FORT WORTH, TX.- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Director Andrew Walker announced that Jessica May has been promoted to Associate Curator of Photographs. She will continue to collaborate with John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, in managin…
Exhibition Offers Sculptures, Paintings from All Phases of Alberto Giacometti’s Career
ZURICH.- From 11 March to 22 May the Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled ‘Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing’. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on the process of seeing as Albe…
EB&Flow: A New Gallery to Launch in Shoreditch in April
LONDON.- This spring a dynamic new gallery is set to arrive on the Shoreditch art scene. Founded by Margherita Berloni and Nathan Engelbrecht, EB&Flow will showcase contemporary art across two floors of a converted industrial building, a former print w…
Major Exhibition of Winnipeg Artist Wanda Koop Opens at the National Gallery of Canada
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada presents Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience, a major survey exhibition of this distinguished and inventive Canadian artist’s work produced over the last 25 years. The exhibition will illustrate the Winnip…
The Museum of Modern Art Announces a Retrospective of Cindy Sherman for 2012
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art will present the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective survey tracing the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present, from February 26 through June 11, 2012. The exhibition will bring t…
Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia Presents the Exhibition "Dies Irae: Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin"
MILANO.- Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia presents the exhibition Dies Irae, photographs by Paolo Pellegrin from February 18 through May 15 2011. Throughout his career Paolo Pellegrin received innumerable international prizes and awards that are indi…
Anthony McNerney Appointed Head of Contemporary Art at Bonhams
LONDON.- Bonhams announced this week that Anthony McNerney has been appointed Head of Contemporary Art. He takes up this new role on February 14th. Anthony McNerney has considerable experience and in-depth knowledge of the international Contemporary Ar…
The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Nine Video Works by Filmmaker Peter Sarkisian
KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008 from February 11 through April 24, 2011. Sarkisian’s art lies at the intersection of film, video, and sculpture. Sarkisian began his career as a filmmake…
Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 Examines a Moment of Radical Experimentation in 20th Century Art
NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 takes as its point of departure two works given to The Museum of Modern Art by Pablo Picasso in the early 1970s: Guitar, assembled from cardboard, paper, wire, glue, and string in 1912, and a sec…
International Artists Deal with Unsharpness in "Blur After Richter" at Hamburger Kunsthalle
HAMBURG.- Blurred surfaces, dissolving contours, hazy appearances and indistinct motifs: More and more often images that are out of focus appear in both contemporary painting and photography. Like no other artist, Gerhard Richter (*1932) has been empl…