 | | The Blessed Angelico - The Dawn of the Renaissance Opens at Palazzo dei Caffarelli | 
Annunciation, painted by Fra Angelico (1387-1455) (Florence)
| ROME.- Palazzo dei Caffarelli presents today The Blessed Angelico - The Dawn of the Renaissance, on view through July 5, 2009. The largest exhibition to be entirely dedicated to “the Blessed Angelico”, as he is often known in Italy, since the monographic staged in the Vatican and Florence in 1955 (part of the centennial celebrations at the time). Rounding up the celebrations to mark the 550th anniversary of the death of one of the leading lights of the early Renaissance years in Italy (his work began in Florence in 1417 and ended with his death in Rome in 1455), is this important exhibition dedicated to Friar John of Fiesole - Fra Angelico - organized by the Department for Cultural Policies and Communications for the Superintendency of Fine Arts for the City of Rome, the National Committee for the 550 years since the death of Fra Angelico and Zètema Progetto Cultura. It is the largest exhibition to be entirely d...More
| | Exhibition To Explore The Power of Paint at The Phillips Collection | WASHINGTON, DC.- For generations, artists have used a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the physical properties and metaphorical significance of human flesh. This summer, The Phillips Collection will present Paint Made Flesh, a survey of figurative painting since the 1950s....More
| | Gerry Judah Recreates Scenes of Ruined Settlements at Wolverhampton Art Gallery | WOLVERHAMPTON.- Leading contemporary installation artist and sculptor Gerry Judah challenges us to explore our understanding of war, conflict, peace, natural disasters and devastation in a solo exhibition, COUNTRY. The exhibition is co-curated by independent curator Jenny Blyth, and Kate Pryor-Williams....More
| | The Huntington Library Presents Treasures through Six Generations | SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens highlights one of the greatest private collections of Chinese art in the nation with the presentation of “Treasures through Six Generations: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy...More
| | In-finitum To Open at The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia | VENICE.- The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Vervoordt Foundation announce Infinitum, taking place in the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice from 6 June until 15 November, 2009. With In-finitum, the trilogy which started with Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art (Venice, 2007) and continued with Academia: Qui es-tu? (Paris, 2008) will come full circle. Once again set in the magnificent surroundings of the Palazzo Fortuny, In-finitum will guide the visitor from the soul of the unfinished to the border of the infinite, a spiritual journey along works...More
| | Vegetable City: Luc Schuiten's Vision of a Sustainable Future Opens in Brussels | BRUSSELS.- Cinquantenaire Museum (Royal Museums of Art and History) presents Vegetable City: Luc Schuiten's Vision of a Sustainable Future, on view through August 30, 2009. The deterioration of our environment, the weather changes and the damage made to biodiversity increasingly give way to negative and stressful visions of a planet's integrity affected by human aggression. Based on the outlines of solutions already given by bio-mimetism, Luc Schuiten offers on the contrary utopian visions that suggest we group together around positive creativity and invent spaces that represent one of the fundamental principles of life: life creates conditions favourable to life....More
| | Sound of Music and Crossroads Opens at Turner Contemporary | MARGATE, KENT, UK.- Turner Contemporary presents: Sound of Music and Crossroads featuring work by: Art & Language, Robert Barry, Johanna Billing, Black Noise, Manon de Boer, George Brecht, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Ellen Cantor & John Cussans, François Curlet & Michel François, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ryan Gander, Babak Ghazi, Pierre Huyghe, Scott King, Véra & François Molnar, Laurent Montaron, Dennis Oppenheim, Allen Ruppersberg, Meredyth Sparks, Jan Vercruysse, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela. The exhibition Sound of Music, which explores the different ways artists have been inspired by music and sound from the 1960s to the present day, recently opened at Turner Contemporary Project Space in Margate....More
| | School of Visual Arts Presents "Mentors": Works By Emerging Photographes | NEW YORK.- School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Mentors,” an exhibition of work by BFA Photography Department students inspired by their year-long mentorship with key figures in the New York arts community. Drawn from the ranks of city’s best-known photographers, curators, art directors, publishers, art dealers, critics and writers, the mentors are paired with students based upon their field of expertise and the student’s area of concentration. The 2008 – 2009 mentors include creative director Fabien Baron, cinematographer and SVA alumnus Harris Savides, New York Times writer Philip Gefter, and photographers Ari Marcoupolis, Sally Gall and Gregory Crewdson, among others. The exhibition will be on view through April 25 at the Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26 Street, 15th Floor, New York City.
