Isamu Noguchi with Tsuneko-san, mid 1960’s. Photograph by Jun Miki. Courtesy The Noguchi Museum, New York.

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (The Noguchi Museum) today—the 107th anniversary of the artist’s birth—launched The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, posting the first installment on the museum’s website: http://catalogue.noguchi.org.

An ongoing digital publication, the catalogue raisonné presents comprehensive information on all categories of Noguchi’s practice, encompassing sculptures, drawings, models, architectural spaces, stage sets, and manufactured designs, as well as a chronology, bibliography, and list of exhibitions. Access to the publication—one of the first catalogues raisonnés to be published digitally—is free of charge.

Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon states, “The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, a longtime project, is an enormous achievement, bringing together traditional scholarship with contemporary technology to create a rich, flexible publication that will serve scholars, curators, collectors, and the interested public for years to come.”

Digital publication of the catalogue will not only make it more accessible to the public than a traditional book would be, but will also enable the museum to post partial entries on artworks, exhibitions, and literature, identifying them as “research pending,” thereby providing scholars and the public with available information while research continues. In addition to the many other benefits of digital technology, such as searching, linking, zooming in on images, and so on, users of the catalogue raisonné will be able to make use of such personalized tools as bookmarking and, ultimately, creating slide shows and saving searches.

The first installment of The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné includes complete entries for more than 300 artworks and partial entries on more than 1,000 others for which research is in progress. In addition to making ongoing structural improvements to the site and enhancing content over the next several months, the museum will post new “chapters” on November 17 of every year through 2018.

Upon its completion, the publication will comprise complete entries on over 4,000 artworks, in addition to exhibitions and publications, and will be the first comprehensive record of the life and work of Noguchi, updating and considerably expanding upon the 1980 catalogue of sculpture by Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick (Garland). It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, arts professionals, and collectors of Noguchi’s work.

Shaina D. Larrivee is the project manager for The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné.

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From December 1 through 4, Miami Beach, Florida, will host the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the most prestigious art shows in the Americas. More than 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showcasing works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

To mark its 10th edition, Art Basel Miami Beach will inaugurate a new collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art on the Art Public sector, which will transform Collins Park with unique artworks and performances by renowned artists and emerging talents. For the first time, Art Video will be presented in SoundScape Park on the large-scale outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, designed by Frank Gehry. The free public viewings will be part of a number of special events and performances taking place across Miami Beach for the duration of the show to celebrate the 10th edition.

The exhibiting galleries are among the world’s most respected art dealers, offering exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Special exhibition sections feature young galleries, performance art, public art projects and video art. The show will be a vital source for art lovers, allowing them to both discover new developments in contemporary art and experience rare museum-caliber artworks.

Top-quality exhibitions in the museums of South Florida and special programs for art collectors and curators also help make the event a special time for encountering art. And every year, a greater number of art collectors, artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts from around the world participate in Art Basel Miami Beach – the favorite winter meeting place for the international art world.

For more information, visit http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/

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The festival is a two-day celebration of music and optimisim, with three stages of artists, games, interactive art activies, and the “Good Kids” zone.

100% of Life is good’s profits from the Festival will go towards The Life is Good Playmakers, helping kids overcome life-threatening challenges such as violence, illness and extreme poverty.

Get more info at lifeisgood.com/festivals. Hope to see you there!

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SHOP ALL ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY DEBRA LA LOMIA – CLICK HERE

This NY artist says be yourself and find your bliss. Debra La Lomia has found hers “being surrounded by vibrant colors combined with the tactile process of painting.  It is both quietly mindful and an excitement of expression all at the same time”.  Using acrylics and mixed media, she prefers to create abstracts to circumvent linguistic interpretations and shift toward a more visceral appreciation of her work.

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one drop at a time

8×10 acrylic/mixed media

framed

$44.00 donation to Akron foodbank*

To put a spin on a wise old saying:
How do you fill an ocean with love?

one drop at a time

An act of kindness actually creates a physiological reaction in our bodies,
for both the receiver and the giver.
How magical is that?

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*Cups of Kindness: A Benefit

A show and sale of small-scale work in Peninsula, Ohio, to benefit the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank. Donated artists interpretations of a cup of kindness will be for sale on-line at http://www.cupsofkindness.net. The show and sale premieres November 27, 2009 and continues thru January 10, 2010 Thursday thru Sunday from 11- 5.

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This NY artist says be yourself and find your bliss. Debra La Lomia has found hers “being surrounded by vibrant colors combined with the tactile process of painting.  It is both quietly mindful and an excitement of expression all at the same time”.

Using acrylics and mixed media, she prefers to create abstracts to circumvent linguistic interpretations and shift toward a more visceral appreciation of her work.

SHOP ALL DEBRA LALOMIA ARTWORK HERE

Quantum Cafe -

Original piece: 24 x 24 acrylic, stretched canvas/painted sides – can hang “as is”.

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[James Joyce], 1926

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Head-on Collision

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