Archive for November, 2009
In Memoriam: Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon 1935-2009
With a heavy heart, Women & Their Work would like to mark the passing of Jeanne-Claude. Part of one of contemporary art’s most fantastic partnerships, she and her husband Christo produced some of the best known and marvelous monuments in modern memory. Their work has been praised and admired worldwide both by the public and critics.
Revolutionizing the creation of monumental-scale art, Jeanne-Claude and Christo made works of joy and wonderment, always with the avowal that their work was without any statement other than the celebration of landscape. With a number of works across the world over the course of 50 years, some of their best known installations include Wrapped Reichstag (1995), Running Fence (1976), and The Gates (2005). Although the couple worked together exclusively, there was always an independent spirit in each, as is attested by the documentary collection 5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude. She was Christo’s partner and his muse. She was ours as well. We will miss her.
New York Times Obituary writer William Grimes has written a beautiful chronicle of Jeanne-Claude’s life. You can find it here.
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon
June 13, 1935 – November 18, 2009
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Tax Free Day in our GiftShop this Thursday
Tax Free Day in our GiftShop is this Thursday.
Shop tax free all day long 10am – 8pm Nov. 19th. The GiftShop doubles in size for the Holidays holding twice the gifts for your shopping pleasure. Women and Their Work members will receive an additional 10% discount. Come visit the GiftShop, and you’ll get to see our new exhibit “My Wicked Twisted Sense of Love”. Women & Their Work
Add comment November 17, 2009
Art with Heart Benefit Party
Come to Empower Art’s first annual Art with Heart Benefit Party.
Proceeds will help Empower Art provide counseling and art workshops to adolescent survivors of family and sexual abuse.
Where: US Art Authority
2908 Fruth Street (next to Spider House)
Austin, TX 78751
When: Tuesday, November 10
7:00PM to 9:30PM
Music by CIPHER , The Patches,
& DJ Miguel Angel
Eat, Drink, & Dance !
Orginal Artwork & Silent Auction
Tickets $15 in advance & for students.
$20 at the door.
For more information:
www.empowerart.org
or Laramie Gorbett 323 219 -5689
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