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| Getty Museum Brings Together Masterpieces of Italian Baroque From Carracci to Crespi |
Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642), Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, about 1630. Oil on canvas. Framed: 154.9 X 199.4 X 7.6 cm. 93.PA.57. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES.- Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609) Carracci, together brought about a revolution in the study and practice of painting that forever changed the history of art. The repercussions on European painting-a measured classicism and the expression of genuine emotion that characterized Baroque art-...More
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| Alberto García-Alix: From Where There is No Return Opens at Museo Reina Sofia |
MADRID.- Alberto García-Alix (León, 1956) is one of the most prominent photographers on the Spanish arts scene of recent decades, an artist who has expressed his life through portraits of the lives of others. The thirty-year career of García-Alix, winner of the National Photography Prize in 1999, constitutes a record of a fascinating period in Spain’s recent history. The social and cultural changes ...More
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| Nestor Basterretxea: Basque Cosmogonic Series Donated to Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao |
BILBAO.- Basque sculptor Nestor Basterretxea (Bermeo, Biscay, 1924) recently donated one of the most celebrated series of Basque sculptures dating from the second half of the XX century to the Museum: the Basque Cosmogonic Series. The Series was first exhibited by the Museum in 1973. The current exhibition comprises 18 sculptures, 17 of which are made of oak and 1 of bronze, ...More
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| Budapest Hosts Ferdinand Hodler: A Symbolist Vision Exhibition |
BUDAPEST.- Budapest hosts an exhibition of the works of the Swiss symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler for the first time. The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts displays some 170 canvases and drawings that present an overall picture of the artist’s oeuvre who was active at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. An exhibition on Hodler equalling the scale of the one staged by the...More
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| Variations: The Architecture Photographs of Jenny Okun |
BROOKLYN, NY.- The first book on photographer Jenny Okun, Variations gathers 93 images that span more than twenty-five years of the artist’s work. Independently and through prestigious commissions, Okun has traveled the world to create dazzling, multilayered interpretations of buildings by Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Richard Rogers, and many other renowned architects. In the words ...More
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| Portrait Inspired by Dream of Quintuplets Birth Wins Top Photography Prize |
LONDON.- The 2008 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has been won by Lottie Davies, 37, for her portrait which was inspired by her friend Caroline's nightmare that she gave birth to quintuplets. Drawing on classical imagery of the Madonna and Child, Davies also took inspiration from several visits to the National Gallery, replicating the darkness and colours found in Caravaggio...More
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| Sotheby's To Sell Some of the Most Iconic and Best-Loved Original Illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced that on 17 December, 2008, it will offer for sale the finest single collection of E.H. Shepard’s original drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh books to come to auction. Featuring some of the most iconic and best-loved illustrations of Pooh, this important collection includes the original drawing ‘He went on tracking, and Piglet . . . ran after him’ (est. £40,000-60,000)....More
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| Alighiero Boetti: Order and Disorder Opened at Museum Ritter |
WALDENBUCH.- Museum Ritter presents Alighiero Boetti: Order and Disorder, an exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the postwar era. Boetti managed to grasp the complexity of the world we live in, to the point of overcoming the barriers of a cultural universe that today seems closed off by insurmountable obstacles - Afghanistan, where Boetti lived and ...More
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| Leading International Contemporary Art Fair for Photo-Based Art and Other Media Returns to Miami |
NEW YORK, NY. Photo MIAMI, the leading international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video and new media returns to the Wynwood Art District in Miami, Florida, home of the 3rd annual photo MIAMI contemporary art fair. photo MIAMI 2008 will showcase works by over 200 contemporary artists at the 40,000 sq. ft. marquee structure located at NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue, steps...More
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| Healing Art: Butcher, Frettolso Artwork on Display at Physicians Regional Medical Center |
NAPLES.- Stunning black-and-white photographs by renowned Everglades photographer Clyde Butcher and sculptures by Marco Island resident Robert Frettolso are on display through December 11 at Physicians Regional Medical Center-Pine Ridge as part of an ongoing series of exhibitions presented by the Naples Art Association. The artwork on display at the medical center helps ...More
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| Portland Art Museum Acquires Sculpture of Ganesha |
PORTLAND.- The Portland Art Museum announced the acquisition of an important work of Indian sculpture, a stone stele of Ganesha. As the remover of both spiritual and material obstacles to success, the elephant-headed Ganesha is beloved by adherents of many faiths across South and Southeastern Asia and in Diaspora communities. The stele was made in northeastern India (the region ...More
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| Portraits by Anderson & Low to Benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation |
LONDON.- A new display of over 30 previously unseen nude portraits of leading international sportsmen and women by acclaimed photographers Anderson & Low opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 30 October 2008. Several years in the making and shot over three continents, this project was conceived by the photographers to support the Elton John Aids Foundation in raising awareness of ...More
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| New One-Man Show, Written and Performed by Josh Kornbluth Commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Josh Kornbluth, the renowned playwright, performer and former host of KQED TV's "The Josh Kornbluth Show," will debut his new one-man show, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on January 10, 2009. An icon of Bay Area performance, Kornbluth based his show on the Contemporary Jewish Museum's exhibition Warhol's Jews: ...More
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| Pharmaka Announces Which Way Berlin - L.A. ? |
LOS ANGELES, CA- In line with Pharmaka's traditional commitment to engaging and educating the community of Los Angeles on matters within the contemporary art world, this exhibit ties in with a subject that has been first explored by the gallery in early 2007 with the historic experiment of "LA Ethos", which challenged Los Angeles not only as an art capital but also its status within ...More
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| Lora Urbanelli Named New Director of the Montclair Art Museum |
MONTCLAIR, NJ- The Board of Trustees of the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announced today that Lora Urbanelli has been appointed the Museum’s next Director beginning January 12, 2009. Urbanelli is currently Executive Director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. She becomes the ninth Director in the 95-year history of MAM, succeeding Patterson Sims, who is departing his post ...More
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| A Year of Performances and Exhibitions in New York City and D.C. Celebrates Hungary's Contemporary Arts |
NEW YORK, NY Throughout 2009, audiences in New York and D.C. will have an unprecedented opportunity to experience contemporary Hungarian culture through a broad spectrum of visual, literary and performing arts programming. This yearlong festival, Extremely Hungary, will trace the roots of contemporary Hungarian culture and celebrate the innovations and artistic creations that ...More
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| LACMA Opens its Doors to Experimental Group, Machine Project, for One-Day Only Event |
LOS ANGELES, CA. On November 15, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosts Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA. This event consists of ten hours of performances, readings, workshops, and games that investigate and experiment with the museum's encyclopedic collections, diverse exhibition spaces, and lush grounds. Through the playful interventions and thoughtful observations of ...More
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| University of Iowa to Proceed with Recovery of Art Building West |
IOWA CITY.- The University of Iowa announced today, Tuesday, Nov. 4, that it will move ahead with repairing and restoring Art Building West, one of two buildings that were home to UI's School of Art and Art History, and also with returning the south end of the former Museum of Art to pre-flood conditions as a temporary quarters for some of its displaced arts programs....More
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