Tag: Art News

PARIS –
A lone hooded man who squirmed through a broken window and evaded
security
alarms stole five paintings by Picasso, Matisse and
other artists overnight Wednesday
from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, in a brash theft valued somewhere
between
$100 million and $125 million. Museum officials discovered the theft
shortly
before 7 a.m. Thursday, and said they had captured video images of the
black-clad burglar as he stole into the museum’s Art Deco building,
which sits
across from the Seine and near the Eiffel Tower. The burglary — which
triggered
no electronic alarms — immediately raised fresh questions about museum
security
in the French capital.

Charlotte,

NC – Deepening its commitment to
the arts, Bank of America
officially launched its Art Exhibition Program, which will
make turnkey andcustomized
exhibitions from the Bank of America Collection, one of the
largest and most important
corporate art collections in the world, widely available to museums free
of
charge. The Bank of America Art Exhibition Program includes exhibitions
fully
curated from the Bank of America collection that will travel to museums
around
the country, and exhibitions created in collaboration with curators from
major
museums.

BEIJING.-
Pace Beijing presents an exhibition of
Zhang Huan’s recent work. It is his fi rst exhibition with the gallery
in
Beijing and his third with Pace. A catalogue will accompany the
exhibition.
Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains will open on May 20 and
remain on
view through July 20, 2010. Zhang Huan is well-known for his ability to
work in
multiple mediums. He initially gained fame as a performance artist in
the 1990s,
but in recent years has returned to painting, sculpture, and large-scale

installations.

PARIS (REUTERS).- Finding a safe investment in
crisis times may be tough, but just a year before Hollywood takes Tintin
to the
big screen, collectors are vying for rare memorabilia of the cub Belgian
cartoon
hero at a Paris auction. The Tintin series — created by Georges Remi
under his
pen name Herge — has become one of the most popular comics in the world
with
translations in more than 50 languages and 200 million copies of the 24
books
sold. There is huge appetite for collectors of anything related to the
diminutive investigative journalist and adventurer. The Paris auction on
May 29
includes 230 items from about 70 collectors that even Herge’s foundation

Moulinsart, a partner in the sale, never knew existed.

LONDON.-
The Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 RIBA Awards. RIBA
Awards
for architectural excellence will be presented to 102 buildings in the
UK and
Europe (93 in the UK and nine in the rest of the EU). The award-winning
buildings range from a small circular loop for bus drivers in London to
the
Neues Museum in Berlin, from a zero-carbon house to the energy
substation for
the 2012 Olympics. The high arts have done well with galleries, museums,

theatres and auditoriums winning many awards (including the Ashmolean
Musuem,
Nottingham Contemporary and Aldeburgh Music Campus).

LAUSANNE.- In 2009 the Fondation de l’Hermitage
celebrates its 25th anniversary! Twenty-five years of dedicated and enthusiastic
commitment to art and artists which have seen the graceful residence built by
the Bugnion family in the middle of the 19th century welcome
hundreds of thousands of art lovers. The exhibition will carry an
important scientific, commemorative publication reproducing many of these
masterpieces from Swiss collections, some of which are being shown to the public
for the first time, and taking stock of twenty-five years of activity at the
Fondation de l’Hermitage.

MUNICH.- By now it is hard to imagine the
Kunstareal without it: the Museum Brandhorst, inaugurated at an official

ceremony on 18 May, 2009, takes positive stock of its first year: 345
000
visitors streamed to Munich’s new highlight with its characteristic,
brightly-coloured ceramic rods – and the interest shows no signs of
letting up.
2 255 guided tours with some 39 300 participants are one more clear
confirmation
of the extent to which the museum has become an established institution
in
Munich and beyond. »I’m thrilled at the positive response that
the
museum has witnessed since its opening«, Klaus Schrenk, Director General
of the
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, said. »The architecture and the
collection
at the Museum Brandhorst fuse in a way not found anywhere else.

SYDNEY.- Sydney artist, Craig Ruddy has won the 2010
Archibald People’s Choice Prize for his portrait of writer/director
Warwick
Thornton. In 2004 Craig Ruddy was awarded both the Archibald Prize and
the
People’s Choice for Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions for his popular but

contentious portrait of actor David Gulpilil. This is the 22nd year of
the
People’s Choice Prize, 23,376 people voted this year. Apple Yin’s
portrait of
Terry English was the second most popular painting.

MADRID.- The Archaeological Team of the
Terracotta
Warriors and Horses in the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’an, 2010 Prince
of
Asturias Award Laureate for Social Sciences. The Jury for the Award
announced
its decision today in Oviedo. Considered one of the most important
archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century, the site of the
terracotta
warriors, also known as the warriors of Xi´an, is a rich source of
information
about the Chinese civilization. The nomination was put forward by Carlos
Blasco
Villa, Ambassador of Spain in China.

Taos, New Mexico
– Erin
Currier, whose art has long been concerned with issues of human rights,
devotes
her new work to portraits of a number of persecuted women heroes of
independent
media abroad, and one of a noted advocate for honest journalism here in
the
States. Journalistas Unembedded, an exhibition
of Currier’s new series, opens June 12 at Parks Gallery in Taos, New
Mexico.