NEW YORK, NY.- The Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. announced the inaugural recipient of The Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, an annual award which honors an outstanding mid-career American painter. New York-based artist Stanley Whitney will receive the $…
Art Gallery of Alberta Announces Winning Project in Sculpture Commission
EDMONTON, AB.- The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) announce that Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson have been chosen as the winners of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) / Art Gallery of Alberta Sculpture Commission. The two Albertan artists will cr…
Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art Highlights Major Works by Abstract Painters
NEW HAVEN, CT.- This fall, the Yale Center for British Art launched its 2010–11 season with an exhibition of major works by postwar British artists who came to maturity in the 1960s. The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collectio…
PAFA Acquires Works by Mark Bradford, Philip Evergood, & Lilly Martin Spencer
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts (PAFA) recently acquired
the following
three works: Mark Bradford’s Untitled (Dementia), 2009; Philip
Evergood’s “Mine
Disaster”, 1933/37; and Lilly Martin Spencer’s “Mother and Child” by the
Hearth,
1867. Mark Bradford is
internationally recognized as a leading artist of his generation. He is
the
recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship Genius
Grant,
Bucksbaum Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the Joan
Mitchell
Foundation Award. Major exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, 27th
São Paolo
Biennial, Carnegie International, and a solo exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of
American Art in 2007. Bradford’s work incorporates strong environmental,
social,
and political themes as well as Minimalist, Abstract Expressionist, and
Conceptual elements.
Hirshhorn to Present First Yves Klein Retrospective in 30 Years
WASHINGTON, DC.- One of the 20th century’s most influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962), took the European art scene by storm in a prolific but brief career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962. “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers,” on view at the Hirshhorn May 20 through Sept. 12, is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1982. Co-curated by the Hirshhorn’s deputy director and chief curator Kerry Brougher and Dia Art Foundation director Philippe Vergne, former chief curator and deputy director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the exhibition is co-organized by the Hirshhorn and the Walker and developed in full collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives in Paris. Presenting approximately 200 works, “Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers” explores the full range of the artist’s body of work and offers an essen