ArtDaily Newsletter, Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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Home   Museo del Prado Celebrates Francis Bacon's 100th Anniversary with Major Exhibition The Prince and Princess of Asturias with the CEO of the Museo del Prado, , Miguel Zugaza, observe the work "Pope I", 1951 made by British artist Francis Bacon, during the inauguration of the Bacon retrospective, one of the fundamental artists of the 20th Century. Photo: EFE/Sergio Barrenechea. MADRID.- The Museo del Prado opens a major exhibition on Francis Bacon (1909-1992). Intended to coincide with the centenary of the artist’s birth, it has been organised by Tate Britain in London and the ...More National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London Secure Diana and Actaeon EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London are delighted to announce that Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has been acquired for the nation from the Duke of Sutherland. ...More Museo Colecciones ICO in Madrid Opens Dominique Perrault Exhibition MADRID.- Museo Colecciones ICO stages the first ever large-scale exhibition devoted to the work of French architect Dominique Perrault. Dominique Perrault’s name immediately calls to mind the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, an East Paris landmark which, conceived as a non-architecture, the simple ...More Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009 Presents Some of the Best New Contemporary Art in Britain LONDON.- Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial, which will present some of the best new contemporary art in Britain, opens at Tate Britain on 3 February 2009. It includes works in all media - from photography, film and video, to extraordinary installations - and features many new works being shown for the first time....More Jeremy Strick Named Director of Nasher Sculptural Center DALLAS, TX.- The Board of Directors of the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, announced today the appointment of Jeremy Strick as the Center’s new Director. Mr. Strick will begin his position on March 2, 2009. His selection follows an extensive international search led a by a committee ...More Sotheby's Asia Week Sales Commence with Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s March 17th sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in New York will feature a tightly-curated selection of ceramics, paintings, and sculpture of the highest quality, from a number of distinguished American private collections. Included will be superb lots from The Gordon Getty...More Royal Collection Announces French Porcelain for English Palaces: Sevres from the Royal Collection LONDON.- This exhibition brings together around 300 pieces created by the pre-eminent European porcelain factory of the 18th century. The finely painted and gilded works by Sèvres were loved by royalty, aristocrats, connoisseurs and collectors. The factory’s unrivalled techniques and complex methods of production appealed to their liking for the rare, exotic and ...More Walker Evans's Eclectic Picture Postcard Collection Featured in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- Nine thousand picture postcards amassed by American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975) are among the fascinating works in The Walker Evans Archive, acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994. Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard, to be presented at the Museum from February 3 through May 25,...More Christie's Unveils Post-War & Contemporary Art Offerings in New York First Open Sale NEW YORK, NY.- On March 11, Christie'swill hold its ninth First Open sale, which will include over 150 lots of Post-War & Contemporary Art, and is expected to realize $2.6-3.7 million. Highlights of the sale include an alluring range of paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs from both well-known and emerging artists. With ...More Fuller Craft Museum Announces The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents The Perfect Fit—Shoes Tell Stories, a new exhibition that explores the cultural meanings of shoes, presenting imaginative objects of every size and craft medium. The exhibition opens June 6, 2009 and runs through Jan. 3, 2010 (press opening TBA), and was curated by ...More MCA Denver Presents Related by Anthony Goicolea in the Photography Gallery DENVER, CO.- MCA Denver announces the opening of Anthony Goicolea’s Related in the Laura & David Merage Foundation Photography Gallery. The exhibition opens February 17, 2009 and runs through June 28, 2009. A public reception will be held on Friday, February 20 from 6-10pm. This exhibition was ...More Smithsonian and Lincoln Presidential Library Traveling Mobile Museum WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will tour "Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America," to a number of Washington, D.C., area schools Jan. 29 through Feb. 7. The mobile museum exhibit explores the life and ...More National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Acting Chairman WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced today the appointment of Patrice Walker Powell as the agency's acting chairman. In this position, she will provide oversight for agency grantmaking and day-to-day agency operations and supervise administrative activities. She assumed the role ...More Thought-Provoking Academic Lectures at the Clark in February and March WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- National and international scholars, art critics, and museum professionals selected as Clark Fellows present thought-provoking and intriguing lectures at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute during the academic year. These free scholarly lectures are open to the public and held on ...More Annenberg Space for Photography Exhibition Features 8 LA-based Master Photographers LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Annenberg Foundation announced today the opening exhibit for the Annenberg Space for Photography, a community space dedicated to both digital images and print photography in Los Angeles, California to open Friday, March 27, 2009....More National Museum of African Art Inaugural Displays Extended WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art has extended several art displays and a treasure hunt relating to the inauguration of President Barack Obama and to the theme of leadership. Activities will continue through February in conjunction with Black History Month....More Smithsonian Celebrates Black History Month WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian celebrates Black History Month in February with a series of films, lectures and performances at museums around the Institution. All programs are free, unless otherwise indicated. ...More National Museum of the American Indian Launches Its Collections Online WASHINGTON, DC.- Today the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian launched its collections online. The ever-expanding digital access to the museum's 800,000-plus items includes more than 5,500 photographs; eventually it will be one of the largest Native American online collections. It is available at ...More Mid-Southern Watercolorists 39th Annual Exhibition to be on view at the Arkansas Arts Center Community Gallery LITTLE ROCK, AR.- Mid-Southern Watercolorists will host its 39th Annual Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center Community Gallery at the Terry House, on view February 20 – March 29, 2009....More Spectacular Images of Saturn on Display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum WASHINGTON, DC.- The Cassini spacecraft has provided an unprecedented look at Saturn and its rings and moons since its arrival in the planet’s orbit in 2004. The images and other data returned by Cassini and its Titan probe Huygens have revealed surprising details in Saturn’s atmospheric storms, the structure of its rings, the intricate geologic patterns on its moons and even ...More

ArtDaily Newsletter, Monday, February 2, 2009

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Home   Es Baluard Museum of Art Opens Anselm Kiefer; Works from the Grothe Collection Anselm Kiefer, Am Anfang (In the Beginning), 2008. Oil, emulsion and lead on canvas and photopaper 380 x 560 cm. By MICHAEL DAMIANO PALMA DE MAJORCA.- .- On Saturday, the Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Palma de Majorca, Spain concluded the inauguration ceremonies of Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Grothe Colleciton. The visually striking exhibition comprises thirteen very large format ...More Free General Admission to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Entire Month of February CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is welcoming all visitors to enjoy free general admission all day, every day, for the entire month of February. Special events during this month include a full schedule of performances, family events, poetry readings, and gallery talks. Visitors can also enjoy half price tickets ...More First Exhibition Devoted to the Portraits of Henri Matisse Opens at Bucerius Kunst Forum HAMBURG.- Matisse. People, Masks, Models is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Henri Matisse’s portraits. Matisse (1869 – 1954) not only created colorful interior scenes and still life paintings but also very expressive portraits. He regarded portraits as his most important artistic challenge. For Matisse, a “true” likeness was not achieved merely by capturing a sitter’s features, but was ...More Exhibition Combines Environmentally Themed Pieces with Student Artists' Reactions to that Work SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Ready, set, REACT! The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents Re-Act, an exciting and unpredictable exhibition involving five creative community groups from Salt Lake City. On view from February 3 to May 17, 2009, the collaborative exhibition combines environmentally themed pieces from...More Tyler Museum of Art's Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection Opens Feb. 22 TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art offers a panoramic view of the American experience west of the Mississippi – as seen through the eyes of the people who witnessed it take shape – in its next major exhibition, Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection....More SFMOMA to Open Rooftop Sculpture Garden on May 10, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will open a new rooftop sculpture garden on May 10, 2009, one year before the museum's 75th anniversary. The Rooftop Garden will not only serve as a dynamic space for showcasing SFMOMA's ever-expanding collection of modern and contemporary...More Shark's Ink: The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink DENVER, CO.