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The Cobra Museum Celebrates Sixty Years of the Foundation of the CoBrA Movement
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AMSTELVEEN.- Sixty years ago the CoBrA artists were portrayed as 'scribblers, daubers and cheaters'. This label, originally intended as derogatory, has since become a familiar slogan in praise of this famous experimental art movement. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the CoBrA movement by six passionate young artists: Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille from the Netherlands, Asger Jorn from Denmark, and Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret from Belgium. On 8 November 1948 they made a pact in the Café Notre Dame in Paris, their intention being to liberate art from the straitjacket that gripped it immediately after the war....More

Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples Opens at Art Gallery of South Australia
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.- Some of the biggest names in mid-late 20th century international and Australian art will be on show at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 17 October, in Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples, an exhibition that explores the development of prints and multiples from the 1960s to the current day, tracking the rise of an art form that lies at the core of contemporary ...More

Recollections - Philip Jones Griffiths Photography Exhibition
LIVERPOOL, UK.- Evocative images by celebrated photographer Philip Jones Griffiths will be on display in Recollections at the National Conservation Centre from 17 October 2008 to 15 March 2009. The first display of his work since Griffiths died in March this year, the exhibition will feature around 60 images of Britain in the 1950s and 60s. One of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century, Griffiths’ depiction of ...More

Full House - The Kouri Collection and Minimalist Adventures in America Opens
HELSINKI.- Full House – The Kouri Collection and Minimalist Adventures in America presents artworks from the giants of Minimalism. Occupying two floors in Kiasma, the show traces paths spawned by minimalism from the late 1960s to the present. The works are made from an eclectic range of materials, including aspirin, milk, marble and light. The ideas for minimalism first emerged...More

Akron Art Museum To Receive Major Donation of Vogel Works
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty ...More

Welcoming the Rijksmuseum with Indian Miniatures in the Van Gogh Museum
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum will show highlights from its collection of Indian miniatures in the Van Gogh Museum. The presentation is a voyage of discovery across India: the stylistic development of Indian painting from the 15th to the 19th centuries is illustrated by means of some fifty masterpieces. Around half of the miniatures come from the bequest of the Amsterdam physician and ...More

Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image Opens
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Ruth Weisberg: Guido Cagnacci and the Resonant Image, an exhibition featuring Los Angeles artist Ruth Weisberg’s new series inspired by Guido Cagnacci’s powerful Martha Rebuking Mary for Her Vanity (after 1660), one of the Norton Simon Museum’s most important Baroque paintings. This exhibition features more than 20 new ...More

Glen Gentele Appointed President and CEO of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Glen Gentele, Director of Laumeier Sculpture Park, has been appointed President & CEO of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and will leave Laumeier at the end of December to assume his new post in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Gentele succeeds Carolyn Hill who is retiring at year end. As Director of Laumeier Sculpture Park since 2001, Gentele dramatically revived ...More

Louise Blouin Institute Presents Wang Guangyi: Cold War Aesthetics
LONDON.- The Louise Blouin Institute features the first major solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of the renowned contemporary Chinese artist Wang Guangyi. The exhibition will take place from 17 October to 1 March 2009 and is a part of the Louise Blouin Institute’s ‘Culture Beyond Borders’ series, aimed at encouraging cultural dialogue....More

The Drawing Center Presents Magnusson Grossman: Furniture and Lighting
NEW YORK.- The Drawing Center presents the first major U.S. exhibition to focus on the drawings of architect and industrial designer Greta Grossman. From October 17 through November 6, 2008, in the Drawing Room, Greta Magnusson Grossman: Furniture and Lighting will debut recently discovered industrial design drawings executed between 1948 and 1959 by the Scandinavian-...More

Scope London Art Fair Opens at Lord's Cricket Ground
LONDON.- Building on the success of its international art fair program, SCOPE Art Fair is pleased to announce the return of its fourth SCOPE London art fair, through October 19, 2008. Conveniently located in Lord’s Cricket Ground, SCOPE London is situated directly across from Regents Park, within walking distance of Frieze. SCOPE London’s 50 international exhibitors will offer visitors an ...More

This Is War! Robert Capa at Work Opens at Barbican Art Gallery, London
LONDON.- Robert Capa (1913 -1954) is one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. A pioneer of photojournalism, Capa captured war as it unfolded on the front line and his images have now come to define key moments in history. Working with the Leica, a super light-weight camera invented by a mountaineer, Capa got closer to the heat of the battle than any previous ...More

Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970
HOUSTON, TX.- Today the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, a groundbreaking exhibition chronicling the contributions that black women have made and continue to make to video art. Co-organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator at the CAMH, and Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, director of the ...More

Rockefeller Foundation Announces Inaugural Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellows
LONDON.- The Rockefeller Foundation tonight announced the inaugural recipients of its Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowships, Mona Hatoum, Kofi Setordji, and Shahzia Sikander. These fellowships are highly selective residencies that continue the Foundation's storied tradition supporting cultural innovation and creative expression. Ms. Hatoum, Mr. Setordji, and Ms. Sikander were nominated and chosen by an...More

Hamra Abbas, Adventures of the Woman in Black at Green Cardamom
London.- Hamra Abbas will exhibit a series of new works, including a new vision of the female super-hero at Green Cardamom this autumn. The works exhibited by the artist explore ideas of militancy, fuelled by the atmosphere of violence and despair pervading both her immediate context of Pakistan but also elsewhere, through the spiralling culture of violence....More

The Free Art Fair Opens in London
LONDON.- The art fair where all the work is given away. Following its great success last year, The Free Art Fair returns bigger and bolder and with surprises. The 2008 Free Art Fair involves over 50 artists. The Free Art Fair is an art fair where all the work is given away at the end. People will have the chance to own pieces by artists from the Saatchi Collection or who ...More

Pivot Points: Turkey England Turkey - New Photography by Helen Sheehan
LONDON.- YFBS Gallery presents Pivot Points: Turkey England Turkey - New Photography by Helen Sheehan. For 20 years, Irish photographer Helen Sheehan has been making work that moves between her fine art/installation background and her deep commitment to human rights and to issues of exile and belonging. She has worked on issues of conflict and justice in Belfast, Algeria, ...More

Indianapolis Museum of Art To Establish Conservation Science Laboratory
INDIANAPOLIS.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art has announced plans to establish a state-of-the-art conservation science laboratory to complement its existing expertise in the care and treatment of the works of art in its collection. Through the addition of this laboratory, the IMA aims to create an internationally recognized conservation center, which will enhance the IMA's capability to conduct ...More

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