Mira Schendel

@ Tate Modern

Tate Modern is staging the first ever international, full-scale survey of the work of Mira Schendel (1919 - 1988) until 19 January 2014. Schendel is one of Latin America's most important and prolific post-war artists. Alongside her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Schendel reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil. The show exemplifies how Tate is continuing to rethink and re-present the history of modern and contemporary art by showing artists who established their careers outside Europe and the USA.
The exhibition brings together over 300 paintings, drawings and sculptures from across her entire career, many of which have never been exhibited before. Highlights include her Droguinhas (Little Nothings) 1965 - 6, soft sculptures of knotted rice paper in the form of malleable nets, originally exhibited in London (Signals Gallery, 1966); and the Graphic Objects 1967 - 8, a group of works that explore language and poetry and were first shown at the 1968 Venice Biennale. LINK tate

Todor Vardjiev

Prof. Todor Vardjiev born on January 16 1943 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. 1965 - 1966 National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. 1966 - 1967 Herder Institut, Leipzig, Germany. 1967 - 1972 MA in the book design and graphic design, under Professor Albert Kapr, Ph.D., and Professor Walter Schiller, Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. 1994 Creative specialization at Cite International des Arts, Paris. LINK artmajeur

Юрий Луначарский (Yuri Lunacharsky)

JUXTAPOSED a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Russian artist Yuri Lunacharsky, as reflected in the eyes of the Dutch artists Topp & Dubio.
04.10 - 21.10  2013, 19:00 - 00:00

Lunacharsky is a Kaliningrad born sculptural artist who died in 2008 at the age of 30 without ever having exhibited his work. In a way, Topp & Dubio continue Lunacharsky's art practice by handling and rearranging his works and preparing it to be shown publically without having any knowledge of Lunacharsky's intentions or knowing how to do this properly. Continuously, Topp & Dubio started a never ending dialogue with Lunacharsky by creating project based works that respond to the major themes in Lunacharsky's artworks: space, time, energy, history and human existence. By doing so, The exhibition shows both of their work in retrospective. Side by side or face to face. Or both.  

В рамках образовательной программы к выставке "Бок о бок: 
Topp & Dubio против  Юрий Луначарский", которая до 20 октября проходит в выставочном зале Балтийского филиала Государственного центра современного искусства, состоялись музейные занятия, вдохновленные художественным "космосом"  Юрий Луначарский. Школьники не только познакомились с концепцией выставки, различными формами презентации современного искусства, но и провели ассоциативные мосты между работами голландского дуэта и калининградского художника, а также выразили свое мнение относительно выставки в виде принтов на футболках. Выставка проходит до 21 октября по адресу: Литовский Вал, 38, подъезд 6, 4 этаж. Вход свободный. Подробнее о выставке и расписании публичных экскурсий читайте на сайте БФ ГЦСИ. 
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LINK jegensentevens 
LINK topp&dubio

Post Sofia: Jules Pascin

From Vidin to Paris exhibition 
@ Sofia City Art Gallery

Jules Pascin, was born on March 31 1885 in Bulgaria’s Danubian city of Vidin. In 1892, his family moved to Bucharest. Pascin graduated from high school in Vienna. Between 1902 and 1905 he received training at the art academies in Vienna, Budapest, Munich and Berlin. He contributed to the “Simplicissimus“ magazine published in Munich. In 1905, he moved to Paris, where he met his future wife, Hermine David. In 1907, he organized his first solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer’s gallery in Berlin. In 1914 he left for New York, where he lived until 1920. He travelled to the Southern states and Cuba. Then he went back to Paris, where he lived until his death in 1930. 

Peintre emblématique de l’Ecole de Paris, Jules Pascin, né à Vidin en Bulgarie en 1885, symbolise à lui seul l’histoire culturelle de l’Europe, la circulation des idées et des talents. Après une expérience allemande formatrice et réussie (Munich, Berlin), il choisit Paris et devient célèbre, voyage puis s’installe définitivement à Paris où il se suicide dans son atelier en 1930, persuadé d’avoir atteint la limite de sa créativité artistique. Initiée par l’ambassade de France en Bulgarie et organisée par l’Institut français en partenariat avec la Galerie municipale, l’exposition rassemble 115 œuvres issues de collections privées, dont certaines n’ont jamais été exposées au grand public. Les œuvres proviennent de Paris, Londres, Tel-Aviv, Luxembourg et Oslo. 

