| Monday, December 29, 2008 | |
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World Market Center Las Vegas Donates Furnishings To Charities Nothing makes a house a home like new furniture and accessories, and Furniture Donation Day, a community outreach event benefitting Las Vegas charities, took place at World Market Center Las Vegas. Furniture Donation Day, organized annually by World Market Center Las Vegas, benefits Las Vegas-based charities, which use the donated furniture, home accessories and artwork for shelters, fund-raising purposes and to brighten the homes of local families. This year’s recipients are The Salvation Army and Opportunity Village. (view more...) |
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 | |
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Robert Melee At City Hall Park Through April 2009, Public Art Fund will present an exhibition of four large-scale figurative sculptures by New York-based artist Robert Melee at City Hall Park. Since 1978, Public Art Fund has presented 19 temporary exhibitions at this lower Manhattan location, including the work of Alexander Calder, Julian Opie and Roy Lichtenstein. The current exhibit by Robert Melee features immense forms that while amorphous and featureless, seem familiar in their generalized characteristics and poses - slouching, sitting, pointing, standing upright - but also retain a haunting sense of disguise and alluring somberness. (view more...) |
| Thursday, December 25, 2008 | |
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MOCA Board Accepts Broad Grant The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) Board of Trustees announced they have voted overwhelmingly to accept a $15 million challenge grant from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation for endowment replenishment. In addition, The Broad Foundation will provide exhibition support of $15 million over five years. Under the terms of the challenge grant, The Broad Foundation will match up to $15 million raised and received by MOCA. To date, the MOCA Trustees have made commitments in excess of $20 million for operational and endowment support over the next five years. These gifts and MOCA NOW—a broad-based fundraising initiative to be launched today—are elements of a general fundraising campaign targeted at raising an aggregate of $75 million for endowment and operating expenses. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | |
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Arts Council England Is funding Latest Project By Joe Simpson "Almost There" is a collaboration between artist Joe Simpson and twelve up-and-coming bands and solo artists, to create a series of oil paintings with an original soundtrack. Each painting has a song written especially for that piece, inspired by the scene and composed to complement the mood of the image. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | |
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Tyler School Of Art Receives $3.7M Gift To Create World's Top Fine Arts Prize Temple University announced that Jack Wolgin, Philadelphia real estate developer, philanthropist and renowned patron of the arts, has presented Temple's Tyler School of Art with a pledge of $3.7 million to endow the world's largest annual prize to be awarded exclusively to an individual fine artist winning a juried competition. (view more...) |
| Sunday, December 14, 2008 | |
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Bonhams Opens First Southeastern US Office In Atlanta, Georgia The directors of international fine arts auctioneers Bonhams are pleased to announce the establishment of an Atlanta, Georgia regional office and the appointment of an experienced regional representative for the firm’s development of the region. As one of the top ten American cities, one of the fastest growing U.S. metropolitan areas, and known to be a great resource for antiques and collectibles, Atlanta is a key market for Bonhams in the Southeastern U.S. (view more...) |
| Saturday, December 13, 2008 | |
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Make Your Own Xmas: Tate Britain Christmas Tree 2008 Tate Britain is inviting the public to come and take part in its first ever fully interactive Christmas tree, created by Bob and Roberta Smith in collaboration with Electric Pedals. Entitled "Make Your Own Xmas", the tree is made from timber, bicycles and lamps, and will be on display at Tate Britain from 5 December 2008 until 4 January 2009. Tate is asking gallery visitors to help bring the work to life, by providing the pedal-power to illuminate the tree. (view more...) |
| Friday, December 12, 2008 | |
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Travel The World And Create Art Abroad With Worcester Art Museum Whether you’re 25 or 85, you’re never too old to study abroad with Worcester Art Museum. Starting in February, the Museum will expand their studio and art history worldwide by offering one-week sessions for adults in Mexico (February 21-March 1), Italy (May 12-20) and France (May 13-20). (view more...) |
| Thursday, December 11, 2008 | |
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Marc Mayer Named New Director And CEO Of The National Gallery Of Canada Marc Mayer has been named Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada effective January 19, 2009. Following a competitive search across North America and abroad, the National Gallery of Canada Search Committee selected Marc Mayer to succeed Pierre Théberge. Mr. Mayer comes from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada’s premier contemporary Art Museum. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | |
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The Smithsonian Opens New State-of-the-Art Storage And Operations Facility The Smithsonian Institution has consolidated and relocated three key collections storage and operations support spaces into a new facility called the Pennsy Collections and Support Center in Landover, Md. The center opened on Dec. 5. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 09, 2008 | |
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2009 Missouri Arts Award For Arts Education Goes To Kansas City Art Institute The Missouri Governor's office has announced that the Kansas City Art Institute is the winner of the 2009 Missouri Arts Award for arts education. The award will be presented Feb. 11 in Jefferson City, Mo. Awards also will be presented to winners in five additional categories: arts organization, arts leadership, creative community, philanthropy and individual artist. The Missouri Arts Award is the state's highest honor in the arts. (view more...) |
