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| Paris Will Open Picasso and The Masters 72 Straight Hours - More Than 450,000 Visitors |
Francisco de Goya, Maja desnuda. 1797-1800. Oil on canvas, 97 x 190 cm Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
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PARIS.- The Picasso and The Masters exhibition will open 72 straight hours due to its closing. From January 30 to February 2, the exhibition will not close at all. Since the exhibition opened on October 6, there have been more than 450,000 visitors to the exhibition taking place at the Grand Palais. It is impossible to make reservations to the normal exhibition hours and one can go without a reservation but will have to wait in queue between one and two hours. Pablo Picasso was trained in the strict rules of academic painting at a very early age, first by his father, José Ruiz-Blasco, a teacher at the fine art school in Málaga and director of the Malaga Museum, and then as a student (1893-1899) at the fine arts school of La Corùna, at La Lonja (Barcelona), and then at the San Fernando Academy (Madrid). Drawings from the antique, statuary and architectonics, copies of paintings by the great Spanish ...More
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| MASS MoCA Presents an Ambitious New Installation by Simon Starling |
NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Continuing his investigation into manufacturing processes and labor, Simon Starling will create a major new work for MASS MoCA‘s Building 5 as part of an exhibition entitled The Nanjing Particles. The installation will address a particularly poignant socioeconomic moment in North Adams' history - the period during which the town was, surprisingly, home to the largest population of Chinese ...More
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| The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Robert Rauschenberg and His Contemporaries |
HUNTINGTON, NY.- Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) is a renowned American institution located in Bay Shore, Long Island. Beginning on January 10, 2009, The Heckscher Museum of Art will celebrate this important Long Island establishment...More
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| Last Days to See German Artist Peter Zimmermann at Columbus Museum of Art |
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Peter Zimmermann exhibition at theColumbus Museum of Art is just about to close on January 4, 2009. Comprised of four works, the exhibition features a monumental floor piece created for CMA that transforms an entire gallery space into an immersive painting. Zimmermann uses...More
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| Print on Paper Cheltenham Printmakers Guild - Juried Exhibition |
LEHIGH VALLEY, PA.-"Print on Paper," a juried exhibition of richly textural abstract works by 19 Cheltenham Printmakers Guild members, Ambre' Studio, will take place Wednesday, January 21 through Friday, March 13. Opening reception Friday, January 23, 6 to 9 p.m., with pianist Dan DeChellis and Mitch Shelly on bass. Co-sponsor Sagra Cooking www.sagracooking.com is providing refreshments. (Snow date: Friday, January 30.)...More
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| New Exhibition Links the Images of Thomas Nason with the Verse of Robert Frost |
OLD LYME, CT.- The Road Less Traveled: Thomas Nason’s Rural New England, on view at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut from January 17 through April 12, examines the visual poetry of printmaker Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). The exhibition draws parallels between the carefully carved, deliberate lines of Nason’s wood engravings and the thoughtfully chosen,...More
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| Alan Reid Solo Exhibition - Heiresses on Terraces - On View in New York |
NEW YORK.-Lisa Cooley presents Alan Reid’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Heiresses on Terraces. The exhibition is on view through Sunday, December 28, 2008. Reid’s new paintings, delicately rendered in colored pencil, depict a seemingly affluent and predominately female cast. His elegant, attenuated figures revel in the moment, dignified despite preposterous circumstances – leopard-bitten, ...More
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| Giant Copper Sardine and Maple Leaf Help Eastport Celebrate New Years Eve |
EASTPORT, MAINE.- New Year's Eve is happening in Eastport, Maine! The city and surrounding area will celebrate the New Year with the 4th Annual Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop from the Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) building located at the heart of the downtown's new public space, Bank Square. "We have an 8-foot scale model of the Atlantic Herring that will be lowered from the third story window," said Hugh French, Tides Institute director, "This doesn't ...More
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| Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome On View at The Asian Civilisations Museum |
SINGAPORE.- The The Asian Civilisations Museum presents Neither East Nor West: Asians in Monochrome, on view through February 1, 2009. In the late 19th to early 20th century, having a portrait taken in London was a tremendously fashionable luxury. Socialites, nobles and dignitaries – in short, anyone who was anyone - had their picture taken at the Lafayette Studio in London’s New Bond Street. This exhibition ...More
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| Art Miami's 19th Contemporary Art Fair Ends With Positive Results |
MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami, Miami’s longest running, contemporary art fair, unveiled its 19th edition December 3-7 to an exuberant audience of collectors, VIPS, and art enthusiasts. Art Miami’s convenient location in the Midtown Miami Art District, close to six other art fairs, helped attract 32,000 visitors over the six-day period. Nearly one hundred, international galleries participated in Art Miami, enabling attendees ...More
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| San Jose ICA Secures Over $150,000 In Multi-Year Program Funding |
SAN JOSE, CA.- In just one month, and during a bleak economic climate, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) fortified its exhibition and educational program offerings through generous grant donations by two nationally recognized philanthropic organizations. The James Irvine Foundation has awarded the ICA a three-year grant totaling $75,000, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has given the gallery a two-year $60,000 grant. In addition, the ICA received a generous $20,000 grant from the local Myra Reinhard Family Foundation to support an upcoming solo artist's exhibition opening in February....More
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| Philipp Otto Runge Foundation Awards First Annual Grant |
HAMBURG.- The Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, in association with the Hamburger Kunsthalle, has awarded its first annual grant to a young artist. The grant is awarded to an artist whose work deals directly with Romanticism or seeks to draw upon it in a broader sense. Residence in Hamburg during the period of the grant is compulsory. The Swedish artist Bo Christian Larsson is the first recipient to be selected by the jury (Sebastian Giesen, ...More
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| The Kresge Foundation and the College for Creative Studies Announce the Inaugural Kresge Eminent Artist Award of $50,000 |
DETROIT, MI.- The Kresge Foundation announces Kresge Arts in Detroit, a new initiative administered by Detroit’s College for Creative Studies, which annually funds one Kresge Eminent Artist award of $50,000 and 18 Kresge Artist Fellowships of $25,000 each for metropolitan Detroit artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Kresge Arts in Detroit is one facet of the foundation’s Detroit Program, a...More
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| GEISAI Miami 2008 an Overwhelming Success - Nikki Katsikas Wins Inaugural GEISAI Miami Award |
MIAMI, FL.- The 26 artists who showed at GEISAI Miami 2008 have unanimously described it as an exceptionally positive experience, one that gave them invaluable exposure and experience in the art market. All made new contacts with dealers, curators, critics, and their fellow artists, proving GEISAI Miami's role as a platform for putting under-recognized and unrepresented artists in the art world spotlight....More
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