COLOGNE.- The Kunsthaus Lempertz Photography Auction, with approximately 200 lots, offers a cross-section through the history of the medium: from the early daguerreotypes and salt-paper prints to classical modern, from the ‘fotoform’ group to contempor…
Coveted Art Directors Club Award Goes to Designs for Tell Halaf Exhibition
BERLIN.- The designs for the ‘Tell Halaf Adventure’, executed by the architects neo.studio, have been selected for an award by the Art Directors Club (ADC) in Germany, in the section ‘Communication in Space’. Some 7000 projects were submitted to the 20…
Pug Dog Porcelain Snuff Box for Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- A very rare Schrezheim porcelain snuff box in the form of a pug dog is expected to fetch £12,000-18,000 when it goes up for auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 5th July in the sale of the Helmut Joseph Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes. …
The Museum Ludwig Presents Exhibition by Vija Celmins: Desert, Sea, and Stars
COLOGNE.- Among the central motifs in the work of New York-based artist Vija Celmins, one encounters moving ocean surfaces, sparse desert landscapes, or vast starry skies. In her paintings, drawings, and, especially in her prints, she manipulates her p…
The Museum Ludwig Presents Exhibition by Vija Celmins: Desert, Sea, and Stars
COLOGNE.- Among the central motifs in the work of New York-based artist Vija Celmins, one encounters moving ocean surfaces, sparse desert landscapes, or vast starry skies. In her paintings, drawings, and, especially in her prints, she manipulates her p…
S.M.A.K. Conceives a Plan to Display the Works of Art and Documents of Marcel Broodthaers
GHENT.- Several years ago S.M.A.K. conceived a plan to provide a permanent place in the museum to display the works of art and documents of Marcel Broodthaers (Brussels, 1924 – Cologne, 1976) from its collection. Since 1973, when the Friends of S.M.A.K…
Jutta Koether: Painter, Performer, Participant at Moderna Museet in Stockholm
STOCKHOLM.- Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic and theoretician. Her works incorporate distinct elements of punk and underground culture. The Thirst at Moderna Museet is Jutta Koether’s most extensive museum exhibitio…
More than 100 New Photographs by Yossi Breger Exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition comprises 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world—Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm—in the course of daily life. The pho…
Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne Presents Over 60 Works by Alexandre Cabanel
COLOGNE.- One of the foremost salon painters of 19th century France, Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), will be featured in his first exhibition ever. In cooperation with Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne will prese…
Museum Ludwig Acquires Set of Editions Made by Scottish Artist Lucy McKenzie
COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig has purchased a complete set of the editions made by Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (*1977) and is showing them in the eleventh exhibition in its series “Graphic Collection / Museum Ludwig“. To mark this first presentat…