Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is going to perform 3 special shows in Istanbul in September as part of their “50th Anniversary” world tour. The shows are sponsored by HSBC Bank. Lütfi Kirdar Convention Hall hosts Alvin Ailey shows on September 17, 18 and 19 at 20:30.

The tickets of Alvin Ailey Amerian Dance Theater 50th Anniversary Special Show are on sale through Biletix and at IKSV (Istanbul Foundation for Art and Culture) (Istiklal Avenue 46, Beyoglu) on August 23.

http://www.alvinailey.org/

Joan Miro Exhibition

Suna and Inan Kırac Foundation Pera Museum hosts a selection of 120 paintings and sculptors by Joan Miró (1893-1983), Spanish painter and sculptor. The exhibition is between May 3 and August 31, 2008.
The exhibition is realized with the cooperation of Maeght Foundation and the artworks have been selected from the collection of Maeght Foundation. Miró’s “Istanbul’da Defile (Fashion Show in Istanbul) - Défilé de mannequins à Istanbul” picture is among the artworks displayed.
Miró’s images have bright colors, lines, and circles and have childlike and humoruous impression. There is a sharp relation between his works and the main elements (earth, fire, water and air) of the universe. The first place was reserved to woman.
Joan Miró is also famous for his engravings, ceramics, and lithograph. He is known as “the artist picturing the poems and versifying the pictures”.
I painted a reproduction of Miro's some pictures for my friend,when i was is high school.

Pera MuseumMeşrutiyet Caddesi, 65 TepebaşTel: (212) 334 99 00

Visiting hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 –19:00, Sunday 12:00 – 18:00

The museum is closed on Mondays.

http://www.mymerhaba.com/Joan-Miro-Exhibition-in-Turkey-3542.html

The European Day of Jewish Culture

European Day of Jewish Culture to be held in İstanbul for sixth year

The European Day of Jewish Culture is organized in Istanbul at a historical Jewish location, the Galata region on Sunday, September 7, 2008.Galata region used to be a major residential area for the local Jewish community in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Several authentic places will host concerts, performances, lectures and exhibitions.

Program :

1-NEVE SHALOM CULTURAL CENTER
11:30-12:30........Ersin Alok: Lecture & Slide Show about the Star Of David in Anatolia
14:00-15:00........Mesut Ilgim: A panel about German scientists who have contributed to the Turkish University Reform in 1933.
11:00-17:00........Sabrina Fresko: Sculpture Exhibition
11:00-17:00........Eti Behar: Sculpture Exhibition
11:00-17:00........Beti Cenudioglu: Sculpture Exhibition

1A-NEVE SHALOM SYNAGOGUE
17:00-18:00........Representation of a Wedding Ceremony

2-THE ITALIAN SYNAGOGUE
11:00-11:45........Sepharadic Synagogue Hymns Choir. Concert Choir Leader: Cako Taragano
12:30-13:30........Cem Mansur - Cihat Askin: Musical Dialogue: A musical search for Jewish identity and its expression in the Diaspora Presented by Robert Schild
18:15-19:15........Ensemble Yinon Muallem: (Accompanied by Sumru Agiryuruyen, Serdar Pazarcioglu, Savas Ozkok, Ekrem Senturk) Concert

3-THE ASHKENAZI SYNAGOGUE
11:30-12:00........Renan Koen: "Bridges" Piano Recital
12:00-12:30........Renan Koen & Linet Saul: (Accompanied by Guc Basar Gulle) Concert "From My Grandma's Song-Book" vocalised by Linet Saul
12:30-13:00........Linet Saul (Accompanied by Albert-Alper-Tracy D.Aziz) Popular Sephardic Song Concert Performed by an Opera Singer
15:45-16:45........Klez-Mez Band: E. Bora Gurel, Ozlem Gurel, Sumru Agiryuruyen, Yuri Ryadchenko Klezmer Music Performance

4-SCHNEIDERTEMPEL ART CENTER
11:00-17:00 Bubi: Painting Exhibition can be visited all day until the 12th of September.
14:00-15:00 Maftirim Choir Concert. Concert Choir Leader: Menahem Eskenazi

5-THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF TURKEY (Formerly Zulfaris Synagogue)
11:00-17:00........"Aron Angel: Glimpses of His Life" Photo Exhibition Curator:Naim A.Guleryuz

6-THE OTTOMAN BANK MUSEUM
14:30-15:30........Anjelika Akbar: Piano Recital

7-GALATA SQUARE
From 19:30 Fast Meal For Ramadan

8-CASA D'ITALIA
15:30-16:30........Tuluyhan Ugurlu: Concert-Istanbul, A World Capital (With the participation of Cako Taragano & Sepharadic Synagogue Hymns Choir)
17:00-17:30........Karmiel Dance Group: Coreography by Verda Hason Dance Performance
18:00-18:15........Lale Roche: Performance about Schindler's List

