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| Neues Museum Restored By Architect David Chipperfield After World War II Bombings |
British architect David Chipperfield at the Neues Museum. EFE/Gero Breloer.
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BERLIN.-The Neues Museum was unveiled after a six year restoration headed by British architect David Chipperfield. The building had been damaged by bombs during World War II and was severely damaged. David Chipperfield gave city museum officials the key to the empty restored building. The museum is located in the Museum Island and is one of five museums in this area. The museum will open next October and will hold Berlin’s Egyptian collection, just as it did before the war. Once open, it will be the first time since 1939 that all five museums in the island are open to the public. Mayor Klaus Wowereit stated, "The Neues Museum has finally awoken from its coma…this is a great day for culture in the whole world." It took $250 million to undertake the restoration, which includes original material that survived wartime bombing (fluted stone columns...More
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| Hamburger Kunsthalle Presents Nicolai Abildgaard. The Artist Who Taught Friedrich and Runge |
HAMBURG.- Hamburger Kunsthalle presents today Nicolai Abildgaard. The Artist Who Taught Friedrich and Runge, on view through June 14, 2009. For the first time in Germany, the exhibition presents 100 works by the Danish neoclassical and Romantic artist Nicolai Abildgaard (1743–1809). Abildgaard...More
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| Nauman, U.S. Representative at Venice Biennale, Presented at Three Venues |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the official United States representation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, will explore thematically the work of one of the most influential living American artists. Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition will underscore ...More
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| The Museum of Modern Art Launches Redesigned Website on March 6 |
NEW YORK, NY.- Reinforcing its commitment to engaging the public and providing global access to the Museum and its collections, The Museum of Modern Art launches a completely redesigned website at www.moma.org on March 6, 2009. The new site integrates dynamic features that offer visitors a more personal online ...More
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| Art Gallery of South Australia Presents Today the Golden Journey |
ADELAIDE.- Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, The Golden Journey is a stunning display of nearly 300 diverse objects revealing the astonishingly...More
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| Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Acquires Three 19th Century Paintings |
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- When it was completed in 1852, the Poughkeepsie Eagle praised Matthew Vassar’s Springside estate, “Thou art indeed a realization of a painter’s dream….”...More
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| Highlights and Special Projects at the Armory Show in New York |
NEW YORK, NY.- 243 international galleries are present for the 11th edition of the newly expanded Armory Show, and their exhibits range from contemporary works exclusively made for the fair to museum-quality historical presentations. A new series of Special Projects also punctuate the public areas....More
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| Guy Maestri Announced Winner of the 2009 Archibald Prize |
SYDNEY.- Guy Maestri won the 2009 Archibald Prize with his portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. With his extraordinary voice and hauntingly beautiful album, Gurrumul, Indigenous singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has become something of a cultural phenomenon over the last year. Born blind...More
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| SFMOMA Appoints Marnie Burke de Guzman as Director of Marketing and Audience Strategy |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Marnie Burke de Guzman as the museum's new director of marketing and audience strategy.
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| Sotheby's to Sell What May be One of the Earliest Photographic Views of New York City |
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 30th Sotheby's will offer a fine selection of photographs ranging from one of the earliest images of New York City, to a modernist work by László Moholy-Nagy, to iconic images by photographic provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. Also included will be images by many of the 20th century's top photographers ...More
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| Michael Hoppen Gallery Presents Russian Criminal Tattoo- Bodies as Text Sergei Vasiliev |
LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery presents Russian Criminal Tattoo- Bodies as Text Sergei Vasiliev. Between 1948 to 2005, 3,000 drawings were compiled by prison warden and ethnographer Danzig Baldaev of the tattoos of the inmates. Supported by the KGB, who recognised the usefulness of such a document, these drawings were supplemented by photographs by Sergei Vasiliev, a fellow warden. In 2003, the publisher Fuel began repackaging the sketches and photographs into the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. The Michael Hoppen Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of Vasiliev’s photographs from this fascinating archive....More
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| Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum To Present Today "Fashioning Felt" |
NEW YORK.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present the exhibition “Fashioning Felt,” a comprehensive overview of the varied uses of felt in contemporary design, in the first-floor galleries from March 6 through Sept. 7, 2009. The exhibition will feature more than 70 felt works from a range of fields, including fashion, architecture, product design and home furnishings. Organized by Susan Brown, assistant curator in the Textiles Department, the exhibition will begin with historic examples of felts, showcase innovations in handmade felts, present the issue of sustainability through the re-use of waste wool and felt and explore the recent adoption of felt by a wide variety of architects and designers, from Gaetano Pesce to Tom Dixon....More
