Russian artist group AES+F
• Two major exhibitions devoted to video art open in Moscow this month, that organizers hope will “stimulate greater interest in video as an art form among the younger generation.” The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture will show work by the Russian collective AES+F, while the GMG gallery mounts a survey of work by US artist Gary Hill, a pioneer in the video art medium. Check out
The Art Newspaper for the full article.
• Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, the New York couple who amassed a remarkable collection of minimal and conceptual art on modest income, are loaning art to institutions across the nation through the program
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. The Delaware Art Museum is the most recent recipient of the Vogel’s art, which spans 1966 to 2003.
Art Knowledge News has all the details.
The Vogels in their NYC apartment
• Joe Deal, the Kansas born post-war photographer, passed away last Friday in Providence, Rhode Island following an eight-year battle with cancer. Deal’s photographic series like “Wild and West: Reimagining the Great Plains,” and “Karst and Pseudokarst” has had a lasting influence upon today’s contemporary photographers. Visit
ArtForum for more details on the life of Joe Deal.
• The Philiadelphia Museum of Art has loaned 55 oil paintings and 5 bronze sculptures, by masters such as Picasso, Degas and Manet, to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. It is the first time America and Taiwan have worked together to organize an international art exhibition. More at
ArtDaily.org.
