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| Anish Kapoor Installation Opens in October as Part of Guggenheim's 50th Anniversary |
Anish Kapoor, Memory, 2008. Cor-Ten steel, 14.5 x 8.97 x 4.48 mPhoto: Mathias Schormann © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Memory (2008), a major new site-specific sculpture installation by leading international artist Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from October 21, 2009, to March 28, 2010 as part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's first collaboration with the artist, who is celebrated for his expansive and profound aesthetic vision. The work is the 14th in a series of artist projects commissioned by Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin....More
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| Fundació Arranz-Bravo to Open New Art Space in Barcelona |
BARCELONA.- The Fundació Arranz-Bravo has a collection of 290 of the artists works, of which 97 are paintings (including many large format ones), 59 are drawings and paintings on paper, nine are bronze sculptures (including the bronze and aluminum prototype of El Pont de la Llibertat, which is located at the junction of Rambla de la Marina and Avinguda del Carrilet in L'Hospitalet), one is a polychrome sculpture – L'Acollidora de la Fundació – and 124 are engravings using a variety of techniques (etchings, lithographs and serigraphs). Two theatre sets also form part of the collection.
The collection begins...More
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| The Whitney Presents a Special Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Child's Legendary Dance |
NEW YORK, NY.- A legendary collaboration between Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, the iconic performance work Dance is the subject of a special exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring an archival performance video and various related materials by the three artists, in its fifth-floor galleries throughout the summer. The installation has been organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney's Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.
In 1979, Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass invited Sol LeWitt to collaborate with them on a new work titled Dance, commissioned...More
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| Major Exhibition of French Drawings to Open in October at the Morgan |
NEW YORK, NY.- Few eras in French history witnessed the same degree of radical social and political changes as those of the eighteenth century. The efflorescence of the ancien régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a period of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicled the many changes taking place in France.
It is this dynamic period in French art history that is the subject of Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings. On view from October 2, 2009,...More
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| The Portland Art Museum Reveals Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum |
PORTLAND, OR.- For one night only, on Saturday, September 19 from 6 p.m.–midnight, the Portland Art Museum hosts Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum. The event consists of six hours of performances, installations, tours, workshops, and games by 15 artists drawn from Portland State University 's Art and Social Practice Program, led by Harrell Fletcher. The Northwest Film Center joins in by breaking out of the Whitsell Auditorium to present vintage and contemporary works in some surprise locations. The projects are centered on...More
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| First Major Exhibition of Women Artists and Surrealism to be Held in Europe |
MANCHESTER.- The first major exhibition of women artists and Surrealism to be held in Europe, Angels of Anarchy, opens this autumn at Manchester Art Gallery. Featuring over 100 artworks by 33 women artists, the exhibition is a celebration of the crucial, but at the time not fully recognised, role that women artists have played within Surrealism.
Paintings, prints, photographs, surreal objects and sculptures by well-known...More
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| Dale Chihuly Exhibition Next Year will Dazzle Audiences in Nashville |
NASHVILLE, TN.- The highly acclaimed art of Dale Chihuly, exploring the visual relationship of glass and nature, will appear in the glorious setting of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art opening May 25, 2010 and on display through October 31, 2010.
The show, Chihuly at Cheekwood, features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on display throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center....More
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| 4th Biennial of the Moving Image: Film, Video and Installations in Twelve Special Venues in Mechelen |
MECHELEN, BELGIUM.- Contour, the Biennial for Moving Image, was established in 2003 as a platform for presenting cutting edge developments and the best in art of the moving image. The biennial presents artists working with film, video and installation in special locations in the historical inner city of Mechelen; unexpected or unusual venues within walking distance from one another. Since the first edition in 2003, a different curator is invited to provide the biennial with a new framework, vision and dynamic. The fourth edition bears the mark of the Brussels-based curator Katerina Gregos (GRC). Under ...More
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| Israeli Potter Irit Abba, Winner of the Andrea F. Bronfman Prize, Exhibits at Tel Aviv Museum |
TEL AVIV. Almost hidden from the public eye, the potter Irit Abba (born 1953) has been creating for three decades. A graduate of the Bezalel Department of Ceramic Design, she has been teaching there since the mid-1980s. Her work has internalized a wide-reaching pottery culture – from the ancient pottery of China and Persia to the modern esthetic discourse formed in Britain and the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Since 2001 Abba has been perfecting porcelain work on the pottery wheel with virtuosity, testing the boundaries of matter. During the past decade, in the movement between the raw and the refined, Abba has begun realizing a fantasy of contravening prohibitions, ...More
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| Bridges and the Span of Time: Fifty Artist Survey Exhibition of Bridges of the Hudson Valley |
