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| Thursday, December 31, 2009 | |
 | King Tut Ticket Sales Surpass 100,000 Public response to the Canadian exclusive of "King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" continues to be overwhelmingly positive, with more than 100,000 tickets sold since they became available just under three months ago.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | |
 | Industrial Design Students To Exhibit Work For First Time At Renowned Design Fair In Germany Pratt's Department of Industrial Design has partnered with the Folkwang Academy, a college of art and design in Germany, to exhibit chair designs as part of the renowned international furniture and interior design fair imm cologne in Cologne, Germany from January 19-24, 2010. It is the first time that Pratt will exhibit in this international venue, which is one of the largest and most respected fairs of its kind in the world.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 29, 2009 | |
 | Maurizio Cattelan At The Menil Born in the university town of Padua in 1960, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is known for his playful yet disconcerting use of materials, objects, and actions – and for manipulating their larger contexts and meaning. In his work the artist unleashes critiques on a range of issues, from nationalism and organized religion to art history and to the very concept of an art museum. Cattelan’s uncanny juxtapositions uproot and invert conventional understandings of the world around us.(view more...) |
| Monday, December 28, 2009 | |
 | US$12-Million Gift From Mandel Family Completes The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, announced a US$12-million gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations. This gift marks the completion of its $100-million capital campaign to support the comprehensive transformation of its 20-acre campus. The Mandel gift supports the reconstruction, reinstallation, and endowment of the Museum’s Jewish Art and Life Wing, housing the world’s preeminent collection of Judaica and Jewish Ethnography.(view more...) |
| Sunday, December 27, 2009 | |
 | Tickets On Sale Now For Party Arty, Young Friends Of Art Annual Fundraiser A chic evening of art, libations, fun fashion and live entertainment await party goers at the 2010 Party Arty event. Hosted by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's Young Friends of Art, the event will be held Jan. 23, 2010, from 8 p.m.-Midnight at the Museum.(view more...) |
| Saturday, December 26, 2009 | |
 | TRANSITION: Solo Exhibition Of Li Hui After having exhibited in e.g. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wien(Vienna), Busan Biennial (Busan) and the National Gallery of China (Beijing), the Mannheimer Kunstvereinis proud to present Li Hui’s first institutional solo show "Transition" in Europe.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 25, 2009 | |
 | Art Gallery Of Albert And Capital Power Launch Innovative Partnership The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) announced that it has entered into an extraordinary three-year partnership with Capital Power Corporation (Capital Power). This visionary initiative, Capital Powered Art, provides vital financial support in making world-class art available to Albertans. This is the first new community investment by Capital Power. The long-term commitment is a rare gesture in the Canadian art world, establishing a stable environment for the AGA to plan for the future.(view more...) |
| Thursday, December 24, 2009 | |
 | Trespa Design Centre Honors Student Winners Of National Design Competition Global building materials pioneer Trespa will host an exhibit and award reception for winning student visions of urban entertainment centers, as part of a new competition organized by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and sponsored by Trespa. The exhibit and opening reception will be held at the Trespa Design Centre in New York's SoHo in January.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | |
 | Discerning Form: Ganesh Haloi, Nitin Mukul, Krishna Reddy and Indrapramit Roy "Discerning Form" presents the works of Krishna Reddy, Ganesh Haloi, Indrapramit Roy and Nitin Mukul. This cross-generational show explores the ways in which modern and contemporary Indian artists have used abstraction in conjunction or opposition to figuration in order to develop new ways of articulating their surroundings.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 22, 2009 | |
 | National Gallery Embarks On New Partnership With The Art Gallery Of Albert As of January 31, visitors to the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) will have the opportunity to enjoy exceptional works of art drawn from the National Gallery of Canada (NGC)’s collections. The announcement of the three-year partnership was made by the NGC and the AGA. In a designated space on the main floor of the new AGA, called The National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta, special exhibitions will be presented by both institutions. These will range from the presentation of single works or new acquisitions, to full exhibitions of different sizes, covering a variety of collecting areas from the past to present. (view more...) |
| Saturday, December 19, 2009 | |
 | Unfold The Truth: Recent Works By Rathin Kanji In his recent work Rathin Kanji addresses the world-wide upsurge in terrorism and insurgency movements since the turn of the century and the socio-psychological effects of such on our increasingly globalized community. Using media images of armed conflict and its after-effects combined with language and rhetoric, the artist assembles statements in the form of visual puzzles for us to decode and interpret. Through this process, Kanji also seeks to explore the complex interplay between ongoing inequalities in the distribution of wealth between states and peoples as well as their increased economic interdependence on one another in an era of rapid globalization.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 18, 2009 | |
