 | | Cy Twombly's Masterpieces Inaugurate Abbott Galleries For Special Exhibitions | 
Cy Twombly. Untitled, 2007 (detail) . Acrylic on wood, 99 3/16 x 217 5/16 in. (252 x 552 cm) Private Collection, © Cy Twombly. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
| CHICAGO.- The Art Institute is sole venue for Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007. The Art Institute of Chicago will inaugurate the Abbott Galleries in the Renzo Piano–designed Modern Wing with a selection of recent work by Cy Twombly. Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000–2007—on view from May 16 through September 13, 2009—celebrates the artist’s abiding concern with the natural world, specifically landscape, seascape, and flora. The exhibition is devoted to a full range of media, including bold and monumental multipanel paintings, wood and plaster sculptures, dry print photographs, and works on paper. Many of the more than 30 works in this exhibition have never before been seen in an American museum. “There could not be a more fitting artist to showcase for the opening of the Modern Wing,” said James Rondeau, curator of the exhibition and Frances and Thomas...More
| | Jan Lievens: A Child Prodigy's Career Opens at Rembrandt House Museum | AMSTERDAM.- From 17 May to 9 August 2009, the Rembrandt House Museum will present a major retrospective of Jan Lievens (1607-1674), friend and rival of Rembrandt. A child prodigy, Lievens was one of the most highly regarded and successful artists of his time. Daring and innovative as a painter, draughtsman and printmaker, Lievens...More
| | Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait and Newly Discovered Sir George Clausen To Be Offered | LONDON.- Christie’s sale of Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings and Watercolours on Thursday, 4 June 2009 will offer works by the leading British artists of late the 19th and early 20th centuries, from the Pre-Raphaelites to the British Impressionists. This auction welcomes the return of important works...More
| | From Raphael to Rossetti: Drawings from the Collection | DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland presents today two exhibitions. One exhibition is Harry Clarke's Illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen's 'Fairy Tales', on view through August 23, 2009. In 2008 the Gallery received a generous gift of 10 magnificent watercolours commissioned to illustrate Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. In 1916 the London publisher Harrap & Co published...More
| | Seoul Auction's Modern and Contemporary Art Sale Realizes HK$42.8 Million | HONK KONG.- Seoul Auction, Korea’s leading auction house, held its Modern and Contemporary Art sale today in Hong Kong today (15 May, 2009) and achieved a total of HK$42.8 million (US$5.47 million). Tranquility from the renowned British artist Damien Hirst’s celebrated Butterfly Series achieved HK$13.37 million (US$1.71 million), becoming the most expensive work by Damien Hirst ever...More
| | SFMOMA Presents Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" | SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," the most comprehensive and in-depth exploration of Frank's groundbreaking book to date. On view from May 16 to August 23, 2009, the exhibition...More
| | Newly Restored Model of Eero Saarinen's Design for Vassar's Emma Hartman Noyes House | POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will provide a view into noted architect Eero Saarinen’s original design for The Emma Hartman Noyes House (1958), part of his 1954 master plan for the north end of the Vassar campus, with an exhibition featuring his original architectural model for the site, on view from June 2 through September 6....More
| | Stories to Tell, Memories to Keep: Folk Art in the South | AUGUSTA, GA.-Stories to Tell, Memories to Keep: Folk Art in the South, a selection of dozens of objects from the museum’s collection of Southern folk art, opens to the public at the Morris Museum of Art on May 16, 2009. Many of the region’s leading folk artists, including Lonnie Holley, Charley Kinney...More
| | Five UK Museums Win Share of 75,000 Pound Prize for Contemporary Craft | LONDON.- Independent charity The Art Fund and the Crafts Council today announced the winners of Art Fund Collect, a £75,000 award for curators to acquire a piece of contemporary craft for their museum or gallery. Art Fund Collect took place yesterday, 14 May, the preview day of the Crafts Council's international fair Collect, held at London's...More
| | Guggenheim Museum Presents Seven Decades of Shelters Designed by Wright Architecture Students | NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the inaugural exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark building of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Sackler Center for Arts Education...More
| | Maryhill Museum of Art Presents Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational | GOLDENDALE, WA.- Maryhill Museum of Art will present its 14th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Invitational May 16 – October 4, 2009. The exhibition features large-scale works in a variety of media by Northwest artists Lance Carleton (Everett, WA), Matt Cartwright (Portland, OR), Gregory Glynn (Bainbridge Island, WA), Tom Herrera (Mosier, OR), Ed Humpherys (Walla Walla, WA), Jay Moody (Portland, OR), Francisco Salgado (Portland, OR), Julie Speidel (Vashon, WA), Mike Suri (Portland, OR), Jeff Tangen (Shoreline, WA), and David Wagner (Portland, OR)....More