9-FEST TRAVEL
09:00-16:00........Cultural Tour of Jewish Heritage

10-MATAN BASETER BARINYURT
Barinyurt which is a social aid association connected to Neve Salom Foundation this year opens its doors of its beautiful scenic restaurant all day long to those who would like to take a short break or have a complete lunch in between the activities of European Day of Jewish Culture.
The lunch menu that costs 25YTL has two options, with or without meat.
For reservations: 0212 249 56 64 (between 09.00 and 17.00)
The meal is served by Barinyurt Huzurevi Yardim Derneginin Iktisadi Isletmesi.

http://www.yahudikulturuavrupagunu.com/2008/

Shoe-Art Istanbul 2008

Famous Turkish artists, designers and personalities will reflect their own colors and perspectives to gigantic shoe sculptures. 150 huge shoes will be gracing the most bustling and distinguished areas of Istanbul for two months at Shoe Art Istanbul 2008.

The aim of Shoe-Art Istanbul Project is to promote Turkish products as well as to establish an artistic event in Istanbul. The shoes will be created with the products of Turkish firms.

A lot of shoes will be on display between September 1 and October 30, 2008 and will be auctioned by Antik A.S. at the end of the exhibition. The income will be donated to TEMA (The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats) and the Turkish Heart Foundation.

http://www.shoeartistanbul.com/

Brooklyn Museum Presents Retrospective of Work by Gilbert & George

The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George.On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the Brooklyn presentation.
Gilbert and George began to create art together, developing a uniquely recognizable style both in their pictures and in their presentations of themselves as living sculptures.Over the forty years they developed a new format that created large scale pictures, which are visually and emotionally powerful, through a unique creative process.
Most of their pictures are created in groups and made especially for the space in which they are first exhibited.Since 1974 Gilbert and George have used their personal complex grid system to create their pictures, which are now developed with the use of sophisticated digital editing techniques.In the early 1980s they began to introduce bold colors into their pictures, with one or more pictures in each group that were created on a monumental scale.
All pictures in a group share common motifs and conceptual and formal elements.

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/gilbert_and_george/

Mark Sinclair: A Photographic Record of the Construction of the Shetland Museum and Archives

The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, has unveiled an exhibition of photographs by Mark Sinclair, capturing the construction of the new Shetland Museum and Archives.The series of large-scale, black and white images - shown in the Long Gallery - capture moments in time as reconstruction developed from 2005 to its completion in 2007.Mark Sinclair: Art on Site runs at The Lighthouse until 26 October 2008.In 2005, Shetland-based photographer Mark Sinclair embarked on an "Art on Site" public art project funded by Shetland Amenity Trust to document the restoration of Hay's Dock, (led by Nicolas Groves Raines), and the construction of the Shetland Museum and Archives, (designed by architects BDP), on an adjacent site.Sinclair's photographs record the construction process of this dynamic new building right up to and immediately following its opening in Summer 2007.This exhibition presents a selection of the 500+ black and white images taken over the two years that the work was in progress.

http://www.artonsite.phatsheep.co.uk/

Brushezzy

A site for artists to download and vote for the best custom Photoshop Brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet! This site is updated every day with new Brushes for Photoshop so check back often and submit your own!
Really cool brushes, and a stupid name :D
http://www.brusheezy.com/

Tutorials: watch and learn

These are my favourite tutorials.They are useful and really simple for those who need to find inspiration watching another artist going through details, painting levels and sketches.You may catch some new ideas from these free videos.thanks to Carlos Cabrera.

Download Books for Free!

You can find beautiful resources in this site.But some of books are opening with Windjview.And you can download this program from here .

http://gekos.no/art1/

The Art of Kerem Beyit

Kerem Beyit is one of success digital artist of my country,Turkey.I love his works.I hope you'll like them. His official site is now online.Enjoy !

http://www.theartofkerembeyit.com/

Digital Painting Tutorial by Emrah Elmaslı

The ‘elements’ series is a guide to basic 2D Digital painting and can be followed in most software packages supporting paintbrushes and layers. Each month, 2 or 3 professional artists will cover a specific theme or ‘element’, resulting in 2 or 3 different styles and techniques which can be viewed side by side. He begin with skin in this month.
you can download it from here.

http://www.2dartistmag.com/

Martin Waugh - Liquid Sculpture

PHOTO CREDIT: © 2005 MARTIN WAUGH — not to be reproduced without permission.

With his new site Liquid Sculpture, photographer Martin Waugh has joined history of water worshipers. The site features delightfully beautiful images of drops, splashes, ripples and the like. Striking a balance between contrived and natural outcomes, Waugh rarely retouches his photos, preferring instead to just set the stage for the water to do its thing by adding color and other materials.

