The Unknown Collection: Exhibition of Classic Works of Art from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

BIELEFELD.- Due to space restrictions, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld can rarely show its entire collection, although the relatively young collection — founded on classic modern art and expanded to include international contemporary art — is of indisputably high quality. The collection, comprised of approximately 500 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 4500 prints, features classic modern masterpieces by Max Beckmann, Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Edvard Munch, Man Ray, and Emil Nolde, as well as Pop Art and Surrealism, masterpieces by Gerhard Richter and [...]

Pinakothek der Moderne Presents Curvatureromance by the American Artist John Chamberlain

MUNICH.- CURVATUREROMANCE is the first museum presentation of the large-format metal sculptures completed during the last four years by the American artist John Chamberlain (*1927). The show also marks the start of the AMERICAN SUMMER program in the Pinakothek der Moderne, on view from July 7 through October 23, 2011. As early as the late-1950s Chamberlain created a sculpture for the first time that made use of colored steel parts from a car that was in the backyard of his friend Larry [...]

Alte Pinakothek’s Celebrates Their 175th Anniversary with the Exhibition “Concealed/Revealed”

MUNICH.- “Concealed/Revealed” is the fourth exhibition in the series celebrating the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th anniversary. The enigmatic title stands for a subject of enormous multiplicity. The exhibition is on view until September 18th, 2011. Infrared reflectographs of underdrawings that – apart from a few exceptions – have never been seen before by a general audience, is on display. The Alte Pinakothek’s anniversary year is the perfect occasion to exhibit the best examples produced by digital infrared reflectography in the field of German [...]

American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White on View at the Colby College Museum of Art

WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art presents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, on view from July 9 through October 2, 2011. In the 1930s, photographers pushed the genre of documentary photography to the forefront of public culture in the United States and onto the walls of newly opened museums and art galleries. That historic development receives new insight with this exhibition focusing exclusively on the work of American photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White. Photographic activity flourished in America [...]

Russia to Celebrate 450th Anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral After $14 Million Restoration

MOSCOW (AP).- Russia will celebrate the 450th anniversary of St. Basil’s Cathedral by opening an exhibition dedicated to the so-called “holy fool” who gave his name to the soaring structure of bright-hued onion domes that is a quintessential image of Russia. The eccentrically devout St. Basil wore no clothes even during the harsh Russian winters and was one of the very few Muscovites who dared to lambast tyrannical Czar Ivan the Terrible. Ivan, whose gory purges claimed tens of thousands of [...]

University of Texas, Ryan O’Neal Spar Over Farrah Fawcett Portrait by Andy Warhol

LOS ANGELES (AP).- The University of Texas system and Ryan O’Neal are sparring over ownership of an Andy Warhol portrait of the actor’s longtime companion, Farrah Fawcett. The system’s board of regents sued O’Neal in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday, asking a judge to order the Oscar-nominated actor to turn over the painting. The portrait is one of two that Warhol made of the “Charlie’s Angels” star and the university claims the actress bequeathed it to their Austin, Texas [...]

Norton Simon Museum Presents Vermeer’s “Woman with a Lute,” on Loan from the Metropolitan

PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents the rare loan of Johannes Vermeer’s “Woman with a Lute,” ca. 1662–63, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. One of about 36 known works by the Dutch master, five of which make their home at the Metropolitan Museum, the painting will be on view from July 8 through Sept. 26, 2011, providing audiences with the extraordinary opportunity to see a work by Vermeer on the West Coast. Its presentation at the Norton [...]

Exhibition of Work by Artist Louise Bourgeois on View for the First Time in Latin America

SAO PAULO.- Tomie Ohtake Institute presents for the first time in Latin America the greatest exhibit of work by Louise Bourgeois: the return of the repressed, from July 8 to August 28, 2011. Bourgeois, one of the most well known artists of the 20th century, was born in Paris in 1911 and traveled and lived in the United States from 1938 until her final days in 2010. The exhibition opens with the famous spider Maman (1999) displayed in the entrance to Tomie [...]

San Diego Museum of Art Presents Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection

SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is the only U.S. museum to show From El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century to the 1970s features 64 works drawn from one of the world’s finest private collections, on view from July 9 to November 6, 2011. From the golden age of Charles V and on through the modern period, this exhibition showcases such acclaimed masters of [...]

Rarely Seen Masterworks from the Dutch Golden Age on View at the Legion of Honor

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One of the world’s best private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including masterworks by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others, is on view at the Legion of Honor from July 9 through October 2, 2011. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where it debuted earlier this year, Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection presents paintings exceptional for their quality, superb condition and impeccable provenance. Premier examples [...]

The Tampa Museum of Art Presents Syntax: Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and means of information transference. Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher collection in Miami, this project is the first opportunity to experience the depth of this fascinating new collection of contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from July 9 through September 25, 2011. The 20th century began with the inclusion of written text within the collages of Pablo Picasso and [...]

Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the National Collection at the National Gallery of Australia

CANBERRA.- Out of the West is the first survey exhibition outside Western Australia to present a large sample of Western Australian art from pre-settlement until today. It includes well known images and new discoveries. Works by established early artists, Robert Dale, Thomas Turner, James W R Linton, A B Webb and Kathleen O’Connor, as well as those by more recent artists such as Herbert McClintock, Harald Vike, Elise Blumann, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Howard Taylor, Brian Blanchflower, James Angus and Rodney [...]

The Andy Warhol Museum Presents The Word of God(ESS) by Artist Chitra Ganesh

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum presents its latest special exhibition, The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh. The exhibition is curated by Tresa Varner, curator of education and interpretation. The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh is on view through September 4, 2011. Chitra Ganesh’s artwork combines different visual languages, canons and cultures, including comic books, Bollywood cinema and iconic goddesses from Hindu folklore. Ganesh creates cross-cultural narratives about sexuality and power that sit in comic book frames where interior thoughts are revealed in [...]

Da Vinci Discovered: Painting Gains Attribution After Careful Scholarship and Conservation

NEW YORK, NY.- A lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been identified in an American collection and will be exhibited for the first time this November. Titled Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) and dating around 1500, the newly discovered masterpiece depicts a half-length figure of Christ facing frontally, holding a crystal orb in his left hand as he raises his right in blessing. One of some 15 surviving Leonardo oil paintings, the work will be included in “Leonardo da [...]

After Serving as Acting Director, Eric C. Shiner Named Director of the Andy Warhol Museum

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Eric C. Shiner has been named director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Shiner joined the museum in 2008 as the Milton Fine Curator of Art, and he has served as acting director since January 2011. A curator, professor, writer, and translator, Shiner was an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and in 2007 he curated “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York” at Japan [...]