 | | From Van Dyck to Bellotto - Splendor at the Court of Savoy at Center For Fine Arts, Brussels | 
Andrea Mantegna et assistant, Madonne avec enfant, San Giovanino, SainteCatherine d'Alexandrie et autres saints © Galleria Sabauda.
| BRUSSELS.- The Center For Fine Arts, Brussels, will present From Van Dyck to Bellotto - Splendor at the Court of Savoy. In the light of the success of the Ensor to Bosch exhibition in 2005, the Centre for Fine Arts and the Vlaamse Kunstcollectie are getting together again in the spring of 2009, this time with a third partner: the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, home to the magnificent collection of the House of Savoy. This extraordinary project highlights the interest in the Flemish masters shown by the family that gave Italy its first king. See works by Jan "Velvet" Brueghel, Peter Paul Rubens, and Anthony Van Dyck, alongside those of Italian masters from the 15th to the 18th century. The latter include Bernardo Bellotto, heir to the photographic vision of his master, Canaletto, and painter of a splendid View of Turn from the Royal Park. Turin, in turn, will host a selection of outstanding works from the Bruges and Antwerp collections in 2010. A fine reward for the Vlaamse Kunstcoll...More
| | Moderna Museet Presents Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08 | STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet presents Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08, on view through May 3 2009. Born in Leipzig in 1955 and living in Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky has long been considered one of the world’s leading photographers. Works 80-08 presents his entire oeuvre. The artist has selected more than 140 works from nearly three decades, the earliest of which were taken from his immediate surroundings, followed by images from an ever expanding radius, and ending in a global perspective. From distant and elevated vantage ...More
| | Statens Museum for Kunst Presents Wilhelm Freddie. Stick the Fork in Your Eye! | COPENHAGEN.- Statens Museum for Kunst presents today Wilhelm Freddie. Stick the fork in your eye! Scandal-ridden provocateur, notorious self-promoter and visionary artist, Wilhelm Freddie is a unique figure in Danish art. He was an artist who was in stubborn opposition to the etiquette of the age and was inspired by the new trends of the international art scene. He became one of the major surrealists in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. The major exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst celebrates the centenary of his birth. The exhibition includes more than 150 works including reproductions of many now lost works, presenting all aspects of his oeuvre and giving a picture of an artist whose original ...More
| | Van Abbemuseum presents today Plug In #48 - Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait | EINDHOVEN.- Van Abbemuseum presents today Plug In #48 - Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait. The artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno highlight the popular subject of football in an entirely new way. World-famous football player Zinédine Zidane was followed by 17 synchronized cameras during a match. This video installation gives the spectator the sensation of 'moving alongside' Zidane throughout the entire game. For the artists it was in many ways Zidane’s personality that made the portrait necessary. The elegance of his game and his charisma made the decision for the two artists slash football fans an obvious one. ...More
| | Museum Presents Dynamic Urban Imagery of Japanese Photographer Daido Moriyama | PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Since the 1960s Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama (born 1938) has been making dynamic, often experimental images of modern urban life, establishing a reputation as one of the most important and exciting photographers of our time. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an exhibition of approximately 45 photographs by Moriyama, made in and around Tokyo in the 1980s, when the artist focused his mature aesthetic on the city with renewed ...More
| | Hammer Museum Appoints Douglas Fogle as Chief Curator and Anne Ellegood as Senior Curator | LOS ANGELES, CA.- Ann Philbin, Director of the Hammer Museum , has announced the appointment of two new curators, effective spring 2009, filling key vacancies in the Hammer’s curatorial team. Douglas Fogle has been appointed Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the
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| | The Vassar Haiti Project Presents the Eighth Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction | POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- This April, the Vassar campus will become an outpost of a Haitian village, with the eighth annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction. Presented by the Vassar Haiti Project, over 300 paintings, sculptures, handcrafts, and hand-painted silk scarves will be on view and for sale in the College Center’s multi-purpose room from Friday, April 3, through Sunday, April 5 (a preview will be on view at the Palmer Gallery, March 30 – April 2). Some of the artists whose work will be on view and for sale, include Fritzner Alphonce, Raymond Lafaille, Pierre Maxo, Mario Montilus, Gary Rochebrun, and Jean Adrien Seide....More
| | Photographers Michael Kenna, Doug Keyes, Isaac Layman, and Susan Seubert Discuss Their Work | TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum presents a half-day program featuring four Biennial artists who work in the medium of photography, but each in very different and innovative ways. Michael Kenna, Doug Keyes, Isaac Layman, and Susan Seubert will give overviews of their work and then come together for a discussion moderated by Rebecca Cummins, Associate Professor, Photography, University of Washington School of Art. Submissions to the The 9th Northwest Biennial saw an unprecedented number of applications by photographers. These numbers reflect the tremendous growth in this medium over the past decade. Historically, artists were bound by the ...More
| | Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero at Carnegie Museum of Art | PITTSBURGH, PA.- The first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Fernando Romero and his Mexico City–based practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architecture), will be on view in the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, February 28–May 31, 2009. Organized by Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art curator of architecture, Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero presents innovative designs for two dozen projects together with large-scale photographs and analysis of Mexico City that help to situate the work in context....More
| | First New York Museum Exhibition of Miami-Based Artist Hernan Bas at the Brooklyn Museum | BROOKLYN, NY.- Thirty-eight works of art in various media from one of Miami’s most celebrated young artists, Hernan Bas, will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection draws from art collected over the past ten years by the Rubell family. This exhibition will be on view from February 27–May 24, 2009 at the Brooklyn Museum. Hernan Bas has a great fascination with historical painting, popular fiction, Goth culture, and nineteenth-century dandyism. Using these influences, his paintings often depict androgynous boys on the edge of adulthood in narratives drawn from Oscar Wilde, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period. Inspired by these authors, Bas creates his own romantic mythologies from a perspective that explores masculinity and gay culture....More
