Moderna Museet’s Exhibition at New Museum in Malmo Focuses on the 60s

MALMO.- In the first presentation of Moderna Museet’s collection, the museum has chosen to focus on the 60s. A time in which the art is characterized by a drive to approach a reality outside the gallery space and to a greater extent fuse with life itself. Here we meet Robert Rauschenberg’s famous goat, Monogram, on the threshold into a new era where the concept of art widens and where high and low, kitsch and fine culture, are mixed with both [...]

Brigham Young University Museum of Art shows “Mirror, Mirror on the Gallery Wall”

PROVO, UT.- Portraits reflect more than a person’s mirror image. They reveal—and sometimes conceal—certain aspects of a person’s identity. While portrait artists play a role in creating that identity for some, many contemporary artists hold up a mirror to the process of identity creation itself—examining how people shape their identities and how they seek to change other people’s perceptions about themselves. This exhibition will be on view in the Conway A. Ashton & Carl E. Jackman Gallery on the museum’s [...]

Royal Academy to Open a Bicentenary Exhibition Celebrating Paul Sandby

LONDON.- In March 2010 the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works by Paul Sandby RA (1731-1809). The exhibition will mark the bicentenary of the artist’s death and celebrates one of the Royal Academy of Arts’ Foundation Members; it will feature over 80 works by the artist regarded as the ‘father of English watercolour’. Paul Sandby was celebrated in his day. The innovations and subject-matter that he introduced into the practice of watercolour painting in Britain had [...]

Ralo Mayer’s Cross-Media Work to be Shown at Argos-Centre for Art & Media

BRUSSELS.- Ralo Mayer’s cross-media work derives its form from a processoriented mode of artistic knowledge-generation. This artist’s main motifs include the investigation of narrative structures, the study of miniature universes and the interweaving of fiction and reality. Together with the artist Philipp Haupt and others, Mayer develops polyrhythmic narrative structures in the form of scenarios, performances, strip cartoons and spatial settings in which he questions his own position as a narrator and artist (and also the position regarding copyright) and [...]

Frye Art Museum presents American Modernism in the Frye Collection

SEATTLE, WA.- Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in the Frye Collection, on view through January 10, 2010, presents works from the Frye Collection that explore how American artists created distinctly American subjects for American audiences. Located on Seattle’s First Hill, the Frye Art Museum first opened its doors in 1952 as the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye, prominent early-twentieth century Seattle business leaders and art collectors. In the early twentieth century, artists grappled with this concept as [...]

Group Show at Small A Projects Opens Gallery’s Schedule for Next Year

NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition takes its title from a refrain in T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton, the first quartet of a poem ostensibly concerned with a ruined country house in Gloucestershire. In this poem, the poet intimates the fall from an Eden to ruins, the circuitous and entrapping qualities of time, and the strange relationship of individual mortality within the vast span of history and nature. While the poet observes the ways that the past and the future are folded [...]

Goodbye to Some of the Notable People in the Arts Who Left Us in 2009

NEW YORK, NY.- On the last day of the year, we would like to say goodbye to those artists who left us this past year. Here, a roll call of some of the notable people in art and popular culture who died in 2009. In this Sept. 19, 2008 file photo, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude speak at a gallery displaying their “Over The River” project in Denver, Colo. Jeanne-Claude, who created many other wrap projects around the globe with her [...]

Art Collector Shares His Personal Collection with Studio Clout Fine Art Gallery

ATLANTA, GA.- Studio Clout Fine Art Gallery is showing a segment of The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art, which, in its entirety, is one of the largest and most comprehensive art collections of 20th century African-American visual art in the world. “We are very proud, excited and humbled to house one of the most historic art collections in the country at our gallery,” said Linda Lima, owner and art curator at Studio Clout Fine Art Gallery located in [...]

Director Theodora Vischer Resigns from her Duties at Schaulager

BASEL.- Schaulager in Münchenstein opened in spring 2003. It was set up and operated by the Laurenz Foundation, which was founded in 1999. Schaulager quickly established itself internationally by implementing in exemplary fashion its concept, which focused on a new way of preserving and storing the contemporary art in the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation and on related activities in the areas of research and education. This successful start-up period has now moved into a phase of consolidation. Theodora [...]

Edgar Degas Impressionist Painting “Les Choristes” Stolen from Marseille Museum

PARIS.- Thieves stole a valuable painting by 19th century artist Edgar Degas overnight from a French museum, police said Thursday. The colourful image of singers performing on a theatre stage was missing when staff opened up the Cantini Museum in the southern port city of Marseille, prosecutor Jacques Dallest said. The national museums service said the picture was a pastel work titled “The Chorus”, worth 800,000 euros (1.14 million dollars), correcting an estimate given by local police that it was [...]