SANTA MONICA, CA.- The ceramic work of Japanese master Sugimoto Sadamitsu (b. 1935) is the subject of an exhibition at the Frank Lloyd Gallery, opening February 18. The first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of this renowned artist’s work…
Vibrant exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston explores intersection of color and the body
BOSTON, MA.- Color is a daily experience; it can communicate our mood, profession, cultural status, nationality and team affiliations—all of which form the basis of our identities and express our emotions. This February, the Institute of Contempor…
Judge: Spain can take treasure from Florida company
By: Mitch Stacy, Associated Press
TAMPA (AP).- A federal judge on Friday signed off on a Spanish government plan to begin moving a vast shipwreck treasure from Florida to Spain next week, culminating a five-year legal battle with the treasure hunters w…
Israel approves tourist new archaeological center in tense Arab neighborhood
JERUSALEM (AP).- The Israeli government has given a hardline Jewish group permission to build a new archaeological center in a tense Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, officials said Tuesday. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach said Tuesday th…
Solo exhibition of new works by the Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat at Nature Morte
NEW DELHI.- Nature Morte presents a solo exhibition of new works by the Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat, his solo show in New Delhi after a gap of six years (also at Nature Morte). Kallat works in all media: painting, sculpture, photography and vide…
SFMOMA exhibition explores voice, text, and performance in Contemporary art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The recombination of image and text has seen a surge in contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition Descriptive Acts, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 18 through June 17, 2012, highlights this pheno…
Ringling’s sweeping exhibition spotlights Peter Paul Rubens: Impressions of a Master
SARASOTA. FL.- In a sweeping exhibition filled with prints and paintings showing triumphal allegories both sacred and secular, meditative landscapes, stately portraits, violent hunts, and fleshy female beauties from classical mythology who inspired the…
The Barlow Collection of Chinese ceramics, bronzes and jades goes on display at The Ashmolean Museum
OXFORD.- Visitors to the Ashmolean Museum have the opportunity to see the Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades. The collection of 450 objects, formed by Sir Alan Barlow (1881-1968), is one of the leading 20th-century English collect…
First comprehensive Thomas Ruff exhibition in more than a decade at Haus der Kunst
MUNICH.- In the first comprehensive exhibition in more than a decade, Thomas Ruff presents the work series that made him internationally renowned. The show depicts Ruff’s artistic development in chronological order: starting with his first series …
First institutional solo exhibition in Europe by the American painter Hernan Bas opens at Kunstverein Hannover
HANNOVER.- The Kunstverein Hannover presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Europe by the American painter Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, lives in Detroit). The son of Cuban parents, he grew up in Miami and developed in part large-format p…