| Monday, December 08, 2008 | |
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National Endowment For The Arts Announces First Round Of Grants For FY2009 The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its first round of funding for fiscal year 2009, including Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America Fast Track, and Creativity and Aging in America grants, and Creative Writing Fellowships for individuals. The Arts Endowment will distribute $23,215,500 in this first round of fiscal year 2009 funding to support 1,051 projects by nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide as well as to 42 poets. (view more...) |
| Sunday, December 07, 2008 | |
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The Erie Art Museum And Its $50,000 Step Toward Green The Erie Art Museum’s $9 million building expansion project has taken one green giant step forward toward its vision of developing an energy efficient building that will sustain programs and services. The Kresge Foundation, a $3.5 billion private foundation, has awarded the Erie Art Museum $50,000 through its Green Building Initiative towards the planning costs associated with designing a green building. Through the Green Building Initiative, Kresge awards planning grants to nonprofit organizations to underwrite the integrated design process necessary for historic preservation, green renovation, or new construction that aims to achieve the highest levels of environmental sustainability. (view more...) |
| Saturday, December 06, 2008 | |
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Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA, Awarded 2009 AIA Gold Medal The AIA Board of Directors voted to award the 2009 AIA Gold Medal to Australian architect Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA. Murcutt was recognized by the AIA Board in large part for the depth of his work and the breadth of his influence. Murcutt, a sole practitioner, is noted for his ecologically responsive and socially responsible Modernist suburban and rural homes with which he incorporates a variety of natural materials. (view more...) |
| Friday, December 05, 2008 | |
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Old Master Paintings Realise £13,334,000 At Sotheby’s London Sotheby’s second major sale of Old Master Paintings in London this year was staged this evening and realised £13,334,000, against a pre-sale estimate of £9,510,000-13,540,000. The sale was 61.5% sold by lot and 71.7% sold by value and a majority of the works achieved prices in excess of their pre-sale estimates. Seven new artist records were set tonight and there were more than 150 registered bidders. (view more...) |
| Thursday, December 04, 2008 | |
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Barlow Joins Worcester Art Museum As New Director Of Advancement Brian Barlow, a marketing veteran with more than 30 years of experience, has joined the Worcester Art Museum as the director of advancement. In this position, Barlow serves as a member of the museum’s senior management group where he is responsible for the development and implementation of the museum’s marketing and public relations programs and manages a staff of 15. (view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | |
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Erika Diettes: Drifting Away This is the second serial project by Erika Diettes, also set in a human drama: this time she alludes to the victims of the Colombia armed conflict. In the previous set, produced in 2005, her lens had focused on the survivors of the WWII holocaust. She picked out 29 individuals and portrayed them with their faces, hands or arms in the foreground , and obtained notes from them in their own handwriting. The proposal is testimony, memory, history and the power of the image as resources which are interwoven to for, a special view of a very moving event. The faces look out at us as we see them and think about them. This dialectic reflects the entire intention and judgment which is part of the whole proposal. These survivors of the Nazi concentration camps all migrated to Colombia and refashioned their lives here. The artist has mounted her itinerant exhibition with different scenarios that are still in circulation and accompanies it with a book. She has given her research, and the final result, the name Silencios. (view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 02, 2008 | |
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Costel Iarca Exhibition At The MacNider Art Museum Since the days of Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and the modernists, finding an innovative artist is rare. Chicago artist Costel Iarca developed a unique application technique that makes his paintings three-dimensional. This patented method gives his abstract compositions depth and definition. He uses latex caulk and acrylic paint applied in layers to create texture. His signature style consists of cylindrical interwoven forms in waves and shapes. Iarca has a solo exhibition at the MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, Iowa, from November 20 to February 1. (view more...) |
| Monday, December 01, 2008 | |
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Marilyn Manson's Paintings At 101 Exhibit During Art Basel Miami Beach Multi-talented artist Marilyn Manson, legendary for the cult status of his music career and persona, has simultaneously been creating a large and remarkable body of painting over the past two decades that will be revealed for the first time in the U.S. this December during Art Basel Miami. Just as Manson's lyrics are provocative, driving the expressive form of music to its limits, the artist's paintings, though aesthetically pleasing, play with the grotesque and confront the viewer with the dark side of the American Dream – its obsessions and pitfalls. This exhibition of more than twenty paintings is presented by the Cologne-based Galerie Brigitte Schenk in cooperation with 101 Exhibit, a dynamic new art space in Miami's design district. The show will remain on view through February 2009. (view more...) |
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