DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its summer exhibition Marvelous Mud: Clay Around the World. Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, Marvelous Mud reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativi…
The MFA Houston Selects Three Architecture Firms to Submit Design Proposals for an Expanded MFAH
HOUSTON, TX.- Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced at yesterday’s annual meeting of the board that the MFAH has selected three architecture firms—Morphosis, Snøhetta and Steven Holl Arc…
Graffiti Artist’s Work Lands Him in Museum and Jail
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A graffiti artist whose work went on display this month at a prestigious Los Angeles museum was sentenced to 45 days in prison on Wednesday for practicing the same craft in New York. Angel Ortiz, 44, was arrested three times in Mar…
Internationally Renowned Filmmaker and Artist Wim Wenders at Haunch of Venison
LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London presents an exhibition of photographs by the internationally renowned filmmaker and artist Wim Wenders (b.1945). Bringing together almost 40 images, taken from 1983 to 2011, this show is Wim Wenders’ highly antici…
Groundbreaking Held for The Edward M Kennedy Institute Designed by Rafael Viñoly
BOSTON, MA.- Ground was broken for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States, situated on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston. This historic project will stand beside the existing John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Mu…
Archaeologist Investigates Drawings of Prehispanic Sites from the 17th Century
MEXICO CITY.- Hundreds of images of Prehispanic monuments and sites, created during the Colonial period and located in diverse archives, most of them outside Mexico, are being studied by archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan, and have became helpful docum…
The Kunsthalle Zürich Presents a Solo Exhibition <ohne Titel (in Red)> by Heimo Zobernig
ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich launch its exhibition season at the Museum Bärengasse – where it is based temporarily until June 2012 while work is carried out on the conversion and renovation of its permanent home at the Löwenbräu Areal –…
Two Pyramids at Santo Nombre Archaeological Site were Restored by INAH
PUEBLA.- Two 7 and 14 meters-high pyramidal structures that present similarities with the Teotihuacan architectural style were restored and consolidated at the Santo Nombre Archaeological Site, in Puebla, as part of the work focused on the opening of t…
Two Pyramids at Santo Nombre Archaeological Site were Restored by INAH
PUEBLA.- Two 7 and 14 meters-high pyramidal structures that present similarities with the Teotihuacan architectural style were restored and consolidated at the Santo Nombre Archaeological Site, in Puebla, as part of the work focused on the opening of t…
Exhibition on the Fractures of Architecture at Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst
ZURICH.- “Displaced Fractures – On the Fractures of Architecture and its Body” the exhibition is an initiative of the Siemens Stiftung and the migros museum für gegenwartskunst. Held in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zurich – De…