LONDON (AP).- Dirt has a bad image. Muck, we think: yuck. But getting your hands dirty can also be irresistible, as every child knows. A major new museum exhibition in London asks visitors to think again about the filthy and the fetid, exploring the r…
Whitechapel Gallery in London Presents Keeping it Real: Material Intelligence
LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents the work of a generation of artists who make a direct link between art and everyday life, in the fourth and final display of works from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece. The exhibition includes artists su…
Sonia Delaunay Textiles On View at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art. So…
Art in Motion: Sonia Delaunay Textiles On View at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art. So…
The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market Showcases Extraordinary Art with Extraordinary Stories
SANTA FE, N.M.- When more than 150 of the world’s finest traditional artists travel from the farthest corners of the globe to participate in the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market this July, some will arrive as widely celebrated cultural artis…
Utah Museum Presents One of the Most Important Photographers of the 20th Century
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- In the words of author Robert Coles, “Helen Levitt has had the uncanny ability to offer us those brief, revealing moments in everyday life that give our time here meaning.” The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) presents Hel…
Five New Public Art Projects to Debut at San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Luis R. Cancel announced that with the opening of San Francisco International Airport’s (SFO) newly remodeled Terminal 2 …
Art Institute Presents Works by Swiss Contemporary Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
CHICAGO, IL.- Lauded for their unmistakable wit and elevation of quotidian subjects, Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have collaborated since 1979 in an exploration of the “poetics of banality”—the actions and objects of every…
Art Institute Presents Works by Celebrated Swiss Contemporary Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
CHICAGO, IL.- Lauded for their unmistakable wit and elevation of quotidian subjects, Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have collaborated since 1979 in an exploration of the “poetics of banality”—the actions and objects of every…
Exhibition of New Large-Scale Sculptures and Videos by Mike Kelley at Gagosian
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of new large-scale sculptures and videos by Mike Kelley. This is Kelley’s first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles. Kelley has made nostalgia, memory, and repression in everyday lif…