Notes from the field.Hilla and Bernda Becher to be awarded the 2004 Hasselblad Foundation The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation, established in 1979, is a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation. The main aim of the Foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. International Award in Photography. The Gold Medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize and cash award will be presented in Goteborg, Sweedn on Nov 20. A new exhibition of their work will be opened in conjunction with the ceremony. Recognized as conceptual artists as well as photographers, the Bechers have been documenting the heritage of our industrial past for over forty years. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California. have commisioned works by James Turell, Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born July 26, 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. and Gerhard Richter for the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Goldn Gate Park. Best known for his visionary work with light, Turell is a major figurehead figurehead, carved decoration usually representing a head or figure placed under the bowsprit of a ship. The art is of extreme antiquity. Ancient galleys and triremes carried rostrums, or beaks, on the bow to ram enemy vessels. in the Earth, Conceptual, Minimal and Process Art movements. The "skyspace" commissioned for this site. Three Gems, will feature a view of the sky altered by L.E.D. lighting efects that highlights changing light and weather conditions outside. Influential in the same movements as Turell, Goldsworthy's work uses nature instead of light. This installation, Faultline will use naturre to challenge the viewer's notion of what constitutes a work of art by blurring the distinction between the natural and manmade. Richter will create a large scale mural from digitally manipulated photographs which together frorm a geometric black and white motif. Each measuring aproximately 27" X 37", the prints are each mounted on aluminum with plexiglass coating, and will complement the perforated copper structure of the building itself. The Jewish Museum in NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City has opened the Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center as part of the recently reinstalled third floor galleries. In addition to featuring an exhibition space dedicated to video and new media, the Media Center houses a digital library ofr radio and television programs from the Jewish Museum's Ntional Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB NJAB Not Just Another Blog (blog) ). Urban Eden: Three Videos by New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Artists: screen continuously at the Media Center until Oct. 31. The University of Minnesota/McKnight Photography Fellowship Program has named four recipients, from a field of 109 applicants. The recipients are: JoAnn Verburg of St. Paul, Beth Dow, Alec Smoith and Tobechi Tobechukwu, all of Minneapolis. Philadelphia-area women awarded Leeway Foundation WOO (Window of Opportunity Grants), ranging from $750-$2,000 each. The recipients are: in Photography: Neila Kun, Leticia Roa-Nixon, & Jackie Hoving; in Digital Printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. : Elizabeth R. New: in Book Arts: Nathalie F. Anderson & Katie Baldwin; in Visual Arts: Arlene Love; and Documentary video: Janet Goldwater. Two contemporary art exhibition concepts to be realized through awards of $125,000 each from the Tremaine Foundation: Reality Bites: Making Avant-Grde Art in Post-Wall Germany, curated by Sabine Eckmann at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, often referred to simply as "The Milly",<ref name=> See for instance Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes, Sept. 9, 2007, [1] is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. , Washington University, St. Louis, MO, & Street Art, Street Life, curated by Lydia Lee at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Reality Bites will bring into focus the interdependence of art and the social, economic and political worlds since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 and the subsequent reunification re·u·ni·fy tr.v. re·u·ni·fied, re·u·ni·fy·ing, re·u·ni·fies To cause (a group, party, state, or sect) to become unified again after being divided. of the two Germany's. Reality Bites will be organized around three themes: national identity, globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation and collective trauma. Street Art, Street Life will include street photography; documentation of performance, events, artwork presented in the streets, works using materials from the streets, and examples of street culture. Among the themes to be presented are: the street as an arena for for political and cultural expression: street violence and crime: gender roles in an urban coontext: advertising and commerce: the street as a counterpoint to museum and other art venues: and the impact of urban drifting on artisitic practice. Annual Guggenheim Fellowship Awards granted. This year 185 artists, scholars and scientists from a field of over 3200 applicants, will share awards totaling $6,912,000. The 2004 Geggenheim Fellow in Photography are: Uta Barth, Matthew Coolidge, Paola Ferrario and Mark Klett. A full list of the 2004 Fellows is available at www.gf.org. Afterimage afterimage /af·ter·im·age/ (af´ter-im?aj) a retinal impression remaining after cessation of the stimulus causing it. af·ter·im·age n. seeks submissions of essays, features and reviews that address emerging imaging technologies in science and media art. On a continuing basis, we invite the consideration of any of the following topics, as well as any other related to the use of technological images (photographs, film, video, digital images): - The use of photography and film as "base line" constants or limit cases for understanding new forms of imaging, - The appropriation of scientific imagery in media art, - The rhetoric of scientific visualization and imaging systems, - Scientific imaging and media ecology. Send cover letter and articles of 1,000-5,000 words (abstracts or proposals are welcome) to: Afterimage 31 Prince Street Rochester, NY 14607 afterimage@vsw.org and brcha@vsw.org |
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