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| Royal Collection to Open Henry VIII: A 500th Anniversary Exhibition at Windsor Castle |
Anonymous, After Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII, c.1580. Photo: The Royal Collection (c) 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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LONDON.- A special exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne will be shown at Windsor Castle, the monarch’s one-time home and final resting place. Henry VIII was proclaimed king on 23 April 1509, just before his 18th birthday, and reigned for almost 38 years, until his death in 1547. The exhibition explores the life of one of the most significant ...More
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| Imperial War Museum in London Shows From War to Windrush |
LONDON.- To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, From War to Windrush, a special exhibition at Imperial War Museum London, tells the personal stories of West Indian people during the First and Second World Wars. ...More
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| First Major Exhibition in France for Sophie Ristelhueber at Jeu de Paume |
PARIS.- Sophie Ristelhueber (born 1949) lives in Paris, where she studied literature and worked as a journalist before deciding to devote herself to photography.
For more than twenty years now, she has been working on the notion of the ...More
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| Best New Contemporary Art to be Shown at Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 |
LONDON.- Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial, which will present some of the best new contemporary art in Britain, opens at Tate Britain on 3 February 2009. It includes works in all media - from photography, film and video, to extraordinary installations - and features many new works being shown for the ...More
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| Tyler Museum of Art Opens the New Year with Lucid Dreams |
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art opens 2009 with a new exhibition, Lucid Dreams: Poems & Intaglios by Michael Kuch.
The exhibition, organized by the TMA, opens to the public Sunday, Jan. 4 and ...More
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| Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video to Open at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park |
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park announced the first major museum presentation of the collaborative work of choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom. Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Carlson/Strom employ tactics of ...More
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| Cunningham, Weston and Adams: Modern Photography at the Monterey Museum of Art |
MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) presents Cunningham, Weston and Adams: Modern Photography at the Museum, an exhibition featuring the works of early to mid-twentieth century photographers whose works explored natural and artificial forms. Selected from the Museum’s rich photography ...More
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| Manchester Art Gallery to Show Paul Morrison's Works of Art in February |
MANCHESTER.- Using plant images from popular and classical sources, British artist Paul Morrison plays with scale to create dramatic black and white landscapes. This exhibition of his work includes new canvases, sculpture and a major site-specific wall painting....More
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| National Portrait Gallery to Open Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture |
WASHINGTON, DC.- This groundbreaking exhibition casts new light upon Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most influential artists of the recent past. This show demonstrates that Duchamp harnessed the power of portraiture and self-portraiture both to secure his reputation as an iconoclast and to establish himself as a major figure in the artworld. In the process, he played a key role in ...More
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| Sotheby's to Sell the Property of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III |
NEW YORK, NY.- On the morning of January 24, 2009, Sotheby’s will offer a single-owner sale of The Property of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III as a highlight of its Americana Week sales. The sale will comprise furniture, paintings and decorative arts collected by Dr. and Mrs. Landon over several decades, beginning...More
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| Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan to Open at the Morris Museum |
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum will present works by major American artist and New Jersey native Grace Hartigan in the exhibition Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan. Hartigan (born in Newark in 1922) died at her home in Maryland on November 15, 2008. The Morris Museum's ...More
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| International and National Projects on View at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center |
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents the work of three artists and a collective as part of the Fall 2008 cycle of the International and National Projects program. Featuring new and recent works by a diverse group of artists, these solo exhibitions showcase a range of media including film, ...More
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| Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms Presents Exhibition Celebrating Role of the Post Office in the First World War |
LONDON.- An exhibition 'Last Post: Remembering the First World War' celebrating the vital role the Post Office played during the First World War 1914-1918 delivering letters to and from the front line trenches opened at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms....More
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| Javier Ramirez Limon Opens January 18, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego |
SAN DIEGO, CA.- On January 18, 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will open Cerca Series: Javier Ramírez Limón at its La Jolla location. The exhibition--curated by MCASD Assistant Curator, Lucía Sanromán--will feature photographic works by the Tijuana-based artist Javier Ramírez Limón, and will be...More
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| Reba and Dave Williams' Collection of American Prints is Acquired by National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired the renowned collection of American prints belonging to Reba and Dave Williams and The Print Research Foundation in Stamford, Connecticut, which was established by the couple in 2003. With more than 5,200 works spanning a century from roughly 1875 to 1975 and...More
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| Meadows Museum Announces Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917 |
DALLAS, TX.- This focused exhibition and study will explore Rivera's artistic production during the formative years he spent in literary and art circles in Paris during World War I, providing a new perspective on this lesser known and crucial period of the Mexican artist's career....More
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| American Folk Art Museum Announces Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern |
NEW YORK, NY.- Every artist must find a voice that feels true and strong. Paula Nadelstern (b. 1951) found hers early in her career as a quilt artist, inspired by a bolt of sensuous and beautiful Liberty of London fabric. The bilateral symmetry of the design was an epiphany that stirred Nadelstern's imagination and that has yielded a seemingly infinite vein of creative expression for more than ...More
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| "Chuck Close: the Keith Series" On View at Reynolda House Museum of American Art |
WINSTON SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens a new exhibition, "Chuck Close: The Keith Series," on Saturday, January 17 in the Northwest Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. The exhibition will be on view through May 31, 2009....More
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| No Such Thing as Society Photography in Britain 1967-1987 on View in Poland |
WARSAW.- Intended to be a documentary of British photography from the late 60s to the late 80s, the No Such Thing as Society exhibition draws on the British Council and the Arts Council collections to construct a new image of two stormy decades of British history. In this period, British society experienced turmoil and change due to deindustrialization and Thatcherism, facing strikes by ...More
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| Ocean Liner and Cruise Ship Materials Donated to the Wolfsonian |
MIAMI BEACH, FL.- The Wolfsonian–Florida International University announces a substantial donation of ocean liner and cruise ship industry related materials by Laurence Miller, Ph.D., former executive director of libraries at Florida International University. ...More
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