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[Read It First Here] Chris Cunningham exhibition in Spain.
Category: Exhibition.

Spanish city Valladolid is lodging an exhibition with a selection of videclips of Chris Cunningham since last Thursday, February 17.

They feature Frozen videoclip, and a previously unseen version of Flex - the video used as Frozen backdrop in re-Invention Tour.

It also includes art works from Michel Gondry who worked with Bjork, Rolling Stones, Daft Punk, etc.

Free entrance. 

Location:
Auditorio de la Biblioteca Pública
Plaza de la Trinidad, 2
Valladolid

Special thanks to our Spanish correspondent hpmk.

 

Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy.
Category: Exhibition.

“Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy,” a new exhibition at the Museum at FIT in New York, features approximately 100 ultra-glamorous fashions on view from February 15 through April 9, 2005. Combining “sex appeal plus luxury plus elegance plus romance,” as glamour was described by a Hollywood writer, these clothes are not for the shy.
“Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy” includes many bias-cut gowns from the 1930s, as well as contemporary fashions inspired by them. Viewers can compare Travis Banton’s 1938 silk jersey and chiffon gown, trimmed in fox and worn by Marlene Dietrich, with Bob Mackie’s strapless gown covered with white bugle beads which was worn by Madonna to the 1991 Academy Awards.
“Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy” was curated by Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT. A related exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, “Glamour, New York Style,” will also open in February. Curated by Phyllis Magison, it will explore glamour on the Broadway stage and in New York society.

The Museum at FIT is located on the southwest corner of Seventh Avenue at 27 Street. Exhibition hours are Tuesday through Friday, noon to 8 pm; Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; closed Sundays, Mondays, and legal holidays. Admission is free. For museum information call (212) 217-5800 or go to: www.fitnyc.edu/museum.

Brad Elterman's Debut Photography Exhibition including Madonna.
Category: Exhibition.

California-born Brad Elterman’s first photography exhibition, "Like It Was Yesterday," commenced with a star-studded opening night party on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005, at the Don O’Melveny Gallery, 9009 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, California. The exhibition will now remain on display, by popular demand, during normal gallery hours through Saturday, January 29th.  

The Elterman images present a regionally-focused collection of twenty-two photos (twenty black-and-white photographs and two in color), culled from his archives of the 1974 to 1984 era. The gallery exhibition’s subjects include Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Muhammad Ali, Mayor Tom Bradley, Dr. Jerry Buss, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Hugh M. Hefner, Phil Spector, Joey Ramone, The Ramones, Joan Jett in her Runaways band at the legendary Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard, and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols.

Madonna at the American Music Awards

"This grouping really documents the Los Angeles environment," says Elterman. "The editing process took a year and a half," explains Elterman. "I wanted photos that told a story, pictures that could be considered fine art. More than just a pop star with a guitar, which I had plenty of. I wanted to preserve a magical period -- from 1974 to 1984.

"The show really underscores the access I had to stars, musicians and actors. I have a photo of Michael Jackson after a party at Chasen’s. He was out there with a few photographers, and he only had one guy with him. He collaborated with us. Nowadays he would have sixty people around him, and you wouldn’t get the photo!

"In addition," Elterman continues, "in the last ten or twenty years, entertainment industry publicists have limited or prohibited access to their clients, and very generic poses and ’photo ops’ are the result. The PR people have taken the fun out of the scene and hampered the art. The photos I took in the ’70s and ’80s could never happen today."

"I covered the Oscars for fifteen years," Elterman confides, "but you won’t see any Oscar shots in the exhibition -- too boring and too publicist-driven."

"I’m also doing this gallery show to re-connect with friends, and the industry, and to help promote other photographers’ works from this era. I have a sense of something big happening in the fine art photography market. The iconic photos of the ’70s are going to be worth a lot of money. There’s a market for these images now, but I intend to develop a bigger market.

"Ultimately, the exhibition reflects some of the photographers who influenced my own work and style: Terry O’Neil, Bob Gruen, Diane Arbus, Ken Regan, and Richard Creamer, a close friend and mentor. Also Helen Levitt. She had this quality to capture the spark, the moment in people." 

The gallery’s web address is www.omelvenygallery.com, and Elterman’s site is at www.bradelterman.com.

