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| First Solo Museum Exhibition Devoted to the Work of John McCracken Presented in the UK |
John McCracken with Galaxy, 2008. Photograph by Grant Delin, 2008. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
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EDINBURGH.- John McCracken is one of the great living American artists whose use of colour “as material” continues to influence artists across generations in a career spanning 45 years. This exhibition features fourteen major sculptures dating from 1966 to 2006 from private collections, and early sketchbook drawings from 1964 to 1966 from the collection of the artist. It is the first solo museum exhibition devoted to the work of John McCracken ever to be presented in the UK. Born in Berkeley, California in 1934, McCracken rose to prominence during the early 1960s as part of a group of artists working in Southern California. From the outset his work was associated with Minimalism and his contemporaries include Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt and Carl Andre. ...More
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| Classic and Contemporary Masterpieces on Show at the National Museum of Singapore |
SINGAPORE.- The National Museum of Singapore presents A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters From Antwerp, showcasing an exclusive collection of 150 artworks from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (KMSKA), the Museum Plantin-Moretus/Print room and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA). The exhibition runs from 14 August to 4 October 2009.
In the exhibition, historical and contemporary artworks are juxtaposed to examine the subversion of the purpose and intent ...More
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| Celebrate Woodstock's 40th Anniversary Visiting the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts |
BETHEL WOODS, NY.- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a $100 million outdoor performing arts center and museum located approximately 90 minutes from New York City at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY. The 15,000 seat outdoor performing arts venue and The Museum at Bethel Woods are set within nearly 2,000 bucolic acres. The Pavilion Stage covers 4,500 seats with another 10,500 on a natural sloping lawn while offering unique backdrops including the original festival site and the majesty of the surrounding Sullivan County countryside. Other venues at the center include a 1,000-seat outdoor Terrace ...More
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| Alison Cole to Join Arts Council England as its New Executive Director of Communications |
LONDON.- Alison Cole, currently Director of Communications at Southbank Centre, has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Communications at Arts Council England. She will join the organisation on 23 November 2009.
Alison will be responsible for the Arts Council’s strategic communications and campaigns. She will lead a national team with responsibility for media relations, public affairs, marketing, online and print publishing and internal communications....More
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| MoMA's Second Annual Film Benefit Honors Innovative Filmmaker Tim Burton on November 17 |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art’s Film Benefit, a gala dinner to be held on November 17, will honor film director Tim Burton, who is renowned for such films as Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and Sweeney Todd. Burton’s visionary filmmaking is the subject of the major MoMA exhibition Tim Burton (November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010), which will trace the current of Burton’s visual imagination, from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature work in film. Included will be 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career....More
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| Callum Innes Exhibition I Look at You Opens at Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh |
EDINBURGH.- Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries. Innes was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1995, won the prestigious NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998, and in 2002 was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting.
Most of his paintings are made by “un-painting” as well as painting: A language that he has made his own; oil paint is applied in layers and dissolved away with turpentine, forming something quietly and unexpectedly beautiful. All of his paintings share a tension born of...More
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| A Series of Exhibitions in Italy will Celebrate Elio Ciol's 80th Anniversary |
UDINE, ITALY.- A series of exhibitions organized at Villa Manin di Passariano, in Casarsa della Delizia and in Pordenone celebrates the eighty years of Elio Ciol, one of the Italian landscape photographers better known in the world, and sixty years of professional work of the artist. Elio Ciol is known mainly for his photographic interpretations of Italian landscape and for his work of documentation of artistic heritage. The Villa Manin exhibition deals with a lesser known period of the photographer, that of the years of his formation, between 1950 and 1964.
Italy was living at the time a period of great creative ardour in all fields, from cinema to literature, from arts to photography. The country had just come out of the war, and in the developed areas was in the ...More
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| Slick, the Contemporary Art Fair Dedicated to Uncovering New Talents, will Take Place in Paris |
PARIS.- Slick, the contemporary art fair dedicated to uncovering new talents, will take place in Paris from October 23rd to October 26th, during the FIAC, at the CENTQUATRE, Paris’ hottest new art establishment. They say that Slick is the most « in » « Off » in Paris. For it’s fourth edition, Slick grows up !
Covering over 4,000 m2, Slick is expanding to better welcome 60 French and International galleries (up from 58 in 2008), as well as artists and visitors. The event will include the main hall area as well as screening rooms, in order to devote space to performance and video art....More
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| Dr. Steve Grafe Appointed Maryhill Museum of Art's Curator of Art |
GOLDENDALE, WA.- Maryhill Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Steve Grafe to curator of art. Dr. Grafe comes to the museum from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, where he has served as curator of American Indian Art since January 2004. He brings a wealth of curatorial experience and scholarly expertise to the post, which he will assume on September 1, 2009.
