Leonardo’s Last Supper by Peter Greenaway at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will premiere an epic and immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper this December at Park Avenue Armory, marking the first U.S. presentation of the artist’s installation work. Through his incisive manipulation of light, sound, and theatrical illusion, Greenaway creates a series of dynamic audio-visual environments that provoke new ways of seeing Leonardo’s masterpiece. The installation includes a meticulously detailed “clone” of the painting set within a [...]

Group Exhibition of 8 Korean Media Artists to Open at Gallery Hyundai

SEOUL.- Gallery Hyundai presents “Powerhouse”, a group exhibition of 8 Korean media artists. The show offers glimpses into the unique world of Korean contemporary artists who are representing the present status of Korean media art recognized both in and out of Korea . From the founder of video art Nam June Paik up to Park, Hyun-Ki, who combined technology and oriental ideology, to internationally known Korean media artists like Beom Kim, Joonho Jeon, Kyungwon MOON, Uram Choe, Junebum Park, Yongseok [...]

Tabaimo to Represent Japan at the Biennale di Venezia 2011

NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery announced that Japanese video artist Tabaimo has been selected to represent Japan at next year’s 54th Biennale di Venezia. Known for her hand-drawn animations inspired by the aesthetics of ukiyo-e wood-block prints, manga and anime, Tabaimo’s works uncover a darker world that exists below the surface of contemporary Japan’s well-ordered society. Acting as a witness to her country’s current cultural state, Tabaimo explains “I am not consciously critiquing anything in my work. I am [...]

Rare 3D Film Shows Warsaw Devastated After WWII

WARSAW (AP).- Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. Jan Oldakowski, the director of the Warsaw Uprising Museum, said the film “City of Ruins” is mainly meant for young people who do not realize the degree to which Poland’s capital was destroyed from 1939-45. “Young people do not understand what it means that Warsaw was in ruins; they think it was just a [...]

Long Lost Charlie Chaplin Film to Debut at Virginia Festival

ARLINGTON, VA (AP).-A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges from the bushes in police uniform and that unforgettable mustache. The 1914 film, “A Thief Catcher,” was missing for so many years that everyone forgot Charlie Chaplin made a brief cameo as a buffoon Keystone cop, with all his familiar twitches and gestures. Out of nowhere, the 10-minute film turned up late last year at [...]

High Museum to Host “Dalí: A Passion for Film” Film Series

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will present the film series “Dalí: A Passion for Film” from Saturday, August 21, through Saturday, September 11. Featuring films and shorts that showcase Dalí’s fascination with cinema, the series will celebrate the artist’s influence on prolific filmmakers from Walt Disney to Alfred Hitchcock. This series is presented in coordination with “Salvador Dalí: The Late Work,” on display at the High from August 7, 2010, through January 9, 2011. “Salvador Dalí had a [...]

British Filmmaker John Akomfrah Presents a Powerful New Film Installation

LONDON.- Mnemosyne by celebrated British filmmaker and artist John Akomfrah (b.1957) is a powerful new film installation which focuses on the experience of migrant labour in the UK – a poetic essay on the themes of memory and migration. To make it Akomfrah combined newly shot footage with archive material from the various television and film archive libraries. Mnemosyne opened at the BFI Gallery on 10 July and runs until 30 August 2010. Admission is free. Mnemosyne refers to the [...]

Mika Rottenberg’s New Video Installation Debuts at SFMOMA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Artist Mika Rottenberg debuts her latest immersive video installation for SFMOMA‘s New Work series this summer in her first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast. Rottenberg makes feminist art decades after feminism was legibly defined. She makes seriously political art that is preposterously funny. She documents reality, but spins it into narrative fiction. With Squeeze (2010), Rottenberg hones these signature tactics, creating a video installation that is both humorous and unsettling. New Work: Mika Rottenberg will [...]

Art as work, and what lies beneath

ANSELM. Kiefer throws molten metal down a heap of earth. Lead, along with ash and concrete, is among the staples of his sombre, monumental art. Kiefer is not a young man – he was born in 1945, a decisive date in German history that has, as much as anything else, shaped his controversial persona – but he bristles with physical vigour. We are not so much watching works of art as we are seeing art as work, as part of [...]

Museum of Modern Art Celebrates Four-Decade Career of Sally Potter

NEW YORK, NY.- A retrospective of the films of British director Sally Potter (b. 1949) at The Museum of Modern Art from July 7 through 21, 2010, celebrates her distinct, independent vision, showing all her feature films, documentaries, and shorts, and a selection of her experimental works made between the early 1970s and the present. Potter has consistently kept a radical edge in her filmmaking work, beginning with avant-garde short films and moving on to alternative dramatic features that embrace [...]

Tamra Davis’s Revealing Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat to Premiere at Film Forum

NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening Wednesday, July 21. Filmmaker Tamra Davis charts the meteoric rise and fall of her late friend, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in 1960. In the crime-ridden New York City of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star [...]

Ingvild Goetz Collection of Art Videos and Films at Haus der Kunst

MUNICH.- In 1993, with the purchase of Cheryl Donegan’s “Untitled (Head)” (1993), Ingvild Goetz laid the foundation for her collection of art videos and films. Today this collection is the most important of its kind in Europe. With meanwhile 480 works by nearly 170 artists, it offers a representative cross section of contemporary artistic creation in film and video. The artists represented in the collection include amongst others Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Matthew Barney, Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller, [...]

Jeu de Paume Presents Exhibition by South African Artist William Kentridge

PARIS.- South African artist William Kentridge came to attention on the international scene in the 1990s thanks to a series of short animation films – he prefers to call them “drawings for projection” – depicting everyday life under apartheid. In the works he has produced since the end of the apartheid regime, which feature in this exhibition, he has broadened his themes, leaving his immediate environment to examine other political conflicts. In the process he has embarked upon a kind [...]

Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation, two films and a digital projection featuring silent, hypnotic loops that bring to life different objects, images, and history, casting each in a new light. The darkened Forum Gallery will be animated by three artists’ works that draw on varied cultural artifacts: archival photography from the Great Depression (Punctured by William E. Jones), a centuries-old Italian folk dance originally created as a cure for poisonous spider bites [...]

Schirn Kunsthalle Presents a 360-Degree Multi-Projection by Peter Kogler

FRANKFURT.- The Austrian multimedia artist Peter Kogler is one of the pioneers of computer-generated art. With his impressive 360-degree multi-projection on show at the Schirn from July 1 to September 12, 2010, the artist, whose work was included in two documenta programs, creates a space of illusion that completely captivates the observer. Lines of a uniform grid lose their fixed coordinates and stretch into a play of amorphous figures. All the projected elements undergo a continuous transformation of their specific [...]