Емблематичен художник от Парижката школа, Жул Паскин е роден във Видин в България през 1885г. След като се обучава сериозно и успешно в Германия (Мюнхен, Берлин), той избира Париж и се прочува, пътува, след което се установява окончателно в Париж, където се самоубива в ателието си през 1930г, убеден, че е достигнал границите на своята творческа креативност. Последната изложба на Жул Паскин в България е била организирана през 1975г. В Националната галерия за чуждестранно изкуство в София. Изложбата, озаглавена „Жул Паскин, от Видин до Париж“ се организира в партньорство със Софийска градска художествена галерия, чийто главен уредник, Мария Василева, е посветила докторска дисертация на този, който наричат ‘’Принцът от Монпарнас“. LINK schg

Post Sofia: Limited Protesters Today

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While some people in Bulgaria joined the protests against both governments, and while there were small amounts of protesters who were out on the streets throughout the spring of 2013 and effectively "linked" the two series of protests, the reasons that sparked off the two waves were different. 

The winter protests began due to high electricity prices and morphed into anti-GERB protests, while the summer anti-BSP/MRF protests were sparked by the election of media magnate Delyan Peevski to head the national security service. 

Many of the people who participated in both waves of protests are unhappy with the oligarchic model of governance that they claim has taken hold in Bulgaria, which leads to monopolies or near-monopolies in many spheres, such as energy (central to the winter protests), banking and media (central to the summer protests). These, in turn, are perceived as having a strong influence on the nation's political scene. LINK Protest Bulgaria

Post Sofia: Музей на социалистическото изкуство (Museum of Socialist Art)

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Музеят на социалистическото изкуство е музей в София, филиал на Националната художествена галерия, открит на 19 септември 2011 г. Това е първата музейна институция в България, предназначена да събира, опазва и представя образци на българското изкуство, създадени през периода 1944 - 1989 г., тематично свързани с епохата на социализма. 

The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia is a museum, a branch of the National Art Gallery, opened on September 19, 2011 This is the first museum institution in Bulgaria, designed to collect, preserve and present examples of Bulgarian art, created in the period 1944 - 1989, the thematically related to the era of socialism. LINK Wikimedia (Bulgarian)

Post Sofia: Stoyan Sertev

An Epoch in Black & and White 
@ National Museum of Bulgarian visual Arts 
10 October - 10 November 2013
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Stoyan Sertev was born in Nova Zagora. He had played the violin since his childhood and at the age of about 20 he left for Sofia, where he made his living by playing in restaurant bands and by recording sound for silent films in cinema halls. Due to the lack of money he could not graduate from the Musical Academy but he had free lessons with Hristo Petkov, the father of the conductor Dobrin Petkov. In the musical milieus the name of Stoyan Sertev is connected with the National Opera orchestra and with the rich artistic history of the famous in the near past “Lechev” and “Avramov” quartets, where he played second violin. In his free time he was involved in photography - a passion of his since his adolescence, when he made his own camera out of a tin with a hole drilled in it, instead of lens. He made his first attempts, collected in an album, following German recipes for toning photographs. His huge archive has kept hundreds of frames from 1939 till the end of his life. He mainly shot works of art and their creators, architectural projects, theatrical and opera performances. 
LINK National Art Gallery

Eleanor Antin

"Selves", September 4 - December 7, 2013 
@ Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery 
Image: Eleanor Antin, The Two Eleanors, 1973. Private Collection.

Eleanor Antin, born in New York City in 1935, is an influential artist and writer. A pioneer of performance, photography, film, video, installation and Conceptual art, her humorous and often tragic works are grounded in narratives that engage history, identity and feminism. This exhibition will, for the first time, focus on the videos, photographic series, drawings and installations that express the "selves" she created and embodied between 1972 and 1991. LINK columbia edu

Tomorrow last day Exhibition Grensland @ Arnhem

Curated by Lisa Weeda 
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LINK Grensland

Volkspaleis film project The Lost

Reinold Reinolds, Kees ’t Hart, Wim Noordhoek, 
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil & Others

The Volkspaleis is a multidisciplinary event where West will show among other things the magnificent, monumental film project The Lost by the internationally renowned American artist Reynold Reynolds. The turbine hall is perfectly suited to show the film consisting of seven screens averaging a width of 8 metres. The project is based on rediscovered film footage from the thirties, a period of severe economic crisis. The film is about the life of a young writer who lives in a Berlin hotel together with other performers, dancers and musicians. 
At the time the original film couldn’t be completed due to the upcoming Nazi regime. LINK West

Katsumi Hayakawa

Katsumi Hayakawa, born 1970, constructs tri-dimensional worlds made of paper. His works are abstract representations of our de-individualised cities, in which we live and work but do not manage to establish relationships. The buidlings of our cities are the containers and décor of the “absence of existence, the absence of nothingness and the absence of the absence of absence”. LINK Katsumi Hayakawa

Péter Forgács

Looming Fire

Stories from the Netherlands East Indies (1900–1940)

