LONDON.- Internationally renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing is to create a new bespoke art installation specially commissioned for the British Museum. Background Story 7 is part of his ongoing series of museum installations and consists of a dramatic larg…
Penn Museum Launches Louis Shotridge Digital Archive
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- or the first time, scholars, students, and community leaders interested in learning more about Southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture can explore the remarkable Shotridge collection online. The Shotridge collection is widely…
Lichtenstein Drawing Acquired for $10 Expected to Achieve over $1,000,000 at Christie’s
NEW YORK (AP).- The invitation to a 1960s “happening” was intriguing: Pay $10 to enter a lottery for the chance to get a key to a Penn Station locker containing artwork. For one New Yorker who attended the 1965 event, the key revealed a Roy Lichtenste…
Polish Artist Anna Ostoya Exhibits 28 Works Made in February at Bortolami Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of works by the Polish artist Anna Ostoya. The show features a series of new collages on canvas entitled Exposures that were all made during February 2011. For this series, Os…
Virginia Museum and The Martin Agency Use Technology to Reach Picasso Enthusiasts
RICHMOND, VA.- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and The Martin Agency announced a joint social media effort that brings to life the upcoming exhibition of 176 works from Picasso’s personal collection, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Pic…
Move: Art and Dance Since the 1960s at Haus der Kunst
MUNICH.- Choreography – meaning the proposition for a sequence of movements – is the common denominator between art and dance in the exhibition “Move”. The works brought together here choreograph the visitor: They guide his or her movements a…
18 Photographic Prints by Alex Van Gelder of Louise Bourgeois’s Hands at Hauser & Wirth
ZURICH.- Gnarled, sinewy and wrinkled with age, Louise Bourgeois’s hands were fascinating. Her hands are the subjects of portraits taken by the artist Alex Van Gelder, who, at Bourgeois’s invitation, photographed her at her New York townhouse…
Katonah Art Center Hosts Faculty Art Exhibit 2011
KATONAH, NY.- Back by popular demand! The Katonah Art Center holds its second annual Faculty Art Exhibit this January. Loren Anderson, KAC’s founder and director, is proud to bring back this show this year. “I am pleased and proud to mount …
Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Exhibition by the South Korean Artist Haegue Yang
BREGENZ, AUSTRIA- The artist Haegue Yang, born in 1971 in Seoul, surprised visitors to the 53rd Venice Biennale at two separate exhibition locations. As part of the large-scale thematic group show »Fare Mondi« in the Arsenale she presented seven scul…
$50,000 Hudgens Prize Winner Announced at the Hudgens Center of Arts in Duluth
DULUTH, GA.- The winner of the $50,000 Hudgens Prize visual arts competition was finally announced at the special Award Ceremony on the evening of November 30 at the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth. The packed crowd at the invitation-only event …