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| Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences Opened in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park |
The California Academy of Sciences is one of the world's preeminent natural history museums and is an international leader in scientific research about the natural world.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One of the world's most innovative museum building programs—a record-setting, sustainable new home for the California Academy of Sciences—opened in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This is the first museum to earn a LEED Platinum certification, the new Academy is topped with a 2.5-acre living roof and employs a wide range of energy-saving materials ...More
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| Group of Leonardo Drawings Shown for the First Time in U.S. |
BIRMINGHAM, Al.- The Birmingham Museum of Art opened one of the most significant groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will is loaned to a U.S. museum for the first time by the Biblioteca Reale (Royal Library) in Turin, Italy. Organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, will run through November 9, 2008 in...More
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| Emil Nolde Exhibition Opens at the Grand Palais in Paris |
PARIS.- German expressionism is a new subject in France. Emil Nolde (1867-1956), one of the main representatives of the movement, has never had a retrospective. For the first time in France, an ambitious exhibition pays homage to this great figure of modern art by bringing together ninety paintings (including the polyptych Life of Christ from the Nolde foundation in Seebüll, Germany) and ...More
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| Artists Included in Turner Prize Shortlist to Show Their Work at Tate Britain |
LONDON.- The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain after it launched Liverpool’s Capital of Culture at Tate Liverpool in 2007. The artists are Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes whose work will be on view starting on Tuesday September 30....More
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| Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Rivoluzione! Italian Modernism from |
ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich offers Switzerland’s first ever comprehensive overview of Divisionism, the most significant movement in Italian painting in the late 19th century. These masterpieces of colour and light testify to a world in upheaval – from idyllic landscapes and the blessings of modern technology, to the hard lot of the farmer and a burgeoning proletariat....More
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Three Significant Additions to its Celebrated Collection |
CLEVELAND.- The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) today announced a number of significant acquisitions approved by the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees at its September meeting. Among them are three especially noteworthy additions to the museum’s encyclopedic collection....More
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| Celts and Scandinavians: Artistic Connections From 7th to 12th Century at Musée National du Moyen Age |
PARIS.- The exhibition tackles the question of permanence and of artistic development observed in the northern margins of Europe during the spread of Christianity between the 7th and 12th centuries. For the first time in almost fifteen years, a large exhibition on the art of this period in northern Europe gives us the opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the most spectacular pieces from ...More
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| Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography |
MIDDLETOWN.- Framing and Being Framed at Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is an examination of how contemporary visual artists and photographers comment on traditional assumptions about documentary photography in their work. In order to encourage viewers to grapple with issues of context, subjectivity and interpretation, the artists in the exhibition employ devices...More
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| Contemporary Arts Center Presents Austrian Painter Maria Lassnig's First Exhibition in the U.S. |
CINCINNATI.- The Contemporary Arts Center presents a solo exhibition of vibrantly colorful, dramatically intense oil paintings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig. Initiated and organized by the Serpentine Gallery in London and curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill, the exhibition features work made during the most recent ten years of Lassnigs ...More
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| The Studio at The Herbert Art Gallery to Show The World of Apu |
COVENTRY.- The final chapter in one of the greatest film trilogy’s ever made will be screened at The Herbert in October.
The World of Apu is the last instalment in The Apu Trilogy by acclaimed director Satyajit Ray. ...More
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| Arts of the Islamic World: Sotheby's to Sell Rare Treasures |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World sale will offer an exceptional range of works originating from across the varying cultures and areas that are commonly considered to constitute the Islamic World. Fine examples of ancient manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, weaponry, textiles, ceramics and paintings from North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, Islamic Spain and South Asia ...More
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| Blanton Museum of Art Presents The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964 - 1970 |
AUSTIN.- This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation of a crucial, yet little-known, episode in the history of American and Latin American Conceptual art. Showcasing over 100 prints, drawings and mixed media works, the exhibition will explore contributions made to the Conceptualist movement of the 60's and 70's through the printmaking of The New York Graphic Workshop ...More
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| Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition in Compton Verney |
NEW YORK.- Oskar Kokoschka (1886 - 1980) and Jack B Yeats developed a great friendship and admiration for each others' work towards the last decade of Yeats' life. This exhibition highlights a shared fascination with people on the margins of society and their search for new forms of expression. Kokoschka's distinct handling of paint had a direct influence on the development of Yeats' late...More
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| Exhibition on 19th Century American Presidential Campaign Art Opens at Fenimore Art Museum |
COOPERSTOWN, NY.- The exhibition Of, By, and For the People: The Art of Presidential Elections which features rare folk art created specifically for presidential campaigns of the 19th-century, is on view at the Fenimore Art Museum in the Clark Gallery. The exhibit is guest-curated by Dr. Jeff Pressman....More
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| Four Kings: A Special Installation at the National Portrait Gallery |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The year 2008 marks the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. To commemorate this event, the National Portrait Gallery is showing the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American Native people painted from life. In 1710, four men were chosen to represent the Iroquoian Confederacy of the Mohawk River Valley ...More
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| Williams Family Presents Major Gift of Western American Paintings To the Cincinnati Art Museum |
CINCINNATI.- The children of Cincinnati’s Mr. and Mrs. William J. Williams have presented a major promised gift of three extraordinary paintings by Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and Seth Eastman to the Cincinnati Art Museum in honor of their father, William J. Williams, former CEO of Western and Southern Life Insurance Company....More
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| Mark Dion Is the 2008 Winner of Smithsonian American Art Museum's Annual Contemporary Artist Award |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that Mark Dion is the 2008 winner of the museum's Lucelia Artist Award. He was selected by an independent panel of jurors for his prolific creativity and impressively varied body of work, which includes mixed-media installations, sculptures and public projects that explore the relationship among art, science and ...More
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| International Sxulpture Center Opens 2008 Membership Conference This Week |
GRAND RAPIDS.- The International Sculpture Center (ISC) will open their 21st International Sculpture Conference - Sculpture in Public: Part 2, Public Art, will be held October 2-4, 2008 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Continuing conversations started at the 2007 conference, this two and a half day event will bring together members including artists, arts administrators,curators, patrons,...More
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