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| | Solo Exhibition of Luis Gispert at MOCA at Goldman Warehouse | MIAMI.- The The Museum of Contemporary Art presents the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Luis Gispert. The exhibition features large-scale photographs, videos, sculpture and film, dating from 1999 to the present, and will be on view at the museum’s satellite gallery, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse in the Wynwood Art District, (404 NW 26 Street, Miami, 305.893.6211), from April 11 to June 27. The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater. Luis Gispert was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1972 and was raised in Miami. “This exhibition provides the opportunity to reflect on the past nine years of work,” said Bonnie Clearwater, MOCA Executive Director and exhibition curator. “Previous critical analyses focused primarily on the multi-cultural and hip hop imagery in his work. This exhibition high...More
| | Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary Presents French Painter Yves Oppenheim | BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary will present recent large-scale paintings and wall paintings by Yves Oppenheim at OsramHöfe. The French painter Yves Oppenheim designed the architecture of the exhibition using the wall painting as the most important element. The canvasses are installed directly on the wall paintings, which appear as the background or frame. The works interact in colour and form, creating a relief-like installation. The abstract colourful paintings gain visual depth through the swinging and complex language of forms. Superimposed structures create gaps and backgrounds, which give the illusion of three-dimensionality. Some elements of the compositions are reminiscent of collages: opaque monochrome planes with sharp ...More
| | Of Other Spaces at Bureau for Open Culture in Columbus | COLUMBUS, OH.- Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art & Design, presents Of Other Spaces, on view through April 25, 2009 with artists Mary Jo Bole, Michael Brown, Alain Bublex, Robert Buck, Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Candida Höfer, Guillaume Leblon, Laura Lisbon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Laurent Montaron, Marylène Negro, TJ Norris and Scott Wayne Indiana, Sarah Schönfeld, Maya Schweizer, Suzanne Silver, Christian Tomaszewski, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane and Louise Wilson. The exhibition was curated by James Voorhies. Of Other Spaces explores how space affects human behavior and experience. The exhibition asks us to consider the ways in which spaces are charged with authority, and both serve and suppress our actions and ways of relating. The concept of "other spaces" is inspired by the philosophy of Michel Foucault,...More
| | Hood Museum of Art Presents Wearing Weatlth and Styling Identity - Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia | HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art presents Wearing Weatlth and Styling Identity - Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia. This exhibition and its accompanying book initiate a historical chronicle of tapis from the earliest mention of this textile type to the roles it fulfills in the twenty-first century, laying bare the complex networks of trade and the negotiation of cultural iconographies that have informed the making of this spectacular art. Located between the two maritime routes connecting East and West Asia, Sumatra, the fabled Isle of Gold was for centuries the source for much of the world's pepper. In the southern tip of Sumatra, the peoples of Lampung, or "Pepperland," poured the profits of their trade into ceremonial materials and adornments. The ornate tubular dresses known as tapis were hand-woven from ...More
| | Liverpool Biennial Appoints New Curator for 'International' Exhibition | LIVERPOOL.- Liverpool Biennial has appointed Lorenzo Fusi as curator for the International, the lead exhibition of the Liverpool Biennial festival of contemporary art. He will be working on the development of the programme for the next festival – the UK's Biennial - which takes place in 2010. Lorenzo will be working alongside curators from the Bluecoat, FACT [Foundation for Art and Contemporary Technology], Open Eye Gallery, and Tate Liverpool under the leadership of Liverpool Biennial Artistic Director, Lewis Biggs. Lorenzo, who takes up his role in May, is currently Curator of sms contemporanea in Siena (Italy) and until 2008 he was Chief Curator at the Palazzo delle Papesse. He brings to Liverpool almost a decade of experience in delivering contemporary art commissions, with a distinct interest in politically and socially engaged work ...More