| | Bicycle: People + Ideas in Motion at Where: Moore College of Art & Design | PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design will present Bicycle: people + ideas in motion, on view June 18 through October 17, 2009. Bicycle: people + ideas in motion celebrates Philadelphia’s passion and commitment to the bicycle with a series of changing exhibitions, programs and events that explore the bicycle both as functional object and as a canvas for good causes, personal expression, civic mindedness and political beliefs. In addition to vintage bikes from Philadelphia collections, the exhibition will feature a variety of bikes from the urban landscape: “fixies,” tandems, hand-built bikes, folding bikes, road and touring bikes, hybrids, reclining bikes and more. The exhibition contents will rotate several times over the summer so there’s always something new to see. ...More
| | New Orleans Museum of Art Presents The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography | NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From May 16 to October 11, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, a major exhibition of more than 200 works exploring the moments that shape our being, from intimate memories to historic tragedies. Renowned photographer Annie ...More
| | Two Manet Master Paintings Reunited at the National Gallery of Art | WASHINGTON, DC.-Edouard Manet's powerful Ragpicker (c. 1865–1869), a loan from The Norton Simon Foundation in Pasadena, California, will join one of the National Gallery of Art's great masterworks by Manet, The Old Musician (1862)—which recently underwent extensive conservation—with the two paintings hanging together in the 19th-century French galleries of the West Building from May 22 through September 7, 2009. This is part of an ongoing program of exchanges between the two museums that began in May 2007 with the loan of Rembrandt's Portrait of a Boy, "Titus" from the Norton Simon to the National Gallery. "It is a pleasure for the curators at the Gallery and the Norton Simon to rediscover important works in one another's collections that relate to masterpieces we each own. It is our hope that visitors will share in our enthusiasm and enjoy seeing these works in new contexts," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art....More
| | What We Can Live With: The 39th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition | BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents What We Can Live With: The 39th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, on view from May 15 through June 21, 2009. This exhibition is part of a tradition that has continued for nearly forty years, in which M.F.A. graduates in art practice have the opportunity to present their work in the museum galleries and, in the process, gain valuable experience working in a professional museum setting....More
| | Delaware Art Museum Presents Out of the Commonplace: The Folk Art of Delaware | WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Out of the Commonplace: The Folk Art of Delaware, featuring over 30 paintings, sculptures, quilts, and woodworks by Delaware artists, on view May 16, 2009 – August 16, 2009. Part of the Museum’s Outlooks Exhibition Series, this exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Delaware Folk Art Collection, a program of Delaware State Parks. Out of the Commonplace includes objects made for utilitarian purposes for work and home; works that celebrate history and life’s passages; and pieces that reflect deeply held beliefs, from spiritual to political. Among the works are a painting of the American flag made from fence pieces, a sculpture made of farm implements, and a variety of duck decoys....More
| | Metro Gallery Presents "Icons" - New Multimedia Works by Robert Quijada | LOS ANGELES, CA.- Metro Gallery presents Robert Quijada’s solo exhibition, “Icons.” Both a tribute and celebration, Robert Quijada’s latest collection draws on his early childhood fascination with singers, actors, and artists—the iconic figures range from a classic post-war era to contemporary icons. The artwork includes iconic tributes to Josephine Baker, Pablo Picasso, Carmen Miranda and Keith Haring, as well as tributes to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Echo Park Lotus Festival and Watts Towers. ...More
| | Andes Mountains Are Older Than Previously Believed | PANAMA CITY.-The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago—18 million years before the previously accepted start date for the Andes' rise, according to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the University of Potsdam in Germany and Ecopetrol in Colombia. "No one had ever dated mountain-building events in the eastern range of the Colombian Andes," said Mauricio Parra, a former doctoral candidate at the University of Potsdam (now a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Texas) and lead author. "This eastern sector of America's backbone turned out to be far more ancient here than in the central Andes, where the eastern ranges probably began to form only about 10 million years ago."...More
| | Urban Art Keeps Kids Out of Trouble on the Streets | By Ivan Mejia. LOS ANGELES, CA.- (EFE).- John "Zender" Estrada, who 30 years ago painted graffiti on the streets of Los Angeles, today directs a school of urban art where youngsters not only develop their artistic talent but also stay out of trouble on the streets. "I began an urban art program around 2002 with the intention of helping a community in Highland Park bring kids together and help them with their homework, help them with their daily lives and at the same time help them with something they find awesome, which is art," Estrada, 42, tells Efe....More
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