Art a GoGo Podcast #50 – Art News and Featured Exhibitions

Show Notes:
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(42.07 minutes)

Art News:
Banksy
Link to BBC article: Banksy visitors overwhelm gallery
Video of Banksy exhibition in Bristol, England

Frida Kahlo
– “Finding Frida Kahlo” – Forthcoming Frida Kahlo book denounced as fake

Featured Artists:
Vik Muniz – “Verso”

Hiroshi Sugimoto
– Sugimoto image “Boden Sea, Uttwil,” [near Switzerland] 1993 Seascape series used on U2’s new album “No Line on the Horizon” [released February 2009]
– New Hiroshi Sugimoto work “Lightning Fields” on view at the Fraenkel Gallery – Septemberr 10 to October 31

Senator Edward KennedyHyannis Port Compound, silkscreen of original oil
– Seen on the cover of Cape Cod Life magazine’s art issue Senator Kennedy and his wife on their yacht, Mya

Recommended Exhibits:

Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
September 1 – November 8, 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A.

Monet’s Water Lilies
September 13, 2009 – March 29, 2010
MoMA, NYC

Kandinsky
September 18, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Guggenheim, NYC

Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series
September 23, 2009 – February 10, 2010
Berkeley Art Museum
You Tube video about the Botero exhibit

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rembrandt: The Embrace of Darkness and Light
November 7, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno

Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 8, 2009 – January 10, 2010
MoMA, NYC

Cartier and America
December 19, 2009 — May 16, 2010
SF Legion of Honor, San Francisco

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