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| Diana and Actaeon. The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body Opens in Dusseldorf |
Eric Fischl, Bad Boy, 1981, Öl auf Leinwand, 167,5 x 244 cm. Privatsammlung, Courtesy Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich. Courtesy: Eric Fischl.
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DUSSELDORF.- Around a core of works of art that explicitly relate to the myth of Artemis/Diana and Aktaion/Actaeon as told by Ovid, this exhibition brings together over 300 works in a scope to be shown as such only in Düsseldorf. On its agenda is that view afforded at all periods of art, upon ‘The forbidden glimpse of the naked body‘. Diana’s fate is also that of Venus, Susanna, Bathsheba, Nyssia, Phryne, Potiphar’s Wife, Baubo, Sheela-na-Gig and a host of unnamed nudes in modes classical and explicit who pass before the visitor’s eye. They do so now in works by more than 200 artists, as paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and videos from German and international private and public collections. Together they provide a unique account of a broad field interesting from both an art-historical and cultural-historical angle - of chastity and desire, of seeing and being seen, voyeurism and exhibitionism....More
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| Two Magnificent Masterpieces By Canaletto To Be Offered For Sale For the First Time at Christie's |
LONDON.- Christie’s announce that they will offer two masterpiece views of Venice by Canaletto at the auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures on 2 December 2008 in London. Believed to have been commissioned in 1738 through the artist’s agent Consul Smith, whose own collection of the artist’s works was sold to King George III, the paintings have since passed by family descent ...More
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| The Royal Academy of Arts Presents Byzantium 330-1453 |
LONDON.-From October 2008, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a ground-breaking exhibition devoted to Byzantium. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will comprise around 300 objects including icons, detached wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels plus gold and silver metalwork. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before. ...More
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| World's Third Largest Cut Diamond Comes to the ROM As Part of The Nature of Diamonds |
TORONTO.-The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announced that the Incomparable Diamond will be prominently featured in the Museum’s engagement of The Nature of Diamonds. When the exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, October 25, 2008, the gem will be a distinct highlight of the exhibition’s spectacular walk-in Gem Vault which houses a stunning array of jewels from around the world....More
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| Paul Klee: Melody / Rhythm / Dance at Museum der Moderne Salzburg |
SALZBURG.- Museum der Moderne Salzburg presents today Paul Klee: Melody / Rhythm / Dance, on view through February 1, 2009. The exhibition “Paul Klee. Melody/Rhythm/Dance” is dedicated to Paul Klee’s (1879—1940) intensive involvement with music, with melody, rhythm and polyphony, as well as with dance: these topics represented central elements in his work, in terms of both ...More
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| Ten Contemporary Artists Invited By The Guggenheim |
NEW YORK.- During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists, an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a ...More
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| The Vancouver Art Gallery Presents Jeff Wall - Vancouver Art Gallery Collection |
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents today Jeff Wall - Vancouver Art Gallery Collection, on view through January 25, 2009. Vancouver artist Jeff Wall has become internationally recognized for his compelling photographs. Over the past thirty years, he has asserted the importance of the pictorial traditions of modernism in the wake of the challenges to that tradition ...More
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| MCA Chicago Presents Jenny Holzer: Protect Protect Exhibition |
CHICAGO.- Jenny Holzer, one of the leading artists of her generation whose career spans thirty years, is the subject of a major exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, in partnership with the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. Holzer is considered one of the most significant and pioneering contemporary artists, both for her approach to language and for her use of nontraditional media ...More
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| De Young Museum Presents Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970 |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900–1970, on view October 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, at the de Young Museum is the first comprehensive survey of Asian American modernism. This exhibition of works by artists of Asian ancestry who lived and worked in the United States seeks to showcase some of the most important individuals contributing to ...More
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| The 2008 Sovereign European Art Prize - Winner Announced |
LONDON.-The Sovereign Art Foundation today announces the winner the third annual Sovereign European Art Prize, selected by the judges from the 30 short-listed entries representing some of today’s most exciting contemporary European artists. The quality of all the submissions was exceptionally high, and the judges’ final votes were extremely close. But their unanimous choice to win the ...More
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| The Spencer Art Museum Presents Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood |
LAWRENCE, KS.- The Spencer Art Museum presents Toy Stories: Souvenirs from Korean Childhood, on view through January 24, 2009. Toys are more than fun. As cultural artifacts, they embody the fantasies, values, obsessions and anxieties of a generation, speaking to the global relevance of play and the imagination across cultures. Drawn from the Hyeon Tae-Joon Collection, this ...More
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| Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag |
RENO, NV.- The Nevada Museum of Art will examine the design of the American flag in the exhibition Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag. From Civil War-era flags and Native American moccasins to political campaign buttons and heirloom quilts, Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag assembles thousands of American flag-related ...More
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| Queensland Art Gallery Celebrates Artist Eugene Carchesio |
BRISBANE.-The first major survey of work by leading Queensland contemporary artist Eugene Carchesio opens today at the Queensland Art Gallery. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said the exhibition 'Someone's Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio' would feature more than 300 works from the early 1980s to 2008 by the Brisbane-based artist....More
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| Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky Opens |
SANTA BARBARA.- Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky is organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and features 45 photographs by Roman Vishniac, made in Poland's Jewish communities in the mid-1930s, and an equal number of images by Jeffery Gusky, taken six decades later in many of the same areas. Roman Vishniac, a Russian-born Jew, photographed some of the Jewish...More
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| Nevada Museum of Art Presents Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag |
RENO, NV.- The Nevada Museum of Art presents Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, on view through February 22, 2009. Arguably one of the most recognizable icons in the world today, the American flag has enjoyed a long history of graphic renderings and artistic re-interpretations. Although the Continental Congress agreed in 1777 that the United States flag ...More
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| Joslyn Art Museum Showcases Paintings and Drawings By Famed Mexican Artist Diego Rivera |
OMAHA, NE.- Considered the greatest and most influential Mexican artist of the 20th century, Diego Rivera (1886–1957) was a central force in the development of a national art in Mexico throughout his life and had a profound effect on the international art world. Among his many contributions, Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture ...More
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| Egypt - Back to the Source at the Glyptotek in Copenhagen |
COPENHAGEN.- The Glyptotek presents Egypt - Back to the Source, on view through February 8, 2009. The Glyptotek’s magnificent treasures from Ancient Egypt owe their presence in Copenhagen to brewing magnate and museum founder Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914). He wanted to go back to Ancient Egypt as ‘the source of art’ – the place whence the Greeks and the Romans drew ...More
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