BERLIN.- Ideas grow, cities grow, plants grow. This year the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation is dedicating its summer exhibition, titled Urban Growths, to a surprising aspect of contemporary photography. The group show brings together six contemporary posit…
New Contemporary Works in Collection on View at Reynolda House
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Three new works are on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Anni Albers’s “Red Meander” (1969) and Lee Krasner’s “Free Space I” and “Free Space II” (1975) can be seen in the historic house alongside a work already in the m…
New Contemporary Works in Collection on View at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Three new works are on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Anni Albers’s “Red Meander” (1969) and Lee Krasner’s “Free Space I” and “Free Space II” (1975) can be seen in the historic house alongside a work already in the m…
Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced
LONDON.- Two exceptional museum buildings in Oxford and Berlin, a striking new art gallery in Rome, a skilful live/work development in Shoreditch and two schools: one an inventive and uplifting new build in London, the other a clever extension in Guild…
German Artist Gunter Demnig Revives Names of Holocaust Victims
BERLIN (AP).- Artist Gunter Demnig carefully pried a cobblestone out of the sidewalk on Friedrichstrasse in downtown Berlin and replaced it with a shiny square brass plaque. “Davisco Asriel lived here,” the inscription read. “Born in 1882. Deported 25….
Mike Weiss Gallery Showing Group Exhibition "Reflexive Self"
NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents the group exhibition Reflexive Self, which runs through August 14th. The “reflexive self” is a view of self in the context of the people and situations around us. The show is comprised of five intern…
German Police Seize Stolen Caravaggio, Make Arrests
BERLIN (AP).- A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Ukraine two years ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin, official said Monday. Police confiscated the 16th-century painting — known as “The Taking of Christ,”…
Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
OAKVILLE< ON.- Oakville Galleries presents the only Ontario stop of the National Gallery of Canadaʼs touring exhibition Real Life, featuring artists Ron Mueck (on view at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square) and Guy Ben-Ner (on view at Oakvill…
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWS THE FRED EBB BEQUEST
New York, NY – An extraordinary collection of forty-three early-twentieth-century German and Austrian drawings by some of the leaders of the German expressionist movement and the Vienna Secession will go on view at The Morgan Library & Museum fro…
Guggenheim and YouTube Launch Search for the World’s Most Creative Video
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, together with YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, today announced the launch of YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. A collaboration with HP, YouTube Play was conceived t…