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| More than 70 Large-format Paintings by David Hockney on View at Kunsthalle Würth |
British artist David Hockney poses in front of his painting “Three Trees in the Proximity to Thixendale Summer”, at Kunsthalle Wurth in Germany. More than 70 works of art made by this artist have been gathered in the exhibition titled “Just Nature”. The exhibition will be open from April 27 through September 27, 2009. Photo: 'EFE/Norbert Foersterling.
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KUNZELSAU.- British artist David Hockney (b. 1937), celebrated for decades as the “painter laureate of Southern California,” is doubtless one of the most interesting and important painters in contemporary art. Yet anyone who believes they are entirely familiar with Hockney’s art will be forced to reconsider in light of his recent work. Contrary to his earlier assertions, he has returned to his native Yorkshire and rediscovered the beauty of his home county’s ...More
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| Austrian Painter Herbert Brandl Presents a Large Exhibition to a German Audience for the First Time |
HAMBURG.- For the first time, a large exhibition of the Austrian painter Herbert Brandl’s (born 1959) work will be presented to the German audience. The exhibition at Deichtorhallen includes around 30 large-sized works from the time between 2003 and 2009. Most of the paintings have been created exclusively for this exhibition. ...More
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| Felipe Solis Olguin, Director of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology, Died at 64 |
MEXICO CITY.- Archaeologist Felipe Solis Olguin, director of the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) since year 2000, passed away in Thursday April 23rd 2009, due to cardiac arrest. At the time of his decease he was working as a curator in the exhibition “Teotihuacan, City of Gods”. ...More
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| Tyler Museum of Art Spotlights Legendary Works of Maxfield Parrish in Latest Exhibition |
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art pulls back the curtain on the “Master of Make-Believe” for its new exhibition, Maxfield Parrish: The Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals.
The exhibition, organized by the TMA, is open to the public Sunday, May 3 through September 13 in the Bell Gallery. Admission is free....More
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| Montclair Art Museum Wins National Web Design Award |
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Graphic Design USA, a monthly news and information magazine for and about the professional design community, has honored the Montclair Art Museum with an Award of Excellence for its newly launched website. The site went live last December.
For four decades, Graphic Design USA has sponsored national competitions that ...More
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| Guggenheim Exhibition Catalogue Wins Prestigious Award |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Guggenheim exhibition catalogue Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe has won the 2008 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award, which recognizes outstanding publications in visual arts and architecture. ...More
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| International Center of Photography to Open Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 |
NEW YORK, NY.- The centerpiece of ICP’s Year of Fashion, Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 will be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from May 15 through September 6, 2009. The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon’s fashion work, it will occupy the main galleries of the museum and include some 175 photographs from throughout his productive ...More
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| Burke Patten, the Block Museum's Communications Manager, Interviews Gordon Parks's Son, David |
ATLANTA, GA.- One of Gordon Parks’s four children, David Parks followed in many of the trails blazed by his father. His first book, the best-selling GI Diary, was a collection of writings and photographs documenting his experiences as an American soldier in the Vietnam War. In addition to working on films directed by this father and brother, Gordon Parks Jr., David Parks has made his own documentaries. ...More
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| National Gallery of Victoria Opens Major Retrospective of the Work of John Brack |
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria presents a major retrospective of the work of John Brack, the first in more than twenty years.
This exhibition surveys John Brack’s complete career, incorporating over 150 works from all of his major series....More
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| Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide to Screen at the Peabody-Essex Museum |
SALEM, MA.- Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide, which recently screened at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, examines China's economic and cultural metamorphoses through the work of some of the Middle Kingdom's most talented video artists and photographers, including the internationally recognized Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Wang Qingsong, Chen Qiulin, O Zhang, Yang Yong and Birdhead. The film is narrated by...More
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| New Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to Showcase Works of the Italian Renaissance |
BOSTON, MA.- The collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is as old as the Museum itself—it acquired its first pieces in 1876, when the Museum opened its doors. Since then, the MFA has expanded its holdings of Italian works from one of art history's most creative periods (1400–1600), such as Donatello's marble relief, Madonna of the Clouds (about 1425–35), the only ...More
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| Rare Photographs of Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton at the Ogden Museum of Art |
NEW YORK, NY- During the 1950s, renowned photographer Jerry Dantzic captured the essence of New York: the musicians, showgirls, boxers, and the habitués of Coney Island, Chinatown, Broadway and other neighborhoods, as well as the city’s glamour.
On April 30, 1958, Dantzic photographed one of the few studio sessions between ...More
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| Alexander Calder and Michelangelo Exhibitions Highlight the 2009-2010 Exhibition Lineup at Seattle Art Museum |
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announced its 2009-2010 exhibition schedule, including a major exhibition of the work of Alexander Calder and an intimate group of drawings by Michelangelo, both opening October 15, 2009 . ...More
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| Rarely Seen Medieval Drawings on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- With strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored the medium of drawing, creating a rich panoply of works ranging from spontaneous sketches to powerful evocations of spirituality and intriguing images of science and the natural world. Opening June 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages will be the first museum ...More
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| Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings Explores Worldwide Boom in Museum Building |
NASHVILLE, TN.- Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings will open to the public in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries May 29, 2009 and will remain on view until August 23, 2009. ...More
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| Phillips de Pury & Company Announces the Highlights from its Forthcoming New York Contemporary Art Part I Sale |
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces today the highlights of its forthcoming Contemporary Art Part I sale to be held in New York on May 14 at the company’s Chelsea galleries....More
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| Tim Gunn Awarded Honorary Degree, Special Speaker at Corcoran College of Art + Design 2009 Commencement Ceremony |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design Paul Greenhalgh and Dean Kirk Pillow are proud to honor eminent fashion expert and Corcoran alumnus Tim Gunn with an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Fine Arts, at this year’s College commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 23 at 4:30 p.m. at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. ...More
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| Chazen Groundbreaking Ceremony Planned for May 1 |
MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art will celebrate the beginning of construction on its expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony, May 1, 2009, at noon, on the building site at 750 University Avenue. Attendees should enter the site from University Avenue, across from University Square. ...More
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| Taft Museum of Art Announces Reduced Summer Hours |
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Art will be reducing the hours it is open to the public in response to the current economic downturn that is affecting businesses and non-profit organizations around the world....More
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| Négritude, an Experimental Multi-disciplinary Exhibition at Exit Art, Opens in May |
NEW YORK, NY.- Négritude, an experimental multi-disciplinary exhibition at Exit Art, explores the visionary 20th century political and artistic movement of the same name — coined by the Martinican poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Césaire in the 1930s — which flourished among Black intellectuals in post-World War I Paris and later spread to Africa, the United States and the Caribbean. ...More
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