 |
| Porsche Shows Bold Architecture in New Museum Building to Open on Saturday in Stuttgart |
A man observes several cars at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany today. The futuristic building that will house the museum will be inaugurated on January 28 and will open to the public on January 31 after three years in the making. Photo: EFE/Bernd Weissbrod.
|
STUTTGART.- In the new Porsche Museum the final preparations are made for the opening on Saturday 31 January 2009. At last, now that the scaffolding has been removed, it is possible to see to the full extent the bold architecture of the building ...More
|
| The Power of Ornament Opens at Belvedere's Orangery in Vienna |
VIENNA.- In 1908, Adolf Loos wrote his famous essay „Ornament and Crime“, declaring embellishing ornament to be merely superfluous decoration. The ban proclaimed against this extremely harmonious formal language, this intersection between high art and folklore, prevailed for almost a century. Only since the turn of the millenium ornament has re-established itself: as decorative ...More
|
| Getty Museum Announces Nearly 500 Donations to Photographs and Paintings Collections |
NEW YORK, NY.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the generous gifts in 2008 of three outstanding 19th-century paintings and nearly 500 objects to the Department of Photographs. The more than 25 individual donors who enhanced the Getty's collection this year represent collectors from across the country, and include ...More
|
| The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002 Opens at the Morgan Library |
NEW YORK, NY.- Recently acquired drawings from the spectacular private holdings of collector Eugene V. Thaw are the subject of an extraordinary new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum, opening January 23 and running through May 3, 2009. The show features more than eighty works that have been ...More
|
| Valencian Institute of Modern Art Opens Julio Gonzalez Versus Pablo Picasso |
VALENCIA.- The relationship between Julio González and Pablo Picasso has been one of the most fertile circumstances in 20th century art. For the former it was a fundamental stimulus which permitted him to progress quickly along the experimental path he had begun to tread with his first works and brought him into contact with the cubist constructions that Picasso had made out of sheet metal, ...More
|
| Collision Course: Works by Peter Garfield, Michael Piergrossi and Max Yawney |
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- In Collision Course, Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) showcases the work of three intriguing emerging artists — Photographer Peter Garfield who is fascinated by impending disaster and its aftermath; Collagist Michael Piergrossi whose provocative compositions range ...More
|
| Master Drawings from Collection of Jean Bonna On View at Metropolitan Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna is the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the European Old Master and 19th-century drawings from this distinguished Swiss collection. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 21, 2009, Raphael to Renoir provides a ...More
|
| MCA Denver Presents City Light by Chinese Artist Yan Fudong |
DENVER, CO.- MCA Denver presents Yang Fudong’s video City Light in the Lu & Chris Law New Media Gallery. The exhibition runs through May 10, 2009. A public reception will be held on Friday, January 16 from 6-10pm. This exhibition is curated by Cydney Payton, who says of this piece, “While Yang is a master at ...More
|
| Museum of London Docklands Celebrates 100 Years of London's Port History |
LONDON.- Museum of London Docklands welcomes the Port of London Authority (PLA) to help celebrate a century of service to the tidal Thames. The exhibition Port of London Authority: A century of service (30 March – 19 April 2009) forms part of a year long celebration of the PLA centenary. With over 100 ...More
|
| New Choral Piece Performed at The Herbert to Mark Holocaust Memorial Day |
COVENTRY.- Singers of all ages will be performing a new piece to mark Holocaust Memorial Day at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday, January 24.
Coventry-based Talking Birds have created One Voice which will be sung in the ...More
|
| Recent Acquisitions Span Millennia in Exhibition of Asian Art |
STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces the fourth and final exhibition in the yearlong “Passion for Collecting” series, highlighting the museum's acquisitions from the past decade. The exhibition “From the Bronze Age of China to Japan's Floating World,” on view July 29-October 18, ...More
|
| Louise Bourgeois Retrospective Wins Prestigious Award |
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA) has awarded Louise Bourgeois Best Monographic Show in New York City for 2007–08.
The exhibition, which was on view at the ...More
|
| Dallas Museum of Art Attendance and Membership Soars to Historic Highs in 2008 |
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art reached historical highs in attendance and membership in 2008, thanks to the opening of a groundbreaking new education facility and ambitious schedule of major exhibitions and new programs. Museum attendance, which had increased by 100% over the past five years, ...More
|
| Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts to Open Johannesburg to New York |
BROOKLYN, NY.- Johannesburg to New York is the first retrospective of the collaborative work between South African artist Samson Mnisi and US artist Cannon Hersey. Combining their various perspectives on the changing cultural dynamics of South Africa and its emergence onto the world stage, these artists have created mixed media imagery that is socially conscious while also being ...More
|
| Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton Offers Snapshot of Contemporary Popular Culture |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- For some 20 years, Elizabeth Peyton (b. 1965) has been painting "pictures of people"—friends, personal heroes, and iconic figures from popular culture and history. Her radically contemporary and surprisingly intimate subject matter put her at the vanguard of an early 1990s "return" to figurative painting. A brilliant colorist with a razor-sharp graphic sense, Peyton...More
|
| Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates the Revolutionary Roots of Early Twentieth Century Canadian Painting |
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery will present three exceptional exhibitions celebrating the Canadian artists who embraced the influence of European Impressionism and led the revolution in Canadian painting that followed. On view from January 31 to April 19, 2009, Legacies of Impressionism in Canada: ...More
|
| Call for Entries: 13th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival |
TEMPE, AZ.- Founded in 1997, the annual outdoor ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival celebrates the artistic and creative endeavors of people with different visions and levels of experience....More
|
| Plains Art Museum Exhibition Celebrates Youth Art |
FARGO, ND.- In honor of Youth Art Month in March, Plains Art Museum presents School Spirit: Celebrating Youth Art Month, an exhibition which celebrates local young artists from the region. Student artwork from 37 area schools in Minnesota and North Dakota is presented in the exhibition. An artists' reception for the ...More
|
| Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture at Mills College Art Museum |
OAKLAND, CA.- Sixteen artists reconsider modern architecture and what it represents to a new generation in Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture.
Modern architecture is often identified with buildings by Le Corbusier, Philip ...More
|
| Gardner Museum's 2009 Landscape Visions Lecture Series Begins January 24th |
BOSTON, MA.- Can't shake that winter chill? There's no need to head for southern climes when you can escape to the Gardner Museum. Over the course of three Saturdays from January through March the Landscape Visions Lecture Series will transport you out of the snow and slush and into lush, ...More
|
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment