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| Richard Rogers + Architects Shows From the House to the City at Caixaforum Barcelona |
The first retrospective exhibition in Spain dedicated to architect Richard Rogers, who appears here posing with the scale model of the Arenas bullring, can be viewed at Caixaforum in Barcelona until June. Photo: EFE/Toni Albir.
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BARCELONA.- One of the most influential British architects of our time, Richard Rogers has established himself and his practice at the forefront of today’s architectural culture through such high-profile projects as the Pompidou Centre, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the Millennium Dome, the National Assembly for Wales and Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. ...More
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| Masks: Metamorphoses of the Face from Rodin to Picasso on View at Mathildenhohe Institute |
DARMSTADT.- In collaboration with Musée d’Orsay, Paris and NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen through June 7, 2009 Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is showcasing the exhibition “Masks. Metamorphoses of the Face from Rodin to Picasso“. For the first time ever this comprehensive themed ...More
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| Empty Space as a Recurrent Artistic Theme Explored at Centre Pompidou |
PARIS.- With VOIDS, A RETROSPECTIVE, the first exhibition of its kind at an art museum, the Centre Pompidou offers an opportunity to explore a crucial chapter in the history of art. After Yves Klein’s exhibition at the Iris Clert gallery in 1958, the empty space became a recurrent artistic theme. This chronological ...More
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| Sotheby's Hong Kong to Stage Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale on April 6 |
HONG KONG.- On 6th April 2009, Sotheby's Hong Kong will stage the Contemporary Asian Art Spring Sale at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Highlighting this sale is a sophisticated selection of seminal contemporary creations that underscore the exceptional artistic expressions by prominent Chinese, Japanese ...More
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| Folk Art Gallery at Birmingham Museum of Art Exhibits Three Installations by Self-taught Artists |
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art announces a gallery dedicated to folk art through 2009. Folk art is a term that encompasses works that also have been called outsider, naïve, primitive, visionary, and self-taught. Some of these artists represent art forms, such as quilting, that are passed down through...More
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| Malcom Rogers Honored with Distinction from President of the Republic of Italy |
BOSTON, MA.- Last night, Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), was honored with a special recognition from the President of the Republic of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. A medal was presented by the Italian Ambassador to the USA, His Excellency Giovanni Castellaneta, at a ...More
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| Acclaimed South African Artist William Kentridge to Speak at Detroit Institute of Arts |
DETROIT, MI.- With South African history and the legacy of colonialism as a point of inspiration, William Kentridge creates animated films, drawings, and prints that offer a moral measure of our time and invite viewers to draw their own conclusions....More
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| Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin to Present Picturing America: Photorealism in the 70s |
BERLIN.- At the end of the 1960s, a number of young artists working in the United States began making realist paintings based directly on photographs. With meticulous detail, they portrayed the objects, people, and places that defined both urban and suburban contemporary American life. Various terms were used to describe this art, chief among them Hyperrealism and Photorealism. ...More
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| La Salle University Art Museum Presents Susan Moore, Second Skin: Drawings |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In these small-scale drawings, created while the artist was in Rome, Italy, last year, delicate, pencil-sketched figures are juxtaposed with the bold, graphic designs they bear. Visually, the bodies seem to recede or even dissipate as the often brightly colored ink designs appear to hover on the page as if overlaid rather than inscribed upon the skin....More
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| Printed Matter: Set 6 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur |
ZURICH.- The exhibition Printed Matter - Set 6 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur focuses on small publications, artists' posters and photographic books from the past 40 years and sets a counterpoint to the large photographic cycles and tableaux that are the mainstay of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
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| Museum Presents Exhibit of Paintings by Howard A. Curtis |
GLOUCESTER, MA.- The Cape Ann Museum presents an exhibition of seascapes by Howard A. Curtis through May 31, 2009. Curtis was a noted painter and a respected Gloucester teacher. In a 1980 interview with friend and fellow artist Charles Movalli, Curtis remarked that he “let the subconscious provide (his) ...More
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| George Always: Portraits of George Melly by Maggi Hambling on View at the Walker Art Gallery |
LIVERPOOL.- George Always: Portraits of George Melly by Maggi Hambling celebrates this most colourful son of Liverpool: jazz performer, surrealist, comic, raconteur, critic and author – “Good Time George”.
This exhibition of more than 20 paintings and drawings, most previously unseen by...More
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| Milwaukee Art Museum Presents The Eight and American Modernisms |
MILWAUKEE, WI.- From three outstanding public collections of their work, more than eighty paintings by the group of American artists dubbed The Eight—Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan—are joined together for the first time in The Eight and American Modernisms, on view at the ...More
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| Breaking Through: Women Leading Museums: A Panel Discussion Celebrating Women's History Month 2009 |
WASHINGTON, DC.- In celebration of Women’s History month, four women who direct museums in Washington, D.C. will candidly explore the role of women in our nation’s cultural life in a panel discussion at the National Museum of Women in the Arts at 6:30 p.m. on March 26, 2009. The program is co-sponsored by ...More
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| MoMA Announces Focused Exhibition of Monet's Late Paintings of Water Lilies and his Pond at Giverny |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Monet’s Water Lilies, an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. ...More
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| British Columbia's Best Take On the Province's Landscape in New Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition |
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery's Western Landscapes presents stunning works by four of British Colombia's foremost landscape artists: Emily Carr, E.J. Hughes, Ann Kipling and Gordon Smith. On view from March 7 to May 10, 2009, the exhibition explores the artists' common passion for the province's ...More
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| BP British Art Displays: Turner/Rothko at Tate Britain |
LONDON.- In March 2009, Tate Britain will bring together two of the world’s most iconic and influential painters, JMW Turner (1775-1851) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970). As part of the BP British Art Displays, this unique display of works from the Tate Collection will be on show from 23 March to 26 July 2009. ...More
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| First Iris Viewing Festival at New Orleans Museum of Art April 4 |
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Celebrate the arrival of springtime with a stroll through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden during the New Orleans Museum of Art's first-ever Iris Viewing Festival on Saturday, April 4. Hundreds of new blooms planted around the lagoon this winter will reveal themselves in time for the ...More
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| Columbia Museum of Art Announces Summer Fun at the Art School |
COLUMBIA, SC.- This summer, the Columbia Museum of Art's Art School offers three-day workshops and five-day camps to capture the interest of any creative kid. Register early, as enrollment is limited to allow for personalized instruction. Please note that pre-registration is required for all programs and fees are non-refundable. For more information on summer camps,...More
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| Filmmaker Peter Forgacs Lectures on the Archaeology of Memory at the Jewish MMuseum |
NEW YORK, NY.- A lecture by noted artist and filmmaker Péter Forgács on The Archaeology of Memory will take place at The Jewish Museum on Wednesday, March 18 at 6:30 pm. Mr. Forgács will discuss the relationship between memory and art in his work. The program also includes a screening of ...More
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