 |
| MoMA Explores Relationship Between Built Environment and Surrounding Landscape |
Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959), Fallingwater, Edgar J. Kaufmann House Mill Run, Pennsylvania (1934-37). Acrylic, wood, metal, expanded polystyrene, and paint. 40 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 47 5/8" (102.9 x 181.6 x 121 cm) The Museum of Modern Art. Best Products Company Inc. Architecture Fund, 1984
|
NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes towards landscape over the last 100 years. Featuring approximately 60 drawings, models, and videos, projects include single houses that frame the landscape, designs for buildings based on the surrounding landscape, urban gardens that compose “nature” within the city, and parks that transform former industrial areas into new attractions. The exhibition closes with three cemeteries whose designs demonstrate that our relationship to landscape often transcends our quotidian needs. The exhibition is on view in The Philip ...More
|
| Como Shows Exhibition by Masters of Russian Avant-garde: Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich |
COMO.- The Villa Olmo is showcasing eighty works – including oil paintings, tempera works and drawings from leading Russian museums and private collections – tracing the great period of Russian avant-garde art from the beginning of the twentieth century to the early 1930s, with masterpieces by Vassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevič and Pavel Filonov.
More than 400,000 visitors over five years of exhibitions: this number confirms the success of shows organised by the Como Municipality and dedicated respectively to the great works of Mirò, Picasso, Magritte, the Impressionists, and works held in the Belvedere in Vienna....More
|
| Monumental Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture Acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The monumental sculpture “Modern Head” by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), a major figure in the pop art movement, now is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection.
In 1996, “Modern Head” was installed by the Public Art Fund of New York City in Battery Park City, one block from the World Trade Center. The sculpture survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack with only surface scratches and temporarily was used by the FBI as a message board during its investigation. The sculpture was removed from the site on Nov. 9, 2001, and was subsequently on view at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., and at the ...More
|
| Matisse, Giacometti, and Miro to Highlight Christie's Spring Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- A trio of exceptional modern works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Joan Miró are among the highlights of this spring's Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 6th. These striking master works – a painting and two sculptures – come from the private collection of the late Caral Gimbel Lebworth, a prominent New York philanthropist and arts patron who amassed dozens of paintings and decorative objects from the leading artists of the 19th and 20th centuries during her lifetime. Lebworth was ...More
|
| American Masters Exhibition Returns to the Salmagundi Club |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Salmagundi Club is pleased to announce its second annual American Masters Fine Art Show and Sale, which will be on display April 29 through May 7, 2009, at 47 Fifth Avenue. The exhibition will be open to the public daily, 12:00-6:00 PM. The American Masters Sale will be held Friday, May 1, from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM. A limited number of tickets are available for this Gala Event, and are $175 per person and $300 per couple. Net proceeds of the sale will go towards the Club's Gallery Renovation Fund....More
|
| Jimson Weed Returns from the White House and Georgia O'Keeffe: Beyond Our Shores |
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will present two special exhibitions for its summer visitors in galleries eight and nine: Jimson Weed Returns from the White House and Georgia O'Keeffe: Beyond Our Shores from May 22 - September 20, 2009. In addition, selections from the Museum's permanent collection will be on view in galleries one through seven....More
|
| 300 Portraits of Fourth-century Christian Saint Fabiola to be Shown at NPG in UK |
LONDON.-Created by the internationally acclaimed artist Francis Alÿs, Fabiola is an installation of over 300 portraits of a fourth-century Christian saint collected by the artist from flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and the Americas. These seemingly identical portraits, including paintings, embroideries and miniatures are all copies of a lost original of Fabiola by the French nineteenth-century painter, Jean-Jacques Henner. ...More
|
| Montclair Art Museum Announces Exhibition to Explore Influence of Cézanne on American Art |
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announces Cézanne and American Modernism, the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) upon modern American artists from 1907 to 1930. From September 13, 2009 – January 3, 2010, the exhibition will explore the critical ...More