"We are thrilled that Steve has accepted the position. His extensive knowledge of Native arts and the Columbia River Plateau dovetails nicely into Maryhill's ...More
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| Golden Agers & Silver Surfers: Old Age and Aging in Contemporary Art at Kunsthaus Baselland |
MUTTENZ/BASLE.- Although the exhibition Golden Agers & Silver Surfers focuses on a certain age group and target population, it develops a dialogue that involves all age groups. Aging is a phenomenon of societal relevance that is given pictorial reflection in the visual arts. While the art of our time mirrors the yearnings and desires of humankind, it also has something else to propose, something proprietary and, perhaps, strange, which stands in juxtaposition to our societal reality.
The fact that western societies are aging is of demographic relevance. People live...More
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| A Foundation to Present a Solo Exhibition of New Work by the American-born Artist Whitney McVeigh |
LONDON.- A Foundation will present a solo exhibition of new work by the American-born artist Whitney McVeigh. Set in the cavernous first floor space of A Foundation’s Rochelle School in Shoreditch, East London , the exhibition will showcase a selection of monoprints, collages and works on found paper. Operating through a combination of intention and accident, McVeigh’s new work has a vivid immediacy which celebrates the potential of the medium to suggest,...More
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| First Major Survey of British Artist Rosalind Nashashibi to be Held at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts |
LONDON.- This autumn, the ICA presents the first major survey of British artist Rosalind Nashashibi. Winner of the prestigious Beck’s Futures prize at the ICA in 2003, Nashashibi, who is based in London, has built up a strong and deserved international reputation for her work. This exhibition, organised by the ICA in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, comprises five of her 16mm films - including an ambitious new commission – alongside lesser-known photographic and print work, which shown together, represents the most comprehensive presentation of her work to date....More
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| Burger Collection to Open its Quadrilogy of Exhibitions and Events in Berlin |
BERLIN.- The Burger Collection opens its quadrilogy of exhibitions and events in Berlin in 2009. Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1) is the inaugural exhibition of a four-part project of temporary exhibitions in four different cities worldwide to be held in the upcoming years. Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1) interweaves the physical presence of works by more than 35 artists including two outdoor projects with an editorially ambitious catalogue and events such as roundtables, artist talks and a workshop....More
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| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Highlights Recent Gifts in New Exhibition |
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s art collection began with a gift. Beginning in the 1930s, major gifts of Hispanic and Native American art from Alice Bemis Taylor and Modern American art from Elizabeth Sage Hare formed the foundation of the FAC’s permanent collection. Since then, gifts of art have constituted a majority of the FAC collection through today with the recent gift of 50 works from the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection....More
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| Bruce Museum Opens Exhibition of West African Gold from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection |
GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, opens a second show this summer drawn from the collections of former Greenwich native Olga Hirshhorn entitled West African Gold from the Ivory Coast: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection, on view through Sunday, November 8, 2009. Mrs. Hirshhorn married famed art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and together they founded the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. in 1974. She started her gold collection in the 1970s, shortly after she met her future husband....More
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| Cantor Arts Center Announces Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China |
STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces an exhibition that brings to the United States a rare and important group of 20th-century paintings by four Chinese modern masters. The exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” presents more than 110 works, in two rotations, February 17 through July 4, 2010. “This landmark exhibition illuminates a turning point in the development of Chinese ink painting during the 20th-century,” explained Dr. Xiaoneng...More
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| Smithsonian Journeys Makes World Heritage Sites Easier to Visit |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Smithsonian Journeys is making it easier to select tours that visit world-renowned travel destinations with a new UNESCO World Heritage blog series and photo gallery. The blog series and photo gallery will inform and educate travelers about sites classified by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as those of historical and cultural interest. Smithsonian Journeys is dedicated to providing educational travel experiences and taking travelers to the world’s most intriguing locales....More
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| Hines and Royal Academy Schools Announce Photography Scholarship |
LONDON.- The Royal Academy Schools and the international real estate company Hines have awarded two photography scholarships to artists at the Royal Academy Schools. Dzenana Hozic, a Bosnian born artist, and Kraig Wilson from Middlesborough, are both based in London studying Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools. The scholarships have been awarded to the two artists to record the construction of Hines’ current mixed-use development of One Grafton Street in Mayfair.
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| Museum Visitors Get their Just Desserts as New Restaurant Opens |
LIVERPOOL.- Merseyside Maritime Museum is to unveil a breathtaking new 120-cover restaurant and conference facility offering exceptional food and stunning views of the city. Located on the fourth floor of their Grade 1 listed home, the Maritime Dining Rooms has been a year in the planning and will officially open its doors to the public this Friday 7 August....More
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