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| Culture Minister Places Temporary Export Ban on Pope's Villa at Twickerham By JMW Turner |
J.M.W. Turner, Pope’s Villa at Twickenham. ©Sotheby’s London.
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LONDON.-Culture Minister, Barbara Follett, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by J M W Turner - Pope’s Villa at Twickenham. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom. The Minister’s ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The Committee recommended that the export decision be deferred on the grounds that the painting is so closely connected with our history and national life that its departure would be a misfortune. It was also deemed to be of outstanding significance for the study of the connections between painting and poetry, and of the history of the preservation of our national heritage....More
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| First Ever French Artist Edgar Degas Exhibition Opens in Australia |
CANBERRA.- Australia’s first ever exhibition of works by French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917) opens at the National Gallery of Australia on 12 December 2008. It will be shown only in Canberra. Degas: master of French art has been developed by the National Gallery of Australia, which has selected the works,...More
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| Collected Thoughts: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection Opens |
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art presents today Collected Thoughts: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection...More
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| Lehmbruck Estate Secured for Duisburg After 4 Years |
DUISBURG.-After almost four years of negotiations, the extensive estate of Wilhelm Lehmbruck has successfully been permanently secured for Duisburg. "Now the Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, which had hitherto acquired around 165 Lehmbruck works, especially his sculptures, has become the world's only and a unique collecting and research institute of this significant artist ...More
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| John Cale to Represent Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009 |
CARDIFF.- The Arts Council of Wales announced that John Cale will represent Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009 with a new, specially commissioned installation. The Venice Biennale, inaugurated in 1895, is the world’s pre-eminent showcase for contemporary art, and 2009 will be Wales’ fourth presentation at this prestigious event. Born in Garnant, South Wales, John Cale attended Goldsmiths College, London. In ...More
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| Friedrich Kuhn (1926-72) - The Painter as Outlaw Opens at Kunsthaus Zürich |
ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich presents ‘Friedrich Kuhn (1926-72) – The Painter as Outlaw’. From 12 December 2008 to 1 March 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich will stage a comprehensive show of Zurich painter Friedrich Kuhn (1926-1972), featuring over 100 of his works. Kuhn’s anarchic painting, which straddles the gap between the realist and abstract camps, offers abundant testimony to the mental state of Switzerland after ...More
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| Frankfurt Kunstverein Presents Experimenta FOLKLORE |
FRANKFURT.- The group exhibition “Experimenta FOLKLORE”, which is on show from the 12th December 2008 to the 1st March 2009 at the Frankfurt Kunstverein, concerns the phenomenon of folklore as a musical element within contemporary art production. The title of the project refers to the “Experimenta” series that was founded in Frankfurt...More
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| Ree Morton - The Deities Must Be Made to Laugh - Works 1971-1977 |
VIENNA.- The Generali Foundation presents Ree Morton - The Deities Must Be Made to Laugh - Works 1971–1977, on view through March 1, 2009. Ree Morton (1936–1977), an artist who is virtually unknown in Europe and has only recently been rediscovered by a growing American audience, was of the generation of Eva Hesse and Paul Thek. Not unlike them, she challenged...More
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| Genji:The World of the Shining Prince Opens at Art Gallery of New South Wales |
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Genji:The World of the Shining Prince, on view through February 15, 2009. Written in about 1008 by the court lady Murasaki Shikibu, the Tale of Genji is one of Japan’s greatest cultural achievements. The romantic tale recounts in 54 chapters spanning over three-quarters of a century and involving some 430 characters the fortunes and...More
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| Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder |
NASHVILLE, TN.- Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder, the first major traveling exhibition solely devoted to the work of this important contemporary realist, opens to the public on December 12, 2008, and remains on view through February 15, 2009 at the Tennessee State Museum. “This exhibition enables us to bring to our community and region the work of an...More
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| Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art at the Glassell School of Art |
