 | | Focus on Andrea Mantegna: Mark the Evangelist, c. 1450 Opens at the Stadel Museum | 
Andrea Mantegna (1430/31-1506), St. Mark the Evangelist, Mixed technique on canvas, 81,2 x 63,6 cm. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Alexander Heimann.
| FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum presents Focus on Andrea Mantegna: Mark the Evangelist, c. 1450 (Inv. No. 1046), on view through September 6, 2009. In spite of the signature inscribed in the cartellino near the picture’s lower margin, the attribution of the Städel’s half-length figure of Saint Mark the Evangelist framed by a stone window, dating from 1450, had long been cast into doubt. It was only after the work had been cleansed and restored in the 1990s that the high quality of the painting on canvas was re-exposed. Since then it has unanimously been accepted as an autograph work dating from the artist’s early period and is in fact considered as one of Mantegna’s earliest surviving works. This exhibition, to be staged within the Städel’s Focus series, is meant to pinpoint the various sources the young Mantegna referred to for his Mark the Evangelist. Apart from his ...More
| | Portrait-making, Rodin and his Models at Musée Rodin | PARIS.- In spring 2009, Musée Rodin is putting the spotlight on the special art of the portrait through the exhibition La fabrique du portrait, Rodin face à ses modèles and its contemporary extension, Confessions/Portraits, videos, two works by the British artist Gillian Wearing....More
| | Kunst Haus Wien Presents Picasso - Myths, Fables and Models | VIENNA.- Kunst Haus Wien presents Picasso – Myths, Fables and Models, on view through July 5, 2009. With 120 graphic works by Pablo Picasso, taken from five creative periods spanning approximately a decade each, the exhibition leads us into Picasso’s universe of motifs and obsessions....More
| | Van Gogh Museum Bids a Festive Welcome to the 200,000th Visitor | AMSTERDAM.- Director Axel Rüger welcomed the 200,000th visitor to the exhibition Van Gogh and the colours of the night in the Van Gogh Museum. The show, which opened to the public on 13 February, has gained enthusiastic press reviews both nationally and internationally. The New York Times wrote "Gain new insight into one of the 19th century's...More
| | The Biennale de Lyon 2009 - The Spectacle of the Everyday | LYON.- The Biennale de Lyon: 10th edition, will take place from Wednesday September 16, 2009 until Sunday January 3, 2010. An authorial biennale rooted in a museum project The Lyon Biennale stemmed from a project by Lyon’s Museum of Contemporary Art, directed by Thierry Raspail since its inception 1984. From 1984-1988, the Biennale was preceded by an annual event entitled October of the Arts, which ended with the exhibition Colour...More
| | The Poetics of Space Opens at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | KANSAS CITY, MO.- The exhibition The Poetics of Space is on view April 10, 2009–March 14, 2010, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Through photographs by William Christenberry, Lynn Davis, Walker Evans, Todd Hido, Anthony Lepore, and Mike Sinclair, among...More
| | Anderson Ranch Arts Center Presents Interpreting the Political Landscape Exhibition | SNOWMASS VILLAGE, CO.- Anderson Ranch Arts Center hosts, Interpreting the Political Landscape, a juried exhibition featuring the work of Roaring Fork Valley and Colorado artists. The exhibition just opened in conjunction with the Spring Open House and Artist-in-Residence Studio Tours where the community is invited to tour the studios of the resident artists and Ranch staff....More
| | Three New Exhibitions Open at the Taubman Museum of Art | ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art just opened will open three new exciting exhibitions on March 20 and will offer a full schedule of exhibition-related programs. “We are thrilled to open these three spectacular exhibitions to the public,” said Georganne Bingham, executive director of the Taubman Museum of Art. “They are wonderful...More
| | Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art Opens | ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum is will present Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art from Friday, May 22 to Sunday, August 23, 2009. The public is invited to an opening reception for the exhibition with...More
| | The Palmer Gallery Features a Rotating Series of Exhibitions | POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- A series of exhibitions by students of the Vassar College Studio Art Department will be on view through Sunday, May 24, in the James W. Palmer Gallery of Vassar's Main Building. The gallery will be open Mondays to Saturdays from 11am – 6pm, and Sunday from 12 – 6pm. All exhibitions and receptions are free and open...More
| | Baltic Centre Presents A Duck for Mr. Darwin: Evolutionary Thinking & the Struggle to Exist | GATESHEAD.- A Duck for Mr. Darwin is a group exhibition of nine contemporary artists exploring evolutionary thinking and the theory of natural selection. Transforming Level 3 Gallery of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art from Friday 10 April, the show will feature sculpture, drawing, painting, film and installation. Focusing on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas, this exhibition is informed by the spirit of experimentation which was so distinctive to the time in which he lived. The mindset of the Victorian naturalist and his contemporaries, their sense of scientific experimentation and genuine wonder at their respective discoveries are shared by several of the artists in the exhibition. Ideas of isolated, closed worlds of meaning and ordered systems recur throughout, as does the location of the Galapagos Islands . Several of the artists’ visited the Islands and have made work as a result. These remarkable islands...More
| | Recent Acquisitions Opens at Saint Louis Art Museum | SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents the April 10 opening of Recent Acquisitions in Prints and Photographs, a selection of the finest works on paper that have been acquired by the Museum in the last five years....More
