Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to Screen Robert Adanto’s Pearls on the Ocean Floor

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Robert Adanto’s new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor features interviews with some of the most highly regarded Iranian female artists living and working in and outside the Islamic Republic, including Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Haleh Anvari, Sara Rahbar, Leila Pazooki, Afshan Ketabchi, Malekeh Nayiny, Bahar Sabzevari, Afsoon, Gohar Dashti, and Negar Ahkami. The film is screening Sunday, June 13th at 2:00pm in conjunction with Taravat Talepasand: Drawings , curated by Thien Lam. The ubiquitous [...]

The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now

HUNTINGTON, NY.- As part of its 90th anniversary celebration, The Heckscher Museum of Art presents The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now, featuring favorite works from the Permanent Collection and new acquisitions. From its founding in 1920, with a gift of more than a hundred works from the industrialist and real estate magnate August Heckscher, the Museum’s collections have grown to more than 2,200 objects. This exhibition opens with a selection of Old Master works, including portraiture and sculpture, and [...]

Oberlin to Send Masterworks by Rubens, ter Brugghen, Turner to the Phillips

WASHINGTON, DC.- Illustrating its unconventional approach to displaying art, The Phillips Collection will present loosely themed groupings of some of its own masterworks with 25 masterpieces from Oberlin College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. Half of the 24 paintings and one sculpture on loan from the Allen are old masters, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries. They include rare works by painters of the British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish schools. The other Allen pieces are important [...]

Rare Preliminary Watercolor from Pinocchio on the Auction Block

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields’ Entertainment Memorabilia auction on June 13, 2010 will include a wide range of collectible items related to our popular culture including a rare preliminary watercolor from the Oscar-winning® Walt Disney film Pinocchio, 1940, by famed children’s book and cartoon illustrator Gustaf Tenggren. The painting depicts a scene from the animated classic where Pinocchio runs into Gideon and J. Worthington Foulfellow on a cobbled narrow Bavarian street. In this watercolor, the puppet’s two acquaintances are [...]

Group Show of Work by Forty Artists in All Media at Ferrin Gallery

PITTSFIELD, MA.- ReObjectification: Art + Object is a group show of work by forty artists in all media featuring artists who directly reference existing art, objects or found materials that inspire their artwork. The exhibit explores the relationship between the source material and how that information is translated, recontextualized or presented. Both two and three dimensional formats including photography, sculpture and painting are presented in the exhibition. The exhibition at Ferrin Gallery, organized by Leslie Ferrin and Julia Dixon, features [...]

Exhibition Focuses on the Works Referred to by Le Corbusier’s 1928 Lecture in Madrid

MADRID.- The exhibition focuses on the two lectures which, during his first trip to Spain, in May 1928, Le Corbusier gave at the Residencia de Estudiantes. Taking the title of one of them, ‘Une maison – un palais’, the exhibition revolves around the works referred to in the lecture: Villa Cook, Villa Stein and the two houses in Weissenhof-Siedlung in Stuttgart, represent domestic architecture, while institutional architecture is represented by the Palace of the League of Nations project in Geneva. [...]

Nicola Carrino at A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

MILAN.- On Thursday 20 May 2010 an exhibition devoted to the artist Nicola Carrino opened at A arte Studio Invernizzi. On this occasion the artist presented a work specially created for the spaces of the gallery entitled ‘Ricostruttivi Progetto Invernizzi 2009.2010′ (Reconstructives Invernizzi Project 2009.2010). Starting from the premise that ‘in order to reconstruct, it is necessary to return to basics’, as Carrino himself wrote, ‘the Ricostruttivi, like the previous ‘Costruttivi’ (Constructives) and ‘Decostruttivi’ (Deconstructives), are open sculptural systems that [...]

Indian Artist Ravender Reddy Featured at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- The new 21st-Century Gallery at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts features a rich diversity of global artists including Julie Mehretu (Ethiopia), Shahzia Sikander (Pakistan), Farhad Moshiri (Iran), Yukinori Yanagi (Japan), William Kentridge (South Africa), Jiha Moon (South Korea), David Schnell (Germany) and Indian artist Ravender Reddy. Reddy is known for his brightly painted sculptures of life-size figures and monumental heads, usually painted bright blue or gold. A current international news photo features a Reddy sculpture in front [...]

St Ives and the International Avant-Garde Opens at Tate

CORNWALL.- Post-Second World War art in St Ives is the starting point for this new display, exploring some of the common characteristics of Modern Art and the shared visual language of artists working in Europe and America from the 1930s to the late 1970s. Drawing on key British and international works in the Tate Collection, this is the largest and most extensive Collection display at Tate St Ives for over ten years. Highlights include important works by British and international [...]

New York Skyscraper Wins Highest “Green” Certification

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The U.S. Green Building Council gave the Bank of America Tower its highest rating for environmental performance and sustainability on Thursday, meaning New York City’s second-tallest building is also its greenest. The 54-story building completed in 2008 at a cost of $2 billion became the first commercial high-rise to win the “platinum” certification from the non-profit council that promotes environmentally friendly construction and design. The certification was based on water and energy efficiency, indoor air quality, the [...]

Nasher Sculpture Center Presents Rachel Whiteread Drawings

DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center presents the first museum retrospective of drawings by contemporary British artist Rachel Whiteread. Featuring over 125 drawings and collages selected from the artist’s studio, as well as from leading public and private collections in Europe and the United States, the exhibition brings to the fore a rarely seen aspect of Whiteread’s work. “We are pleased to welcome Rachel Whiteread to the Nasher Sculpture Center. This will be the first major exhibition at the Nasher [...]

Exhibition of Photographs from the Struggle for Civil Rights Opens at ICP

NEW YORK, NY.- A new exhibition at the International Center of Photography offers an innovative view of the Civil Rights Movement and the catalytic social role played by changing portrayals of African Americans in the 1950s and ‘60s. Through a rich juxtaposition of visual images—including photographs, television and film clips, magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets and posters—the exhibition shows how strategic interventions in these mediums of visual culture helped to transform prevailing attitudes toward race in America. The exhibition, organized by [...]

10 Museums Form Partnership to Celebrate Overground East London Line

LONDON.- Africa’s largest mask, George Washington’s false teeth, a marine iguana from Darwin ’s expedition to the Galapagos Islands, the purse of the suffragette who threw herself under King George V’s horse and the oldest tunnel in the London metro system: these are just examples of the myriad treasures waiting to be discovered along CultureLine, launched this past Friday May 21. CultureLine is a group of 10 museums and galleries which can be found along the length of the new [...]

Exhibition of Landscape Photographs at Galerie Wagner + Partner

BERLIN.- Nature became landscape long ago. Since the Romantic period landscape has furthermore been an aesthetic position. But what is landscape for the modern human being? The thematic exhibition “Open Landscape” at the Galerie Wagner + Partner provides a juxtaposition of multigenerational photographic and pictorial approaches to this question. The reference point for all participating artists is the real landscape. The works of Thomas Wrede and Joseph Schulz increase their charm through friction between photorealistic representation extended through staging and [...]

Unpublished Images of India’s History Recovered from Yellow Crates

LONDON.- A remarkable photographic record of thousands of previously unseen images of modern Indian history, from the last days of the Raj through the 1960s have just been unearthed and revealed from large yellow crates by inheritor Aditya Arya. The memories may have turned sepia with age, but the images documenting the making of a free India are shown in archives by photo‐journalist Kulwant Roy, who chronicled the destiny of changing India for five decades since the late 1930s. Launching [...]