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Best Art Collections: OutSider Art in Philadelphia

March 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

The great artist Jean Dubuffet was very influenced by Outsider Art and characterized it as: “Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere”. 

Local Philly artist Jill Bonovitz and husband Sheldon have been collecting Outsider Art way before it was popular. Once upon a time you needed a dinner invitation to view l’art brut but now they have shared their incredible collection with the entire world at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. If you visit Philly to see this show make sure you stop by the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery which has been specializing in this type of work since 1952.

“Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection.  March 3, 2013 – June 9, 2013

 

 

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Exhibitions London: Landmark: The Fields of Photography

March 20, 2013 — Leave a comment

Landmark: The Fields of Photography.  14 March – 28 April 2013

 

Curator William A. Ewing:

“Landscape has been and remains one of the most powerful forms of photography, and is even more so in a world which is changing so fast we can hardly keep up. Rising seas, melting glaciers, the ozone hole, desertification, coastal cities under threat – we add to the list everyday. And photographers everywhere are grappling with these problems, creating brilliant pictures which put a vivid face on otherwise abstract issues. These images range from the sublime to the ridiculous; photographers are on the front lines – our eyes and ears. But they also remind us to slow down and appreciate the beauty of the world – often where we least expect it”

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Exhibitions London: Laura Letinsky @ The Photographers Gallery

March 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

Everything I make is a Picture of a Picture in some respect. Pictures of Pictures have always interested me. They are a little bit like a room of mirrors in how they operate. Letinsky has long done a cool and calculated type of still life of mostly food and objects in white rooms the best ones being when she introduces subtle shifts in the color of her lighting.

In this series she changes her game and photographs cut out images of magazines in her minimalist style.  With this academic body of work she is a bit more like a postmodern Vermeer with a camera. Want to see more artists who use mass media images in their work? It all started with Andy Warhol and the legions of artists that followed in his footsteps.

Laura Letinsky Ill Form and Void Full  18 Jan – 7 April 2013

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Exhibitions New York: New Wave Finland Contemporary Photography Through April 6, 2013

March 14, 2013 — Leave a comment

Current Exhibitions @ Scandinavia House – The Nordic Center in America.

January 24 – April 6, 2013
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, 38th Street
New York NY 10016
USA

Links

http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/

http://www.helsinkischool.fi/

©Tiina Itkonen
Siku 2, 2007/ 2012
Pigment print mounded on acrylic
40 x 60 cm

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Best Weird Museum Series: The Museum Of Jurassic Technology

March 13, 2013 — Leave a comment

David Wilson created an entire museum based on the wonder-cabinets of the Victorian era (and the much cooler parent of what we now know as our museums of natural history). But more lurks here besides the exhibits housing pronged ants, horned humans or a landscape carved on a fruit pit; For David is an artist and this LA museum is his “artwork”. There is even a book on this place, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, by the always interesting Lawrence Weschler. A highly recommended read.

 

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