High to Host Third Annual Collectors Evening to Help Build Permanent Collection

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art will host the third annual Collectors Evening on January 20, 2012. Created with the single goal of building the Museum’s permanent collection, the event will showcase the High’s curators as they each present a work of art that they wish to have added to the High’s collection. With seven works proposed for acquisition, guests will cast their ballots in four rounds and the High will purchase the works of art that receive the most votes, [...]

Second Annual Collectors Evening Secures Six New Acquisitions for the High

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its second annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 28. Participants voted to secure four new acquisitions for the Museum: Vik Muniz’s “Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci” (2009); an African “Elephant Headress” (19th century); Spencer Finch’s “Bright Star (Sirius)” (2010); and Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon’s “Portrait of Nency Destouches” (1829). Additionally, after the formal voting, an attendee offered up four Delta Air Lines worldwide business-class tickets for bidding. The money raised through [...]

Hayward Gallery Reopens with International Survey of 36 Artists

LONDON.- The New Décor is an international survey of 36 contemporary artists from 22 countries who explore interior design as a means of engaging with changes in contemporary culture that range from the impact of globalism to our shifting boundaries of public and private. What unites the artists is their ability to transform objects we associate with the everyday – a bed, a shelf, a lamp – into something uncanny, compelling, and revealing. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the [...]

Works Exhibited at the Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

STOCKHOLM.- Transparency and Trans-formations in Contemporary American Art, an exhibition of 23 works by 20 American artists—including Kiki Smith, Spencer Finch, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Bradford, and Jennifer Steinkamp—will be on view at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden from April 16, 2010, through June 2012. Reflecting America’s increased emphasis on transparency and international engagement, the exhibition offers a view of the rapid shifts occurring today in culture, society, technology, and science. The exhibition builds on a 46-year history [...]

Royal Academy Presents New Work from More than 30 Leading Contemporary Artists

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents GSK Contemporary 2009, the second annual contemporary art season at 6 Burlington Gardens. Opening in December, Earth: Art of a changing world will present new and recent work from more than 30 leading international contemporary artists, including commissions and new works from the best emerging talent. Recent debates have centred less on the possibility and more on the certainty and speed with which climate change will take place. As the debate has developed, [...]