STOCKHOLM.- Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the most internationally recognised Nordic contemporary artists. Since her breakthrough in the 1990s, she has been a trailblazer in the development of cinematic installations. Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s works oper…
Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later paintings on view at the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart
STUTTGART.- William Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) are among the most outstanding artists of the past 200 years. The exhibition now in Stuttgart is the first to bring the three artists together. Focusing on thei…
Impressionism: Pastels, watercolors and drawings on view at Albertina in Vienna
VIENNA.- The exhibition presents up to 200 drawings, watercolors and pastels by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Active in France during the second half of the nineteenth century and closely associated with avant-garde movements, artists suc…
Impressionism: Pastels, watercolors and drawings on view at Albertina in Vienna
VIENNA.- The exhibition presents up to 200 drawings, watercolors and pastels by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Active in France during the second half of the nineteenth century and closely associated with avant-garde movements, artists suc…
Winter in art from the Renaissance to Impressionism opens at Kunsthaus Zurich
ZURICH.- From 10 February to 29 April 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a thematic exhibition focusing on depictions of winter from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Entitled ‘Winter Tales,’ it includes some 120 works by artists such Piet…
Winter in art from the Renaissance to Impressionism opens at Kunsthaus Zurich
ZURICH.- From 10 February to 29 April 2012 the Kunsthaus Zürich is staging a thematic exhibition focusing on depictions of winter from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Entitled ‘Winter Tales,’ it includes some 120 works by artists such Piet…
Huge art work honoring Havel on display in Prague
PRAGUE (AP).- Two artists have used wax from the thousands of candles that Czechs lit to mourn the death of President Vaclav Havel to create a large heart honoring him. Lukas Gavlovsky — whose 7-foot-tall (2 meter), multicolored art work went on d…
Fire might have claimed ‘Gone with the Wind’ items
STOCKBRIDGE (AP).- Museum officials are waiting to see whether memorabilia from the classic film “Gone with the Wind” was ruined when a fire heavily damaged the facility near Atlanta where it was stored. Rebekah Cline with the Clayton County Conventio…
Charles M. Russell’s finest watercolors on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
FORT WORTH, TX.- On February 11, 2012, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents more than 100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) in the special exhibition Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles…
Congressman asks for delay in Eisenhower Memorial
WASHINGTON (AP).- A Virginia congressman asked a federal panel Friday to reject a design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, saying the World War II general’s family objects to it. In a letter to the National Capital P…