JERUSALEM (AP).- The Israeli government has given a hardline Jewish group permission to build a new archaeological center in a tense Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, officials said Tuesday. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach said Tuesday th…
Solo exhibition of new works by the Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat at Nature Morte
NEW DELHI.- Nature Morte presents a solo exhibition of new works by the Mumbai based artist Jitish Kallat, his solo show in New Delhi after a gap of six years (also at Nature Morte). Kallat works in all media: painting, sculpture, photography and vide…
SFMOMA exhibition explores voice, text, and performance in Contemporary art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The recombination of image and text has seen a surge in contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition Descriptive Acts, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 18 through June 17, 2012, highlights this pheno…
Ringling’s sweeping exhibition spotlights Peter Paul Rubens: Impressions of a Master
SARASOTA. FL.- In a sweeping exhibition filled with prints and paintings showing triumphal allegories both sacred and secular, meditative landscapes, stately portraits, violent hunts, and fleshy female beauties from classical mythology who inspired the…
The Barlow Collection of Chinese ceramics, bronzes and jades goes on display at The Ashmolean Museum
OXFORD.- Visitors to the Ashmolean Museum have the opportunity to see the Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades. The collection of 450 objects, formed by Sir Alan Barlow (1881-1968), is one of the leading 20th-century English collect…
First comprehensive Thomas Ruff exhibition in more than a decade at Haus der Kunst
MUNICH.- In the first comprehensive exhibition in more than a decade, Thomas Ruff presents the work series that made him internationally renowned. The show depicts Ruff’s artistic development in chronological order: starting with his first series …
First institutional solo exhibition in Europe by the American painter Hernan Bas opens at Kunstverein Hannover
HANNOVER.- The Kunstverein Hannover presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Europe by the American painter Hernan Bas (born 1978 in Miami, lives in Detroit). The son of Cuban parents, he grew up in Miami and developed in part large-format p…
Rarely seen photographs by Ansel Adams on view at drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- drkrm presents Ansel Adams Los Angeles, rarely seen photographs that reveal the lost landscape and lifestyle of a prewar Los Angeles. These nostalgic images from the archives of The Los Angeles Public Library Ansel Adams Collection, …
Comprehensive retrospective of American artist William N. Copley opens at Museum Frieder Burda
BADEN-BADEN.- Stripes, rhombuses, chequers or hearts are the shapes William N. Copley uses to humorously depict the battle of sexes. He cryptically sets his figures in an environment of lush decoration. From 18 February 2012 to 10 June 2012 the Museum …
Christie’s to offer The Raglan Collection: Waterloo, Wellington and the Crimea
LONDON.- On 4 April 2012, Christie’s will offer The Raglan Collection: Waterloo, Wellington and The Crimea at the South Kensington saleroom, 85 Old Brompton Road. This private collection from Cefntilla Court, Monmouthshire – the ancestral hom…