Grand Rapids, MI — Thursday, October 6, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto is tonight, at the ArtPrize Winner’s Announcement Ceremony in DeVos Performance Hall, announced as the winner of the 2011 ARTPRIZE INTERNATIONAL JURIED AWARD. The juror for the 2011 International Award is Nuit Banai, art historian and critic, Tufts University.
The Manifest Prize was launched in 2010 as an annual offering. The cash award will be no less than $300, but will be determined based on the total number of entries to the project. The prize will be a dollar amount equal to the total number of entries received. (i.e. 1000 entries will make the prize amount $1000). The 2010 Manifest Prize totaled $400.
“A Fine Line” at Malton Gallery Richard Allan George might be one of the most remarkable painters that you’ve never heard of. Born in Chicago in 1935, Richard George spent three years at the Art Students League under the tutelage of the legendary Frank Reilly before going on to graduate studies at Miami University.
The Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art is on a roll. Coming off the success of their Keith Haring exhibition, Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan, is yet another visually compelling and conceptually astute exhibition. Close reading of the title no doubt echoes curator Justine Ludwig’s major point: the traditional practice of miniature creation is applied to contemporary non-miniature...
In 1973 the art critic of the Cincinnati Post wrote that Thom Shaw “a young Cincinnatian, Art Academy trained, is possessed of a powerful line and sense of balance within his works.” An exhibition of Shaw’s black and white masonite block prints was at the Miller Gallery, then on Edwards Road. I was the art critic.
Carmel Buckley’s slice of the universe is filled with sheer unlimited creativity, topped, like the traditional cherry on a sundae, with surprises, as if the universe were not enough. With a twist of wire, a dollop of clay, and a few well-used found objects, her sculptures blossom with curious freshness and drawings and prints become hypnotic in their profound simplicity.
This is the first in a series of a quarterly letters, which will cover painting shows in greater New York If you want to experience the New York art scene from afar, watch James Kalm’s videos. Kalm tirelessly travels the city documenting art openings and exhibitions from Manhattan to Brooklyn. His videos are a selective, but fairly accurate portrayal of gallery going in New York. James Kalm is actually a psuedonym.
Bequeathed to the people of Cincinnati in 1927, along with its collections, the Taft Museum of Art opened in 1932. Once the home of Nicholas Longworth and then Charles Phelps Taft, the house was originally finished in 1820 by Martin Baum, Cincinnati’s first millionaire and founder of the Miami Exporting Company, which in 1803 became the first bank chartered in Ohio.
Like doodles scribbled on the edges of homework, Peter Saul’s exquisitely moronic pictures (on display mostly in lithographic form at Carl Solway Gallery through December 22, 2011) have a rote yet somehow ominous quality, a blurry merger of the popular and profane. While seeming to be birthed from boredom and cynicism like punk rock, they also have the cozy innocuousness of storybooks published on the cheap. Blatant and iconic...
