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Squares-Folds-Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert J. Lang
February 17-July 20, 2008
Star Studio will feature works by Robert J. Lang, a former physicist and engineer turned artist, whose innovative approach to the traditional art of Origami has earned him a reputation as one of the world’s most important Origami artists. The exhibition in Star Studio will include examples of Lang’s complex and realistic work, including monumental paper sculptures created at the IMA for the exhibition. The exhibition will also give visitors the opportunity to learn to make their own folded paper creations, which will be incorporated into a unique visitor-generated installation.
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YouTube dance montage to ballet choreography by the award winning, internationally renown choreographers of New York’s Configuration Dance Theatre, voted 2008 and 2009 people’s choice for Artvoice Best Dance Company Award, set to the song, “Circles,” by the Grammy bound, cello rock group, “Break of Reality,” with pas de deux, trio, solo, duet, variation, pointe and ensemble choreography: “What’s the Pointe,” “Tchaicotic,” “Transfiguration” and “Awakenings” by Michael Shannon; “Fascia La Spina” by Sasha Janes; “Cumbling” by Edgar Zendejas; “Levitation” by Yuri Zhukov; and “En Redondo Sombras” by Harrison McEldowney; commissioned by Founder Artistic Director, Joseph Cipolla, and co-Founder, Catherine Batcheller.
ARTVOICE described Configuration Dance Theatre in “Balanchine and Beyond” (9/20/2009): “As their name implies, their emphasis widens the scope of dance and dramatic, a certain noir-ness, they lay bare emotions, startle senses, and make one think,” qualities Dance Magazine experts recognized early, and gave the company its descriptive moniker, “A LIVING ART GALLERY.”
CONFIGURATION choreographers and dancers were featured in “DANCE SPECTACULAR” (9/22/09) by its producer, New York City Ballet star, Daniel Ulbricht, with Boston Ballet and New York City Ballet stars in “Apollo,” “Who Cares, “Diamond,” “Tarantella” authorized by the Balanchine Foundation, and presenting “What’s the Pointe” by Michael Shannon, “Royenne” by Susan Jaffe, “Breathless” by Joseph Cipolla, “whose acclaimed company,” said Ulbricht, “is known for its cutting-edge contemporary choreography.”
CDT premiered 15 new ballets from 2005 to 2009, and The Buffalo News (1/02/09) named Joseph Cipolla, and Michael Shannon, THE DREAM TEAM, both principal stars with illustrious international careers in legendary dance institutions, i.e., BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET under the patronage of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince of Wales, Lady Sarah Chatto, and Artistic Director, David Bintley.
Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla was a principal star for Dance Theatre of Harlem co-founders, Arthur Mitchell (New York City Ballet) and Karel Shook (Dutch National Ballet), Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet for Artistic Directors Sir Peter Wright and David Bintley (Royal Ballet of Covent Garden). He was a 1993 Laurence Olivier Award Nominee; 2006 St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute Wall of Honor Awardee; co-founded Configuration School of Dance in 2009. He retired in 2002 but returned to BRB in 2007 to dance Nimrod in “Enigma Variations” and De Guiche in “Cyrano.”
Companies have premiered 40 Michael Shannon dance works, ballets, plays, films, and opera productions since 1995, and 12 works for CDT since 2005, i.e., “Yumeji” and “Madame Bovary” for Catherine Batcheller, principal star for Stuttgart Ballet, Birmingham Royal, and San Francisco Ballet, with Momchil Mladenov, principal star for Suzanne Farrell Ballet, National Ballet of Bulgaria, in their portrayals of Shannon’s Emma Bovary and Léon Dupuis, literature’s most famous illicit lovers.
In 2007, Susan Jaffe, principal star for American Ballet Theatre, and guest artist for the Kirov, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Ballet of Covent Garden, English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Munich State Opera Ballet, La Scala Ballet in Milan, Dance Magazine Awardee, published author, television host, actress, educator, Advisor to ABT Board of Governing Trustees Chairman 2002-2007; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School faculty since 2002; and Duke Corporate Education Lecturer on Excellence, and since 2007, CDT Advisory Board member and Principal Guest Choreographer. (Jaffe and Shannon were SAB Alumni under George Balanchine)
Michael Shannon danced (1979-2002) his last roles for Birmingham Royal Ballet as Lancelot in David Bintley’s “Arthur” and Prince Siegfried in Sir Peter Wright’s “Swan Lake. He was a principal star and competition judge for Bolshoi legend, Artistic Director Yuri Grigorovich; Stars of the Bolshoi for Maya Pliesetskaya, Madame Sophia Golovkina, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekatrina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev; Vienna State Opera Ballet for Artistic Director Elena Tchernichova (ABT, Kirov); Kremlin Palace Ballet for Director Andrei Petrov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ekatrina Maximova (Bolshoi); and others, i.e., the Royal Ballet of Covent Garden 1979; Los Angeles Ballet 1980, American Ballet Theatre 1981; Boston Ballet 1983; National Ballet of Canada 1984-86; the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet 1986; Hungarian State Opera Ballet 1987 and in the 1990s; Awarded Silver Medals in Paris France 1992 and Budapest Hungary 1993 International Ballet Competitions; honored by Town Hall of California 1986, 1990; President George H. W. Bush 1990, President William J. Clinton 1993; Awarded Best Play of 1995 for “Monday After the Miracle” televised at Moscow Art Theatre; Awarded Professor of Choreography in 1999, Ukrainian State Academy of Ballet.
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Howard Terpning was interviewed in his Tucson, Arizona home by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Rogelio Garcia on November 12, 2004. In 1977 Terpning bid farewell to the world of illustration and began focusing his art work on the Native American people of the Great Plains. He has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1979. The National Cowboy Museum holds two of paintings, Moving Day on the Flathead and The Trophy. A New York Times article called Terpning “the most famous American artist you never heard of.”
The hour-long interview is available for viewing at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Please visit the following websites:
Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/cms/Projects/AKeithBrodkinWesternArtists/tabid/88/Default.aspx
Dickinson Research Center website:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum website:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/
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The artist Swoon presenting her work as part of the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part 1 of 2 (edited for time)
Audio archives of the unedited presentation and discussion with Gretchen Wagner are available on moma.org/audio or through the MoMA Think Modern podcast in iTunes.
Images courtesy of Swoon. © 2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Here is a small selection of mostly fantasy art by various contemporary artists and which were originally shown on StumbleUpon. I am no longer very active on that account, although have an ongoing project which is due to go online soon.
The song is ‘Kiminotameni’ by Tujiko Noriko.
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EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing “Samurai Tree” series, including the works “Fugaz”, “Tuttifruti” and “Red Roots” (all 2008), and the computer animation “Dandelion Animation” (2008), shown as part of the exhibition “Gabriel Orozco: Recent Work” (2008) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.
Gabriel Orozcos sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. Drawing our attention to slips in logic, philosophical games, and hidden geometries, Orozco uncovers the extraordinary aspects of the seemingly everyday. His use of humble materials and means (graphite on bone, a ball of clay, a 35mm camera) engages the imagination through its disarming simplicity and intimacy.
Gabriel Orozco is featured in the Season 2 (2003) episode “Loss & Desire” of the “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century” television series on PBS.
VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork courtesy: Gabriel Orozco. Thanks: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
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Abstract Artist Contemporary Painter Mixed Media Art Fine Arts Zammerly Brushless Painting
Please view my website to see more contemporary art or you can visit my studio in west london.
CHINA-ART: The buoyant market for Chinese contemporary art over the last few years has made millionaires in the country. But the financial crisis has led to a massive slump in demand for works.