PARIS.- The Musée d’Art Moderne offers a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the so…
Museum to Feature Ohio’s Old Electric Chair
By: Doug Whiteman, Associated Press
COLUMBUS (AP)- Ohio’s old electric chair will be on public view for the first time in 80 years as part of a small exhibit at the state’s history museum that will spotlight artifacts from the more provocative side of …
National Portrait Gallery Presents the First Major Exhibition in Over 30 Years Devoted to E.O. Hoppé
LONDON.- The first major exhibition in over 30 years dedicated to the photographer E.O.Hoppé is open at the National Portrait Gallery From 17 February until 30 May 2011. Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important photographers of the first half …
Kunsthalle Mannheim Presents Ré Soupault: Rediscovery of a Companion of the Avant-Garde
MANNHEIM.- The Kunsthalle Mannheim is the first museum in the world to be honoring the oeuvre of one of the key female figures in the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s with the extensive retrospective Ré Soupault—Künstlerin im Zentrum …
Dynamics! Cubism / Futurism / Kineticism on View at the Belvedere in Vienna
VIENNA.- With its show DYNAMICS! Cubism / Futurism / Kineticism, the Belvedere offers a comprehensive insight into abstraction as practiced in Vienna between 1919 and 1929, in the context of European Modernism. The phenomenon of Viennese Kineticism, wh…
Dynamics! Cubism / Futurism / Kineticism on View at the Belvedere in Vienna
VIENNA.- With its show DYNAMICS! Cubism / Futurism / Kineticism, the Belvedere offers a comprehensive insight into abstraction as practiced in Vienna between 1919 and 1929, in the context of European Modernism. The phenomenon of Viennese Kineticism, wh…
Photojournalist Lucien Aigner’s Work Re-Emerges in DeCordova Museum Exhibition
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announce the first major museum showing of Lucien Aigner’s photography since the 1980s. Born in Hungary, Lucien Aigner was a pioneering photojournalist in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s who immigrat…
Victoria & Albert Museum in London Says It has Unearthed "Only" Film of Ballets Russes
LONDON (REUTERS).- A dance enthusiast has discovered what London’s Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. The silent, black and white film is just over a minute long with…
Victoria & Albert Museum in London Says It has Unearthed "Only" Film of Ballets Russes
LONDON (REUTERS).- A dance enthusiast has discovered what London’s Victoria & Albert Museum said on Monday was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance. The silent, black and white film is just over a minute long with…
Masterpieces From the Alberto Della Regione Collection at the Estorick Collection
LONDON.- Containing works by artists including Filippo de Pisis, Fortunato Depero and Giorgio de Chirico, the collection of Alberto Della Ragione provides an extraordinarily comprehensive overview of Italian Modernism. The exhibition is on display thro…