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| VOLTA NY Showcases 78 Solo Artist Presentations, Inspired by this Year's Curatorial Theme, "Age of Anxiety" |
NEW YORK, NY.- VOLTA, the Basel-based art fair for new and emerging art is back in New York for Armory Arts Week at its central location at 7W 34th street. A perfect complement to its sister fair, The Armory Show, VOLTA NY will showcase 78 solo artist presentations, inspired by this year's curatorial theme, "Age of ...More
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| Christie's Director to Move to Middle East to Further Strengthen Team in Region |
DUBAI.- Isabelle de La Bruyère, Director, Christie's Middle East, will be moving to Dubai to focus on client development in the region, from March 2009. From her new location, she will be closer to Middle Eastern clients as the business develops its presence in the region and will continue to travel widely to support ...More
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| Wilfrid Moser. Milestones - A Retrospective - Swiss Artist of the Postwar Avant-Garde |
BERN.- Kunstmuseum Bern presents today Wilfrid Moser. Milestones – A Retrospective - Swiss Artist of the Postwar Avant-Garde, on view through June 14, 2009. Wilfrid Moser (1914 – 1997) has exerted a strong influence on the development of European painting since the 1930s. His work is marked by a turbulent expressivity and the existential themes of his times. The exhibition presents an overview of Moser's multifaceted work including paintings, assemblages, sculptures and works on paper which bear witness to Moser being a uniquely unconventional artist of the postwar period. Directly after the Second World War, the artist, who was born and grew up in Zurich, settled in Paris, at that time the art metropolis of Europe. There he became one of the leading representatives of the postwar avant-garde....More
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| The Sheldon Museum of Art Presents Art by Women |
LINCOLN, NE.- The Sheldon Museum of Art presents Art by Women, on view through April 26, 2009. In celebration of Women's History Month, the Sheldon will host Art by Women from the Wachovia Securities Corporate art collection. The exhibition will include approximately 40 prints and photographs by European and American women artists of the 20th and 21st century. Early photographers include Berenice Abbott and Jane Reece. Abstract Expressionist prints by Lee Krasner and Louise Bourgeois will share space with contemporary prints by Kiki Smith, Jennifer Bartlett, Pat Steir, Judy Pfaff and others....More
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| Major Figure in Minimalist Art to Speak at Miami Art Museum |
MIAMI.- In conjunction with the opening of Miami Art Museum's exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, leading Minimalist artist Richard Tuttle will speak at the Museum on Sunday, March 15 at 3pm. Admission to the lecture is $5 for MAM Members and students with valid ID and $10 for non-members. Ticket holders receive free admission to the Museum. Tuttle is widely recognized for his small three-dimensional works that the artist characterizes as drawings which seek to "to account for the invisible." The Tuttle pieces in Recent Acquisitions, publicly on view in Miami for the first time, are from the recent gift of 50 works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection to Miami Art Museum. ...More
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| Mingei International Launches Discover Mingei! Treasure Hunt |
SAN DIEGO, CA.-Mingei International Museum will launch a new family program on Sunday, March 29 — DISCOVER MINGEI! Treasure Hunt. The new program, which will take place on Community Sunday, the last Sunday of each month, introduces the Museum and its offerings to a more diverse audience and makes the Museum experience more family-friendly. A special family-rate admission will be offered on Community Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. along with the exhibition-related treasure hunt and its clues that encourage participants to explore the Museum's exhibitions. Prizes will be given for completing the treasure hunt. DISCOVER MINGEI! Treasure Hunt maps in both Spanish and English can be downloaded from the Museum's website, www.mingei.org, and will also be available at the Museum....More
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| New DVD of Exclusive Maurice Sendak Interview Footage Released |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenbach Museum & Library has released a companion DVD to its celebrated exhibition There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak, which explores the work of Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are and 108 other books. The DVD, titled There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak: A Retrospective in Words and Pictures, features exclusive interview footage with Sendak at his Connecticut home and in his private studio and explores his extraordinary career through his own words. Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum & Library Services, and the help of filmmaker Michael O'Reilly, these interviews present an intimate and fascinating portrait of Sendak as an artist, while documenting his life and work, as well as his remarkable collections. The DVD is available for purchase at the ...More
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| MoMA Monday Nights - March 9 |
NEW YORK.- One Monday a month, MoMA stays open until 8:45 p.m. Drop in after hours on March 9 for an art hunt, exhibitions, films, entertainment, cash bar, and a bite to eat at Cafe 2—plus the first 600 ticket buyers after 5:30 p.m. will receive free admission on their next visit. On our Museum-wide art hunt (starts at 7:00 p.m.), rediscover the collection and compete for prizes including a private guided tour at MoMA, benefit party tickets, and exhibition catalogues. Be sure not to miss the special exhibition Martin Kippenberger:...More
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