| Sunday, November 30, 2008 | |
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Exhibition Of Stefano Losi At The United Nations In New York Violent Dances Fade is the art project of Stefano Losi, started in Milan in the early 1990s, further developed in London and currently active in New York, combining classical human figures and intense poetry. (view more...) |
| Saturday, November 29, 2008 | |
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MOA Selected As Architect At Waterfront Site Urban Splash has announced Vienna based practice MOH Architects as winners of the Lex competition in Walsall. The competition, run with RIBA, called for architects to deliver an innovative new concept which would stand on a 2.1 acre site within the Walsall Waterfront scheme. (view more...) |
| Friday, November 28, 2008 | |
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MIA Appoints New Head Of Prints And Drawings The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) announced the appointment of Thomas E. Rassieur as its new John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings. In this capacity he will lead the MIA’s Prints and Drawings Department, a collection of some 40,000 prints and drawings ranging from 14th century illuminated manuscripts to works by contemporary artists. Rassieur comes to the MIA from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where he began as an assistant curator of Prints and Drawings in 1999, and served most recently as the Pamela and Peter Voss Curator since 2008. (view more...) |
| Thursday, November 27, 2008 | |
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DesCours Redefines The Streets, Sidewalks And Courtyards Of New Orleans On December 10–14, 2008, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Orleans Chapter will host the 2nd Annual DesCours event, bringing five days of architecture, art, design and music to the streets, sidewalks and courtyards of New Orleans. In a city known for its mystique and culture, New Orleans is the perfect playground for DesCours. Hidden spaces throughout the French Quarter and Central Business District (CBD) will be transformed into works of new media, interactive design and artistic technology that will showcase local, national and internationally known artists and architects. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 | |
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Bonhams To Sell James Bond Car For Lots Of Money Pennies James Bond’s Lotus from "The Spy Who Loved Me" and registration number ‘AU1’ from "Goldfinger" to appear at auction. With the global release of the new movie "Quantum of Solace" putting Ian Fleming’s legendary British secret agent James Bond firmly back in the public eye, Bonhams is delighted to announce that it has one of 007’s classic sports cars for sale. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | |
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Wolfgang Roth & Partners, Fine Art Upcoming Exhibitions Wolfgang Roth & Partners, Fine Art gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibitions. Arne Quinze: Sculptures and David LaChapelle: Jesus is My Homeboy photography series. The exhibition will open during the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair on December 2, 2008 and will run thru January 10, 2009. An opening reception will be held on December 2nd from 8-11 pm. (view more...) |
| Monday, November 24, 2008 | |
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Tom Loughman To Serve As Assistant Deputy Director At The Clark Thomas J. Loughman has been named assistant deputy director at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Loughman will be working with the Clark leadership on a variety of initiatives as the Clark continues to grow as one of the country’s outstanding art museums and a global leader among centers for research. (view more...) |
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 | |
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The Cleveland Museum Of Art And Italy Agree Exchange Of Antiquities The Cleveland Museum of Art and Italy’s Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities have concluded an agreement concerning antiquities in the Museum’s collection and a mutual cultural and research exchange that opens a new era of cooperation between the Museum and Italy. After nearly two years of discussions, the Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to transfer 14 works from its antiquities collection to the Italian Ministry. (view more...) |
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 | |
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The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Presents: Van Dongen: A Fauve In The City The exhibition Van Dongen - A Fauve in the City, presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009 at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, is the first major retrospective of the work of Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America. The exhibition, which brings together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, forty rare drawings, prints and other archival documents and photographs as well as for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics, will illustrate the influential role Van Dongen played in the early twentieth century as the only portraitist among the Fauves. (view more...) |
| Friday, November 21, 2008 | |
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Mark di Suvero Sculpture Exhibition Opening At Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Renowned artist Mark di Suvero’s enormous steel sculptures will soon rise over Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s world famous flowering trees and vines, lush rainforest and bustling butterfly garden. Fairchild will open Mark di Suvero at Fairchild, an outdoor exhibition of five massive sculptures including the never before exhibited Olompali, during the famed international art fair, Art Basel Miami Beach. The exhibition will be on view at Fairchild, South Florida’s oldest cultural institution and the world’s leading tropical botanic garden, from December 6, 2008 through May 31, 2009, at 10901 Old Cutler Road in Coral Gables, Fla. The sculptures in the exhibition are on loan from the Mark di Suvero Collection. (view more...) |
