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Magnum Opus The book that could save American art. Jed Perl January 4, 2011 | 4:38 pm I am besotted with a new book that is also an old book. This is  The H.D. Book,  by Robert Duncan, a wild, dazzling, idiosyncratic magnum opus that the poet composed between 1959 and 1964 and that is only now being published in its complete form, by the University of California Press. What began with a request for a brief birthday homage to the American poet known as H.D.—she had been born Hilda Doolittle—morphed into one of the greatest of all meditations on the nature not only of modern poetry but of the modern artistic imagination in its bewitching complexity. Art, Duncan exclaims, makes “what is not actual real.” I am glad to be reading Duncan’s text as we head into 2011—the second decade of the century after the modern century. There is no nostalgia in  The H.D. Book.  Duncan’s modernism is at once lofty, optimistic, activist, and open-minded. Published a half-century after it was written,  The H

Stanley   Lewis   View of 12th St and 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 2006 oil on canvas, 35 x 40 inches Courtesy Bowery Gallery "Stanley   Lewis   is a powerful painter.  His vision is independent, original, raw.His latest work is to be seen at the Bowery Gallery, an artist- run cooperative dedicated to painters working in the tradition of French modernist figuration.  This setting allowshim to work without commercial constraints but also without the resources to promote him and his work effectively. Nevertheless he has built an impressive reputation among artists and his prices have risen quite a bit just lately, due to a committed group of patrons. Lewis emerged from the circle surrounding the painter, teacher and charismatic outsider, Leland Bell with whom he studied at Yale. Bell saw the influence of French modernism as way of deepening figurative painting through greater consciousness of form, and was a great admirer of Giacometti, Balthus and the later work of Andre Derain.   Lewis  

Hand-made embroidery cotton thread on white cotton canvas, 2004. Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could   not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.      ~George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What, 1944 Andrea Dezso is on the faculty of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Click the link to find out more: . http://www.mica.edu/About_MICA/People/Faculty/Faculty_List_by_Last_Name/Andrea_Dezso.html

Art Exhibit Reflects Inspiration and Obligation University Park, Illinois, February 9, 2011 - “Minority Art: Inspiration, Obligation” is the featured exhibit, discussion, and reception at Governors State University in celebration of African American History Month. The event will be held on February 28, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., with remarks at 7 p.m. This art exhibition will feature the work of world-renowned artist Kehinde Wiley. The artwork is on loan from the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. Wiley’s portraits were initially based on photographs taken of young men on the streets of Harlem. The models, dressed in their everyday clothing, are asked to assume poses depicted in paintings or sculptures found in Western Art History. Wiley’s art also includes an international view with models found in urban landscapes throughout the world – such as Mumbai, Dakar, and Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Wiley, “Minority Art: Inspiration, Obligation” also includes the works of regional artists who

" I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.  That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect."  Audre Lorde

The Visual Arts Gallery would like to wish you a Happy New Year and remind you to stop in and see our current exhibit “The Girl in The Wicker Suitcase”, a retrospective of Luise Renner’s artwork. Luise Renner (1946-2009) was a former student in the art department at GSU. January 10 – 28, 2011 Closing Reception, free and open to the public Wednesday January 26, 2011 5:30-8:30pm www.govst.edu/gallery "The Girl in The Wicker Suitcase", 2003 (acrylic on paper, 30x22) was inspired by a dream experienced in childhood by Luise Renner in which the devil was carrying her away in a wicker suitcase. The swaying motion and the swishing sound in the dream awakened her. In this retrospective exhibition we are given an opportunity to experience the highly personal, wonderfully fanciful and colorful paintings of this remarkable artist who was taken from us too soon. The exhibition features 30 narrative paintings and drawings inspired by dreams, fairy tales, fables and other stories. Luise

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Audre Lorde, poet, essayist, and lesbian activist was born on February 18, 1934 and died of breast cancer in 1992. The Cancer Journals , published in 1980 by Aunt Lute Books, is as relevant today as it was thirty years ago.  It is a candid account of Lorde's feelings and thoughts as she lived through a mastectomy on September 22, 1978 to remove her right breast. She was forty-four years old. Lorde recounts her struggle to determine the best course of action when she finds out that the tumor in her breast is malignant.  As other women have, she worried if her lover would still find her desirable with one breast and she feared losing control of her body and life.  Overwhelmed by her choices of  mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, vitamin therapy, and experiential immunopeutics, Lorde chooses mastectomy because she believes it will give her the best chance to stay alive to work and function effectively. Although Lorde is surrounded by loving friends at the hospital, she has to go in

Stay up to date with video podcasts from the National Gallery of Art, which include documentary excerpts, lectures, and other films about the Gallery's history, exhibitions, and collections. - source: NGA web site Subscribe to the Gallery's RSS feed.   Help Video Vermeer: In the Light of Delft Vermeer's classic painting   A Lady Writing   inspired this evocative film. The exquisite skills of this 17th-century Dutch artist evoke nuances of light, texture, and reflection that describe both the artist's native city of Delft and the details of this much-loved work. Painted ermine, pearls, velvet, brass, and wood are illuminated by the sensitive touch of an unparalleled master.   Hi-Res   |   Lo-Res   |   iTunes   |   Watch on ArtBabble   |   RSS   (6:30 mins.)   Turner on the Tyne The moon rises high over water and becomes one with Joseph Mallord William Turner's evocative image of the sights and sounds on the River Tyne at Newcastle in his 1835 painting   Keelmen Heav