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| First One-man Exhibition Featuring Works by Alexander Calder to be Held in Rome |
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), La Grande vitesse [1:5 maquette intermedia], 1969. Lamiera, bulloni e pittura, 259.1 x 342.9 x 236.2 cm. Calder Foundation, New York © 2009 Calder Foundation, New York.
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ROME.- From October 23, 2009 to February 14, 2010 for the first time in Rome a major one-man exhibition featuring works by Alexander Calder will be held at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni. His famous Mobiles and Stabiles, wire sculptures, gouaches, drawings and oil painting will be presented in an exhibition exploring the fundamental stages of the artist’s creative cycle, organised by Alexander S.C. Rower, Chairman of the Calder Foundation in New York, with the Terra Foundation for American Art and sponsored by BNL and Lottomatica. ...More
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| Call of the Sea Exhibition - A Fresh Look at Britain's Marine Painters and Maritime Heritage |
HAMPSHIRE.- A new exhibition at St. Barbe Museum focuses on the work of two artists who capitalised on national pride and interest in a growing maritime empire to create the first truly British school of marine painting. Peter Monamy (1681 - 1749) and Charles Brooking (1723 - 1759) created timelessly evocative representation of Britain’s maritime power that combined atmospheric effect and accurately rendered ships....More
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| Annie Leibovitz Sued by Art Capital Group for Nonpayment of Loan |
NEW YORK, NY. American photographer Annie Leibovitz, one of the most respected in the world, will have to return a $24 million loan she received in 2008 as a result of a lawsuit filed after she did not comply with the terms of an agreement.
Art Capital Group has filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court alleging that the photographer has fallen behind on hundreds of thousands of dollars in...More
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| First Major UK Solo Show for Subodh Gupta to Open at Hauser & Wirth in October |
LONDON.- Describing himself as 'the idol thief', Subodh Gupta is one of the most exciting and audacious contemporary artists to have emerged in recent years. The man dubbed by The Guardian as the 'subcontinental Marcel Duchamp' will exhibit simultaneously at Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly and Old Bond Street galleries throughout October. Among the works he’s making specifically for this, his first major...More
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| Six African Artists Exhibit at Marcelino Botín Foundation in Santander |
SANTANDER. The Marcelino Botín Foundation is presenting until September, at its center in Villa Iris in Santander, the exhibition “Intimate Geographies”, which aims to show contemporary African art through the proposals of six creators from the continent who explore their identity through time.
The exhibition gathers a wide variety of creations: videos, photographs, installations, prints, drawings, collages, made by African artists Nabil Boutros (Egypt, 1954), Viyé Diba (Senegal, 1954), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon, 1962), ...More
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| Renaissance Masterpiece Going to the Portland Art Museum |
PORTLAND, OR.- This October, the Portland Art Museum will present a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view Raphael's renowned painting The Woman with a Veil. This single-painting exhibition will bring one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance to Oregon for the first time.
The Woman with a Veil (la velata or la donna velata) was painted in 1516 and depicts a serene woman looking intently at the viewer. It is believed that the model for the painting is the same woman...More
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| Claremont Museum of Art Presents Ten Pound Ape: Your Mother was Beautiful Once, part vier |
CLAREMONT, CA.- The Claremont Museum of Art will present Ten Pound Ape: Your Mother was Beautiful Once, part vier, from Wednesday, May 20 through Sunday, September 27, 2009. The Museum will host a public opening reception from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 30.
Founded in 2004 in Guanajuato, Mexico, Ten Pound Ape is an international art collective that engages in public intervention projects, which question the nature of civic sculpture, co‐opt the verbiage...More
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| Tel Aviv Museum of Art Shows Max Beckmann's Porfolios "Annual Fair" and "Berlin Journey" |
TEL AVIV. In both of Max Beckmann's (Germany 1884 – USA 1950) 1922 portfolios, Annual Fair (Jahrmarkt) and Berlin Journey (Berliner Reise), the artist's world outlook is exposed through various aspects of "reality," departing from the stable and familiar towards realms of the eerie and uncanny. Urban figures and phenomena are introduced as analogies, replacing the artists' inner-personal and outer-social reality, presenting scenes replete with suffering and despair resulting from Europe's disillusionment in the wake of World War I....More
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| BFI Southbank Gallery Commissions Deimantas Narkevicius to Produce New Film |
LONDON.- The Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius is widely celebrated on the international art scene for his uncompromising yet poetic film and video works, which often take the communist experience as a starting point. Winner of the 2008 Vincent Van Gogh award for contemporary art, he was described by the jury as an artist who has an immense impact on his audience and who ‘shows us that the only way we can possibly grasp the contemporary socio-political situation in Europe is by re-examining the past’. A trained sculptor, Narkevicius calls his moving image works ‘a sort of extension of my sculpture’ and describes his films as ‘digital sculpture’....More
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| Swiss Video Artist Pipilotti Rist Prepares Exhibition for Joan Miró Foundation |
BARCELONA. The Fundació Joan Miró will be presenting an exhibition by the Swiss videoartist Pipilotti Rist, winner of the 2009 Joan Miró Prize.
