CHICAGO, IL.- A special exhibition that explores the evolution of documentary images through the work of three of the foremost photographers of the 20th century will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from February 5 through May 15, 2011. Ameri…
Court Denies Heirs’ Claims Over Stolen World War II Art
NASHVILLE (AP).- A federal appeals court has dismissed claims against the German government by heirs of an art dealer whose collection was seized by the Nazis and sold at auction during World War II. Fred Westfield, a retired Nashville professor, fil…
Digital Collection Highlights Photos Taken In Corpus Christi During Great Depression
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has made available online the digital collection “The Itinerant Photographer: Photographs of Corpus Christi Businesses in the 1930s.” T…
Representations of Dance in the Art of Modernism at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover
HANNOVER.- “No dance without ecstasy!” proclaimed the famous dancer, choreographer and dancing instructor Mary Wigman (1886-1973). Born in Hanover, this icon of German Ausdruckstanz (expressive dance) counts among the pioneers of the life ref…
Representations of Dance in the Art of Modernism at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover
HANNOVER.- “No dance without ecstasy!” proclaimed the famous dancer, choreographer and dancing instructor Mary Wigman (1886-1973). Born in Hanover, this icon of German Ausdruckstanz (expressive dance) counts among the pioneers of the life ref…
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…
Fry Art Gallery Buys Striking Eric Ravilious Watercolour with Art Fund Help
LONDON.- A striking watercolour by Eric Ravilious has been purchased by the Fry Art Gallery with the help of the Art Fund. Entitled Caravans, the work depicts the artist’s temporary home and studio during the early 1930s. This is the first time t…
Fry Art Gallery Buys Ravilious Watercolour with Art Fund Help
LONDON.- A striking watercolour by Eric Ravilious has been purchased by the Fry Art Gallery with the help of the Art Fund. Entitled Caravans, the work depicts the artist’s temporary home and studio during the early 1930s. This is the first time t…
Museum Ludwig Acquires Set of Editions Made by Scottish Artist Lucy McKenzie
COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig has purchased a complete set of the editions made by Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (*1977) and is showing them in the eleventh exhibition in its series “Graphic Collection / Museum Ludwig“. To mark this first presentat…
Study Photographs and Paintings by Norman Rockwell at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.-To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged study photographs that are on view for the first time, alongside his paintings, drawi…