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 | |
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Works By Kurelek And Thomson Highlight Joyner Waddington's Fall Auction The aftermath of a snowstorm in Toronto’s east end is the subject of a large work by William Kurelek which will be offered in Joyner Waddington’s Fall Auction of Important Canadian Art on November 25th and 26th. "Balsam Avenue After Heavy Snowfall", by the Ukranian-Canadian artist presents adults of the narrow street digging out the day after a storm while the children of the neighbourhood joyfully take in the winter wonderland. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | |
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IMA Announces Intention To Acquire Miller House And Garden Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, announced that the IMA is moving forward with the acquisition of the landmark Miller House and Garden in Columbus, Indiana. One of the country’s most highly-regarded examples of mid-century Modernist residences, the Miller House was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard, and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | |
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Kidnapped "Policeman" Still At Large. Citizens Asked To Help Locate Artwork Stamford experienced a theft of a bronze sculpture on loan to the city this summer, and the piece has yet to be located. The sculpture, by artist Seward Johnson, depicting a realistic lifesized policeman in bronze, was stolen in August. A similar surprising theft of a sculpture by artist Johnson – this time a bronze photographer – occurred this summer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Recently, that case came to a happy conclusion with the recovery of the sculpture through an anonymous tip. The sculpture was retrieved from a field and is now being restored to mint condition by The Sculpture Foundation, curators for the collection of Johnson sculptures. (view more...) |
| Monday, November 17, 2008 | |
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Luigi Benedicenti: La Dolce Vita Frank Bernarducci and Louis K. Meisel are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Luigi Benedicenti, one of Italy’s most celebrated Photorealist painters. The paintings featured in this exhibition include some of the most delectable by Benedicenti, selecting from his observations of Italian desserts. The fruits and tarts radiate with an explosive sweetness, matched only by the detail and precision of his intricate painting style. This exhibition represents his New York solo debut. (view more...) |
| Sunday, November 16, 2008 | |
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The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space Tate Liverpool is proud to present a groundbreaking exhibition inspired by ideas and proposals from people across the city. The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space presents major new works and commissions by fourteen internationally-renowned artists and artists’ groups that respond to ideas that have evolved out of discussions with the people of Merseyside. Throughout Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool has facilitated discussions about the cultural life of the city and the potential of the gallery as a space of imagination. These conversations have become the basis for the exhibition. (view more...) |
| Saturday, November 15, 2008 | |
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Experience A Work Of Art: Opening Of New Burchfield Penney Art Center The new Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College opens to the public on November 22 at 10:00 am with a continuous 31-hour grand opening celebration. The first new museum to be built in Buffalo in more than a century, the campaign for a new museum began with a proposal and a lead gift from William J. Magavern II and his late wife Louise. The Magaverns proposal was three-fold: build a freestanding museum for the Burchfield Penney on Elmwood Avenue – and that the museum should be a building of distinction, one befitting Western New York’s architectural heritage. (view more...) |
| Friday, November 14, 2008 | |
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New Medieval And Renaissance Galleries Opening November 2009 The V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries will open in November 2009, housing one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period, including the Becket Casket, Gothic altarpieces and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. There will also be an outstanding collection of Renaissance sculpture by Italian masters such as Donatello and Giambologna. (view more...) |
| Thursday, November 13, 2008 | |
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Eight Volunteers Recognised At Nationwide Community And Heritage Awards Voluntary ‘heroes’ from all over the UK were recognised at the Nationwide Community and Heritage Awards at the Tower of London. The awards, run by Nationwide Building Society and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), recognise volunteers who dedicate spare time to supporting their local communities and heritage. Over the last 10 years the awards have celebrated the work of over 13,000 volunteers. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | |
