Tag: Art News

OTTAWA,
CANADA  – The Canadian Museum of Nature stages a grand reopening this
week
after a six-year, $216-million renovation that transformed the
castle-like stone
building from a damp and dingy relic into a state-of-the-art repository
and
showcase for the nation’s natural wonders. While other national museums
around
the capital are struggling with budget cuts by the Conservative
government, the
nature museum and its vast collections have been given a new lease on
life. With
significantly more of the museum’s 10.6-million-piece collection on
display,
many exhibits — old and new — will take a new tack, incorporating
environmental
and other current issues.

LOS
ANGELES, CA.- To showcase one of the most complex
objects in its collection, the J. Paul Getty Museum will debut
cutting-edge
technology to explore a 17th-century display cabinet from Augsburg,
Germany.
Using Augmented Reality (AR), visitors to the Getty’s website will be
able to
achieve unprecedented access to this fascinating object. The Augsburg
Display
Cabinet (around 1630), or Kabinettschrank, is the centerpiece of one of
four
newly reinstalled galleries in the Museum’s North Pavilion.

MONTREAL.-
A rising star on the contemporary art scene,
British artist Runa Islam gained an international reputation with her
participation in the 2005 Venice Biennale and her nomination for the
2008 Turner
Prize. This new exhibition is a coproduction of the Musée d’art
contemporain de
Montréal and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. It
comprises
five film installations by the artist, including the world premiere of
Magical
Consciousness, 2010, a shared commission by the two museums. The Musée
d’art
contemporain de Montréal presents Runa Islam from May 21 to September 6,
2010.

LONDON.- The Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields,
the
Reverend Nicholas Holtam , has announced that the £36 million capital
campaign
for the Renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields is complete thanks to a gift
of
£50,000 given by Schroders plc in memory of the late Lord Gordon
Richardson of
Duntisbourne. Gordon Richardson was Chairman of Schroders (1962 – 1973)
and
became Governor of the Bank of England in 1973. He was married to
Peggie, the
eldest daughter of the Revd Dick Sheppard, Vicar of St
Martin-in-the-Fields
(1914-27) who was responsible for making St Martin’s ‘The Church of the
Ever
Open Door’ which began St Martin ’s work with homeless people in the
Twentieth
Century.

LONDON.-
Christie’s longstanding commitment to
British Watercolours & Paintings continues this June with the
auction of
enchanting works from the Nicolette Wernick Collection. It will be
offered for
sale on the morning of Wednesday 16 June, followed by the strong various
owner
sale of Victorian and British Impressionist Pictures including Drawings
and
Watercolours. Comprising 91 works, which exemplify the Victorian’s
interest in
legends, chivalry, fairytales, the paranormal and childhood, this
collection was
formed largely in the late 1970s, as the revival of Victorian Art
started to
gather pace. The sale showcases a lovingly curated array of charming
works, led
by The Chase of the White Mouse by John Anster Fitzgerald (1819-1906)
(estimate:
£180,000-250,000).

NEW YORK, NY.- Scenic vistas, winding
paths,
bucolic meadows, and rustic retreats suitable for solitary contemplation
are
just a few of the alluring naturalistic features of gardens created in
the
Romantic spirit. Landscape designers of the Romantic era sought to
express the
inherent beauty of nature in opposition to the strictly symmetrical,
formal
gardens favored by aristocrats of the old regime. This important episode
in
artistic and cultural history is the subject of Romantic Gardens:
Nature, Art,
and Landscape Design, on view from May 21 through August 29, 2010, at
The Morgan
Library & Museum.