PARIS.- The Maillol Museum is paying homage to Joan Miró’s sculpted work. Although the artist is internationally acknowledged, his sculptures have not been exhibited in Paris in nearly 40 years. To mark the occasion the museum has gathered up 101…
Exhibition of New Series of Paintings by Chinese Artist Xiao Se at Eli Klein in Beijing
BEIJING.- EK Projects presents “Xiao Se’s solo exhibition, Beijing”. In this new series of paintings, Xiao Se broadens his interest in the mundane-turned-surreal, constructing images of contemporary Chinese men and women in characteristi…
Exhibition of Polish Design 1955-1968 from the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
WARSAW.- This pioneering exhibition of ca 180 objects from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, featuring the most important examples of Polish design, rarely seen in the West, will explore the significance of the objects of everyday use in…
Newly Acquired Grayson Perry Works to Be Shown in Manchester
MANCHESTER.- Two striking works by Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry will go on display in a new show at Manchester Art Gallery next week. A vase entitled Jane Austen in E17 (2009) and an etching, Print for a Politician (2005), were recently bo…
Retrospective of 40 Years of Richard Deacon’s Work Opens at the Sprengel Museum
HANOVER.- Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is internationally recognized as one of contemporary sculpture’s most influential figures. He quickly emerged as an exceptional fabricator of forms, the creator of an artistic universe fluidly embr…
New Library Collection Make Birmingham Museum of Art a Draw for International Study
BIRMINGHAM, AL .- Significant new collections acquired by the Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. Library at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) deepen the Library’s resources for national and international scholars. The combined Buten Museum Wedgwood Library …
Skeletons and Architectural Vestiges Reveal an Occupation that Dates from 1,500 BC
MEXICO CITY.- Prehispanic ceramics, human skeletons and vestiges of dwelling and ceremonial areas are part of findings registered by archaeologists throughout a decade of explorations at Tepoztlan, Morelos; this discovering reveals that the site had an…
New Book on The Moche of Ancient Peru in the Peabody Museum Collection Series
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- In the coastal lowlands of northern Peru, the Moche archaeological culture flourished from about A.D. 100 to 800. Moche culture is known for its vividly painted and realistically modeled ceramics. A new volume in the award-winning Peabo…
Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts Presents Photo Clay: In the Picture with Warren Mathe
BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft presents Photo Clay: In the Picture With Warren Mather, an exhibition of the artist’s work from the last decade, with an emphasis on the development and diversity o…
Goodbye to Some of the Notable People in the Arts and Popular Culture Who Left Us in 2010
NEW YORK, NY.- On the last day of the year, we would like to say goodbye to those artists who left us this past year. Here, a roll call of some of the notable people in art and popular culture who died in 2010. Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, born Marlene W…