OAKWOOD, GA (AP).- A college president in Georgia says she ordered an instructor’s painting that featured a Confederate flag removed from a faculty art exhibit. The Athens Banner-Herald reports the flag was superimposed on images including a hanged bl…
Protest Painting by Nicholas Middleton Wins Visitors’ Choice
LIVERPOOL.- Nicholas Middleton is the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize’s Visitors’ Choice for the second time with his painting Protest, April 1st 2009. Nicholas scooped the £2,010 prize, sponsored by Rathbones, with a detailed photo…
The Work of Alex Katz Travels to North Wales as Part of 2010 Artist Rooms Tour
LLANDUDNO.- The work of influential contemporary American painter, Alex Katz, comes to North Wales as part of the 2010 national tour of ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. The e…
Twenty Works on Canvas and Paper by Joan Mitchell at Manny Silverman Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Manny Silverman Gallery is again presenting an exhibition of the work of internationally celebrated artist Joan Mitchell. The exhibition includes approximately 20 works on canvas and paper spanning her career from the early 1950s thr…
Twenty Works on Canvas and Paper by Joan Mitchell at Manny Silverman Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Manny Silverman Gallery is again presenting an exhibition of the work of internationally celebrated artist Joan Mitchell. The exhibition includes approximately 20 works on canvas and paper spanning her career from the early 1950s thr…
Nassau County Museum of Art to Show the Civil War in Paintings by Mort Künstler
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- In commemoration of the coming 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) presents Civil War paintings by Mort Künstler. On view from September 25, 2010 through January 9, 2011, “For Us the Living&#…
United States Decision to Attend Hiroshima Memorial Hailed
HIROSHIMA (AP).- The site of the world’s first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers….
New Tube Map Cover Designed by Artist Barbara Kruger
LONDON.- Barbara Kruger uses the language of publicity to draw attention to the manipulative power of advertising. Her trademark subversive tactics are played out in ‘Untitled (Tube Map)’, where the familiar imagery of the map is used to rela…
Olafur Eliasson and Ma Yansong at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
BEIJING.- The Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art
(UCCA) presents the exhibition “Feelings are Facts”, from 3 April to 20
June
2010, fruit of the first collaboration between Olafur Eliasson, the
Danish-Icelandic artist, and Ma Yansong, one of …
Han Nefkens Donates Pipilotti Rist’s Video-Installation Double Light to Fundació Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- The video-installation Double Light – a dialogue between Pipilotti Rist and Joan Miró – will be added to the Joan Miró Foundation’s collection as a result of a donation by writer and art collector Han Nefkens. This gift is…