Some of the biggest names in contemporary art are coming to the Denver Art Museum as part of an unprecedented year-long lecture series., funded by internationally known collectors Vicki and Kent Logan of Vail.
The lineup, titled "Logan Lectures 2007," will feature 10 major artists from around the world whose works are on view in the museum's new $110 million Hamilton Building. The series begins in January and runs through December. Some of their pieces can be seen in the largest of the temporary exhibitions on view as part of the addition's inauguration - "Radar: Selections From the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan." ...

Gottfried Helnwein is an artistic icon in both Europe and America who has exhibited all over the world. His style ranges from comics to hyper-naturalism and even to installation work, but is always founded in an amazing skill and craftsmanship. The show features works of Helnwein’s dating back to the 80s and up to 1997, in a gathering of the best of Helnwein’s work from the past two decades. The most astounding work is, without a doubt, Pietà from 1997, which also introduces some of the main elements that flow through Helnwein’s work—namely the use of motives from religious art and references to major works of art history. ...

Bühnenbild und Kostüme stammen vom bekannten Künstler Gottfried Helnwein, bekannt für Bilder voller Ekel, Leid und Schmerz. Auch Helnwein will den Menschen den Irrsinn der heutigen von Gewalt geprägten Zeit drastisch vor Augen führen. Gottfried Helnwein : "Es ist eine Zeit des Zerfalls, des Untergangs. Vielleicht ist es völlig sinnlos, aber es gibt einfach Leute wie mich, die so besessen und verbohrt sind, dass sie denken, sie müssten all das festhalten, was da passiert und die Leute zwingen, das anzuschauen." ...

Mr. Kresnik's stage pictures are often powerful. His ''Rheingold'' and ''Walküre'' compaction introduces Wagner; Nietzsche; King Ludwig; various Wagner wives and lovers; Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of West Germany; a ''red figure''; and modern-day soldiers and G.I.'s among the characters. Ludwig dances in his familiar blue jacket, naked from the waist down. Alberich hacks off his penis with a giant sword. The first act of ''Die Walküre'' is a trio for three naked men, one of whom becomes visibly pregnant (the wonders of a prosthesis and flesh-colored makeup). This last, it might be argued, successfully reintroduces the transgressive impact of incest to a modern audience lulled by Wagner's music. ...

Bonn. Finstere Mächte dominieren den ersten Akt von Johann Kresniks Ring -Projekt, für das Gottfried Helnwein Bühne und Kostüme konzipiert hat.
In Hamburg schockten Helnwein und Kresnik mit Bildern des gemeuchelten Pasolini. Stuttgart verstörte das Duo mit der aus dem Lot geratenen Bühne für Peter Weiss` "Verfolgung und Ermordung des Jean Paul Marat..." und wiederum einem heftigen Plakat: Lafontaines Kopf in der Blutlache, Titel: "Das Attentat".
Wenn jetzt Kresnik und Helnwein in Bonn Richard Wagners "Ring des Nibelungen" in Tanz- und Bildtheater umsetzen, steht erneut ein Helnwein-Plakat am Anfang: Wieder ein Kopf, der im Blut liegt, diesmal ein Kind in Uniform, buchstäblich erschlagen von einer Kaskade von Euro-Münzen. Die Botschaft ist klar und radikal: Die perverse Macht des Geldes als Triebfeder der Politik. ...

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Conceptual artist Gottfried Helnwein grew up in Vienna after World War II and was deeply influence by the Holocaust, Donald Duck, Elvis, and the Rolling Stones. His art constantly questions society by looking at its impact on the most innocent — the children. ...

Dita Von Teese: "Bespoke - whether it's jewellery design or putting together a party - is like, 'Wow.' I love the way the Regency and Victorian era really knew how to party. There was so much attention to detail. People have become lazy about entertaining. It’s all done to a formula.” Her dream theme is a Marie Antoinette banquet. "I love centrepieces dripping with flowers, berries and fruit. In those days, people would eat the table arrangements, and 1 love that irreverence. Marilyn and Dita were such fun to work with - they let me frame their cheesy childhood photos and put them on the walls of the castle in Tipperary. ...

“Look Now” was a spectacular show comprised of photography, installations, painting and video art. The images were often disturbing as the examples of Gottfried Helnwein’s haunting painting of a child in military dress and Tony Oursler’s disembodied, frog-like talking heads, which amused, admonished and interrogated their audience went fully to show. The exhibit attempted to “confront us with the realities that lie behind and between our fantasies of who we are and of the world in which we live,” and this was certainly chillingly and mesmerizingly achieved. ...

Contemporary Looks "Radar: Selections From the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan" will be the principal opening exhibition. Among, the works on view will be Thomas Schutte's "Grosse Geister," (left), Franz Ackermann's "B 1 (Barbeque with the Duke)" (center) and Gottfried Helnwein's "Epiphany" (right). ...