 | | Encounters with Modern Art The Kunstmuseum Winterthur at The Art and Exhibition Hall | 
A visitor observes the work 'Joseph Roulin' by Vincent Van Gogh. EFE/Oliver Berg.
| BONN.- The Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn presents today Encounters with Modern Art - The Kunstmuseum Winterthur, on view through August 23, 2009. This summit of leading modernist artists provides a veritable feast of outstanding paintings and sculptures – and offers the chance to trace the development from Impressionism to contemporary art through this unique collection of around 240 paintings, sculptures and drawings. This remarkable exhibition at the Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, on show from 24 April to 23 August, comprises works from the Winterthur Art Musuem by a range of artists whose names seem to read like a "Who's Who" of the art world: Arp, Artschwager, Beckmann, Bonnard, Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Cézanne, de Chirico, Delacroix, Delaunay, Dégas, Ernst, Fontana, Giacometti, van Gogh, Guston, Hodler, Kandinsky, Kelly, Kokoschka, Kounellis, Léger, Lehmbruck, Magritte, Maillol, Merz, Miró, Mondrian, Monet, Morand...More
| | Spencer Tunick Opens at Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco | MEXICO CITY.- The Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco (Tlatelolco University Cultural Center) presents the exhibition City Dwellers by visual artist Spencer Tunick (b. New York, 1967), a show that gathers 30 images that are directly related or in a subtle way with some of the works in the Blaisten Collection. The exhibition opened yesterday and will remain on view until September in the temporary exhibition hall of the Blaisten Collection. Between the 15th and 18th of January of this year, Spencer Tunick worked in the production of these new works of art inspired on the Blaisten Collection that belongs to Tlatelolco University Cultural Center....More
| | Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Today 'Albert von Keller: Salons, Séances, Secession' | ZURICH.- Kunsthaus Zürich presents today paintings by Albert von Keller (1844–1920), a Swiss native who was a co-founder of the Munich Secession, on view through October 4, 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich will exhibit paintings by Albert von Keller (1844–1920), a Swiss native who was a co-founder of the Munich Secession. Under the influence of music by Chopin and Wagner, during the Wilhelmian era Keller painted interiors and society life, portraits and nudes, grandiose works of considerable moment. Keller attended...More
| | The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Made in Hollywood: Photos from the John Kobal Foundation | KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation, May 8 – September 9, 2009. Drawn from the rich archive at the John Kobal Foundation in London, this exhibition focuses on the stars, the sets, and the scenes created by the film industry and memorialized by the most important photographers who worked in Hollywood from 1920 to 1960. Featuring more than 90 vintage prints, Made in Hollywood offers a glimpse into the world of fantasy, glamour, and perfection that the image makers produced. John Kobal (1940-1991)...More
| | Adolf Hitler's Watercolors Sell For Over 100,000 Euros at Mullock's | LONDON.- Mullock's Art Auctioneers sold a series of watercolors painted by Adolf Hitler for over 100,000 euros. The works were mostly landscapes and were found earlier this year in a garage. A work that appears to be a self-portrait that portrays a man using a side-parting and sitting on a stone bridge sold for 10,000 pounds. The work was signed with the initials A.H. Richard Westwood-Brookes from Mullock's stated, "I am very...More
| | Modernist Art From Southern Collections Opens at MOAS in Daytona Beach | DAYTONA BEACH, FL.- Museum visitors will have an exciting opportunity to better appreciate the richness and variety of twentieth century art in two important exhibitions opening on April 24. The first, Ringling Retro: Contemporary and Modern Art from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art continues through November 1 and includes some of the finest examples of modern and postmodern art in the state drawn from the collection of the state art museum of Florida. The second, Modernist Art from Southern Collections closing June 7, has been organized by MOAS to complement Ringling Retro...More
| | La Force De L'Art 02 Opens at The Grand Palais in Paris | PARIS.-A triennial event organized at initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, LA FORCE DE L’ART aims to put on stage contemporary French creation and the artists who bring it about, with all the diversity of their origins and aesthetic choices. This second FORCE DE L’ART 02 will be presented in the Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, from April 24th to June 1st 2009. Three renowned figures are responsible for curating LA FORCE DE L’ART 02: Jean-Louis Froment, Jean-Yves Jouannais and Didier Ottinger. They associated architect Philippe Rahm with their project, choosing him for the original...More
| | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Reopens Huntington Avenue Entrance on The Avenue of The Arts MFA | BOSTON.- A century after the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), first opened the grand entrance to its majestic building on Huntington Avenue—renamed the Avenue of the Arts in 1998—the Museum will once again open these doors to the public during a special ceremony today from 10–11 a.m. The entrance, which has been closed for renovations since June (2008), now features a handsome, doubled-in-size Deer Isle granite plaza and new landscaping. Renovations have made...More
| | Substances of Vanity - Still Life Photography from Leipzig Opens in Stuttgart | STUTTGART.- Parrotta Contemporary Art presents today “Substances of Vanity – Still life Photography from Leipzig,” on view through June 6, 2009. The artists in this exhibition initially all have one thing in common: they have all studied under Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. "How does one recognize a student of Rautert?" asks Susanne Kippenberger and Timm Rautert replies: "I hope that it is noticed in conversation that he is well educated... one can perhaps also recognize them by the specifity of photography in their work... One sees in the images that they could be made and thought out in no other medium but photography." In order to define this specifity of photography, Sveinn Fannar Johannsson, Edgar Leciejewski, Florian Rossmanith, ...More
