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| Baroque 1620 - 1800: Style In The Age of Magnificence Opens at Victoria & Albert Museum |
The Interior of St Peter's in Rome, Giovannni Paolo Panini & studio, Before 1742 © The National Gallery, London.
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LONDON.- The magnificence and splendour of Baroque, one of the most opulent styles of the 17th and 18th centuries, is the subject of the V&A’s spring exhibition. The exhibition will reflect the complexity and grandeur of the Baroque style, from the Rome of Borromini and Bernini to the magnificence of Louis XIV's Versailles and the lavishness of Baroque theatre and performance. On display will be religious paintings by Rubens and Tiepolo while silver furniture, portraits, sculpture, a regal bed and court tapestries will conjure up the rooms of a Baroque palace. The exhibition will be the first to examine all the elements of the Baroque style and will show how, as European power spread, Baroque style reached other parts of the world, captured in objects such as a gilded Mexican altarpiece....More
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| Artist Yoko Ono Unveils "Promised Piece" to Celebrate World Autism Awareness Day |
NEW YORK, NY.- Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, presented a series of national and international events to mark the second annual celebration of World Autism Awareness Day, a global effort to heighten awareness about a disorder affecting millions of individuals and families around the world. WAAD is a result of a resolution passed unanimously ...More
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| SFMOMA Announces Planning Phase for New Wing to Double Gallery Space |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) today announced that it is moving into the next phase of planning for an expansion of its facility in downtown San Francisco. The future expansion will enable the museum to double its gallery space to 100,000 square feet; enhance and grow its curatorial, conservation, and library programs; and consolidate its offices, 60 percent...More
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| Picasso Portrait from the Collection of Julian Schnabel Highlights Christies Impressionist Sale |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the upcoming sale of Pablo Picasso’s Femme au chapeau from 1971, a monumental portrait from the private collection of acclaimed artist and Oscarnominated director Julian Schnabel. This iconic portrait, the largest Picasso created in his last years, will be a highlight of Christie’s Evening Sale of Impressionist...More
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cuts Staff, Salaries, Budget and will Reasses Exhibition Schedule |
BOSTON, MA.- As with so many cultural institutions, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has been affected by the global financial crisis. The MFA is a private, non-profit institution that does not rely on government support on the municipal, state, or federal level as a major source of funding. The operating budget is supplied mainly...More
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| National Gallery of Art Acquires Seminal Painting by Norman Lewis |
WASHINGTON, DC.- At its annual meeting in March, the Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art made possible the acquisition of Untitled (Alabama) (1967) by African American artist Norman Lewis (1909–1979). This ambitious abstract painting references the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. ...More
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| Art Gallery of Ontario Remix Exhibition Redefines the 21st-century Indian Artist |
TORONTO.- From images of Apache kids with skateboards to traditional tribal graphics, Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World explores the challenges of being indigenous and an artist in the 21st century. Opening at the Art Gallery of Ontario on April 4 and continuing through August 23, ...More
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| Collection of Prints and Drawings: Jakob S. Boeskov: Siggimund at Statens Museum for Kunst |
COPENHAGEN.- Statens Museum for Kunst presents Collection of Prints and Drawings: Jakob S. Boeskov: Siggimund, on view through September 6, 2009. Action between fiction and reality - Jakob S. Boeskov (born 1973) has made a name for himself on the international scene in recent years...More
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| Indianapolis Museum of Art Presents Fashion in Bloom in the Paul Fashion Arts Gallery |
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- This spring, the gardens and grounds aren’t the only thing in bloom at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Today, April 4, 2009, the Museum will open Fashion...More
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| Flying Goldfish Feature in I Wish I Am Fish, a New Performance by Artist Paola Pivi |
AUCKLAND.- Eighty-four fish flew by plane over the Tasman Sea on 21 March, each travelling in a glass bowl on their own seat. The work was commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery curator Natasha Conland for the New Zealand-wide One Day Sculpture series of temporary public art works. Following...More
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| Art of India Past and Present Opens at Peabody Essex Museum |
SALEM, MA.- This Spring, the Peabody Essex Museum opens an exhibition revealing visual conversations between India’s contemporary and traditional artists. ReVisions: India’s Artists Engaging Traditions presents fourteen contemporary works in tandem with traditional pieces exemplifying the artists’ source of inspiration, including Mughal court painting, medieval temple sculpture and photography. Featuring objects from PEM’s renowned Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection of 20th-century Indian art and considerable holdings of traditional Indian art forms, as well as the Harvard Art Museum’s exceptional collection of art from the royal courts and temples of India, ReVisions will be on view from April 4, 2009 through April, 2010....More
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| VMFA Acquires "Spectacular" Picture Scroll From India and 1888 Oil Portrait by "Best Woman Painter in History" |
