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| Long Lines Form Outside Museum to See Secret Art Show: Banksy Versus Bristol Museum |
The Banksy UK Summer show features more than 100 works of art, including animatronics and installations. Photo: EFE/ Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery.
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BRISTOL.- Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery presents a unique collaboration between the city's foremost cultural institution and one of the region's most infamous artists. Banksy has gained notoriety in recent years by using stencils to paint images on a diverse array of outdoor locations. This is the first exhibition in a three storey Edwardian museum. Throughout the summer, visitors will find some unusual specimens amongst the museum's permanent collection - a stonehenge made from portable toilets greets visitors on arrival, a burnt out ice cream van now replaces the enquiries desk and the life size historic biplane suspended from the ceiling now provides refuge for a ...More
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| Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Retrospective Opens at The Belvedere |
VIENNA.- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 – 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or distance, the accurate characterisation of the human face, the detailed and refined description of textures, or the depiction of rural ...More
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| Art, Politics, and Cultural Identity of the Taller de Gráfica Popular to Open at the Snite Museum of Art |
SOUTH BEND, IN.- The Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop), or TGP, an important group of printmakers founded in Mexico City in 1937, created political prints and posters designed to galvanize audiences both in Mexico and around the world. As their country emerged from the Mexican Revolution, a bloody civil war that had pitted impoverished workers against wealthy landowners, these artists produced and circulated thousands of images ...More
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| Art 40 Basel: Extraordinary Quality; Surprisingly Strong Results |
BASEL.- The 40th edition of Art Basel closed on Sunday, June 14, 2009. This year, the annual reunion of the international artworld attracted 61,000 artists, collectors, curators, and art lovers from around the globe, slightly more than last year and the highest number ever. The participating galleries, art connoisseurs, and the media were unanimous in pronouncing this a strong year for the show. Art 40 Basel demonstrated the health of the high-quality segment within the art market: Collectors rewarded excellent material and strong booth presentations ...More
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| Socratis Socratous/Rumors Represents Republic of Cyprus at La Biennale |
VENICE.- The Cyprus pavilion for this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Sophie Duplaix, presents Socratis Socratous. The artist will stage a series of installations, performances and happenings at the Cyprus pavilion and in other city locations.
The artist writes about his project:
“As is often the case, seemingly ‘trivial’ incidents lead to an unexpected outcome....More
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| Antony Gormley's One & Other: First Plinth Participants Announced |
LONDON.- The first group of participants for Antony Gormley’s One & Other, who have been selected to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in July, were announced today, Sunday 14 June 2009.
The project, which is commissioned by the Mayor of London and produced in partnership with Sky Arts, will see a different person take their place on the Fourth...More
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| Exhibition on the Infinite in the Finite, the Indefinite, and the Unfinished at Palazzo Fortuny |
VENICE.- The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Vervoordt Foundation present In-finitum, an exhibition in Palazzo Fortuny on “the infinite in the finite,” the indefinite, and the unfinished. The exhibition runs through November 15 2009. With In-finitum, the trilogy which started with Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art (Venice, 2007) and continued with Academia: Qui es-tu? (Paris, 2008) comes ...More
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| Groundbreaking Works by Artists with Cultural Ties to Mexico and Latin America To Be On View |
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, opening July 12, 2009, at Phoenix Art Museum, is the first comprehensive consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in two decades and the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at Phoenix Art Museum. In 1981, artist and cultural commentator Harry Gamboa Jr. described Chicanos as constituting a “phantom culture” within American society – largely unperceived,...More
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| Stephen Glassman's White Tail Plaza Transforms a Corporate Complex to a Meditative Retreat |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- White Tail Plaza, Los Angeles sculptor Stephen Glassman’s large-scale sculptural plaza, transforms the LNR Warner Center campus from a corporate complex to a meditative retreat. Completed in December 2008, White Tail Plaza will have its’ official debut and artist reception on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 from 5:00 – 8:00pm. The evening will include the performance of a site-specific dance work by celebrated choreographers Sarah Elgart and Holly Rothchild entitled “Stir,” enhancing viewers’ experience of the ...More