[Read It First Here] The English Roses Tea Party
Category: Exhibition.

This week in RIVERSIDE COUNTY -CA

GALLERIA AT TYLER,

 "English Roses Tea Party" features tea and scones, face painting and book reading of Madonna's "The English Roses," 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Nordstrom, Kids' Wear Girls, floor one, Tyler Avenue and Highway 91, Riverside, reservations to (951) 351-3170 Ext. 1840, (951) 351-3110

FIRST PUBLISHED ON A MADONNA WEBSITE

 

Madonna.com mentions Lacroix RIT corset exposed in Paris.
Category: Exhibition.

Madonna's official website, Madonna.com, reports what DrownedMadonna announced Sunday as a preview:

"The corset made by french designer Christian Lacroix and that Madonna wore during the American leg of her Re-Invention Tour will be one of the designer’s creations to be exposed in Paris this month. Lacroix, who is also behind the lilac variation of the corset used during the European dates of her tour, is about to inaugurate the "Villa du Marais", a hotel made of 17 rooms showcasing some of his most impressive creations to date.

Villa du Marais
Rue de Poitou
75003 PARIS"

 The re-Inventiont Tour opening corset by Christian Lacroix has been also exposed in Paris at X.c.l.x - La Bastille. We invite you to read what we published on September 23.

Special thanks to our French correspondent Claudine for bringing us these news.

A SUN EXCLUSIVE.
Category: Exhibition.

THE SUN:

Sexy snap is Madge-ic

By DAVE MASTERS

HERE'S a sexy snap of a young Madonna - proving the Material Girl was bound to be a hit with the fellas.

This stunning photograph appeared on a magazine cover in 1984 shortly before she hit the big-time and landed her first No1 single with Holiday.

It is part of an exhibition of the Top 100 music icons of all time, as voted for by readers of Q Magazine and O2 mobile users.

Madge came in at No 6, behind Kurt Cobain, Keith Richards, David Bowie, Elvis and overall winner John Lennon.

Fans can check out images of the winning stars from tomorrow at the Proud Gallery in Camden, London.

For ticket details check out www.proud.co.uk

X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition in Berlin and in Paris.
Category: Exhibition.

Our German correspondent Martin aka singysingysingy is back from the X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition in Berlin. Here is his report:

Revisting the MADONNA / S. Klein exhibition was an "x-static" event for sure! Even if you know the pics already, it’s an overwhelming experience to see them that huge and in such brilliant quality. This gives them a whole new dimension and depth! A spokesman of the Galery Camera Work told me, that the exhibition is a huge success from the opening, which was one of the biggest the galery had so far with more than 1.500 guests (among them lots of stars from the model/fashion scene and Steven Klein himself) til today! It attacts art-lovers and MADONNA fans the same. The gallery is selling the official poster signed by Steven Klein for 40 Euros (almost all are sold already, I got one of the last!) and unsigned for 20 Euros. So if you have the opportunity-visit the exhibition!

Martin also visited the X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition in Munich. Check our archive to read his report.

Take a look at the photographs taken by Martin at the Galery Camera Work in Berlin.

Instead, the following photos have been taken some weeks ago at the Scourt gallery in London. Steven Klein and Madonna’s X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition was on show in London from 15-30 October.

Pics courtesy of our UK correspondent Simone.

X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS at Paris Photo.
Category: Exhibition.

Steven Klein's X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition is part of the 8th edition of Paris Photo. Paris Photo has chosen this year young and new galleries, among them the London's Scout Gallery which features Steven Klein's X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS.

Our French correspondent, Claudine, sent us the scans of 2 interviews of Valérie Fougeirol, commissaire générale de Paris Photo, published on November issues of Image and Photo magazines. Take a look...

 

 

From Image magazine

 

 

From Photo magazine

Our Claudine has also sent us the scan of today's edition of France Suir featuring an article which reports that Iran censures photographers exposed at Paris Photo.

Let your wallet move.
Category: Exhibition.

A PORTRAIT of superstar Madonna by a Lothian artist is today due to be auctioned in the Capital for a children’s charity.

The unusual oil painting was created specially for Barnado’s Scotland by contemporary artist Anne Power to help raise funds for the organisation.

