 | | Hong Kong Museum of Art Opens The Exhibition "Louis Vuitton : A Passion for Creation" | 
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses on top of one of his art works. EFE/Ym Yik.
| HONG KONG.- Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Henry Tang, at the opening ceremony of "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation" exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art said, "During my visit to Paris last year, we reached an agreement with LVMH to bring the "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation" Exhibition to Hong Kong. I am delighted to be here tonight for the opening ceremony." "I encourage everyone to take advantage of the golden opportunity to see this spectacular collection of modern art by world-renowned designers, architects and artists. At the same time, works from several local artists will also be on display," he added. Symbol of elegance and exquisite French lifestyle, Louis Vuitton has maintained close links with the arts for more than a century and a half. Founded during the industrial era, Louis Vuitton has always been in step with its time, working with the best engineers, decorators...More
| | UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 at Tate Modern | LONDON.- UBS Openings: The Long Weekend 2009 is transforming Tate Modern over the late May bank holiday weekend with a programme of dramatic live events and free, interactive activities. Now in its fourth year, this major arts festival celebrates extraordinary moments of fusion between different art forms such as performance, film, installation and music. Programmed to animate the works included in the annual rehang of Tate Modern, the four-day event attracts over...More
| | Antonio Banderas Says that Disagreement with Script has Delayed Salvador Dali Film | NEW YORK, NY.- Antonio Banderas has confirmed that the Salvador Dali movie project has been delayed due to a dispute on the treatment of the script with the foundation that handles the Spanish painter’s affairs.
The actor from Malaga has assured that the financing for the film, which will be directed by British director Simon West, has been guaranteed, but what is delaying the film are the “ideological problems” with the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation....More
| | Music Returns to MoMA's Sculpture Garden with Summergarden 2009 | NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden concert series returns to The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden for four Sunday evenings beginning July 5, 2009. Summergarden, a tradition that began in 1971, is part of MoMA’s long history of presenting jazz and new music concerts in the Sculpture Garden. MoMA once again welcomes the participation of The Juilliard School and Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose collaboration makes possible Summergarden’s continuing programs of musical premieres....More
| | Neue Nationalgalerie Presents Today Imi Knoebel. Help, help | BERLIN.- Neue Nationalgalerie presents today Imi Knoebel. Help, help...on view through 9 August 2009. The German artist Imi Knoebel (born 1940) ranks as one of the most internationally renowned abstract artists. Ever since his earliest works in the nineteen-sixties and in his subsequent pictures and installations, Knoebel treads a fine line between the realms of painting and sculpture. Upon request by the curator, Eugen Blume, Imi Knoebel has now developed an exhibition for the upper hall of the New National Gallery which, by way of a few exceptional works, affords us a retrospective view of his diverse body of work....More
| | San Diego Museum of Art Hosts Only West Coast Viewing of Calder Jewelry Exhibition | SAN DIEGO< CA.- For the first time, jewelry created by the great American sculptor Alexander Calder is the subject of a comprehensive exhibition entitled Calder Jewelry. This special exhibition will be on view at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) from July 25, 2009 to Jan. 3, 2010. Calder Jewelry brings together approximately 90 works by the famed modernist — including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings and tiaras — that demonstrate the artist’s love of abstraction and his unique mastery of this wearable art form. The works in the exhibition were all worn by family and close friends of the artist, as well as by some of the most celebrated figures in 20th-century cultural history....More
| | Shopkeepers, Prizefighters, Waitresses and Thieves: Images of American Life | DOYLESTOWN, PA.- The grittier side of life will be on display in the upcoming exhibit Painting the People: Images of American Life from the Maimon Collection, which opens July 11 and runs through October 18, 2009 at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Regional collectors Barbara and Lee Maimon have amassed a formidable number of paintings that explore the uniquely American art forms known as American Scene painting (or Regionalism) and Social Realism. Organized by the Michener, Painting the People allows us to view the everyday lives of ordinary people...More
| | David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945 Opens at the International Center of Photography | NEW YORK, NY.- David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945 presents photographs of a collection of couture-clad dolls made for the Théâtre de la Mode, a wildly creative effort by the French fashion industry to broadcast to the world that they were back in business after World War II. In 1990, contemporary fashion photographer David Seidner (1957–1999) was asked to photograph the dolls for a reconstruction of the original project. Through September 6, 2009, fifteen of these color photographs from the David Seidner Archive, along with one of the original dolls, are view at the International Center of Photography. After the liberation of 1944, the French couture industry was badly weakened. Shortages of food, electricity, and supplies brought production to a virtual standstill. During the Occupation, strict fabric rations were imposed on the couture houses, which faced the constant threat of foreclosure. To help revive the international ...More
| | Exhibition on Samuel Johnson Celebrates a "Writer's Writer" | SAN MARINO, CA.- Literary giant Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), author of the first English dictionary, will be celebrated in a new exhibition opening this spring at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, marking the 300th anniversary of his birth. Johnson is one of the most significant and influential men of letters in English. Legendary as a writer, moralist, and conversationalist during his lifetime, Johnson first achieved fame with the publication of his Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. “Samuel Johnson: Literary Giant of the 18th Century,” on view from May 23 to Sept. 21, showcases Johnson’s craft as a writer through a display of more than 70 items, including a copy of the first edition of the Dictionary in its original binding, a portion of one of Johnson’s diaries, personal letters, and other works seldom seen by the public....More
