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| Pompeii Frescoes Go Back on View at Naples Museum After Ten Year Restoration |
There are 400 frescoes in total, exceptionally conserved by the ashes from Mount Vesuvius which wiped out the city in 79 AD. Photo: EFE.
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NAPLES.- The frescoes from the City of Pompeii will again go on view starting tomorrow in Naples with their original splendor after a restoration process that has lasted more than 10 years and that has not allowed the public to see what might as well be the best collection of Roman painting. There are 400 frescoes in total, exceptionally conserved by the ashes from Mount Vesuvius which wiped out the city in 79 AD. The frescoes will now be on view at the Naples National Archaeological Museum....More
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| Turner Shortlist Includes Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright |
LONDON.- Organizers of this years Turner Prize have announced the shortlist. The four artists nominated for Turner Prize 2009 are Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright.
The Turner Prize is a contemporary art award that was set up in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art....More
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| MoMA Revisits What "Good Design" was Over 50 Years Later |
NEW YORK, NY.- At mid-century, The Museum of Modern Art played a leading role in the definition and dissemination of ‘Good Design,’ a concept that started taking shape in the 1930s and emerged with new relevance and currency in America and Europe in the decades following World War II. What was Good Design? MoMA’s ...More
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| Exceptional Range of Post-War and Contemporary Art Offered at Christie's Day Sales |
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 14, following the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, Christie’s New York will hold the morning and afternoon sessions of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sales. Offering over 330 lots over the course of the day, both sales are comprised of exceptional works by foremost Post-War and Contemporary artists including Sam Francis, Alexander Calder, Dan Flavin, Claes ...More
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| Getty Trust Cuts Budget by 27% and will Lay Off 205 Employees |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Board of the J. Paul Getty Trust approved the Getty’s 2010 fiscal year budget on Wednesday, April 15. The FY10 endowment budget of $216 million, plus one-time transition costs of $3.9 million, representing a 24 percent reduction from the previous year, will be effective July 1, 2009. The new budget reflects reduced income from the Getty’s endowment, which has declined about 27 percent since July and totaled $4.2 billion as of March 31....More
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| Sotheby's To Offer Rare Items as Part of its Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Sale |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will offer in its forthcoming Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History sale, to be held in London on Thursday 7th May 2009, a magnificent pair of 17th century terrestrial and celestial globes by the eminent globe-maker Vicenzo Coronelli (lot 121, est. £150,000-200,000), inspired by those he created for Louis XIV. Sale highlights also include unique and highly personal first-hand accounts of voyages, discoveries and exploration - among ...More
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| Jeff Koons' Baroque Egg with Bow Leads Sotheby's Sale of Contemporary Art in May |
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s May 12, 2009 evening sale of Contemporary Art in New York includes key examples by celebrated artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jeff Koons, Alexander Calder, David Smith, Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellsworth Kelly and Andy Warhol. It also features an exciting group of property comprising important works by artists who rarely ...More
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Announces Nine Free Community Days in 2009 |
BOSTON, MA.- In an effort to make the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), even more accessible to the community, Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA, has announced a new initiative, titled 9 in ’09, that offers free Museum admission once per month (nine times) through 2009. Many of these nine community days ...More
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| Peabody Museum Presents Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim |
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a new exhibition and publication, Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim. As the first recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, Guy Tillim traveled through Angola, Mozambique, Congo, and ...More
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| Austin Museum of Art Explores The Art of Memory in Exhibition |
AUSTIN, TX.- Family photo albums, Road Runner cartoons, the works of Shakespeare, and Barack Obama’s presidential primary campaign are just some of the subjects explored in AMOA’s upcoming exhibition, The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art. This international exhibition, opening to the ...More
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| 21c Museum Exhibit Premiere of New Work by Photographer Elena Dorfman |
LOUISVILLE, KY.- New works by photographer Elena Dorfman commissioned by 21c Museum are on view for the first time in the exhibition, Pleasure Park: The Horses. The photographic portraits of thoroughbreds were taken in the studio—outside the context of either the race track or the horse farm—provoking a fresh look at these familiar animals. Pleasure Park: The Horses marks the third ...More
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| The Baltimore Museum of Art Presents Baker Artist Awards 2009 Inaugural Exhibition of Winners |
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art celebrates the 10 inaugural winners of the Baker Artist Awards with an exhibition of sculpture, photography, drawings, and multimedia presentations displayed in three galleries of the Museum’s West Wing of Contemporary Art. On view April 29 through June 28, ...More
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| SFMOMA Announces it will Show Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- As a highlight of its summer exhibitions schedule, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946–2004, on view from July 11 through November 29, 2009....More
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| Colby Museum Announces Online Searchable Art Database |
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art announces the launch of its new Web Kiosk, a searchable online database. The kiosk features information about more than 6,000 objects from the permanent collection, almost 2,500 of which include digital images. Highlights include the majority of works from The Alex Katz Collection, ...More
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| A Constant Line: Cheryle Melander and Don Myhre at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents "A Constant Line," a new exhibition celebrating the works of Minnesota artists Cheryle Melander and Donald Myhre. Containing mostly sculpture, this show explores the intricacies of memory and the way society ...More
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| Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Gateway Foundation Announce Funding and Selected Jurors for Biennial |
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Paul Ha, Director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, has announced that the Gateway Foundation will generously sponsor the Great Rivers Biennial Awards Program in 2010. The innovative program awards three area artists with $20,000 each and an exhibition at the Contemporary....More
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| Lenett Lecture to Focus on Tavern Sign Conservation |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Over the past year, Williams College graduate student Rebecca R. (Ruthie) Dibble has conserved a Connecticut tavern sign from the collection of the Connecticut Historical Society. Her Lenett Fellow project culminates with the free lecture "Conserving the Abel Lewis Tavern Sign" on Wednesday, May 6, at 5:30 pm, in Hunter Studio at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's Stone Hill Center. Seating is limited....More
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| SAMA Celebrates Museum Reach Expansion with New Exhibition of Water-Themed Work |
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- In celebration of the opening of the newly expanded Museum Reach of the Riverwalk this May, San Antonio Museum of Art will present Waterflow, an exhibition of recent works by fifteen Texas artists who have been inspired by water. ...More
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| Photographs from the 2009 Presidential Inauguration Opens at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Images highlighting the weeklong events surrounding the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama will go on view April 29 in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's new exhibition, "I Do Solemnly Swear: Photographs of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration." More than 30 framed color and black-and-white photographs taken by 15 professional and amateur photographers and two photographic slide shows will be on exhibition through July 12....More
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| Painted Ladies and Gents - Live Art and Costume Parades Inspired by the National Gallery Collection |
LONDON.- Princes, showgirls, painted ladies and dazzling gentlemen will descend on central London this spring to take part in a series of live art events and costume parades through Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery....More
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