Tacoma, WA.- The Museum of Glass is pleased to present “Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech”, a new collection of work by San Francisco-based artist Mildred Howard. Comprising more than 40 glass punctuation marks, proofreading s…
Christian Marclay’s The Clock Winner of Golden Lion Prize at 2011 Venice Biennale
NEW YORK, NY.- The Paula Cooper Gallery announced that Christian Marclay’s groundbreaking new 24-hour video work The Clock has been awarded the Golden Lion for best artwork in the 54th Venice Biennale. Called “an abundant, magnificent work” (The Finan…
LACMA Presents Twenty-Four Hour Screening of Newly Acquired Artwork
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents a 24-hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010), recently purchased with funds provided by LACMA Trustee Steve Tisch through the 2011 Collectors Committee. It will…
Opus Art Presents Karl de Vroomen At The Gallery on Cork Street in London
London.- Opus Art Presents ‘Karl de Vroomen: This is the First Thing’ At The Gallery on Cork Street in London from May 23rd to 28th 2011 (with a private viewing on Tuesday 24th May from 6 – 8pm). The internationally renowned Opus Art comes to London…
The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments
KNOXVILLE, TN.- Amplified Moments is the first major US exhibition to survey the work of Xiaoze Xie (pronounced shout-zah shee-ay), an important Chinese contemporary artist. More than 30 works document his achievements in painting, drawing, photography…
Rachel Perry Welty’s First Museum Solo Exhibition Opens at deCordova
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the first solo exhibition of the conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty opening January 29, 2011. This exhibition–her first large-scale museum solo show–will include Welty’s major…
Rachel Perry’s First Museum Solo Exhibition Opens at deCordova
LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents the first solo exhibition of the conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty opening January 29, 2011. This exhibition–her first large-scale museum solo show–will include Welty’s major…
Derek Eller Gallery Opens Shows by Adam Marnie and Tom Thayer, and Ruby Sky Stiler
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery presents Adam Marnie and Tom Thayer in the Main Gallery and Ruby Sky Stiler in the North Room. In a sequence of intimate photo collages and a large-scale wall installation, Adam Marnie uses flowers as flexible signif…
Thieves Try to Sell 800,000 Euro Eduardo Chillida Sculpture for 30 Euros to Scrap Metal Yard
MADRID.- Police have recovered in good condition 34 of the 35 works of art that were stolen from a truck three weeks ago in Getafe (Madrid) and which are worth about five million euros. The same sources acknowledged yesterday that, for now, they failed…
Exhibition on Treatments and Techniques Used to Conserve Rare Works on Paper at the Getty
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Works on paper are inherently more fragile—in terms of sensitivity to light and handling—than mediums such as canvas, panel, bronze, or clay, and often show the passage of time more acutely than their counterparts. Frequent …