 | | The Emperors' Artists: From Dürer to Titian, from Rubens to Velazquez Opens Today | 
Tiziano Vecellio called Titian (and workshop), Mars, Venus and Amor, Around 1530. Canvas, 97 x 109 cm. Frame measures: 110.8 x 128.5 x 7.8 cm. © Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna, Paintings Gallery.
| BADEN-BADEN/VIENNA.- For the first time since its inauguration in 2004, old masters move into the Museum Frieder Burda. Today, the light and spacious museum building, that has been designed by New York architect Richard Meier, will exhibit masterpieces of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna that have never been shown before in Germany. Under the title “The emperors’ artists: from Dürer to Titian, from Rubens to Velazquez”, the exhibition presents a wide cross-section of the royal collections amassed by the Habsburg dynasty, from emperor Maximilian I to Maria Theresa. In cooperation with the curators of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna, renowned art expert Götz Adriani conceived the exhibition specifically for the Museum Frieder Burda. From February 20, 2009 to June 14, 2009, approximately 70 paintings, seven large tapestries and 50 objects from the Habsburg treasury will be on display. Among t...More
| | Moscow Museum of Modern Art Present Ecstasy Techniques - Projects by SUPREMUS | MOSCOW.- The Moscow City Department of Culture, the Russian Academy of Arts, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art present Ecstasy Techniques - Projects by SUPREMUS (Alexander Shumov, Victor Ribas, Serge Golovach - Acrylic painting, video, photographs, fractals) at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, on view through March 15, 2009. Can the familiar feeling of pleasure derived from many products of contemporary civilization – stable, even, and wide-spread – compare to an all-consuming, demanding stamina and spiritual energy, and therefore rare and quite intimate ecstatic pleasure? Which state can transform our worldview...More
| | Tate Liverpool Presents Today Glenn Brown Exhibition | LIVERPOOL, UK.- Tate Liverpool presents today Glenn Brown, on view through May 10, 2009. Borrowing from art history and popular culture, Glenn Brown transforms a familiar visual history into something extraordinary and alien. Paintings by Rembrandt, Fragonard, Salvador Dalí, Frank Auerbach and many others, including the illustrators for science fiction novels, have all been used by the artist as starting blocks. Yet it is not original paintings that Brown turns to for inspiration but reproductions – images printed on postcards, in books or digitised on the internet....More
| | Human or Other by Katrin Plavcak Opens at The Vienna Secession | VIENNA.- Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession, presents today Human or Other by Katrin Plavčak, on view through April 13, 2009. The predominant subject of the exhibition Human or Other by Katrin Plavčak in the main room of the Secession is the conquest of new spaces and the concomitant conceptions and fantasies of the other. The specially developed works include, in addition to numerous painted pictures, a series of moving objects, an outdoor work, and the video No New Colonies in cooperation with Johanna Kirsch, a music clip for the two artists’ song of the same name....More
| | Hungarian Cultural Center Presents T.error - Your Fear is an External Object | NEW YORK.-The Hungarian Cultural Center presents today T.error – Your Fear is an External Object, on view through May 2, 2009. Through works by artist from diverse social contexts, the exhibition t.error focuses on the psychological effects of the violence and terror that comes to dominate more and more the media and our daily life. Testing the boundaries between the clichéd image of human violence as mediated by the camera, on the one hand, and its contemporary forms and mental impacts on the other, the exhibition explores the “gray zone” between the constructed and imaginary notions of terror, its mediated image and our real fears....More
| | Chris Beetles Gallery Announces A Unique Collaboration With Sotheby's | LONDON.- Chris Beetles Gallery announced an exhibition of Cecil Beaton prints in collaboration with Sotheby’s. From 22 April – 16 May 2009 photographs taken by this renowned photographer of many twentieth century icons will be on display including, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Gilbert and George, and members of the Royal family. The exhibition is the first time for many years that these prints will be on view and available to buy. By drawing extensively on Sotheby’s archive of Beaton material, the exhibition of around 70 prints will form the most comprehensive Beaton exhibition for many years....More
| | Forum 62: Maria Grazia Rosin at Carnegie Museum of Art | PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents an otherworldly installation by noted Italian glass artist Maria Grazia Rosin for Forum 62, Maria Grazia Rosin on view March 21–June 28, 2009. This immersive installation features 20 illuminated glass chandeliers suspended within an environment that includes sound and video components. The chandeliers, which evoke the forms of both marine and microscopic life, exist in an intra/extraterrestrial world that envelops and disorients...More
| | Alastair Mackie's 'Mimetes Anon' at the Economist Plaza | LONDON.- The contemporary art society and The Economist Group present ‘Mimetes Anon’ at the Economist Plaza. Who is watching who in Alastair Mackie’s first major outdoor sculpture commission? At first glance, the Economist Plaza appears empty – the usual centrally positioned sculpture absent. But scanning the perimeter a lone figure is seen to be lurking amongst the passing crowd. To our surprise - or perhaps more to his - a fully grown male chimpanzee is perched ominously upon the southern railing of the space. The chimpanzee is more closely related genetically to humans than to gorillas or other apes, and here we find our closest living...More
| | Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) Presents Clifford Ross Photography: Outside Realism | AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Clifford Ross Photography: Outside Realism. Ross’ epic photography exposes both the peaceful and chaotic qualities of nature through both realistic and abstract realms. Twenty-one black and white and color photographs range from notebook to billboard-sized views of mountains, waves and beyond. AMOA chose to present Ross’ first significant museum exhibition because his explorations of photography redefine American landscape art and resonate with the community’s interests in environment and technology....More
| | William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video 1961-2008 Opens | MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst presents William Eggleston: Democratic Camera – Photographs and Video 1961-2008, on view through May 17, 2009. "Best Photography Show" (Jerry Saltz, The Year in Superlatives, in: New York Magazine, December 2008). William Eggleston’s early photographs were black and white. In the 1960s he began to photograph in colour and – almost single-handedly – heralded in the era of fine art colour photography. A solo show at the MoMA in 1976 made him famous....More
