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On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorated the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) pogrom. The Wiesenthal Center's observance of the 65th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" was highlighted by the presentation of the work of Gottfried Helnwein and the screening of "Ninth November Night," a documentary about the artist's commitment to remind the world of the Holocaust.

On Sunday, November 9, at 7:00 p.m. the Museum of Tolerance commemorates the 65th anniversary of the infamous 1938 Nazi “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) program which targeted 1,000 synagogues in Germany and Austria and marked the beginning of the end of European Jewry. The commemoration will be highlighted by the screening of a documentary by renowned Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, 9th November Night, who has committed himself and his art to reminding the world of the Holocaust. The documentary is based upon his 1988 exhibit of seventeen children’s portraits that were displayed in commemoration of Kristallnacht in Cologne, Germany. Just days into the exhibit, these portraits were vandalized.. “The fury with which the neo-nazis reacted to these portraits is understandable inasmuch as it is the very same fury with which they have for years been fighting against The Diary of Anne Frank,” said famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. “The murder of children rouses abhorrence and conflict in every human, whether they are motivated by ideology or insanity. The urge to destroy has survived; the portraits bear witness to its rage.”

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Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art 2625 Michigan Avenue, T3 Santa Monica, CA 90404

Installation "Modern Sleep", 2003, digital print on vinyl, 20 by 60 feet in front of the Barker Hangar at the Los Angeles Art Show 2003, 3021 Airport Avenue at Santa Monica Airport.

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Putting Holes into Happiness, Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter. We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!"

An evening of top DJs spinning and bands rocking curated by James Healy. Helnwein-exhibition new works. (9 -10pm). Studio Helnwein.

Auf der Suche nach dem Individuum: Der diesjährige Stuttgarter Fotosommer präsentiert Portraitfotografie aus der DG- Bank

"This album is about expression. The imagination and personality of the individual cannot be trapped by small minds or defined by any one person. The genious of arts finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are." Marilyn Manson has collaborated with Gottfried helnwein for the album's artwork which is part of a greater series that will be published in a book and exhibited in museums across the world.

"High above Marlene Dietrich Blvd. in the city of Berlin, the sun smoldered below the concrete gutter sky like a cigarette burn in a stained bedsheet. We set forth to the Dome of Berlin at dusk and I felt like I was in my own painting, "The Death of Art." Helnwein and I created a living installation with two disabled nude women as families stopped their picnics to stare. Of course we documented this for future viewing. But it didn't begin there... "Determined, I headed for the birthplace of Expressionism, humming "The Alabama Song," by Kurt Weill. It was time for The Grotesk Burlesk and dozens of mice scurried from the Kinderfeld. Their political organs had to be removed and we set them in formation, creating a metaphorical "question mark." Marilyn Manson

ART! April 12-June 8 Opening Reception Friday, April 11, 6-8 pm An international survey of contemporary art based on comic book and cartoon imagery, including painting and sculpture, video, high and low-tech animation, "zines," fashion design, comic strips, and comic books. Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists, including: Gottfried Helnwein, Laylah Ali, Michel Bevilacqua, Blake Boyd, Enrique Chagoya, Michaell Ray Charles, Nicole Eisenman, Neil Farber, Chris Finley, Karen Finley, Arturo Herrera, Leslie Lew, Kerry James Marshall, Yoshitomo Nara, Walter Robinson, Al Souza, Kara Walker, and Sue Williams..

Works on display include well-known pieces by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Allan Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon Gottfried Helnwein and Henri Cartier-Bresson, as well as previously unseen works by Conny Holthusen, Antonio de Felipe, José de Guimares and Ernesto Tatafiore.

Vanessa Beecroft, VALIE EXPORT, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Ilse Haider, GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, Birgit Jürgenssen, Marie-Jo Lafontaine,Tracey Moffatt, Thomas Ruff, Shirin Neshat, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Lois Renner, Eva Schlegel, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, és Rosemarie Trockel 2003. március 14 – június 1.

Poems and novels, films and photographs, paintings and performances, monuments and memorials, even comics are the cultural forms that engage us with catastrophic and traumatic history. Through these eyes we have come to know events which defy the possibility of representation. We have come to bear witness to history.

In der Schau werden rund 120 zeitgenössische Fotografien von namhaften Künstlern vorgestellt, darunter Herlinde Koelbl, Nick Knight, Anton Corbijn und Gottfried Helnwein.

Art Direction: Gottfried Helnwein Editing and primary director of photography: Benjamin at the Barbarian Group Second camera: Charles Koutris Location: studio Helnwein, Los Angeles

group show Artists support Nazareth House in Cape Town South Africa. Nazareth House is a world respected organisation dedicated to the stable and secure care of children in need. The Sisters of Nazareth were asked to care for one HIV baby in 1992 and since then, in their centre and their township outreach programmes, they have looked after more than 250 HIV infected babies and children.

Gottfried Helnwein, Patrick Morrison, Bryten Goss and Miguel Arguello.

Helnwein by Mic Moroney ...This unease with, and yet celebration of German-language cutlure continues to inform Helnwein's work, not least in this large piece, "The Silent Glow of the Avant Garde" Helnwein's painting - both cheekily and totally in homage - appropriates the great paintings, "The Polar Sea" (1824) by the leading German Romantic landscape artist Casper David Friedrich. Helnwein here re-renders the painting in a gloomy, cinematic blue-black duochrome, and hugely magnifies it from its original scale (about 1 metre by 1 metre 30), although the foundered ship still seems dwarfed and pulverised by the splintering ice sheets. It remains a fine example of that particularly Germanic celebration of heroic humanity dashing itself against the majestic cruelty of nature. Helnwein, in his wry title and borrowing of the image, is suggesting an uncomfortable paradigm behind Friedrich's painting - a perpetual sense of momentous revolution within nature, raw humanity and indeed artistic culture. These ideas pervaded Friedrich's work, as well as that of composer Richard Wagner and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - all of whose works were later so mistakenly absorbed into the "superhuman" aesthetic of Nazi ideaology and doctrine...

»Call Me Burroughs« ist eine Wanderausstellung für die reale Welt. Die Schau versammelt Fotos von Burroughs und seinen Freunden von allen Etappen des Burroughs' schen Lebenswegs - der Kindheit im St. Louis der späten 1910er Jahre, dem Alter in Lawrence, Kansas und den dazwischenliegenden Stationen New York City, Mexico City, Tanger, Paris, London etc. Produziert wurde die Ausstellung aus Anlaß von Burroughs 80. Geburtstag im Jahr 1994. Ihre Exponate stammen aus circa 50 Archiven und Sammlungen der Vereinigten Staaten und diversen Ländern Europas.

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Gottfried Helnwein, John Lennon, 1994 oil and acrylic on canvas, courtesy Modernism, San Francisco

group show Gottfried Helnwein, Thomas Struth, Marie-Lo Lafontaine, Nan Goldin, Vanessa Beecroft, Sean Scully and others Exhibition catalogue: Catalogue German / English with contributions by Gabriele Bösch, Christine Frisinghelli, Rainer Igla / Michael Mauracher, Edelbert Köb, Lois Renner and Eva Schlegel The exhibition includes around 85 works from the collection's holdings and several loans, selected by Gabriele Bösch from the perspective of photo/art. Many of the photographic works owned by the collection are now showcased for the first time and put into a traditional painting context, thereby inviting an exciting discourse between painting and photography.