NEWS: Art 101: John Koos
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- NEWS: Art 101: John Koos
- All things bright and beautiful
- André Emmerich Eminent Art Dealer Dies at 82
- The uninvited guests
- Short rders: Former Steak Street becomes catering facility
NEWS: Art 101: John Koos
TAXI Design Network – Sep 26, 2007
Koos reigns over a multitude of beings inhabiting a vivid world of color and shape in which he seems as much a delighted observer as the creator. His sense of humor is pervasive; his color and form impeccable. Solo exhibitions include The Whitney Museum Art Resources Center The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Elizabeth Street Gallery in NYC Edinboro State University PA The Evans Gallery in East Hampton and Louisiana State University. His work is in the collections of The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Hampton University Museum; Greenboro Museum SC; and Edinboro State University PA. His drawings are featured in “HALF GRSS” a collaboration with the poet Joe Elliot and a new collection of sketches “FIELD TRIP” will be available during this exhibition. John Koos is a director of the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
All things bright and beautiful
guardian.co.uk – Sep 26, 2007
The National Gallery is practically a world unto itself a city of art where you can spend hours in different times and places with great artists. But for its director that’s not enough. “When I leave the gallery this evening and walk home” MacGregor says “how am I meant to behave differently?” It’s just a short stroll from the National Gallery to Bacon’s Soho where you can pass the pub in ld Compton Street where three people were killed last year. The question is whether Christianity has anything to say about this or whether it is better understood in Bacon’s words as “an act of man’s behaviour a way of behaviour to another”. Seeing Salvation: The Image of Christ is at the National Gallery London WC2 (0171-747 2885) from Saturday. Seeing Salvation is on BBC2 from April 2. The book Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art by Neil MacGregor with Erika Langmuir is published by BBC Worldwide on March 30 price £25.
André Emmerich Eminent Art Dealer Dies at 82
New York Times – Sep 26, 2007
Suave erudite and faultlessly tailored Mr. Emmerich presided over an extensive stable of American and European contemporary artists from 1954 to 1998 mounting elegant presentations in his pristine understated uptown galleries first on East 64th Street and then from 1959 to 1998 in the Fuller Building on 57th Street. In addition to Color Field painters like Morris Louis Kenneth Noland and Helen Frankenthaler he represented among others David Hockney Sam Francis Anthony Caro Al Held Herbert Ferber Karel Appel Pierre Alechinsky and John Hoyland. And in an era when top galleries still held to quotas for female artists Mr. Emmerich didn’t play along. He mounted the work of a number of women besides Ms.
The uninvited guests
guardian.co.uk – Sep 26, 2007
wnership of the image was key. If women are not born but made as Simone de Beauvoir claimed in The Second Sex then in art they have almost always been subjects. In the gallery as on the street a woman is surrounded by representations of herself. is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself” wrote John Berger… is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself” wrote John Berger. “She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others and ultimately how she appears to men is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. ” Managing the imperatives of subject and object as model becomes painter is a fundamental struggle for a woman artist. Chicago’s notorious Red Flag (1971) in which a bloody tampon emerges from between the artist’s splayed legs elicits an equivocal response. It is endearingly pantingly revelatory.
Short rders: Former Steak Street becomes catering facility
Greensboro News and Record – Greensboro News Record – Sep 26, 2007
Wrenn and her husband Carl Wrenn owners of Steak Street in High Point have reopened their former Greensboro location as The Palms @ Westridge (3404 Whitehurst Road Greensboro) an event and catering facility. Inspired by the popularity of Steak Stree… Mexican Grill To penChipotle Mexican Grill (272-5503) is opening a second Greensboro location. Chipotle a chain specializing in made-to-order gourmet burritos and tacos opens Friday at 1420 Westover Terrace at Westover Gallery in Greensboro. The first 100 customers through the door after 3 p. get a T-shirt and entry in a drawing for three lucky winners who will get free burritos for a year. But UNCG students can get their burritos early — and for free.
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