‘Burj Dubai’ to be World’s Tallest Building, How Tall? It’s Still a Secret!

CHICAGO.- In the annals of tall skyscrapers, there is no doubt that the soon-to-open ‘Burj Dubai’ will be the world’s tallest. But how tall is known to only a few. “It’s still a secret,” William Baker of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, the tower’s structural engineer, said in an interview ahead of the ‘Burj Dubai’s’ January 4 opening. “The client (Emaar Properties PJSC) will only let us say it’s more than 800 meters (2,625 feet) tall. It’s part of the [...]

Getty Exhibition Explores Three Cities through Three Contemporary Photographers

LOS ANGELES, CA.- On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 2-June 6, 2010, “Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim” brings together bodies of work by three contemporary photographers that recently entered the Museum’s collection. Each artist explores a specific city and how various modes of transportation define the urban infrastructure. Selections from Catherine Opie’s “Mini-malls” series, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s “Habitat 7″ series, and Soo Kim’s “Midnight Reykjavík” series will be on display. This exhibition will run [...]

Artists Fashion their Global Identities at the Akron Art Museum

AKRON, OH.- What’s your Pattern ID? Whether we’re aware of it or not, we all have a Pattern ID. It is revealed in the clothing we wear and the interiors with which we surround ourselves. Damask silk, Indian brocade and Burberry plaid each carry specific cultural associations. The aesthetic choices we make every day communicate subtle and not so subtle messages about who we are and where we’ve come from — our cultural identities. Pattern ID, on view at the [...]

Magnolia Laurie’s First Solo Show at Causey Contemporary in February

BROOKLYN, NY.- This February Causey Contemporary will present all after all before, Magnolia Laurie’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. “All After All Before”, is Ms. Laurie’s second solo show in New York City and will feature her oil on panel paintings. Join us for the opening reception with the artist on Friday, February 12th from 6 – 9 pm, as part of the Williamsburg Gallery Association’s Second Friday event, the show will run till March 15th. Magnolia Laurie, “A [...]

Exhibition of Dutch Painting at the Art Gallery of Hamilton

HAMILTON, ON.- Nature Observed spotlights the Gallery’s collection of Dutch paintings, which for many years have constituted a modestly-sized yet excellent component of the institution’s European holdings. Several of the works came to the Gallery as offerings from historic AGH patrons, among them John Penman, Muriel Bostwick, Margaret Galbreaith, and Ruth McCuaig. Still others were purchases made respectively in the 1960s and ’80s through the generosity of the Gallery’s Women’s Committee and Volunteer Committee (the new name for the Women’s [...]

The Boston Globe Names the ICA – “Biggest Arts Story of the Decade”

BOSTON, MA.- In a round-up of major developments on the Boston art scene, the Boston Globe recently named the Institute of Contemporary Art “the biggest art story of the decade.” Following a string of successful shows, such as Anish Kapoor, Past, Present, Future, Tara Donovan, and Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand, theICA’s latest exhibition, Damián Ortega: Do It Yourself , is on view for just a few more weeks. Called “masterful” (Art Papers), “seductive” (New York Times), and “a kind [...]

Catholic Reformation Art to be Shown at Musée Jacquemart-André

PARIS.- For the first time ever, the Musée Jacquemart-André presents a group of paintings never before exhibited in France. The exhibition brings together works from different periods and various artistic movements, offering a fascinating aesthetic and artistic journey. Displaying these works side by side reveals the continuities and breaks with tradition that have marked the evolution of Spanish art. The Golden Age of sacred painting With the works of El Greco, Jusepe de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, the visitor [...]

Jen P. Harris Solo Exhibition at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts presents New York-based artist Jen P. Harris’s solo exhibition titled Conversations, on view in Dupont II Gallery through March 21, 2010. Conversations is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper of images that are reinterpretations of Hollywood depictions of romances or composites of visual information found in magazines, on the Internet, or in the artist’s digital camera with which she gives form to indeterminate but suggestive narrative and psychological content. [...]

New Century Artists Gallery to Present Christopher J. Wilson Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- New York-based artist Christopher J. Wilson reveals his inaugural series, The Global Citizen Project, portraits linked through one theme: the global footprint of New York City residents. Through photorealistic portraiture and first-person narratives, this series magnifies immigration and the global diaspora of race, ethnicity, religion, and culture that enhance New York City. In Wilson’s untraditional oil portraits—some larger than life—his subjects appear genuine. Instead of staging posed shots, Wilson took candid photos of each Global Citizen while [...]

Watch Dan Perjovschi at Work at the Royal Ontario Museum in February

TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the new art installation, Dan Perjovschi: Late News, beginning on February 22, 2010. Distinguished in the world of contemporary art, Dan Perjovschi will draw his brilliant and irreverent cartoons directly onto the dramatic soaring walls of the Roloff Beny Gallery, on Level 4 of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the ROM. Dan Perjovschi: Late News is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Between February 13th [...]

Prado Museum in Madrid Announces Schedule for 2010

MADRID.- In anticipation of the interest that may arise in which exhibitions that will take place at the Prado next year, the museum has released some information. The first one will open in March entitled “The Art of Power”, the show was recently on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington with a public attendance of almost 250.000 people. During the months of January and February, two temporary exhibitions will still be open to the public: “Maíno and [...]

Jeu da Paume to Open Exhibition of Photographs by Lisette Model

PARIS.- If Lisette Model took up photography as a way of earning a living, it is also true that she always fought for her own subjects, rather than simply carry out the assignments given by editors. She believed that for a photograph to be successful its subject had to be something that “hits you in the stomach.” This could be something familiar or something unfamiliar. For Model, the camera was an instrument for probing the world, a way of capturing [...]

October Gallery to Show the Work of International Artist Aubrey Williams

LONDON.- The New Year of 2010 welcomes in two major exhibitions, in two different cities, of the work of one extraordinary international artist: Aubrey Williams. October Gallery, London and Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, have joined forces to produce two linked and overlapping solo exhibitions of Williams’ work together with the publication of a new catalogue providing fresh insights into one of the twentieth century’s great artistic spirits. Born, in 1926, in Georgetown, Guyana, Aubrey Williams remains one of [...]

International Design Museum in Munich Announces Giampaolo Babetto Exhibition

MUNICH.- Giampaolo Babetto (born 1947 in Padua) has had a marked influence on the avant-garde goldsmiths’ scene since the late 1960s. He is one of the protagonists of the so-called Padua School and has significantly moulded the image of art jewellery in Italy. “Babetto’s works mirror a refined aesthetic concept based on dialogue, interrelationships and a blurring of boundaries between art genres,” said Florian Hufnagl, Director of Die Neue Sammlung. Babetto’s work reflects contemporary art movements such as concrete art, [...]

Grand Palais Turns Itself Into a Fairytale with Fairground Attractions

PARIS.- An exceptional event for the festive season, “Jours de fêtes” invites a wide public to the Nave of the Grand Palais, specially lit up by François Austerlitz, to plunge into a fairytale atmosphere amongst the fairground attractions: the big wheel, the 1900 carrousel and “the world of children” space made up of 6 games which can be played free of charge. Young and old will take a voyage of discovery of unique pieces from individual collections presented by The [...]