NEW YORK, NY.- Too often, art galleries display only a veteran artist’s most recent production. Such exhibitions block historical perspective, which is necessary when an artist has had a substantial career. By presenting a full survey of three dec…
Adam Magyar to Create Two Large-Scale Outdoor Installations
LONDON.- Hundreds of members of the public to be invited to participate in two revolutionary photographic commissions to create public art installations using Olympic finish line technology in London and Birmingham In association with Rhubarb-Rhubarb, …
Jean Cocteau’s House at Milly-la-Foret Opens to the Public
MILLY-LA-FORET.- Purchased in 1947 with Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau’s house in Milly-la-Forêt was the theatre of creation for his most important works. Born within these walls were the unforgettable words of Testament d’Orphée and Requiem, al…
Contemporary Photography and Video Featured at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the M…
The Museum of Arts and Design will Present "Dead or Alive"
NEW YORK, NY.- Dead or Alive, presented by the
Museum of Arts and Design from April 27 through October 24, 2010, will showcase
the work of over 30 international artists who transform organic materials and
objects that were once produced by or pa…
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Announces New Work by Lawrence Weiner
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces the acquisition of SCATTERED MATTER BROUGHT TO A KNOWN DENSITY WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD / CUSPED (2007) by American artist Lawrence Weiner (b. New York, 1942) as a gift to the museum’s colle…
CAC Málaga Looks at Issues of Authorship, Authenticity and Identity
MALAGA.- En Face, presented by the Contemporary Art Center of Málaga, is the first individual exhibition of the work of Gavin Turk to be held in Spain. The exhibition consists of a group of 72 clay busts resulting from an interactive performance in wh…
Bellevue Arts Museum Showcases Major Northwest Artists
BELLEVUE,
WA.- There is an art
in discovering art. Line, color, shape, luminosity are just some of the
foundation bricks on which a work of art is built, some of the ways in
which we
engage with it. Celebrating its 50th anniversary thi…
Bellevue Arts Museum Showcases Major Northwest Artists in an Interactive Setting
BELLEVUE, WA.- There is an art in discovering art. Line, color, shape, luminosity are just some of the foundation bricks on which a work of art is built, some of the ways in which we engage with it. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Junio…
Han Nefkens Donates Pipilotti Rist’s Video-Installation Double Light to Fundació Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- The video-installation Double Light – a dialogue between Pipilotti Rist and Joan Miró – will be added to the Joan Miró Foundation’s collection as a result of a donation by writer and art collector Han Nefkens. This gift is…