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The Hermitage Amsterdam Looks Pretty But Needs a Better Opening Exhibit
You know how when someone tells you they’re going to Amsterdam you give them a knowing look and think “I know what you’ll be up to, you dissolute human being”? Well you’d better stop doing that because this summer the 'Dam is all about the culture.
The Stedelijk Museum is running a mobile exhibition round town while it’s under refurbishment, the Royal Palace in Dam Square has just reopened, and on June 20, the Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg, no less, opened up a branch in a 17th-century building that used to be an old folks’ home.
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Look Out Banksy: Barrel Monster Man Faces Prison for Raleigh Road Art
It didn't last long, but commuters in Raleigh, North Carolina were treated to a whimsical display of street art recently, as a 22-year-old NC State student (allegedly) assembled a barrel monster out of bright orange traffic barrels and put it to work directing traffic on a busy public street. Police say Joseph Carnevale is being charged with larceny for stealing and damaging the traffic barrels on May 31 for the purpose of building a statue, and I guess they're right, but it always seems unfair when it's vandalism you actually like.
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Russian Art Branches Out To Amsterdam
Who says the Russians aren't good at sharing? A little to our surprise, the Hermitage Amsterdam is opening next month in a new art gallery in an old seventeenth century building which is basically a branch of the famous and original Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. They've been running minor exhibits in another building for a few years, but now the real Hermitage Amsterdam is ready to thrill.
We've had a couple of trips to the Russian version and always been dazzled by the suggestions it would take a lifetime to view every piece of art there – and only if they rotated their display in time with your visits. The opening of the Amsterdam branch means there's another place for the Hermitage to exhibit some of their vast number of art treasures, and we're excited about that.
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Why the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art is Worth a Visit
We kind of alluded to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last week in that story about Pasadena art museums, but it really deserves its own post.
The museum is the largest encyclopedic museum west of Chicago, with over 250,000 works of art - and from every inhabited continent - spread over an ever-growing maze of buildings and pavilions. Plus it's one of those LA destinations that's actually accessible by Metro. Plus they have free WiFi. So off we go.
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Escape the Botox in LA for Degas in Pasadena
It has come to our attention that Angelinos have a reputation for being a touch on the vacuous side. It has even suggested that we here at Jaunted have had something to do with having creating that impression. This obviously will not do.
If you aren't coming to Los Angeles for any Fast and Furious tours, may we suggest something a little more (ok, a lot more) enriching?
First of all there's the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which we've posted about before and will probably expand on soon enough. In the meantime nearby Pasadena- basically an LA suburb, though don't tell them that - has two of the world's most spectacular art museums.
Both are a mixture of gardens and galleries, displaying exquisite masterpieces against carefully cultivated bucolic backdrops. And since Pasadena is kind of close to LA that's just like having high art in the city itself! Right?
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Neo Con New York Opening in Brooklyn
This weekend, New York City street art takes center stage at the 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg. The Neo-Con Collective, made up of renown street artists Aakash Nihalani, Ellis G., and Poster Boy, has created an exhibition of collaborative installations for the gallery that will open Saturday.
17 Forest has praised the artists for their innovative and thought provoking work.
The collective consists of artists that utilize ephemeral mediums to create public art, focusing on neo-contextualizing the mundane. Their works, on and off the street, possess urgent relevance to modern societal contradictions and conflagrations, confronting the humanness of discomfort and dissatisfaction with typical, routine, existence.
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Aaron Koblin's Haunting Flight Paths Project
This is a screencap from an interactive Google Map created by artist Aaron Koblin, representing the 205,000 aircrafts the FAA tracked on August 12, 2008. In this case, we've filtered the air traffic by model, so each color represents a different one of the 573 aircrafts that flew that day. The flight paths are darker as the planes maintain their altitude and brighter the closer they are to the ground.
The work emerges as part of a collaboration between Koblin, Wired, and flight tracker FlightView. Koblin took images from his larger Flight Paths project and layered them, creating the interactive map.
You can go to the main project page and play around with the real version. You can choose your own filters, zooming in and out of your favorite city, and even look at the paths of specific aircraft.
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Jesuits' Cosmos: Austrian Artists Install Massive NASA Mural in Vienna Church
Outer space is the perfect metaphor for God and the mysteries of life. It's infinitely vast, it's mysteriously unknowable, and it elicits wonder and contemplation in all who behold it. This might be why Austrian artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf installed a massive NASA photograph of an astronaut floating in space on the ceiling of the historic Jesuit Church in Vienna in an exhibit entitled The Jesuits' Cosmos. The photo, which will be on display through May 25, 2009, is printed on a huge section of semi-transparent net fabric. Employing a change in lighting, the curators can switch the focus between the astronaut and the curvature of the blue planet to a "reverted view" of the Andrea Pozzo ceiling frescoes above them. Either way, the viewer is awed with a sense of spatial illusion. I like this trend of installing thought-provoking pieces of modern art in houses of worship. It's a pleasant reminder that we're all on the same planet, just trying to get along and figure a few things out.
