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New: Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration
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Upcoming: February 11, 2010 - April 11, 2010
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This exhibition presents more than 60 of Albers' works from the museum's collection, along with key objects on loan from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation on view for the first time. The exhibition encompasses the artist's distinguished career from his years teaching at Germany's famed Bauhaus through his influential role at Black Mountain College in North Carolina after he moved to the United States in 1933. He was best known for the standardized format that he called Homage to the Square, in which images created optical illusions and challenged viewers' visual acuity. Also on view are documentary photographs, a video, and examples of his teaching aids, and conclude with several galleries representing a range of works by artists who knew, studied under, worked with, or were influenced by Albers.
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New: Black Box: Phoebe Greenberg
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November 30, 2009 - April 11, 2010 Rotating Exhibiti
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The Black Box theater showcases rotating exhibitions of contemporary artists who use film or video as their creative medium. Films or videos run continuously. November 30, 2009-April 4, 2010:
Curator and arts advocate Phoebe Greenberg worked with Caroline Binet, Denis Villeneuve, Jacques Davidts, and a feature film-style team to bring this part dream, part morality tale scenario to life. Next Floor (12 min., 2008, created and produced by Phoebe Greenberg) -- part nightmare, part morality tale -- is inspired by the lavish cinematic tableaux associated with Peter Greenaway and responds to the endless appetites of pre-economic crash consumerism. The themes suggested in this film continue to resonate during a time of global struggle to regain economic equilibrium. In 2008, it was awarded Best Short Film in Cannes, France.
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New: Directions -- John Gerrard
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November 5, 2009 - May 31, 2010
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As part of the Directions series, this exhibition features works by Irish artist John Gerrard (b. 1974, Dublin) who photographed actual sites of farms and oil fields from 360 degrees and then simulated cinematic movement around the sites using the computer, complete with shifting, natural lighting effects. With new technologies offering artists opportunities to create works with dimensions no one has seen before, he uses customized 3-D gaming software to re-imagine landscape art. A former student of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gerrard is inspired by the look, the history, and politics of the Dust Bowl region. He creates contemplative, vivid scenes of farms and oil fields that raise questions about the effect of human progress on the environment.
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