@ EYE October 5 - December 1, 2013

The Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács is considered to be one of the most outstanding found-footage filmmakers. He is best known for the way he ingeniously compiles new work based on amateur films. Forgács created a genre of its own, one which serves to put historical events in a new perspective. His highly individual adaptations of authentic family and amateur films, including those made for the series "Private Hungary" (1988 - 2008), were once described by a critic as a mix of 'anthropology, theatre, documentary and private diary.' In 2007 Forgács was awarded the Erasmus prize for his contribution to the 'culture and historical consciousness of Europe.' So far he has more than forty films to his name, including The Maelstroom, Angelos' Film, Miss Universe 1929 and El perro negro, as well as three major installations. LINK EYE

Kerry James Marshall

Painting and Other Stuff 
@ M HKA
  4 October 2013 - 2 February 2014

A long-time resident of Chicago, Kerry James Marshall is widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of his generation. Strongly influenced by his experiences as a young man, Marshall developed a signature style as an artist, centring on the life and history of the black subject. His now-substantial body of work offers his perspective on the complexity of the African-American condition, along with its persistent issues of race politics, cultural representation and social emancipation. In an attempt to reconcile the black subject with images of Western ideals, Marshall places both in his paintings, highlighting determinations of black identity that are contextualised by history and the current social-political situation. Also addressing the history of art, Marshall strives to fill what he describes as the 'lack in the image bank' with his work, whilst raising pertinent questions about how the art system sustains itself and the related issues of legitimation, power and marginalisation. LINK M HKA

Tony Ray-Jones

American Colour 1962–1965 
A digital edition of Tony Ray-Jones' previously unpublished colour work.

American Colour 1962–1965 is a carefully edited selection Tony Ray-Jones' colour photographs from the earliest period of his work. Taken from the extensive archives held at the National Media Museum in Bradford, this book brings together the early experiments that would inform his later work. 

Ray-Jones arrived in America in 1961 on a scholarship to Yale to study graphic art and he returned to England four years later. It was in America that he learned to be a photographer. Among New York's street parades, on Fifth Avenue, in Times Square, Chinatown and Little Italy he learned to extract individual moments from a crowded backdrop—to find order in the chaos of the street. At the time colour was considered vulgar and not the medium of serious photography, but for Ray-Jones it expressed the excitement of America in a way that black-and-white could not. LINK mappeditions

Grensland @ Arnhem

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Curated by Lisa Weeda 
LINK grensland

Grensland

Lisa Weeda, third year student at ArtEZ creative writing chronicles the life of her still-living-grandmother exhibited.
In the picture and sound is the story of the life of Aleksandra Tjemnikowa offering great distances traveled, told. Sit down, touch, see, smell and listen. LINK grensland

Environments and Counter Environments

Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA, 1972 
September 18 - December 14, 2013



Graham Foundation 
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
 Chicago 
Curated by Peter Lang, Luca Molinari & Mark Wasiuta

This exhibition highlights the lasting significance of MoMA's groundbreaking 1972 exhibition, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. Presented for the first time in the United States outside of New York, the Graham Foundation iteration of Environments and Counter Environments, curated by Peter Lang, Luca Molinari and Mark Wasiuta, emphasizes both the dynamic context of radical Italian design and architecture in the 1970s, as well as the innovative exhibition that first presented this work in America. LINK Graham Foundation

Adrian Ghenie and Navid Nuur

Berlin 
On the Road to ... Tarascon 
20 Sept  - 14 Dec, 2013 Opening: 20 Sept, 17 - 22 h

Galeria Plan B is happy to announce the exhibition On the Road to ... Tarascon, the materialization of the conversation between the Romanian painter Adrian Ghenie and the post-conceptual Iranian-born Dutch artist Navid Nuur, unfolding over the last few years.

The two artists met in the context of the gallery's program and new episodes in their dialogue were occasioned over time by group exhibitions and art fair presentations. This is in tandem with the mission of the gallery, to be a locus of conversation and collaborative research. LINK Galleria Plan B

CITY OF DISAPPEARANCES

Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries
September 10, 2013 to December 14, 2013

The exhibition City of Disappearances dramatizes this shared resemblence of the world's cities by borrowing the title of Iain Sinclair's psycho-geographic "anthology of absence" written by and about London. The exhibition imagines a transposition and exchange of the living-imaginary of London conjured in Sinclair's book with the fictions and myths of San Francisco. This conceptual and metaphorical exchange will be followed by a real one as the exhibition travels to London in 2014, where it will be renamed Infinite City after Rebecca Solnit's almanac of San Francisco. LINK Wattis

Pablo Bronstein

A IS BUILDING, B IS ARCHITECTURE

13.09 - 24.11.13 OPENING: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 6 P.M.

