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| Carla Bruni Photograph Taken by Pamela Hanson to be Sold at Villa Grisebach Auktionen |
Pamela Hanson, Carla Bruni in Bed, 1994. Silbergelatineabzug, 2008. 38.9 x 58.1 cm.
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BERLIN.- This year’s spring auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin start off on June 4, 2009 with the sale of Modern and Contemporary photography including a copy of only ten numbered that exist of the image of the French First Lady taken by U.S. photographer Pamela Hanson. Also, among the 190 lots for sale, are a convolute of around two dozens photographs and two original glass negatives depicting the work of the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The top lots in this segment include Curt Rehbein’s vintage prints from 1922 depicting Mies van der Rohe’s famous model for a glass skyscraper (estimate of 10,000-15,000 EUR) as well as the architect’s project for the “Tower house at Friedrichstraße” (estimate of 5,000-10,000 EUR)....More
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| Painting with Connections to Captain Cook Bought for Captain Cook Memorial Museum |
LONDON.- A painting linked to the family of legendary explorer Captain Cook has gone on permanent display at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby. The pen, ink and watercolour work was painted by 18th century artist William Hodges and is entitled Matavai Bay, referring to the bay on the Pacific island of Tahiti which it depicts.
The painting was acquired with help from a £25,000 grant from independent ...More
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| Schirn Kunsthalle Addresses the Complex World of Contemporary Art in "The Making of Art" |
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition The Making of Art offers a look at the web of relationships of contemporary art, where the triangle of the artwork, the artist, and the viewer has long since been expanded in many ways. Not infrequently, the relationships between artists, collectors, dealers, curators, and critics influence the content of the works; often this is also illustrated: In a large survey from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition presents the positions of artists such as John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Ryan Gander, ...More
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| The Dallas Museum of Art Presents a New Way for Visitors to Experience the Museum's Collections |
DALLAS, TX.- This summer, the Dallas Museum of Art rolls out the red carpet to present the Summer Spotlight tour, inviting visitors to experience the romance, drama, action, and mystery of great works of art as they view them through a cinematic lens. Beginning in June and running through August, the Museum will highlight 30 of its masterworks, both old favorites in the collections and new acquisitions, to encourage viewers to look at great art in an exciting and different way. ...More
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| Walters Art Museum Announces the Temporary Closing of Some 19th-Century Galleries |
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum will temporarily close parts of its 19th-century collection, located on the fourth floor of the museum's Centre Street Building, from June 15 through July 10, 2009, for refurbishment and reinstallation. Some of these works will go on tour for the exhibition Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Jan. 30–May 2, 2010, ...More
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| PHotoEspaña 2009: BBVA Opens Exhibition of Photographs Made by Italian Ugo Mulas |
MADRID.- The BBVA presents photographs that Ugo Mulas took in the 60’s of such famous people such as Marcel Duchamp or Lucio Fontana. The exhibition presents in Spain one of the most famous journalist of Italian photography who performed works of a high conceptual implication....More
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| Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today Opens at Tate Liverpool |
LIVERPOOL.- At a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic design, fashion and interior design, Tate Liverpool will be presenting Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today. The exhibition looks at the shifting moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as ‘readymade’ rather than as scientific or expressive. Taking the commercial colour chart as its ...More
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| New Salvador Dali Exhibition at Chateau de Pommard in Bourgogne, France |
BOURGOGNE, FRANCE.- From April 25th until November 25th 2009, the Chateau de Pommard in Bourgogne, France, will welcome twenty eight selected pieces amongst them sculptures and engravings by Dali, for show in the chateau grounds. The exhibition has been organised by the Stratton Foundation whose president is Beniamino Levi and Dali Espace, France’s largest museum dedicated to Dali Sculpture and artworks, based in Montmartre, Paris. ...More
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| Comprehensive Examination of Herbert Tobias' Entire Oeuvre at Deichtorhallen |
HAMBURG.- Herbert Tobias is among the most important German photographers of the post-war period. He first became known for his unconventional fashion photography in Paris and Berlin in the 1950s and 60s. Today, he is famous above all for his atmospheric photographs of cityscapes, his subtle portraits and his erotic images of men. Tobias’ photographs are full of poetry, sensuality and suggestive power. With around 200 exhibits, ...More
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| East Meets West in Tyler Museum of Art's Summer Exhibition Fashioning Kimono |
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art casts an eye to the Far East as the venue prepares for its major summer exhibition, Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan.
