State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, the first major survey of California Conceptualism and related practices in their seminal period, 1967 to 1…
Martin Creed transforms the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch
LONDON.- Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed has transformed the Gallery restaurant at London’s iconic Sketch, in the first of a new long-term programme of artist-conceived restaurants at the venue. The project seeks to blur the boundaries be…
New book reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland,
DUBLIN.- Dr. Pat Wallace, Director of the National Museum of Ireland, is pleased to announce the launch of a new book titled Breaking Ground, Finding Graves – reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927 – 200…
Russia’s artists enter political fray in elections
PERM, RUSSIA (AP).- In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, artists have done art and left politics to the politicians. But the wave of protests that followed fraud-tainted parliamentary elections in December generated a lively burst of creativity — from paro…
With more than 175,000 visitors, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opens its art to the heartland
BENTONVILLE (AP).- A visitor arriving at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art sees a curved concrete facade with the museum’s name and, behind it, a stand of trees on a hillside. Where’s the museum? Get closer, then look down. A series of connected p…
eyesontheedge: A mixed-media exhibition by Franklin Evans opens at Sue Scott Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Sue Scott Gallery announces eyesontheedge, a mixed-media exhibition by Franklin Evans opening March 2, 2012 and running through April 15, 2012. Evans examines the processes of making art — the generation of ideas and materials, thei…
TEFAF Maastricht at a touch, app provides a unique guide as the Fair celebrates its Silver Jubilee
HELVOIRT.- A unique free application will help visitors get the most out of their visit to TEFAF Maastricht as the Fair celebrates its Silver Jubilee at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 16-25 March 2…
Toronto artist Kim Adams wins the 2012 Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontario
TORONTO, ON.- Sculptor and installation artist Kim Adams is the winner of the $50,000 2012 Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontario for his remarkable contribution to the visual arts in Canada over four decades. The AGO and the Gershon Isko…
Native American Art collection up for auction at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ New Denver saleroom
DENVER, CO.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, is pleased to announce The Anne S. and Robert E. Clay Collection of Native American Art is scheduled to be up for auction in the company’s Denver saleroom on March 11, 2012 beginning at 12 pm MDT. The aucti…
Floor of oldest forest discovered in Schoharie County by New York State Museum researchers
ALBANY, NY.- New York State Museum researchers and scientists from Binghamton University and Cardiff University have reported the discovery of the floor of the world’s oldest forest in a cover article in the March 1 issue of Nature, a leading inte…