The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève is pleased to present the first solo show of Pablo Bronstein in Switzerland and the first retrospective of its architectural drawings. Performance plays an important dimension in Bronstein work and will be an integral part of the exhibition at the Centre. Pablo Bronstein is interested in the links between classical architecture and contemporary urbanism, between settings and decors, between art and dance. Through drawing, sculpture, video and performance, he looks at the historical otherness in order to unveil the links between power, fascination and classical art. His work often combines references to history of architecture- from the Roman antiquity and the Baroque to Neo-classicism and Post-modernism, as well as hints to history of art - from the Renaissance to the Modern period. LINK Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève

Grensland

A cross-border life from Aleksandra Tjemnikowa, exhibited.

Curated by Lisa Weeda

LINK Generale Oost
LINK Map
LINK Lisa Weeda

Phoebus today

An Impression, DPhoto 
Mark Cloet, Janna Huyghe, Bernadette Beunk and others.

LINK phoebus (site in Dutch)

Rome

The still Untitled project comes from artist Kowalski personal need to change the world, to show how the city of Rome has changed over the decades and how it’s grown into an incredibly busy and complex metropolis. Each image consists of 3 to 5 photographs taken at different times and representing different architectural periods. 
Put together, they fall into places, dance with each other in an unexpectedly symbiotic way, co-existing in the mosaic of shapes and colors, symbolizing strength, diversification and synergy of the Rome as we know it today. LINK kowalski

Carl Michael Von Hausswolff

@ Lunds konsthall
Carl Michael von Hausswolff: I am the Others

7 September - 3 November 2013

Carl Michael von Hausswolff was born in 1956 in Linköping, Sweden. He lives and works in Stockholm, and had since the end of the 70s worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument. He has often collaborated with other artists (such as Erik Pauser, Leif Elggren, Andrew McKenzie, Johan Söderberg, Zbigniew Karkowski, Graham Lewis, David Jackman, Jean-Louis Huhta and Kim Cascone). He devised the concept and is the curator of the Freq_Out sound collective. Hausswolff's audiovisual works have also found outlets in pictorial art. On the 27th of May 1992 at 12 Noon GMT, alongside Leif Elggren, he proclaimed the Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland, a new country established as a work of art. LINK Lunds konsthall

Hopscotch

DPhoto Rotterdam

Hopscotch is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object into numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object. LINK hopskotch

Rebetika

(Greek: ρεμπέτικο en ρεμπέτικα) 
Rene Castelijn 
Photo: Irma Rademaker

Rebetiko, plural rebetika, (Greek: ρεμπέτικο, pronounced [reˈbetiko] and ρεμπέτικα respectively), occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards. LINK ρεμπέτικο

‪Summertime‬

‪Janis Joplin - Summertime (Live -1969)‬ @ Sweden

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year solo career include "Down on Me", "Summertime", "Piece of My Heart", "Ball 'n' Chain", "Maybe", "To Love Somebody", "Kozmic Blues", "Work Me, Lord", "Cry Baby", "Mercedes Benz", and her only number one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee". Joplin was well known for her performing abilities, and her fans referred to her stage presence as "electric". At the height of her career, she was known as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul," and became known as Pearl among her friends. She was also a painter, dancer and music arranger. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004,[1] and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
LINK Youtube

@ Phoebus Rotterdam

Exhibitions Phoebus Rotterdam: 
Mark Cloet, Janna Huyghe and Bernadette Beunk, 
second opening 8 Sept 15 to 17 hours - t / m Sept 22

During the gallery season, from September / to June, are (for example workshops and exhibitions of artists who are members of the gallery) organized exhibitions next regularly lectures, discussions and occasional excursions. For Thought are usually held by an artist in his or her exposition, occasionally by a critic or gallery owner. See announcements for the "banner" on this page and include lectures / excursions. The gallery also publishes books. Publications on drawings are published in the series' Drawings First / First drawings `. Publications which the concept is put forward, by an artist be issued in the `Unbound Series / Footloose 'series. LINK phoebus (site in Dutch)

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

Adel Abdessemed 
L'âge d'or
 
6 October 2013 - 5 January 2014 

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present a landmark exhibition by Adel Abdessemed titled L'âge d'or. Curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, this exhibition will include recent works including drawings, paintings, sculptures and videos, many created by the artist especially for this show in Doha.

Working across a wide range of media, Abdessemed transforms well-known materials and imagery into charged artistic declarations. Abdessemed has described himself as "an artist of acts," and his works are known for their forceful impact and symbolic resonance. Taking materials into great consideration, he is often provocative in their use; camel bones, gold, salt, brass, gum, and terracotta take on new and multiple meanings. LINK mathaf

‪Solomon Burke ‬

‪None Of Us Are Free‬

Solomon Burke was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul" and the "Muhammad Ali of soul". Due to Burke's minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke is often described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler once referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time". 
LINK ‪Solomon Burke‬