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| Jakob Philipp Hackert. European Landscape Painters in the Age of Goethe in Hamburg |
Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807), Die Wasserfälle von Tivoli, 1785, Öl auf Leinwand, 122,5 x 171 cm. © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpkPhoto: Elke Walford.
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HAMBURG.- Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807) regarded landscapes as natural events, and his precisely observed depictions of geological and atmospheric phenomena marked a turning point in 18th-century landscape painting. For the first time, a comprehensive exhibition of Hackert’s work is being presented at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Foundation of Weimar Classics). Despite being famous during his own lifetime and held in high regard by Goethe, Hackert is one of the artists from the period around 1800 who was later largely forgotten, and it is only recently that his work has attracted renewed interest. Following his training in Berlin and stays in Sweden and France, he spent the greater part of his life working in Italy. Here he established his reputation as an internationally acclaimed artist and contributed greatly to shaping the image of Italy before 1800. Besi...More
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| National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Reveals the Brilliance of Bernini |
OTTAWA.- Today, November 28, 2008, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) unveils Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, the first ever comprehensive exhibition of portrait busts by one of the greatest sculptors of all time, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. On view until March 8, 2009, 50 works of the utmost rarity will be displayed, many of which have never appeared outside Italy. ...More
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| Picasso Presents Living Things: Picasso Figure - Still Life |
BARCELONA.- Museu Picasso presents Living Things: Picasso Figure - Still Life, on view through March 1, 2009. One of the primary objectives of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona is to constitute a centre of reference for research and the generation of knowledge about Picasso and his work. The Museum has brought together under the auspices of its Rethinking Picasso programme a number of ...More
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| Jake and Dinos Chapman - Memento Moronika at Kestnergesellschaft |
HANOVER.-With Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Kestnergesellschaft brings two of the most important British artists working today to Hanover along with a group of works never before shown. Emerging under the label of Young British Artists in the 1990’s, the brothers’ art is scandalous and provocative. Behind the shocking appearance on the surface, however, there is an intense engagement ...More
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| Sotheby's 2008 November Series of Russian Art Sales Total $37.9 Million |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s 2008 November series of Russian Art sales totaled £25.2, $37.9 Million. This is the third highest total for a series of Russian Art sales at Sotheby’s. This brings the total for Russian Art sold at Sotheby’s in 2008 to£136.3 ($242.1) million. Nine new artist records achieved (seven in the Evening Sale and two in the Day Sale). Five lots sold for over £1 million. Eight works sell ...More
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| Santa Claus Finds a Permanent New Home in Rotterdam |
ROTTERDAM.- After many years at the centre of thorny debate, Santa Claus, the renowned sculpture by Paul McCarthy, is being relocated to a definitive new home on the Eendrachtsplein, having spent three years in asylum in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's courtyard and a brief stop-over on the pavement alongside the museum entrance. Santa Claus will be transported to his permanent ...More
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| The Hermitage Amsterdam Presents Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) |
AMSTERDAM.- The Hermitage Amsterdam is to end its stay on Nieuwe Herengracht with a remarkable finale. For the first time ever all the works by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) from the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg will be loaned for a special exhibition about this renowned German artist curated by guest curator Prof. Henk van Os. Friedrich’s paintings ...More
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| Cut & Paste: European Photomontage 1920-1945 at The Estorick Collection |
LONDON.-Over the last decade, photomontage has enjoyed something of a revival as contemporary artists experiment with new technology. Advances in digital photography and computer-generated special effects have resulted in new kinds of composite photographic works, the majority of which have been disseminated via the Internet and popular magazines. Important, at times ...More
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| Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius Opens at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum |
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents today Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius, on view through June 7, 2009. Radius, the successful professional artist development program presented by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, has been instrumental in jump-starting the careers of many area artists. Now, the partners are pleased to ...More
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| Video Performance: Models of Self-Reflection at Ausstellungshalle zeitgenossische Kunst Münster |
MUENSTER.- Ausstellungshalle zeitgenőssische Kunst Münster presents Video Performance: Models of Self-Reflection, on view through January 11, 2009. Video performance – that's more than just the filmed document of a performative activity. Surreal laboratories or plain studios, test arrangements or complex and poetic stories – in recent years, performances have been designed for the eye of ...More
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| Billy Childish - Hero of the British Art Resistance at The Aquarium |
LONDON.- In its final exhibition ever, The Aquarium L-13 stages an informal survey of Billy Childish’s most recent work, whist the rest of the gallery closes down around him. The cult artist, poet and song-writer Billy Childish, will present a collection of his latest paintings, books, records, pamphlets, poems, prints, letters, film, photographs …and in addition, a book of apology letters ...More
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| Utopia: Qiu Anxiong - What Do You Dream Of? The Best of All Possible Worlds! |
COPENHAGEN.- A 25 metres long, 42 tons heavy Chinese train carriage stops in Arken Museum of Modern Art's unique exhibition space The Art Axis, ready to take the museum's visitors on a journey unlike any other. A journey into China's past, presence and future. Into deliberations of the good life and the good society. Of the dreams we have today - for ourselves and for the world....More
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| LAB 8.3: Reconstitution - Nicholas and Sheila Pye Opens in Victoria |
VICTORIA, BC.- The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria presents LAB 8.3: Reconstitution - Nicholas and Sheila Pye, on view through January 18, 2009. Reconstitution is an installation project incorporating a blend of experimental and narrative techniques to shape a cinematic perspective that experiments with visual language commonly used in painting. The installation will be comprised of 3 parts, with all three ...More
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| Delacroix and Photography Opens at Musee National Eugene-Delacroix |
PARIS.- Musée National Eugène-Delacroix presents Delacroix and Photography, on view through March 2, 2009. Photographs of nude models who posed for Delacroix, and whose pictures were taken at the painter’s request by Eugène Durieu in 1854, form the core of the exhibition. These unique prints are shown with the drawings that Delacroix executed either at the same time or based on the photographs. The exhibition was curated by Christophe Leribault....More
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| Lidy Jacobs - Carved Out Gleaming Glamour at Parrotta Project Space Berlin |
BERLIN.- Parrotta Project Space Berlin presents Lidy Jacobs - Carved Out Gleaming Glamour, on view through January 31, 2009. The topics of Lidy Jacobs, born 1959 in Heerlen/Netherlands, circle around our society's obscene and childhood models of repression. In the process, she employs in her work of a combination of collage and silhouette, of photography as well as of sculptures. For ...More
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| Feel to See Opens at Museo Nacional de Colombia |
BOGOTA.- The Colombian Ministry of Culture through the Museo Nacional de Colombia and the Louvre present Feel to See, on view through February 22, 2009. This is the first exhibition part of the Pilot Plan of Accessibility that looks to create the necessary conditions to make a cultural space more accessible to all people, focusing on the handicapped....More
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