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| Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Frescoes at Wurzburg Residenz Now Restored and on View |
View of the ceiling of the Imperial Hall in the Wurzburg Residenz. After more than two years the frescoes painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo have been restored. Photo: EFE / Daniel Karmann.
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WURZBURG.- The Imperial Hall at Warzburg Residenz has reopened its doors to show the newly restored frescoes painted by Tiepolo. After more than two years the frescoes can now be admired inside the 410 meter square hall which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Würzburg Residenz (Residence) is a palace in Würzburg, Germany. It was designed by several of the leading Baroque architects. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, leading representants of the Austrian/South German Baroque were involved as well as Robert de Cotte and ...More
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| Contemporary Artist Liza Lou's Continuous Mile on Display at Metropolitan Museum for Two Years |
NEW YORK, NY.- Liza Lou's recent work Continuous Mile, an ambitious and engaging large-scale sculpture made of gleaming white beads, went on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on January 23, 2009. The work is a two-year loan from the artist and is on display on the second floor of the Museum's Lila Acheson Wallace Wing for modern and contemporary art. ...More
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| OCMA Presents an Exhibition of Four Important American Modernist Painters |
NEWPORT BEACH, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art presents Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce, the first exhibition to bring together the work of these four important American modernist painters. More than 100 works have been drawn from the most prominent and private collections in the United States for this exhibition. All ...More
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| Andy Warhol's Paintings Pop Into Cleveland's Institute of Art |
CLEVELAND, OH.- Uncle Sam. Superman. Mickey Mouse. These pop culture icons share more in common than fame—they became muses and their images become subjects to another American icon: Andy Warhol.
The Cleveland Institute of Art is proud to announce a rare opportunity to view a private collection of prints ...More
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| Special Exhibition Featuring a New Generation of Feminist Video Artists on View at Brooklyn Museum |
BROOKLYN, NY.- Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video presents recent videos by a new generation of feminist video artists. When video emerged as a new medium in the early 1970s, female artists quickly adopted its use, making it arguably the first medium to which men and women had equal access. Feminists in particular embraced it as a forum to explore issues related to their own bodies, experiences, and identities. The rather straightforward capture ...More
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| Tavares Strachan's Arctic Ice Project on View at Brooklyn Museum |
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project) by Tavares Strachan goes on view today at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2005, Tavares Strachan journeyed to the Alaskan Arctic and worked with a skilled team to extract a single two-and-a-half ton piece of ice from a frozen river. This ice block was shipped to the Bahamas (the artist's birthplace) and ...More
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| OKCMOA Presents Passport to Paris: Nineteenth-Century French Prints from Georgia Museum |
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- Passport to Paris: Nineteenth-Century French Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art will be on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art through June 7, 2009. Featuring 46 works from the Georgia Museum of ...More
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| The Old Meets the New in Bermondsey Square: Fashion Photography Exhibition |
LONDON.- London based fashion photographer Steve Nyman's first exhibition in London is on view in Bermondsey Square.
Bermondsey Square is a refreshingly diverse scheme in the heart of London's hippest district. The first development of its kind in London, Bermondsey Square ...More
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| Tyler Museum of Art Celebrates Major Gift of Mexican Folk Art and Unveils Bilingual Coloring Book |
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art has received a major gift from the Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Mexican and Latin American Folk Art for its permanent collection, and in celebration will unveil a bilingual “Mexican Folk Art Coloring Book” during a special presentation scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 5 at the Museum....More
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| Fuller Craft Presents the Work of Fiber Artist Machiko Agano |
BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents Structured Space – An installation by Machiko Agano from May 7, 2009 through March 7, 2010. Curated by William Thrasher, the exhibition of this internationally known work by the renowned Japanese conceptual fiber artist, Machiko Agano, has been newly conceived especially for Fuller Craft Museum’s Courtyard Gallery. With this ...More
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| Boise Art Museum Opens James Castle's Tying it Together |
BOISE, ID.- Boise Art Museum presents the work of Idaho artist James Castle (1900-1977), in an exhibition entitled Tying it Together, through September 27, 2009....More
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| Prophetic Artwork Predicted Flu Outbreak |
DURHAM, NC.- A artwork by artist Robert Mihaly entitled Pre-Pandemic Air on display at Duke University predicted the 2009 global influenza outbreak.
The sculpture consists of two parts: A corked bottle of early 2009 atmospheric air and a page of documentation, integral to the artwork, displayed adjacent to the bottle. Numerous visitors have seen the artwork on display at Duke since and the ...More
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| 20 Year Survey Celebrates Queensland Fashion House |
QUEENSLAND.- A twenty-year survey of Brisbane's widelylauded fashion house Easton Pearson will be celebrated in an exhibition held at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) from August 22 to November 8, 2009....More
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| NUS Museum Presents Ahmad Zakii Anwar's most Recent Series, Being, |
SINGAPORE.- NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery present the latest series of charcoal drawings by Malaysian artist Ahmad Zakii Anwar. The exhibition Being: Ahmad Zakii Anwar opens at NUS Museum until 7 June 2009....More
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| Paintings, Collages, and Watercolors by Charles DuBack at the Portland Museum of Art |
PORTLAND, ME.- Charles DuBack (born 1926) first came to Maine from New York City in the mid-1950s. Charles DuBack: Coming to Maine will feature 20 paintings and collages focusing on his rarely shown, but pivotal, work from the late 1950s. The exhibition is complemented by a small selection of his more recent watercolors from 1998 depicting the woods that surround his home in Tenants Harbor. These two bodies of work, although separated by decades, are ...More
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| The American Institute of Architects and Mayor Newsom Partner to Select "San Franciscos Greenest" |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- To celebrate San Francisco, the host city of the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) 2009 Convention, and its commitment to sustainable design, the AIA has partnered with Mayor Gavin Newsom to select San Francisco's "greenest" buildings. The AIA San Francisco chapter and City ...More
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| Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Announces it will Show Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise |
STUTTGART.- Since 1971, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has been in the possession of a chief work of Pre-Raphaelite painting: Perseus, a cycle consisting of eight paintings and studies by Edward Burne-Jones. This is the most important Burne-Jones collection in Germany is to be found here in the Staatsgalerie: in addition to the Perseus ...More
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| Palazzo Madama Ceremonies and Pageants at the Court of Savoy Between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
TURIN.- As of the second half of the Sixteenth Century, the House of Savoy began to reform life at Court, drawing inspiration from the greater European dynasties, and in particular from the Royal Houses of Spain and France. Trends and amusements were imported, artists and men of letters were invited and precious objects were offered as gifts in order to flaunt the exceptional ...More
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| John Hallmark Neff Discusses the Expat Community of American Artists in Giverny at Reynolda House |
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents a lecture by art historian John Hallmark Neff on Tuesday, May 19 at 5:30 p.m. The title of the lecture is "American Idyll: Yankee Artists in Giverny." Admission to the lecture is $5, free to members and students....More
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| The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to Present "Design USA: Contemporary Innovation" |
NEW YORK, NY.- In fall 2009, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present “Design USA: Contemporary Innovation,” an exhibition celebrating the accomplishments of the winners honored during the first 10 years of the prestigious National Design Awards. Organized by Jeannie Kim, National Design Awards manager, and Floramae McCarron-Cates, associate curator, Drawings, ...More
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| Exceptional Renaissance Armor and Portraits on View Together tor the First Time at the National Gallery of Art |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Armor from the renowned Spanish Royal Armory in Madrid will be paired for the first time with portraits by masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Alonso Sánchez Coello, Anthony van Dyck, and Diego Velázquez depicting emperors and kings wearing the same armor in The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain at the ...More
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