WARSAW (AP).- Officials say a cornerstone has been laid for a museum honoring the late Pope John Paul II at his family home in southern Poland. The website of the town of Wadowice says the cornerstone was laid at a wall of the pope’s childhood home on…
Exhibition Focuses on Berlin’s Weimar Era in Jeanne Mammen: City of Women
DES MOINES, IA.- The Des Moines Art Center opened an exhibition entitled Jeanne Mammen: City of Women, which runs through December 12, 2010 in the Blank One Gallery. Working as a magazine illustrator in the years just before World War II, Jeanne Mammen…
Exhibition Focuses on Berlin’s Weimar Era in Jeanne Mammen: City of Women
DES MOINES, IA.- The Des Moines Art Center opened an exhibition entitled Jeanne Mammen: City of Women, which runs through December 12, 2010 in the Blank One Gallery. Working as a magazine illustrator in the years just before World War II, Jeanne Mammen…
Cheshire’s Vanished Age at Bonhams, Tunicliffe’s Evocation of Time Gone By
LONDON.- A series of signed and numbered etchings of Cheshire life in the early part of the 20th century by the Macclesfield born artist Charles Tunnicliffe are for sale at Bonhams Prints sale in London on 22 September. Tunnicliffe is internationally k…
Christie’s Announce Landmark Lowry Sale from the Collection of Selwyn Demmy
LONDON.- Christie’s announce the landmark sale of 21 works by the iconic British artist Laurence Stephen Lowry, R..A. (1887-1976) to be offered at auction on Thursday 11 November 2010 from the private collection of Selwyn Demmy (b. 1932), renowned…
Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters 1920s-1940s at MoMA
NEW YORK, NY.- After World War I, striking modern posters began to transform the stations of London’s Underground, the first subterranean railway system in the world. These posters were the crucial face of a pioneering public transport campaign fo…
Newly Restored, Eakins’s ‘The Gross Clinic’ to be Centerpiece of Exhibition
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Gross Clinic of 1875 is the most renowned work created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. In late 2008, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the P…
Group Exhibition "The Mass Ornament" on View at Gladstone Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents The Mass Ornament, an exhibition curated by John Rasmussen. This group exhibition takes its title from a collection of essays by the German writer and cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer that were originally pub…
The Phantasmagorical World of Photographer Marco Sanges at Hay Hill Gallery
LONDON.- This summer, the Hay Hill Gallery brings a sense of the surreal to Cork Street and presents Big Scenes, the visionary and extraordinary world of award-winning photographer Marco Sanges. Big Scenes combines photography, video and performance, b…
Comprehensive Survey of Surrealist Art Opens at the Dean Gallery
EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which brings together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, is the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, wh…