LONDON.- This
autumn, to coincide with
the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National
Gallery has invited contemporary artists Clive
Head and Ben Johnson to display their work in two consecutive
exhibitions in
…
Surrealist Wifredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Mythology Meets Salvador Dalí’s Personal Myths
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Two new exhibitions which opened at the Salvador Dalí Museum this fall highlight the diverse ways Western and non-Western mythology enlivened Surrealism. Wifredo Lam in North America is the first U….
National Gallery Invites Clive Head and Ben Johnson for Contemporary Display
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artists Clive Head and Ben Johnson to display their work in two consecutive exhibitions in Room 1. Both…
Thaddeus Holownia: The Terra Nova Suite at the Tides Institute
EASTPORT, ME.- The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) announces its 2010 season with new exhibitions, a film/lecture series and schedule of visiting artists. The Institute’s first exhibition of the season opened on Friday, June 25, 2010, fe…
John Bock Develops a Masterful Meta-Structure at Temporare Kunsthalle Berlin
BERLIN.- FischGrätenMelkStand (herringbone milking parlor) is the title of the final project at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, curated by artist John Bock. Like previous artist-curated exhibitions, his complex concept is based around an emphatically su…
British Museum Celebrates Success of Public Service Partnership and Looks to the Future
LONDON.- The British Museum remained the most popular cultural attraction in the UK for a third year running, receiving 5.7 million visitors in 2009/2010, almost 200,000 more than in the previous year. On one day alone the Museum welcomed over 31,500 v…
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents Interior / Exterior ~ Living in Art
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY – In 2006, under the artistic direction of Prof. Dr. Markus Brüderlin, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg set out in search of modernism in the 21st century, integrating its exhibition projects thematically and conceptually into a …
Los Angeles Show has Largest Traveling Exhibit of Mummies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A 10-month-old baby who lived in Peru 6,420 years ago and a 17th-century nobleman; a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face, a woman who had tuberculosis, a child who had a heart condition and a youngst…
Metropolitan Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001
NEW YORK, NY.- Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five mi…
Brigitte Kowanz in Retrospective at MUMOK in Vienna
VIENNA.- The Brigitte Kowanz retrospective
is a
part of a series of exhibitions that the MUMOK is putting on dealing
with
internationally successful Austrian artists. With the consistent
depiction of
light and language Kowanz’s work …