Penzance, UK.- In the late 19th Century, one of Britain’s foremost art movements centred around the tiny fishing village of Newlyn, on Cornwall’s far western shores. According to the Magazine of Art in 1898, “It was Birmingham that first…
Selections from Josef Alber’s Formulation: Articulation, 1972 on View at the Snite Museum
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Josef Albers was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, teacher, and theoretician of art. His work at the Bauhaus and later at Black Mountain College and Yale University was influential in both the Color Field and Op Art movements. …
A Celebration of the Skill of Emerging Victorian Artists at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Opening 31 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Top Arts: VCE 2010, a celebration of the skill and imagination of emerging Victorian artists. Now in its seventeenth year, Top Arts will display 55 works by 53 students from go…
A Celebration of the Skill of Emerging Victorian Artists at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Opening 31 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will present Top Arts: VCE 2010, a celebration of the skill and imagination of emerging Victorian artists. Now in its seventeenth year, Top Arts will display 55 works by 53 students from go…
New Permanent Display, from Victorian to Modern British Art, for the Walker Art Gallery
LIVERPOOL.- ‘Art and Insanity at the Walker Art Gallery’ was one newspaper’s description of the Walker Art Gallery’s 1892 purchase of the painting Summer (1891) by Edward Hornel. The uproar surrounding the acquisition was due to the…
First Major U.S. Overview of Kurt Schwitters’ Work at Princeton University Art Museum
PRINCETON, NJ.- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. He is one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century internationa…
The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moho…
The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moho…
Artist’s Jewels From Modernisme to the Avant-Garde at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
BARCELONA.- Artist’s jewels. From Modernisme to the avant-garde explores the approach to the world of jewellery by leading artists of the main art movements in the first decades of the fertile 20th century. The exhibition gathers almost 350 works, chie…
Pinta, Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Show Announced at Pier # 92
NEW YORK, NY.- The PINTA, the unique Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art Fair in New York, opens on November 12th at its new premises on Pier 92 at the Hudson River. After three successful editions in New York and a first in London last June, PI…