autumn 2008 and coincided with an exhibition curated by Januszczak called 'Statuephilia' at the British Museum in London (on until 25 January 2009). The British Museum houses one of the greatest sculpture collections in the world, and with 'Statuephilia' the museum presents a series of installations by contemporary artists which pay tribute to the cultural significance of sculpture across the ages. Works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn and Noble and Webster highlight the perennial potency of sculp... read more and play video... |
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| SCULPTURE DIARIES: TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER |
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Waldemar Januszczak's series 'Sculpture Diaries' was aired by Channel 4 in autumn 2008 and coincided with an exhibition curated by Januszczak called 'Statuephilia' at the British Museum in London (on until 25 January 2009). The British Museum houses one of the greatest sculpture collections in the world, and with 'Statuephilia' the museum presents a series of installations by contemporary artists which pay tribute to the cultural significance of sculpture across the ages. Works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn and Noble and Webster highlight the perennial potency of sculp... read more and play video... |
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| SCULPTURE DIARIES: RON MUECK |
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Waldemar Januszczak's series 'Sculpture Diaries' was aired by Channel 4 in autumn 2008 and coincided with an exhibition curated by Januszczak called 'Statuephilia' at the British Museum in London (on until 25 January 2009). The British Museum houses one of the greatest sculpture collections in the world, and with 'Statuephilia' the museum presents a series of installations by contemporary artists which pay tribute to the cultural significance of sculpture across the ages. Works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn and Noble and Webster highlight the perennial potency of sculp... read more and play video... |
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| SCULPTURE DIARIES: ANTONY GORMLEY |
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Waldemar Januszczak's series 'Sculpture Diaries' was aired by Channel 4 in autumn 2008 and coincided with an exhibition curated by Januszczak called 'Statuephilia' at the British Museum in London (on until 25 January 2009). The British Museum houses one of the greatest sculpture collections in the world, and with 'Statuephilia' the museum presents a series of installations by contemporary artists which pay tribute to the cultural significance of sculpture across the ages. Works by Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn and Noble and Webster highlight the perennial potency of sculp... read more and play video... |
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| MICHEL BLAZY - WINNER OF THE MARCEL DUCHAMP PRIZE 2008 |
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Michel Blazy won the 2008 Marcel Duchamp Prize. Born in 1966 in Monaco, Blazy makes sculptures out of unusual materials, such as feathers and foam.
Fascinated by organic matter, perishable produce and dry foodstuffs, he crystallizes creations around themes recalling the human condition: death, rot and decay. He has made works with rotting tomatoes, testifying to man’s inevitable destiny but also to the beauty and the strangeness of nature living in a state of constant flux. Blazy discusses his work in this interview at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris where his work was exhibited in 2008. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON GARY HUME |
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In this film, taken from his landmark Channel 4 series, 'This Is Modern Art', Matthew Collings discusses the work of British artist Gary Hume. To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON BEAUTY |
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In this film, taken from his landmark Channel 4 series, 'This Is Modern Art', Matthew Collings discusses the place of beauty in contemporary art - what is beauty? What does it mean? Do artists care about beauty? Why does it seem so absent from many works of art being made today? To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON DAMIEN HIRST |
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In this film, taken from his landmark Channel 4 series, 'This Is Modern Art', Matthew Collings discusses the work of British artist Damien Hirst. To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM |
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Matthew Collings starts his discussion of Abstract Expressionism with a visit to the Cedar Tavern in New York, the bar frequented by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline, and perceived by many art historians as being the incubator for Abstract Expressionism. This film is taken from Matthew Collings' landmark Channel 4 series, 'This Is Modern Art'. To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| MATTHEW COLLINGS ON FRANCIS BACON AND GILBERT & GEORGE |
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Matthew Collings' 'This Is Modern Art' was a landmark TV series which set out to investigate contemporary art and our attitudes towards it. In this excerpt from the series, the first of several we'll be presenting on Saatchi Online TV, Collings discusses the work of Francis Bacon and Gilbert & George, who he also interviews. To read Matthew Collings' column 'Put Downs and Suck Ups' on Saatchi Online's magazine click here. |
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| DAVID COTTERRELL ON AFGHANISTAN |
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David Cotterrell's installation 'Theatre', part of the 'War and Medicine' exhibition at Wellcome Collection, was developed following his visit to the country in November 2007 with the help of the Ministry of Defence and the support of the Wellcome Trust. Here he discusses what he saw while in Afghanistan and how his understanding of war is much more complex - and unresolved - following his time there.
War and Medicine
22 November 2008-15 February 2009
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| BEIJING SWINGS: A FILM BY WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK |
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When Waldemar Januszczak's film 'Beijing Swings' was first aired on Channel 4 in 2002 questions were asked about it in the House of Commons and the Chinese authorities banned its makers from ever re-entering China. 'You will see things in this programme that will challenge your taste and turn your stomach' says Januszczak, 'and if this was a film about your tastes that would be a problem. But it isn't. It's about someone else's taste. And believe me it's different.' 'Beijing Swings', which was shot with hidden cameras, presents a remarkably frank account of new Chinese art and comes to some su... read more and play video... |
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| NEW SENSATIONS 2008 FINALIST - AMY MOFFAT |
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Amy Moffat graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, London, in 2008, and is one of the four finalists of the 2008 New Sensations competition. Moffat works from early 20th century postcards, using specific colours to erase the original information contained in the cards. The documentary purpose of the postcard is turned into a sensory experience, creating a feeling of the familiar and uncanny. Her paintings become less about what they portray and more about the act of portrayal itself.
