Lanskoy: A Russian painter in Paris exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum

VILLENEUVE D’ ASCQ- For the first time in a French museum, the exhibition Lanskoy, un peintre russe à Paris (Lanskoy, a Russian painter in Paris) presents a large-scale retrospective of the work of André Lanskoy. The museum owns a unique and exceptional collection of the artist’s works (some sixty figurative paintings and about ten abstract works), built up by Roger Dutilleul and Jean Masurel, who donated the modern art collection to LaM and who championed Lanskoy from the 1920s onwards. Through [...]

Forget the Canvas: David Hockney’s New Paris Exhibition

PARIS (AP).- Canvas is just so 20th century. That’s the message of David Hockney’s new Paris exhibition, where glowing iPads and iPhones — their screens a changing medley of still lives and landscapes created by the celebrated British artist on the “Brushes” application — replace traditional canvases. Dozens of the apparatuses are bolted onto the walls, their flat screens aglow with drawings of jagged mountains, somber interiors and bouquets of flowers in eyepopping colors. British artist David Hockney shows friends [...]

Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris Exhibition by Larry Clark Barred to Minors

PARIS (AP).- Paris City Hall has come under fire for barring minors from a museum exhibit of works by U.S. photographer Larry Clark, a show that includes sexually explicit shots of teenagers. Critics said the move was akin to censorship, with the French Human Rights League calling the decision “backward and reactionary.” The Socialist-run mayor’s office has expressed fears about legal challenges if it lets minors into the exhibit by Clark, who is also a filmmaker best known for the [...]

Designer-Turned-Artist Kenzo Shows Paintings

PARIS (AP).- Designer Kenzo Takada, who founded the upscale Kenzo label, has tried his hand at painting, with a Paris exhibition of eight self portraits. The large-scale paintings shown at the Studio 55 gallery in Paris feature the Japanese-born designer in a series of flower-printed kimonos that recall the kinds of prints his label is known for. “Art and fashion are really not that different,” Takada told The Associated Press in an interview. Kenzo, who was born in 1939, leapt [...]

Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris Extended at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art today announced that the popular Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris exhibition will be extended through Sunday, May 2, 2010. The Museum will have extended hours during this time, and the exhibition and select galleries will also be open on Monday, April 19th. Made possible by GlaxoSmithKline and originally scheduled to close on April 25, the exhibition opened on February 24 and will be seen only in Philadelphia. As of today, Picasso and [...]