Art Gallery of Alberta – Grand Opening
image from Art Gallery of Alberta website – photo credit: Robert Lememeyer
Grand Opening date: January 31, 2010 – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Opening shows will include major works by the famous Edgar Degas and Francisco Goya, celebrated Canadian photographers Yousuf Karsh and Edward Burtynksy and the internationally renowned Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
You’ll find an outdoor sculpture terrace featuring work by Albertan Ken Macklin, as well as a new children’s gallery, named BMO World of Creativity, focusing on the theme of architecture for 2010.
Designed by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout, features of the 85,000 square foot AGA include:
- 30,000 sq ft of premiere exhibition space
- An outdoor sculpture terrace on the third floor
- Dedicated gallery space for the AGA permanent collection of nearly 6,000 works of art
- An expanded Education Centre, the Singhmar Centre for Art Education
- A restaurant, café, espresso bar, gallery shop, 150 seat theatre and an Art Rental and Sales Gallery
- Unique facility rental spaces such as an atrium for banquets, an outdoor sculpture terrace and a ‘floating’ private lounge
Click HERE to take a peek inside (video) – visit their website www.youraga.ca
Call to Digital Artists
MOCA - Museum of Computer Art
“The Donnie 2010 is our 10th annual international digital art contest and exhibit, one of the most celebrated and successful digital art events on the Web. It provides opportunity for artists worldwide to participate in a glamorous event, to advance their careers, to expose their art to a sophisticated New York audience, and to compete for best-in-show $1000.00 cash prize.”
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
Sunday, January 17, 2010, 11:59 p.m. (ET).
Note that entries prior to January 1, 2010 get discounted rate (see above).
EXHIBIT DATES
Tuesday, January 26 thru Friday, February 19, 2010
RECEPTION
Friday, January 29, 2010, 5 – 8 p.m.
GALLERY LOCATION
Museum of Computer Art
139 11th Street
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York 11215
718 788 1313
Complete details and information available on the website: http://moca.virtual.museum/
International Artist Day – Oct. 25, 2009
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS DAY – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
by Marilyn Hurst
October 25th is International Artists Day and it’s gaining support worldwide. This grassroots movement is not mainstream as yet but artists and galleries in communities everywhere are jumping on the bandwagon. Perhaps an overview is needed to explain the concept.
Artists are a much ignored group although almost anything you use day to day has an artistic design at its root. Throughout history art has been the most important defining characterization of a culture or people. Art survives personalities, dynasties, movements and civilizations. Artists are pioneers and are usually at the forefront of changing times and events. We might well ask why.
True art is timeless and universal and recognizable to all. Where does the inspiration for art come from? What makes some art priceless and other art mediocre? The artist themselves are the lynch pins. Art that is inspired comes from the “unexplainable” and is translated by the artist. If the artist is “tuned into” this area of consciousness, masterpiece works in painting, sculpture, music or prose can manifest. There are thousands in the arts over the centuries of this magnitude, they are natural conduits and are household names because of the recognition of their contribution to culture and humanity.
The day chosen to honor artists worldwide is October 25th, Picassos’ birthday. Why this artist and not another was more a matter recent contribution. Picasso was instrumental in bringing art to the masses more than any other artist up to that time. Picasso is the iconic artist personified.
Now more than ever it is important to focus on art and culture. Mainstream television, globalization and the internet are wiring everyone up to the lowest common denominator. True living requires atunement to our common humanity which is accessed through inspiration and the arts. By giving our attention to artists, we have the opportunity for one day to focus on what is eternal and timeless in our civilization. Just as Remembrance Day is important for the pausing to reflect, Oct. 25th can give us a reason to participate in the arts personally.people, you didn’t grow up with art as an important aspect of living, but “the buck stops here” when it comes to your kids and we need to take more of an interest for their sakes.
Treat your favorite Artist to lunch or dinner!
International Artist Day – Canada 2008 – image credit from their website.
International Artist Day – Spain 2008 – image credit from their website
SEE MORE, READ MORE on their website
International Artist Day Website - http://www.internationalartistday.com/
A special day every Oct 25th worldwide to honour artists!
The man who saved geometry
THE MAN WHO SAVED GEOMETRY chronicles one man’s (Donald Coxeter) undying passion for geometry, as well as geometry’s omnipresence in all our lives – whether in the realms of computer graphics, nanotechnology, immunology, cosmology, or pure (and sometimes purely frivolous) intellectual pursuit.
Premieres on TVO’s The View From Here on Wednesday, October 21, at 10pm (repeated Sunday, October 25, at 10:30pm). It is part of a special week of programming on TVO devoted to science, technology and innovation, in conjunction with the Perimeter Institute’s Quantum to Cosmos Festival (the Q2C Festival runs October 15 to 25 in commemoration of the Perimeter Institute’s 10th anniversary).
You can read more about the documentary here:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/09-10/geometry/
link via: blogto
I am looking forward to viewing this documentary!!
“Even people who know nothing about geometry have encountered
Coxeter’s influence through the drawings of M.C. Escher. The two
men met in 1954 at an international congress of mathematicians in
Amsterdam. By then, Escher was growing tired of repeating birds and
fish on a flat plane. He was aware of Coxeter’s work on the reflections
of shapes in multidimensional space and wanted to know more. He
later wrote to Coxeter, asking for suggestions on how to construct a
series of objects that, as they approach a circle’s outer rim, become
gradually smaller to the point of vanishing. Coxeter sent him some of
his essays and diagrams on the topic.
Years later, he was amazed by what Escher, who claimed to be
ignorant of mathematics, had created. He had made the angles of
the etchings in his Circle Limit drawings mathematically perfect; the
arabesques of intersecting arcs that form the backbones of the fish de-
crease in size infinitely outward, all at 80 degrees. Coxeter devoted
several papers to Escher’s natural gift for geometry. “Escher did it by
instinct,” he explains. “I did it by trigonometry.” -”quoted from: DONALD COXETER: THE MAN WHO SAVED GEOMETRY
Author: SIOBHAN ROBERTS
Article appeared in Toronto Life, January 2003
International Artist Day – Oct. 25th
image from International Artist Day website
October 25th has been selected to honour artists and their contributions to humanity. It is not coincidental that this is also Picassos’ birthday, one of the most influential artists of all time. Artists have been the chroniclers of history for as long as humans have walked the earth. Artists are a largely ignored group, however the undercurrents of their influence is felt in everyones’ life.
Art is the backbone of everything we use and see that is man made yet the artist behind the scenes is seldom recognized. Cultures are defined by their art, yet we take for granted these unsung divas of art. Everyone can participate on this day in many ways:
- 1. Visit a gallery and explain why you’re there.
- 2. Purchase a piece of art to support an artist.
- 3. Visit an artist studio.
- 4. Take an artist to lunch and explore their world.
- 5. Come up with your own ideas to participate.
This is a grassroots campaign that has gathered momentum around the globe. You won’t find a Hallmark card for this auspicious day, it is celebrated amongst the artist community and those quiet souls who support and love the arts. Visit the website dedicated to this day, or find your own way to celebrate with artists around the globe. IAD is being celebrated in many countries such as Australia, Poland, Denmark, Mexico, United States, Canada and England. We wish to include more areas as the awareness increases of this special day. (snippet from the IAD website)
Read more, see more on their website: www.internationalartistday.com
Thank you from founders:
Chris MacClure www.chrismacclure.com Canada
Marilyn Hurst www.marilynhurst.com Canada
IAD Shirts www.cafepress.com/intartistday