| | Southern Eccentric: Paintings by Larry Connatser at the Morris Museum of Art | AUGUSTA, GA.- Southern Eccentric: Paintings by Larry Connatser, an exhibition representing the Morris Museum’s extensive collection of work by one of Georgia’s most renowned contemporary artists, the late Larry Connatser, opens to the public at the Morris Museum of Art on May 2, 2009. This is the first time that the Morris has exhibited a selection from its holdings of hundreds of works of art by Connatser. “We’re very pleased by this opportunity to bring the work of Larry Connatser to the attention of a larger public,” said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. “He is, without a doubt, one of the most original and inventive artists ever to have emerged from the region.”...More
| | Antony Gormley's One & Other Step up to the Plinth: Applications Open | LONDON.- One & Other - which will see a different person take their place on the Fourth Plinth every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days - is open to anyone in the UK over the age of 16. The project, supported by Sky Arts, will provide a fascinating portrait of the UK in the twenty-first century and is set to become a national talking point. 22,000 people across the country have already registered their interest in taking part. High profile supporters of the project include Dame Judi Dench, Vanessa Feltz, poets Lemn Sissay and Benjamin ...More
| | Donald Hess Opens The First Museum for James Turrell in Argentina | COLOME, SALTA.- The new James Turrell Museum of the Hess Art Collection celebrated its opening on April 22, 2009 in Colomé (Salta Province), Argentina. The museum is the only one worldwide dedicated specifically to the work of James Turrell, who is regarded as one of the most important contemporary light and space artists. For the first time ever, nine light installations representing five decades of Turrell's career are showcased together over 18,084 square feet (1.680 m2) of exhibition space. Among the works on display are "Spread 2003", a 4,000-square-foot walk-in environment of blue light, as well as "Unseen Blue 2002", the world's largest Skyspace.The permanent exhibition is further supplemented by numerous works on paper, drawings and prints....More
| | Bank of America Launches Expanded Program | CHARLOTTE.- Bank of America today announced the expansion of its Museums on Us® program, which now provides cardholders free access to 120 of the nation's finest arts, cultural and educational institutions during the first full weekend of every month. Museums on Us has experienced major growth since the 2008 season due to increased demand, adding more than 40 institutions to bring the total geographic reach to 40 markets. Bank of America has broadened the program to include museums in Jacksonville, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev.; St. Louis, Mo.; Tucson, Ariz. and Nashville, Tenn., among others. This year's program also includes many new family-oriented institutions, including the Phoenix Zoo, the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, the Please Touch Museum® in Philadelphia, the Detroit Science Center, and more....More
| | Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model - Published For 90th Anniversary | STUTTGART.-The Bauhaus—founded in Weimar in 1919, located in Dessau beginning in 1925, and closed in Berlin in 1933—continues to be the most effective and successful export article of twentieth-century German culture. Even more than seventy years after it was closed, this interdisciplinary school for art, architecture, design, and theater has not lost any of its currentness. On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this profusely illustrated, comprehensive publication with around four hundred color illustrations reexamines and reevaluates the art school's history and influence. In this collaborative project by the three leading institutes at the former sites of the Bauhaus's activities—the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau...More
| | Open-call for 'Dependtendency' Exhibition during 53rd Venice Biennale | SIENA.- Celeste is organizing a unique exhibition, separate from the Celeste Prize, on an extremely relevant theme which affects us all. A growing interdependence between nations and cultures is a reality which is having dramatic effects on our lives, Celeste proposes an exhibition of works in any media on this theme in Venice, Italy, during the 53rd Visual Arts Biennale....More
| | Cholla Exhibition Featured in Venice at the Giudecca 795 Art Gallery | VENICE.- Though only twenty-three, his artwork has been described as having the "fire of Pollock". Yet what makes the description intriguing is that the artist is Cholla, a mustang-quarterhorse mix who lives in Nevada and paints by holding the brush in his mouth, picking the color by himself. Cholla's paintings have been featured in art exhibits in the States. After the "honorable mention" at an international art prize held in Italy (2008), 30 watercolours by Cholla are exclusively shown in Venice at the Giudecca 795 Art Gallery from 24 April to 15 June 2009, planning other exhibits of Cholla's works around the world. ...More
| | Visionaries Series: Bill T. Jones at New Museum in New York | NEW YORK.-The New Museum announced that celebrated choreographer and activist Bill T. Jones will give the inaugural Visionaries Series lecture on April 24, at 7:30 p.m. The Visionaries Series at the New Museum spotlights leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture, whose innovations are shaping intellectual life and shining light on the future. The series is made possible by The Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund, established by a major gift from Barbara Gladstone in honor of her late son (Stuart Regen)....More
| | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Honors Six Alumni | By Liam Otten. The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis honored six outstanding architecture and art alumni at its second annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 23. The awards recognize graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to the practices of art and architecture, as well as to Washington University and the Sam Fox School....More
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