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/

MODERN EXPERIENCES

Until now, İstanbul Modern has adopted an art historical standpoint in presenting to its audiences the development of Turkish visual arts over the last 100 years; as it moves into its third year, the museum embraces a totally new approach with the exhibition "Modern Experiences".
FROM OTTOMAN EMPIRE TO TURKISH REPUBLIC
In this exhibition a different approach has been taken that stresses the chronological development of painting in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic from the nineteenth century until the end of the 1940s shown in the light of changing social and political contexts.
In the scope of these paintings, it could never claim to present a complete history of these complex and challenging times but, rather, it creates a framework within which different aspects, tendencies and marks of modernity can be seen as they begin to appear within Ottoman and Turkish art.
With the benefit of hindsight, these have been tracked and measured in a contemporary context and also against the conditions of the times in which the works were made.

Curators
David Elliott

http://www.istanbulmodern.org/

İnteresting Art

Entries for an Art contest at the Hirshhorn Modern Art Gallery in DC. The rule was that the artist could use only one sheet of paper.This art is actually all the work of Danish artist Peter Callensen.i loved them.

Blog Action Day 08

Blog Action Day is an annual not-for-profit event that aims to unite the world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post one the same issue on the same day. The aim of Blog Action Day is to start a global discussion where the diverse opinions and ideas of thousands of different people are focused on one topic.

http://blogactionday.org/

Mercan Dede hits #1 position in the European World Music Charts

Mercan Dede continues his record of releasing chart-topping albums with his most recent release, 800. Dedicated to the Mevlana in honor of his 800th birthday, at the beginning of the year, 800’s “Istanbul” graced the number 1 spot in Midem’s Preview Magazine, and in April of 2008 hit the number 1 spot out of 186 slots on the WMCE list.

http://www.mercandede.com/

Female Trouble

Female Trouble. The camera as mirror and stage of female projection17.07.2008 - 26.10.2008Since the invention of photography more than 150 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly create something new, the camera has also served as a means of questioning clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally feminine was and remains a discourse with gender identity, its social and political definition and what goes beyond that.The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bnvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art examine the female image, deconstruct and redefine it. At the same time, the exhibition reaches back into the 19th and early 20thh century when women such as Countess Castiglione, Lady Hawarden, Claude Cahun and Florence Henri discovered photography as a means of (self-) projection and enquiry.Kindly supported by the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

www.pinakothek.de/pinakothek-der-moderne

NEW TALENTS 2008 at Rheinauhafen Cologne

From 16 to 24 August 2008 new talents - die junge biennale köln presents rising artists from the fields of media, art, film, music and design in the unique architectural ensemble of the Rheinauhafen in Cologne.

Due to its academies of outstanding reputation both at home and abroad and unlike other cities in Germany, Cologne has evolved into a stronghold of artistic and creative education. new talents sets an example, presenting for the first time jointly selected graduates of the following academies.

Kunsthochschule für Medien,

Hochschule für Musik Köln,

ifs internationale filmschule köln,

Köln International School of Design und der

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

A total of more than 50 graduates of the last four years have been selected. In this connection the Biennale senses an upwarding trend toward the crossover of fields where clear classifications disappear.

The newly designed Rheinauhafen provides a unique platform for the project, hosted by the FUHRWERKSWAAGE Kunstraum e.V. and the Media Kultur Köln GmbH. With an appealing mixture of heritage listed architecture and new urbanistic highlights, the Rheinauhafen evolves into a creative economic centre in Cologne. With its unprecedented exhibition concept new talents 2008 therefore represents a prelude to the inauguration of the Rheinauhafen, corresponding to the innovative character of the area.

Along the boulevard, the passages and interiors the area allows the visitor to discover new possibilities of artistic presentation and communication. Multifaceted accompanying events such as stage programmes, long film nights, live performances as well as symposia and technical discussions invite to a collective exchange.

Participants:

Astor Trio

Sabine Bernardi

Tom Bieling,

Ole Heydekamp,

Thomas Klotsche,

Tobias Zelmer

Tanja Bogo

Daniel Burkhard

Reto Caffi

Cologne Saxophonquartett

Charlotte Desaga

Anna Ditges

Clemente Fernandez-Gil

Gunther Geltinger

Moritz Grenzebach / Markus Sehr

Gesine Grundmann

Felix Hassenfratz

Katrin Heinz

Lena Hirche

Christian Keinstar

Valerie Krause

Marcel Krings & Sebastian Mühlhäuser

Oliver Kunkel

Latin Sampling

Nancy Mac Granaky-Quaye

Christine Maier & Achim Hoffmann

Männer mit Motoren (Matthias Muche & Sven Hahne)

Alex Mertins

nüans: Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann, Maki Umehara

Hanno Olderdissen / Katrin Hohendahl

Pentaphonic Brass

Anne Pöhlmann

Daniel Rakete Siegel & Katrin Hohendahl

Simone Rudolph

Julia Rüther

Gerriet K. Sharma

Thorsten Schneider

Schmittmenge Meier

Robert Schwermer

Wanda Sebastian

Marco Siebertz

Tanz

Terrence Ngassa Band

Dennis Todorovic & Melanie Andernach

Tina von Traben

Triosence

Mirko Tschauner

Katrin WalschekWednesday Night BigBand

Christine Wernke

Sebastian Wickeroth

http://www.newtalents-cologne.de/