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| 700 Glorious Years of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture at International Fine Art Fair in N.Y. |
Exhibitior: Neffe-Degandt Fine Art. Pierre Bonnard, (French, 1867-1947), Le port des yachts, Circa 1914, Oil on canvas, 19 11/16 x 31 ½ inches (50 x 80 cm) stamped with signature lower right. Provenance: Directly from the artist to his heirs.
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NEW YORK.- The 16th annual International Fine Art Fair takes place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from the May 1st-5th, 2009. This well-known showcase features over 700 years of fine art. It has always attracted institutional and private buyers and remains the only “high end” fair in the world devoted solely to paintings, drawings and sculpture. Exhibitors from the USA and Europe take part in the fair annually, enriching it with their own particular speciality, and in recent years there has been an increase in the participation of American dealers offering American art of the 19th and 20th centuries. The variety of works of art on view span the centuries, from the early Renaissance right up to contemporary. Some illustrate how European art, has evolved, becoming increasingly secular after devoutly religious beginnings with exquisitely ...More
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| MFAH Acquires 300 Photographs by Japanese Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro |
HOUSTON, TX.- Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921), trained by Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design (or "New Bauhaus") in Chicago and widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his generation in the development of postwar Japanese photography, has donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 289 photographs dating from 1949 to 2005. The MFAH has purchased...More
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| Statens Museum for Kunst Presents Today Across - Acquisitions 2007-09 |
COPENHAGEN.- Statens Museum for Kunst presents today Across - Acquisitions 2007-09, on view through August 9, 2009. What is tax money spent on? What do private foundations etc. support? And what are the criteria behind the choice of works of art which will form part of the rich collections at Denmark’s national gallery? This summer’s exhibition at Statens Museum for Kunst presents a special selection of the many acquisitions made over the last couple of years: from unique...More
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| The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock - A British Museum Tour |
BRIGHTON, UK.- Brighton Museum & Art Gallery presents today The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock - A British Museum Tour, on view through August 31, 2009. The American Scene features around 80 outstanding prints by 56 leading modern American artists, including George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois and Jackson Pollock. The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change in America, and this exhibition examines...More
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| China: Journey to the East - A Touring Exhibition - Opens at The Herbert |
COVENTRY, UK.- 250 years ago, the British Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time. From the very beginning the Museum has always sought to make its collection as accessible as possible to a world public. Continuing this tradition, China: Journey to the East, supported by BP a China now legacy project, is a unique...More
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| Lynn Zelevansky Named The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art |
PITTSBURGH, PA.— Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Lynn Zelevansky has been named the Henry J. Heinz II director of Carnegie Museum of Art. Zelevansky is currently the Terri and Michael Smooke curator and department head of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A writer, art professor, and curator, for the past...More
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| Musée de l'Elysée Presents Italian Photographer Carlo Valsecchi - Lumen |
LAUSANNE.- Musée de l'Elysée presents Carlo Valsecchi - Lumen, on view through June 14, 2009. Monumental industrial architecture: cranes, pipes, cables and machines of every description; high-tech laboratories with gleaming surfaces ; and vast tracts of South American agribusiness... Italian photographer Carlo Valsecchi alternates...More
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| SCOPE Announces Details For Basel BASEL 2009: 8 - 14 June 2009 |
BASEL.- SCOPE, the acclaimed art show that established its name by providing a much needed international platform for cutting edge contemporary art, returns to Basel for the third year, hosting more galleries than ever before, from all over the world. Moreover, this year will see SCOPE in a brand new specially built venue on the Sportplatz Landhof, just 200 m from Art Basel...More
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| President Barack Obama - On the tracks of the Kennedys? |
BERLIN.- After President Obama's first hundred days in office the museum THE KENNEDYS will devote a special exhibition to the new American president. The temporary show will complement the permanent exhibition of the museum at the Brandenburg Gate with about 50 exhibits, many of which are photographs by the official White House photographer, Pete Souza. Souza had already accompanied Barack Obama during his term as U.S. Senator....More
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| The Chazen Museum Goes Undergound with Comix Exhibition |
MADISON, WI.- Beginning in the 1960s, underground cartoonists joined the rebellion against mainstream society, commercial publishing, and conformity in comics. The thriving comix culture boldly visualized the dissent and social exploration of the time. Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963 - 1990, on view May 2 - July 12, 2009, looks at...More
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| Patrick Dougherty to Create Large-Scale Tree-Sapling Sculpture in Front of KU's Spooner Hall |
LAWRENCE.- The last month of the exhibition Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture will feature the arrival on campus of world-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty. Hosted by the Spencer Museum in cooperation with The Commons, Dougherty will be an artist-in-residence during May, when he will create a large-scale tree-sapling sculpture outside The Commons @ Spooner Hall. Dougherty has gained...More
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| Joan Mitchell - Sunflowers at Hauser & Wirth Zürich |
ZURICH.- Joan Mitchell’s Sunflower paintings count amongst the most experimental and vibrant of all her works. In the upstairs gallery at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, six canvases dating from the 1960s and the year before her death, etchings and drawings host an extraordinary diversity of marks with compositions whose ungovernable vitality refuse to comply to the rules of image making. Mitchell considered sunflowers to be 'like people' — subjects to empathise with whose life cycles were played out with exuberance but brutal swiftness. 'If I see a sunflower drooping, I can droop with it,' she explained, 'and I draw it, and feel it until its death.' Like van Gogh whose precedent she was brave enough to summon, she embraced sunflowers for their hopefulness as much as for their ...More