- MCA Denver is pleased to announce the opening of Shark’s Ink: The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink in the Joseph Crescenti Family Paper Works Gallery. The exhibition opens February 3, 2009 and runs through June 28, 2009. A public reception will be held on Friday, February 6 ...More Brill's Innovative Colour Factory for Art Collective Opens WINCHESTER.- Dan Brill Architects has completed their first building, the innovative 'Colour Factory' based in Winchester, UK. The Colour Factory houses small workshops run by the Colour Factory arts collective. ...More Michel Comte Retrospective Opens at NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf DUSSELDORF.- Michel Comte was born in Zurich in 1954. He trained as an art restorer and then taught himself photography. In 1979, he received his first advertising commission from Karl Lagerfeld for the fashion label Chloé and moved to Paris. ...More Margrét H. Blondal & Lars Laumann to Open Exhibition at the Art Galleries at TCU FORT WORTH, TX.- This two-person exhibition features the work of Icelandic sculptor Margrét H. Blöndal and Norwegian video artist Lars Laumann. Blöndal’s work most often utilizes found domestic elements to create installations that suggest quixotic reference or function. In their materiality they are most often...More Jendela: A Play of the Ordinary to Open at NUS Museum SINGAPORE.- NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery presents the works of art collective Jendela in the first part of two major exhibitions on Indonesian contemporary art from February to April 2009 Consisting of graduates of Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Yogyakarta, Kelompok...More Series of Photographs of Hawaiian Nisei to be Displayed at National Museum LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Japanese American National Museum will open the traveling exhibition, Gokur?sama: Contemporary Photographs of the Nisei in Hawai'i, a collection of recent images of Japanese Americans who were born before World War II, on Saturday, February 14, 2009, in its Pavilion in Little Tokyo, and running ...More Walker Art Center Presents Multiples Mall: A Bookish Affair MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- In conjunction with the exhibition Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Minnesota artists who make book-related multiples set up shop for Multiples Mall: A Bookish Fair—a day of merriment complete with a tour of the exhibition and a short presentation on the history of chapbooks and radical reasons for making multiples. Artists' books, chapbooks, zines, and other booklike ...More Blues, Roots and HG Nelson Take Centre Stage at the National Gallery of Australia CANBERRA.- In association with the major international exhibition Degas: master of French art, in an unlikely coming together of ideas, art and sport, legendary raconteur HG Nelson will deliver a ‘spray’, Degas: an Australian great at the National Gallery of Australia....More Galerie Rudolfinum Presents Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures Exhibition PRAGUE.- The film work of Andy Warhol is sometimes unfairly seen as a mere accessory to his paintings. The most frequently shown of his films such as Dracula or Flesh originate from the period at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, and the lion's share of these films belonged to his co workers at the Factory. Meanwhile Andy Warhol had been experimenting with film since 1963, and...More Philip Guston Focus Exhibition Inaugurates Series of Modern and Contemporary Shows "In The Tower," at National Gallery WASHINGTON, DC.- A focus exhibition of works by American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) at the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a new series of shows in the Tower Gallery of the East Building that center around developments in art since the 1970s. A dramatic and meditative space, the Tower is among the most elegant in the I.M. Pei ...More Information Regarding the Arts and Economic Stimulus from the National Endowment for the Arts WASHINGTON, DC.- There has been much public conversation recently regarding the role of the arts and culture industry in economic stimulus. Following is information that seeks to clarify this issue through two key points: that the arts and culture industry is a sector of the economy just like any other with workers who pay taxes, mortgages, rent and contribute in other ways to the economy; and ...More New Words 2009: Akron Art Museum's 15th Annual Adult Poetry Contest AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum invites all Ohio residents aged 18 years and older to participate in its 15th annual poetry contest, New Words 2009. Winners will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to read their poems at the museum's poetry reading on Sunday, April 19, 2009. ...More Eight Architects Selected to Receive the 2009 American Institute of Architects' Young Architects Award WASHINGTON, DC.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the eight recipients of the 2009 AIA Young Architects Award. Young Architects are defined as professionals who have been licensed 10 years or fewer regardless of their age. This award honors individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and ...More The Reels to Perform at Final "Australia Up Late" at the Gallery of Modern Art QUEENSLAND.- Australian three-piece band The Reels will perform the final 'Australia Up Late' on Friday, February 20 at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)....More

International Art News: February 2, 2009

