• December 28, 2007

    Date posted: December 28, 2007 Author: jolanta


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    Lawrence’s Migration

    Jacob
    Lawrence painted “The Migration of the Negro,” 60 small pictures in
    tempera on hardboard panels, in what seems like a flash. The series was
    completed in 1941, after about a year of work in a cold-water studio at
    33 West 125th Street in Harlem. Lawrence was 24. With its visual tact
    and deep emotion, it was instantly recognized as a tour de force, a new
    American epic. It made his career. The series is about the shift of
    African-American populations from a poor and repressive rural South to
    a prosperous but unwelcoming urban North between the two world wars.
    (Holland Cotter for The New York Times, December 28, 20007)
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    Picking Brains

    A
    group of British scientists believe that Michelangelo and other
    Renaissance painters incorporated imagery of the human brain into their
    works, reports the Guardian. The idea was developed by the scientist FL
    Meshberger, but caught on with other scientists as well; a team of four
    British neurosurgeons, neuroscientists, and radiologists have together
    conducted a study, "Brain Imaging in the Renaissance, that appears in
    the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. (Artinfo, December 28,
    2007)
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    Openings and Art Events on Wednesday, January 2

    New York:

    — Al Taylor @ Zwirner & Wirth  www.zwirnerandwirth.com  http://www.zwirnerandwirth.com
    — Tobias Buche & Jonas Lipps @ Lehmann Maupin 
    www.lehmannmaupin.com  http://www.lehmannmaupin.com
    — Tania Kravath, "Bearing Witness" @ Ceres  www.ceresgallery.org  http://www.ceresgallery.org

    National:

    — Olivia Brown, "Chrysalis" @ Hang Art, San Francisco, CA 
    www.hangart.com  http://www.hangart.com

    International:

    — Sarah Jones @ Maureen Paley, London, UK 
    — Sharon Wilson, "Think?" @ Waygood Gallery and Studios,
    Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK  www.waygood.org  http://www.waygood.org

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    — PragueBiennale3, May 16 to Sept 16, Prague, Czech Republic
    — Edinburgh Art Festival, July 26 to Sept 2, Edinburgh, Scotland
    — Art Nocturne Knocke, Aug 4 to 15, Knokke—Heist, Belgium
    — DigiFestival, Aug 15 to Sept 15, Florence, Italy
    — Helsinki Festival, Aug 17 to Sept 2, Helsinki, Finland
    — Montreal World Film Festival, Aug 23 to Sept 3, Montreal, Canada
    — ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Aug 31 to Sept 30, Kuopio, Finland
    — The Mercosul Biennial, Sept 1 to Nov 17, Porto Alegre, Brasil
    — 10th Istanbul Bienniale, Sept 8 to Nov 9, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
    — Time—Based Art Festival, Sept 9 to 18, Portland, USA
    — The Athens Biennial, Sept 10 to Nov 18, Athens, Greece
    — 20/21 British Art Fair, Sept 11 to 16, 2007, London, UK
    — Bienniale de Lyon, Sept 17 to Jan 6, 2007, Lyon, France

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