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| Stuart Semple: Everlasting Nothing Less - First New York Solo Exhibition |
NEW YORK.- Marking a ground breaking development in Post Pop Art, Young British Artist Stuart Semple launches his much awaited first New York solo show exploring the disintegration of mass culture at Anna Kustera gallery. Trailblazer of a new generation of British Artists, Stuart Semple has earned raving reviews and top sale prices at recent exhibits and biennales in Europe, Asia, South America and the United States, a great distinction for an artist not yet 30. Ever the barometer of popular culture, Stuart’s new show Everlasting Nothing Less charts the rise and fall of the reproduced image and human created spectacle. Defined in the words of Art Forum’s critic Adam Ganderson as “The offspring of Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, as styled for MTV” Stuart Semple carries Pop Art’s legacy towards a new, critically relevant and provocative level....More
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| Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort The Netherlands presents Wonderland through the Looking Glass |
AMERSFOORT, THE NETHERLANDS.- Kunsthal KAdE is a brand new exhibition space in Amersfoort, a city in the heart of the Netherlands. It runs a programme of contemporary art, design, architecture and visual culture events focusing on undercurrents in the field of today's art world and modern society. The opening exhibition, 'Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass' (2 May - 30 August), brings together a group of international artists who use a rich and baroque visual language to create parallel worlds drawing on tableaux vivants, extreme narratives, anecdotical story telling and fairy tales, and peppered with melancholic and gothic references. In part autonomous fantasy, in part parable-like reflections on the 'real world', their work triggers a whole array of metaphorical readings, emotional associations and critical meanings....More
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| QUEER/SCHRAG at CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino |
BELLINZONA, SWITZERLAND.- Following on the recent inauguration of THE SUSPENDED POETIC OF MIRKO ARETINI in its Chiasso location, the CACT Centre of Contemporary Art in Canton Ticino is now opening the thematic exhibition QUEER/SCHRÄG in Bellinzona. The dominant topic in the exhibition space is the research conducted by certain artists in order forcefully to overcome reality and its affirmation, creating an imagery that allows us to grasp what lies behind it, even while it flourishes: i.e. just what we are in the framework of a post-modern, monotheist society....More
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| Cherokee Delegation Visits Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, Recreating 18th Century Emissaries |
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.― Colonial Williamsburg guests have a special opportunity to immerse themselves in Native American culture during "At the Camp of the Cherokees," a new program presented Saturday and Sunday, May 9-10 on Market Square. Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokees demonstrate and share their cultural history, Native trades and the art of 18th century diplomacy as part of Colonial Williamsburg's American Indian Initiative in partnership with the Museum of the Cherokee Indian and the Cherokee Historical Association....More
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| Dani Gal - Chanting Down Babylon at Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg |
LUENEBURG.- Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg presents Dani Gal - Chanting Down Babylon, on view until 10th May 2009. The source materials in the works of Dani Gal (born 1975, Israel) are historical documents, media reports and interviews, which he transforms and updates into spatially filling, formally-reduced sound, image and video installations for the purpose of questioning their putative explicitness. He directs his interest particularly to individual voices in the polyphonic process of narrating and in the visibility accrued of the subjectivity and fictional character of specific past events. The gaping hole between the event and its current presentation which appears in this process is at the foreground of Gal's investigations – a gap which persistently oscillates between the collective and subjective memory between the event itself and that of its documented evidences....More
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| Timeless Fashion and Art Introduces the "100 Years of Fashion" Art Series |
JACKSONVILLE, OR.- The "100 Years of Fashion" art series is the work of Wanda Pèpin and is the culmination of several years of research and work and combines her love of art with her passion for fashion. Wanda started researching vintage fashion in 2003. She began to purchase vintage pieces and learn more about designers, particularly those who were popular in past decades....More
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| D.A.P. And ND X-Initiative To Open New Contemporary Art Bookstore in New York City |
NEW YORK CITY.- D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. has been invited by the non-profit curatorial organization X-Initiative to install and operate a bookstore focusing on contemporary art and culture in the location that once housed the Jorge Pardo-designed Dia art book store at 548 West 22nd Street, between 10 – 11th Avenue, New York City. The store will be called ARTBOOK at X, continuing the development of ARTBOOK, a curated art bookstore concept created by D.A.P. with an outpost at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City and recurring installations at The Armory Show, New York, Art Basel Miami Beach and Art LA, among other venues....More
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| Saint John's Health Center to Unveil One-Of-A-Kind Digital Media Artwall |
SANTA MONICA, CA.-Saint John's Health Center fuses art and healing in a completely unique way with a new Media Artwall planned for the new state-of-the-art Howard Keck Diagnostic and Treatment Center that is scheduled to open next year. The interactive feature is the first digital art program of its kind and is comprised of 16 50-inch video screens with more than 17 feet of digital display.
The Saint John's Media Artwall will provide an innovative and unusual curatorial framework in which to display local community artwork. Saint John's Health Center invites members of the community to participate in the third call for submissions from May 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009. Saint John's is accepting submissions from emerging and established artists from the hospital and local community including children's artwork....More
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