MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), home to one of the most important Asian art collections in the nation, announced the appointment of Liu Yang, Ph.D., as the new curator of Chinese art and head of the museum’s Department o…
Three Contemporary Art Exhibition Concepts to Be Realized Through Major Award to Curators
NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation is announcing the winners of the 2010 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, which is granted to contemporary art curators in partnership with a museum or an established non-profit exhibition space. Th…
Steven Shearer to Represent Canada at the 54th International Art Exhibition
OTTAWA.- Steven Shearer is known for using a wide range of traditional and contemporary media in works that address the human subject and its relationship with the outside world. The Vancouver-based artist will represent Canada at the 54th Internation…
Two Russian Curators Plan Appeal Against Art Conviction
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Two leading Russian art curators found guilty of extremism for an exhibition that angered Orthodox Christians said on Tuesday they would take their case to the European Court of Human Rights. Moscow’s Tagansky court on Monday imposed…
Moscow Curators Say their Trial is Political
By: Khristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP).- Two prominent Moscow art curators facing the prospect of three years in prison for an exhibit that offended the Russian Orthodox Church said on Thursday their trial has been a political sh…
Moscow Curators Face 3 Years in Prison for 2007 Exhibition
MOSCOW (AP).- One painting depicted Jesus Christ as Mickey Mouse, another as Vladimir Lenin. The 2007 exhibit was part of an effort to fight censorship of the arts, but the Russian Orthodox Church was horrified. Now, after a 14-month trial, the two pro…