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unusual facts about contemporary artists



Lynne Cooke

From 1979 to 1989, Cooke was a Lecturer in the History of Art Department at University College London, and prior to her move to the United States and appointment as curator at the Dia Art Foundation in 1991, Dr. Cooke established herself during the mid-80s as a writer on contemporary artists of the period, including British sculptors Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, and American artist Allan McCollum.


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Anchorage Museum

Exhibits include landscape paintings, drawings from early European expeditions to Alaska, works by contemporary artists, and an entire gallery of paintings by Sydney Laurence, perhaps Alaska's best known artist.

Andrew Nairne

He shifted the focus to exhibitions of contemporary artists, who have included Tracey Emin and Stella Vine.

Arne Glimcher

The Pace Gallery represents contemporary artists including Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, David Hockney, Maya Lin and Kiki Smith.

Autumn Tears

Influences include ancient chants, classical music, and contemporary artists (Dead Can Dance, Anchorage, Stoa, Enya).

Carlo Bo

Before the Second World War, in the year 1936, he published an essay on the literary magazine Frontespizio which was gathering together the most relevant poets like Mario Luzi, and contemporary artists from Ottone Rosai to Giorgio Morandi and Quinto Martini.

Casey McKee

McKee’s work has been featured in several print publications alongside other prominent contemporary artists, such as Daniel Richter and John Currin, most notably in “The Upset: Young Contemporary Art”.

Catfish Records

The company latterly issued a number of historical recordings in other genres including jazz, country and bluegrass, but also featured releases from several contemporary artists including Michael Messer, Steve Earle, Bap Kennedy, Townes Van Zandt and Terry Clarke.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

Through history, traditions and national culture, contemporary artists were emerging mainly in Cairo and in Alexandria.

Elmore D

Other influences by more contemporary artists include the Electric Rag Band, the Country Blues Project (Germany), Preacher Boy, Gordon Smith, Paul Geremiah, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines.

Emily Tsingou

Between 1998 and 2007, the gallery represented, or "worked with" a range of contemporary artists including Michael Ashkin, Karen Kilimnik, Daniel Pflumm, Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber.

Erik Niedling

It consist of interviews with contemporary artists, critics, and collectors such as Olafur Eliasson, Harald Falckenberg, Damien Hirst, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Marina Abramović, Olaf Breuning, Terence Koh, Genesis P-Orridge, Boris Groys, and Tobias Rehberger.

Ethel Anderson

In Turramurra, Ethel Anderson founded the Turramurra Wall Painters Union in 1927 and associated with contemporary artists such as Roy de Maistre and Grace Cossington Smith.

Euro RSCG London

'Metamorphosis Titan 2012' is a groundbreaking multi-arts project - involving contemporary artists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger in a unique collaboration with The Royal Ballet.

Franco Mondini-Ruiz

The exhibition, titled "Mexican Museum of Modern Art" included piñata versions of works by Donald Judd, Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and many other modern and contemporary artists.

Gertrude Kasle Gallery

Kasle's goal was to introduce the city of Detroit to the foremost contemporary artists in the country, some already well-established such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Lowell Nesbitt, Claes Oldenburg, Charles Pollock, Larry Rivers, and Jack Tworkov, as well as others just becoming known, such as Jim Dine and Ian Hornak.

Ghazi Abdel Baki

He founded "Forward Music" in 2001, and has produced the works of the main contemporary artists of the region: Charbel Rouhana, Soumaya Baalbaki, Mustafa Said, Ghada Shbeir, Issa Ghandour, Gros Bras, Ziyad Sahhab, Paul Salem as well as various compilations.

Graeme Sullivan

In 1998 he produced a CD-ROM entitled Critical Influence: A Visual Arts Research Project, which documented two contemporary artists preparing for an exhibition, and explored the influences and contexts between their separate art practices.

Griff Williams

Since 1993, the gallery has exhibited the works of many influential contemporary artists, including Margaret Kilgallen, Arturo Herrera, Michelle Grabner and Mark Grotjahn.

Impossible object

Some contemporary artists are also experimenting with impossible figures, for example, Jos de Mey, Shigeo Fukuda, Sandro del Prete, István Orosz (Utisz), Guido Moretti, Tamás F. Farkas and Mathieu Hamaekers.

ITC Hotels

Since 1975, ITC Hotels has collected a bank of art by over 50 artists including some of India’s contemporary artists like A.G. Subramanyam, Krishan Khanna, Jatin Das, Ram Kumar, M.F. Hussain, F.N. Souza, J. Swaminathan, Tyeb Mehta, Anjolie Ela Menon, Akbar Padamsee, A. Ramachandran, Satish Gujral, Meera Mukherjee, Jamini Roy, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Sanjay Bhattacharjee, Gopi Gajwani, Biren Dey, Kim Michael, G.R. Santosh and Arpita Singh.

Jean Grenier

He filled notebooks with details of his relationships with Francine Camus, René Char, Louis Guilloux, Jean Giorno, André Malraux and Manès Sperber and with the editorial team of the Nouvelle Nouvelle Revue française, as well as his conversations with numerous contemporary artists who visited him at his home in Bourg-la-Reine.