The exhibition, opening to the public Sunday, June 7, and continuing through Aug. ...More
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| Dance of Colours: Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction on View at Hamburger Kunsthalle |
HAMBURG.- On 19 May 1909, the Russian dancer Vaslaw Nijinsky (1889-1950) and the ballet company Les Ballets Russes had their European premiere in Paris. Nijinsky immediately became an unrivalled star on the stages of Europe, and ranks as the most important dancer of the twentieth century until today. Apart from his exceptional career as a dancer and choreographer, Nijinsky also created large numbers of coloured paintings and gouaches in 1918 and 1919. These works...More
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| Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Continues the Young Exhibition Series with Compilation IV |
DUSSELDORF.- With Compilation IV, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf continues the young exhibition series initiated in 2003. The title points to the compilation and interplay of artistic positions that are thematically related or close in genre. After focusing successively on photography, film and video (2003), sculpture and installations (2005) and painting (2007), Compilation IV brings together artists of the younger generation who work in the media of drawing and collage. ...More
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| Rumble: Groundbreaking First Annual Contemporary Art Fair in Santa Barbara |
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Rumble Art debuted this January in conjunction with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival as the groundbreaking first annual contemporary art fair in Santa Barbara. The fair brought over 3,000 visitors with 500 alone on opening night as most of the artists were in attendance for scintillating open discussions amongst the spread of live jazz, local food and wine, and international faces. ...More
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| Artium Presents First In-depth Review of the Birth and Development of Experimental Poetry in Spain |
VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- Artium, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the exhibition It is written. Experimental poetry in the Spanish state (1963-1984) (Lower East Gallery, until September 20), possibly the most thorough examination made to date of the writers who played a major role in the birth and development of this creative movement, as well as their theoretical, aesthetic and social proposals. The exhibition, curated by Fernando Millán, one of the leading representatives of experimental poetry, contains more than 400 objects, ranging ...More
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| The Zimmerli Art Museum Presents Japanese-Inspired Work from its Permanent Collection |
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, presents fourteen French and American paintings and ceramics inspired by Japanese art and aesthetics, a style known as Japonisme. Selected from the Zimmerli’s renowned Japonisme collection, one of the largest of its kind, Japonisme Highlights: Paintings and Ceramics from the Collection presents a stunning group of nineteenth-century French and American objects that ...More
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Opens Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints |
BOSTON, MA.- Printmaking has flourished in Mexico for nearly five centuries, since the first printing press arrived in 1539. After the Revolution of 1910, creative printmaking workshops thrived in Mexico City and prints played an important role in the formation of modern Mexican visual style. Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), features bold, ...More
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| London-based Art and Design Practice, United Visual Artists, to Show Large-scale Light-based Installations |
LONDON.- United Visual Artists present Deus, their first solo exhibition, from 3 - 26 June at The Smithfield Gallery in London. United Visual Artists (UVA), established in 2003 by Chris Bird, Matt Clark and Ash Nehru, are a London-based art and design practice creating large-scale light-based installations. UVA creates more than mere spectacle; their work is about people. Their work aims to create a powerful social ...More
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| Public Art Event Celebrating Los Angeles-area Artists will be Displayed in Downtown Los Angeles in July |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lights on L.A., a public art event that celebrating Los Angeles-area artists, will be displayed in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles from July 15-September 18, 2009. The project, developed and organized by Tarryn Teresa Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, is composed of CFL light bulbs decorated by individual artists and then collected into a single temporary exhibit. Each evening the bulbs will be illuminated at the same time as city street lights, ...More
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| First Person Arts Goes Nationwide To Find The Best "In These Hard Times" Stories |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- First Person Arts is going across to the nation to find the best videos, photographs and stories that define how individuals, families, and communities are managing during these hard times. The contest, First Person America: In These Hard Times, invites artists to document how this generation of Americans is coping with one of the hardest economic periods since the Great Depression. The website for the contest is at ...More
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| Everson Unveils New Website Upgrades in Preparation for Fall Exhibition |
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announced it has launched a new version of its website, everson.org. The new website was designed and developed by Syracuse-based interactive design studio, 2ndNature.
“We are pleased to be able to offer virtual visitors this new website experience,” said Steven Kern, Everson Director. “The new site is sleek and smart, but more importantly, is easy to navigate and provides much more in-depth content.” ...More
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| Discovery Center of Idaho Opens Newest Exhibition "Good Vibration" on June 12th |
BOISE, ID.- Opening on June 12th at the Discovery Center of Idaho will be the brand new exhibition, Good Vibrations. Once again, the talented exhibit creators at the Discovery Center have built over 20 new exhibits that cleverly bring sound, vibrations, cycles and repeating patterns to life. In the usual hands on approach for which the Discovery Center is known, the new Good Vibrations exhibition pulls visitors into an interaction with each exhibit in order to experience ...More
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