The MoMA iPhone App

New: The MoMA iPhone App! Carry MoMA New York City with you wherever you go. Use the MoMA iPhone App to find out what’s on at the Museum, plan a visit, browse or search tens of thousands of works in the collection, take multimedia tours, or learn about artists and art terms. Take a picture of a work of art and send it to a friend, or put together a playlist to create a soundtrack for your MoMA visit.

The MoMA iPhone application features include:

• A Calendar of current and upcoming exhibitions, daily events and screening, with the ability to share via Facebook or Twitter.

• Tours, which include the MoMA Audio programs, with five distinct tour options, as well as the ability to browse by floor or stop number.

• An Art index of all works and artists featured in the collection as well as a database of art terms.

• Information about the museum, including hours, admissions and directions.

• MoMA Snaps offers the option to take a picture and send it as a Museum postcard.

• MoMA Tracks allows visitors to select tracks from their own music library to listen to while exploring the Museum or the MoMA App.

Night & Light von Teresa Mar - Galerie artmark

Im Rahmen der FILL IT UP - Urban Art-Seesions der Galerie artmark in Wien gibts am 11.8.2010 von 19.00-22.00 Lichtprojektionen der Künstlerin Teresa Mar zu sehen. Teresa Mar versteht sich als 'bildnerische Architektin', wenn sie ihre Collagen via Licht und digitaler Printmedien in den öffentlichen Raum transportiert und so ein breites Spektrum an Betrachtern erreicht. Durch das Spiel mit Licht und Schatten, Farbe und Form entstehen komplexe Bildbotschaften, die jenen weiten Assoziationsspielraum erschließen, den die Künstlerin bezweckt.

Teresa Mar

Adresse: artmark galerie: 1010 Wien, Singerstraße 17 (Eingang Grünangergasse)

Save the Date: Urban Art - ESCAPE 2010 Wien

Die Internationale Urban Art Ausstellung ESCAPE 2010 - Escape the Golden Cage findet von 1.10. bis 24.10.2010 in Wien statt. Aktuelle Infos:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ESCAPE2010.EscapeTheGoldenCage
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ESCGoldenCage

The Saatchi Opus HD for iPad

New: The Saatchi Opus HD app for iPad. The Saatchi Gallery first opened in a disused paint factory in Boundary Road, London, in 1985 and its influence on art in Britain and around the world has been felt ever since. The Saatchi Gallery shows the most interesting artists of the day, often acting as a springboard to artists unknown at the time, and has attracted much attention from both critics and the public – along with plenty of controversy. Any history of the Saatchi Gallery is a record of three decades of contemporary art, and the Saatchi Opus, produced in cooperation with the Saatchi Gallery, is its definitive chronicle. Now you can explore the Saatchi Opus in an incredible new digital multimedia edition specially created for the Apple iPad.

The original Saatchi Opus is a stunning 800-page publication, strictly limited to 950 copies, each personally signed by Charles Saatchi. The iPad edition recreates all of the content of the Opus, and includes exclusive media and features.

The Saatchi Opus iPad App - features:
- Divided into sections reflecting the gallery’s different phases and exhibitions, including the infamous Sensation and controversial Young British Artists, as well as The Triumph of Painting and New Chinese Art.

- An opportunity to relive the gallery experience through previously unpublished installation shots of Boundary Road, County Hall and the new Saatchi Gallery at the Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea.

- Covering three decades of contemporary art featuring over 150 international artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Brice Marden, Ron Mueck, Bruce Nauman, Paula Rego, Jenny Saville, Andy Warhol, Rachel Whiteread, Zhang Xiaoghang and many more.

- Exclusive essays by leading art critics Richard Cork and Brian Sewell, Sir Norman Rosenthal, former Secretary of Exhibitions at The Royal Academy of Art, and actor and devoted art collector Steve Martin.

The Saatch Opus iPad App
- Browse the Opus with a unique Digital Opus format, specially created for the iPad
- Every page of the Opus is reproduced in HD
- Quickly access content through intuitive and simple navigation
- Read captions for each artwork
- Over 3 hours of audio narration
- Almost 100 video clips from the Saatchi Gallery’s archives bringing the artworks to life

Owners of this app are entitled to an exclusive discount on the purchase of The Saatchi Opus.
Don’t have an iPad? The Saatchi Opus is also available as an app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Beyond Punk at Signal Gallery London

Signal Gallery London presents "Beyond Punk" (13.-21. August 2010) featuring the artwork of punk musicians, artists associated with punk bands and artistic friends of punk. The legendary bassist from The Adverts, Gaye Advert, curates the exhibition, which will gather together a fantastic collection of 'hell raising' talent.

From the outset, the punk movement was about more than just music. The punk 'look' was as vibrant and 'shocking'. Many punk musicians started their creative lives as visual artists who, one day, found themselves playing a guitar, bashing a drum or shouting into a microphone and before they knew it, they had recording contracts and gigs booked well into the future. The result of this musical success was that their artwork took a back seat. Over time, many of these musicians have returned to their creative roots and started producing artworks again. This rich wellspring of visual talent will be the centerpiece of the 'Beyond Punk' exhibition. 

The line up speaks for itself: Adam Ant (Adam & the Ants), Charlie Harper (UK Subs), Chris Brief (The Briefs), Dale Grimshaw, Dee Generate (Eater), Gaye Black (Adverts), Gee Vaucher (Crass), Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), Knox (Vibrators), Nick Taggart (Zkrr Zkretna), Philip Barker (Buzzcocks), Poly Styrene (X Ray Spex), Shanne Bradley (Nipple Erectors), Shepard Fairey, Steve Ignorant (Crass) and Youth (Killing Joke). And more...

