Michael Hoppen Contemporary to Present Photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s Images

LONDON.- Still hard at work well into his late 70s, Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s images have lost none of the potency that would make his 1960’s nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary announced the first exhibition of his work in the UK, which will focus on his most iconic series – Birth, Twin, Death Valley, Brown Lilly and Phantom, as well as studies of a dancer, also from the 1960s. Shinoyama was born in [...]

Egypt Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawass to Demand Nefertiti Bust

CAIRO.- Egypt’s antiquities chief said Sunday he will formally demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo through fraudulent documents. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has been aggressively campaigning to reclaim treasures that he says were stolen from Egypt and purchased by some of the world’s leading museums. Hawass’ campaign yielded a huge success this week with the return of painted [...]

University of the Arts Hosts First Group Exhibition of Women’s Pop Art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg are names synonymous with the Pop Art movement of the 1950s and ’60s. Drexler, Webber and Chryssa, however, are far less familiar: they are members of the lost legacy of female Pop artists. Like their male counterparts, these and many other women artists enjoyed long careers creating Pop Art. And like the work of men in that movement, their work was characterized by themes drawn from popular culture: advertising, comic books and mundane objects. [...]

Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Landmark Picasso Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 150 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will present an unprecedented opportunity to view the Met’s extensive collection of the artist’s work. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 27, 2010, this first exhibition to focus exclusively on works by Picasso in the collection will reveal the Museum’s complete holdings of the artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics—never before seen in their entirety—as well [...]

Studies on Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Expansion in Urdaibai Presented

NEW YORK, NY.- The results of preliminary studies analyzing the critical factors for success for the proposed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao expansion project in Urdaibai were presented December 16 at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The first stage of feasibility studies, carried out in 2009, identified and analyzed a number of issues, including the new museum’s conceptual model and curatorial program; the legal, urban, environmental, and geological conditions of the chosen site; the [...]

Tapestries Created by Renowned Artists to be Shown at James Cohan Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery will present the exhibition Demons, Yarns & Tales featuring hand-woven tapestries created by thirteen internationally renowned artists, including avaf, Peter Blake, Gary Hume, Jaime Gili, Francesca Lowe, Beatriz Milhazes, Paul Noble, Grayson Perry, Shahzia Sikander, Fred Tomaselli, Gavin Turk, Julie Verhoeven, and Kara Walker. The exhibition was created by the London-based art organization, Banners of Persuasion, who commissioned each artist to design a tapestry, a medium foreign to his or her usual practice. Three [...]

The Morris Museum of Art Embarks Upon Reinstallation of Its Permanent Collection

AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art has begun closing galleries in preparation for Phase I of the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection. This is a three-phase reinstallation plan, which highlights works of art that have not been exhibited for some time or have never been exhibited at all. The galleries will be opened on, Friday, March 5, 2010, for the Morris Museum’s Seventeenth Annual Gala. This is the first time since the museum opened its doors in September [...]

Regen Projects Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Glenn Ligon Exhibition

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of new paintings by New York based artist Glenn Ligon. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery and marks the 20th anniversary of Regen Projects. The exhibition presents a suite of new paintings entitled “Figure” that continue Ligon’s investigation of James Baldwin’s seminal 1953 essay “Stranger in the Village.” The themes in the essay – cultural identity, the decipherability of the other, and the burden of history – find [...]

Casino Mogul Wynn Bought Record Rembrandt “Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, With His Arms Akimbo”

LOS ANGELES, CA.- A Rembrandt painting that sold for a record $33.2 million last week at Christie’s in London was bought by U.S. casino mogul Steve Wynn, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the transaction. Christie’s is not disclosing the identity of the winning telephone bidder for the 1658 “Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, With His Arms Akimbo,” a spokesman said. Auctioneer James Bruce-Gardyner sells Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a man, half-length, with his arms akimbo” [...]

TEFAF DESIGN to Present Rare and Influential Pieces in 2010

MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Design, the stylish newcomer to TEFAF Maastricht in 2009, will exhibit works by some of the greatest names in the history of design when the world’s most influential art and antiques fair opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from March 12-21, 2010. They will include a suite by Frank Lloyd Wright, a unique sculpture by Gio Ponti, a rare chair by Le Corbusier and furniture that Otto Wagner made for his [...]

The Morris Museum of Art Embarks Upon Reinstallation of Its Permanent Collection

AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art has begun closing galleries in preparation for Phase I of the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection. This is a three-phase reinstallation plan, which highlights works of art that have not been exhibited for some time or have never been exhibited at all. The galleries will be opened on, Friday, March 5, 2010, for the Morris Museum’s Seventeenth Annual Gala. This is the first time since the museum opened its doors in September [...]

Frye Art Museum New Exhibition Celebrates Its Founding Collection

SEATTLE, WA.- Reflecting its continuing commitment to honor the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye, the Frye Art Museum announced a new exhibition “Tête-à-tête” that opens February 6, 2010. “Tête-à-tête” features nearly one hundred fifty paintings from the Frye Founding Collection, recreating the sumptuous viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to the art gallery in Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle home in the early decades of the twentieth century. Hung floor-to-ceiling in the Museum’s largest gallery, the paintings, as well as [...]

The Burke Museum’s ‘Fossil Freeway’: A Wild Ride Through Prehistory

Seattle, WN – Paleontologist Kirk Johnson and artist Ray Troll showcase an art and fossil exhibit full of dinosaurs, ammonites and trilobites at University of Washington’s Burke Museum. The exhibit, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway,” runs through May 31, 2010. Millions of years ago, prehistoric beasts roamed Washington. And starting today until May, the Burke Museum showcases the traces they left behind. “Most people don’t realize that there are fossils everywhere,” said paleontologist Kirk Johnson. “The joy of finding one is [...]

Gagosian Publishes Definitive Survey of Jeff Koons’s Hulk Elvis Paintings

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery has published a new book featuring the work by Jeff Koons. This recent publication features Jeff Koons’ painting series, Hulk Elvis, in which he creates large works of the Incredible Hulk, inflatable monkeys, geishas, birds, and the Liberty Bell, all bursting with energy and precision. These spectacular pictorial inventions of brightly-colored silhouettes loom and recede in the swirling delirium of color and line, creating visceral manifestations that dazzle the eye and confound the senses. A [...]

Survey of Rolf Iseli’s Fifty-Year-Career Opens at Kunstmuseum Bern

BERN.- Since his startling emergence on the art scene in the 1950s as a wild young Tachist, Rolf Iseli (b. 1934) has remained one of the best known Swiss artists. This retrospective exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern surveys the artist’s fifty-year-career by means of about one hundred works – large groups of paintings and drawings, sculptures and prints – which Iseli produced in his studio in Berne and in St. Romain in Burgundy. Rolf Iseli, “Reise nach Xàtiva”, 2003. Stacheldraht, [...]