KANSAS CITY, MO.- Art lovers have a rare and limited opportunity to view a scroll considered a seminal work in the history of Chinese painting, Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red cliff Red Cliff. After August 1, the scroll will be taken o…
New Museum Presents First US Retrospective of Work by Brion Gysin
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum will present “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a…
Interview with Christian Caujolle "The Idea is to Try to Make Us Perceive What Mysticism is"
MADRID.- Isabel Muñoz studies human forms, which she analyzes in her images of body parts and snapshots of soldiers, bullfighters and dancers. Added to this is her mastery of developing techniques, a process she carries out in a meticulous, artisanal …
Imagine Peace: Thai Exhibit on Political Crisis
BANGKOK (AP).- On one wall hangs a giant Thai flag torn in half but stitched up with a zipper. Nearby is a poster-sized news photograph of smoke mushrooming out of a Bangkok shopping mall, the gray cloud outlined by a skull. Out of Thailand’s bloody po…
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) to display Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary
San Diego, CA— The Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego (MCASD) will present an innovative exhibition mapping the
influence of architecture on contemporary visual art in an international
context. Entitled Automatic Cities: The Architectural Im…
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Announces 10th Anniversary Program for Latin American Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced 2010—11 programming for the 10th anniversary of a landmark initiative: the creation of the Latin American Art Department and Collection at the MFAH and the establishment of its compan…
Tate Britain Presents Duveens Commission 2010 by Fiona Banner
LONDON.- Tate Britain today unveils its new Duveens
Commission, Harrier and Jaguar, by Fiona Banner. Banner’s largest work
to date,
Harrier and Jaguar brings the highly-charged physicality of two real
fighter
jets, both previously in a…
Art Gallery of New South Wales Opens "Paths to Abstraction"
SYDNEY.- One of the most ambitious
exhibitions the
Art Gallery of New South Wales has ever undertaken, Paths to abstraction
will
include more than 150 pivotal works by some of the most influential
pioneers of
modernism, spanning 50 years w…
Peabody Essex Museum Announces Re-Opening of Crowninshield-Bentley House
SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces the reopening of one of its most storied properties, the Crowninshield-Bentley House. The house, one of 22 historic properties stewarded by PEM, is located at 126 Essex Street in Salem, MA and design…
The Royal Ontario Museum to Host "Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008"
TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC)
at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Vanity Fair Portraits:
Photographs 1913-2008 from September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010. The
exhibition, which garnered record…