| | Hammer Museum Presents Hammer Projects: Nic Hess | LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents today Hammer Projects: Nic Hess, on view through November 5, 2009. Swiss artist Nic Hess is known for his inventive wall works composed almost entirely of masking tape. Like a master graffiti artist, he turns everyday imagery into bold graphics, often borrowing logos from corporations, and intertwining disparate images to form entirely new works. Combining his own drawings, commercial prints, bright colored tape and paint, and icons from a variety of sources, Hess makes us reevaluate our understanding of familiar signs in consumer culture, and incorporates multiple contradictory images and viewpoints. In his elaborate compositions he draws new connections between popular culture and historical images and weaves a loose narrative of worlds colliding and visions exploding. For the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, Hess will present a new tape-drawing installation designed specifically for t...More
| | MASS MoCA Presents Today This Is Killing Me | NORTH ADAMS, MA.- MASS MoCA presents today This Is Killing Me, on view through April 15, 2010. Drawing on the anxieties inherent in art-making, This is Killing Me brings together eight young artists who in their diverse practices make palpable a distinctive sense of unease about their identities as artists and the creation of their work. Although professional anxiety is common in all fields, artists often explore and harness these fears into central and driving themes. The artists in this exhibition point to a divide between the coolness and deft craftsmanship of their works and the apprehension and angst that went into their making. The amusing, often riotous quality of the pieces underscores this tension....More
| | Preview Berlin - The Emerging Art Fair | BERLIN.- After Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair was successfully held in Hangar2 for the past two years, the fair will, this year, be held in the former airport’s main hall. Moving away from the classic fair concept, the organizers are, this year, aiming more for an exhibition format whereby there will be no typical fair constructions. This is in response to the special features of the heritage protected main hall of the former airport and also time limits due to another event which is being held in the same location in the run up to the fair. Their idea is to bring together projects which can be exhibited without partition walls and which, therefore, come primarily from the fields of sculpture, installation, performance or video. Furthermore, an exciting challenge will also be the possible artistic discourse with the historic setting....More
| | Scion Presents: 1000 Days: Curated by Seth Curcio | CULVER CITY.- 1000 Days, curated by Seth Curcio of Daily Serving.com opens on May 23rd at Scion’s 4,500 square foot Installation L.A. Gallery Space in Culver City. The exhibition celebrates the upcoming 1000th feature for DailyServing.com, an online contemporary art publication that showcases some of the most innovative contemporary visual artists working today. 1000 DAYS will present seven emerging artists in the United States whose work represents the graphic aesthetic and innovative artistic process for which the publication’s features are known. These artists, all of whom have been previously featured on the site, work in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and new media....More
| | Susan Longhenry Appointed Harwood Museum Director | TAOS, NM.-Susan Longhenry, an administrator with over 20 years of experience at major art museums in Georgia, Indiana, and Massachusetts, has been appointed Director of the University of New Mexico's Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. She will begin her duties July 1. "Susan was the unanimous choice of the search committee and the Board," said Linda Warning, chair of the Harwood Museum Board of Directors. "Both by virtue of her credentials and the strength of her interview, she rose to the top of what was a very strong field of candidates." ...More
| | Hauser & Wirth To Open New York Gallery in September | NEW YORK, NY.-Iwan Wirth, president and owner of Hauser & Wirth, the internationally acclaimed gallery of contemporary art and modern masters with exhibition spaces in Zürich and London, announced today the company will expand its global activities by opening a fully dedicated gallery in New York City in September 2009. Widely considered Europe’s most influential gallery and described as 'a marketplace of ideas' by The Financial Times of London, Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992. Hauser & Wirth New York will be located at 32 East 69th Street, offering four full floors of new exhibition and event space at an address freighted with cultural significance: until 1970, the building was home to the legendary Martha Jackson Gallery, a pioneering force during the post-war American art scene and a legendarily powerful advocate for unfamiliar and challenging new art. Beginning in ...More
| | New $12,000 Grant, Open to Visual Artists Worldwide Announced | SANTA FE, NM.- ARTWORKinternational, Inc. of Santa Fe, NM newly announces a privately funded grant. The Artist Business Career Development Grant totals $12,000, establishing it as one of the primary, international, monetary-support grants for visual artists. The Artist Business Career Development Grant parallels Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Pollock Krasner Foundation Inc. as per their open submission policy. In contrast, several major granting foundations have assumed a review process of nomination-only....More
| | Abbot Kinney Festival Call for Exhibitors | VENICE, CA.- The Abbot Kinney Festival Association (AKFA) is now accepting online applications from exhibitors interested in selling or promoting their products and services at the 2009 Abbot Kinney Festival. Now in its 25th year, this popular community event will take place on Sunday, September 27, 2009, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. At least 300 booth spaces are available, which will be mostly allocated to arts and crafts exhibitors through a juried process.
Applicants who apply before May 25, 2009 are eligible for discounted rates. Don't delay! Booths sell out every year. For more details and to apply, visit www.abbotkinney.org....More
| | Summer 2009 Exhibition at Jersey City Museum | JERSEY CITY, NJ.- In Spring 2008, Jersey City Museum organized I Love Jersey City, an open call for the public's photographs of their beloved city. This became a summer exhibition in the museum's upper atrium featuring these diverse and colorful images. Displaying over 150 photographs by professionals and amateurs alike, the project was a success and even inspired a specially-made Jersey City Museum I Love Jersey City t-shirt which was featured in Time Out New York. In honor of the 2010 National Census, this year Jersey City Museum invites the public to send its 4 x 6 inch images of the people they know who live, work, or play in Jersey City for the exhibition, I Love Jersey City: Everybody Counts. Participants are encouraged to send in photographs of friends, family, co-workers, even copies of beloved old family photographs are welcome! ...More
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