 | | Guggenheim Museum and Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Celebrate Visionary Architect | 
Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943–59, Exterior view. © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
| NEW YORK, NY.- Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. On view from May 15 through August 23, 2009, the 50th anniversary exhibition brings together 64 projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures. Presented on the spiral ramps of Wright’s museum through a range of media—including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, as well as newly commissioned models and digital animations&...More
| | Structure and Ornament - The Painting and Its Frame Opens at The Lichtenstein Museum | VIENNA.-From 15 May 2009 to 12 January 2010 the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM will be staging the exhibition STRUCTURE AND ORNAMENT which presents a cross-section of the history and typology of the frame from the late medieval period to the 19th century. It will also showcase the various different techniques involved, from construction...More
| | Vincent Fantauzzo Wins the 2009 Archibald People's Choice Prize | SYDNEY.- Melbourne artist, Vincent Fantauzzo has won the Archibald People's Choice Prize for his portrait of child actor Brandon Walters. Vincent Fantauzzo was highly commended at last year’s Archibald Prize for his triple-image portrait of his friend Heath Ledger, painted just weeks before the actor’s death. The painting also won the People’s Choice Award. This year his subject is Brandon Walters, who played the young...More
| | The Art Institute of Chicago Inaugurates Modern Wing Designed By Renzo Piano | CHICAGO.- The Art Institute of Chicago is celebrating the May 16 opening of its new Modern Wing with a week of free admission. The 264,000-square-foot Renzo Piano-designed addition is the largest expansion in the museum's history. The Modern Wing increases the museum's size to more than a million square feet, making it the second largest art museum in the United States....More
| | Everson Welcomes Frank Warren's PostSecret Exhibition | SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to announce it will host PostSecret, an exhibition of Frank Warren’s internationally recognized art project, May 16 – July 12, 2009.The exhibition is free and open to the public. “Through a community art project, Warren’s postcards have evolved into a truly extraordinary phenomenon” said Debora Ryan, Everson Museum of Art Senior Curator. “We are excited to display these small, but deeply moving portraits of the human psyche.”...More
| | ART HK 09: Hong Kong International Art Fair Has a Strong Start | HONG KONG.-ART HK 09 opened yesterday to a heady atmosphere of excitement as Hong Kong’s elite and key Asian collectors from across the region joined the thousands who visited the Fair on it’s first day. The mood was heightened as those gallerists seeking new territory in the evolving international art market reported robust sales. The day saw a delighted Lisson Gallery (who are featuring a solo show by Julian Opie), selling seven works; several Gibert and George...More
| | MFAH will Present Most Comprehensive US Exhibition of Korean Photography | HOUSTON, TX.- This October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Korean photography to ever be shown in the United States. Organized by Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the MFAH, and Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography...More
| | Unspoken Messages: The Art of the Necklace at Minneapolis Institute of Arts | MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An exhibition showcasing the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ recent acquisition of an exceptional early 19th-century Hawaiian necklace made of woven human hair and ivory, along with other necklaces in the museum’s collection, is on view June 6 through September 13, 2009. “Unspoken Messages: The Art of the Necklace” features jewelry from many of the world’s cultures...More
| | Meissen Snuff-box Last Sold In 1855 for 16 Pounds, Now Estimated To Fetch Over GBP25,000 | LONDON.- Christie’s upcoming sale Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes offers collectors an incredible opportunity to purchase a unique treasure with exceptional provenance, on sale for the first time in nearly two centuries: a Meissen gold-mounted circular snuff-box and cover, circa 1738 (estimate: £25,000-40,000) illustrated above. This...More
| | Prague Biennale 4 Presented With Prague Biennale Photo 1 | PRAGUE.-Polymorphous, multifaceted, multicultural and in continuous dialogue with itself as well as with its audience; these are the qualities of PRAGUE BIENNALE 4, presented this year together with PRAGUE BIENNALE PHOTO 1. Prague Biennale directors Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova have created an open forum on painting, presenting this issue through several...More
| | Workshop Missoni: Daring to Be Different at The Estorick Collection | LONDON.-The Estorick Collection is delighted to be hosting an exhibition focusing on the iconic Italian fashion house Missoni from 1 July to 20 September 2009 at 39a Canonbury Square, London N1. A pioneer of the aesthetic and technical innovations that forever changed the face of knitwear, Missoni is one of the world's most recognisable modern fashion brands, with a distinctive style marked by the complex combination of different shades, textures and patterns. The Missoni style has evolved out of a long-standing collaboration between the husband and wife team of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In the late 1940s, Ottavio Missoni established a workshop producing jersey tracksuits that were also sported by the Italian Athletic Team at the 1948 London Olympics, where Ottavio himself ...More
| | Austin Museum of Art Presents Season 32 of The TERRITORY Television Series | AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art announced the lineup for its annual television showcase of international film and video, The Territory. Scheduled to debut its 32nd season on Tuesday, May 26 at 10 PM. The Territory features fourteen programs that blend experimental, documentary, narrative and animated shorts from around the world. Produced by the Austin Museum of Art, the Southwest Alternate Media Project/Houston and KUHT-TV/Houston, The Territory will air weekly on KLRU-TV, Channel 9.
