New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University Plans Museum of the White Mountains

PLYMOUTH, NH (AP).- A hydrologist and a historian may seem like odd choices to co-author an art exhibition catalog, but it makes perfect sense at Plymouth State University. Professors Mark Green and Marcia Schmidt Blaine researched and wrote the explanatory text for “As Time Passes Over the Land,” a collection of 29 paintings of New Hampshire’s White Mountains on temporary display at the university’s Karl Drerup Art Gallery. Their collaboration reflects the university’s approach to not just the exhibit but [...]

Record Number of Visitors this Summer for the United Kingdom’s National Museums

LONDON.- This summer saw a record number of visitors to the UK’s national museums. Over 5.7 million people visited UK national museums in August 2010. This represents an increase of 11% from August 2009. A total of 809,443 people visited the four branches of Tate in August, a 15% increase on last year. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor Highlights include: • A total of 809,443 people visited the four branches of Tate in August, a 15% increase on last year. • The Victoria [...]

New Exhibition by American Artist Erick Swenson at James Cohan Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents a new exhibition by American artist Erick Swenson, opening April 1st and running through May 1st, 2010. This is the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery. The centerpiece is a new large-scale sculpture, Ne Plus Ultra (2010), on view with a selection of other works dating from 2001 to the present. With striking verisimilitude, Swenson’s uncanny dioramic sculptures, inspired by the artist’s childhood passion for the taxidermy animals at the natural history museum, [...]

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Presents a New Body of Work by Emile Clark, Its First Artist-in-Residence

BROOKLYN, NY.- A series of lush, fluid watercolor and graphite amalgamations of flora and fauna are at the heart of My Garden Pets, a major new installation by New York-based artist Emilie Clark at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BBG). In the exhibition—on view from March 6 through May 23, 2010 as a featured presentation of BBG’s 2010 Centennial Celebration—Clark explores the work of the 19th-century American naturalist, Mary Treat, and the concept of ‘the beneficial insect.’ To create this body [...]

Fourteen Top Australian Contemporary Artists have Been Invited to Paint “Wilderness”

SYDNEY.- Wilderness, a new exhibition, will bring together fourteen of Australia’s best contemporary painters, including Del Kathryn Barton, Daniel Boyd, Tony Clark, Louise Hearman, Mary Scott, Michael Zavros and Fiona Lowry, to consider how nature and landscape are as entwined in our minds, memories and imaginations as as they are in any empirical fact. After viewing the work of over 60 young to mid-career painters, Wayne Tunnicliffe, senior curator, contemporary art, selected the theme of wilderness and invited these fourteen [...]