LONDON.- Pioneering photographer Robert McCabe first visited Greece in 1954 and captured a way of life that that has now all but vanished. Sixty iconic images from his travels around the country will be exhibited at the Hellenic Centre starting today,…
New iPad Application Tells John F. Kennedy’s Story Fifty Years After Inauguration
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, a new iPad application dedicated to the late president’s life aims to be a multimedia museum for history buffs. The app, by New York City-based historian and publisher Marc Schulman…
Exhibition of Etchings and litographs 1961-1969 by David Hockney at Studio Marconi ’65
MILAN.- Studio Marconi ’65 presents the exhibition David Hockney: Etchings and litographs 1961 -1969. David Hockney is one of Britain’s most distinguished living artists, with fifty years of activity since his first works at the Royal Colleg…
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Marks 50th Anniversary of JFK Inauguration
BOSTON (AP).- Fifty years later, Richard Donahue still remembers the bitter cold and the crowds at the U.S Capitol stamping their feet to stay warm as they waited for John F. Kennedy to deliver his inaugural address on the day the torch was passed to a…
Fifty Years of Chair Design on View at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg
HAMBURG.- With ”Ideen sitzen. 50 Years of Chair Design“ the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe present the first large exhibition on recent seat design dating from 1960 to the present day. The exhibition is on view until 13th March 2011. One hundr…
Kunsthalle Wien Presents Power Up: Rediscovering Outstanding Women Pop Artists
VIENNA.- Rediscovering outstanding women Pop artists, POWER UP fulfills Dorothy Iannone’s combative promise after fifty years. Currently on display until March 6, 2011 at Kunsthalle wien, the show aims at the reinterpretation of an art movement th…
Kunsthalle Wien Presents Power Up: Rediscovering Outstanding Women Pop Artists
VIENNA.- Rediscovering outstanding women Pop artists, POWER UP fulfills Dorothy Iannone’s combative promise after fifty years. Currently on display until March 6, 2011 at Kunsthalle wien, the show aims at the reinterpretation of an art movement th…
Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Addressing the cultural shift toward a greater level of audience engagement and participation with works of art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Without You I’m Nothing: Art and Its Audience on view through May 1, …
Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston Exhibits Works by a Founding Member of Fluxus
HOUSTON, TX.- Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of FLUX/us is a retrospective of the artist’s career, which now spans nearly fifty years. The exhibition includes both early and recent work by the artist that range from annotated scores and boo…
Internationally Acclaimed Abstract Artist, Nathan Oliveira, Dies in Stanford at Age 81
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the leading American artists of the twentieth century, Nathan Oliveira maintained an abiding concern with the abstracted human figure for over fifty years, in a body of work unconstrained by the dictates of representational art. I…