COPENHAGEN.- The question of what is real has been debated throughout the entire history of humanity: Is it what our senses tell us, or is there a world beyond what we can immediately perceive? In this philosophical field, Ebbe Stub Wittrup explores li…
The Hague Museum of Photography is first museum to exhibit a survey of Pieter Hugo’s work
THE HAGUE.- The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known around the world. He has already won numerous awards including the KLM Paul Huf award in 2008 and was re…
The Antagonist: Sanam Khatibi, Daniel Medina, and Jamie Shovlin exhibit at waterside contemporary
LONDON.- waterside contemporary presents The Antagonist, an exhibition in which the artists, the viewers and the characters trade their places. Using the quotidian, the historical and the fictional, the artists explore situations in which subject and o…
At a news conference, families oppose 9/11 remains at memorial museum in New York
NEW YORK (AP).- Families of Sept. 11 victims on Sunday called for congressional hearings to establish federal protocols on how to handle human remains after disasters like the terror acts that took thousands of lives in New York, Washington and Pennsyl…
Les Enluminures gallery announces exhibition of the history of rings in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
PARIS.- Les Enluminures gallery has announced that it will stage a Special Exhibition at TEFAF in Maastricht March 16 – 25, of historically interesting Finger Rings, titled “RINGS THROUGH THE AGES.” Galerie Les Enluminures founder, Dr. …
Maryland photographer, Stan Stearns, who shot famous John F. Kennedy Jr. photo dead at 76
WASHINGTON (AP).- The photographer who took the iconic picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father’s coffin during the slain president’s 1963 funeral has died. Stan Stearns, 76, died Friday at a hospice in Harwood, Md. His son, Jay Stearns, sai…
The Robert Ellsworth Collection to be offered at Christie’s New York Asian Art Week
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 22, Christie’s will present the sale of Luminous Perfection: Fine Chinese Mirrors from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection. Prominent dealer, collector, and author Robert H. Ellsworth is a legendary figure in the field of …
Exhibition of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur
WINTERTHUR.- Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are…
Auckland Art Gallery opens outstanding exhibition of international Modern masters
AUCKLAND CITY.- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T.maki is presenting Degas to Dali . an outstanding exhibition of international modern artists whose work spans 100 years. Seventy-nine works of art by influential and celebrated artists, such as Monet, Van Go…
The Mint Museum showcases Three Exhibits in ‘Surrealism and Beyond’
Charlotte, North Carolina.- The Mint Museum is proud to present “Surrealism & Beyond” on view at the museum through May 13th. The Mint Museum is once again breaking new ground by bringing together three exhibitions comprising the largest and most…