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| Evansville Museum to Present a Survey of Contemporary Silverpoint Drawings |
EVANSVILLE, IN.- The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, IN, will open a unique exhibition, The Luster of Silver, a survey of contemporary silverpoint drawings, on June 28th, 2009. The exhibition will remain open until 13th September, 2009. It is a rare opportunity for lovers of drawings to be able to view a selection of exceptional drawings executed in a medium about which few people know but whose shimmering look is hauntingly memorable. ...More
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| Jackson Hole-based National Museum Explores Wildlife through Fine Art |
JACKSON HOLE, WY.- Surprising fact: Some of Jackson Hole’s most impressive wildlife is indoors. Emerging like a natural stone outcropping from a butte overlooking the National Elk Refuge’s real-world habitat, the National Museum of Wildlife Art offers a different take on wildlife as it is expressed through the fine arts, with an eye to exploring humanity’s relationship with nature. Featuring top examples from pre-historic to contemporary, in a variety of media and ...More
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| Yann Gross, Winner of PHotoEspaña 2008 Award, Opens Exhibition in Madrid as Part of Festival |
MADRID.- The Consejería de Cultura, Deporte y Turismo opened an exhibition from the winner of the Descubrimientos PHE Epson Award in 2008. Yann Gross presents a work analysing the theme of identity through pictures of people seduced by the American way of life.
Performed in towns of the Rhone river valley, Horizonville shows people who have the feeling of belonging to a culture which they don’t really know....More
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| Milton Keynes Gallery to Open Lyndall Phelps: The Pigeon Archive in July |
LONDON.- Artist Lyndall Phelps’ exhibition The Pigeon Archive, documents the re-enactment of pigeon manoeuvres undertaken during both World Wars, through photographs, film and other paraphernalia.
In the Second World War it was recommended that every military aircraft leaving Britain carry two pigeons in case of emergency. If the plane was shot down, pigeons were dispatched carrying the survivor’s coordinates for rescue. Homing pigeons were also parachuted behind enemy lines in order to retrieve crucial ...More
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| MCA Presents Major Exhibition by Leading Documentary Photographer Ricky Maynard |
SYDNEY.- This winter the Museum of Contemporary Art presents a major survey of photographic works by documentary photographer Ricky Maynard, encompassing more than two decades of the artist’s practice.
Portrait of a Distant Land features more than 60 evocative and captivating ...More
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| MoMA Presents its Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Brazilian Cinema: Premiere Brazil |
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA presents the seventh annual Premiere Brazil film exhibition, which introduces New York audiences to accomplished, original films by Brazilian filmmakers, from July 16 through August 3, 2009. This year’s edition includes 19 feature films and three shorts. Among the highlights are striking documentary films—including a retrospective of master documentarian Eduardo Coutinho—and inspiring films about Brazilian music and musicians, as well as ...More
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| Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art Opens Anton Corbijn Retrospective |
MADRID.- Anton Corbijn’s retrospective exhibition affords a glimpse into the Dutch photographer’s work spanning over thirty years from early video clips to the latest star portraits. Although Corbijn experimented in several disciplines that are part of modern visual culture — as can be seen in the exhibition in the form of short films, video clips, concert-stage, book, and album-cover design — his basic medium of expression, nevertheless, was and still remains photography....More
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| National Geographic Publishes Special Collector's Edition Featuring Readers' Photographs |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Looking for a unique Father's Day gift? One that fulfills the fantasy of having a favorite photograph featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine? This month, National Geographic is publishing a special collector's edition, National Geographic Your Shot, featuring 101 of the best readers' photographs submitted to National Geographic magazine over the past three years. Starting Monday, June 15, readers can create and order a unique, customized cover of this special issue, using a photograph of their choice, by going to ngm.com/your-...More
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| Recent Small Oils of London, Venice and Cornwall by Ken Howard RA at the Royal Academy |
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents a wonderful opportunity to view recent oil paintings by Royal Academician, Ken Howard. The subjects in this exhibition reflect the artist’s passions and experiences of his life in London, Venice and Cornwall, three of his favourite places and subjects of the moment....More
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