LONDON.- The British Council – the UK’s international cultural relations organisation – has appointed Graham Sheffield as its new Director Arts. Martin Davidson, British Council Chief Executive said: “I am delighted to announce that G…
Queensland Treasures Back on Show as Cultural Centre Reopens
QUEENSLAND.- Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh announced the arts heart of Queensland, the Cultural Centre at South Bank, will reopen to the public on Wednesday, February 16, after it was closed due to flood damage. “Since flood waters inundate…
Red Dot Art Fair Announce its Return to New York City in Newly Renovated Event Space
NEW YORK, NY.- Red Dot Art Fair announce its return to New York City, March 3 – 6, 2011. Red Dot’s new venue is a newly renovated event space in the heart of SoHo, located at 82 Mercer Street. Red Dot will partner with the Korean Art Show, a proj…
Red Dot Art Fair Announce its Return to New York City in Newly Renovated Event Space
NEW YORK, NY.- Red Dot Art Fair announce its return to New York City, March 3 – 6, 2011. Red Dot’s new venue is a newly renovated event space in the heart of SoHo, located at 82 Mercer Street. Red Dot will partner with the Korean Art Show, a proj…
Major Exhibition on British Designer John Pawson at the Design Museum in London
LONDON.- The Design Museum presents a major exhibition on John Pawson. Often labelled a ‘minimalist’, he is known for his rigorous process of design. By reducing and editing he creates architecture and product designs of visual clarity, simpl…
Clerkenwell Design Week Returns to the Capital with Aplomb Following a Hugely Successful 2010 Inauguration
LONDON.-The three-day festival will take place between 24th and 26th of May 2011 and brings together a varied and vibrant programme of events taking in debates, discussions, presentations, exhibitions, street parties workshops and installations all in …
Haubrok Foundation Hands Over 13 Important Contemporary Artworks to the National Gallery in Berlin
BERLIN.- The Haubrok Foundation has generously presented to the National Gallery over 13 important works as permanent loans by internationally acclaimed artists of the present day. To mark their presentation, the work ‘This is Propaganda’ (2002) b…
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Presents First Exhibition Devoted to Hans Holbein in 45 Years
STUTTGART.- Hans Holbein the Elder: The Grey Passion in its Time opened at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart on 27 November as part of the Große Landesausstellung Baden-Wurttemberg is the first exhibition devoted to the artist in 45 years. At the heart of t…
Chazen Celebrates Major Milestone in Machado and Silvetti Expansion
MADISON, WI.- This fall, the Chazen Museum of Art celebrates a major milestone in its expansion with the completion of the new building’s external construction. The program will more than double the gallery space for the presentation of the Museum’…
Ordinary Madness Mines the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Rich Holdings of Contemporary Art
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Ordinary Madness, an exhibition that mines the museum’s rich holdings of contemporary art to suggest an unsettling observation: that the ordinary is in fact laced with the contradictory, uncanny, an…