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| Colombian Museum Hosts Largest Exhibition Ever in Latin America of Andy Warhol's Works |
Several people observe "Mao" made by Andy Warhol in 1972 at the exhibition "Mister América" which opened in Colombia. Photo: EFE/Leonardo Muñoz
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BOGOTA.- The exhibition, organized by Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, offers a complete panorama of the work of this fertile artist and it is the largest exhibition ever organized in a Latin American museum. The list of works of art comprises 26 paintings, 57 silk screens, 39 photographs and 2 installations (‘Silver Clouds’ and ‘Cow wallpaper’). Fourteen of his films will also be screened at the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño....More
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| Meadows Museum Presents "Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1817" |
DALLAS, TX.- Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) spent several critical years early in his career in Paris, during World War I, where he immersed himself in literary and art circles and enthusiastically embraced the Cubist movement. While his Cubist works experimented with a range of genres, including landscape and still life, Rivera showed a particular affinity for portraiture, and he created empathetic and moving portrayals of some of the era’s most important figures. Thirty-one of these works are brought together for the first time...More
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| Santiago Calatrava to Design Cornerstone for USF Polytechnic's New Campus |
LAKELAND, FL.- The University of South Florida Polytechnic has commissioned the acclaimed architectural firm Santiago Calatrava/Festina Lente Services (FL), Inc. to design the first building for the school's new campus in Lakeland, Fla., and update the campus master plan, USF President Dr. Judy Genshaft announced.
Santiago Calatrava will design the 100,000 net square foot USFP Science & Technology building, which will sit on the northernmost corner of the campus at the intersection of...More
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| PHotoEspaña Opens Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005 |
MADRID.- An exhibition gathering 220 pictures of important culture and showbusiness figures, works made to order and images showing family intimacy of Annie Leibovitz.
The exhibition gets to Madrid after having been in the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the National Portrait Gallery (London) and the C/O Berlin.
Annie Leibovitz is one of the best-known...More
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| Salvador Dali Exhibition Slated for UB's Anderson Gallery, June-August |
BUFFALO, NY.- “Salvador Dali,” an exhibition of works by the Spanish surrealist that coincides with the 20th anniversary of his death, will be presented June 27-August 27 by the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery.
It will feature 15 original drawings, two lithographs, a poster and a silver sculpture from the Edmund Klein Collection; two paintings from the University at Buffalo Collection, and a sculpture and several drypoint ...More
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| An Artist with a Powerful Message Exhibits at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
MONTREAL.- In connection with the exhibition Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Frédéric Back: One with Nature, from June 18 to September 27, 2009. The Museum believes it is the ideal time to present the outstanding work of this artist, painter, illustrator and filmmaker who, through his images and his films, tirelessly endeavours to make the public aware of the ...More
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| Recent Major Acquisitions of British Contemporary Art will Go on Display at Tate Britain |
LONDON.- Recent major acquisitions of British contemporary art will go on display in the BP Exhibition Classified, opening at Tate Britain on 22 June 2009. This free exhibition will include large-scale works from Tate’s collection. Using a wide range of media, Classified will feature new acquisitions which will be on display at Tate for the first time, such as Jake & Dinos Chapman’s Chapman Family Collection 2002 and two works from Damien Hirst’s recent gift to Tate: The Acquired Inability to Escape 1991...More
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| Blanton Museum of Art Presents First Exhibition of Pioneering Latin American Modernist |
AUSTIN, TX.- Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed School of the South and The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas presents another landmark Latin American exhibition with Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic. The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of this Latin American pioneering artist, the ...More
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| Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Offers a Snapshot of Tom Sachs's Cameras |
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum offers a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras.
