Nine Rivers Gala Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street New York City The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) has a unique mission to, present, preserve, and document a permanent collection of Himalayan art that reflects the vitality, complexity, and significance of the Himalayan region and to create exhibitions and programs that explore connections with other world cultures. From the peaks of the Himalayas – a Sanskrit word meaning the “abode of snow” – water streams south and east to create the most magnificent and revered rivers in Asia. RMA has named its annual celebration the Nine Rivers Gala because, like these rivers, RMA’s collection and programs illustrate the common origins of the region’s people and universal values shared by all of humankind. Honoring Her Royal Highness Ashi Kesang Wangmo Wangchuck of Bhutan Matthieu Ricard, celebrated author, teacher, photographer, humanitarian, and Buddhist monk Recipients of Mandala Award for Arts and Humanitarian Achievement Emcee Veteran international journalist Daljit Dhaliwal Gala Co-Chairs Ginny and Ravi Akhoury Lakshmi and Sandy Chandra Jeffrey C. Walker Honorary Co-Chairs Laurie Anderson; Dr. William F. Baker; Rosanne Cash; Amb. Prabhu Dayal, Consul General of India; James Ivory; Lobsang Nyanduk, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama; HE Mr. Daw Penjo of the Kingdom of Bhutan; Lou Reed; Sir Salman Rushdie; Susan Sarandon; Martin Scorsese; Martin E. Segal; Sree Sreenivasan; Diane von …
Austin Museum of Art presents exhibition artist Chris Jordan talking about the inspiration for and impact of his epic photographs about sustainability (part two). (posted by vid/ed Anne Heller)
First day of New Acropolis Museum opened to public From the Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk Celebrities, royals and heads of state are expected to attend Saturday’s inauguration of the museum, built within sight of the Parthenon, at the foot of the Acropolis. However, delegates from Britain, including the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, have been quick to send their regrets. Last week, Gordon Brown declined his invitation. Ben Bradshaw, the new secretary for culture and sport, followed suit, as did Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum. It has been left for two British Museum curators to represent the UK. The new museum’s top level – the luminous Parthenon galleries – house copies of the monumental sculptures that depict the Panathenaic procession, the decorative frieze which adorned the temple until Lord Elgin removed much of it during his tenure as British ambassador to the Ottoman Porte. Bankrupted by the venture, Elgin sold the pieces to the British government, which presented them to the British Museum in 1816. Yesterday, archaeologists removed protective cellophane from plaster-cast copies that Athens acquired from the British Museum in 1840. “Most museums like to cover copies with a patina to make them look more real, but we have taken a very different approach,” said Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis, the archaeologist in charge of the museum. “We want to show that these are indeed copies, that we are not afraid of plaster. That the real ones are somewhere …
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents an exhibition of recent work by artists living and working in Mexico City. The young generation of artists in Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City” embrace non-traditional materials in their work, which includes video, photography, installation and performance. The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Museum of Art from through June 7. The exhibition is exciting because it pushes our ideas about what is considered art, said Kimerly Rorschach, Mary DBT and James H. Semans Director of the Nasher Museum. Here, conceptual art mingles with popular culture in sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, yet very creative ways. We are pleased to present work by artists who have helped make Mexico City a thriving hub of contemporary art over the past 10 years. The term escultura social, or social sculpture, came from German performance artist Joseph Beuys, who said that sculpture, if made from everyday materials and displayed in a real-world setting, has the potential to affect society most broadly. The works are all socially engaged, they draw connections between nature and culture, they revisit conceptual practices/actions from the 1960s, and promote a demystified and democratic idea of art-making, said exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm, who is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. “My objects are to be seen as stimulants for the transformation of the …
Classic Game Room vs. DINOSAUR! It’s CGR vs Dippy in front of the Carnegie Museum and Library in Oakland outside of Pittsburgh, PA. Dippy is a full size replica of the Diplodocus Carnegii which was originally discovered on July 4th, 1899 in Wyoming, USA. The fossils are on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dippy stands proud outside of the museum and Carnegie Libarary in Oakland in front the University of Pittsburgh and the Cathedral of Learning.
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