PORTLAND, ME (AP).- The president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts sent a scathing letter Tuesday to Maine Gov. Paul LePage for removing a labor-themed mural from the Department of Labor headquarters as the status of the disputed artwork remai…
Moderna Museet in Malmo Presents Exhibition of Early Modernism from 1900 to 1920
MALMO.- In the latter half of the 19th century, the rules and norms governing visual arts were dissolved and replaced by a wide array of artistic possibilities, where small constellations of artists fought for new, revolutionary ideas. Partly as a cons…
Dierk Schmidt’s Image Leaks: On the Image Politics of Resources at Frankfurter Kunstverein
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition by Dierk Schmidt combines recent work and thematically related older pieces to create a focal image of contemporary economic-political relationships. A core question explored in Schmidt’s practice is how artistic images …
The Football Match by L.S. Lowry is Expected to Realise in Excess of £3.5 Million at Christie’s
LONDON.- Having not been seen in public for almost 20 years, The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976) will be offered at auction on 26 May 2011 in Christie’s sale of 20th Century British Art. An exceptionally rare depi…
James Cohan Gallery Presents Second Solo Exhibition by Japanese-Born Artist Hiraki Sawa
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents theirr second solo exhibition by Japanese-born, London-based artist Hiraki Sawa. The centerpiece of this exhibition is a video and sound installation entitled O (2009), originally commissioned by the Queensla…
James Cohan Gallery Presents Second Solo Exhibition by Japanese-Born Artist Hiraki Sawa
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents theirr second solo exhibition by Japanese-born, London-based artist Hiraki Sawa. The centerpiece of this exhibition is a video and sound installation entitled O (2009), originally commissioned by the Queensla…
Homage to Yosl Bergner: Illustrations to Franz Kafka’s Oeuvre at Tal Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- This exhibition, held to mark Yosl Bergner’s 90th birthday, includes drawings lent by the artist, which were made during the 1950s and document the first phase of his Kafka work. They depict scenes from the novels The Trial and The Castle an…
Art Historian Silvano Vinceti Claims Male Model Behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
ROME (AP).- A male apprentice, longtime companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the “Mona Lisa” painting, an Italian researcher said Wednesday. But the researcher, Silvano Vinceti, said the portrait repr…
Art Historian Silvano Vinceti Claims Male Model Behind Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
ROME (AP).- A male apprentice, longtime companion and possible lover of Leonardo da Vinci was the main influence and a model for the “Mona Lisa” painting, an Italian researcher said Wednesday. But the researcher, Silvano Vinceti, said the portrait repr…
Thorburn Partridges Soar to £192,000 at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings Sale
LONDON.- An Archibald Thorburn painting of The Covey at Daybreak – Partridges made £192,000 (27.1.11) at Bonhams auction of 19th Century Paintings – the third highest price ever paid for a Thorburn at auction. The painting was an exceptionally s…