LONDON.- Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee at the Royal Hospital in London’s fashionable Chelsea from Thursday 7 until Monday 11 October 2010. Th…
Exhibition Explores Multiple Cultures and 500 Years of History with Art Honoring the Essential, Sacred Nature of Water
STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas,” August 4, 2010 through January 2, 2011. This exhibition explores 500 years of visual cultures and histories of …
"Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary" Now on View at the Allentown Art Museum
ALLENTOWN, PA.- The Allentown Art Museum presents “Peter Grippe: A Personal Vocabulary” – on view now until November 14, 2010. “Peter Grippe” highlights the work of New York artist Peter Grippe (1912–2002), a talented and …
Shary Boyle’s Flesh and Blood to Go on Display at Art Gallery of Ontario
TORONTO.- This fall the AGO will reinstall four of its first-floor European galleries to host a special exhibition featuring the bold and imaginative work of Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle. Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood, organized and circulated by th…
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at MoMA
NEW YORK, NY.- The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how one medium informs the analysis and creative redefinition of the other. On v…
MFA Houston Announces Acquisition of Over 160 Decorative Arts Objects
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), announced the acquisition through gift and purchase of more than 160 works from the exceptional private decorative arts collection of Leatrice and Melvin Eagle, collectors based in Potomac, Marylan…
UCCA Puts the "Squeeze" into Sculpture with Erwin Wurm’s Narrow Mist
BEIJING.- Last week marked the opening of Narrow Mist, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s first solo show at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. A celebrated creator of irreverent and sometimes twisted works of sculpture, Erwin Wur…
Museum Folkwang Presents Innovative Project "Hacking the City"
ESSEN.- Hacking the City is an innovative project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. How will public life, democratic culture and modern resistance be articulated in art? Which forms will be used, whi…
Optical Installation by Morgane Tschiember Unveiled at Design Center
DANIA BEACH, FL.- Stars and Stripes, a three story, site specific installation by French artist Morgane Tschiember, was unveiled on July 15, 2010 in the newly renovated Atrium A of the DCOTA (Design Center of the Americas) in Dania Beach. The unveiling…
Christie’s to Sell Property from the Collection of Dennis Hopper
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of artworks Property from the Collection of Dennis Hopper during its Post-War & Contemporary Evening and Day Sales in New York on November 10 and 11, 2010. The late Hopper, who fused film with fine art…