[Photo: Steinbrener-Dempf]
Related Stories:
· Jesuits' Cosmos [Steinbrener-Dempf]
· Vienna Jesuit Church [Official Site]
· Religious Travel Coverage [Jaunted]
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Art and Nature Collide at Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden
We know, we know...you’re thinking, “Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden? Is there anything to see besides cactus…lots and lots of cactus?” Apparently there is now through May 31, 2009, since glass artist Dale Chihuly’s fanciful exhibit, “The Nature of Glass,” will be on display at the PBG, which is usually known for...well, just for its wide variety of agave and palo verde trees.
But for now, there are 17 separate sculptures and installations, including The Sun, which towers over the entrance at 16 feet tall and 14 feet wide, and chandeliers in the Cactus and Succulent Galleries—that just sounds naughty, doesn’t it?
After training at the Venini glass factory in Venice (where else?), Dale Chihuly has been creating these fantastical glass works since 1965 at his Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State.
What makes the monumental scale and vibrancy of his works even more impressive is the fact that Chihuly himself is blind in one eye—that’s right, the eye patch he wears isn’t just for dramatic effect.
Advanced reservations are required as the garden is doing timed admissions. Members get free admission while the rest of us have to pay $15. Seniors get in for $13.50 and students get in for $7.50. Children 3-12 still have to pay too at $5 a pop.
Related Stories:
· Chihuly Exhibit [Desert Botanical Garden]
[Photo: Adam Rodriguez/PBG]
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American Masters: Where to Find Andrew Wyeth's Art and Inspiration
The art world lost a master with Friday's passing of American painter Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic portrayals of rural settings and thoughtful characters earned him the distinction of being the "Painter of the People" during the mid to late 20th century. Wyeth's most famous painting, Christina's World, hangs in New York's Museum of Modern Art, but those curious to see his inspiration as well as his art need only head into the countryside. Wyeth grew up in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and spent summers in Cushing, Maine, and both areas have museums with extensive collections of his work. The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford contains the art of three generations of Wyeths - with work from Andrew's dad N.C. Wyeth and his son Jamie Wyeth - and will soon host a special celebration of Andrew's life and work. The Farnsworth Art Museum & Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine, meanwhile, has one of the largest collections of Wyeths in the country, along with paintings from 17th and 18th century American artists. Two worthy destinations for an art-themed road trip this winter. Chadds Ford is less than an hour's drive from Philadelphia, while the closest big-ish city to Rockland is Portland, two hours away.
[Photo: Brandywine River Museum]
Related Stories:
· Andrew Wyeth: 1917-2009 [Washington Post]
· Andrew Wyeth [Official site]
· Brandywine River Museum [Official Site]
· Farnsworth Art Museum [Official Site]
· Art Coverage [Jaunted]
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Alitalia Says Bye Bye Pretty Pictures
Our favorite on-again, off-again airline Alitalia might be selling cheap airfares this week, but they're obviously still trying hard to scrape together a few more euros to keep fuel in the tank.
The latest news out of the Alitalia camp is that they're holding an auction to sell off 163 paintings that used to hang in their aircraft, apparently so that passengers would have "beautiful things" to look at.
Nobody's sure how much cash the paintings will bring in but some of them are from well-known modern Italian artists and are thought to be valuable. (Sounds like Alitalia's decadent spending starting way back in the 1960s.) We're less worried about Alitalia's obvious money problems than the fact that no other airline we know ever made such an effort to pretty up the cabin for us. Are we missing out on something beautiful?
Related Stories:
· Alitalia-Owned Artwork to Go Under the Hammer [Reuters]
· Our Top Five International Airfare Sales of the Moment [Jaunted]
· Alitalia Coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: courgettelawn]
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Sussing Out Melbourne's Secret Masterpieces
Over the past decade Melbourne’s street art scene has grown to rival that of London or Berlin, thanks to the city's efforts to encourage artists to paint. Melbourne has gone so far as to designate certain streets for graffiti. Business owners are getting into the act as well by hiring street artists to paint the exteriors of their buildings. Still, the bulk of the good stuff is still hiding is the city’s nooks and crannies.
Because it can be a challenge to find the art lurking in remote corners and alleyways, Bernadette Alibrando, a local artist, has started giving walking tours of the best work in town. While many pieces are political statements about war, homelessness or global warming, others are lighter fare dealing with Australian pop culture.
Alibrando leads tours every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. The itinerary varies slightly each time out and usually ends with a passionate discussion over wine and cheese in the early evening. The cost per person is A$98 ($65).
Related Stories:
· Walk to Art Tours [Official Site]
· Walking Tours Bring Melbourne's Street Art to Life [LA Times]
· Street Art coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Doogsta]