| | The Dynamic Interval of Art: Paintings and Sculptures by Ludvic | BAKERSFIELD, CA.- The colorfully explosive work of LUDVIC just opened for exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. LUDVIC, who was born in Egypt, received his art education in Europe, and established his initial reputation in Canada, before coming to the United States in the mid-eighties. Ludvic's painterly repertoire of marks and strokes is most varied. Yet, even his most impetuous-seeming gestures serve as structuring devices – most particularly the intermittent units of regular interwoven stripes, placed close together which function in a manner of crosshatching. He intermingles these structural elements with bursts of brilliant color that, in contrast to the explosive gestures of Abstract Expressionism, ...More
| | Berlinische Galerie Presents Erwin Blumenfeld: Dada Montages - I Was Nothing But a Berliner | BERLIN.- Berlinische Galerie presents Erwin Blumenfeld: Dada Montages - I Was Nothing But a Berliner, on view through June 1, 2009. During the 1940s and 1950s, Erwin Blumenfeld (born 1897 in Wilhelmstraße in Berlin, died and buried 1969 in Rome) was one of the most sought-after fashion photographers in the world. Far less known is the early work of this artist of Jewish origin raised in the late Wilhelminian German capital: the often bitingly humorous Dada collages produced between 1916 and 1933. His friendship with Paul Citroen and Walter Mehring, who found recognition as painter and poet respectively, the association with Berlin's bohemia surrounding Else Lasker-Schüler and Herwarth Walden's Galerie Der Sturm, and his worship of George Grosz collided with Blumenfeld's career in the garment trade. Blumenfeld sensed the urge to write, paint, and act on stage, but still he pursued the career of a businessman and, in 192...More
| | Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana Opens at Westbury Manor Museum | FAREHAM, HAMPSHIRE.- The Westbury Manor Museum opens today Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana. This British Museum exhibition features a wide variety of the gorgeous printed cloths worn in Ghana, many of them produced in Manchester. Cutting across ethnic and language differences, these textiles highlight the cultural, social and economic importance of wax and 'fancy' prints in modern Ghana. Printed cloths play an important role in daily life and ceremonies and are worn as clothes by men, women and children. They are used to communicate status or wealth. Cloths are also widely used as a powerful mass communication media, for commemorative, political, religious and social messages....More
| | Djanogly Art Gallery Presents The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock | NOTTINGHAM, UK.- Djanogly Art Gallery presents The American Scene - Prints from Hopper to Pollock, on view through April 19, 2009. The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock features spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of great social and political change from the early 1900s to 1960 and charts the emergence of a consciously American subject matter and artistic identity in the twentieth century. Featuring over eighty works by sixty artists, the exhibition includes prints by Edward Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. The prints have been carefully selected from the collection of the British Museum to show the various episodes in American printmaking as well as providing a visually stunning pictorial anthology. ...More
| | Call To Artists -Expressions of Interest | CALGARY.-The Trico Centre for Family Wellness, in cooperation with The City of Calgary Public Art Program, is seeking Expressions of Interest (i.e. Requests for Qualifications) from experienced artists to create a permanent work of art for the Trico Centre for Family Wellness. The successful artist will have expertise that includes practical, demonstrated experience in the field of public art, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and community stakeholders, and the ability to work within set budgets and construction schedules. The Trico Centre is commissioning a work of public art to be permanently installed in the facility. A budget of $75,500.00 Canadian dollars has been allocated for this unique piece of art....More
| | Brooklyn Museum Announces Two Curatorial Appointments | BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has announced two curatorial appointments: Catherine J. Morris has been named Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Sharon Matt Atkins, Ph. D., has been appointed Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Both will join the Museum staff in mid-March 2009. An independent curator for more than twelve years, Catherine J. Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture-among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and ...More
| | Becky Reilly - New Works/Classic Traditions | BETHLEHEM, PA.- "New Works/Classic Traditions," oil painter Becky Reilly fills Ambre' Studio, Weds, March 18 to Friday, May 15 with new works based on traditional, classic 17th century European master still life paintings. Composed of fruit, flowers and special objects, Reilly illuminates canvases to play on the emotion of the moment, and bring importance to everyday objects and genre. A resident of Bucks County, Reilly has been lauded by Victoria Donahoe, of The Philadelphia Inquirer who wrote: "Reilly looks to old masters in her oils, which have their own slow, unhurried grace. My only quibble: There is not hint that these ...More
| | Asheville Art Museum Announces Summer 2009 Internship Opportunities | ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum announces its Summer 2009 Internship opportunities and will be accepting applications through April 24, 2009. The Internship Program at the Asheville Art Museum offers participants "hands-on" training in the museum profession and a comprehensive overview of Museum operations. Interns participate in the day-to-day activities of Museum departments, in addition to working on specific projects. The Summer 2008 interns were a smart, dedicated group of students who made a great impact at the Museum. The interns were in various departments of the ...More
| | Almagul Menlibayeva - Kurban Opens at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art | NEW YORK.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present Kurban, Almagul Menlibayeva's second solo exhibition of video and photography at the gallery. The artist returns to the Steppes of her native Kazakhstan, where she conceives, stages and films mythological narratives, alluring her audience to partake in this visual journey. Her video Kurban (sacrifice/victim) unfolds like a modern day Iliad. Within the ruins of the abandoned collective farms — once constructed by the deported people of the former Soviet Union, displaced by the government and forced to work in the gulags of Kazakhstan — a seemingly ancient world emerges. Women ...More
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