The Territory 32 highlights the work of artists from Texas, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, Australia, Argentina, Columbia, Korea, and Israel. Within the 30-minute format, artists experiment with techniques and ...More
| | The Cartier Award 2009: Winner Announced | LONDON.- Frieze Art Fair is delighted to announce that the winner of The Cartier Award 2009 is the American artist Jordan Wolfson. Wolfson is a talented conceptual artist, based in Berlin and New York. His winning proposal was selected from over 450 applications. Once again, entries to the Cartier Award were made by artists from all over the world. For Frieze Art Fair 2009, sponsored for the sixth year by Deutsche Bank, Wolfson will present a new site-specific work. The Cartier Award is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading art awards. It allows an emerging artist from outside the UK to realise a major project at Frieze Art Fair as part of the critically acclaimed Frieze Projects programme. Neville Wakefield, curator of Frieze Projects, commenting on the announcement ...More
| | New Orleans Museum of Art Announces The Minds Eye: Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See? | NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From May 16 to October 11, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a new exhibition of abstract prints and drawings, The Mind’s Eye: Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See?...More
| | Jersey City Museum Presents Investigations of Place Screening and Reception | JERSER CITY, NJ.- Jersey City Museum is pleased to be part of JC Fridays on Friday, June 5th, 2009! In honor of JC Fridays, Jersey City Museum will offer extended gallery hours with free admission for all guests from 11am-8pm. Then at 6pm, JCM hosts a special screening and reception for the new 1x1 video exhibition, Investigations of Place. Short films from Investigations of Place will be shown on rotation in the museum's theater throughout the evening. In addition, an ambient sound installation will be performed in the museum's atrium by artists Jeff Thompson and Matt Ortega. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served....More
| | "Whole In The Wall: 1970 - Now" Largest U.S. Street Art Exhibition Debuts in NYC | NEW YORK.- Masters from the 1970s NYC graf movement (Blade, Crash, Daze, Jonone, Quik, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Sharp) and European art stars (Victor Ash, Banksy, Blek le Rat, Ikon, Sozyone, Plateus) are among 19 painters, sculptors and photographers who’ve been working non-stop the last six months on new pieces for “Whole In The Wall: 1970 – Now”. It’s an unprecedented, museum-quality, 150-piece exploration of street art’s ongoing transition to, yes, fine art.
It’s not just the scale of the show that’s important. It’s presented in a lavish style only Europeans could pull off — with 17th Century antiques. This juxtaposition of authentic Luis XVI/XV furniture and crystal chandeliers in a two-story, 25,000-sf space on Manhattan’s industrial West Side puts the artists and their work in a setting Paris gallerists Chantal and Brigitte Helenbeck (Helenbeck Gallery) believe is simply . . . approprié....More
| | Artist Patrick Dougherty to Speak About his Tree Sculpture at KU | LAWRENCE.- World-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty will give an artist's talk about his work, which consists of large-scale tree sculptures, on Thursday, May 21 at 5:30 PM in the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public. In conjunction with Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture, Dougherty is serving as artist in residence at the Spencer during the month of May. He is creating a tree-sapling sculpture outside The Commons @ Spooner Hall: http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/exhibitions/artist-in-residence/dougherty.shtml...More
| | Museum Staffers Stoke Artistic Fires After Hours | NORFOLK, VA.- There's always something new to learn about your co-workers. That's the obvious lesson of After Hours: Works by the Chrysler Staff—opening in the Museum's Waitzer Community Gallery on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. This first exhibition of works of art created by Museum employees features 24 artists whose day jobs alone apparently do not satiate their desire for art in their lives. Both on and off the job, they eat, sleep, breathe, and create art. And their choices of medium echo those on display in our workplace: paintings, sculptures, glass, porcelain, prints, pastels, drawings, and photographs. ...More
| | Museum Gala Draws a Great Crowd for a Great Cause | JERSEY CITY.-Jersey City Museum's Sixth Annual ArtRageous Ball was held on April 30th, 2009 at The Westin Jersey City. With 200 guests from the worlds of real estate, financial services, the arts, and government, the evening began with a cocktail reception featuring the drink of the evening: the "ART-tini." Cocktails were followed by dinner, music and dancing, a Silent Art Auction featuring work by 20 artists from the region, and a Luxury Prize Raffle. Fidelity Investments served as the Lead Sponsor of the event. Congressman Frank J. Guarini, JPMorgan Chase, Hughes Hubbard & Reed,, Panepinto Properties, SK Properties, Bank of America, The Provident Bank, PSE&G, The Exeter Property Company, Sovereign Bank and United Water were also among the sponsors of this year's event.
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