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 TEACH Spotlight Article: "China: 5,000 Years" at the Guggenheim, New York
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Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York
February 6, - June 30, 1998
From the Guggenheim's website...
China: 5,000 Years is the result of a collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum and the Ministry of Culture and the National Administration for Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China.
About 500 works of art were borrowed from over fifty institutional lenders in seventeen provinces and regions in China. These include many major recent archaeological discoveries and range in date from the Neolithic period to the present. In the Guggenheim Museum uptown are displayed the traditional arts of China, while modern art is presented in the Guggenheim Museum SoHo. Selected to demonstrate technical innovation and conceptual transformation, the traditional works of art are organized into seven major categories: jade; bronze; grave goods, including low-fired ceramics; high-fired ceramics, including porcelain; sculpture; and painting and calligraphy. Important examples of lacquerware and textiles are also on display. Significant technical developments in each of these groups are illustrated by works of great aesthetic value, which also demonstrate a shift in conceptual focus over time from the supernatural to the human and finally to the natural world.
Learn more about the show on the Guggenheim's well-designed and informative website: http://www.guggenheim.org/china/index.html
>>Art from the cultures of China, Japan, Africa and South America are illustrated in our 20-page color catalog. Illustrated below are Chinese art works from other museums in the Talaria Enterprises Museum Store catalog.
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Kuan-Yin Seated
Chinese. Bronze finish,
20.5"H x 16"W.
(TAL249) $161
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Head of Kuan-Yin
Royal Ontario Museum.
Chinese, 1368-1644 AD.
Durastone, dark bronze finish,
black base, 7.25"H x 3"W.
Retired
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TEACH Quick Art Information
>> Using the Net to Find Stolen Art Work
Message Posted to USENET Bulletin Board on April 5, 1998
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As an Analytical Database Programmer, Aaron Moynahan may not be as art savvy as his girlfriend, Katja Chudnovsky, whose parents secretly amassed an extensive collection of early Modern Art while living in Saint Petersberg during the Communist years. Mr. Moynahan, however, had a clever approach for helping her search for the lost work "Servant with Samovar" (1913) by Russian Suprematist, Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), which had been stolen from the apartment of Ms. Chudnovsky's father during the 1970's. Using his sophisticated computer skills, Mr. Moynahan posted the a picture of the Malevich painting on his website and emailed news announcements to USENET bulletin boards (see above announcement). Mr. Moynahan's innovative approach illustrates how creatively the internet is being used as a global resource.
For more information about the theft and the collecting passion of 20th-century Russian Collectors whose dangerous and forbidden hobby was frowned on by Stalin and the communist orthodoxy: Art & Antiques, "Discovering Russia's Hidden Collectors", January 1994, pp. 69-75.
To view the stolen Malevich painting on Mr. Moynahan's web site: http://cportdata.ne.mediaone.net/stolen_malevich.asp
Other Resources for Art Loss and Recuperation:
++Institute of Art and Law has a very useful links page: http://www.pipemedia.net/ial/links.htm
++Art Loss Register: http://www.artloss.com
>>Rare & Nostalgic Carousel Animals to be Auctioned
One hundred carousel animals from the Freels Collection deaccessioned from the American Carousel Museum will be sold at an upcoming Butterfield & Butterfield auction on Saturday, June 13, 1998 during the June 10-14, 1998 Jubilee Convention of the American Carousel Society. Most of the lots to be sold in San Francisco are horses and menagerie animals (an ostrich, a tiger and two lions, etc.) dating to the turn of the century. For sale inquiries, call Brooke Sivo (415) 861-7500 Ext. 238.
>> Annual Conference for Museums and the Web 1998
Unfortunately for most of us, we were not able to visit Toronto Ontario, Canada for the Annual Conference for Museums and the Web 1998 which was held April 22-25. However, we can still still review the latest discussions about the intersection of culture, technology and museology by visiting the conference website. Many of the one hundred papers presented are online at: http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/frame_speakers.html
TEACH Internet Recommendations
>>Linda Schiller's Art History Links
>>http://lausd.k12.ca.us/~charwitt/art.html
Ms. Schiller teaches AP Art History at North Hollywood High School in North Hollywood, California. Her passion for teaching and concern for her students is clearly evidenced by the extensive list of art history links available on her web site.
>>Electronic Books at Virginia Tech
>>gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/25
130 books, speeches and other works that you can download.
>> Image Directory
>>http://www.imagedir.com
It is the first subscription-based online catalog of information on art images from museums and collections around the world. As an accurate and authoritative database on an extraordinary range of work, it is an indispensable reference for the art world, the academic community, the commercial marketplace, and anyone else who needs information about art images. The database contains more than 100,000 records from more than 100 museums and collections around the world. Subscriptions are available per month and per year.
>>Culture Finder in the US
>>http://www.culturefinder.com
Featuring a nationwide arts calendar with the current events of 1,200 arts organizations nationwide.
TEACH What's New at Talaria Enterprises
>>Art Gallery Online of Contemporary Art by Sabina Ott and Judith Palmer
>>Enter the Gallery to view the mixed media paintings and read the catalog
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Sabina Ott
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Judith Palmer
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This month, we have added an virtual online art show which recently closed at the Sweeney Art Gallery of the University of Riverside, California. Curated by Rebecca Weller, a Master's candidate at UCR, this show developes contemporary postructuralist and feminist theories of art as intersection with images of the human body. The show catalog is posted on our site along with information about the artists, Sabina Ott and Judith Palmer. |
>>Art Consulting Services Added
Are you looking for a particular museum art work for your home, school, office or friend? Have you been wondering where to buy Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne", an African mask reproduction, the Paleolithic "Venus of Willenorf" or Degas' bronze-finish "Ballerina"? We have access to literally thousands of museum reproductions from many art movements, historical periods and cultures and will gladly assist you! Think of us as your own personal Art Consultant for affordable art reproductions.
>>New Introductions:
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