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| NEW SENSATIONS 2008 FINALIST - MARK DAVEY |
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Mark Davey graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2008, and is a finalist in the 2008 New Sensations competition. Davey makes ordinary elements of everyday life extraordinary - specifically lights, making them kiss and touch, move and swing or rub themselves over other materials. Using motors, the fragility and precarious repetition of the bulbs' movement is shown off, enticing a point of collapse, which never quite arrives.
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| NEW SENSATIONS 2008 FINALIST - CAMILLA WILLS |
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Camilla Wills graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, London, in 2008, and is a finalist in the 2008 New Sensations competition. Wills works with a process of appropriation that draws upon significant and aspirational imagery, such as movie logos, ancient boulders and rocket launchers. Objects and paintings are displayed together and used as props to produce a narrative, or narrative potential.
To vote for Camilla Wills clic... read more and play video... |
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| NEW SENSATIONS 2008 FINALIST - ROBERT SHERWOOD |
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Robert Sherwood graduated from the Chelsea School of Art & Design, London, in 2008, and is a finalist in the 2008 New Sensations competition. The central theme of Sherwood's paintings is the conflict between the organic forms of idealised landscapes and the artificiality of modern structures and technologies. Through different languages of paint application, he plays with perspective, leaving an awkward and disorientating view of the world.
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| LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE: A FILM ABOUT JOCK STURGES |
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LINE OF BEAUTY AND GRACE is a tale about photography and art, family and life, dealing with the history of man and woman, life and art. The American photographer Jock Sturges, born in 1947, is considered by many to be one of the most important fine art photographers of our times. As a catholic and graduated in psychology and photography, he survived the attacks of conservatives in the United States. Sturges has created a series of intensely powerful and moving photographs with an outstanding sensitivity for composition and light. Sturges's artistic work is an uncompromising search for truth an... read more and play video... |
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| THE ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS - a film about Vanessa Beecroft |
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Birds Eye View celebrates women film-makers across the world with a fifth film festival (6-25 March) at over 70 events in venues across London. At the ICA tonight you can The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, which we preview here. Directed by Pietra Brettkelly, the film follows Vanessa Beecroft's attempt to adopt from the Sudan. At the time of her first visit to the country she was breastfeeding her younger son, and could therefore help feed the young twins Madit and Mongor Akot Makoi at a nearby orphanage, after which Beecroft decided to adopt the twins. There was no legal preceden... read more and play video... |
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| THEO JANSEN - KINETIC SCULPTOR |
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Theo Jansen is the Dutch creator of what he calls 'Kinetic Sculptures,' where nature and technology meet. Essentially these sculptures are robots powered only by the wind. |
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| LA RIVIERE GENTILLE - a film about Louise Bourgeois by Brigitte Cornand. Part 2 |
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Brigitte Cornand's film about Louise Bourgeois entitled 'La Riviere Gentille' premiered in New York earlier this month. Now on Saatchi Online TV we can bring you the entire film in four parts. Click here to watch Part 2, and scroll down to Most Recent Videos to see Part 1. To read Anthony Haden-Guest's article about the film click here. The Guggenheim's retrospective of Louise Bourgeois continues until 12 September. |
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| JANE FRERE - RETURN OF THE SOUL: NAKBAH PROJECT |
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Featuring thousands of wax figures held in limbo, 'Return of the Soul: the Nakbah Project' is the outcome of Scottish artist Jane Frere's eight-month residency in East Jerusalem. These figures were created by Palestinians following a series of workshops in refugee camps in the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon, on drawing, anatomy, period costume, physical theatre and oral history. Accompanied by first-hand testimonies, these figures, all representing individual Palestinians with names and origins, express the Palestinians' sense of loss, heritag... read more and play video... |
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| JACKSON POLLOCK |
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An excerpt from 'Jackson Pollock 51', 1951 directed by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, with music by Morton Feldman. |
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| HIDDEN AND FORBIDDEN |
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James Kalm trolls his files to present this medley of some of New York's most unusual hidden and forbidden art works. Humor is a powerful tool for artists, and whether it's "Art Park", a scruffy square meter of grass, or Marcel Dzama's parody of Duchamp's "Etant donnés", one need only open their eyes to perceive these wonders. Other sites like the Zhang Huan exhibit (which disallows photography) or Jocelyn Shipley's "Secret Life of Sculpture" requires the courage to seek, find and photograph. Viewing Julian Schnabel's sculptural courtyard is more in the nature of a peek by a nosey neighbor. |
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| Louise Bourgeois |
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Watch the trailer for the feature-length documentary opening at Film Forum in New York City on June 25, 2008. Written and directed by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajori. Edited by Ken Kobland. Fore more infomation about the film, visit http://www.artkaleidoscope.org/bourgeois.html |
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| ALICE NEEL: A DOCUMENTARY BY ANDREW NEEL |
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A new documentary about American artist Alice Neel, made by her grandson filmmaker Andrew Neel, puts together the pieces of the painter's life using intimate one-on-one interviews with Neel's surviving family and personal archival video. The documentary explores the artist's tumultuous biography and the legacy of Alice Neel's determination to paint her era. The film is produced by SeeThink Productions, and is being promoted by David Gryn at Artprojx. For more information visit www.artprojx.com or call +44 (0)7711 127 848. |
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