It was set to be included in an auction being held tonight during a fundraising event for the charity at the Mansfield Traquair Centre.

The 5ft by 4ft black and white Madonna portrait depicts the American icon in her late-80s Vogue era, but with a corsage flower in her lapel. Ms Power, who was born in Falkirk and now lives in West Lothian, explained that the flower - a current fashion trend - is meant to add a contemporary feel.

"I started the painting around two months ago and did it exclusively for Barnado’s," she said. "I’m a huge fan of Madonna and I admire everything she has done in her life. I think her strong character comes out in the painting.

Anyone interested in bidding for the portrait or attending Barnardo’s fundraising evening should contact Jennifer Craik on 0131-314 6645

Source: Edinburgh Evening.

This portrait will be auctioned tonight during the following event:

Dinner & Dancing with Bruce Oldfield and Elaine C Smith

22nd October 2004

Fun and Fashion,sponsored by Heritage Portfolio, Bank of Scotland and BT.

Bruce Oldfield, an ex Barnardo's boy, will be in Edinburgh on 22nd October to promote his autobiography and will attend this event, which will take place in the fabulous surroundings of Mansfield Traquair.

We will also be involving students from the design course at Heriot Watt University and will be having presentation from a local Barnardo's project.

Come and join us and enjoy:

Champagne reception
3 course dinner
Auction and raffle
Fashion presentation by Bruce Oldfield
Celebrity after dinner speaker Elaine C Smith
Live music and dancing with the band Usual Suspects

The evening will not only be a fabulous occasion but also a fantastic opportunity to network with some influential Scottish business contacts, but you'll have to hurry there are only a few tables left.

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Venue: Mansfield Traquair
Edinburgh

Contact: Jennifer Craik
0131 314 6645

Cost: Ł75 + VAT or Ł750 + VAT for tables of 10

X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS in London .
Category: Exhibition.

From Madonna's Official website, madonna.com:

Steven Klein and Madonna's X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition will be on show in London from 15-30 October at Scout gallery. The gallery sent this press release:

This collaborative project between Madonna and renowned New York photographer Steven Klein was based around the loose narrative of 'a performer in her rehersal space where she creates and brings her ideas to life or death'. Scout will be screening the film and also showing editioned photographs not seen before in the UK that capture this idea of the creative process.

Scout Gallery
1-3 Mundy Street (off Hoxton Square)
London N1 6QT

X STATiC PRO=CeSS Steven Klein

15th - 30th October, 2004
Tuesday-Saturday 12 - 5pm - (Also open for FRIEZE Sunday 17th October)

For more information visit the website www.scoutgallery.com

Gaultier in DS magazine.
Category: Exhibition.

[BREAKING NEWS] Madonna portraits for Auction and to be filmed!
Category: Exhibition.

In time  with the 2 concerts Madonna will perform next week in Holland, there will be an auction of 7 huge portraits of Madonna on ebay.The profits will go to children in Vietnam.The paintings are of a belgian artist Leonardo leno,and they hope to sell each of them for 4000 euro.The paintings are in Belgium now,but this upcoming thursday they will be shipped to Paris,where they will be filmed by Madonna's crew.
On wednesday sep 8th ,the paintings will arrive in Holland and will be shown in the Crowne Mercure hotel in Arnhem

Very special thanks to our reader Electric_friend

[Read It First Here] Christian Lacroix's Dialogues.
Category: Exhibition.

The Fine Arts and  Lane museum propose an exhibition of Christian Lacroix, still 26 September, that features designes for Madonna. We already reported about "Dialogues," but now we are able to show your the logo of this exhibition as well as a small article published on Marie France [special thanks to our French correspondent Claudine for this scan] and more info.

Au Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la dentelle,
Cour carrée de la dentelle,
12 rue du Capitaine Charles Aveline,
61000 Alençon.
Tél : 02 33 32 40 07.
Ouvert tous les jours de 10h ŕ 12h et de 14h ŕ 18h.
  http://www.ville-alencon.fr/musee.htm

Lacroix also designed some costumes for Madonna's Re-Invention Tour. One of them is the opening corset, whose sketch you can see below.