'Beyond Punk' will reflect the richly varied inventive world that has grown up around the punk movement over the past thirty-five years. In an age when the young find it increasingly hard to achieve new ways to shock their elders, nostalgia for the simple but effective 'fuck off' of punk is very strong. Those musicians and artists involved in the movement are being recognized as the last 'lost' generation.

Save the Date: Vienna Gallery Weekend

Zum ersten Mal findet von 17. bis 19. September 2010 das VIENNA GALLERY WEEKEND statt.
Kunst und Tradition prägen das Stadtbild Wiens wie kaum eine andere Stadt Mitteleuropas. Neben den zahlreichen Museen und Institutionen hat sich eine internationale Galerienszene mit Schwerpunkt Gegenwartskunst entwickelt.
Endlich finden sich auch in Wien (ähnlich wie zb in Berlin) Galerien zum Vienna Gallery Weekend zusammen, an dem ein vielfältiges Programm für Kunst-Interessenten und Kunstsammler geboten werden soll: Ausstellungseröffnungen, Führungen, Galerienfrühstück, Cocktails und vieles mehr sind zu erwarten.

Mit dabei beim Vienna Gallery Weekend 2010 sind diese Galerien: Artmark Galerie Wien, Charim Galerie, Christine König Galerie, Engholm Galerie, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Galerie Andreas Huber, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Galerie Frey, Galerie Grita Insam, Galerie Heike Curtze, Galerie Hubert Winter, Galerie Krinzinger, Galerie Krobath, Galerie Lang Wien, Galerie MAM Mario Mauroner, Galerie Martin Janda, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Galerie Mezzanin, Galerie Michaela Stock, Galerie Nächst St.Stephan, Galerie Steinek, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Galerie Winiarzyk, Kro Art Gallery, Layr Wuestenhagen, Momentum, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, White8/Vienna, ZS Art.

Aktualisierung: seit Ende August gibt es auf der Website viennagalleryweekend.com einige weitere Informationen zum Programm der Galierien, leider sehr gut versteckt und extrem unübersichtlich...
Zum Download gibts ein 13MB-Programmheftchen als PDF...
Soweit dort nachvollziehbar, gibts bei den meisten Galerien am 17.9. am Abend eine Eröffnung (bei einigen bereits am 16.9.), Samstag und Sonntag gibt es in einigen Galerien "Brunch" und die meisten Galerien haben Samstag und Sonntag geöffnet (genaue Zeiten sind leider nicht ersichtlich).

Vienna Gallery Weekend Party: 18.9.2010 ab 20.00 im Aux Gazelles, Rahlgasse 5, 1060 Wien
Details/Anmeldung auf Facebook

Führungen im Rahmen des Vienna Gallery Weekend:
18. 9. 2010, 16.00: Next Generation: Elsa König und Katharina Senn zeigen ihre Favourites.
19. 9. 2010 11.00: Englischsprachige Führung durch die Galerien Momentum, Gabriele Senn,
Christine König, Kerstin Engholm, Andreas Huber von Simon Rees (Kurator, Contemporary Art Centre / Vilnius).
19. 9. 2010, 16.00: Next Generation: Johanna Braun zeigt ihre Favourites.
Treffpunkt: Momentum Lager, Wiedner Hauptstraße 18

Frieda Kahlo Retrospective in Vienna

Frida Kahlo Retrospective in Vienna: 1.9.-5.12.2010, Kunstforum Wien. In autumn 2010, the Bank Austria Kunstforum is presenting the first ever comprehensive Frida Kahlo retrospective in Austria. The myth surrounding the Mexican artist has taken on global format; Frida Kahlo is an icon with star character: an identification figure of Mexican culture, forerunner of the feminist movement, a brand promoted in a mega-merchandising machine, glitteringly exotic film subject for the Hollywood cinema.

Kahlo’s art is inseparably tied in with her life. Paintings and drawings are not only the mirror of her life history, which was marked by physical and mental affliction – Frida suffered the whole of her life from the injuries caused by a horrific bus accident.
During the last years of her life Frida Kahlo was confined to her bed. Her oeuvre in painting and the graphic arts comprises one of the most complex chapters in the period between the wars, between Neue Sachlichkeit – New Objectivity – and surrealism. During the 1920s she created graceful and delicate self-portraits, oriented on the figural ideal of Renaissance painting.

In the early thirties her paintings show the first tendencies towards surrealism: her strategy was one of combination, influenced by the cadavres exquis, the spontaneous graphic collages of the surrealists with whom Frida Kahlo was in keen contact; an approach which produced iconographically complex compositions springing out of her inner life

Around 1940 Kahlo’s self-portraits gain in expression. Instead of a neutral glance we see the “authoritarian eye”: Frida takes the stage like a saint “worthy of adulation”; her dominant aura is inescapable.
The exhibition Frida Kahlo – Retrospective contains 60 paintings and 90 works on paper. These are joined by a representative selection of photographic documents, compiled by Frida’s great-niece Cristina Kahlo. Among them are iconic photos taken of her by Nickolas Muray: enthralling examples of the self-scenario she projected and which contributed decisively to the construction of her myth.
Most of Kahlo’s artistic legacy is in Mexico and the USA. In view of the marginal number of paintings Kahlo produced (the catalogue raisonné lists no more than 143), the lack of Kahlo’s oeuvre in European collections, and the sparsity of exhibition projects in Europe, we may regard this show as a sensation for Vienna.