For many years, a small but significant part of Sachs’s production has dealt with cameras. This exhibition brings together twelve works, from 1972 to the present, that not only explore the camera as both sculptural and functional object, but, ...More
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| Barbican Art Gallery Explores Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 |
LONDON.- Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism. It is the first exhibition to bring together key artists and architects from the last forty years who have created visionary works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
A fallen forest, a farm, a geodesic dome and a ...More
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| National Building Museum Exhibition Reveals a Different Side of the Built Environment |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Photographs can provoke, engage, awe, and in some cases inspire an audience to consider the built environment in unexpected ways. In 2009, the National Building Museum presents three photography exhibitions featuring the work of Richard Ross, Camilo José Vergara, and Philip Trager. All three may be broadly defined as architectural photographers, but each brings a unique focus to buildings we might have thought we knew. With this series of exhibitions, the National ...More
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| Exhibition at Dumbo Arts Center Debuts New Site-specific Works by Mai Braun, Elana Herzog and Amy Yoes |
BROOKLYN, NY.- Structured Simplicity presents a group of artists, Mai Braun, Hilary Harnischfeger, Elana Herzog, Fabienne Lasserre, and Amy Yoes, who work in sculpture and site-specific installation. From a formalist and abstract perspective, the exhibition investigates aspects of simplicity, taking purification as a point of departure i.e. making things simpler through structure, be they confined or chaotic. In bringing this group together, the curator, Felicity Hogan, seeks to explore varying manifestations of this concept and how structures are formed and conveyed through diversity of approach and use of materials....More
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| Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion Hosts Guest Artist Mark Matthews |
TOLEDO, OH.- Internationally known independent glass artist Mark Matthews will be a special guest artist July 17-19 at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion. In addition to a glassblowing workshop, the artist will give a public presentation.
Matthews’ works are part of the permanent collections of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, ...More
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| Christs from Las Vizcainas Restoration is Complete |
MEXICO CITY.- Three Christ sculptures from the San Ignacio de Loyola College temple, better known as Las Vizcainas, in Mexico City Historical Center, have been restored by students from the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography and soon will be returned to the Catholic temple.
The sculptures arrived to the Polychrome Sculpture Workshop-Seminar at ENCRyM in January 2009. The Christs are from the 18th century, but only one of them is confirmed by iconographic elements. ...More
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| Watch This Space Inaugural Group Show at the Opera Quarter Bar in Covent Garden |
LONDON.- Watch This Space; an innovative concept developed by specialist Arts PRs, Curators and Project Managers Lee Johnson and Bakul Patki, is to mark its official launch with an exhibition of contemporary art at the much-anticipated Opera Quarter Bar (OQB) in Covent Garden. Established in order to make the most of London’s current excess of empty retail and commercial property, Watch This Space will curate its inaugural show in the beautiful listed Georgian building that will be home to the OQB for one month....More
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| Joseph Chamberlain College Awarded the RIBA/LSC Further Education Building Design Excellence Award 2009 |
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Learning and Skills Council (LSC) last night named Joseph Chamberlain College as the winner of the prestigious Further Education Design Excellence Award 2009.
The winning architects, Nicholas Hare Architects LLP, were presented with a cheque for £5,000 at an awards ceremony held in London last night. ...More
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| Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Presents Exhibition by Major Artist Yan Pei-Ming |
BEIJING.- The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (UCCA) presents Landscape of Childhood, an exhibition by major artist Yan Pei-Ming. Following his Les Funérailles de Monna Lisa’s exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Landscape of Childhood will stand as a surprising show and a first in Yan Pei-Ming’s career, producing a show without canvases, an experimental installation....More
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| Hemingway Exhibition in Havana Highlights Women in His Life |
HAVANA.-(EFE) The wives, lovers and secretaries of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) are the focus of one of the exhibitions on view during the 12th International Symposium about the American writer being held in Havana.
The exhibition gathers photos, documents and objects that will be on show all year in the famous Room 511 of the Ambos Mundos Hotel in the Cuban capital where Hemingway lived in the 1930s....More
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| DeCordova Presents a Panel Discussion: American Perspectives in the Arts |
LINCOLN, MA.- On Thursday, June 25, DeCordova will host a panel discussion featuring exhibiting artists Barnaby Furnas and Matthew Day Jackson as well as Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Curator Toby Kamps, Boston-based writer and critic Greg Cook, and Ken Turino of Historic England. The panel will explore the role national history and folklore plays in the interpretation of modern American aesthetics. This program is free and open to the public, with guided tours preceding the panel at 5:15 pm and 5:45 pm....More
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