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| American Painter Andrew Wyeth, 91, Dies in Chadds Ford, PA After Short Illness |
Andrew Wyeth, (1917-2009), Christina’s World, 1948, Tempera on gessoed panel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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CHADDS FORD, PA.- Andrew Wyeth, often referred to as America's most famous artist, died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford, surrounded by his family early this morning, after a brief illness. Wyeth, 91, was painting until recently, with some new works exhibited at the Brandywine River Museum in 2008. Wyeth ignored the preferences of the art establishment during the heydey of abstract expressionism but nonetheless won international acclaim with exhibitions throughout the world, received many awards, and inspired countless imitators. His work brought some of the highest prices for a living American artist. His painting, Christina's world (1948), is one of the best-known images oof the 20th century....More
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| Reynolda House Museum of American Art Presents Today "Chuck Close: the Keith Series" |
WINSTON SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens today a new exhibition, "Chuck Close: The Keith Series," in the Northwest Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. The exhibition will be on view through May 31, 2009. The series depicts Keith Hollingworth...More
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| The Kimbell Art Museum Names Eric McCauley Lee Its New Director |
FORT WORTH.- The Kimbell Art Museum has appointed Eric McCauley Lee—director of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati—as its next director. Dr. Lee will become only the fourth director in the Museum’s history and will succeed Timothy Potts, who left in 2007 for the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Dr. Lee will assume his post at the Kimbell in early spring 2009. ...More
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| Original Works by Caldecott-Award-Winning Illustrator/Author David Macaulay Opens |
TACOMA, WA.- Original work by David Macaulay, author of The Way Things Work and the new book The Way We Work, will be on view today at Tacoma Art Museum in David Macaulay: The Way He Works January 17 through June 14, 2009. As part of the exhibition, Macaulay will design...More
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| Cowboy Poetry Celebrated By Joint Exhibition at The Nevada Museum of Art & Western Folklife Center |
RENO, NV.- The Nevada Museum of Art opens to the public the feature exhibition Between Grass and Sky: Rhythms of Cowboy Poem today, Saturday, January, 17. The exhibition is one part of a jointly developed exhibition between the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno...More
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| Carter Center Auction: Rare Opportunity to Purchase Original Painting and Prints |
ATLANTA, GA.- A public auction held on Feb. 7, 2009 to support the work of the not-for-profit Carter Center will allow the highest bidder to select one of six choices of original paintings by President Carter. In addition, signed, monotype giclée prints of the six paintings...More
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| Seventh Annual Teen Visions Exhibition To Open at James W. Palmer '90 Gallery at Vassar College |
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- More than one hundred paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs by over 50 students of the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft will be featured in the seventh annual Teen Visions exhibition, on view from Saturday, January 17 through Friday, February 6 in the James W. Palmer ’90 Gallery at Vassar College. The juried show, free and open to the public, will ...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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| Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Opens Today Learning to Love You More |
GATESHEAD, UK.- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents the participatory exhibition Learning to Love You More. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with Middlesbrough artist Nicky Peacock, consists of public responses to assignments created by international artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Visitors to Baltic are invited to choose from a number of assignments, complete them, and later see their work displayed as part of the exhibition in Baltic’s ground floor entrance gallery The Street. Assignments include ‘act out ...More
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| Fair Fashion - Fashion Design with Worldly Fabrics - 17 January to 15 March 2009 Fashion |
ROTTERDAM.- Kunsthal Rotterdam presents the fifty most beautiful dresses that have been produced for a competition for the German organization called Welthungerhilfe. This charitable organisation asked young talented designers to design outfits from extraordinary fabrics from Africa, Latin America and Asia. The result is a surprising collection of innovative creations, originally tailored, with exciting details and unusual fabrics. With this competition Welthungerhilfe wants to open the eyes of the public...More
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| I Heard a Voice: the Art of Lesley Dill Opens Today at The 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...More
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| Kunsthalle Fridericianum Presents Today Rirkrit Tiravanija - Less Oil More Courage |
KASSEL.- Kunsthalle Fridericianum presents today Rirkrit Tiravanija - Less Oil More Courage, on view through June 21, 2009. “Some years ago I received an invitation card in the mail from a gallery in New York, (Matthew Marks); it was an invitation to an exhibition by a young artist by the name of Peter Cain. Peter was a painter known for his anamorphic splicing of cars; they were coolly painted with the brushes of oil paint thickly applied to canvas.” They were the marks of a realist (almost graphic) with the narrative of a surreal...More
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| Belgian Artist Stéfan Leclercq On View At Sils Maria Art Gallery |
MONS, BELGIUM.- Peep show project is a Sils Maria Art Gallery program. This program consists of the exhibition of artistic works (group or individual show) at particular houses’ windows. This program is not limited to a city in Belgium but to other ones and also abroad. Sils Maria Art Gallery gives the best visibility to its artists. The Sils Maria Art Gallery is specialised in Belgian and foreign ...More
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| Earth and Fire: Master Artisans of France Inaugurates A Biennial Exhibition Series |
NEW YORK.- Like a language, an ancient craft tradition can be lost and with it an expression of a particular way of being in the world. Understanding the value of its own rich and intricate heritage, since 1994 the French Ministry of Culture has acknowledged the most exceptional practitioners of quintessentially French craft traditions by conferring upon them the title of maître d’art. To date, 90 artisans have been so honored by the French government for technical brilliance, creative vision, and commitment to passing along their knowledge to future generations....More
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| Sold Out: Major Symposium at Frist Center Attracts Audience From Across United States, Jan. 23-24, 2009 |
NASHVILLE, TN..- A major symposium for the Paint Made Flesh exhibition, a revisionist study of post-World War II art, has sold out. More than 250 guests from across the country are expected to attend the symposium, that features keynote speaker Dr. John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, and artist Eric Fischl in addition to five noted professors and curators....More
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