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| Art Cologne 2009 Opens with 184 Art Galleries from 20 Countries Participating |
The director of Art Cologne 2009, Daniel Hug, poses in front of several works of art that will be exhibited in Cologne, Germany. In this edition of the art fair, which lasts five days, 184 galleries from 20 countries will participate. Photo: EFE/Oliver Berg.
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COLOGNE.- ART COLOGNE 2009 will run from 22 to 26 April. The Fair will relocate from Halls 4 and 5 of the Cologne Trade Fair Centre to a more popular venue, Hall 11. The new venue is just one feature of a move to enhance the Fair in terms of improved layout and architecture. Scope and format will be consolidated. Changes on the management side included the appointment of the Düsseldorf gallerist Hans Mayer to the Advisory Committee....More
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| Exhibition Documents Resurgence of Drawing as a Medium in Contemporary Art through Major Gift |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, an exhibition that features 300 works by over 150 artists from this collection. This exhibition, the largest drawings exhibition ever mounted at MoMA, features selections from the donation of approximately 2,500 works on paper by more than 650 artists that...More
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| City of Linz to Return Gustav Klimt Painting to Descendants of Jewish Family |
LINZ.- The Mayor of Linz, Franz Dobusch, announced yesterday that the town will return the painting titled, Portrait of a Woman (Ria Munk) made by Gustav Klimt to the descendants of a Jewish family who were robbed of it by the Nazis.
An independent expert has confirmed the painting was seized from Mrs Munk by the Nazis after she was deported to a concentration camp where she died in 1941....More
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| 17th Century Painting that Belonged to a Jewish Art Dealer Returned |
NEW YORK, NY.- A 17th century painting is back in the hands of its rightful owner 72 years after it was stolen by the Nazis. Today, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, returned the painting ...More
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| Reina Sofia Museum Presents a Major Solo Retrospective of Juan Muñoz's Work |
MADRID.- Juan Muñoz (1953 – 2001) is widely regarded as of one of the foremost contemporary sculpture and installation artists. Revealing his innovative and wide ranging artistic practice, Reina Sofía Museum presents a major solo retrospective of Muñoz’s work....More
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| New Galleries Opening at Nelson-Atkins Museum Present Fresh View of American Artistic Expression |
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Sarah and Landon Rowland American Art Galleries, an expansion and major reinstallation of the American art collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will open April 22, providing a fresh view of the range of artistic expression that shaped American culture from the Colonial era to World War II....More
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| Rijksmuseum Acquires International Sculptures through a Donation from the Dutch Lottery |
AMSTERDAM.- Thanks to a donation from the Dutch lottery BankGiro Lottery, the Rijksmuseum has acquired five sculptures, all of which make an exceptional contribution to the Rijksmuseum’s international collection of sculptures. The exhibition gives an impression of the diversity of European sculpture over three centuries. The highlight of the exhibition is a life-sized ...More
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| Tate Britain Re-stages William Blake's 1809 Solo Exhibition |
LONDON.- Tate Britain unveiled the first display devoted to William Blake’s only one-man exhibition, reuniting nine of the surviving works two hundred years after they went on display in May 1809. The original exhibition was Blake’s most significant attempt to create a public reputation for himself as a painter and provided a vital insight into the artist’s self-image and ambitions. A new edition of Blake’s ...More
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| Sadie Benning's Play Pause Opens at the Whitney Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- First shown at the Whitney in the 1993 Biennial, Sadie Benning now presents her latest video installation Play Pause (2006) as part of the Whitney’s Contemporary Series. Recognized for her experimental narrative videos, which she started making in the late 1980s, Benning’s two-channel, thirtyminute video ...More
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| Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern at the American Folk Art Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- Scintillating wheels, shifting ellipses, and colored fragments all sparkle in the dazzling quilts of Paula Nadelstern. Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern is the American Folk Art Museum's first one-person exhibition highlighting the work of a contemporary quilt artist. On view from April 21 - ...More
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| Israel Museum Announces $12-Million Gift Supporting Campus Enhancement Project |
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today announced a $12-million gift from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation for the renovation, reinstallation, and endowment of its newly renamed Edmond and Lily Safra Fine Arts Wing. The gift recognizes the unique and longstanding relationship between the Museum and Mr. and Mrs. ...More
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| Bouyant Sales and Steady Attendance at First SOFA Fair Produced by New Venture |
NEW YORK, NY.- Long considered the world's foremost fair for masterworks bridging contemporary decorative, fine art and design, the 12th annual International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory enjoyed buoyant sales and steady crowds from the vernissage on April 15 straight through its four day run ending on Sunday, April 19....More
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| Sotheby's to Offer African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s spring sale of African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art will be held on May 15, 2009, and will offer collectors a selection of tribal arts from important American and international private collections. The sale will comprise an especially rich offering of Oceanic works of art, several of which are the best of their kind. Works from the sale will be exhibited simultaneously with the single-owner sale of The Sculptor’s Eye: African and Oceanic Art from the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation beginning May 9....More
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| "Now What Architecture?" Symposium at the Guggenheim May 14 and 15 |
NEW YORK, NY.- In his 1931 Kahn Lecture at Princeton University, Frank Lloyd Wright posed the seminal question: “Now what architecture?” Over the course of his seventy-year long career, Wright taught his contemporaries how to connect time, place, and people through architecture. Today, fifty years after his death in 1959 and coinciding with opening events for the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, Wright’s question forms the basis for a two-day ...More
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| Due to Popular Demand the Boston Athenaeum Extends "Vanderwarker's Pantheon: Minds and Matter in Boston" |
BOSTON, MA.- Due to popular demand, The Boston Athenæum will extend for an additional week “Vanderwarker’s Pantheon: Minds and Matter in Boston,” an exhibition of photographs by the distinguished Boston artist Peter Vanderwarker. The exhibition must close on May 9, 2009, in The Boston Athenæum’s gallery, located at 10 ½ Beacon Street on Beacon Hill near the State House....More
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| 22nd European Media Art Festival Opens in Osnabrueck |
OSNABRUECK.- Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 22nd European Media Art Festival. The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics ...More
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| Denver Art Museum to Debut 17 New Site-Specific Installations this November |
DENVER, CO.- This November, the Denver Art Museum will present Embrace!, an exhibition of unique site-specific installations in the museum’s Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Featuring 17 new works in a range of media, Embrace! marks one of the ...More
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| Mattress Factory Announces Twelfth Gestures Exhibition |
PITTSBURGH, PA.- On May 8, 2009, the twelfth installment of the Mattress Factory’s Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works series will open with a reception at the museum’s annex gallery located at 1414 Monterey Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side....More
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| National Air and Space Museum and District of Columbia Public Schools Receive Grow Up Great with Science Grant from PNC |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The PNC Foundation has awarded the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum a two-year grant of $384,000 to improve science education for pre-kindergarten students in District of Columbia Public Schools. The Grow Up Great with Science grant was announced today at an educational activity day and ...More
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