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HH Sheikh Majed Inaugurates Cuadro Museum And Fine Art Gallery At DIFC HH Sheikh Majed Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, opened the Cuadro Museum and Fine Art Gallery at a grand inaugural ceremony held at the Dubai International Financial Centre. HE Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, Governor of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and Managing Director of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority was present at the event. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | |
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Island Weiss Gallery Joins Modernism Fair With Sculpture By Strong-Cuevas The Island Weiss Gallery, a recent exhibitor at Sanford Smith’s ART20 fair, now joins the collection of top-tier dealers of fine and decorative arts at Modernism: A Century of Style and Design this weekend. The gallery adds an incredible one-woman show of sculptures by Strong-Cuevas to the event. (view more...) |
| Monday, November 10, 2008 | |
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Turner Exhibition Opens In Russia A major exhibition of Turner works from the Tate Collection will open at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on 17 November 2008. In advance of the exhibition opening in Russia, its sole sponsor, Alisher Usmanov, will be in London to see the Turner Bequest at Tate Britain. This exhibition is the result of a partnership between Tate, the Pushkin Museum, Mr Alisher Usmanov and Art and Sport Foundation (Moscow), and the British Council. (view more...) |
| Friday, November 07, 2008 | |
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Free Youth Admission To Tacoma Art Museum Throughout December Tacoma Art Museum offers visitors age 18 and younger free admission through the month of December, thanks to the generosity of patrons who attended the recent Tacoma Art Museum Gala. In response to the current economic climate, museum supporters raised funds to ensure that the museum remains accessible and welcoming, especially to future museum-goers and their families during the holiday season. (view more...) |
| Thursday, November 06, 2008 | |
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The New Burchfield-Penney Art Center Designed by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects, the new 84,000 square foot Burchfield-Penney Art Center will stand on 4.9 acres at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Rockwell Road. The two-story building will open to the public on Saturday, November 22, 2008. The new museum is the Burchfield-Penney's first free-standing home and has a major presence on Elmwood Avenue in the heart of Buffalo's Museum District. The new facility doubles gallery exhibition areas and provides more than 6 times as much space available for education and public programs. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | |
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Qatar Airways Named Official Airline For Qatar Museums Authority Qatar Airways has teamed up with the Museum of Islamic Art to bring some of the world’s best art critics to Doha for the museum’s November 22 grand opening. The Museum of Islamic Art is the flagship project of Qatar Museums Authority, under the leadership of Chairperson Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The museum’s opening celebrations will be a week-long affair, attracting a star-studded mix of celebrities and VIPs from around the world. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, November 04, 2008 | |
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Ice-Skating Rink In National Gallery Of Art Sculpture Garden Opens Nov 15 The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden's 2008-2009 ice-skating season will begin on November 15 and continue through mid-March, weather permitting. The ice rink, located on the National Mall at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, is a popular recreational destination that has attracted thousands of visitors since it reopened as part of the Gallery's Sculpture Garden in 1999. (view more...) |
| Monday, November 03, 2008 | |
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UW Art Museum Receives Major Donation The University of Wyoming Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of 50 works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. The gifts, received with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, are part of a national gifts program titled "The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States." It will distribute 2,500 works from the Vogels' collection of contemporary art throughout the nation, with 50 works going to a selected art institution in each of the 50 states. (view more...) |
| Sunday, November 02, 2008 | |
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Perkins Eastman Opens Boston Office The Board of Directors of top ranked international architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman is pleased to announce the opening of the firm’s newest domestic office in Boston, MA. "We have a growing practice in Boston and New England and the availability of two proven leaders allows us to finally implement our goal to have a permanent presence in the region," says Chairman and CEO Bradford Perkins, FAIA. (view more...) |
| Saturday, November 01, 2008 | |
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Erie Art Museum Introduces Green Membership Level The Erie Art Museum has introduced a new "green" membership level for new and renewing Museum members. "As part of the Museum’s efforts to be a good environmental steward, we’ve introduced a new ‘green’ membership for the Museum’s new and renewing members," said Tammy Roche director of marketing and development for the Erie Art Museum. "Green members will receive drastically reduced printed materials. Instead, green members will receive exhibition announcements, event invitations, and our membership newsletter via email beginning Jan. 1, 2009." (view more...) |
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