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has acquired an 18th- or early-19th-century legend scroll from the Andhra Pradesh region of India, one of the few of its kind to survive today. The museum’s board of trustees also approved the acquisition of an 1888 oil on canvas portrait by American artist Cecilia Beaux, who was hailed at the turn of the 20th century as the “best woman painter in history”; a Gothic Revival hexagonal center table from about 1845-50, attributed to American architect Alexander Jackson Davis; a rare set of Aesthetic Movement andirons by the J. and J.G. Low Art Tile Works; a number of objects from 17th- through 20th-century Japan and China; and a variety of early-20th-century photographs, including images made by American photographer Doris Ulmann, who specialized in pictures of African-American subjects in the rural South....More
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| Old Meets New in Photography Exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum |
PHOENIX, AZ.-(April 2, 2009) – The Grand Canyon – natural wonder, sacred ground, national park, international tourist attraction—is perhaps the world's best “photo op.” Vivid colors, breathtaking vistas and jaw dropping canyon depths have lured photographers to Northern Arizona for years. A new exhibition, Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe on view at Phoenix Art Museum through July 12, 2009, explores this celebrated place of dramatic beauty with large-scale sweeping panoramas that marry 21st century color photographs with historic drawings and images....More
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| Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges |
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1935, an article in the Afro-American paper stated: “We rejoice that our newspapers condemn German Nazi atrocities. It’s a good sign that they may yet discover the Nazism which is outside their own doors.” The relationship between two disenfranchised groups—Jewish professors who fled Nazi Germany and African-American students — and the unique bond that grew between them is the subject of the powerful new exhibition Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, opening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on May 1, 2009. The exhibition will be on view through January 2010. ...More
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| "Just A Moment, Please," A New L.A.-Based Public Art Project By Amely Spoetzl Presented By ArtLab21 |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- "Flower Power" came and went with the 1960s. But the power of flowers to transform time and space will find focus in "Just a Moment, Please," a new public art project from German artist Amely Spoetzl. Presented by artlab21 of Santa Monica, Spoetzl's new work will see flower dispensers placed for hour-long interludes at specific locations throughout Los Angeles, provoking reactions from passersby who may or may not be tempted to pocket petals, thus interrupting the linear experience of time through a split-second sequences of new associations. ...More
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| Frank Gehry Selected to Design Eisenhower National Memorial |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Gehry Partners, LLP, the Los Angeles-based architectural firm headed by Frank O. Gehry, has been selected as lead designer of the national memorial to Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Eisenhower Memorial will be the seventh national presidential memorial in the Nation's Capital, and the first since the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial opened in 1997. ...More
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| Film Director Mike Figgis and Tate Liverpool Work Together on Film Project |
LONDON.- As part of the forthcoming display DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture (From 1 May 2009), acclaimed film director Mike Figgis is working with Tate Liverpool and Tate Media on a series of short films that focus on conversations with people from Liverpool about works of art in the Tate Collection. ...More
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| Bernard Plossu. The Land of Landscapes |
HUESCA, SPAIN.- The Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN) presents an exhibition that takes a look at the landscape of Huesca through the images of French photographer Bernard Plossu. Over a period of two years, Plossu visited different sites in the province of Huesca to create a photographic archive made up of over 370 images that have now become part of the CDAN's collection. A catalogue with texts by writer Antonio Ansón, who accompanied Plossu on some of his walks in the sierras of Huesca, will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. Over the course of his career Ansón has investigated the links between photography and literature....More
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| British Artist Susan Collins at De La Warr Pavillion |
BEXHILL ON SEA, UK.-A new body of work by British artist Susan Collins combining digital technologies with the classical traditions of English landscape painting, Seascape presents an extraordinary visual exploration into the natural cycles of tide, time and light. Seascape consists of a series of gradually unfolding digital seascapes created using imagery captured in real time by webcams installed at five key coastal vantage points on the South Coast between Margate and Portsmouth. Sited at each location for up to a year before the start of the show, the webcams record the endless fluctuations in the light that are a characteristic feature of the English coastline, and which have attracted painters for generations....More
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| Fake or Faint Exhibition Project Presents Amy Granat, Annja Krautgasser and Katrin Mayer |
BERLIN.- The fourth scenario of fake or feint exhibition project presents a series of photographs by Amy Granat, a media installation by Annja Krautgasser and a space installation by Katrin Mayer. In Amy Granat's series The W.Lee Prints #1-10 the photographic surface becomes the setting for a fragmented mediality. The scratching of the image carrier, the use of acids, light cones and cross fadings leave distinct traces. This often destructive use of the physical basics of image transmission, such as the film base, chemicals and light, allow for an expansion of photographic vocabulary. Regarding the employed graphical material (photographed book covers, pictures, text pages and arrangements of simple objects) the technical intervention appears ...More
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