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| Francois Pinault Opens The New Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Centre in Venice |
BackYard (detail) by American artist Jeff Koons, part of the "Mapping The Studio" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi and the new Punta della Dogana. EFE/Andrea Merola.
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VENICE.- On June 6th 2009, Punta della Dogana, the new art center for contemporary art of the François Pinault Foundation, opens its doors after fourteen months of renovation entrusted to the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The first exhibition Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, curated by Alison M. Gingeras and Francesco Bonami, is shown simultaneously at Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi and is shaped in response to the particular atmosphere of each space. ...More
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| Monet's Iconic Water Lilies from the Museum of Modern Art Coming to Atlanta this Summer |
ATLANTA.- The High Museum of Art will present an exhibition of four masterpieces by Claude Monet from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, beginning June 6. The installation will feature MoMA’s renowned 42-foot-wide triptych, “Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond,” which is the largest “Water Lilies” painting in the U.S. The High’s presentation of “Monet Water Lilies” launches a multi-year...More
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| Fra Bartolommeo, van Dyck, Marieschi and Turner Lead Auction of Old Masters at Christie's |
LONDON.- Christie’s announce the inaugural Old Masters and 19th Century Art Evening Sale which will take place on 7 July 2009, and which will present important paintings, drawings and watercolours representing nearly 700 years of European history. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £15 million. Leading highlights include:...More
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| Kresge Art Museum Acquires Significant 17th Century Dutch Painting |
EAST LANSING, MI.- Kresge Art Museum announced a major new acquisition of a marinescape by Jan van Goyen, one of the greatest 17th century Dutch landscape painters. An Estuary with Row and Sail Boats, from the late 1640s, was called a “connoisseur’s gem” by writer Souren Melikian in the International Herald Tribune. Van Goyen became a master...More
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| Milwaukee Art Museum Presents The Eight and American Modernisms |
MILWAUKEE, WI.- From three outstanding public collections of their work, more than eighty paintings by the group of American artists dubbed The Eight—Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan—...More
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| New Grand Salon Installation Opens at Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new installation of 70 paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection will be on view indefinitely in the Grand Salon of the museum’s branch, the Renwick Gallery. The installation features landscapes, portraits and allegorical works by 51 American artists...More
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| Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art at The Mint Museum of Art |
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- The depth and breadth of modern Native American art is featured in Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art. From Alaska to Guatemala, the exhibition highlights personal expressions in ceramics, basketry, textiles and performance masks....More
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| Aspects of Pop Art Opens at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich |
ZURICH.-Galerie Gmurzynska’s comprehensive exhibition, Aspects of Pop Art, historically examines one of art histories most loved, consistently timely and influential movements. Surrounding a core of important works by the original masters of Pop Art, including Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann, are selections of pieces which acted as precedents and antecedents of the Pop ideology. Displayed...More
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| Jeremy Deller's Manic Street Preachers Installation Comes to Yorkshire |
YORKSHIRE.- An installation by Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller focusing on Welsh rock band The Manic Street Preachers, goes on show this Saturday, 6 June, at the Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park .
Part of a display of new acquisitions for the Art s Council Collection, the work entitled The Uses of Literacy was recently acquired for the Collection with help from a £20,000 grant from independent charity The Art Fund....More
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| Amon Carter Museum Exhibits Esteemed Private Collection of African-American Art |
FORT WORTH, TX.- The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum from June 6 through August 23, 2009, in the special exhibition The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper. The Kelley collection is one of the most esteemed private collections of African-American art...More
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| Skyscrapers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Early Twentieth Century |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents today Skyscrapers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Early Twentieth Century, on view through November 1, 2009. Icons of modernity and testaments to human achievement, skyscrapers rose to towering heights in major cities across the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. These technological feats of architecture and design furnished necessary solutions to the problems set by rapid urban growth while simultaneously providing exciting new material for artists. Skyscrapers offered the contemporary artist a way to document a city’s development, a pretext for experimenting with modernist aesthetics, and a subject on which to project personal or collective ideas and emotions....More
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| Museo Reina Sofía and PHotoEspaña Present Walid Raad, a Play Between Reality and Fiction |
MADRID.- The project presented by Walid Raad plays with authorship, date and authenticity of documents. They are always in doubt, which makes us think about construction of reality.
