Unique Series of Craeyvanger Family Portraits On Display at the Mauritshuis Museum

THE HAGUE.- The Mauritshuis is displaying ten exceptional portraits of Arnhem’s Craeyvanger family until 16 January 2011. The paintings are the only known series of portraits of the members of a single family – father, mother and eight children – to have survived from the seventeenth century. The series’ existence was relatively unknown until the paintings came up for auction in 2009. A private collection has lent the works to the Mauritshuis, where the unique ensemble are on display to [...]

Milwaukee Art Museum to Show Raphael Painting

MILWAUKEE .- Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio’s painting “The Woman with the Veil” is making its last United States’ appearance likely for many years at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Responding to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Raphael developed his own idea of beauty in the portrait, which was completed around 1516.

Raphael (nee Raphael Sanzio), Italian, 1483-1520, La Donna Velata or La Velata, c. 1516, (The Woman with a Veil), Oil on canvas, 85 x 64 [...]

Jonathan LeVine Gallery 5th Anniversary Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY— Jonathan LeVine Gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a commemorative group exhibition featuring exceptional and exemplary new works by forty artists who are either currently represented by the gallery or who have exhibited at the gallery in the past five years. The exhibition is on view from February 27—March 27, 2010.
Since 2005, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has been an important venue for Street Art (ephemeral work placed in public urban environments) and Pop Surrealism (work influenced by [...]

The Ducks are Back! Duckomenta II-New Works and Finds

NEWHARDENBERG.- Despite all of the quacking going on about demographic decline: the ducks – all those Daisys and Donalds – are mulptiplying and Duckburg, at least, has grown considerably.
Following the Neuhardenberg exhibition in 2003, they travelled the world, were celebrated wherever they went and have now returned to their place of departure to show and astound their many new colleagues at Neuhardenberg with the many sensational things they found along the way. Did you know, for example, that Carl Spitzweg’s [...]

Works by Degas, Delacroix to Visit AGO in North American Exclusive

TORONTO.- Lust. Passion. Murder. Many of the greatest artists of the 19th century shared a profound fascination with the theatre and its themes of triumph and destruction, love and despair. This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key artworks by these artists in a major international exhibition titled “Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre”, opening June 19 and continuing through September 26.
Conceived by Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the exhibition includes [...]

State Historical Museum Opens “The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin”

MOSCOW.- The State Historical Museum opened the exhibition “The Year 1812 in the paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin”, a gift given to the museum in 1812 by Emperor Nicholas II. Prior to the celebraton of the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 the State Historical Museum has organized this exhibition of paintings made by the famous Russian painter of battle scenes, Vasily Vereshchagin.
Twenty grandiose picturesque paintings chronicle the events from the Battle of Borodino to the flight of Napoleon [...]

New Works by Mel Bochner in Exhibition at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents an exhibition by Mel Bochner.
One of the preeminent figures in the history of conceptual art, Mel Bochner has used verbal, mathematical and geometric systems to influence the content of his work since the mid-1960’s. His “thesaurus paintings,” which debuted at the Whitney Biennial in 2004, are characterized by experimentation and commentary on language. Each begins with an initial word followed by an array of synonyms ranging from the tame to the perversely [...]

MoMA Opens “The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times”

NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout history, humankind has sought to make sense of their world through myths. These stories, often taking visual forms, have been both preserved and transformed over the years as they have been repictured and retold. Artists have long considered mythology part of their aesthetic language, a tradition continued by modern and contemporary artists who address and reinterpret mythologies in their works. “The Modern Myth” features works on paper from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art [...]

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Presents “ColorForms”

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents “ColorForms,” an exhibition devoted to the exploration of color and abstract form through a variety of media, March 11 through winter 2011. Organized by associate curator Evelyn Hankins and located in the lower-level galleries, the exhibition highlights artworks from the Hirshhorn’s collection that date from 1949 to the present, including two major recent acquisitions: Paul Sharits’ four-projector film installation, “Shutter Interface” (1975) and Fred Sandback’s linear yarn sculpture “Untitled (Sculptural Study, Twelve-Part Vertical [...]

Multifaceted Artist Beat Takeshi Kitano Exhbits at Fondation Cartier

PARIS.- Funny yet touching, unpredictable yet brilliant, Beat Takeshi Kitano is a multifaceted and prolific artist that has captivated the Japanese public. Comedian and host of nine TV shows ranging from the highly comical to the very serious, he is one of the most popular entertainers in his own country. Abroad, Takeshi Kitano is a widely acclaimed author and actor, and has directed ‘Sonatine’ (1993), ‘Hana-Bi’ (1997, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival) and ‘Zatôichi’ (2003), among [...]

Curators Claim “Lost” Emperor Portrait is Largest Mughal Painting Ever Seen

LONDON.- Curators of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 – which opens tomorrow – will reveal a six-foot, seventeenth-century life-size portrait of the Emperor Jahangir which they claim is the largest painting to come from the Mughal empire.
Jahangir holding a globe, dating from 1617, is opulently painted in gold and watercolour on cotton and includes relief jewellery. Apart from its appearance in an auction-house catalogue in 1995, the epic portrait now on view at the Gallery’s [...]

With Luis Camnitzer Exhibition, Daros Latinamerica Focuses on Conceptual Art

ZURICH.- Luis Camnitzer has been until very recently an insider’s tip in the field of conceptual art. He may be considered one of the art world’s key figures in the second half of the 20th century. This solo exhibition, with some 70 pieces created by the Uruguayan artist between 1966 and the present day, offers visitors a close look at his work.
Luis Camnitzer was born in Germany in 1937, grew up in Montevideo, and has lived and worked in New [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Ceal Floyer’s First Solo Museum Exhibition

MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will present Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus from March 11 through May 9, 2010. This mid-career survey is Floyer’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, featuring multi-media works from the late 1990s to the present. The exhibition is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and is curated by MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater.
Floyer’s deceptively, minimal conceptual works emerge from her daily experiences rather than from theory. [...]

Winslow Homer Exhibition this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- This summer the Portland Museum of Art will present Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, on view June 5 through September 6, 2010. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death in September, this exhibition will showcase 20 works from the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Based upon the extraordinary gift of 17 works by Charles Shipman Payson to the Museum in 1976, the exhibition will feature paintings understood to be national treasures, [...]

Centre Pompidou Shows Fifty Large-Format Paintings in Tribute to Lucian Freud

PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is to pay tribute to Lucian Freud, one of the greatest of contemporary painters. Now 88 years old, he is one of the world’s most important living artists. He has not shown in France since the Centre’s last major retrospective of his work nearly a quarter of a century ago, in 1987, though his fame has since then only grown and his place in the history of art become ever more assured.
The exhibition will present an [...]