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Time, Space, Infinity: An Evening with Zen Master and Artist Master Shen-Long @ The Loyola University Museum of Art
Time, Space, Infinity: An Evening with Zen Master and Artist Master Shen-Long Presented by The Loyola University Museum of Art in partnership with Art Founders. When: March 25, 2014, 6:00 PM Where: Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) 820 N. Michigan Avenue (across from the Historic Water Tower) Chicago, IL 60611 […]
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A Conversation with Master Shen-Long @ the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A Conversation with Master Shen-Long at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago October 28, 2013 6-8PM Sharp Building, Room 327 37 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, IL Art Founders is pleased to announce that AF Distinguished Artist Master Shen-Long (Master Sheng-Yao; zi 字 or courtesy name: Xiaoyao 逍遙), a Zen Buddhist master and […]
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The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale
The Encyclopedic Palace 55th Venice Biennale Central Pavilion and Arsenale June 1 – November 24, 2013 Massimiliano Gioni, curator The encyclopedic impulse was a dream of knowledge and collection. An obsessive reverie of gathering and classifying that rejoiced on a sense of knowledge that, as Aristotle said, began with wonder. Side-stepping into the margins […]
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Artist Interview: Judith Kruger
Judith Kruger is an American abstract painter whose work focuses on the Human-Environment connection. She manipulates globally sourced natural matter “as paint”. Her contemporary practice re-contextualizes the ancient processes of Nihonga, traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting (Nihon translates as Japan, and ga as painting, literally “Japanese-style paintings”). She received her BFA from Syracuse University and […]
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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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TIME ZERO
TIME ZERO In February 2008, when Polaroid announced that it would cease production on all instant film, director Grant Hamilton chose to tell the story of this beloved photographic medium which resulted in his first ever feature length film, TIME ZERO: The Last Year of Polaroid Film. It starts out as an attempt to capture […]
Distilling the Artist’s Hand: Late Raphael in El Prado
Late Raphael Museo Nacional Del Prado June 12-September 16, 2012 Curated by Paul Joannides and Tom Henry The Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain, will be holding until September 16 an exhibition focused on the late works of Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) and his workshop. The exhibit presents forty-four paintings and twenty-eight drawings made […]
The Art of Video Games @ Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Art of Video Games Smithsonian American Art Museum Curated by Chris Melissinos March 16, 2012 – September 30, 2012 Currently on display at the American Museum of Art in Washington DC is an exhibition on The Art of Video Games. I feel this is a timely exhibit as new media and interactive art […]