CHICAGO, IL (REUTERS).- Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the winner of this year’s $100,000 Pritzker Prize for his designs that convey both “power and modesty, bravado and subtlety,” the foundation that awards the prize said on Monday. Th…
Portuguese Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is This Year’s Winnner of the Pritzker Prize
CHICAGO, IL (REUTERS).- Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the winner of this year’s $100,000 Pritzker Prize for his designs that convey both “power and modesty, bravado and subtlety,” the foundation that awards the prize said on Monday. Th…
Dame Vivien Duffield Gives £8.2 Million to 11 Cultural Organisations Across England
LONDON.- Dame Vivien Duffield announced today grants totalling £8.2 million to open up new creative learning spaces for children and young people in eleven cultural organisations across England. The recipients are: The Donmar Warehouse; The Holburne M…
First Major Retrospective to Honor Artist Sheila Hicks: 50 Years at the Institute of Contemporary Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, the first major retrospective to honor this extraordinary American artist. The exhibition is on view from March 24 through August 7, 2011. Sheila Hicks has buil…
First Major Retrospective to Honor Artist Sheila Hicks at the Institute of Contemporary Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, the first major retrospective to honor this extraordinary American artist. The exhibition is on view from March 24 through August 7, 2011. Sheila Hicks has buil…
Dame Vivien Duffield Gives £8.2 Million to 11 Cultural Organisations Across England
LONDON.- Dame Vivien Duffield announced today grants totalling £8.2 million to open up new creative learning spaces for children and young people in eleven cultural organisations across England. The recipients are: The Donmar Warehouse; The Holburne M…
Cranbrook Architect Receives Architecture Award From American Academy
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- Cranbrook Academy of Art announced that the Head of its Architecture Department William Massie has been awarded the prestigious Architecture Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, continuing the school’s 75-yea…
Maya Schweizer/Clemens von Wedemeyer Present "Metropolis. Report from China" at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- Central to the exhibition is the presentation of the documentary film “Metropolis. Report from China” by Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer. The artists traveled to China in 2004 to do research for the project of rem…
Ford Foundation Gives a Major Contribution of $3 Million to African Art Museum
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Elsie McCabe Thompson, president, the Museum for African Art, announced that the Museum has received a major contribution of $3 million from the Ford Foundation. The grant supports the final stage of construction of the Museum’s ne…
Brooklyn Museum to Open First Phase of Transformative Renovation of First Floor
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has completed an extensive renovation of its historic Great Hall at the center of its ground floor and has reclaimed additional space for a new gallery. This project, which is the initial phase of a major redesign of …