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| Granet Museum Opens Exhibition Focusing on Subtle Links Between Picasso and Cézanne |
Pablo Picasso, Composition à la mandoline © succession Picasso 2009. Collection particulière, photo Claude Germain – imageArt.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- The Picasso Cézanne exhibition focuses on the subtle links between these two giants in art: the direct influence of the force of the “father of modern art” on the young artist arriving in France in 1900, or the mature musings of the man who liked to say I live with Cézanne? Even if it is not flagrant in his work, Cézanne was much admired by Picasso and often in his thoughts: Cézanne! He was like a father to us all....More
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| NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Shows U.F.O.: Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Design |
DUSSELDORF.- Where does design end and art begin? Charles Eames, the most influential designer of the mid-twentieth century, said that ‘design is an expression of purpose. It may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art.’ Contemporary young designers see the matter more pragmatically. According to the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, ‘there is no longer a clear border between product design and art.’ The most recent answer to this question is inherent in the...More
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| This Summer Tate Liverpool Invites Families to Experiment with Colour in the Colour Lab |
LIVERPOOL.- As part of the forthcoming exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool will present Colour Lab, an interactive space for families. Taking place within the exhibition, Colour Lab will invite children and adults to conduct their own colour explorations. Visitors are invited to experiment with giant magnetic boards, play games and activities. Colour Lab is free with exhibition admission. ...More
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| Cécile Whiting Is Awarded the 21st Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book on Pop Art in Los Angeles |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2009 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Cécile Whiting for her book “Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s” (University of California Press, 2006). It is recognized for its “impeccable yet adventurous research, which invites a reconceptualization of pop art and opens a discussion about a region and a period that has needed further exploration.”...More
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| It's the Summer of Change at the Art Gallery of Ontario with Two New Exhibitions |
TORONTO.- It’s the summer of change at the Art Gallery of Ontario as two new exhibitions complement the current Surreal Things in an exploration of art as a catalyst for social and political change.
Opening this weekend and continuing through August 30, Angelika Hoerle: The Comet of Cologne Dada is a powerful commentary on the intersection of art and ...More
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| Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov at Moscow Museum of Modern Art |
MOSCOW.- As an institution, the art museum accumulates a large amount of powerful energy from various dynamic and creative spirits, which it then shares with the audience. Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov reveal the secret life of an imaginary museum hidden from the viewer's eye. Renaissance, avant-garde and mass- media images are synthesized in the monumental paintings created for this project. The texture of large canvases and ...More
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| 80 Major Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections Juxtaposed in Intimate Groupings |
DALLAS, TX.- Opening May 24, the Dallas Museum of Art will present Private Universes, a special exhibition of approximately 80 contemporary works, including new acquisitions, promised gifts and important loans from the Dallas community and the Museum’s collections. On view through August 30, 2009, ...More
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| Major Survey Exhibition of Works by Guy Ben-Ner Opens at MASS MoCA |
NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Over the past decade Guy Ben-Ner has become known for a series of playful videos which often star the artist and his young children. The humorous, home-made films - which MASS MoCA will present this summer in a major survey exhibition - have an authentic, do-it-yourself appeal, though their deceptive simplicity quickly reveals sophisticated cinematic...More
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| Il Catalogo Gallery to Open Peter Ruta: Positano and Other Italian Paintings |
SALERNO, ITALY.- Il Catalogo Gallery in Salerno, opens the exhibition Peter Ruta, Positano e altri dipinti italiani, last in a series launched by the gallery this year devoted to the artists and the history of the region.
