BARCELONA.- Fifty Antoni Tàpies’ paintings and drawings are being exhibited at the Palau Fabre Foundation (Fundación Palau Fabre) from today on in the “Gaze at the Hand” (“Mira la mano…”) exhibition, which shows the vitali…
Five New Paintings by Cy Twombly to Inaugurate Gagosian’s New Paris Gallery
PARIS.- To inaugurate the new Paris gallery, Gagosian Gallery presents “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly. Each displays the inimitable and exuberant painterly gestures and highly keyed palette typical of his recent pa…
Five New Paintings by Cy Twombly to Inaugurate Gagosian’s New Paris Gallery
PARIS.- To inaugurate the new Paris gallery, Gagosian Gallery presents “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly. Each displays the inimitable and exuberant painterly gestures and highly keyed palette typical of his recent pa…
Phillips Collection Names Klaus Ottmann Curator at Large
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection, announces the appointment of Klaus Ottmann as the museum’s first Curator at Large, a newly created position supported by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. H…
Chrysler Museum Reveals Portrait of America through Photography
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850–2010, which is on view through March 27, 2011 in the Frank Photography Galleries. From the rise of the daguerreotype in the 1840s to the di…
Works by David Kapp and Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents a selection of recent paintings by David Kapp. The artist has explored imagery of New York City for the last two decades. The exhibition includes large and small oil paintings of sidewalks and crowded s…
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Joins with Nike and Make Something!!
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will join with Nike and Make Something!!, an organization founded by artistic curator Aaron Rose to introduce kids to new creative opportunities in the arts, to present a serie…
PAFA Announces Claes Oldenburg Sculpture Commission for Plaza
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania
Academy of the
Fine Arts (PAFA) has commissioned world-renowned artist Claes Oldenburg
to
create a new public artwork for its Lenfest Plaza. The design consists
of a 53
foot high sculpture in the form of …
Bellevue Arts Museum Launches New Funding Campaign
BELLEVUE, WA.- After five successful years under a revitalized mission focused on art, craft and design, Bellevue Arts Museum is launching a new funding campaign to secure the institution’s continued vitality. Entitled Three for Three, the campaign’s g…
Presidio Habitats: A Year Long Exhibition in the Landscape
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One might ask, why animal habitats? The answer is quite simple: animal habitats have a direct connection to the rich diversity of wildlife in the park as well as to the significant efforts being made in habitat restoration within th…