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| New Magritte Museum Houses the Largest Collection of Magritte Works in the World |
King Albert II and Queen Paola of Belgium observe the painting “Black Magic” made by Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte (1898-1967) during their visit to the new Magritte Museum in Brussels. The royal couple inaugurated the museum dedicated to the Surrealist painter which will open to the public on June 2, 2009. Photo: EFE/ Denis Closson.
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BRUSSELS.- On June 2 2009, the Magritte Museum opens its doors to the public on the Place Royale in Brussels. The first museum of this scope devoted to one of the best known artists of the 20th century, presents for the first time the largest collection of Magritte works in the world. This new cultural and touristic attraction in Belgium has been completed thanks to an original partnership between the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Magritte Foundation, the Belgian Régie des Bâtiments, the Belgian Federal Science Policy Administration, and the GDF SUEZ Group, which completed the museum’s installation thanks to a skill-based sponsorship unique in Belgium....More
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| Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection |
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer The Frick Collection will present a focus exhibition dedicated to the colorful and often controversial artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903). The Frick’s ensemble of four full-length portraits by Whistler will be displayed in the museum’s Oval Room alongside his evocative seascape, Symphony in Grey and Green: The Ocean (1866). The presentation will include a Cabinet installation of fifteen pastels and etchings from his Venetian sojourn of 1879–80. These works show Whistler’s...More
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| Churchill, Kirchener...and Lilly Allen: The Stories Behind the Faces of Gallery's New Campaign |
LONDON.- Did you know that military leader Lord Kitchener developed a knitting pattern for seamless socks, or that Lily Allen trained as a florist?
The National Portrait Gallery today launches an innovative marketing campaign which highlights the hidden stories behind its portraits of well known Britons. The new campaign - which encourages people to 'Take another look' at the Gallery's permanent collection - builds on research which showed that its visitors enjoyed picking up unexpected information behind the portraits. ...More
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| Maison Rouge in Paris Opens VRAOUM! An Exhibition of Comic Strips and Contemporary Art |
PARIS.- VRAOUM! is a celebration of paintings, sculptures and drawings shown side-by-side. There is no hierarchy and certainly no divisions. Comic strips are presented as art and contemporary art as being fuelled by strips. Put simply, this is one big jubilation.
Visitors are welcomed in the foyer by the work of Guillaume Paris and the Taiwanese artist Hsia Fei Chang with, on one side, a column of video screens where cartoon characters fall endlessly into nothingness, and on the other a giant speech bubble made from plastic flowers. Further along, the walls are covered by...More
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| Fifteen Years of Collecting at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Against the Grain |
WOLFSBURG.- The foundation of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 1994 simultaneously marked the launch of its mission to build a permanent collection. Today, along with the museum’s exhibition programme, the collection enjoys an international reputation and is one of the outstanding cultural features that contribute to the City of Wolfsburg’s appeal.
To mark the museum’s 15th anniversary, ...More
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| Artist Duo Elmgreen & Dragset Stage the Danish and Nordic Pavilions for La Biennale di Venezia |
VENICE.- For the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the Danish and Nordic Pavilions will host ‘The Collectors’, a single exhibition curated and staged by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. With contributions from twenty-four international artists and artist groups, Elmgreen & Dragset will transform the Danish and Nordic Pavilions into domestic environments where the audience is invited as guests. Dining rooms, bedrooms, furniture, fireplaces, a stained glass ...More
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| PHotoEspaña 2009: First Individual Exhibition in Spain of Brazilian Photographer Mauro Restiffe |
MADRID.- First individual exhibition in Spain of Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe, highlighting architecture and town planning opens on Wednesday at Casa de America as part of the PHotoEspaña. The show includes nearly 40 black and white large format photographs portraying urban life with a documentary style.
Restiffe usually makes black-and-white photographs...More
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| Kunstverein Hannover Examines Oppositions & Dialogues in Contemporary Art |
HANNOVER.-The dialogic structure of the exhibition program is taken up in the Oppositions & Dialogues exhibition and examined based on works of art from the nineteen seventies to the present.
Oppositions & Dialogues understands opposition as an essential, productive force of our culture and politics. Strikes, election campaigns, parliamentary debates, peace treaties, divorces, and legal proceedings are only a few key words that make the character ...More
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| Sotheby's To Offer the Very Best of Decorative Arts - Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass & Clocks |
LONDON.- Sotheby's London will present the very best of decorative arts in its sale of Important Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks on Tuesday 7th July 2009. The sale of 68 lots is expected to raise in excess of £5 million and comprises the finest selections of both English and Continental furniture, in addition to the very best of decorative arts.
Mario Tavella, Deputy Chairman, Sotheby’s Europe, comments: “We are thrilled to be offering for the first time in a single sale the very best of the decorative arts, where each of the pieces stands out for their ...More
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| ICE Seizes a Cultural Artifact Reported Stolen in Italy Almost 12 Years Ago |
NEW YORK, NY.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today seized a Pompeii wall panel fresco from a Manhattan auction house that was reported stolen in Italy 12 years ago.