The exhibition, curated by Massimo Bignardi, presents eighteen paintings Ruta completed in Positano, Rome, Naples and Venice between 1949 and 1962, along...More
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| Park West Gallery Launches Dali, Rembrandt, and Picasso Websites |
SOUTHFIELD, MI.- Park West Gallery recently launched three website featuring the Park West Salvador Dali Collection of artwork, Rembrandt etchings and Picasso graphic works. This collection is one of the most thoroughly documented and authenticated collections of Dali artwork in existence and the other two websites feature the works that make up the Park West Rembrandt and Picasso Collections. ...More
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| Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide to Screen at The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art |
QUEENSLAND.- Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide, which recently screened at The Peabody-Essex Museum's exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, examines China's economic and cultural metamorphoses through the work of some of the Middle Kingdom's most talented video artists and photographers, including the internationally recognized Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Wang Qingsong, Chen Qiulin, O Zhang, Yang Yong and Birdhead. The film is narrated by Rosalind Chao and Gordon Chang....More
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| An Ancient Jar Handle Bearing the Hebrew Name Menachem was Uncovered in Ras el-'Amud |
JERUSALEM.- Settlement remains dating to different phases of the Middle Canaanite period (2200-1900 BCE) and the last years of the First Temple period (eighth-seventh centuries BCE), including an inscription in ancient Hebrew script that mentions the name “Menachem”, were recently exposed in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting in the Ras el-‘Amud neighborhood, prior to...More
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| Summer Exhibition at Cape Ann Museum - View from the Terrace: The Paintings of Charles Hopkinson |
GLOUCESTER, MA.- The Cape Ann Museum will present an exhibition of the paintings of Manchester painter, Charles Hopkinson (1869-1962). An opening reception will be held on Saturday June 13, 2009 from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public....More
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| National Museum of American History's New Exhibition Goes "On the Water" |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened “On the Water: Stories from Maritime America,” a new, permanent exhibition designed to engage the public in a dynamic exploration of America’s maritime heritage. The 8,500-square-foot exhibition builds on the Smithsonian’s unparalleled National Watercraft Collection of rigged ship models, patent models,...More
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| Flesh-eating Creepy Crawlies Seen Live on Royal Ontario Museum Web Cam |
TORONTO.- For those who might wonder just how the skeletal remains of birds, squirrels and other vertebrate skeletons on display at the Royal Ontario Museum acquire their gleam, a live webcam will allow a special glimpse into the Museum’s bug room for the first time. Not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach, and only open to curatorial staff, the bug room is the area in which animal specimens are ...More
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| UFO Artwork Draws Thousands to Rio's Beaches |
RIO DE JANEIRO (EFE).- Thousands of people flocked to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to see a gigantic, bright flying disk created by U.S. artist Peter Coffin, a piece of artwork that is part of a 48-hour marathon of cultural activities.
The disk - or saucer - called "U.F.O.," and a ski run with artificial snow set up in Botafogo were some of the 300 artistic, cultural and sports activities that captured the attention of Rio's residents on Saturday....More
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| J. Paul Getty Museum Engages Students in Photography with Community Photoworks |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For Jo Ann Callis, tension is a recurring theme. Her current exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Woman Twirling, explores tension and anxiety in lush images that convey unease.
This spring Callis has been helping a group of high school photographers explore tension in their own photography as part of the Community Photoworks project, ...More
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| Varied Volunteer Opportunities at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
HOUSTON, TX.- Houston-area residents interested in contributing to the cultural vibrancy of the city by volunteering at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are invited to attend a free Guild and Volunteer Social on Monday, June 8, at the museum´s Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street in the heart of the Museum District. Volunteers and museum staff will be on hand at the event, scheduled from 4:30 to 7 p.m., to answer questions, provide information, and take...More
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| Walker Art Center Presents Fake It, For Real: Media Workshop with Tectonic Industries |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Walker Art Center offers teens an opportunity to explore identity through various media under the guidance of two professional video artists in the Fake it, For Real: Media Workshop, held Mondays and Wednesdays, June 15–July 1, 1–4 pm in the Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab. Lars Jerlach and Helen Stringfellow of Tectonic Industries will be on hand to help participants navigate film, video, and new media on a quest to find the truth, or to simply distort it. ...More
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| George Always: Portraits of George Melly by Maggi Hambling to Open at the National Portrait Gallery |
LONDON.- George Always, Maggi Hambling's tribute to her friend the late George Melly will be on public display in London for the first time in June. The National Portrait Gallery will show the last twelve ink drawings the jazz singer posed for alongside oil paintings made from life, memory and imagination. ...More
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