GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Grand Rapids Art Museum is hosting three distinct exhibitions celebrating the work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, beginning this February, providing a rich introduction to the defining aspects of Rauschenberg’s art. Rauschen…
Comprehensive retrospective of American artist George Condo’s work opens at Schirn Kunsthalle
FRANKFURT.- Ironic, provocative, witty—since his beginnings in New York’s East Village in the early 1980s American artist George Condo has produced a distinctive body of work. His paintings, characterized by mordant humor, surrealist-tinged a…
Discovering painter Agnes Martin’s artistic roots at the Harwood Museum of Art
TAOS (AP).- A Taos museum is about to open an exhibit by an abstract painter who was a quiet fixture of the local community but who was well-known in the art world for her seemingly simple and muted grid paintings. “Agnes Martin: Before the Grid” opens…
Discovering painter Agnes Martin’s artistic roots at the Harwood Museum of Art
TAOS (AP).- A Taos museum is about to open an exhibit by an abstract painter who was a quiet fixture of the local community but who was well-known in the art world for her seemingly simple and muted grid paintings. “Agnes Martin: Before the Grid” opens…
Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to sell at Sotheby’s in New York; may fetch $80 million
NEW YORK (AP).- One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby’s auction house announced Tuesday. Sotheby’s estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will se…
Fundacion Mapfre presents exhibitions of the work of Odilon Redon and Lewis Hine
MADRID.- Fundacion Mapfre has opened the Odilon Redon and Lewis Hine exhibitions, which can be visited at the Recoletos Rooms (Paseo de Recoletos 23, Madrid) until 29 April. The Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840 – Paris, 1916) exhibition, produced in collab…
On view for the first time since restoration, ‘Mona Lisa’ copy draws crowds at the Prado
MADRID.- Crowds are gathering at Madrid’s Prado Museum to view a copy of the “Mona Lisa” for the first time since a restoration revealed it was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s apprentices as he worked on the original. The paintin…
On view for the first time since restoration, ‘Mona Lisa’ copy draws crowds at the Prado
MADRID.- Crowds are gathering at Madrid’s Prado Museum to view a copy of the “Mona Lisa” for the first time since a restoration revealed it was almost certainly painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s apprentices as he worked on the original. The paintin…
Spain sending military planes to retrieve treasure
MADRID (AP).- Spain said Monday it will soon send hulking military transport planes to Florida to retrieve 17 tons of treasure that U.S. undersea explorers found but ultimately lost in American courts, a find experts have speculated could be the riches…
Catlin Art Prize 2012; Shortlist announced for exhibition of the most promising graduate talent in the UK
LONDON.- The Catlin Art Prize 2012, now in its 6th year, is an annual exhibition featuring the most promising art graduates in the UK one year on from their degree shows. This year’s exhibition will be held at the Londonewcastle Project Space, Lon…