Tag: exhibitions

HBO’s Screen on the Green cancelled for 2009…

HBO has canceled the long-running Screen on the Green program for 2009, according to a representative from HBO’s consumer affairs department. However, Crystal City is still running their outdoor movie nights, go here for more details: http://www.crystalcity.org/eventdetail.asp?IdEvent=412

HBO has canceled the long-running Screen on the Green program for 2009, according to a representative from HBO’s consumer affairs department.

However, Crystal City is still running their outdoor movie nights, go here for more details:

http://www.crystalcity.org/eventdetail.asp?IdEvent=412

The Cinema Effect continues at The Hirshhorn with Part II: Realisms

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving ImageJune 19, 2008 to September 7, 2008Part II: Realisms The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, Realisms, looks at a decade of film, video and digital works that investigate how cinema—now encompassing such related media as television, home video and digital entertainment—communicates, amuses … Continue reading “The Cinema Effect continues at The Hirshhorn with Part II: Realisms”

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image
June 19, 2008 to September 7, 2008
Part II: Realisms

The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, Realisms, looks at a decade of film, video and digital works that investigate how cinema—now encompassing such related media as television, home video and digital entertainment—communicates, amuses and critiques by complicating the relationship between fiction and reality. Films and videos by nineteen international artists reveal a spirit of critical self-examination and invention that parallels cinema’s historical ability to imagine for itself other possible forms, functions, and correspondences with the world at large.

Part II: Realisms

New at the Hirshhorn

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving ImagePart I: Dreams February 14, 2008 – May 11, 2008 This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artists whose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in … Continue reading “New at the Hirshhorn”

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image
Part I: Dreams

February 14, 2008 – May 11, 2008

This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artists whose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in which the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable.

The first, Dreams, addresses film’s ability to transport us out of our everyday lives and into a dream world. Using a series of artists’ installations, the exhibition moves us through the different stages of consciousness and dreaming, from those moments between wakefulness and sleep to the darker recesses of the imagination and fantasy. Dreams is curated by chief curator Kerry Brougher and associate curator Kelly Gordon.

Generous support for The Cinema Effect is provided by The Broad Art Foundation and the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation with assistance from Marion Boulton Stroud, Lorie Peters Lauthier, the British Council, the Holenia Trust in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, the Friends of Jim and Barbara Demetrion Endowment Fund, and the Hirshhorn’s Board of Trustees. In-kind support was provided by Sony Electronics Inc. The catalogue was made possible in part by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and Barbara and Aaron Levine.

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Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film @ The Phillips Collection

I plan to see this show this weekend so don’t have any comment on it at this point other than it offers a somewhat unexamined perspective on early film. The exhibit shows the connections between early film subject matter and that of American realist painting that was going on during the same era. Works used … Continue reading “Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film @ The Phillips Collection”

I plan to see this show this weekend so don’t have any comment on it at this point other than it offers a somewhat unexamined perspective on early film. The exhibit shows the connections between early film subject matter and that of American realist painting that was going on during the same era. Works used for comparison include the films of Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers, the photo studies of Eadweard Muybridge, and the paintings of George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Remington, and others. The show runs until May 20, 2007. They’re located at 1600 21st St. NW, Washington, DC 20009. Metro Stop: Dupont Circle (Red Line).

link including a 2-for-1 admission coupon