Kirk Smith: Arts/Culture/DesignArt and cultural news, music, dance, literature, theatre, public art, architecture, design.Passion Without Words: The Cinema of Claire Denis- July 10, 2003 09 Jun 03 Issue After spending much of her childhood in Africa, Paris-born film-maker Claire Denis assisted such giants of the international art cinema world as Du&154;an Makavejev, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch before directing her feature debut, Chocolat (1988), at the age of 40. Since then, she has fashioned a remarkable body of work. Her powerfully emotional films are filled with literary references and the sorts of marginalised characters usually absent from mainstream cinema..http://www.kinoeye.org/index_03_07.php Famous Lost Work Rediscovered by Sotheby's- July 8, 2003 08 Jul 03 Annibale CarracciThe Montalto MadonnaThe Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist. LONDON, ENGLAND. An important work, previously considered lost, by the great baroque painter Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) is to be offered in Sotheby's sale of Old Master Paintings on Thursday, July 10, 2003. One of the most famous paintings of its time, Carracci's Montalto Madonna was copied repeatedly by generations of artists in Rome both in painted and in engraved..http://www.artdaily.com/news.asp?not=1 Pills, Thrills and and Couture- July 8, 2003 08 Jul 03 Textile artist Susie Freeman and practising GP Dr Liz Lee, are an unlikely twosome for an artistic collaboration. More unusual is the work they create - clothes that seem fluffy and frivolous but actually draw attention to medical matters. Susie Freeman and Liz Lee are old school friends and Susie explains how their collaboration developed: 'We chat like all women do. Liz was very interested in family planning, and wanted to raise awareness of contraceptive methods available.'...http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/fashion/thrills/index.html Future City- July 7, 2003 by Fredric Jameson May-Jun 2003 Issue After the dilapidation of urban modernism, what kinds of city and what forms of architecture await us The author of The Seeds of Time considers their flowers in the dizzying work of Rem Koolhaas, the mega-developments of the Pearl River Delta and the conceptualization of 'Junkspace'. Breaking back into history with a battering-ram of the postmodern New Left Reviewhttp://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25503.shtml The Last Bolshevik- July 7, 2003 by Chris Marker 06 Jul 03 Le Tombeau d'Alexandre, 1993Alexander's TombThe Last Bolshevik The Last Bolshevik opens to an insightful and relevant excerpted passage from author and critical thinker George Steiner's book, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture: 'It is not the literal past that rules us save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.' Composed in the structure of montage (an homage to the characteristic editing and filmic language of..http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/marker.html Art Exhibition Opens at Rome&146;s Colloseum- July 7, 2003 07 Jul 03 ROME, ITALY. The exhibition 'Nike: The Game and The Victory', just opened at Rome&146;s Colloseum and runs until January 7, 2004. The collection brings together statues, busts, mosaics and pottery, some dating back as far as the sixth century B.C., from Italian cultural hotspots like Florence and Pompeii and farther-flung sites such as Paris and Berlin. Two sprinting bronze figures from the first century B.C. seem to hurtle down one of the Colosseum&146;s many gangways, while a few...http://www.artdaily.com/news.asp?not=3 One Nation Under a Groove- July 5, 2003 by Luc Sante 17 Jul 03 Issue Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Musicby Arthur KemptonPantheon, 498 pp., $27.50 The boogaloo is, or was, one of the thousand dances the land was full of in the 1960s, enumerated in inventory songs such as James Brown's 'There Was a Time' and the Isley Brothers' 'Nobody But Me': the skate, the swim, the pony, the monkey, the camelwalk, the shing-a-ling. Arthur Kempton notes that it made its debut as the title of a million-selling but faintly remembered.http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16478 The Nimrud Gold on Display in Baghdad... For a Few Hours- July 5, 2003 by Joanna Mackle 03 Jul 03 BAGHDAD, IRAQ. On Thursday 3 July the Assyrian gallery in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, will be open to the public for a few hours and a small part of the gold treasure found in the tombs of the Assyrian queens at Nimrud will be on display. This treasure was evacuated to a vault of the Baghdad Central Bank for safekeeping during the recent war. The opening of this exhibition has provided the staff of the Iraq museum with an opportunity to tidy up the museum after the...http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11194 Venice Biennale: Too Much That Was Good on Paper, Was Bad in Practice- July 4, 2003 by Louisa Buck 04 Jul 03 VENICE. It may have been subtitled 'The dictatorship of the viewer', but the sprawling behemoth that is now the Venice Biennale meant it was usually more the viewer who felt dictated-to by its vast excesses. Curator Francesco Bonami wanted his 'archipelago' of guest-curated shows (sporting such excruciating titles as 'The Structure of Survival'; 'Zones of Emergency' or 'Utopia Station') to communicate the fragmentedly multiple and contradictory nature of today's art,...http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11183 |