Kai Althoff

His work has been included in several books listing contemporary artists, such as Art Now, published by Taschen.

LELLO//ARNELL

Jørgen Craig Lello (born 1978 in Fredrikstad, Norway) and Tobias Arnell (born 1978 in Lund, Sweden) are a collaborative duo of contemporary artists working under the name LELLO//ARNELL.

Maddox Arts

These include 'Viva Lolita' in 2008; a show inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's iconic novel, Lolita, which brought together eighteen international contemporary artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Trevor Brown, Nick Ruston, Charlotte Beaudry, Nazif Topcuoglu and Young British Artist, Mat Collishaw.

Martin Fry

In 1997, Fry contributed to David Arnold's Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, an album made up of re-recordings of James Bond movie themes featuring vocals by contemporary artists.

Mat Collishaw

"AKA Peace" originally conceived by photographer Bran Symondson and now curated by artist Jake Chapman, is an exhibition of new works made specially for The Peace One Day Project 2012, bringing together a group of Contemporary Artists, all of whom agreed to transform a decommissioned AK-47 assault rifle, refashioning into artworks.

Mersad Berber

Kraków Grand Prix in 1997, an Ostend exhibition entitled "Between earth and heaven" and a recent one "Artist of the ideal" in Verona, selected by famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, confirmed Berber as one of the most significant contemporary artists.

Modern Art Oxford

He shifted the focus to exhibitions of contemporary artists, who have included Cecily Brown, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Daniel Buren, Stella Vine, Sol LeWitt and Kerry James Marshall.

Mowry Baden

Among his past students are several important contemporary artists, including Chris Burden, James Carl, Catherine MacLean, Barbara Fischer, Bill Burns, Lewis Baltz, Jessica Stockholder and Kim Adams.

Music of Tanzania

Contemporary artists like Juma Nature, Lady Jaydee, Mr. Nice, Mr. II, Cool James, Dully Sykes, Professor Jay and many others command a huge audience of followers in the country and neighbouring countries.

Neo-minimalism

Contemporary artists who have been linked to the term, or who have been included in shows employing it, include Jerry Brown, David Burdeny, Catharine Burgess, Marjan Eggermont, Paul Kuhn, Eve Leader, Tanya Rusnak, Daniel Ong, Laurel Smith, Christopher Willard, and Tim Zuck.

Neo-Victorian

McDermott & McGough are a couple of contemporary artists whose work is all about a recreation of life in the nineteenth century: they only use the ultimate technology available, and since they are supposed to live anachronistically, this means the use of earlier photographic processes, and maintaining the illusion of a life stuck in the ways of a forgotten era.

Peter Ricq

His work has been exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver, San Diego and Portland and has been featured in several international magazines (Hemp, Under Pressure, CRUX), in Wallfarmers, a website dedicated on exposing new and established contemporary artists.

Phantogram

Contemporary artists such as Kurt Wenner and Julian Beever use similar techniques to create chalk pavement art that appears to be three-dimensional.

Raymond Kursar

He created greeting cards for the American Artist's Group as many contemporary artists like Chen Chi, Eyvind Earle, Norman Rockwell, Ralph Avery, Hans Moller, who also created seasonal greeting card designs year after year for the American Artist’s Group.

Richard Keith Wolff

Later work features contemporary artists, authors, musicians, campaigners and politicians including The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Victor Spinetti, Stephen King, Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, Emily Young, Franc Roddam, David Cameron, Brian Haw and Nick Park.

Robert Whitman

Whitman was one of the co-founders of Experiments in Art and Technology along with engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer and artist Robert Rauschenberg - a project to provide contemporary artists with access to new technology as it developed in research institutions and laboratories.

SCAD Museum of Art

Upon its re-opening on Oct. 29, 2011, the museum will kick off exhibitions by renowned contemporary artists Alfredo Jaar, Stephen Antonakos, Liza Lou, Bill Viola, Kendall Buster and Kehinde Wiley.

Sinatra and Friends

Featuring contemporary artists such as John Denver and Natalie Cole, as well as Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Loretta Lynn, Leslie Uggams and Robert Merrill, Sinatra performs duets of standards in different styles such as folk and disco in addition to each singer performing solo.

Stuart Advertising Agency

While Menzies was an exceptional copywriter, Brumwell played a key role in liaising with leading contemporary artists of the time: Edward Bawden, Ben Nicholson, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Barbara Hepworth.

Susannah Hornebolt

Her work has been admired by contemporary artists Albrecht Durer, Guicciardini and Vasari.

The Wicker Man soundtrack

Some of the songs (most notably "Willow's Song") have been covered by contemporary artists, such as the Mediæval Bæbes, Doves, Faith and the Muse, Isobel Campbell and the Sneaker Pimps.

Veneer Magazine

Veneer has included contributions from contemporary artists, writers, inventors, technicians, and musicians such as Adrian Piper, George Kuchar, GoodiePal, Lucky Dragons, Elaine Sturtevant, Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil.