Linz, Austria.- The Lentos Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present “Ralo Mayer: Obviously a Major Malfunction”, on view at the museum through October 23rd. Featuring 4.56-billion-year-old meteorites, a painting from the collection of the Lentos, …
The Ukrainian Museum Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster
NEW YORK, NY.- The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Following an explosion in one of the plant’s reactors, a plume of radioactive fallout contaminated a huge area surroundi…
MACBA Collection
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) MACBA Collection 11 February–4 September 2011 Curators: Bartomeu Marí and Antònia Maria Perelló Organised by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Plaça dels Àngels, 1 08001 Barcelona www.macba.cat The MACBA Collection, which includes works owned by Catalan, Spanish and European institutions, both public and private, provides MACBA with […]
Did Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein "Gather" a Multimillion-Dollar Cache of Stolen Art?
PARIS – Artworks worth tens of millions of dollars registered as “disappeared” or “stolen” — including some by Degas and Manet — have been seized from a world renowned art institute run by one of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s closest friends. …
Montage Finance Launches to Provide Secured Lending to Art Collectors, Art Gallery Owners, and Art World Investors
NEW YORK, NY.- Montage Finance launches to provide secured lending to high net-worth art collectors, established gallery owners, auction houses and other art world investors. The niche asset-based lending firm will provide loans that are secured by fin…
Thomas Bewick’s Anarchic World at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery
LANCASHIRE, UK – Experience an anarchic world in miniature,
revealed through the delicate, painstaking skill of Thomas Bewick (1753–1828).
Tale-pieces is an exhibition devoted entirely to the vignettes of the
extraordinary artist-engraver and …
Comprehensive Solo Exhibition for Katharina Fritsch at Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition
of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a
comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in
1956). The work show, set up in c…
Gagosian Gallery presents “Roy Lichtenstein – Still Lifes”
NEW
YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Roy Lichtenstein:
Still
Lifes,” the first exhibition devoted solely to Lichtenstein’s still life
paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the
early
1980s. Although Lichtenstein will always be synonymous with Pop Art, he
continued to make inventive new work for almost three decades beyond the
1960s,
during which he had become famous for his distinctive use of popular
cartoon
images and commercial painting style. On exhibition 8 May through 30
July,
2010.
Anne Frank’s Full Diary on Display at the House Where She Wrote It
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Nearly all of Anne Frank’s diary
went on display for the first time at the Dutch house where she wrote it
during
the two years the Jewish teenager was in hiding from the Nazis. The
notebooks
and pages that comprise the World War II diary have been moved into the
Anne
Frank House museum to mark 50 years since it opened its doors to the
public.
Dutch Queen Beatrix opened the exhibition, then attended a commemoration
at the
17th century Western Church a few dozen steps from museum.
Photographer Terry Falke featured at Afterimage Gallery
Terry Falke’s work is quintessentially American in both subject matter and significance. He is an observational artist who is attuned to details, incongruities and sometimes unlikely beauty in the civilized American terrain.