Pontiac, MI - Clara Beckman, Britain's "lost" photographer, has traveled the globe immortalizing art figures of the early 20th century with her camera.  In this exhibition, Beckman's lens is focused exclusively on these early innovators of modern art.  On exhibition 20 October to 6 December, 2006.

The Face of Art is the most extensive survey of Beckman’s portraiture ever mounted.  The exhibition showcases 50 portraits of the 20^th century’s greatest legends in art, a subject fundamental to Beckman's career and liaisons.

Beckman’s portraits are known for their dark clarity and simple texture. The artist preferred to photograph people in a banal environment, often against a blank wall, and tried to learn as little as possible about her sitter before the photo-session. 

London - Artist, novelist, historian, philosopher and theologian, Pierre Klossowski’s life-size mythological and allegorical images of the body create an intense world of violence and passion.  Born in Paris in 1905 Pierre Klossowski’s close relationships with Rainer Maria Rilke and André Gide led him to study philosophy before starting his career as a writer and translator.  In the 1930s he befriended Georges Bataille and formed original and controversial stances on theological issues and the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade.  With the outbreak of World War II he studied with the Dominican priesthood in occupied Paris, but later decided against monastic life when he married Denise Marie Roberte Morin-Sinclaire in 1947, who became a muse for his writing and drawing.

Netherlands - Brody Condon will be presenting new work in Museum Het Domein from 14 October until 12 November 2006: defaultProperties ();, marks Brody Condon’s first computer game art installation based on a historic Christian theme.  Condon has created a non-interactive, animated re-interpretation of the baptism scene from the Triptych of Jean des Trompes by Gerard David (1505) using current game development technology and visual styles.

This ‘self-playing' game depicts a twitching, chubby figure of Asian decent work defaultProperties (); apparently lost in prayer in a Northern European medieval landscape next to a bored man in furs idling by the river with a flaming sword.  Meanwhile the sky is filling with a swirling extra-dimensional portal from which is emerging a astral being of unknown but seemingly royal nature.  The title defaultProperties (); also refers to this other dimension, with an analogy in programming language.