KENT, OH.- After a series of sold-out pre-opening events, Kent State University Museum opens its highly anticipated exhibition “Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen” on October 2, 2010. The exhibit, which closes Sept 4, 2011, show…
National Gallery of Art Announces Gauguin: Maker of Myth" in Washington, Next Year
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art will present Gauguin: Maker of Myth, the first major exhibition of his work since The Art of Paul Gauguin, the Gallery’s blockbuster retrospective of 1988–1989 that traveled to Chicago and Paris. …
National Gallery of Art Announces Gauguin: Maker of Myth" in Washington, Next Year
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art will present Gauguin: Maker of Myth, the first major exhibition of his work since The Art of Paul Gauguin, the Gallery’s blockbuster retrospective of 1988–1989 that traveled to Chicago and Paris. …
Mystery Bidder Buys Berlin’s "Checkpoint Bravo"
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A mystery telephone bidder purchased a piece of history in the form of “Checkpoint Bravo” — once one of the busiest crossing points between East and West Berlin — in an auction Thursday. The sole bidder secured the site — which in…
Exhibition Presents Photographs of José A. Figueroa’s "Other" Life in Cuba
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Couturier Gallery presents Mis 60 / My 60s, an exhibition of prominent photographer José A. Figueroa’s images of the barely-remembered “other” life in Cuba of the 1960s, the social everyday existence not portrayed by R…
Tom Leighton "Appropiation of Space" Opens at Cynthia Corbett Gallery
LONDON.- The photographs of Tom Leighton engage with urban landscape. By digitally altering photographs Leighton tries to deconstruct and retranslate the cities that we inhabit. Creating fictional landscapes allows him to ignore the constraints of poss…
Tom Leighton "Appropiation of Space" Opens at Cynthia Corbett Gallery
LONDON.- The photographs of Tom Leighton engage with urban landscape. By digitally altering photographs Leighton tries to deconstruct and retranslate the cities that we inhabit. Creating fictional landscapes allows him to ignore the constraints of poss…
"Nueva York" Turns Lens South to New York Hispanic Roots
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio turns an historic lens on New York’s north-south relations, highlighting its long and deep roots with the Spanish-speaking world. “Nueva York: 1613-1945,” which opens on September 17 and runs un…
Pedro Barateiro’s "Theatre of Hunters" at Kunsthalle Basel
BASEL.- In Theatre of Hunters, his first major solo exhibition outside of Portugal, Pedro Barateiro presents a sequence of installations that include “staged” sculptures, found objects, photographs, drawings, paintings and films that encompas…
"Nueva York" Turns Lens South to New York Hispanic Roots
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio turns an historic lens on New York’s north-south relations, highlighting its long and deep roots with the Spanish-speaking world. “Nueva York: 1613-1945,” which opens on September 17 and runs un…