 | MSU Trustees Give Authorization To Proceed With Art Museum Construction Authorization to proceed with the construction of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum has been approved by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees at its Dec. 11 meeting.(view more...) |
| Thursday, December 17, 2009 | |
 | Graduate Exposure At The Exposure Gallery Graduate Exposure brings together the works of seven diverse and innovative new graduates, showcasing the dynamic talents of these young artists.(view more...) |
| Sunday, December 13, 2009 | |
 | Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk 2010 Announced For March 20 The fourth annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk will be held Saturday March 20, 2010, 1:00 pm –5:00 pm, hosted by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division and the Santa Monica Airport. The community is invited to meet the resident artists of the airport arts community, a strategic component of the creative economy in which Santa Monica plays a leading national role.(view more...) |
| Saturday, December 12, 2009 | |
 | Tara Donovan Artwork To Premiere At Indianapolis Museum Of Art In April 2010 The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced an exhibition of works by contemporary American artist Tara Donovan. Opening April 4, 2010, and on display through August 1, 2010, Tara Donovan: Untitled will feature a number of Donovan’s sculptural installations and drawings, including a newly commissioned work that will fill an entire room of the gallery. This will be the first major museum exhibition to present Donovan’s sculptures and drawings together, offering the most complete view of her artistic practices to date. The IMA will offer free admission to this special exhibition as part of its commitment to make the museum accessible to the broadest possible audience. Free admission to Tara Donovan: Untitled is made possible by a grant from Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 11, 2009 | |
 | The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum Celebrates One Year Anniversary Amid Art Basel fervor The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum celebrated its one-year anniversary of its new building with the opening of The Dahlia Morgan Members Lounge. Guests to the opening event included Patricia Frost, for whom The Museum is named; Dahlia Morgan, director emeritus; Dr. Carol Damian, current director and chief curator and other founding members.(view more...) |
| Thursday, December 10, 2009 | |
 | Italian Artist Tarshito To Show In Stettino, Poland The Director of the National Museum in Stettino (Szczecin) Poland, kindly requests your presence at the opening of an exhibition by TARSHITO: Art for a new humanity.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | |
 | TV Personality To Appear At Ringling Design Summit A lean, energetic and friendly design genius who hosts a lively show on HGTV, David Bromstad, has signed up to speak at the fourth annual Design Summit at Ringling College of Art and Design. The event is Feb. 5-6, and details are at www.sarasotadesignsummit.com.(view more...) |
| Monday, December 07, 2009 | |
 | 19th Century Chairs Sell For $390,400 At Rago Auctions Left in a boiler room for 40 years, a pair of American Aesthetic Movement chairs with missing panels and parts sold for $390,400 (hammer price of $320,000 + 22% buyer premium) on December 5 at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, NJ.(view more...) |
| Friday, December 04, 2009 | |
 | MWW Group Hired To Promote Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop At Discovery Times Square Exposition MWW Group, one of the nation's top ten public relations firms, announced that it has been hired by Running Subway Productions, a New York-based entertainment production company that conceptualizes, produces, markets and manages iconic productions and exhibits, to promote Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop at the Discovery Times Square Exposition (226 West 44th St.). The exhibit, created by Leonardo 3 in Milan, features giant-sized models of da Vinci's inventions and machines and state-of-the-art touch screen technology that brings Leonardo's designs to life from his personal notebooks.(view more...) |
| Thursday, December 03, 2009 | |
 | Artists Transform 99 Cents Only Store Merchandise Into Contemporary Artwork In New Exhibit At LAX Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces - "Only 99 Cents!" - an art exhibition of twelve Southern California artists on display at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Using merchandise solely from 99 Cents Only Stores®, twelve humorous and sly artworks are on display offering viewers an unexpected art experience inspired by the identity of the everyday discount retailer.(view more...) |
| Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | |
 | Canvas Presents: Gender, Wars and Chadors III Canvas magazine presents the third and final talk in their Gender, Wars and Chadors panel discussions that focus on Contemporary art from the Middle East. The three internationally renowned artists participating, Ghada Amer, Kader Attia and Akram Zaatari, will be in discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, December 01, 2009 | |
 | One-of-a-Kind Chamber Piece "Crea" To Premiere At The Woodruff Arts Center gloATL, in creative collaboration with Tom Sherwood of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Sonic Generator, and in association with the Alliance Theatre, will produce a one of a kind, site-specific evening of chamber works in the High Museum of Art on December 10. "crea", which in Italian means to create, will blur dance, visual art, and music to create an unforgettable evening of innovation and invention.(view more...) |
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