HOUSTON, TX.-The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents today Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art at the Glassell School of Art, through February 13, 2009. Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art, curated by Core Program Critical Studies Resident Jennifer King, brings together a diverse body of artwork in different media to explore the notion of "translation" in contemporary art today. The exhibition features video, sound installation, painting, ...More
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| The Staatsgalerie Presents The Collection. New Rooms. New Presentation. Art After 1950 |
STUTTGART, GERMANY.- Until 1 June 2009, post-1950 art from the Staatsgalerie collection will be on view in the new rooms on the ground floor of the Alte Staatsgalerie. The presentation will consist in part of exhibits never before shown or long in storage: paintings, sculptures, objects, installations, photographic works and more will be grouped in large work complexes in altogether ten new ...More
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| Color & Light: Embroidery from India and Pakistan Opens at Rubin Museum of Art |
NEW YORK.- The Rubin Museum of Art presents an array of fine hand-stitched embroidery from India and Pakistan in Color & Light: Embroidery from India and Pakistan, opening Friday, December 12, 2008 and remaining on view through May 11, 2009. The 60 embroidered textiles on view in New York City are drawn from one of the world’s finest collections of South Asian textiles—that of the Textile Museum of ...More
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| Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt Awarded the Kandinski Prize |
MOSCOW.- The Kandinsky Prize was awarded to Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt for his series of nationalist paintings "Motherland-Daughter." The award comes with 40,000 euros. When Alexey Beliayev-Guintovt's name was announced many of his detractors yelled and called him an ultra-nationalist. Anatoly Osmolovsky, last year's Kandinski Prize winner, led the protest and ...More
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| Portland Art Museum Remembers Curator Terry Toedtemeier |
PORTLAND, OR.-The Portland Art Museum notes with great sadness the passing of Terry Toedtemeier, curator of photography and curator of the Museum's current exhibition, Wild Beauty. For more than 20 years, Toedtemeier shared his passion for the art of photography with visitors to the Portland Art Museum . As the Museum's first curator of photography, he assembled a collection of more than 5,000 images for ...More
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| Victoria & Albert Museum Presents Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the V&A |
LONDON.- The Victoria & Albert Museum presents Masterpieces of Ukiyo-e from the V&A, on view through March 15, 2009. The V&A's collection of ukiyo-e is one of the largest and finest in the world, with over 25,000 prints, paintings, drawings and books. It is not since 'The Floating World' exhibition of 1973 that a substantial number of ukiyo-e have been displayed at the Museum. The return of this exhibition, which ...More
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| LACMA Presents Masterworks from Arts and Crafts Movement |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA) opens its next exhibition, The Arts and Crafts Movement: Masterworks from the Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans Collection, selected from the promised gift of forty-five decorative arts objects from longtime donor Max Palevsky’s personal collection. Highlights from the exhibition, which will be on view December 12, include furniture, glass, ceramics, and metalwork by key designers and architects at the...More
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| The National Gallery of Canada Presents Lewis Wickes Hine - Social Photographer |
OTTAWA.-The National Gallery of Canada presents Lewis Wickes Hine – Social Photographer, on view through March 29, 2009. Lewis W. Hine was a photographer who used the camera to document the tumultuous period in American history that began in 1903 with the large waves of immigration to the United States via Ellis Island, continued through the years of World War I, and ended with the great forging of American...More
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| Anastasia Khoroshilova - Russkie at Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Anastasia Khoroshilova. «Russkie». Curated by: Georgy Nikich, Constance de Malleray. The exhibition will be on view through January 4, 2009. Georgy Nikich, art historian, curator of the project wrote: “Russians” (Russkie) are not a nationality, a country, a way of life, a religion, or a community. They are a vector of history and science that was studied by the artist both before and after ...More
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| Amon Carter Museum Publishes Charles M. Russell's Illustrated Letters |
FORT WORTH, TX.- A new book published by the Amon Carter Museum reveals a different side of famed cowboy artist Charles M. Russell — humorist and illustrator. Russell produced thousands of paintings and sculptures over his 33-year career, but beyond these works, he generated more than 400 pieces of correspondence, most of which he illustrated. The 100 Best Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell, ...More
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