| | Art Madrid Enjoys a Healthy Fourth Edition With 31,000 Visitors | MADRID.- The fair has drawn 31,000 visitors, 25 % more than last year and sales have equaled 2008 levels. Collectors have sought out works by young artists. Visitor count and institutional purchases have grown. More visitors from abroad and from other regions of Spain have been drawn to the fair. Galleries enjoy their client following, visits and sales. In its fourth year, the Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Art Madrid, has succeeded in surpassing it’s previous expectations and has reached a total sales figure of approximately 22 million euros, similar to that of last year. Moreover, the number of visitors grew by 25%, surpassing a 31,000 count during the five-day duration of the fair....More
| | Distinguished Private and Institutional Collections Lead Chinese Art Sales at Christie's New York | NEW YORK, NY.- On March 18 and 19, Christie's New York will host an impressive series of three sales offering about 550 lots of important ceramics, sculpture, jades, archaic bronzes and furniture. Due to their rarity, freshness and esteemed provenances, Christie's Chinese Art Sales are set to excite the market. The first day of sales ...More
| | Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915-1950 Opens at National Gallery of Australia | CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia presents Misty moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915–1950, the first exhibition of its kind ever assembled, and showcases the previously unexplored riches of the Australian Tonalist painting movement, which flourished during the twentieth-century interwar period. Remarkably, despite the fact that some of Australia's greatest twentieth-century artists, such as Max Meldrum, Clarice Beckett, Lloyd Rees, Roy de Maistre and Elioth Gruner, variously explored the gentle atmospheric effects of Tonalism, it became maligned over time and developed into one of the most misunderstood and most underestimated movements in Australian art....More
| | Kiki Smith - Her Memory Opens at Joan Miro Foundation | BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation presents Her memory, an exhibition by Kiki Smith organised in collaboration with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg, containing recent work by this American artist. It could actually be considered an "exhibition in progress", since it has been enlarged at each venue before reaching the Foundation, which is the end of its tour. Kiki Smith was born in Nuremberg in 1954, into an artistic family: her mother, Jane Lawrence Smith, was an opera singer, and her father was the architect and sculptor Tony Smith. The work of Kiki Smith is characterised by a constant reflection on human existence and on life and death. Her traumatic yet poetic representations of the human body brought her international recognition in the late ...More
| | Baeder on Film - Morris Museum To Screen New Documentary Film On John Baeder | AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art will screen, Baeder: Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way on Sunday March 8, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium. The new film documents the work, life, and personality of one of the most important photorealist painters working today, John Baeder. (To view clips from the film, visit http://www.youtube.com/user/FilmHouseInc)....More
| | Property from Noted Southern California Estates to be Offered in March | LOS ANGELES.- Bonhams & Butterfields announced the March 30, 2009 auction of Fine European furniture and decorative arts in Los Angeles. The 500-lot sale will offer an array of works for varied tastes and collecting levels and will showcase pieces from the Roman period through the 20th century. Highlighting the sale will be property from the Estate of Caroline Singleton, wife of Henry E. Singleton, the pioneering co-founder of Teledyne, Inc....More
| | UCSB Historians Receive Book Awards From College Art Association and American Historical Association | SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Anthony Barbieri-Low, an assistant professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, has received the prestigious Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association (CAA), and the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American Historical Association (AHA) for his book “Artisans in Imperial China” (University of Washington Press, 2007). In addition, Carol Lansing, a professor of history at UCSB, has received the AHA's Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History for her book, “Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes” (Cornell University Press, 2007)....More
| | Returning - Paintings by Howard Gross at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art | BROOKLYN, NY.- Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art presents Returning, paintings by Howard Gross, the artist's second solo show at the gallery. Join us on Friday, March 13th from 6 - 9 PM for a public reception at the gallery's Williamsburg location of 293 Grand Street between Roebling and Havemeyer. This event will be in conjunction with the Williamsburg Gallery Association 2nd Friday where local art spaces will be open late. The public is invited to attend this event and visit the gallery during regular hours: Wed - Sun 11 AM - 7 PM, and Mon. 9 AM - 5 PM. For more information contact the gallery at 718.218.8939. ...More
| | The Contemporary Arts Center Announces New Department | CINCINNATI, OH.- The Contemporary Arts Center today announced that Molly O'Toole has been appointed as Director, Communications and Community Engagement, a new department. Ms. O'Toole will be responsible for further connecting the CAC with its communities-at-large, and her position is part of a restructuring that incorporates Marketing and Public Relations under the umbrella of Communications, according to Raphaela Platow, Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator....More
| | The Bronx Museum of the Arts & Design Trust For Public Space Launch Competition | NEW YORK.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts in partnership with Design Trust for Public Space, has launched Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an international ideas competition. Open to all, the competition solicits bold visions from architects, planners, artists, designers, students, area residents, and others, that illustrate and describe how the Bronx and the Grand Concourse can evolve in coming decades to cope with pressing needs for housing, green space, and transportation. ...More
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