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| Art Institute of Chicago Announces Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth |
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Golgotha, 1900. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) Munch Museum, Oslo, MMM 36 (C) 2008 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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CHICAGO, IL.- Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch: that he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream suggests, and that he was influenced by the contemporary art of France and Germany to the exclusion of his native Norway. The Art Institute’s ...More
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| LACMA Features First U.S. Exhibition to Examine the Complexity of Art Developed During the Cold War |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures (on view January 25 to April 19, 2009), the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the range of art created during the Cold War. Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures continues LACMA’s ...More
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| Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pictorial World of the Pre-Raphaelites |
STOCKHOLM.- In the coming spring, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm will present an exhibition devoted to the pictorial world of the Pre-Raphaelites. This group of nineteenth-century English artists sought inspiration in mediaeval art. Their style is ...More
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| Arken Museum to Show Impressionists and Postimpressionists from The Israel Museum |
COPENHAGEN.- They caused an outrage when they appeared. Today they rank among the most reproduced, popular and priceless artists in the world. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Rodin, van Gogh, Cézanne, Braque… From the end of January 2009 they can all be seen at Arken Museum of Modern Art....More
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| Museum der Moderne Shows Karl Geiser: Photographs |
SALZBURG.- Karl Geiser (1898-1957), one of the most significant 20th-century Swiss sculptors, was also an obsessive photographer. The camera released him from the unfulfillable aspirations which almost crushed him in his sculpture work. He photographed when he wanted to capture the atmospheric, the fleeting experience, the play of light, the external or internal mood – on streets and...More
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| Columbia Museum of Art Shows Art Collection in a New Way |
COLUMBIA, SC.- Highlights from the Collection opens on Saturday, January 10 and runs through June 7. The exhibition includes approximately 80 works of art spanning 1000 years pulled from the Columbia Museum of Art’s galleries and storage. The exhibition encompasses the breadth of the ...More
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| Masterpieces from the Davies Collection to be Shown at Oklahoma City Museum of Art |
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The National Museum Wales counts among its treasures the Davies Collection, an extraordinary group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings that is remarkable for its breadth and quality. Assembled between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, the collection is exceptionally strong in Realist and Impressionist works and ...More
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| Famous Los Angeles Sculptor Robert Graham Died at Age 70 |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles sculptor, Robert Graham, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Graham, who had been ill for about six months, was 70....More
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| Humour, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht |
MAASTRICHT.- Exile on Main St. is the title of an exhibition of American art. Ever since the sixties, American art has had connotations of sensationalism and commercialism. Pop Art, in particular, appears to fit this image and has lent a great deal of weight to the term 'mainstream'. Yet an opposing force of artists emerged who presented themselves as artists' artists rather than mediagenic ...More
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| Goteborg Konsthall Presents History Acts: Exhibition About our Relationship to Past and Present |
GOTHENBURG.- History Acts is an exhibition about our relationship to past and present. Eleven internationally active artists are taking part. Their works range from the manufacture of news items and imaginary insurance companies to water-powered computers in 1950’s Guatemela and accounts related by citizens of Göteborg concerning their places of work....More
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| Norton Simon Museum to Show Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems |
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Matisse’s Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard’s Love Poems, an exhibition featuring a selection of lithographs from Henri Matisse’s exceptional but rarely considered livre d’artiste, titled Florilège des Amours de Ronsard or Anthology of Ronsard’s Love ...More
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| NOMA Opens New Gallery: Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters |
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A new chapter in the New Orleans Museum of Art’s tradition of exhibiting the finest jeweled objects from Imperial Russia commenced with the opening of a new permanent gallery on the second-floor mezzanine, Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters. The installation features scores of works never before seen by local audiences, including 33 miniature Easter Eggs by Fabergé, as well as six larger eggs created by the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory for Tsars Nicholas I, Alexander III and Nicholas II. In all, Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters features 58 works by Fabergé, including cigarette cases, photograph frames, hardstone animals, table ...More
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| After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest to Open at Des Moines Art Center |
DES MOINES, IA.- After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest is the first exhibition to address the artistic battles that were waged simultaneously in New York and the Midwest during the 1930s and the early 1940s. In the midst of the Great Depression, one of the most contentious and fractious artistic debates emerged, one that pitted progressive modernist figures such as ...More
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| Wrapped In Pride: Kente Cloth at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts |
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The cloth called kente, made by the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, is the best known of all African textiles. Kente's renown has spread internationally, so that it is now one of the most admired of all fabrics. This strip-woven cloth began in the former Gold Coast of West Africa as festive dress for special occasions -- traditionally worn by...More
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| Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967 at the Ukranian Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition that provides an overview of the most important periods in the life of famed Futurist David Burliuk opened at The Ukrainian Museum. Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967, includes examples of Burliuk's work during his early years in Ukraine and Russia (1907-1918), his travels through Siberia (1918-1920), his time in Japan (1920-1922), and his life in the United States, both in New York City (1922-1941) and on Long Island (1941-1967). ...More
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| Arkansas Arts Center Presents Factories: Warhol, Sex and Disasters / Photographs by Tim Hursley |
LITTLE ROCK, AR.- The Arkansas Arts Center presents the exhibition Factories: Warhol, Sex and Disasters / Photographs by Tim Hursley, on view through February 1, 2009, in the Alice Pratt Brown Atrium. Tim Hursley, an internationally known architectural photographer, documents Andy Warhol’s factory, brothels in Nevada, polygamist colonies and disaster in post-Katrina New Orleans. During his initial foray into Warhol’s world, Hursley became interested in how architectural and interior spaces are metaphors for those who inhabit them. This exhibition tells the story of each “factory,” beyond the structural bones of the rooms and buildings....More
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| I Heard a Voice: the Art of Lesley Dill to Open at Hunter Museum |
CHATTANOOGA, TN.- The Hunter Museum, in conjunction with George Adams Gallery in New York, has organized an exciting exhibition of artist Lesley Dill’s work that will focus on her most recent large-scale theatrical work. This is the first time in its 54-year history that the Hunter has organized and toured an exhibition of this scale. For the last twenty years Dill has been a sculptor, photographer, printmaker and performance artist,...More
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| Las Vegas Art Museum Presents L.A. Now Organized by David Pagel |
LAS VEGAS.- The “L.A. Now” exhibition features 20 emerging artists who live and work in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition is organized by critic and curator David Pagel. Artists included in the exhibition were selected from among those who presented outstanding artworks in Los Angeles commercial galleries during the 2007-2008 season. The artists work in a wide variety of styles and...More
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