MEXICO CITY.- Specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) identified seven new Prehispanic Maya sites and a high concentration of human burials in the town of Sitpach, located east of Merida, Yucatan. The finding took pl…
Exhibition of Prints by Pierre Alechinsky Opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Pierre Alechinsky’s ‘The test of the Title’. Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927, Brussels), an interdisciplinary artist who has worked in painting, drawing, print, writing, and filmmaking, studied book illustration an…
Rafael Viñoly Architects’ Van Andel Institute Expansion Awarded LEED Platinum Certification
NEW YORK, NY.- Rafael Viñoly Architects’ design for the Van Andel Institute’s Phase II building has been awarded LEED Platinum status by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). A major fixture of Grand Rapid’s “Medical Mi…
Museu da Electricidade in Lisbon Opens Exhibition of Manuel Baptista’s Work
By: João Pinharanda
LISBON.- The present exhibition is a rare historical opportunity: it reveals to us unknown parts of the artist’s work (projects created from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, but never built until now). A concentration on paint…
Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Retrospective of One of the Founders of Photojournalism
WINTERTHUR.- André Kertész is possibly the most photographic of all photographers: he sought out the play of light and shadow; he liked the concentration and overlapping of forms, of moments; and in the everyday, in banality, he recognized poetry, be…
Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Retrospective of One of the Founders of Photojournalism
WINTERTHUR.- André Kertész is possibly the most photographic of all photographers: he sought out the play of light and shadow; he liked the concentration and overlapping of forms, of moments; and in the everyday, in banality, he recognized poetry, be…
First Exhibition to Show Paintings on Paper by Joseph Albers at the Pinakothek der Moderne
MUNCHEN.- The exhibition is the first to show such a concentration of paintings on paper by Josef Albers, some of which will be completely unknown to the general public. Works in oil on paper, painted by the artist since the 1940s in preparation for th…
Tel Aviv Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings Presents Cabinet Secrets: Prints by Jim Dine
TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine’s extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium’s unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the cen…
Tel Aviv Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings Presents Cabinet Secrets: Prints by Jim Dine
TEL AVIV.- The scope of Jim Dine’s extended work in print attests to the pivotal place of this medium in his oeuvre at large. The concentration on the medium’s unique qualities, the attentiveness to the options revealed during the work process, the cen…
Christophe Cherix Appointed Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA
LONDON.- Christophe Cherix has been appointed The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, it was announced today by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry. In this role, Mr. Cherix will guide all aspect…