| | John Paul Jones: A Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery | FULLERTON, CA.- The Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery presents John Paul Jones: A Retrospective, on view through May 8, 2009. The exhibition was curated by Mike McGee, Director, Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery. Marking the ten-year anniversary of the death of Southern California artist John Paul Jones (1924-1999), Cal State Fullerton Main Art Gallery Director Mike McGee has organized the most ambitious and inclusive retrospective to date of a lifetime of artwork by this nationally recognized artist. The exhibition John Paul Jones: A Retrospective includes more than 100 prints, paintings and sculptures, requiring two separate venues in order to exhibit such a large body of artwork concurrently: the Main Art Gallery at Cal State Fullerton and the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College....More
| | Dia Art Foundation Announces Exhibition of Work by Antoni Tapies at Dia Beacon | NEW YORK, NY.- Dia Art Foundation presents a special exhibition of work by Antoni Tàpies, one of Spain's most important and prolific postwar artists, on view at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries from May 16 through October 19, 2009. Antoni Tàpies: The Resources of Rhetoric represents a rare opportunity for viewers to ...More
| | Scott McFarland: A Cultivated View Opens at Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography | OTTAWA.- The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography presents today Scott McFarland: A Cultivated View, on view through September 13, 2009. Photographer Scott McFarland creates exacting images that depict nature crafted to human will and desire. A major body of work has focused on Vancouver gardens. On one level, the photographs indicate a state of harmony and peacefulness, while on the other the overall effect appears artificial. McFarland's works emphasize both the precarious balance between human and natural worlds and how photography's link to reality is both true and fabricated.
Presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. Organized in conjunction with the BC Scene programming presented by the National Arts Centre from 21 April to 3 May 2009....More
| | Call For Artists: The 13th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition | NEW ORLEANS, LA.-The Annual No Dead Artists is an open juried exhibition of Louisiana art today. The exhibition was created in 1995 to give a voice to underexposed artists. Jury winner's work will be on exhibit at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400a Julia Street, in the New Orleans Arts District and selected jury winners will appear in a feature article in the September 2nd issue of Gambit. In the article, art critic D. Eric Bookhardt will review the exhibition. This annual event is designed to give a real pulse on the creative scene happening in New Orleans and Louisiana today. Be a part of the cultural renaissance taking place right now!...More
| | The New York Photo Festival To Open in May | NEW YORK.- Following up on its successful debut in May 2008, the New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the exhibition dates for 2009 and its Festival Curators. The inaugural event in May 2008 was a surprise hit, and it delivered on the promise of presenting the "future of contemporary photography" through the efforts of world-class curators and the selected artists. The NYPH'08 Festival Curators—Kathy Ryan, Martin Parr, Lesley A. Martin, and Tim Barber—created four stunning exhibitions focusing on the ubiquity of images in digital and daily life, sculptural tendencies in contemporary photography, ground-breaking paths in formal photographic documentation and representation, and a formal yet whimsical approach to the democratic presentation of artistic representation. The New York Photo Festival's debut run in 2008 answered critics' lament that the world's capital of photography could never compile a festival of its own. It also affirmatively resolved the quandary of wh...More
| | National Endowment for the Arts Announces Recovery Grants to State and Regional Arts Agencies | WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Endowment for the Arts today announced $19.8 million in one-time grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to the state arts agencies and regional arts organizations to support the arts sector of the economy. Potential recipients include organizations in the ...More
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