The fresco panel, which was the subject of an international search by INTERPOL, was located by the Art Loss Register of New York and brought to the attention of ICE and Italian Authorities. Italian authorities provided ICE agents via the ICE ...More
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| Paintings, Assemblages and Sculptures by Clay Ketter Prsented at Moderna Museet |
MALMO.- The artist Clay Ketter is one of Sweden’s greatest US imports. He was born in 1961 in Connecticut and studied in New York, but has been living on the plains of Scania in southern Sweden for more than 20 years now. It was in Sweden he had his breakthrough in the mid-90s, with Wall Paintings, a sort of ready-made created with gypsum wallboards, with tape and spackle. Before then, he had worked as a carpenter and craftsman. His international career took off and he is currently featured with a solo exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York....More
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| Deborah Grant's Long-term Project Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard Opens at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive |
BERKELEY, CA.- Deborah Grant’s paintings are dense—quite literally loaded with obsessive code-like mark-making, collaged and drawn symbolic representations, and flat silhouettes, and with myriad personal, cultural, and art-historical references. Her work is a kind of hallucinatory exercise, sampling across time and genre to connect ideas based in history and personal experience with political and social issues of the present. Grant’s distinctive and highly graphic ...More
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| Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Announces it will Show J.W. Waterhouse The Modern Pre-Raphaelite this Fall |
MONTREAL.- From October 1, 2009, to February 7, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will host the largest-ever retrospective of works by the celebrated British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite is the first large-scale monographic exhibition on Waterhouse’s work since 1978 and the first to feature his entire artistic career. This retrospective features some eighty paintings that are among the finest and most spectacular of the artist’s production, on loan from public and private collections in Australia, ...More
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| Rarely Seen Medieval Drawings on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- With strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored the medium of drawing, creating a rich panoply of works ranging from spontaneous sketches to powerful evocations of spirituality and intriguing images of science and the natural world. Opening June 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages is the first museum exhibition to examine in depth the achievements of the medieval draftsman. Through some 50 examples created in settings as diverse as a ninth-century ...More
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| Point of Intersection: Young Art and Masterpieces on View at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz |
LINZ.- The exhibition Point of Intersection explores the significance of Linz as a place where art is created and collected. In the surroundings of the Art University and Ars Electronica, Linz is not only a fascinating place for art productions, but also cultivates a vibrant practice of collecting modern and contemporary art. This is reflected in both the international orientation of the Lentos Collection and in the city purchases of contemporary art affiliated with Linz....More
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| Dallas Museum of Art Announces New Officers and Trustees |
DALLAS, TX.- In elections held by the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Museum of Art, Deedie Potter Rose was named Chairman. Mrs. Rose is a longtime trustee and former President (1994-98) of the Museum. Well known and admired for her passionate engagement with the Museum for two decades, her many contributions include significant benefaction, membership on the leadership team of the past two endowment campaigns, and leadership of the Art Challenge with the Hoffmans and ...More
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| First Ever Exhibition to Examine an Intriguing but Relatively Unappreciated Aspect of Medals of Dishonour |
LONDON.- The first ever exhibition to examine an intriguing but relatively unappreciated aspect of medal work will open at the British Museum this summer. Medals are best known for celebrating important figures or heroic deeds. Alongside the long-standing and well-known association of medals with glory and achievement lies another darker tradition of the medal as an indicator of dishonour. This exhibition will feature works from the past 400 years that ...More
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| Smithsonian American Art Museum Announces 2009-2010 Fellowship Appointments |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces appointment of 16 new fellows for the 2009–2010 academic year. The museum’s program grants awards for scholars and students to pursue research at the museum, including senior, predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships....More
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| The Akron Art Museum Introduces New Book Club |
AKRON, OH.- Black and White," a novel by Dani Shapiro, will be the focus of the museum's first book club meeting this spring. The new club, led by associate educator Alison Caplan and librarian Ellie Ward and inspired by the museum's docent tour guides' informal offsite book club, is set to officially begin on May 7 at 6:30 pm in the museum's Martha Stecher Reed Library. Filled with photography, art and other relevant materials, the Akron Art Museum is the perfect place to discuss the art of the written word. ...More
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| Chihuly Unveiled: A Celebration at the Flint Institute of Arts |
FLINT, MI.- The FIA will host a celebration to unveil the installation of the Flint Institute of Arts Persian Chandelier on Saturday, June 6 from 7 to 11pm. The Chandelier was created by world renowned artist Dale Chihuly as a commission to the permanent collection. The 10' by 13' "chandelier" is comprised of 128 individually blown colorful glass elements and will hang in the FIA's lobby.
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