Brooklyn Museum to Open First Phase of Transformative Renovation of First Floor

BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has completed an extensive renovation of its historic Great Hall at the center of its ground floor and has reclaimed additional space for a new gallery. This project, which is the initial phase of a major redesign of the first floor, marks the most transformative change to the floor since that portion of the Museum was constructed in the early twentieth century. The renovated space has been redesigned by the award-winning studio Ennead Architects, formerly [...]

Posters of the Russian Revolution 1917-1921 from the Lenin Library at Nassau County Museum of Art

ROSLYN HARBOR, N.Y.- In the stormy period that began with the 1917 October Revolution, poster art became a principal means of communicating the ideals of Communism to the largely illiterate peasantry of Russia. Graphic, inexpensively produced posters carried the Revolution’s message and served to capture the minds and souls of the masses. These vibrant posters, depicting the new collective means of production in mines, fields and factories, were designed and executed by some of the foremost Russian artists of the [...]

Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia Open “The Prado in the Hermitage” Exhibition

SAINT PETERSBURG.- Spanish King Juan Carlos and his wife Queen Sofia on Friday presided over the opening of an exhibition of works from Madrid’s Prado museum in Russia’s imperial capital Saint Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum, the Museo del Prado and the State Society for Cultural Action [Sociedad Estatal de Acción Cultural] today signed the collaborative agreements for the celebration of the exhibitions “The Prado in the Hermitage” and “Treasures from the Hermitage”, to be shown this year in Saint Petersburg [...]

Unearthly Creature of a Dream by Ana Dobos

UNEARTHLY CREATURE OF A DREAM is a photographic exploration of conceptual fashion by Anna Dobos, taking cues from germ theory of disease. Titled from an excerpt from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, influenced by the film Pastoral: to die in the country by Shūji Terayama.

High Announces Hale Woodruff’s Renowned Monumental Talladega Murals to Tour Nationally

ATLANTA,GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, today embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemorate the 1867 founding of Talladega College and celebrate its success as one of the nation’s first all-black colleges, the murals have been on continuous view at the college since their installation in the lobby of Savery Library. The Talladega murals, which are considered among [...]

Thomas Lawrence Retrospective Showcases Dazzling Portraits of High Society in Regency London

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale Center for British Art is the only North American venue for a landmark retrospective of the great Regency painter, Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). On view from February 24, 2011 through –June 5, 2011, Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance showcases outstanding works by the most important British portrait painter of his generation. It also explores the development of Lawrence’s career as one of the most celebrated and influential artists in Europe in the early nineteenth century. [...]

MKM Presents a Retrospective Exhibition Featuring Anthony Cragg “Things on the Mind”

DUISBURG.- The MKM is kicking off the year 2011 with a retrospective exhibition featuring Anthony Cragg, on view from February 24 through June 13, 2011. Entitled Things on the Mind, it brings together some 50 sculptures, in addition to drawings and graphic art by Cragg, selected from his key work-phases. Occupying an area of some 1000 sq.m., the exhibition furnishes an overview of the artist’s total oeuvre and juxtaposes his early works with his more recent output. A woman eyes sculptures, [...]

High Announces Hale Woodruff’s Renowned Monumental Talladega Murals to Tour Nationally

ATLANTA,GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with Talladega College in Alabama, today embarked on a two-year project to restore, research and exhibit Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s renowned Talladega murals. Commissioned in 1938 to both commemorate the 1867 founding of Talladega College and celebrate its success as one of the nation’s first all-black colleges, the murals have been on continuous view at the college since their installation in the lobby of Savery Library. The Talladega murals, which are considered among Woodruff’s greatest [...]

Christie’s Launches Spring 2011 Season of Post-War and Contemporary Art with First Open

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York announces First Open, an auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art to take place on March 10. The daring and innovative sale is robust with key works ranging from blue-chip artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg to standout auction newcomers, including Ion Birch and Michael Scoggins. First Open is geared toward both new and seasoned collectors, thus estimates for works of art in the auction range from the accessible to aspirational. Merce Cunningham’s [...]

Comprehensive Retrospective Dedicated to the German Painter Eugen Schönebeck at the Schirn

FRANKFURT.- From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings. After devoting himself to Tachist drawing in his beginnings, Schönebeck turned to figurative drawing and painting and was one of the first German artists to thematize the traumatic experiences of World War II. He created unique works combining the abstract and the figurative. In 1961 and [...]

National Gallery Opens Exhibition by Jan Gossaert One of the Most Versatile Artists of the Renaissance

LONDON.- Jan Gossaert (active 1503; died 1532) was one of the most startling and versatile artists of the Northern Renaissance. A pivotal Old Master, Gossaert changed the course of Flemish art, going beyond the tradition of Jan van Eyck and charting new territory that eventually led to the great age of Rubens – yet this is the first major exhibition dedicated to him in more than 45 years. ‘Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance’ includes more than 80 works, and places Gossaert in [...]

Natsumi Hayashi The Girl Who Loves to Levitate

Natsumi Hayashi is a sweet-looking Japanese girl who, one day, decided to take self-portraits..of herself levitating. She can be spotted in and around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and her self-timer. When she feels the moment strike, she presses the shutter button down and then, quite literally, “jumps” into place. What I love most about her shots is that they don’t feel forced. Natsumi has a way of making us feel as though she naturally levitates throughout life. When I [...]

Following Improved Results, ARCOmadrid 2011 Anticipates a Change of Trend

MADRID.- On February 20th 2011, the 30th ARCOmadrid closed its doors with a positive balance for gallerists, collectors, artists, professionals and general public. The optimism that has prevailed in this edition indicates a recovery of confidence in the market that led to brisk sales, with purchases by private collectors, investors and also by public institutions adding new pieces to their museums and collections. Organised by IFEMA, the fair opened its doors on Wednesday 16th February, and the tape was officially cut [...]

First Major Exhibition in the UK of the Korean Artist Meekyoung Shin at Haunch of Venison

LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London presents the first major exhibition in the UK of the Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) in February 2011. The exhibition will include a number of significant installations from Shin’s ongoing ‘Translation’ project, in which virtuoso facsimiles of Chinese porcelain and Western classical sculpture are reinterpreted in soap. Initially trained in Korea in a classical tradition of European sculpture, Shin subsequently moved to London where she became drawn to processes of ‘translation’ undertaken by objects representing [...]

Tim Davies Selected to Represent Wales at the 54th International Art Exhibition in Venice

CARDIFF.- Tim Davies has been selected by the Arts Council of Wales to represent Wales at the 54th International Art Exhibition, at a new location for Wales at the Biennale, Santa Maria Ausiliatrice: the Ludoteca in Castello. One of Wales’s leading artists, Davies works in a range of different materials, including, found imagery, sculptural installation, collage, framed works, and film. He is a memorable image-maker. Often the images are wrought by painstaking and meticulous, repetitive labour, honouring ethics of work, production [...]