[Courtesy of Lacroix]

Hello Kitty Ex.
Category: Exhibition.
Hello Kitty is celebrating 30 years of success with an exhibition. The show titled simply Kitty Ex. opened in Tokyo on Saturday at the Mori Museum.

The contemporary art exhibition features, amoung more than 100 works created by artists, designers and musicians from around the world, the controversial Christmas window created by Tom Sachs for a holiday window display at Barneys department store in New York Madison Avenue in 1994.

In the Nativity Scene a haloed Hello Kitty doll takes the place of baby Jesus who is then surrounded by three Bart Simpsons as the Wise Men, and pop star Madonna as the Virgin Mary. The later figure has six breasts, wears a Chanel outfit, Air Jordans, and a headset.

The Sachs’ Christmas display made all the daily papers, but the Catholic League organized a protest, hate mail, and radio campaign until Barneys removes the work. By the time the work is taken down, Sachs has received several death threats and 150 hate mail letters. Sachs’ Hello Kitty nativity scene was meant to be auctioned off to benefit The Little Red Schoolhouse. This display in some ways officially launched Tom Sachs’ career.
Madonna inspires Lebanese photographer
Category: Exhibition.

BEIRUT: "I want people to love photography," says Nadim Asfar, a 28-year-old Lebanese photographer who is currently enjoying his first solo exhibition in Beirut. "And to love it they must feel it as I feel it."

Asfar's true education came from an unlikely source: "Madonna was a catalyst," he says without a hint of irony. Is he serious? Absolutely. "She was the first thing I loved after my parents. Madonna was really my emotional and cultural reference. She took all this culture and mixed it. Everything came to me accidentally. Madonna's videos are inspired by classic photographers and cinematographers. Even now, she's a motor, something pushing me to go further."

special thanks to friend Hafo

A review of the X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS exhibition in Düsseldorf
Category: Exhibition.
Madonna mixes art, commerce and racy photographs in Düsseldorf

Madonna Gets Arty

NRW-Forum for Culture, Düsseldorf

Showing for just a brief time in Düsseldorf, "X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS" is a performance project conceived of by Madonna and fashion photographer Steven Klein, when Klein photographed the pop diva for W Magazine. For both artists, the photo and video series continues their voyage from purely show biz to high-concept media art -- think Cindy Sherman or Joseph Beuys. In these conceptual works, Madonna is photographed on a makeshift stage in puzzling, evocative costumes: as a Middle Eastern queen in a Gaultier dress; as a confused psychiatric patient; wearing a mask next to a burning bridal gown; or contorted next to a pulsing kidney. The pictures are accompanies by recordings of Madonna reciting Bible passages. Klein's photos mix images of sexuality, aggression, vulnerability, and mysticism with references to Madonna's music videos. Ever at the razor's edge of art and commerce, Madonna timed the show to coincide with the kickoff of her latest concert tour.

"X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS Madonna | Steven Klein" runs from June 10 through June 27. It is open from Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m., Friday until midnight.

Madonna Stars in the Jewish Museum of Berlin
Category: Exhibition.
Godfrey Deeny

Fashion Wire Daily  - Berlin- She may be the Material Girl who once posed nude in a Florida highway; nonetheless the Jewish Museum of Berlin is dedicating an exhibition to Madonna

 

Entitled “10+5=God The Power of Symbols”, the show opened this week in the museum, renowned worldwide for its groundbreaking architecture by Daniel Libeskind, the creator of the World Trade Center plan in Manhattan.

On Thursday night,  hosted a lecture by Israel-born Kabala theorist Boaz Huss focusing on why Madonna finds the Jewish myth of numbers very “punk rock”.

In her video for the song “Die Another Day” for the last James Bond soundtrack, the Material girl has Hebrew letters tattooed all over her arms.

Needless to say, Berlin being Europe’s current party capital, the museum will set up a lounge where the guitarist of the cult band Einstuerzende Neubauten Jochen Arbeit will play Madonna remixes.

The event occurs at a tense moment for Madonna, who has been the subject of death threats from Palestinian terrorists, according to reports in the British press.

Her upcoming world tour, due to shortly kick off in Los Angeles, had included dates in Israel in September, though these have been cancelled after the star and her children were targeted.

Tamara de Lempicka Exhibition: Royal Academy of Art London 15/5-30/8.
Category: Exhibition.

