STOCKHOLM.- Lisa Jonasson transforms colored paper into figures with scissors. It is both intuitive and meticulous work that takes place at her studio table and later develops into large collages. The figures, equal parts human, animal, and fantasy, ca…
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announces historical endowment
BOSTON, MA.- Charles Brizius, President of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, announced at a museum board meeting last night that both the Director and Chief Curator positions have been endowed for the first time in the…
Exquisite Indian miniatures go on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London
LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Ragamala Paintings from India: Poetry, Passion, Song. This exhibition will be one of the first to be dedicated solely to the ragamala theme, displaying a rare grouping of 24 objects from the Claudio Moscatelli…
£80 million plans unveiled today to create world’s leading design museum in London
LONDON.- The Design Museum today unveiled plans to create the world’s leading museum of design and architecture at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, London. Designs for the site have been produced by two of the world’s…
James Holloway CBE to retire as Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that James Holloway CBE will retire from his post as Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery at the end of January 2012. James Holloway (b. 1948) began his career in Scotland back in …
John F. Kennedy library releases last of his secret tapes made at the Oval Office
BOSTON (AP).- Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. In talking to staffers while trying to arrange his schedule, Kennedy remarked that N…
Purdue University President France Cordova becomes Smithsonian Institution chairwoman
WASHINGTON (AP).- Purdue University President France Cordova was installed Monday as chairwoman of the Smithsonian Institution’s governing board as the museum complex expands with the coming construction of a new black history museum and amid calls for…
Lucian Freud My Father-A personal portrayal: Sculpture by Jane McAdam Freud
LONDON.- This January, artist Jane McAdam Freud presents a large scale sculpture portraying her father Lucian Freud. It will be unveiled and exhibited for the first time in London’s Freud Museum – once home to her great grandfather, Sigmund F…
In Living Color: A group exhibition of 10 artists at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting the exhibition In Living Color, a group exhibition of 10 artists. The exhibitions will be on view through May 19, 2012. The exhibition presents a chromatic study from a wide range of artists includin…
Sotheby’s forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction highlighted by desirable and fresh-to-market works
LONDON.- Following Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2011) for global auctions of Contemporary Art, which totalled $1.17 billion, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The sale, which will be staged in Lon…