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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), for the first time in its 29-year history, dedicates the entire MOCA Grand Avenue galleries to the most comprehensive exhibition to date of its permanent collection.
The surprising depth and coherence of MOCA's permanent collection is due in great measure to its being a "collection of collections," of which key acquisitions and gifts from several important collectors and artists form the armature.
Comprising approximately 250 works by over 120 artists, Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on view at MOCA Grand Avenue February 9-May 19, 2008, is curated by MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz.
MOCA Director Jeremy Strick notes, "This exhibition surveys the major works acquired by MOCA since the museum's 1979 founding.
In a remarkably short period of time, and as a result of the generosity of a core group of collectors who believed in MOCA's founding mission, the permanent collection now comprises nearly 6,000 objects that have defined and continue to define one of the world's great groupings of contemporary art."
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One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud (British, born Germany 1922) has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form.
Although best known as a painter, etching has become integral to his practice.
This exhibition will present the full scope of Freud's achievements in etching, including some seventy-five examples ranging from rare, early experiments in the 1940s to the increasingly large and complex compositions created since his rediscovery of the medium in the early 1980s.
In a dramatic and unusual cross-media installation, it will also include a selection of related paintings and drawings, illuminating the crucial, cross-pollinating relationship between Freud's etchings and paintings.
Freud is not a traditional printmaker.
He treats the etching plate like a canvas, standing the copper upright on an easel.
He typically depicts the same sitters in etching as in painting, always working directly from his models and demarcating their forms through meticulous networks of finely etched lines.
But with their figures dramatically cropped or isolated against empty backgrounds, Freud's etchings achieve a startling new sense of psychological tension and formal abstraction.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
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"The casbah of Algiers has everything: all the elements of an architecture that shows immeasurable sensitivity to human needs and desires."
With this statement, Le Corbusier expressed his great admiration for the architecture of the Orient.
Following in his footsteps, many of today's architects and designers draw inspiration from the Arab world.
At the same time, due to the present political situation, our knowledge of these countries is generally limited to daily news reports on politics and social issues.
Now the Vitra Design Museum is exploring the myths and realities of the Arab world in its exhibition "Living Under the Crescent Moon," which offers a comprehensive and fascinating survey of Arab domestic cultures.
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The 9th edition of Art Rotterdam has an international appearance.
About 75 galleries from 10 different countries have been selected for their open outlook and innovative ideas.
The fair will again be held in an unique setting: the old cruise terminal of the Holland America Line, in "Kop van Zuid", a quarter in the dockland area of Rotterdam.
Over the years, Art Rotterdam has carved out a position among other leading international art fairs.
Art fair directors from around the world discover in Rotterdam new galleries.
Numerous galleries have made their debut at Art Rotterdam, The works of new young artists can be bought for a reasonable price.
Art Rotterdam attracts collectors who are focusing on new trends.
In 2008 new galleries such as Mothers Tankstation [Ireland], Hoet Bekaert [Gent], Neue Alte Brücke [Frankfurt], Rokeby [London], Eva Winkeler [Frankfurt] and Arquebuse [Geneva] have an unconventional program to offer.
This year will be a first for India's most trend-setting Chemould Prescott Road of Mumbay/Bombay.
In cooperation with the Willem Baars Project [Amsterdam] they are presenting an impressive installation by Anant Joshi.
In addition to the foreign participants, the vanguard of Dutch galleries will also be present at the fair, including Torch Gallery, Paul Andriesse, Diana Stigter and Lumen Travo.
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This seven-week course explores the philosophical basis of our attempts to understand works of art.
Topics covered include : the question of whether works of art are simply catalysts to purely subjective responses, the relevance of an artist's intentions, a work's historical context, its originality, and its context within the gallery.
Participants have the opportunity to explore a range of positions from a theoretical perspective and to test their application against particular works of art in the gallery.
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