HAMBURG.- JMW Turner was known to his contemporaries as a painter of the elements. In his landscape paintings, he created new and unusual combinations of earth, water, air and fire and closely examined their interactions. Turner’s vision of the el…
Kimbell Art Museum Develops iPad App for Picasso and Braque Exhibition
FORT WORTH, TX.- Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912 is on view at the Kimbell Art Museum from May 29 through August 21, 2011, and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from September 17, 2011, through January 8, 2012. The iCubist ap…
Kimbell Art Museum Develops iPad App for Picasso and Braque Exhibition
FORT WORTH, TX.- Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912 is on view at the Kimbell Art Museum from May 29 through August 21, 2011, and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from September 17, 2011, through January 8, 2012. The iCubist ap…
The Guggenheim’s Helsinki Concept and Development Study: Project Update
NEW YORK, NY.- The Guggenheim’s Helsinki Concept and Development Study is well underway. This project update, the first to be issued since the project was announced in January 2011, offers information about what the study entails and who is involved. “…
Unconventional New Display at the National Portrait Gallery in London
LONDON.- Opening this weekend, ‘Only Connect’ is an unconventional new display at the National Portrait Gallery presenting a web of portraits connecting sitters across three centuries. Comprising paintings, sculpture, photographs, engravings, drawin…
Only Connect: Unconventional New Display at the National Portrait Gallery in London
LONDON.- Opening this weekend, Only Connect is an unconventional new display at the National Portrait Gallery presenting a web of portraits connecting sitters across three centuries. Comprising paintings, sculpture, photographs, engravings, drawings, m…
Art Gallery of Ontario Lures Canadian Talent to Spearhead the European Art Department
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has hired Lloyd DeWitt as its new Curator, European Art. DeWitt, an Ontario native, joins the AGO’s curatorial team on June 6. Currently the Associate Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Phi…
Exhibition at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Incites Questions About the Act of Dreaming
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents Dreamscapes, on view February 11–August 13, 2011. This exhibition incites questions about the act of dreaming—a succession of thoughts, images, sounds or emotions, which the mind e…
Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist. Through his drawings and constructions, Taylor (1948–1999) offer…
New Museum Launches Competition for Temporary Outdoor Structures
NEW YORK.- The festival of ideas for a new city is a major new collaborative initiative between scores of downtown organizations, from large universities to arts groups and community organizations, working together to affect change. The Festival is a f…