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| Santiago Calatrava Shows his WTC Transportation Hub at Queen Sofía Spanish Institute |
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey commissioned Santiago Calatrava, S.A. to design the project. Photo: EFE / Queen Sofía Spanish Institute.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Santiago Calatrava, the world-renowned architect who has designed some of the most beautiful structures of our time, is the subject of a new exhibition, Santiago Calatrava: World Trade Center Transportation Hub, at New York City’s Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, a private non-profit Spanish cultural center, through August 31, 2009....More
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| Bill Viola Awarded International Prize - XX! Premi Internacional Catalunya 2009 |
BARCELONA.- James Cohan Gallery announced that American artist Bill Viola has been awarded the 2009 Catalonia International Prize, known as the XXI Premi Internacional Catalunya 2009 by the Catalonian government of Spain. This annual award is granted since 1989 to those persons who, through their creative ...More
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| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC Launches a New Exhibition John Lennon: The New York City Years |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC presents John Lennon: The New York City Years. This extraordinary exhibit presents exclusive artifacts from the life and work of John Lennon – a true legend of music and one of the greatest artists and activists of the twentieth century. The exhibit features never‐before‐seen items that uniquely commemorate Lennon’s ...More
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| Renegade American Photographer Subject of Retrospective on View at NYU's Grey Art Gallery |
NEW YORK, NY.- New York University’s Grey Art Gallery opens the first retrospective of the American photographer John Wood. John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning, on view at the Grey Art Gallery from May 12 through July 18, 2009, which is the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date. Featuring the full range of his career from the 1960s to the present, the show includes over 150 photographs, ...More
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| First Large-scale Exhibition in Ireland by the Renowned American Artist Terry Winters to Open at IMMA |
DUBLIN.- The first large-scale exhibition in Ireland by the renowned American artist Terry Winters opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 12 June 2009. Terry Winters Signal to Noise examines the painter’s evolving relationship with abstract imagery, the central driving force of his work, as it has developed over the past ten years. The 40 paintings and drawings explore the cerebral spaces of information technology and issues of cognition and ...More
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| Rare Work by Eugene Delacroix to Lead the Orientalist Highlights at Sotheby's London this June |
LONDON.- Sotheby's forthcoming sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 will bring to the market a fine selection of works from the Orientalist genre, a corner of the international market that has seen its profile continually gather momentum on the international stage in recent years. In 2008 Sotheby’s sales of Orientalist Art worldwide brought a combined total in excess of $36 million....More
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| Christie's to Auction Architectural Elements of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York’s Spring 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sale takes place June 2 and will provide an exciting array of engaging and appealing works from all the major movements of the 20th century, exemplifying the most creative and captivating designs that spanned the century. A separate release is available. A highlight of this sale is the superb group of 7 lots featuring...More
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| MoMA Presents Two-Week Retrospective of Internationally Acclaimed Documentary Filmmaker Kim Longinotto |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Kim Longinotto, a two-week exhibition showcasing 14 documentaries made over a 30-year span by one of today‘s preeminent documentary filmmakers, through 23, 2009. Kim Longinotto‘s cinéma vérité portraits seek out, observe, and follow the untold stories of women‘s lives from around the globe. Her keen directorial eye produces compelling stories ...More
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| Exhibition that will Look at the Dramatic Changes in Fashion During Jane Austen's Lifetime to Open at NGV |
MELBOURNE.-Opening on 22 May, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Persuasion: Fashion in the Age of Jane Austen, a timeless exhibition that will look at the dramatic changes in fashion during Jane Austen’s lifetime (1775–1817)....More
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| Jan Fabre will be Installing Five Sculptural Tableaus at the 53rd Venice Biennale |
VENICE.- Jan Fabre's new work series "From the Cellar to the Attic - From the Feet to the Brain," which he elaborated for the Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2008, represented an important step in his work development. With five room-filling sculptural tableaus, Fabre created a mythical world of horror, beauty, and metamorphosis that was hardly conceivable inconventional artistic terms and constantly alternated between reality and dream. The installation followed the...More
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| Artistry of the Amish Tradition will be on Full Display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Amish have been referred to as plain people, but there is nothing plain about their quilts. The artistry of the Amish tradition will be on full display at the de Young when the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown in the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Textile Gallery. The exhibition, which opens November 14, 2009, features 48 full-size and crib quilts that ...More
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| Cranbrook Artist Receives $30,000 Grant from Danish Arts Foundation |
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- Cranbrook Academy of Art announced that Anders Ruhwald, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department and a native of Denmark , has received a $30,000 2009 Artist Grant from the Danish Arts Foundation. The Danish Arts Foundation was established by the Danish ...More
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| This September, the MFA Houston Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Man's Landing on the Moon with Exhibition |
HOUSTON, TX.- To mark the 40th anniversary of man´s landing on the moon, this September the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston FAH presents The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle has Landed," an exhibition that chronicles man´s enduring fascination over five centuries with our nearest planetary neighbor. Ranging from moonlit landscapes by the Old Masters and the...More
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| Smithsonian Shares Lincoln Portraits with Educators across the Nation through Portfolio Set and Online Resources |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the National Portrait Gallery have partnered to share the scholarship and collections of the exhibition "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" with thousands of educators across the country through an educational portfolio. Designed for middle-school and high-school students and their history and American studies' ...More
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| Joe Scanlan Appointed to Head Lewis Center Visual Arts Program |
NEW YORK, NY.- Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the Program in Visual Arts in the University's Lewis Center for the Arts. The internationally renowned artist is a sculptor and installation artist who has been an associate professor in the Yale University School of Art....More
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| 'WICKED' Online Auction Offered by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and CMarket.com |
BOSTON, MA.- Between 12 midnight on May 10, 2009 and 9:00 pm on May 21, 2009, fans of "WICKED," author Gregory Maguire, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum far and wide can bid on a chance to win an exclusive "WICKED"-filled prize package through the Isabella Stewart Gardner Musuem and CMarket.com. In its first first online auction—available to bid on online at ...More
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| Plains Art Museum Calls for Flood Photos |
FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum is inviting people from the region affected by the 2009 floods in Western Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota to bring in their flood photos for an exhibition in the Museum's main floor Landfield Atrium. The Museum wants to showcase the photographic stories of how the region was affected by this natural threat and the tremendous community response that minimized potential damage and losses. The exhibition will include a guest book in which visitors can write ...More
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| Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide to Screen at ART HK 09 |
HONG KONG.- Robert Adanto's The Rising Tide, which recently screened at The Peabody-Essex Museum in conjunction with the landmark 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 ...More
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| Annie Pootoogooks Drawings of Contemporary Inuit Life Opens in New York June 13 |
NEW YORK, NY.- Thirty-nine drawings that chronicle the realities of contemporary Inuit life by renowned artist Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969) will be on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, beginning June 13. Celebrated for her unflinching portrayals of social and economic realities, this will be the largest ...More
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| Lincoln Center Officially Launches Yearlong 50th Anniversary Celebration |
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts officially launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th Anniversary with a commemorative ceremony in the Starr Theater at Alice Tully Hall. Hosted by renowned journalist and author Tom Brokaw, the program pays tribute to the many achievements and contributions of Lincoln Center, from the milestones of its past half century to the...More
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