Dalí: The Late Work features important work created by the Spanish artist between 1940-1983. Some pieces have not been seen in decades, most notably “Santiago El Grande” and “Assumpta Corpuscularia Lapilazulina,” not publicly viewed since 1959. Atlanta magazine had this to say about the show and Marquand-produced exhibition catalogue designed by Jeff Wincapaw:
In short, Salvador Dalí: The Late Work…is an outside-the-box exhibition that should make Atlantans once again grateful to have a world-class art museum within footsteps of home…Art lovers can pick up the gorgeous, authoritative official catalog of the show published by the High Museum of Art and Yale University.
To whet your palate, watch this 1941 newsreel of a classic Dali dinner party:
For exhibition highlights full details click here.
The other night, I attended a reception and dinner for an exhibition of work by an artist who is no longer living. We produced the accompanying book—a handsome, substantial effort.
The exhibition is impressive. Many museum members and out-of-town visitors extolled the work, the selection of the paintings, and the installation. Smiles and congratulations came from all around.
The exhibition consists of 40 mourners from the tomb of John the Fearless, and three figures and one fragment of the architectural arcade from the tomb of Philip the Bold. Because the statuettes have been freed from the architectural framework that usually contains them, the figures will be seen in the round by the public for the first time ever.
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is tracing the history of private art collection in Texas from the oil boom to today with a new exhibition showcasing the work of more than 40 collectors. The broad, impressive exhibition of ancient to modern European work features several major artists including Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian.
This Saturday, November 14 the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, WA celebrates the grand opening of its Lightcatcher building with the exhibition Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky:
The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting from the Normandy Coast, a new exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, addresses how social, creative, and commercial advancements helped set the stage for early Impressionism and established Normandy as a cultural hub in the mid to late 1800s.
Marquand produced the accompanying catalog, featuring work by Manet, Monet, and Degas among others.
Marquand recently produced an exhibition catalog for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore called Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece. Designed by Jeff Wincapaw, the book received flattery from the Paper Cuts books blog on the New York Times website:
…The catalog, distributed by Yale University Press, is easily one of the best I have ever seen on a classical subject.
In the video below, Dr. Gary Radke offers interesting facts and background on Michelangelo in anticipation of SAM’s new exhibit Michaelangelo Public and Private, opening tomorrow. Radke is Deans Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and curatorial adviser for the exhibit:
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin is showcasing the work of Latin American artist Francisco Matto. It’s the first comprehensive exhibition of Matto’s work in the U.S., highlighting his place in the rise of modernist abstract art in Latin America.
In 1909, Seattle hosted the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair that helped to establish the city as a new cultural and industrial hub. The fair had a wide range of exhibits, featuring a hearty nod to the Pacific Northwest’s connection to the Alaskan gold rush with an Eskimo village and a scale model of a coal mine. Other notable exhibits included a reenactment of a Civil War naval battle and the largest log cabin ever built.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the A-Y-P, Seattle is hosting many different centennial events throughout the year; one special treat is the Museum of History & Industry’s exhibit of the photographs of Frank H. Nowell, the official photographer of the A-Y-P. Nowell captured on film the construction of the fair, the various exhibits, and the events and celebrations held on the University of Washington’s campus throughout the summer of 1909.
Marquand recently produced Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a catalog of Nowell’s photographs of the fair, distributed by the University of Washington Press. Nowell’s images are also collected in an comprehensive database viewable through the University of Washington’s Digital Libraries, where you can browse through the other images that we sadly didn’t have space to include in the book, like this oddly charming bear made out of raisins. Luckily the slightly redundant giant lemon made out of lemons made the cut.
Statistics can be daunting but dry: 100 million trees cut down every year to make the paper for junk mail; 380,000 kilowatt hours of electricity wasted every minute; 2 million plastic bottles used every five minutes; 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in U.S. prisons in a single year. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan brings these staggering numbers to life in manipulated digital photographs that are at once alluring and shocking. A landscape of toothpicks, each representing a felled tree, stretches into the horizon; a looping maze of plastic cups reveals how many are used every six hours on airplane flights; and a replica of a Seurat masterpiece fashioned from aluminum cans becomes a lesson in waste. These astonishing photographs of great beauty reveal the devastating consequences of our culture of consumption.
As Paul Hawken notes, Jordan’s images are “a supplication to all who look upon them, to harm no more, to be mindful in all that we do, speak, and take.
A recent article in Dutch design website Materia features more examples of Jordan’s visionary work. Story is available here.
We’ve produced books about musicians before, most notably 5×1, a collection of Lance Mercer’s photographs of Pearl Jam. So when Rod Blackhurst, a photographer who has chronicled rock band The Fray on tour, approached us with a similar project, we were up for the challenge. The Fray: There and Back will be released in early February. A profile on the band in Denver Magazine includes an interview with Blackhurst:
“The band has always trusted my creative process and vision. Very rarely do they ask to take a look at what I’ve been shooting, and so I often find myself excited over a photograph trying to show them instead. My goal has always been to create art that I’m proud of. That’ll never stop being the plan.”
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes Richard B. Woodward’s review of “Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America, and the Railway, 1830-1960.” The exhibition catalog, The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam, produced by Marquand and available from Yale University Press, was just what Woodward needed to complete his visit to the exhibition:
Too many curators these days fatigue museum-goers in a noble effort to be thorough. That’s not the case here. I left refreshed, wanting more. My cravings were satisfied where they should be, and at a more leisurely pace, in a group of outstanding essays for the catalog published by Yale University Press.
“Art in the Age of Steam” is on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO, through mid-January 2009.
The recent profile by Seattle P-I art critic Regina Hackett on Seattle-based artist Roy McMakin explores his broadly diverse career:
McMakin developed the initial identity for J. Crew stores, built the office furniture for the Getty Museum and created the set for “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” He also moves easily in the world of galleries, public art and museums.
He builds houses but is not an architect. He makes furniture for use and sculptural contemplation. Like a musician who plays slightly off the beat, everything he does contains at least an element of the unexpected.
The full article is available here. Purplish, an exhibition of McMakin’s drawings, photographs, and sculpture, is showing at the James Harris Gallery in Pioneer Square in Seattle until November 8.
In 2006, we began work on a series of exhibition catalogs highlighting the partnership between the Louvre Museum in Paris and the High Museum in Atlanta, recently featured on CNN travel. We’re pleased to announce that the sixth and final book in the series, The Louvre and the Masterpiece, is now available.
In conjunction with the exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Marquand Books is pleased to present the book Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof. Designer Beverly Joel has conjured up a bold, surprising design to accompany the Austrian artist’s intellectually singular paintings and sculpture. If you’re in the Baltimore-Washington area, be sure to visit the West retrospective, hanging until January 4, 2009. For more info, check out the Baltimore Sun article here. The exhibit will also be featured at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 15-June 7, 2009.
