Eight works by the world-famous artist Damien Hirst donated to ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

SKOVVEJ.-Thanks to an exceptionally generous donation by the Merla Art Foundation, London, of eight works by the world-famous artist Damien Hirst, ARKEN will now be home to a significant permanent collection of works by the British artist. The donation includes the artist’s largest “spot painting” to date. This is a donation that will benefit all Danes, since the works will now become part of the national heritage. “Its amazing that my work has been so generously donated to ARKEN. It [...]

Picasso Show at Kunsthaus Zürich has Already Received 100,000 Visitors Since Opening in October

ZURICH.- The homage to Picasso’s first museum show at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932 is a hit with the public, receiving over 100,000 visitors since it opened on 15 October. Organized by Tobia Bezzola and on show in Zurich until 30 January 2011, the remake affords a chance to enjoy Picasso’s own personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neoclassical phase, as well as Surrealist creations. DOWNLOAD iPHONE APPLICATION [...]

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Announces Details of Its Three Opening Exhibitions

DOHA.- Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art revealed the details of the three exhibitions it will present when it opens to the public on December 30, 2010. Historic works of Arab modernism and a multitude of new works commissioned by Mathaf will be on view at two sites in Doha, Qatar. The new Museum will open its 5,500-square-meter (59,000-square-foot) building with Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art. This will be the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that will [...]

Richard Diebenkorn in Context: 1949-1952 at Leslie Feely Fine Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Leslie Feely Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture from Richard Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque period. In this precise and jewel-like exhibition, important Diebenkorns from the artist’s estate are seen with examples from his contemporaries which include de Kooning, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Motherwell, and Smith. In addition to a very rare sculpture, the show features paintings and a number of seminal works on paper, several of which have never been exhibited. Other included works were [...]

Karola Kraus is the New Director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig

VIENNA.- As of October 1, 2010 Karola Kraus, present head of the Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, will take up her position as the new director of Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art and successor to Edelbert Köb. Federal Minister Claudia Schmied appointed this well-connected and experienced managerial figure from the international art scene in order to give the MUMOK new impetus. “Since it was founded the Museum of Modern Art has been dedicated to the contemporary art and culture of the time. [...]

MoMA Announces Exhibition of New Architectures of Social Engagement

NEW YORK, NY.- Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, will explore contemporary architecture as a powerful means for improving social conditions, focusing on 11 noteworthy built or under-construction projects in underserved communities around the world. The exhibition will be on view from October 3, 2010, through January 3, 2011. Concentrating on a group of architects who confront inequality by using the tools of design, Small Scale, Big [...]

MoMA Asks Visitors to Leave After Touching Nude Performers

NEW YORK, NY.- Some visitors to a new exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art are being asked to leave because they are touching nude performers. The performers featured in Marina Abramovic’s new exhibition have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons. The museum acknowledges that it has had problems with some visitors touching the live art. It is declining to talk about specific cases, but says visitors caught doing it are escorted out. The [...]

Studio 8: A Space Dedicated to Young People at Irish Museum of Modern Art

DUBLIN.- The new season of Studio 8 kicks off on Saturday 6 March with Irish artist Claire Halpin and Studio 8 Coordinator, Lynn McGrane, with a workshop that explores the IMMA Collection exhibition What happens next is a secret. This experimental exhibition examines notions of collection and curation, in response Studio 8 participants will develop ideas in the studio, working on creative concepts and making working drawings. They will discuss various aspects of curation, such as how the placing and [...]

Louisiana Museum Presents Exhibition from the Merzbacher Collection

HUMBLEBAEK.- This spring’s major exhibition at Louisiana centres on colour: colour in art, in the world and in the eye. In words, pictures and through interactive programmes the exhibition will present the ways in which artists throughout the twentieth century either made use of colour as a medium of expression or researched it to find new colours and colour systems. Louisiana has been given a unique opportunity to choose freely from works in the Swiss Werner & Gabrielle Merzbacher’s rich [...]

Irish Museum of Modern Art to Open Secret, Intriguing and Experimental Exhibition

DUBLIN.- What happens next is a secret, an intriguing, experimental exhibition, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) on Tuesday 26 January 2010. The exhibition attempts to address the question of what happens when artworks become part of a museum collection and are subsequently shown in many different contexts. Working from a potential list, the artworks will be changed during the course of the exhibition, with removals generating absences which call to mind gaps in [...]