Pipilotti Rist is currently preparing, for summer 2010, an exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and another at the Centre Cultural Caixa Girona–Fontana d’Or in Girona. Both exhibitions are sponsored by the Fundació Caixa Girona.
Rist never ceases to surprise...More
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| Contemporary Glass Society Conference: Space and Place - Glass in Context |
WAKEFIELD. The Contemporary Glass Society presents a conference that explores the use of glass in sculptural and architectural contexts to modulate light, create a sense of space, prooke thought, soothe, entertain and educate. Set in the inspirational environment of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the conference will take the form of lectures, seminars and panel discussions, and will: Look at outstanding architectural glass work within the context of a building....More
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| Featured Designers from Into the Open Exhibition Discuss their Projects at the National Constitution Center |
PHILADELPHIA, PA. The National Constitution Center, in partnership with the Slought Foundation and the Community Design Collaborative, will host public conversations with featured designers from the Into the Open exhibition on Friday, August 7, 2009, as part of “First Friday.” Jonathan Kirschenfeld, principal of Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architects; Laura Kurgan of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University; and Damon Rich, founder of the Center for Urban ...More
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| The Asheville Art Museum to Present Looking Forward: New Works and New Directions for the Permanent Collection |
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum, celebrating its 60th anniversary, is proud to present Looking Forward: New Works and New Directions for the Permanent Collection from Saturday, September 12, 2009 to Sunday, February 14, 2010. This exhibition highlights 60 works drawn from the permanent collection of the Asheville Art Museum. The exhibition provides an overview of the collection which focuses on American art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an interest in art of the Southeast and Western North Carolina. ...More
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| Diesel Creative Team, Headed by Wilbert Das, Collaborates with Foscarini on New Lighting Collection |
LONDON. This September, Diesel expands on its Home Collection with the UK market launch of a lighting collection produced in collaboration with Italian innovative lighting company Foscarini. Called ‘Successful Living from Diesel with Foscarini’, the lighting collection has been designed by the Diesel Creative Team, headed by Wilbert Das, and forms part of a Home Collection, which also includes furniture manufactured by Moroso....More
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| Kunsthal KAdE to Open Henry Coombes Solo Show in September |
AMERSFOORT. Scottish artist Henry Coombes (b.1977) has produced an apparently highly diverse oeuvre ranging from short (fiction and non-fiction) films to roughly modelled plaster sculptures and small, meticulously handled figurative paintings. Coombes is a member of the growing band of young artists who refuse to commit themselves to any single style or medium, preferring to select the means of expression most appropriate to each individual project. This one-man show at Kunsthal KAdE will present Coombes’ latest film The Bedfords, together with his paintings and sculptures. The Bedfords is a ‘fictional documentary’: a...More
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| Hatje Cantz Publishes Photography Book with Pictures from the Ostkreuz Agency |
BERLIN. In an authentic and unadorned way, these photos tell of a country that no longer exists, yet remains preserved in these images. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ostzeit presents photo series by the best chroniclers of the German Democratic Republic, culled from the first-class inventory of the Ostkreuz Agency. Founded on the concept of authorship in 1990 by photographers fromBerlin and Leipzig, the agency was named after a Berlin train station. Anyone wanting to enter East Germany had to pass through this station....More
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| Casa del Dean 16th Century Civil Murals will Undergo Restoration |
MEXICO CITY.- Four hundred year old mural paintings that decorate 2 halls at Casa del Dean, in Puebla Historical Center, will undergo integral restoration conducted by specialists from National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Humidity problems and consolidation of pictorial layers will be attended, with a 1.5 million MXP inversion. Alfonso de Maria y Campos, INAH general director, informed resources are part of a Bicentennial of Independence of Mexico celebrations special fund. “The aim is to recover the splendor of this 16th...More
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| Japanese American National Museum to Open New Show by Mike Shinoda |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Japanese American National Museum continues to mark its 10 years of work since it opened its Pavilion in 1999 with a free summer festival and the second shows by musician/artist Mike Shinoda and the magazine Giant Robot. The National Museum, which was founded in 1985 and opened to the public in a renovated historic building in 1992, expanded into its 85,000-square-foot Pavilion in January of 1999. The structure provided more exhibition space and collection storage as well as dedicated rooms for its Hirasaki National Resource Center, its...More
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