|
| Snite Museum of Art Opens Italian Drawings Seminar Exhibition |
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art opens the exhibition Italian Drawings Seminar Exhibition in the Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery. This exhibition will present sixteenth-and seventeenth-century drawings by Italian masters that have been studied and investigated by students at the University of Notre Dame....More
|
| Collectors and Decorators to Attend Antibes Antiquity Dealers Exhibition |
ANTIBES.- Originaly designed by Jean Gismondi “to animate” the Old Antibes, set up by The Association of the Tradesmen, Craftsmen, Artists and Open in the Old Antibes which chaired access Claude Ammirati, then Jean Gismondi and finally Gerard Fantino, sponsored by Peynet who carried out all the posters, this Exhibition whose modesty was in its beginnings became one of the most important of France....More
|
| First Museum Survey of the Artistic Work by Kalup Linzy on View at Studio Museum in Harlem |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem presents Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit, the first museum survey of the artist’s work, which includes approximately 20 videos (narrative and music), and two drawing suites made over the last seven years....More
|
| Seattle Art Museum Honors Titus Kaphar, Inaugural Fellowship Recipient, with a Solo Exhibition |
SEATTLE, WA.- Contemporary artist Titus Kaphar is the inaugural Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellow at the Seattle Art Museum. Kaphar is featured in the first solo exhibition in SAM's Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Gallery through September 6, 2009....More
|
| Chazen Museum of Art Announces Exhibition of Kawase Hasui Color Woodcuts |
MADISON, WI.- The Chazen Museum of Art will present an exhibition of Japanese color woodcuts by Kawase Hasui, drawn primarily from its permanent collection.
Kawase Hasui began designing woodblock prints in the early twentieth-century, a ...More
|
| London Auction to Offer Photographs from the Realms of Cutting-edge Contemporary Art and Fashion |
LONDON.- Major works from realms of contemporary art and fashion as well as important master photographs will be offered at the forthcoming Phillips de Pury & Company Photographs sale to be held at the company’s London galleries on May 16 at 3 pm....More
|
| Fleisher Art Memorial Celebrates 20th Anniversary Founder's Award Gala By Honoring Three Philadelphia-Based Artists |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fleisher Art Memorial's Board of Directors and the Founder's Honorary Committee Co-Chairs, Governor Edward G. Rendell and Mayor Michael Nutter, are pleased to announce that Fleisher's 2009 Founder's Award will be presented to Louis Massiah, Executive Director of Scribe Video Center; Pepón Osorio, Professor, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; and Lily ...More
|
| Artwithoutwalls - A New Arts Organization Launches |
LOUISVILLE, KY.- artwithoutwalls—a new non-profit, non-collecting art organization that will work with artists to create installations and programs in a range of media and locations—launches today with a collaborative project by Turkish artist Serkan Ozkaya and The Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville, ...More
|
| Exhibition Explores Glamour and Influence of Paris Fashion in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- For well over a century, consumers of fashion in the United States have been inspired by the glamorous and cutting-edge fashions created in Paris. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850–1925,an exhibition of rarely seen works from its extensive collection of ...More
|
| Peabody Essex Museum Launches Photography Program with Surfland: Photographs by Joni Sternbach |
SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents more than 40 images of stunning luminosity and elegance in SurfLand, the first solo museum exhibition of photographer Joni Sternbach opening May 16, 2009. Sternbach captures portraits of surfers in tintype, a 19th-century technique little changed since its invention. The combination of historic process and contemporary subject is a dynamic one, yielding direct, timeless, one-of-a-kind images of individuals standing on the ...More
|
| Milwaukee Art Museum Announces Art in Bloom Award Winners |
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Over 11,500 people visited the visited the Milwaukee Art Museum during the Second Annual Art in Bloom exhibition, April 2-5, 2009. Presented by the Museum’s Garden Club and sponsored by the Wisconsin Energy Foundation, Art in Bloom also included lectures and workshops with celebrity floral designers and ...More
|
| New York State Museum Celebrates Earth Day on April 25 |
ALBANY, NY.- Visitors to the New York State Museum will have the chance to operate remote-control solar and fuel cell cars, see a puppet theater presentation, and participate in a wide variety of eco-friendly activities and programs at the annual Earth Day celebration on Saturday, April 25. ...More
|
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment