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| In-Depth Study of Impressionist Landscapes on View at the Portland Museum of Art |
John Singer Sargent (United States, 1856–1925), Dolce Far Niente, 1907, oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches. Brooklyn Museum , Bequest of A. Augustus Healy.
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PORTLAND, MAINE.- This fall the Portland Museum of Art will present an in-depth study of Impressionist landscape painting. Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is an exhibition of more than 40 masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The exhibition features both European and American painters including Claude Monet, Eugène-Louis Boudin, John Singer Sargent,...More
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| Serpentine Gallery Presents Major New Work by Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours: Version II |
LONDON.- Gerhard Richter is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Since the early 1960s, he has tirelessly explored the medium of painting at a time when many were heralding its death. He has produced a remarkably varied body of work, including photography-based portrait, landscape and still-life paintings; gestural and monochrome abstractions; and colour chart grid paintings....More
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| A Profoundly Personal Portrait by Francis Bacon Highlights Christie's October Auction |
LONDON.- Christie’s will offer Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Henrietta Moraes at the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 19 October 2008 in London. An intimate painting which offers a fascinating insight into the characters who shaped the thriving bohemian scene of Soho in the 1960s, the work is expected to realise £5,500,000 to £7,500,000. The painting was acquired ...More
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| MoMA Publishes Richard Benson's The Printed Picture |
NEW YORK.- The ability to make and distribute identical copies of a single picture has played a vital role in human society and culture. The Printed Picture (308 pages; 326 color ills; $60.00, hardcover, October 2008) is a highly original and accessible history of the endlessly evolving technology of multiple images, from the Renaissance woodblock to today’s fast-paced digital innovations....More
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| One Way, One Ticket: An Essay on Death in the IVAM Collection |
VALENCIA.- One way, one ticket. An essay on death in the IVAM Collection is an exhibition organized jointly by the IVAM and the EMAT. The show is presented as an essay on how death is seen in modern and contemporary art, in works from the IVAM Collection. The central focus is Christian Boltanski’s installation La réserve des suisses morts (The Reserve Collection of Dead Swiss), ...More
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| First Major French Retrospective of the Work of Jacques Villeglé at Centre Pompidou |
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou presents the first major French retrospective of the work of Jacques Villeglé, an artist who since 1949 has succeeded – using one single material, the torn poster – in producing a very substantial body of work of astonishing formal richness....More
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| Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909 Opens at Neue Galerie New York |
NEW YORK.- The Neue Galerie New York opens the exhibition “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909,” featuring more than 100 works on paper by the Austrian artist. This is the first major museum exhibition of his work ever held in the United States, and it focuses on his macabre early drawings, watercolors, and lithographs. It will be on view at the Neue Galerie through January 26, 2009. The...More
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| New Museum's Exhibition Presents Ongoing and Newly Commissioned Works |
NEW YORK.- The New Museum is pleased to announce the opening of "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees," the New Museum’s exhibition for the Museum as Hub international collaboration. “Six Degrees” refers to the angle of Bowery Street off New York City’s grid—a way of considering the uniqueness of downtown and the vibrant community of cultural producers that has historically marked the ...More
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| Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 Opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum |
LONDON.- The V&A’s autumn exhibition, Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70, is the first to examine contemporary design, architecture, film and popular culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War era. Over 300 exhibits are on display from a Sputnik and an Apollo Mission space suit to films by Stanley Kubrick, paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Gerhard Richter, fashion ...More
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| Premier McGuinty Announces the Dead Sea Scrolls at the ROM |
TORONTO.- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty today announced that the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will present the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition, one of the most important exhibitions in the Museum’s history, from Saturday, June 27, 2009 until Sunday, January 3, 2010. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for ROM visitors to view these historical treasures, the subject of great...More
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| Ibon Aranberri Opens Disorder in the Frankfurter Kunstverein |
FRANKFURT.- “Disorder” in the Frankfurter Kunstverein is the first large institutional solo presentation of the Basque artist Ibon Aranberri in Germany since his participation last year in documenta 12.
Aranberri is positioned in the field of contemporary art in an idiosyncratic way. To ...More
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| Interior Secretary Kempthorne Presents Plans to Expand Ellis Island Museum to Reflect Entire Immigration Story |
NEW YORK.- Today in Ellis Island's historic Great Hall, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne joined The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. and the National Park Service in unveiling the plans for a significant expansion of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum to be called The Peopling of America(R) Center. Designed by ESI Design, this exciting new Center will enlarge the story ...More
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| 50th Anniversary of the Birth of Timur Novikov Celebrated with Exhibition at Hermitage |
ST. PETERSBURG.- The State Hermitage Museum announces the exhibition “Timur’s Territory. St Petersburg – New York. On the 50th Anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov”, as a part of the “Hermitage 20/21” project. Timur Novikov (1958–2002) is considered to be the great representative of modern Russian art. His works are to be held in the collections of the leading Russian and ...More
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| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Presents: Postcards from Ground Zero: Is There A Point to Nuclear Tourism? |
BOULDER.- On Friday, October 10, 2008 at 6:30pm, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) at the University of Colorado invites the community-at-large to enjoy a talk with internationally recognized authors and journalists, Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge, who in the past year have ...More
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| Feast Your Eyes on Glenbow's New Exhibition! |
CALGARY.- Through the Looking Glass is a whimsical romp through the world of dreams and altered realities. Curated by Glenbow’s President and CEO Jeff Spalding, this exhibition is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic of the same title. Visitors will find themselves on a similar journey to Alice’s, where time and space playfully invert our understanding of the world. ...More
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| Governor General to Attend 10th RBC Canadian Painting Competition Gala |
OTTAWA.- Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will attend the 10th Anniversary RBC Painting Competition Gala on Thursday, September 25, 2008, beginning at 5:30 p.m., at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. ...More
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| Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately |
WASHINGTON.- To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the museum is hosting “Alphabetilately: An Alphabet of Philately,” a vibrant alphabetical exhibition about collecting, stamps and the sending of mail. “Alphabetilately” officially opens to the public Friday, Sept. 26....More
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