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| Dali Collection Including More than 400 Objects Finds Home in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin |
The new museum opens its doors on February 5, twenty years after the artist died. The museum includes more than 400 works of art in 1,400 square meters. Photo: EFE/STEPHANIE PILLICK.
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BERLIN.- The classic melting clocks created by Surrealist genius Salvador Dali will finally have a permanent home in the German capital, in a new museum that allows the visitor to peek into the Catalonian’s universe in centric Potsdamer Platz in Berlín. ...More
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| MACBA Presents the First Retrospective Devoted to Thomas Bayrle's Subversions of Pop Art |
BARCELONA.- Not only Mao before the masses, but also dozens of housewives armed with brooms, scores of Gillette razors and hundreds of Mon Chéri chocolates. In a play on perceptions in which nothing (or everything) is what it seems, in the midst of a profusion of food tins, cleaning products, cars, reinforced concrete buildings andmotorways that populate the works of Thomas ...More
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| Claude Monet's Dans la Prairie Sells for $16,164,918 at Christie's Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art |
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for ...More
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| Exhibition is First to Explore the Significance of the Popularization of Charles Darwin's Ideas |
FRANKFURT.- On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work “On the Origin of Species” (1859), the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will present the exhibition “Darwin. Art and the Search for Origins”. Darwin’s epochal book and the ...More
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| The Paintings of the Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz at Alte Pinakothek |
MUNICH.- The collection of paintings amassed by Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658–1716) at the beginning of the 18th century in his residence in Düsseldorf was one of the most important of its kind in Europe. In less
than 40 years, one of the first major collections of Netherlandish Baroque painting outside Holland and Flanders was assembled....More
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| Explore the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance at Oklahoma City Museum of Art |
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- Explore the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance with a one-of-a-kind exhibition held only at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, February 5 through April 19, 2009. Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Harlem Renaissance will include more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as ...More
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| LACMA to Present West Coast Premiere of First Comprehensive Franz West Survey in U.S. |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents the west coast premiere of Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey in the
United States of the internationally acclaimed Austrian artist Franz West and ...More
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| Sense and Sentiment: Mistakes are Closely followed by Effects at Belvedere |
VIENNA.- Inexplicable, passive, and diffuse perception is considered to be one of the last bastions against the growing pressure to be creative and efficient. A revolutionary potential is assigned neither to rational discourse nor to political criticism, but to a kind of aesthetic perception that can only be insufficiently grasped and articulated: one believes to be able to detect traces of ...More
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| National Gallery of Canada Acquires Thought-provoking Geoffrey Farmer Art Installation |
OTTAWA.- Today the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the National Gallery of Canada Foundation announced the acquisition of Theatre of Cruelty, an immersive art installation by internationally-renowned Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer. This significant work has been acquired through the generous support of ...More
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| Degas, Kirchner, Miró and Picasso Lead Sotheby's February Series of Impressionist & Modern Art Sales |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s February series of Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London concluded this afternoon having realised a combined total of £43,857,125, against pre-sale expectations for the series of £48,857,000-67,116,000. The Evening Sale brought £32.6 million while the strong performance...More
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| Three Hundred Years of Japanese Prints on View at the Allen Memorial Art Museum |
OBERLIN, OH.- The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) presents Envisioning Edo’s Splendor: “The Floating World” and Beyond, on view February 3 through July 19, 2009, in the Ripin Print Gallery....More
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| High Names Stephanie Heydt New Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art |
ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, recently announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Heydt as the new Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art. Heydt, the former Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Florida, ...More
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| A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change |
LAWRENCE, KS.- What's it like for an artist who has revealed ecological issues in her photographs of the American landscape to turn her attention to one of Greenland's Glaciers? What can her work bring to that of University of Kansas scientists who are studying the same glacier?...More
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| International Slavery Museum Opens My Life, My Words |
LIVERPOOL.- A small exhibition explores the lives and experiences of people from Liverpool's Black communities and their relationships with the ever-changing city.
My Life, My Words 2 February – July 2009 features the lives and experiences of ...More
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| Photographer Explores Sacred Spaces, International Subjects |
TUCSON, AZ.- Opening on March 27, 2009, Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor captures the exceptional images of a world traveler. Three events, including a presentation by the artist on March 27, accompany the exhibition, which runs through June 21, 2009....More
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| Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Natalie Jeremikenko, Andrew Ross and Others Participate in Artist-driven Research Program |
PHOENIX, AZ.- Arizona State University (ASU) has announced the spring 2009 participants of Future Arts Research (F.A.R.) @ ASU. In this groundbreaking artist-driven research program, artists and scholars apply their creative methodologies to new research in a broad range of fields, working with ...More
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| Triflow Concepts Commissioned Zaha Hadid to Design the Tap of the Future |
LONDON.- Leading independent brassware manufacturer, Triflow Concepts, has commissioned pre-eminent architect, Zaha Hadid, to explore the capabilities of brassware technology in designing the tap of the future. Recognised for its world-first three-way tap, Triflow Concepts is one of the last remaining British tap ...More
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| Exhibition Explores the Origin, Evolution and Design of the Handbag |
ATLANTA, GA.- The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) will open its newest exhibition, "In the Bag," on February 5. The exhibition will run through May 2, 2009, and will explore the origin, evolution and design of the handbag....More
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| Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man to Speak at Wexner Center for the Arts |
COLUMBUS, OH.- John Perkins, author of New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, will present the lecture Transforming Turmoil into a New Economy on Thursday, February 5 at 7 pm in the Wexner Center's Mershon Auditorium, 1871 N. High St. at 15th Ave., on the campus of The Ohio State ...More
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| Sotheby's to Offer African & Oceanic Art from the Collection of The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation |
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 15, 2009, Sotheby’s New York will offer African and Oceanic Art from the Collection of American sculptor Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and his wife Renee, who were among the earliest collectors of African and Oceanic Art in the United States. Assembled in the 1940s and 1950s, the collection has remained intact and ...More
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