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Plural Awarded NEA Research Grant
Art Founders is a proud supporter and contributing sponsor of Plural, a study of the characteristics, needs, and support systems of ethnically and culturally specific organizations in the U.S. and Canada, which has just been awarded an NEA Research Grant! Plural is a collaborative research project that examines the situation of culturally specific arts organizations in the [...]
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Above + Below The Clouds: Chen Xiaowei
The work of Boston-based Chinese artist Chen Xiaowei 陳篠薇 (b. 1978) encompasses a wide range of media, including video, painting and drawings on paper. Through her work, she explores and expresses the intersections between the natural environment, natural disasters and human emotion. Above + Below The Clouds 雲上雲下, a solo exhibition of [...]
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Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher [...]
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EXCHANGE: Chicago and Detroit
Chicago Artists’ Coalition (CAC), in partnership with Power House Productions in Detroit, is pleased to present EXCHANGE, two group exhibitions that culminated from a Midwest Artist Exchange initiative in the two cities. In March 2012, artists from CAC’s BOLT Residency program traveled to Detroit to visit artist studios, artist-run spaces and galleries with a [...]
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Bernini’s Models: Displaying Process in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bernini: Sculpting in Clay Metropolitan Museum of Art: October 3 – January 6, 2013 Also: Kimbell Art Museum: February 3 – April 14, 2013 Curated by Ian Wardropper, Anthony Sigel, and C.D. Dickerson, with Paola D’Agostino There is a Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) that is pervasively known: the baroque artist that created dynamic [...]
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Profile of the Artist Rodney Carswell
hither and yon (little prisons) i meander; escape the straight and narrow…only to be so; drift in a random circuit; stray, losing the path. i make geometric repetition; mark a border to enforce a limit; my enclosures dictate direction; my outside determines interior; i move: up/down, left/right, back/forth, to/fro, along plumb & plane. i [...]
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Editorial: Reminiscences of Expo Chicago
It’s been a while since the inaugural edition of Expo Chicago (September 20-23, 2012 at Navy Pier) came and went. Here are some of my reminiscences from my day at the fair: I began the day at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and attended a tour of the museum with the [...]
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT U.S.: MICHELLE SAKHAI
Michelle Sakhai –San Francisco, CA– ABOUT THE ARTIST Michelle Sakhai‘s extensive world travels and her mixed heritage have played vital artistic influences in her life. With a Japanese mother and Iranian father, she grew up admiring varied landscapes and pieces of art from around the world. From the age to two, she [...]
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT EURASIA: EDGAR a.k.a. INVOKER
Edgar a.k.a. Invoker – St. Petersburg, Russia – About the Artist: Edgar a.k.a. Invoker grew up in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He graduated from the Grekov Rostov Art College in 1998 in painting. In 2000 he moved to St. Petersburg and went on to graduate from the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and [...]
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Above + Below The Clouds: Chen Xiaowei
The work of Boston-based Chinese artist Chen Xiaowei 陳篠薇 (b. 1978) encompasses a wide range of media, including video, painting and drawings on paper. Through her work, she explores and expresses the intersections between the natural environment, natural disasters and human emotion. Above + Below The Clouds 雲上雲下, a solo exhibition of [...]
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Interview with Christopher D. M. Atkins, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and author of The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity (Amsterdam University Press, 2012). Javier Berzal: What attracted you to Frans Hals [1580-1666] in the first place? Christopher [...]
EXCHANGE: Chicago and Detroit
Chicago Artists’ Coalition (CAC), in partnership with Power House Productions in Detroit, is pleased to present EXCHANGE, two group exhibitions that culminated from a Midwest Artist Exchange initiative in the two cities. In March 2012, artists from CAC’s BOLT Residency program traveled to Detroit to visit artist studios, artist-run spaces and galleries with a [...]



