Mountain dweller
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The California multi-media and performance artist Betsy Davis was among the first people to end her life last month under the state’s new doctor-assisted dying law. The 41-year-old, who was diagnosed three years ago with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, planned a two-day party on 23-23 July for her friends and family, who gathered at her home in Ojai, California to say goodbye.“You are all very brave for sending me off on my journey,” Davis wrote in an email invite to her guests. “Thank you so much for traveling the physical and emotional distance for me. These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness, and openness. And one rule: No crying.”
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Stuart Semple is giving a helping hand to the organisation The Fertility Partnership next month when six public art pieces by the UK artist will go on show in six cities. Semple’s installations—to be unveiled in Glasgow, London and Nottingham, among other locations *on 1 September—will highlight the work of the partnership (a group of national and international clinics specialising in IVF).
Semple will also give away on the day of the launch 1,000 limited edition screenprints on foil balloons, a gesture “reflective of the generous act of egg donation”, the organisers say.
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The Bauhaus lives on near Boston with the launch of the Harvard University Art Museums’ comprehensive public database dedicated to Germany’s all-encompassing Modern art and design school. The resource includes details on the museums’ collection of more than 32,000 works of art and items related to the Bauhaus, a chronology of the Weimar art school and a map detailing Bauhaus’s lingering presence in the Boston area.Harvard has a long connection with the Bauhaus.
In 1930, Harvard undergraduates organised the first US survey of art from the Bauhaus at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge. The show—which included works by Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, among others—later travelled to New York and Chicago, but was the only such American exhibition held while the Bauhaus was still in existence. In 1933, the German school and design studio was shut down by the Nazis. Walter Gropius, the architect who founded the Bauhaus by merging the state schools of fine and applied arts, moved to Cambridge in 1937 and became chair of the architecture department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a post he held until his retirement in 1952.
“We wanted to create a central place to organise the Harvard Art Museums’ Bauhaus materials to help students, scholars, and the public find their way through the collections and discover new artists and objects,” said Robert Wiesenberger, a curatorial fellow at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, in a statement.
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This is soo pretty!! nice shot!
Art and creativity from Lisa Ray
Surreal Paintings by Lisa Ray. Talented Russian artist Lisa Ray was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, where she lives now. She graduated from Art School, and Alma-Ata University. Lisa Ray is a permanent participant of art exhibitions. She taught painting at the studio of the Union of Architects of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the House of Creativity. Lisa is a member of Artists’ Union of Kazakhstan. Her paintings are in private collections in the United States and Germany. In today’s most important creative ideas she considers the presence of the product, rather than masterful depiction of reality. The purpose of modern art – to convey to the viewer the idea, to surprise with the images, to make to think about something. Her surreal paintings are bright, colorful and positive.
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