COPENHAGEN.- While the world is experiencing an ever-increasing influx of new media, the Royal Collection of Graphic Art directs attention to one of the oldest mediums around. A medium, moreover, which remains very much alive and continues to attract t…
The Whitney Museum of American Art Presents Exhibiton Exploring Its Founding Collection
New York, NY – At the turn of the twentieth century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an heiress and sculptor born to one of America’s wealthiest families, began to assemble a rich and highly diverse collection of modern American art. This group of obj…
‘Orientalism from Delacroix to Kandinsky’ at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich
Munich, Germany – With some 150 paintings and sculptures, the major exhibition ‘Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky’ presents the diverse interpretations of the Islamic Orient, North Africa and the Middle East by almost 100 western Eur…
Artists Protest Looming Cuts to United Kingdom Culture Budget
LONDON (AP).-Some of Britain’s best-known artists launched a campaign Friday to oppose planned government cuts that could slash arts funding by 25 percent. More than 100 artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tr…
Artists Protest Looming Cuts to United Kingdom Culture Budget
LONDON (AP).-Some of Britain’s best-known artists launched a campaign Friday to oppose planned government cuts that could slash arts funding by 25 percent. More than 100 artists including David Hockney, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tr…
New Magritte Museum Houses the Largest Collection of René Magritte Art in the World
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – On June 2 2009, the
new Magritte Museum opens its doors to the public on the Place Royale in
Brussels. The first museum of this scope devoted to one of the best known
artists of the 20th century, presents for the first t…
MAC Exhibition Brings Together the Great Names of Belgian Contemporary Art
HORNU, BELGIUM.-
“À toutes les morts, égales et
cachées dans la nuit” (To all the departed equal and hidden in the
night) is the
major summer exhibition at the MAC’s (the Museum of Contemporary Art).
It opens
its doors to the publ…
Exhibition Brings Together the Great Names of Belgian Contemporary Art
HORNU, BELGIUM.- “À toutes les morts, égales et cachées dans la nuit” (To all the departed equal and hidden in the night) is the major summer exhibition at the MAC’s (the Museum of Contemporary Art). It opens its doors to the public from 20th J…
Renowned Multi-faceted German Artist Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69
Bloomberg News – Sigmar
Polke, one of Germany’s best-known
artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard
Klein
said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and
photographer,
was “one of t…