| Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | |
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Muskegon Museum of Art: Gems in Middle America The crown jewel in a small town aside from its row of Victorian houses or civil war canon or a special piece of architecture is usually its art museum. Culture has been treasured since time immemorial; the same phenomenon as the cathedral in the middle of any European town or city; the hub of community gatherings where impoverished communities sacrifice life’s comforts to have paintings and sculptures in their sanctuaries. (view more...) |
| Friday, September 26, 2008 | |
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Frida Kahlo At SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is holding a major exhibit of Frida Kahlo’s work. Ordinarily I’m not interested in writing about such a famous and much written about artist, but, in Frida’s case I have to make an exception. Her show at the SFMOMA is in a league of its own. There are 50 paintings in all in the exhibit and in a body they pack quite a punch. I have seen isolated paintings of Kahlo’s work over the years and have never been especially moved until this exhibit. Being a painter myself and an abstract one at that I tended to label Frida as a surrealist painter. A little short sighted on my part. Frida says, "they thought I was a surrealist but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality". After seeing so many major works of this artist under one roof, putting her in a labeled box won’t do. (view more...) |
| Thursday, September 25, 2008 | |
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National Veterans’ Art Festival Coming To Riverside In October More than 120 veterans from across the country who are medal winners in national creative writing, music, dance, drama or visual arts competitions are preparing to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival in Riverside, Calif., from Oct. 20-26. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | |
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Time Inc. And Getty Images Jointly Launch LIFE.com Time Inc. and Getty Images will jointly launch LIFE.com, the companies announced at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s MIXX Conference in New York City. LIFE.com will be jointly owned and operated by Time Inc. and Getty Images, and will provide access to the most comprehensive iconic and professional photography collections available anywhere online. Andy Blau, president of LIFE and SVP of Time Inc. Interactive, and Catherine Gluckstein, vice president of iStockphoto and Consumer Markets at Getty Images, will serve as CEO and CFO, respectively. (view more...) |
| Monday, September 22, 2008 | |
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Sotheby's Hong Kong And adidas Present Sport In Art Auction Sotheby’s Hong Kong is proud to partner with the adidas Sport in Art Exhibition to hold the Sport in Art Auction on 5th October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, during Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Chinese Art Autumn Auction. This prestigious event will promote the Olympics, sport and art, and Sotheby’s and adidas will be donating the auction proceeds to Right to Play China for its long term relief efforts to help those affected by the Sichuan earthquake earlier this year. Right to Play China is a charity that works to enhance the health and education of young people in China through sport. (view more...) |
| Friday, September 19, 2008 | |
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Carlos Loarca: Spirit Dogs, Painting The Past Into The Present by: Neila Mezynski San Francisco painter, Carlos Loarca is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Equity Grants through the Arts Commission of San Francisco. California, the culmination being a retrospective of his work at SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco, Ca. (view more...) |
| Thursday, September 18, 2008 | |
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AA Helps Transport Renowned King Tut Exhibit To The Dallas Museum Of Art Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, the exhibition that drew nearly 4 million visitors during its four-city U.S. tour in 2005-2007, returns to the United States this fall. And as the official airline of the exhibition, American Airlines helped make possible the safe transport of the ancient artifacts. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | |
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The Annenberg Space For Photography To Open In California In 2009 The Annenberg Foundation, one of the nation’s largest private family foundations, announced plans to open a new community space dedicated to both digital images and print photography in Los Angeles, California. The Annenberg Space for Photography will open in spring 2009 at 2000 Avenue of the Stars. Located on the former site of the Shubert Theater, the Photography Space will be a 10,000 square foot facility which will feature a state-of-the-art digital projection gallery along with a traditional print exhibit area. The combination of these galleries will enable the Annenberg Space for Photography to show an unprecedented number of images to the general public in a dynamic environment. General admission to the Annenberg Space for Photography will be free. (view more...) |
| Monday, September 15, 2008 | |
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Southwest Airlines And Latino Art Beat Partner To Honor Hispanic Heritage Month With three art expositions placed in Chicago's Midway Airport, Dallas Love Field, and at its corporate Headquarters, Southwest Airlines kicks off Hispanic Heritage month, celebrating Latino art, youth, and their future. The art exhibition will consist of ten award winning pieces from Hispanic high school students from Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C. Since 1998, Latino Art Beat has awarded its competition winners more than $1 million in college scholarships, monetary prizes, college credit courses, and Spanish language courses. (view more...) |
| Sunday, September 14, 2008 | |
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"A Show On Friendship" by Massimo Schiavoni Nico and the Navigators are back as absolute protagonists of that Image Theatre able to win spaces of thought, with reflexions born from the same social drama analysis already examined by Victor Turner in the essay Performance in Postmodern Culture and able to show the public a creative approach half-way between improvisation, and absurd and maniacal rituals. (view more...) |
| Thursday, September 11, 2008 | |
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Record Year For Acquisitions To Tate Collection At a press conference on the publication of its Annual Report 2007/08 and presentation of its future programme, Tate announced that the year was the most successful on record for acquisitions to the Tate Collection. 494 works, valued at £63.1 million, were acquired for the Collection in 2007-8. Of these 320 were thanks to the generosity of collectors and artists through gifts and bequests. (view more...) |
| Monday, September 08, 2008 | |
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NASA Debuts 50th Anniversary Art Book To celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary in October, the agency is releasing the book "NASA/ART - 50 Years of Exploration," a historic collection of almost a half-century of space-inspired artwork. (view more...) |
| Friday, September 05, 2008 | |
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AGO Announces Lead Inaugural Partner The Art Gallery of Ontario announces a three-year partnership with BMO Financial Group as Lead Inaugural Partner of its grand opening and Signature Partner of the Canadian Collection Program. The AGO has been transformed by celebrated architect and Toronto-born Frank Gehry and is his first Canadian building. (view more...) |
| Thursday, September 04, 2008 | |
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Park West Gallery Introduces Enhanced Customer Satisfaction Guarantee Park West Gallery, entering its 40th year in business, announced an enhanced customer satisfaction guarantee. The Michigan-based international art dealer's "40-40-40" policy guarantees the quality and authenticity or every work sold -- as the company has done for 40 years -- and offers clients the options of returning a work of art within 40 days of receipt for a refund of the purchase price, or exchanging an item for another in the Park West Gallery collection for up to 40 months. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, September 03, 2008 | |
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Winner 57th Blake Prize And Inaugural Blake Poetry Prize Announced The Blake Prize of A$20,000 has been awarded to artist David Tucker for a sculptural work that depicts a procession of pregnant women and symbols of Egyptian, Christian and Hindu traditions. From over one thousand entries (more than double the previous year), Tucker’s work "A Local Girl Comes Home" was selected for its simple, positive joy, with judges praising its technical finesse as well as its conceptual resonance across various forms of faith. His and the other winning works and all short-listed works of art and poetry are on display as part of the Blake Prize Exhibition, from Friday 5th September until Saturday 4th October, at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, September 02, 2008 | |
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MiMa Fine Art Publishers, Inc.: Grand Opening Event On September 5, the Bay Downtown Vancouver will officially launch a new line of art featuring Canadian artists, "MiMa at the Bay". In addition to the opening of a gallery on the 5th floor, originals and limited editions are displayed throughout the 6th floor to enhance the Bay's furniture line. This initiative means support and increased exposure for a number of Canadian artists, most of whom are from British Columbia. The launch of "MiMa at the Bay" coincides with the Bay's launch of a new nationwide marketing campaign, "Live Artfully". (view more...) |
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