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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2007
PRESS CONTACT:
Andrea Potochniak
607 254-4563
arp37@cornell.edu
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Announces
Its Fall 2007 Schedule
Including American works on paper, Tibetan mandalas, and
a Museum-wide exhibition of video art
Ithaca, NY—The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University announces its exhibition schedule for Fall 2007.
All are welcome at this semester’s two free opening receptions: Thursday, August 30 and Friday, October 26. Both receptions will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and include refreshments and live music.
EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Programs/participants are subject to change. All events are free of charge unless noted.
Looking Homeward: A Century of American Art
Through September 23
The works on paper collection of the Johnson Museum houses over 20,000 objects, many of them works by American artists. This exhibition highlights some recent acquisitions as well as loans to the collection that help fill out the story, including works by the artists of the Ashcan School.
Related event:
Sunday, September 23, 3:00 p.m.
SUNDAY ARTBREAK
Explore the work of Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White, and learn more about their sometimes antagonistic relationship.
Kenro Izu: Sacred Places
Through September 23
Over the last twenty-five years, Japanese photographer Kenro Izu has captured images of religious sites in use for millennia in Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, and Europe. His efforts to document these sites correspond with a time when many of the world’s sacred venues are endangered due to neglect, environmental challenges, tourism, or even deliberate destruction. For the artist, though, “The important thing is the spirituality of these monuments.”
This exhibition was organized and is circulated by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. All photographs are lent by The Lane Collection, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Related events:
Thursday, September 6, 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
ART FOR LUNCH
Curator Nancy Green will discuss Izu’s life and work.
Thursday, Sepember 20, 5:15 p.m.
ARTIST'S TALK
Kenro Izu will discuss the exhibition.
Recent Acquisitions
Through September 30
This three-part exhibition features works acquired by the Johnson over the last five years, many on public view for the first time. Items of bodily adornment have been a recent focus in the African collection, including items made from fabric and leather, beadwork bracelets and amulets in various metals, and crocheted and feathered hats. Almost six years ago, the Museum established a Contemporary Art Fund to collect the art of our time, and many of the works included here were acquired through this fund, in addition to gifts by artists whose work was featured in our exhibitions. Finally, our collection of Southeast Asian textiles has grown dramatically with highly varied acquisitions from southern China, Burma, Timor, Lembata, and Bali.
Related event:
Thursday, September 20, 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
ART FOR LUNCH
Learn more about our recent acquisitions from the curators.
Studied Elegance: Italian Master Drawings from the Askin Collection
August 18–October 28
Bringing together works by important Italian artists from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century, this exhibition examines drawing as a tool for the honing of artistic skills and as a means of experimentation and the development of ideas. Drawn from the collection of Seymour Askin, Jr., Cornell Class of 1947, and Helen-Mae Askin, the works in the exhibition share a common interest in the depiction of the human body and its infinite artistic possibilities.
Related events:
Thursday, October 4, 5:15 p.m.
LECTURE
Laura Giles, curator of prints and drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum, will speak in conjunction with the exhibition.
Thursday, October 18, 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
ART FOR LUNCH
Curator Andy Weislogel will lead a tour of the exhibition.
Tibetan Buddhist Mandalas
September 11–October 13
Two Tibetan Buddhist mandalas, representing dwellings for temporarily housing Tantric Buddhist deities, will be created at the Johnson by monks of the Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, India. A large Kalachakra mandala will be drawn using colored sand; the other mandala will be a three-dimensional construction of colored string. Both will be made during public hours, so visitors can observe the process.
Funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts and cosponsored by the Cornell East Asia Program.
Related events:
Tuesday, September 18, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
FORUM: Seeing Kalachakra, Being Kalachakra
At this public forum, visiting scholars and Cornell faculty will examine the cognitive and physical transformations promised by Tibetan Buddhist tantric practice and supported by contemporary scientific research. Presented in the context of the Kalachakra tantric system, this discussion will explore the potential in ongoing dialogues between the science and the Tibetan Buddhist communities.
Cosponsored by Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies.
Saturday, October 13, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
THE ART AND CULTURE OF TIBET
In honor of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Ithaca, celebrate Tibetan art and culture with performances, activities, and tastes. There will be a ceremony marking the dissolution of the sand mandala performed by Namgyal monks from Dharamsala, India. A shuttle from Cornell’s “A” lot will run 12:45 to 4:30 p.m.
This event was funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts and with support from the East Asia Program at Cornell and Ithaca’s Namgyal Monastery.
Evidence: Documentary Photography at the Turn of the 20th Century
November 3–December 23
Photographs from the nineteenth and early twentieth century drawn from the Johnson’s collection and recent acquisitions representing the birth of documentary photography, from Timothy O’Sullivan’s images of soldiers in the Civil War to Lewis Hine’s portraits of children of the Industrial Revolution. These images not only give us a glimpse of what life was like during that time, but also an insight into how the artists viewed their subjects.
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works
October 13–December 23
The Johnson will end 2007 with video works in all temporary exhibition galleries, as well as in the lobby and on the façade, marking five years of concentrated video collecting and continuing our commitment to video as a vital part of our program.
In the short history of video art, the two primary modes of expression have been “feedback” and “immersion.” Early closed-circuit video feeds were used as an electronic mirror, instantaneously reflecting whatever came into the camera’s gaze. More recently, there has been a shift as many contemporary artists use a more cinematic, “immersion”–style approach in installations with one or more projected images. This exhibition considers the connections between these two prevalent expressions in video from the last fifteen years, focusing on works that have a significant relationship between sound and image.
Artists represented in the exhibition will include Janine Antoni, Burt Barr, Janet Biggs, Johanna Billing, Slater Bradley, Mircea Cantor, Patty Chang, Amy Globus, Amy Jenkins, Jesper Just, Mads Lynnerup, Christian Marclay, Rodney McMillian, Anri Sala, Salla Tykkä, and Saskia Olde Wolbers.
This exhibition has been funded in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and support from Hermès and the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Related events: (Artists’ talks in conjunction with this exhibition to be announced)
Friday and Saturday, October 19-20, Times TBA
SYMPOSIUM: Contemporary Video Art
Artists, scholars, and educators will address topics relevant to the state of contemporary video art. Seating is limited. Registration is free. Register by October 5. To register or for more information, please call 607 254-4642.
Thursday, November 8, 5:15 p.m.
LECTURE
John Hanhardt, consulting senior curator for film and media arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Thursday, November 29, 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.
ART FOR LUNCH
Curator Andrea Inselmann will lead a tour of the exhibition.
The Johnson Museum has a permanent collection of over 30,000 works of art from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The museum building was designed by I. M. Pei. Funds for the building were donated by Cornell alumnus Herbert F. Johnson, late president and chairman of S C Johnson. The building opened in 1973.
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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, located on the campus of Cornell University, is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. The Museum is completely accessible for mobility-impaired visitors, and a wheelchair is available in the lobby. Metered parking is available in the lot next to the Museum. For more information, please call 607 255-6464. Visit the Museum’s website at www.museum.cornell.edu. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is a proud member of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail: www.DiscoveryTrail.com.
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