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| The Art Gallery of Ontario Presents Surreal Things, Organized by London's V&A |
René Magritte, born Lessines, Belgium, 1898; died Brussels, Belgium, 1967, The Tempest, 1931, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 64.1 cm, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy. © Estate of René Magritte / SODRAC (2009).
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TORONTO.- This summer, reality will be suspended at the Art Gallery of Ontario as it welcomes Surreal Things, an innovative exhibition organized by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. A Canadian exclusive which runs May 9 to August 30, 2009, this is the first exhibition to examine the influence of Surrealism on the world of design as expressed in, theatre, interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising. The show explores how some of the greatest artists of the 20th century engaged with Surrealism to create extraordinary objects. Surreal Things showcases more than 200 items drawn from public and private collections worldwide, many of which have rarely been exhibited before. The exhibition highlights the work of Surrealist artists and designers who were ...More
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| Sotheby's to Offer Jusepe de Ribera's Darmatic Prometheus in Spectacular Single-Owner Sale |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced a two-day single-owner sale of property from The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection at its New Bond Street saleroom on the evening of Wednesday, July 8, 2009 and then the following day on Thursday, July 9. As an art connoisseur, humanitarian and philanthropist, Barbara Piasecka Johnson - the wife of the late J. Seward Johnson Sr, one of the ...More
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| Auckland Art Gallery to Receive Works of Art Including Paintings by Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse |
AUCKLAND CITY.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki today announced a promised gift of 15 works of art to the gallery through its Foundation – including well-known paintings by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Piet Mondrian – the largest gift ever made to an art museum in Australasia. The gift, from New York art collectors...More
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| High will Premier New Exhibition of Digital Portraits by Photographer Robert Weingarten |
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will premier an exhibition of new work by California-based photographer Robert Weingarten in January 2010. Consisting of twenty large-scale (60 x 90 in.) digitally created portraits of American icons, Weingarten’s project represents a bold departure from traditional camera portraiture. In “The Portrait Unbound” Weingarten has...More
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| Record Attendance and Strong Sales Buck Recessionary Art Market Trends |
NEW YORK.- The 16th annual International Fine Art Fair from 1st-5th May at the Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City proved that while the world’s economy is in fragile shape, the art market remains remarkably resilient. Attendance was significantly up...More
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| VIENNAFAIR The International Contemporary Art Fair FOCUSED ON CEE 2009 |
VIENNA.- “One month before the opening of the fifth edition of the >VIENNAFAIR< on May 6, 2009, we are pleased that we can still announce new registrations of galleries. This is a major signal demonstrating the attractiveness of the art venue Vienna and the >VIENNAFAIR<”, comments Matthias Limbeck, managing director in charge of New Business, Marketing & CEE/SEE at fair organiser Reed Exhibitions Messe...More
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| Sotheby's Chinese Sale to be Highlighted by Fine Imperial Cloisonne Enamel and Gilt-Bronze Censer |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London biannual auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art will take place on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 and will present more than 250 lots of ceramics, textiles, paintings and works of art (ivory, soapstone, jade and bronze), which span from the Han and Tang Dynasties through to Qing. The upcoming sale will be highlighted by a fine Imperial Qianlong ...More
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| Discover the Resilience of Humankind Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan |
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The contemporary artist Beverly Buchanan creates works that speak to the integrity, resilience and resolution of humankind. Her drawings and sculpture will be on view in the Asheville Art Museum’s solo exhibition Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan opening Friday, May 8, 2009 with a reception with artist Beverly Buchanan from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. that evening....More
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| Colby Museum of Art Celebrates 50 Years with Art at Colby |
WATERVILLE, ME.- A museum-wide exhibit, Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, will be on view July 11, 2009, to February 21, 2010, to mark the founding of the museum in 1959, a half century ago. A 376-page book of the same title, featuring 202 color illustrations, will be published to accompany the exhibition. Art at Colby will present works acquired early in the museum's history...More
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| Major Retrospective Exhibition of Noted Modern American Painter Cleve Gray |
COLUMBIA, SC.- Cleve Gray: Man and Nature, a 30-year retrospective of noted American painter Cleve Gray, will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art from June 26 through September 27, 2009. The exhibition illustrates the full progression of Gray's career as he developed his signature gestural style between 1970 and 2004, the year he died at age 86. Man and Nature is the first comprehensive touring exhibition of Gray's work and is the only museum exhibition to date...More
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| Light Years: Photography and Space Opens at National Gallery of Victoria |
MELBOURNE.-A fascinating exhibition featuring photographs of space travel and images inspired by space will open at the National Gallery of Victoria on 8 May. Light Years: Photography and Space will feature around 50 works drawn entirely from the NGV Collection. Focusing largely on the 1960s and '70s, the exhibition will include photographs taken during early NASA missions. The exhibition celebrates the International Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the first Moon walk....More
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| DIA Art Foundation Announces Appointment of Yasmil Raymond as Curator |
NEW YORK, NY.- Philippe Vergne, director of Dia Art Foundation, today announced the appointment of Yasmil Raymond as curator, effective September 2009. Ms. Raymond is currently associate curator, visual arts, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. She succeeds Lynne Cooke, curator from 1991 to 2009, who now serves in an honorary capacity as Dia's curator at large. Since Summer 2008, Ms. Cooke has been deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid....More
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| Return of the Original Bowling Throw Down Art Benefit - STRIKE III |