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Poughkeepsie, New York has a very special bridge, the Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge completed in 1888, spans the Hudson River at Highland and Poughkeepsie, half way between New York City and Albany, NY. At that time, for a period of one year, it was the longest bridge in the world measuring 6,767 feet long and 212 feet above the water surface. It was conceived by then Mayor Harvey Eastman and was built to carry heavy cargo of lumber, grain, coal and other goods from the farm and steel belts of the Midwest to industrial New England. After 1888, cargo trains didn't have to go down ...More
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| Noguchi's Original Vision for the Museum Brought to Life in Reinstallation of Collection and Building Renovation |
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its upcoming twenty-fifth anniversary, The Noguchi Museum presents Noguchi ReINstalled. Together with the recently completed building renovation, this special museum-wide installation revivifies the artist's original intention for the museum he designed and its display of his life's work. On view through October 24, 2010, Noguchi ReINstalled comprises artworks in virtually all of the mediums and genres in which the artist worked, illuminating the extraordinary range of his creativity over the course of some six decades....More
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| Artist Duo Ubermorgen.com Celebrate Tenth Anniversary with New Book: Media Hacking vs.Conceptual Art |
VIENNA.- For the first time and marking UBERMORGEN.COM 's 10-year anniversary, a critical examination of the complete body of work of the artist duo lizvlx and Hans Bernhard is presented in the form of a 200 page book, which includes more than 200 color pictures. A highly varied assortment of critics, curators, and artists reflect on UBERMORGEN.COM's border crossings in the channels of global mass media and on their radical actions above the abyss of the international art scene. It is this...More
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| First Comprehensive Retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's Oeuvre to be Shown in Maastricht |
MAASTRICHT.- The Bonnefantenmuseum will be presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's oeuvre on the European mainland, which comprises over 90 works (paintings, watercolours, drawings and lithos) from the past 18 years (1991-2009). From her first portraits of 19th-century heroes to her more recent works, peopled with friends from the world of music, fashion and literature, Elizabeth Peyton has presented herself as a contemporary 'painter of modern life', in the words of Charles Baudelaire. Peyton's miniature portraits capture the spirit of the times in ...More
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| The Asheville Art Museum to Present Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space |
ASHEVILLE< NC.- The Asheville Art Museum, celebrating its 60th anniversary, will present Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space from Saturday, September 19, 2009 to Sunday, February 7, 2010. This exhibition celebrates the unique career of Ruth Asawa (1926 - ), an artist whose looped-wire sculptures and richly detailed drawings defy traditional ...More
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| 63rd Bellevue Arts Museum Artsfair Draws Large, Enthusiastic Crowds to Downtown Bellevue |
BELLEVUE, WA.- For more than sixty years, the Pacific Northwest community, art collectors worldwide and enthusiasts of all ages have enjoyed the annual Bellevue Arts Museum artsfair presented by Microsoft. This year's three-day festival, held July 24 - 26, was no exception as an estimated 320,000 visitors came to enjoy the 325 juried artist booths, live entertainment, great food and much more. 2009 marked the 63rd year for this beloved free community event, featuring high ...More
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| National Institute of Anthropology and History Announces that Petroglyphs in Sinaloa are Graffiti-Free |
MEXICO CITY.- Las Labradas, Sinaloa is an archaeological site where more than 300 petroglyphs have been found to present, and maintenance and cleaning work to retire graffiti stains are about to be finished. Work is part of Temporary Employment Program (PET), promoted by Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), which also attends maintenance labors at Cerro de la Mascara, another petroglyph site, and the former Jesuit College in Sinaloa, located in El Fuerte and Sinaloa de Leyva municipalities. Investment has been 500,000 MXP....More
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| Author Tackles "Gallerist" in New Edition of How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist |
SARASOTA, FL.- "Somewhere between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, art dealers in New York reinvented themselves and changed the title of their occupation to 'gallerist'," writes Caroll Michels in the 6th edition of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, published in June 2009 by Henry Holt and Company. "The new title arrived with a set of rules regarding who can use the ...More
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| An Exhibition Inspired by the Artists Featured in 'Beautiful Losers' |
LONDON.- DIY LONDON SEEN - An exhibition documenting the work of, and inspired by, the Artists featured in Aaron Rose's 'Beautiful Losers' will take place in the heart of London's Covent Garden this summer; an area committed to supporting emerging new talent. The exhibition will coincide with the film's UK release at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and its subsequent DVD release. DIY LONDON SEEN will include work by Ivory Serra and Cheryl Dunn, who photographed the origins and rise of the Alleged Gallery and its Artists in the US,...More
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| Impressionist Treasures from Tacoma Art Museum's Permanent Collection to be Shown for First Time in Years |
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum 's surprising collection of impressionist paintings, works on paper, and sculptures will be exhibited together for the first time in twenty years. Together with other key loans they tell the story of the international nature of the impressionist movement. The Movement of Impressionism: Europe, America, and the Northwest explores the varied forms impressionism took as it traveled from Europe to America and into the Northwest. Each artist and region interpreted impressionist ideas in their own way, sometimes subtly and sometimes in radically different ways, varying color, subject, and technique. ...More
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