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| Stars Descend in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's Costume Institute Gala |
Justin Timberlake, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and Kate Moss.
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Costume Institute Benefit – the annual black-tie dinner to benefit the Museum’s Costume Institute – took place on May 4, 2009, celebrating the exhibition The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, which will be on view from May 6 through August 9. Dinner guests arrived at the Metropolitan Museum at 7:00 p.m. for an inaugural viewing of the exhibition and cocktails in the Museum’s Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court. Dinner followed at around 8:30 p.m. at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing....More
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| Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Explores Role of Fashion Models as Muses of Recent Eras |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, the spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their...More
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| Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art Totals $61,370,500, Picasso and Giacometti Go Unsold |
NEW YORK, NY.- This evening’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s in New York brought a total of $61,370,500 (est. $81.5/118.8 million), and was 80.6% sold by lot. The sale was led by Piet Mondrian’s Composition in Black and White, with Double Lines, which brought $9,266,500, well above its high estimate (est. $3/5 million). A new auction record was established for Tamara de Lempicka, when her ...More
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| Huntington's Art Collectors' Council Acquires Thomas Hart Benton Painting, Italian Terra-Cottas |
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Art Collectors’ Council of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens made two strategic purchases at its spring 2009 meeting, acquiring a painting by Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) for the new Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, which open on May 30, and two 18th-century Italian terra-cotta figures for the European art collection, which is displayed in the Huntington Art Gallery.
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| Carlo Mollino's Prolific and Innovative Career on View at Sebastian + Barquet |
LONDON.- Carlo Mollino (1905 - 1973) was an Italian designer and architect, a Renaissance man whose prolific and innovative career will be presented in an exhibition opening this May at Sebastian + Barquet London. Twelve unique Polaroids taken by Mollino between 1962 and his passing in 1973 will be exhibited alongside pieces of his furniture and a film installation. This will be the most comprehensive UK exhibition of Mollino’s work to ...More
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| British Art from the Collection of the late Mrs. Audrey Burton, O.B.E. will be Sold to Benefit Charity |
LONDON.- An important group of 14 paintings and sculptures from the personal collection of the late Mrs. Audrey Burton, O.B.E., will be sold to benefit the Audrey and Stanley Burton Charitable Trust at Christie’s 20th Century British Art sale on Thursday, 21 May 2009. Stanley Burton (1914-1991) was the eldest son of Sir Montague Burton (1885-1952), whose Burton manufacturing and ...More
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| Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 and Announcement of Elle Commission |
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery announced the Call for Entries for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009, a major international photographic award. Entry forms are now available and the closing date for entries is 24 July 2009.
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is open to all photographers over the age of 18 and provides an important platform for portrait photographers ...More
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| MoMA Presents First U.S. Survey of Aernout Mik's Moving Image Installations |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Aernout Mik, the first North American survey of the artist’s work. Mik (Dutch, b. 1962) is distinguished for his ability to combine, shift, and transform artistic practices by creating installations that integrate moving images, sculpture, and architecture into single constructions. Eight of the artist’s works are installed in gallery and non-gallery spaces...More
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| Artist Pipilotti Rist, Winner of the Second Joan Miró Prize |
BARCELONA.- The jury has awarded the 2009 Joan Miró Prize to the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist for her wide-ranging creative activity and her outstanding contribution to the current artistic scene.
The Joan Miró Prize, organised by the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona and sponsored by the Fundació Caixa Girona, consists of €70,000, one of the largest art prizes in existence, and is awarded every two years. The first Joan Miró Prize was won in 2007 by Olafur Eliasson....More
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| US-Cuba Thaw: Cooperative Photo Exhibition Builds Bridges |
HAVANA.- Initiating a rising wave of cultural exchange with Cuba, US photographer Melani Lust will be arriving in Havana on May 8 for the opening of her joint exhibition "CARHAVANA." The exhibit, a dynamic depiction of the classic pre-embargo American marquee cars still on the road in Havana, is a collaboration with the Cuban photographer Brayan Allonzo. Lust and Allonzo will be exhibiting 30 large scale photographs taken together in Havana in January, 2009. The exhibition is sponsored by the Cuban government and is a cooperative effort ...More
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| Interact with an Installation by Kim Waale and Leo Crandall at the Everson Museum of Art |
SYRACUSE, NY.- Join the Everson Museum of Art for Artist Open on May 21 at 6 p.m. Artists Kim Waale and Leo Crandall will present a temporary site-based installation consisting of objects and projections, that will illuminate the Everson’s Mather Court. Artist Open occurs during Th3, and is free and open to the public....More
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| Sotheby's to Offer High Quality Contemporary Art in Paris |
PARIS.- Sotheby’s Paris announced it will stage a 126-lot, two-session sale of Contemporary Art on May 27/28 (total estimate €5.6-7.8 million). The Evening Sale on May 27 will be the only one of its kind in Paris this season, ...More
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| Erie Art Museum Breaks Ground on $9 Million Expansion |
ERIE, PA.- Forget the ho-hum handshakes. The Erie Art Museum is having a free all-day public celebration to officially kick off the construction of the Erie Art Museum's $9 million expansion and renovation on May 8, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Erie Art Museum Annex parking lot at 20 East 5th Street. Additional public events include free admission to the Erie Art Museum from 11 ...More
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| Aperture Chooses Grand Prize Winner and Five Runners-Up for the Second Annual Aperture Portfolio Prize Competition |
NEW YORK, NY.- Over one thousands artists from around the world submitted their work to the second annual Aperture Portfolio Prize competition which began last summer and concluded at the end of December 2009. A team of Aperture judges has awarded the top prize to Australian photographer Michael Corridore for his project Angry Black Snake, which is an exercise in minimalism. This year, five ...More
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| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Announces the First Annual Artification: Teen Artfest |
SAN DIEGO, CA.- On Saturday, May 30, 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will host the first annual Artification: Teen Artfest, an event planned and produced by MCASD's Teen Art Council (TAC). From 7 to 10 pm, teens are invited to take over the Museum's downtown Jacobs Building galleries for a night...More
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| The Getty Offers Free Family Fun this Summer |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- What do kids dream about becoming? Artists? Time-travelers? Explorers? They can indulge all these fantasies and more at the Getty this summer – and it’s free. While the Getty offers a bevy of free family activities all year round, when school ...More
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| Smithsonian Photography Initiative Celebrates the International Year of Astronomy in May and June |
WASHINGTON, DC.- During May and June, the Smithsonian Photography Initiative offers three ways to celebrate both the International Year of Astronomy and the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observation with a telescope by Galileo Galilei....More
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| Fleisher Art Memorial Features Artists Johanna Inman, Yvonne Lung and Constantina Zavitsanos |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial presents Challenge 3, the final exhibition in the 31st season of the three-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher — the Delaware Valley's premier juried artist exhibition program. This season's nine Challenge artists were selected from a field of 368 applicants to ...More
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| British Museum and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Combine to Give London a Tropical Indian Summer Landscape |
LONDON.- In a unique collaboration, the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), will create an Indian-themed landscape on the Museum's west lawn. It will mark the first of a series of specially commissioned projects in the forthcoming Indian Summer season, sponsored by HSBC. India Landscape will celebrate the two institutions' shared vision to ...More
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| New Direction Unveiled at Institute of American Indian Arts |
SANTA FE, NM.- Since 1962 the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) has focused on advancing a distinctive mission: empowering creativity and leadership in Native arts and cultures through higher education, lifelong learning and outreach. As IAIA approaches its 50th birthday in 2012, it is clarifying its position while remaining true to its roots and education-focused heritage. At a press conference ...More
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