| | "Heroes of Horticulture" Photography Exhibition, Archival Photos of Reynolda To Open at Reynolda House | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host a new exhibition titled “Heroes of Horticulture” July 31 through September 27, 2009 in the museum’s main gallery. The exhibition, organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in collaboration with The Cultural Landscape Foundation of Washington, DC, includes photographs of trees and plantings, some of which are more than 100 years old, that have survived many of this nation’s most significant historic moments and experienced some of the nation’s greatest leaders. In the summer of 2007, a curatorial team from George Eastman House invited 12 photographers to photograph the sites designated by the Cultural Landscape Foundation as their 2007 Landslide landscapes. Landslide landscapes are horticultural sites that have stood steadfast in the face of development and have consequently born witness to our nati...More
| | Performing Localities: Recent Guatemalan Performance Art on Video at Iniva at Rivington Place | LONDON.- Iniva and the Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the RCA presents Talks and Screenings at Rivington Place. Performing Localities is a two-day programme (5 – 6 May 2009) of talks and screenings exploring recent developments in Guatemalan performance art on video. Since the mid-nineties, when Guatemala emerged from several decades of devastating civil war, artists have been investigating their country's traumatic past and current realities through recorded performances and actions. Screened here for the first time in the UK, the works in this programme provide a plurality of responses to this shared context and history....More
| | Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame! at Whitechapel Gallery | LONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery presents Isa Genzken: Open, Sesame! This is the most comprehensive survey of Isa Genzken's work to date, spanning her diverse practice from the late 1970s to today. After studying at the Berlin and Dusseldorf Academies in the 1970s, German sculptor Isa Genzken began to exhibit in Europe and then worldwide. Her exhibition titles - Everybody needs at least one Window (1992); Met Life (1996); See History (2006) or Oil (2007) - reveal fundamental concerns in her work. The body is evoked in relation to the city, nature, progress and war. This exhibition begins with the computer designed and industrially produced wooden sculptures Genzken made in the 1970s. Their highly finished surfaces and the way they lie, or are propped, draw on the legacies of Constructivism and Minimalism. By contrast with these self contained objects, she then turned to the idea of ...More
| | Braque Painting Recovered 39 Years After Theft | NEW YORK.- The Art Loss Register has recovered a Georges Braque painting, La Théière mauve sur la nappe rayée, 39 years after it was stolen from New York art dealer Richard L. Feigen. The small canvas, painted in 1953, was stolen from Mr. Feigen's gallery on November 12, 1969. Despite the recovery of the picture, the crime remains unsolved. The painting ended up in the hands of a Japanese artist living and working in New York City, who gave it to a friend back in Japan. The painting remained in this individual's private collection for over 25 years. The collector died recently, at which point his son decided to sell his art collection. The Braque painting was consigned to Christie's London in June 2008....More
| | Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Announces National Juried Exhibition of Metal Works | WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts announces a national juried exhibition titled Bend, Mold, Cut, Join: Small Works in Metal on view in Alternatives Museum Shop April 2 through May 29, 2009. Bend, Mold, Cut, Join: Small Works in Metal, juried by Ellen Lupton, is in conjunction with the Society of North American Goldsmith's (SNAG) annual conference Revolution in Philadelphia, PA, on May 20-23, 2009. The exhibition features pioneering art jewelry and small-scale sculpture and vessels that combine traditional metalsmithing techniques with a vision representative of the field of contemporary metalsmithing. Bend, Mold, Cut, Join: Small Works in Metal will be located in the main atrium of the DCCA and in Alternatives Museum Shop. All items on display will be available for purchase....More
| | The Communism of Forms: Sound + Image + Time - The Strategy of Music Video | TORONTO.- The Communism of Forms: Sound + Image + Time – The Strategy of Music Videos is a fluid exhibition whose first presentation (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2007) has been remixed and restaged to resonate in the Toronto context. Containing over 50 international works, the playlist has been edited, with some works dropped out, others added, and new works specifically commissioned for Toronto. The exhibition itself is divided between two venues - the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and downtown at Red Bull 381 Projects - and has insinuated itself into this year's Images Festival. ...More
| | Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century Opens at The National Portrait Gallery | WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Portrait Gallery presents Reflections/ Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century, on view through August 16, 2009. This exhibition of approximately 75 works will probe the complex issues of understanding identity in the past century. Included in the exhibition are self portraits by such diverse artists as Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Chuck Close, Larry Rivers, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold. While the works by these artists reveal traditional themes, including impersonation, reinvention, self-consciousness, vanity and the complex game of seeing a mirrored image, the exhibition will also explore how issues of identity and self-portrayal were bent in new directions in the 20th century as if refracted through a prism....More
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