FORT WORTH, TX.- To mark the 100th birthday of pioneering printmaker, painter and educator Will Barnet (b. 1911), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935–1965, on view through Decembe…
Stellar Collection of Congolese Sculpture Acquired by The Cleveland Museum of Art
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announces the acquisition of a single collection of 35 works of Congolese sculpture from the Belgian collectors René and Odette Delenne. In exceptional condition, these works represent the deep cultural mean…
American Artist Wade Guyton Shows Small-Format Works at the Secession in Vienna
VIENNA.- In his exhibition Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer (Drawings For A Small Room) at the Secession, American artist Wade Guyton shows small-format works characterized by a minimalist formal vocabulary. As his support medium, he uses pages from…
Comprehensive Retrospective Dedicated to the German Painter Eugen Schönebeck at the Schirn
FRANKFURT.- From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings. After devoting …
The Signal Gallery Presents First Group Show ‘Mixed Doubles’
LONDON.- The Signal Gallery presents its first group show in the new Paul Street space, from February 11, 2011 through March 2, 2011. The group show consists of four very interesting artists whose work links and entwines in very winning ways. It’…
Texas Foundation to Sell Matisse Set ‘The Backs’
By: Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
DALLAS (AP).- A Fort Worth foundation is selling four Henri Matisse sculptures known as “The Backs” that were once on display at a downtown park. The large relief sculptures by Matisse that depict a woman’s backside…
Texas Foundation to Sell Matisse Set ‘The Backs’
By: Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
DALLAS (AP).- A Fort Worth foundation is selling four Henri Matisse sculptures known as “The Backs” that were once on display at a downtown park. The large relief sculptures by Matisse that depict a woman’s backside…
Berkeley Art Museum Explores the Logic of the Ghost in Exhibition
BERKELEY, CA.- Hauntology, essentially the logic of the ghost, is a concept as ephemeral and abstract as the term implies. Since it was first used by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in a 1993 lecture delivered at UC Riverside concerning the stat…
Vietnam Memorial Statue of Three Soldiers Restored
WASHINGTON (AP).- A statue of three soldiers
installed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after critics thought the
V-shaped
memorial wall was too abstract has been restored to its original finish
in a
six-week project completed Friday. A priv…
Vietnam Memorial Statue of Three Soldiers Restored to Original Finish
WASHINGTON (AP).- A statue of three soldiers installed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after critics thought the V-shaped memorial wall was too abstract has been restored to its original finish in a six-week project completed Thursday. A private found…