NEW YORK.- As the art world gears up for the spring benefit season, Visual AIDS, is urging supporters to ditch their formal wear, don their sharpest bowling-chic ensembles and show off their perfected armswing skills at this year's STRIKE III event. Come party at the lanes with artists, activists, collectors and luminaries – 'Kingpins' in their own right as they continue to support this bowling benefit tradition already celebrating its third anniversary. Visual AIDS is thrilled to recognize distinguished art critic and historian Professor Douglas Crimp, and artists Nayland Blake and Hunter Reynolds. The Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards recognize artists and arts workers who exemplify the mission of Visual AIDS via their commitment to HIV/AIDS advocacy, education, prevention, and their support of artists with HIV/AIDS....More
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| Noguchi Museum Honors Leonard and Louise Riggio at Annual Benefit |
NEW YORK.- On May 5, 2009, The Noguchi Museum honored Leonard and Louise Riggio, among the country's most enlightened philanthropists, at the Museum's annual benefit. Mr. and Mrs. Riggio were recognized for their arts patronage in general and for their generous promised gift to the Museum of nine stone sculptures created by Noguchi between 1983 and 1986. The works were promised to the Museum in 2001, with the understanding that the arrangement would not be announced at that time. However, the Riggios recently granted the Museum's request to make the promised gift public, in the hopes that news of their actions might encourage others at a time when patronage means more than ever to cultural institutions....More
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| VCU Students Named Javits Fellows |
RICHMOND, VA.- Two graduate sculpture students in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts have been selected for the prestigious Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Ian McMahon and Nataliya Slinko, who are both MFA candidates in the Department of Sculpture, became the fifth and sixth students from the sculpture program to be named Javits Fellows in the past six years. Javits Fellowships are awarded to graduate students of superior academic ability in the arts, humanities and social sciences. There are typically only five to seven Javits recipients each year in the studio arts, which includes sculpture. Javits awardees receive payment annually for tuition and fees and a generous stipend for four years. ...More
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| Frieze Art Fair 2009: Details Announced |
LONDON.- The Directors of Frieze Art Fair, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, have announced today the details of the 2009 fair. Frieze Art Fair is the UK's most important art event and one of the world's most influential contemporary art fairs. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank for the sixth consecutive year, Frieze Art Fair 2009 is a tightly selected presentation of the most forward-thinking galleries from around the globe. The selected galleries will present outstanding work by over 1,000 of the world's most innovative artists and these works will be presented alongside Frieze Art Fair's unique curatorial programme of artists' projects. Frieze Art Fair helps set the international contemporary art agenda....More
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| Ohio University Explores Links Between Art and Terror |
ATHENS, OH.- Terror has quickly become a common concern worldwide. From devastating political attacks to smaller, more isolated incidents of aggression, violent forms of terror have flooded the growing stream of 24-hour news outlets. However, while it’s true that terror-filled images have become more and more prevalent in the past eight years, it’s not a new phenomenon. An interdisciplinary panel including members from the College of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Sciences and Center for International Studies realized the human fascination with terror in art and thus organized the Arts and Terror International Conference. The conference, which will take place from Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17, aims to find out how the proliferative depictions of terror in media affect the population as a whole, as well as the perception of terrible events. ...More
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| Sir Ken Robinson to Deliver Keynote Address at Rhode Island School of Design's 2009 Commencement |
PROVIDENCE, RI.- On Saturday, May 30, at 10am, graduating students from Rhode Island School of Design will receive their hard-earned diplomas during RISD's lively Commencement celebration. The 473 undergraduates and 187 graduate students will gather at the First Baptist Church at 75 North Main Street, where the processional will work its way down the Providence riverwalk. The annual RISD Commencement ceremony is held outdoors on South Water Street at Power Street, at the southern end of RISD's east side campus. RISD Commencement is a true representation of the students' time spent at RISD, where their spirits of individuality and creative minds come to life via both playful and innovative ensembles created specially for the occasion and the thoughtful adornment of otherwise traditional caps and gowns. ...More
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| Judd Foundation Receives Unanimous Support of To Restore Donald Judd's Former Home and Studio |
NEW YORK, NY.- Judd Foundation announced the unanimous support of members of both the Landmarks Committee of Community Board 2 and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission for the Foundation's plans to restore 101 Spring Street, the five-storey cast iron building that was the New York City home and studio of artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). This is one of 16 of his private living and working spaces that are maintained and preserved by Judd Foundation in New York and Texas. According to Executive Director Barbara Hunt McLanahan, "This show of support from both our neighbors and preservation professionals is a major endorsement and gives us great hope that we will be able to move forward with our plans for the restoration of the building"....More
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| Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Opens Carey Young: Speech Acts |
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- In May 2009, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Speech Acts, British-based artist Carey Young’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Foregrounding her performative and participative practice, Young launches a series of “call center art...More
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| Call To Artists - A Celebration of the Bow River |
CALGARY.- The City of Calgary Public Art Program invites artists to submit an Expression of Interest for the inaugural Watermarks – A Celebration of the Bow River, taking place June through to September 2010. With historic Memorial Drive as the venue, Watermarks will celebrate the cultural, historic, social and environmental legacy of the Bow River. Artists will engage viewers through the creation of temporary public art interventions that draw people to the river, create remarkable experiences and present new perspectives on current environmental issues and ideas. ...More
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