The Atlas Group is an artistic project with archival roots developed by Walid Raad between 1989 and 2004 with the objective of investigating and documenting Lebanon’s contemporary history, particularly during the wars between 1975 and 1990....More
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| Judy Millar's "Giraffe-Bottle-Gun" and Francis Upritchard's "Save Yourself" |
VENICE.- Two artists will represent New Zealand at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Judy Millar’s installation, Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, curated by Leonhard Emmerling and Francis Upritchard’s installation, Save Yourself curated by Heather Galbraith and Francesco Manacorda....More
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| Cepezed to Design Utrecht City Centre Bridge |
DELFT.-The Delft-based cepezed architects have won the tender to design the new 'Rabobrug' in the city centre of Utrecht, with some 300.000 inhabitants the fourth-largest city of The Netherlands. The ‘Rabobrug’ is a 275m long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians that will be built across the train tracks next to Utrecht Central Station, the country’s main railway junction. The bridge has been planned and anticipated for years, because at a location where it is desparately needed, there has never been a connection between the two vital city quarters on both sides of the tracks. The alderman of the Utrecht station area, Harm Janssen, announced the winner this week....More
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| Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Announced |
MOSCOW.- The Organizers announceD details of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Entitled 'Against Exclusion' and curated by Jean-Hubert Martin the exhibitions and events which comprise this year's Biennale will present groundbreaking work by artists from often marginalised centres of contemporary art, including Africa and Oceania, whilst maintaining the ethos of the first two Moscow Biennales by providing an international platform for Russian art. For the first time, the Moscow Biennale will cohere under a single curatorial vision, and be focussed on a single exhibition space. 'Against Exclusion' alludes to the capacious and open-minded conception of the contemporary art scene which ...More
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| The Non-Age at Kunsthalle Winterthur Opens |
WINTERTHUR.- Kunsthalle Winterthur presents today The Non-Age at Kunsthalle Winterthur. If Marc Augé coined successfully the concept "non-places" in the 90s, we could rely on this idea as a starting point and launch the concept "non-age" as a term that in a challenging manner reflects the complexity of ageing in our hyper-consumer society. As such, "The Non-Age" too questions relational, historical or sociological ideas and preconceptions concerned with ageing and old age, and especially the relationship that individuals have with this "new adulthood" in terms of income, health, social relationships, aesthetic image, and leisure....More
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| Iván Marino: Tampoco at Museo Extemeño e iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) |
BADAJOZ.- The Museo Extemeño e iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) presents Iván Marino: Tampoco. Audiovisual installations and video art, on view through August 30th 2009. The monographic exhibition of the Barcelona-based Argentine artist Iván Marino consists of six computerised audiovisual installations of the series Los desastres, created with the support of MEIAC in 2006 and 2007, as well as a selection of his most outstanding video works produced over the past fifteen years. The works invite viewers to probe the meanders of human realities and, more specifically, the uncanny and often astonishing relation between people and violence. Through the concept of reality a nexus is established between his recent ...More
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| Arkansas Arts Center Presents Jun Kaneko |
LITTLE ROCK, AR.- The Arkansas Arts Center presents the exhibition Jun Kaneko, on view through August 2, 2009, in the Townsend Wolfe Gallery. An extensive representation of Jun Kaneko’s work, this exhibition features approximately 39 works including ceramic sculpture, drawings and paintings created by the artist over the past two decades. Born in Nagoya Japan, Kaneko became involved in the west coast’s Clay Revolution that discarded the functional and ornamental traditions of ceramic arts in favor of an unconventional, expressive sculptural medium....More
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| Dvorak Sec Contemporary To Present Czech Artist David Cerny |
PRAGUE.- Prague's newest international gallery of contemporary art, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, announced an upcoming exhibition that will feature works by the notorious Czech artist David Černý. Following a successful exhibition of works by Julian Opie, Dvorak Sec Contemporary will be the first space to present an exhibition by David Černý since he unveiled the scandalous Entropa in Brussels and created uproar throughout Europe by depicting stereotypes of EU member states. David Černý has a long history of international exhibitions and his work has been displayed in a number of prestigious institutions including PS1 in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He also participated in the exhibition Impermanent Places, Seven Installations from Prague in the World Financial Center in New York as well as in the 22nd Sao Paolo Biennale in Brazil. His work can be found in collections in Berlin, Prague, Washington and California....More
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| Celebrate Summer with the Knoxville Museum of Art at Family Fun Day |
KNOXVILLE, TN.-The Knoxville Museum of Art invites children and parents to celebrate summer at Family Fun Day on Saturday, June 13 from 11am to 3pm. All events at Family Fun Day are free thanks to the generous sponsorship of First Tennessee and Laura and Jason Bales. Children of all ages have the opportunity to create art at one of the many art-making stations inspired by current exhibitions. Families can tap their feet to the music of Jeff Barbra and Sarah Pirkle, participate in gallery talks given by docent guides, and have the kids' faces painted, all for free....More
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