AN EXTENSIVE ART EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO TAMARA DE LEMPICKA , ONE OF MADONNA'S FAVOURITE ARTIST IS SHOWN AT ROYAL ACADEMY IN LONDON FROM 15 MAY—30 AUGUST 2004

Tamara de Lempicka
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15 May—30 August 2004 
Telephone +44 (0)870 8488484.to book tickets for this exhibition

Tamara de Lempicka arrived in Paris in 1919. Like many émigrés fleeing the Bolshevik revolution the Polish born artist found life in the French capital difficult at first. Her husband was penniless and she had a one year old daughter to raise. Faced with these challenging circumstances — and supported by an uncle who had also fled the upheavals in Russia — she resolved to become an artist and to establish a successful career in Paris.


De Lempicka’s formative artistic experience was her introduction to Renaissance art during a tour of Italy in 1911. Her daughter recounts how De Lempicka’s grandmother took her ‘through every museum she could find in Florence, in Rome, in Venice, always talking, instructing, pointing out the Renaissance masters, explaining the modelling of a cheek, the foreshortening of a hand, composition, chiaroscuro, impasto. It was a trip the young girl would never forget.’

Of all the Renaissance masters who impressed her, Michelangelo had the greatest impact. De Lempicka’s portrait Romana de la Salle has a monumental quality which reveals Michelangelo’s influence. Despite the femininity of Romana’s pink dress her body is both solid and powerful. The frame crops the image, emphasising the tension between Romana’s pose and her dynamic energy.

Thanks to xDanielx for bringing this to our attention.

Madonna added a new portrait to her collection?
Category: Exhibition.
Art dealers and collectors mumbled polite phrases like "waiting for Whitney" and "dress rehearsal" last night as they poured out of Christie's Rockefeller Center salesroom after a thin sale of Impressionist and modern art.

The auction, the first of six important evening sales this week and next, had the misfortune to be a curtain-raiser to Sotheby's sale of the legendary Whitney collection
By far the most exciting - and most unexpected - moment came with Lempicka's "Portrait of Mrs. Bush," a 1929 portrait of Joan Jeffrey, a New York socialite, commissioned by Rufus T. Bush when they were engaged. Their marriage lasted only a few years, and when they divorced, Mrs. Bush placed it in storage, where it remained for nearly 60 years; it was being sold by her heirs. Two determined telephone bidders vied for the portrait, which sold for $4.5 million, nearly three times its high estimate of $1.6 million and a record for the artist. When Mr. Burge took the winning bid, the audience burst into applause. After the sale, some people speculated that the buyer might have been Madonna, who is known to collect works by the artist. Christie's said only that the buyer was an American collector.
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Tina Modotti a mexican Madonna
Category: Exhibition.

London is showing these days an art exhibition dedicated to Tina Modotti one of Madonna's favourite artist "Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: the Mexico years" is at the Barbican Art Gallery, London EC2 (0845 121 6828) until 1 August...UK press mentions the connection between Modotti and Madonna:

Guardian UK

"... a film of this epic life has not yet been made - though Madonna was, at one stage, rumoured to be in the running for the title role. There is a vulgar logic to this, for Modotti's life was a series of self-transformations. "I am leading a completely new life," she wrote to Weston from Moscow in 1931, "so much so that I almost feel like a different person, but very interesting." She was always ready to kick over traces of her previous lives in order to immerse herself in the next one, however much it might have pained her. "

Newstatesman.com:

It is only in the past 15 years that Modotti has emerged as one of Latin America's most important 20th-century photographers. In 1991, nearly 50 years after her death, the Arles international photography festival in France mounted an exhibition of images produced by Modotti and Weston, alongside their correspondence, which revealed an extraordinary mutual passion not only for each other, but for a still-fresh medium in an unfamiliar country. It was also in 1991 that Madonna bought Modotti's photograph Roses at auction for $165,000.

Today, an indifferent set of Modotti prints is being circulated inviting offers over $1m. The majority of Modotti originals are to be found in US collections, both public and private, and all of the works in the Barbican's new exhibition "Tina Modotti and Edward Weston: the Mexico years", which brings together more than 150 images for the first time, are on loan from America.

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