ARTS NEWS: February 02, 2009 Top Stories Mike Mills: �The Only Way Out Is Through� Pool Gallery, Berlin, DE Germany Works from Perception by the Midwest Paint Group Sheldon Swope Museum of Art, Terra Haute, IN USA United States of America Contemporary Perspectives: A Collective Exhibition Agora Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America Florida Sculptors Guild: First All Sculpture Group Exhibition Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee, FL USA United States of America Mike Mills: �The Only Way Out Is Through� Pool Gallery, Berlin, DE Germany The Pool Gallery in Berlin presents Mike Mills: �The Only Way Out Is Through� on exhibit from 31 January to 14 March, 2009. Mike Mills, born in Berkeley, California in 1966, may rightly be called a good all-rounder: So far, he has made a name for himself as a director and graphic designer. Having successfully directed commercials, short films and music videos for Yoko Ono, Air, Pulp and Zoot Woman, he made his debut in 2005 with the highly praised feature film �Thumbsucker� (featuring, among others, Keanu Reeves, Tilda Swinton and Vince Vaughn). He also became famous for his album cover designs. His repertoire includes design and music classics for artists such as Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Beck and Air, but also for fashion labels such as Supreme, Marc Jacobs or X-Girl. In his works, Mike Mills successfully creates a lifestyle without ever lapsing into banality or losing a sense of pretension. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Works from Perception by the Midwest Paint Group Sheldon Swope Museum of Art, Terra Haute, IN USA United States of America The traveling exhibition of the Midwest Paint Group titled �Works from Perception� opens on February 6 at the Sheldon Swope Museum of Art in Terra Haute, Indiana where it will run through March 14. This visually intelligent and emotive exhibit features close to 50 works in small to large dimensions done in oil, acrylic, pastel and mixed media. The Midwest Paint Group, (MPG), is comprised of 10 mid-career artists originally from the Midwest region. The painters are Bob Brock, Glen Cebulash, William Foust, Philip Hale, Timothy King, Barbara Lea, Jeremy Long, Michael Neary, Ron Weaver, and Megan Williamson. Both Philip Hale and Timothy King are Premiere Portfolio Artists at absolutearts.com. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Contemporary Perspectives: A Collective Exhibition Agora Gallery, New York, NY USA United States of America The Agora Gallery in New York presents 'Contemporary Perspectives: A Collective Exhibition' from January 30 through February 19, 2009. Exciting works of sculpture, painting, digital art, and drawing are brought together to survey the state of contemporary art. The artists included in Contemporary Perspectives have traversed very distinctive avenues of creativity. Yet this group remains unified in a common spirit of optimism and a determined belief in the power of art. The works explore both our modern civilization and its pastoral roots through slick abstractions and stunning photorealism. Featured in the exhibition is D. Loren Champlin who has been a Premiere Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2007. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Florida Sculptors Guild: First All Sculpture Group Exhibition Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee, FL USA United States of America The Florida Sculptors Guild proudly announces its First ALL-SCULPTURE Group Exhibit at the Osceola Center for the Arts, February 1-23, 2009. The Florida Sculptors Guild is an independent organization of talented sculptors residing in the central Florida area. This exhibit will showcase twenty sculptors working in a vast variety of mediums including bronze, wood, glass, ceramic, metal and mixed media. Meet the artists at a reception open to public on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 from 6-8 p.m. Osceola Center for the Arts, Kissimmee, FL. Included in the exhibition is absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio Artist Cecil Herring. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Call for Artists: Painting SHOW 09 Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, QL AU Australia Brunswick Street Gallery at 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, is CALLING FOR ENTRIES for their Painting SHOW 09. 10 artists will be selected to exhibit up to 10 works depending on size. Email work to apply. It is free to apply. Show opens Mar 27 and runs to Apr 9. Deadline for submissions 1 March. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Absolutearts subscribers save 10% at Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com: Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com is offering a 10% discount to Absolutearts subscribers who place orders through their online store today. Their innovative portfolio cases provide a convenient way to carry mounted, framed, and even oversized artwork. Enter coupon code ABSART1 at checkout to receive the discount. SPECIAL: Portfolio cases for mounted, framed, even oversized artwork! 10% Discount offered today for Absolutearts subscribers. Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com is offering a 10% discount to Absolutearts subscribers on all items ordered through their online store, including the X-PortTM line of Expandable Portfolios. These rugged yet lightweight cases expand to six inches of depth and load from the top, making it easy to transport a variety of artwork. 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