Hype: V1 x 3 Tonight!
If you’re in Copenhagen and looking for a way to kick off the night, Gallery V1 opens no less than three exhibitions at once! Some fine artists in there, so do consider it More info here, and these are the invites:
Renaissancetegninger i Weekendavisen
Dagens Weekendavis indeholder bl.a. min anmeldelse af to fine udstillinger af italienske renaissancetegninger i London — den store, man fristes til at sige episke, på British Museum og den lille, udsøgte men desværre nu lukkede Michelangelo-udstilling på Courtauld Gallery. Køb og læs og besøg! UPDATE: Artiklen ligger nu på Bunkeren i engelsk oversættelse.
J. F. Willumsen-tegneseriekonkurrence OBS! Ny Deadline
J.F. Willumsens Museum har netop udskrevet en stor og ambitiøs tegneseriekonkurrence, der søger en behandling af den danske kunstners liv og værk i tegneserieform. UPDATE: Museet har netop udskudt deadline til 31. december. Her er deres (let redigerede) pressemeddelelse: J.F. WILLUMSEN I STRIBEVIS: J. F. Willumsens Museum udskrev d. 22. maj 2010 på Komiks.dk en…
Hype: Blæk og Blyant at CMYK this Friday
If you’re looking for something do on Friday night to warm you up for the weekend’s Komiks.dk festival, you could do worse than dropping by Butik CMYK in Nørrebro for the opening of the exhibition Blæk og Blyant (‘ink and pencil’), featuring three illustrators: Nygårds Maria Bengtson, Majbrit Linnebjerg and Toril Bækmark (more here). Peter…
Frank Frazetta RIP
The great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010) died yesterday at the age of 82. Surely the most influential artists within his genre and a significant comics illustrator and cartoonist too, his legacy is apparent everywhere. Basically, fantasy illustration as we know it would be much different if it weren’t for him. His pen and ink…
Debuting DWYCK
Today I’ve posted my inaugural column–dubbed DWYCK in memory of Guru–over at Hooded Utilitarian, one of the liveliest and highest-falutin’ spots in the comics blogosphere. I’m honoured to be part of the team there, and excited about now being able to express my disagreements with everyone there from the inside, instead of just their bustling…
Hype: Will I Go to Hell for This?
My man Lars and co-authors Rasmus and Jacob, are about to drop a brick of Danish graffiti history with the book Will I Go to Hell for This?, which will be on the bookshelves on Monday. A hardcover, 264-page, full colour coffeetable book, available both in Danish and in English, it presents the history of…
Hype: Laughing at Art
With combined holidays and work backlog, blogging is still on partial hold here, but normal service will return soon enough. In the meantime, I’d like to take a moment to plug another event in which I’m participating later this month, the conference Laughing at Art: The Study of Humour in the Visual Arts at Pembroke…
Hype: Købke and the Golden Age
I’m still suffering somewhat from a heavy workload here, so it’ll be a while longer before I return to regular blogging, but I just wanted to let those of you in the UK who might be interested know that there’s currently a great show on at the National Gallery in London of the Danish painter…
Merry Christmas!
Things remain busy here — still working on that diss. Have just finished the introduction, so I’m getting there. But now it’s Christmas, with all that entails, so the blogging here will remain rather perfunctory, but I wanted to at least get something up here and since I was just in Paris for a day…
Check the Pedigree
While I remember, there’s this little curiosity. At the Christie’s preview I went to the week before last, there was this astonishing intarsiaed Louis XIV tortoise shell/pietra dura cabinet, which went on to sell for a good £4.5 million. Anyway, what leaped out at me immediately, being mired fatally in Titian’s prints at the moment,…
What recession?
Jeez, that Raphael drawing I posted about a couple weeks ago sold for over £29 million! That’s a whopping £13 million above the highest official estimate! And the Rembrandt offered at the same sale went for £20.2 million. Paul Raison of Christie’s notes the obvious: the recession certainly hasn’t affected interest in, and the prices…
Hype: Paul Davis & David Shrigley at the Danish Design School
As part of its series of open lectures, the Danish Design School is offering a talk by internationally famed artists Paul Davis and David Shrigley on Wednesday, November 11th, 9-12 AM.
Hype: Ask Emil Skovgaard
My pal, the sculptor and designer, Ask Emil Skovgaard has an exhibition coming up at Brøndsalen, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. It opens on November 13th at 7PM, and runs through that week till the 18th. Go check it out if you’re in town — he is a consummate craftsman and his work is rich on visual ideas.