VIENNA.- In her inaugural press conference, Karola Kraus, the new director of the MUMOK, reinforces the potential of the museum’s collection as well as the possibilities arising from the building’s architecture designed by Ortner & Ortner. In…
Short Film Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Mural Painting Made by Diego Rivera
MEXICO CITY.- To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the mural painting created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, the short film 200 Segundos. Una Vision de la Historia de Mexico (200 Seconds: a vision of Mexican history) was projected at the National Muse…
The Cultural World Gathers in Qatar to Inaugurate MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art
DOHA, QATAR.- In the presence of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, international dignitaries, leaders of prominent cultural institutions, scholars and more than eighty artists join the inaugural ceremony for Mathaf: Arab Museum …
Suite Fine Art Gallery Presents Exhibition Concerned with the Meaning of Formal Disorder
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.- {Suite} Fine Art Gallery present Spatial Disruptions by Jennifer Mason from 12 – 29 December 2010. Spatial Disruptions is concerned with the meaning of formal disorder. Familiar domestic spaces lacking in architectural c…
Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Buys an Island to Show His Art Collection
MOSCOW.- The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow announced it is developing plans for new projects in Russia. These will include expanding to St Petersburg as part of the re-development of the island of New Holland, as well as a continuing…
Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Buys an Island to Show His Art Collection
MOSCOW.- The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow announced it is developing plans for new projects in Russia. These will include expanding to St Petersburg as part of the re-development of the island of New Holland, as well as a continuing…
Madison Square Park Conservancy Announces the New York Public Art Premiere of Jaume Plensa
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces the New York public art premiere of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa, featuring a new monumental, site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park. Plensa’s…
Sotheby’s Hits Contemporary, Italian Art Targets with Combined Sales of $48.8 Million
LONDON (REUTERS).- Contemporary and Italian art sales in London last week largely underlined the sense that stability was gradually returning to a market that saw values soar in 2007 and 2008 before tumbling dramatically in 2009. Sotheby’s raised a com…
Shay Kun’s First Solo Exhibition with Benrimon Contemporary Opens
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrimon Contemporary presents Exfoliation, Shay Kun’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which features seventeen new paintings by the artist. Kun recreates nineteenth-century Hudson River School landscapes and combines them w…
Phillips de Pury & Co. Presents the First UK Solo Exhibition of Japanese Design Studio, Nendo
LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company presents the first UK solo exhibition of Japanese design studio, Nendo. The exhibition is presented simultaneously in two parts and in two spaces—at Phillips de Pury & Company’s London headquarters at Howic…