Swedbank Art Award Announces The Nominees For 2008
Swedbank and Kumu Art Museum released the names of nominees for the Swedbank Art Award (formerly known as Hansabank Art Award). 2008 is the first year to include artists from Sweden and Russia in addition to the Baltic countries. The winner will be chosen by an international jury and announced on the 4th of December 2008 at Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn, Estonia) at the opening of the nominees' exhibition. The winner will be presented with prize money of 10 000 Euros.
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12th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction
Please join us on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 for an evening of elegance, fine art photography and compassion. The distinctive Metropolitan Pavilion will host this year’s 12th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction; located at 123 West 18th Street, #5FL The Level, NY, NY 10011. Cocktails will be served between 6-7 pm with the live auction to follow. Saffron 59 and Restaurant Tokyo will steadily tantalize our palates by serving pan-Asian appetizers throughout the evening. An entry fee of $50 donation is requested in advance or at the door.
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Queen Victoria's Painting Goes Back To Osborne House After 100 Years
A painting bought by Queen Victoria for £200 in 1841 and which hung in her dressing room at her home, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, until her death in 1901, will now return to the very same room. "La Siesta", by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, who later became her favourite portrait artist, was bought at auction yesterday by English Heritage for Osborne House, with support from The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity.
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Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Announces Departure Of Director
Paul Warwick Thompson has resigned from Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum effective in August 2009. He has accepted the position of rector (president) of the Royal College of Art in London. Thompson joined Cooper-Hewitt in March 2001. A search committee for Thompson’s position will be formed next month.
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Kimbell Unveils Renzo Piano's Designs
Since April 2007, the Kimbell has been working on designs for a new building with celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano, along with Kendall/Heaton Associates of Houston. The "schematic design" phase is now complete, and the building’s basic position and shape have been established.
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Fales Named Executive Director For Boise Art Museum
"Melanie Fales, Interim Executive Director and Curator of Education for the Boise Art Museum (BAM), has been promoted to Executive Director," Amy McDevitt, president of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, announced some days ago.
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Inauguration Of The Human Rights And Alliance Of Civilizations Room
On 18 November 2008, the Secretary-General, together with the King and Queen of Spain, inaugurated the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room, one of the largest conference rooms at the Palais des Nations in Geneva (Secretary General's remarks). The complete renovation and refurbishment of the former Room XX with 754 seats represents one of the biggest ever single donations to the United Nations. The main feature of the renovated room is a ceiling sculpture by the prominent contemporary Spanish artist Miquel Barceló.
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MAS Presents Initial Results For Imagine Coney
MAS released a new concept for Coney Island that features near-term and long-term programming elements. The concept calls for Coney Island to become the main stage for New York City, providing a platform for small and large performances and events in coordination with its role as an amusement destination.
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ADAA And AXA Art Insurance Signed Three-Year Partnership
In December, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and AXA Art Insurance Corporation will launch a three-year partnership to support and develop the ADAA Collectors’ Forums—a series of panel discussions focused on the art world. Through this partnership, ADAA and AXA Art will enhance and expand the Collectors’ Forum’s concept and continue the program’s dedication to bringing the most prominent art market experts to focus on pressing issues of the day.
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Speed Art Museum Announces New Curator Of Contemporary Art
The Speed Art Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Suzanne Weaver as Curator of Contemporary Art. Weaver comes to the Speed from the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) in Dallas, Texas, where she has served as associate curator of contemporary art since 1995. She will join the Speed’s staff in mid-January, 2009.
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COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme Launch
In an Australia-wide first, The COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme, launched by the Minister for the Arts, The Hon Michelle O’Byrne puts Tasmania at the forefront of investment in the visual arts. Based on similar, highly successful schemes from the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands, the COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme is intended to introduce new collectors to the visual arts and boost sales and export of Tasmanian art across Australia.
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Transformed AGO Sets Public Opening. Free Admission November 14-16
On Friday, November 14, the fully-transformed Art Gallery of Ontario will open to the public with three days of free admission. Celebrated architect and Toronto-born Frank Gehry's first Canadian building, the new AGO will welcome the world to 110 light-filled galleries featuring more than 4,000 new and perennial favourite art works.
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Lora Urbanelli Named New Director Of The Montclair Art Museum
The Board of Trustees of the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announced that Lora Urbanelli has been appointed the Museum’s next Director beginning January 12, 2009. Urbanelli is currently Executive Director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. She becomes the ninth Director in the 95-year history of MAM, succeeding Patterson Sims, who is departing his post at the end of December.
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Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Expansion Delay
The Saint Louis Art Museum announced a decision by its Board of Commissioners to delay the start date of its $125 million expansion in Forest Park, originally intended for late 2008. The Board acted in response to current market conditions.
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UI To Proceed With Recovery Of Art Building West
The University of Iowa announced that it will move ahead with repairing and restoring Art Building West, one of two buildings that were home to UI's School of Art and Art History, and also with returning the south end of the former Museum of Art to pre-flood conditions as a temporary quarters for some of its displaced arts programs.
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Françoise Sullivan The Second Recipient Of Gershon Iskowitz Prize At The AGO
On November 27 the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation acknowledge Françoise Sullivan’s contribution to visual arts in Canada. As a recipient of the 2008 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the AGO, Sullivan will receive a $25,000 award and her work will be featured in a temporary exhibition at the AGO in 2009.
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Premier Names National New Media Art Award Winner
Premier Anna Bligh announced Peter Alwast as the winner of the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award. Ms Bligh presented the Brisbane-based artist with the $75,000 prize at a special event at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA).
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