NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announces the appointment of Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs, as the next curator of “The Generational,” which will open in the spring of 2012. “The Generational,” the New Museum ‘s signature Triennial, is an important showcase for emerging artists from around the world. The first edition of the Triennial “Younger than Jesus”opened in the spring of 2009, and included work by fifty artists from twenty-five countries all under the age of thirty-three. Throughout her career, Joo has worked closely with international artists from the Americas , Asia, and Europe , focusing on new commissions. She has continued this commitment at the New Museum and has developed the institution’s unique educational and public programs since joining the
Hermitage Amsterdam Celebrates Its Opening with “At the Russian Court” ~ a Sumptuous Exhibition
Amsterdam,
NL –The inaugural exhibition of Hermitage Amsterdam, At the Russian Court. Palace and Protocol in the
19th Century, promises to be one of the most lavish ever
presented in Europe, and one of the
largest. With more than
2,200 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, the
exhibition will fill the Amstelhof—the historic, newly restored home of
Hermitage Amsterdam—from 20 June 2009 to 31 January 2010,
as it recreates life at the Russian court during the nineteenth century: a
period that spanned the reigns of six tsars, from the little-known Paul I, son
of Catherine the Great, to the tragic Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia.
Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Fashion Exhibition
BROOKLYN, NY.- A major exhibition celebrating the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection and the unique collection-sharing partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from May 7 through August 1, 2010. “American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection” will include some 85 masterworks from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and mark the first time in more than two decades that a large-scale survey drawn from the Brooklyn Museum’s pre-eminent collection will be on public view. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a special preview on April 22 at the Brooklyn Ball.
New Exhibition Celebrates Frye Founding Collection
SEATTLE, WA.- Reflecting its continuing commitment to honor the legacy of Charles and Emma Frye, the Frye Art Museum announced a new exhibition “Tête-à-tête” that opens February 6, 2010. “Tête-à-tête” features nearly one hundred fifty paintings from the Frye Founding Collection, recreating the sumptuous viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to the art gallery in Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle home in the early decades of the twentieth century. Hung floor-to-ceiling in the Museum’s largest gallery, the paintings, as well as a rare circa 1880 Oriental carpet, potted silk palms, and the Frye’s iconic gossip chairs, capture the atmosphere of the Fryes’ salon-style exhibitions, which showcased the artists of the renowned Munich Secession and the “stars” of the preceding Artists’ Association, the Munich Künstlergenossenschaft. The New York Times noted the close ties between Secessionist and Künst
The Art of the Frame: Exploring the Holdings of the Alte Pinakothek
MUNICH.- The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen do not just own vast holdings of framed pictures but also a huge collection of frames. For this exhibition, however, the selection was not made in the frame depot but solely in the painting depot at the Alte Pinakothek. It is only there in the museum’s holdings that the history of collecting frames and pictures can be traced. Some 4000 frames and pictures were sifted through and recorded, from which a selection of 92 frames was made. This exhibition focuses on the art and history of frames from four centuries, encompassing 16th-century case frames to Classicist and Empire style frames. This presentation covers all types of frame, from highly elaborate ones to miniature versions. Of particular note are the Dutch cabinet and Lutma frames, as well as inlaid examples and trophies from the Rococo period. Artistic highlights in the exhibition are the frames made by Paul Egell
World Conservation and Exhibitions Center: Planning Permission Granted
LONDON.- The Trustees of the British Museum announced that Camden Council has given planning permission for the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre. The building will ensure the British Museum can meet its fundamental obligations of preserving, researching, displaying and lending this unparalleled collection for future generations. The building will ensure the British Museum remains one of the world’s leading museums, a civic space serving a local, national and international audience. The Museum would
Weeklong Run at MoMA for Director Amos Gitai’s ‘Carmel’
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art screens Amos Gitai’s ‘Carmel’, (2009) in a weeklong run from January 13 through January 18, 2010. The director’s newest film, ‘Carmel’ combines fiction and nonfiction, and possesses elements of both documentary and feature filmmaking. ‘Carmel’ charts the director’s course through Israeli history, and Gitai, who is only two years younger than Israel, becomes a lively symbol for the country itself. A child of the kibbutz, a young soldier wounded during the Yom Kippur War, and a sometimes testy but always honest artist whose works are more often welcomed abroad than at home, Gitai has led a life as dense, rich, and complex as the nation of his birth. ‘Carmel’ blends historical elements with themes
Sotheby’s to Sell Chinese Export Porcelain from Collection of Elinor Gordon
NEW YORK, NY.- On the afternoon of 23 January, 2010 Sotheby’s will offer over 280 lots of Chinese export porcelain and China Trade paintings from the private collection of esteemed longtime dealer Elinor Gordon. A fixture at the “Winter Antiques Show” since its inception in 1955, Gordon is largely credited with elevating Chinese Export Porcelain to an independent collecting category. Indeed she herself began as an avid collector before entering the trade in 1953. Over several decades, Gordon and her husband Horace quietly amassed a comprehensive collection of works made for both the European and American markets – a
Christie’s to Offer Historical Collection from Newton Hall in January
SOUTH KENSINGTON.- Christie’s announced the sale of a fine single owner collection; “The Country House Sale: Newton Hall, Northumberland” to be held on January 20, 2010. The Widdringtons of Newton were a powerful and influential land owning family associated with Northumberland as far back as the 12th-century. Theirs is a fascinating history coloured by Royalist favor, Jacobite sympathies and military honors. Descendents include William, 2nd Baron Widdrington (d.1675), an M.P for Northumberland who accompanied the Marquis of Newcastle
National Museum of Singapore Opens “Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Egypt”
SINGAPORE.- The ancient Egyptian world is often characterised by a fascinating and remarkably supple mental universe. Ancient Egyptians melded images in ways that often beggar logic. They linked material elements with a realm inaccessible to humans, as reflected both in their daily conduct and their emphasis on the afterlife that led to their quest for immortality. “Quest for Immortality: The World of Ancient Egypt” offers an insight to the ancient Egyptian’s attitude to life and the afterlife, and the preparations they made to ensure their transition from earthly existence to immortality. Discover the Egyptians’ means of equipping the dead – through mummification, provision of sustenance, magic and ritual – and explore the evolution of their burial rites as well as the changing relationship between man and ritual through time. With 230 artefacts spanning from 4000 BCE to 950 CE, this exhibition endeavours to place tomb objects in their social, re