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  • Artists and the Iraq war | Fernando Botero

    War & Empire at the Meridian Gallery

    ByMark Vallen July 31, 2008August 29, 2010

    Coming this September, 2008, San Francisco’s Meridian Gallery will present War and Empire, a group exhibition that has as its theme the state of democracy in the U.S. – as well as the continuing military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. I am delighted that my own art has been included in the exhibit, since being able to show with a…

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  • 1930s: The Making of “The New Man”
    Modernism | Social Realism | Surrealism

    1930s: The Making of “The New Man”

    ByMark Vallen July 23, 2008April 6, 2023

    Those fortunate to see the latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, 1930s: The Making of “The New Man,” will not only have the opportunity to feast their eyes upon some of the greatest artworks of the 20th century – they will be given ample evidence of how artists once responded to calamity and social crisis. On view until…

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  • Art of War | Artists and the Iraq war

    “Fundamental” in Brussels, Belgium

    ByMark Vallen July 17, 2008January 20, 2023

    Brussels is not only the capital of Belgium and the administrative center of the European Union, it is also the city where the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is based. In addition, Brussels becomes the latest stop for Fundamental, the group exhibition I’m participating in that explores today’s religious fundamentalist movements. My painting, A People Under Command: USA Today, is…

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  • Academic art | Artists and the Iraq war

    The Orientalists: Then and Now

    ByMark Vallen July 4, 2008June 14, 2009

    The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, is an important exhibition running in London at the Tate Britain from June 4th, 2008 through August 31st, 2008. The exhibit provides a somewhat critical look at Orientalism, the genre commonly associated with nineteenth-century Western artists who depicted the peoples and cultures of an imagined Near and Middle East. The Tate is…

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  • Postmodernism-Remodernism

    The Shallow Jake and Dinos Chapman

    ByMark Vallen June 16, 2008March 28, 2023

    There is seemingly no end to the superficiality of today’s postmodern art and the cravenness of those fame seekers who create it. In 2003 BritArt movement superstars Jake and Dinos Chapman purchased a suite of Goya’s celebrated antiwar etchings, Disasters of War, and in a gesture supposedly meant to lay bare the inadequacy of art as protest, defaced the set…

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  • German Expressionism

    The Cologne Progressives

    ByMark Vallen June 13, 2008June 11, 2009

    Some years ago, while visiting the German city of Cologne, I discovered the works of the Cologne Progressive Artists Group (Gruppe Progressiver Künstler Köln), a bloc of artists that represented the radical outer fringe of the Expressionist movement of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Fortunately for enthusiasts of art from the Weimar years the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, has mounted…

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  • Psychedelic Art

    Woodstock Nation Gets Its Museum

    ByMark Vallen June 8, 2008April 10, 2016

    The Museum at Bethel Woods, an institution dedicated to the examination of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair held for three days in August of 1969, officially opened on June 2, 2008, on the exact site of the original Woodstock festival. A splendid building of wood and stone that looks much like a fancy mountain lodge resort, the museum sits…

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  • BP Grand Entrance | Eli Broad | LACMA | Michael Govan

    Armed Guards at LACMA

    ByMark Vallen June 6, 2008June 11, 2009

    Armed guards carrying clubs and loaded guns now patrol the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), the latest addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. No less than three armed guards have been seen patrolling the BCAM, with one security officer assigned to watch over Damien Hirst’s installation Away from the Flock – a dead lamb pickled in…

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