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More than 200 Monroe pictures from 39 photographers -- including such celebrated lensmen as Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Robert Frank and Andy Warhol -- are on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a new exhibit, "I Want to Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe",
November 12, 2004-March 20, 2005.
She was Playboy's first centerfold, and Joe DiMaggio's second wife. Marilyn Monroe possessed a knack for the big splash, particularly if there was a camera nearby -- and it seemed there was always a camera nearby.
The actress turned enduring American icon was intoxicated by the pop of flashbulbs; during her too-short lifetime, she was photographed drinking and dining, smiling and sleeping, dressed and undressed.
The camera "was to her what water is to a fish," director Billy Wilder once said. "She exulted in it."
The photos "aretimeless," said Marilyn Kushner, one of the exhibit's curators. "She died young, so she remains forever young. As time goes by, she looms larger and larger."
The exhibit traces the evolution of small-town girl Norma Jeane into sex goddess Marilyn. In a 1945 picture, the unknown 19-year-old stands alone on a Long Island beach, leaning undisturbed over an open parasol.
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The Museum of Modern Art reopens in Midtown Manhattan on November 20, 2004 in a renovated and expanded new building designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi. The reinstallation of its preeminent collection of modern and contemporary art will now be on view to the public in an elegant new environment. The reopening coincides with MoMA's 75th anniversary and marks the most extensive rebuilding and renovation project in the Museum's history. The new museum nearly doubles the capacity of its former home with 630 thousand square feet of new and renovated space on six floors. MoMA celebrates its birthday by offering free admission and extended hours on opening day, thanks to lead sponsor JPMorgan Chase.
The expanded museum now allows for an enhanced presentation of its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Taniguchi worked with curators for several years to design architecturally distinctive galleries that tell the story of modern art in a new context. The building features galleries clustered around a soaring 110-foot tall atrium where icons of modern art such as Monet's Water Lilies and Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk have been installed. The heart of the new museum is the expanded and restored Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden that can be seen from many of the galleries and remains a focal point of MoMA.
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The AQUOS™ Project is a gallery environment that seamlessly fuses the work of innovative artists, in concert with Sharp’s industry-leading AQUOS™ Liquid Crystal Display televisions. The AQUOS™ Project is one element of Sharp Corporation’ s global brand advertising campaign. Television commercials, magazine advertising and a complementary online, interactive campaign highlight the superior color, detail and sound of Sharp’s industry-leading line of AQUOS™ Liquid Crystal Display televisions.
The AQUOS™ Project will remain open through December 24, 2004 and will host exhibits by two innovative and experimental artists, whose work can be displayed, in part, on AQUOS™ LC-TVs. The artists will also incorporate elements from Sharp’s television commercials and complementary campaign web site, www.moretosee.com into their exhibitions.
“The AQUOS™ Project seamlessly fuses the work of these artists through the design-enhanced color, incredible detail and natural sound afforded by the world’s premier Liquid Crystal Display television,” said Bob Scaglione, Senior Vice President of the Consumer Electronics Marketing Group of Sharp Electronics.
“Sharp established the liquid crystal display television category and offers the industry’s widest assortment of models, in screen sizes ranging
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Oh, but you will, the first solo show of painter Echo Eggebrecht, was on display recently at the new Chelsea location of Sixtyseven Gallery. Eggebrecht’s ambivalent array of haunting and cheerful images transformed the stark white walls of the shiny new gallery space into a haze of blurry memories and almost-forgotten details.
Eggebrecht’s images display a seamless combination of painterly technique and graphic design. Her visual themes are borrowed from the comforting fixtures of Americana, like embroidered dish cloths, icons of the Southwest, and quilt patterns. The sky in Stars and Stripes is an obsessively rendered homage to the American flag; the over-grown, pattered grass in The Picnic could be mistaken for a detail of a granny quilt square. Totem, in which the modeled crests of a totem pole are set against colorful rolling clouds and a flat lime-green background, is the culmination of the visual tension that results from the artist’s combinations of flat and varied surfaces.
Despite the familiarity of Eggebrecht’s allusions, the acrylic paintings take on a spooky sense of abandonment, resembling theater sets after the actors have left, the emotion has been drained from the stage and the clean up crew has yet to strike it. This is partly a result of her technique: she constructs miniature models and then transfers t
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Hough Waves is a new online boutique offering prints of computer generated art by two students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
The Master of Science students apply science to the making of art. Based on an algorithm created by Paul Hough in 1962, their Hough waves are photographic prints that elegantly express symmetry and structure.
Their online gallery has over thirty unique images of what can best be described as fine threads arranged in wave patterns. Prints are available for order in a variety of sizes as a single image or broken in to triptychs.
Hough Waves can be found at the following link.
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