United States exclusive: Bernini’s Medusa at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Musei Capitolini in Rome are lending San Francisco one of their greatest treasures, the Baroque masterpiece The Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of history’s finest sculptors and a leading figure in 17th-century Italian art and architecture. This loan is part of The Dream of Rome, a project initiated by the mayor of Rome to exhibit timeless masterpieces in the United States from 2011 through 2013. The Medusa represents the inaugural object loaned as part of a joint venture [...]

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz exhibition celebrates Françoise Gilot on her 90th birthday

CHEMNITZ.- The first exhibition worldwide marking the 90th birthday of Françoise Gilot will opened on 26 November 2011 at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. On show are drawings dating from 1941 to 2010. After the retrospective exhibition in 2003 “Françoise Gilot – Painting,” this is the second show of works by the artist and author of Life with Picasso at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Françoise Gilot adopted her own particular position at a very early stage in her career as an artist, influenced mainly [...]