NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A new iPhone app is opening up Kentucky’s art scene to the public by bringing thousands of works of art in small American communities to a wider audience. The free app includes images of local public art along with a brief desc…
New and Free App "Take it Artside!" to Bring Kentucky’s Art Scene to Wider Audience
NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A new iPhone app is opening up Kentucky’s art scene to the public by bringing thousands of works of art in small American communities to a wider audience. The free app includes images of local public art along with a brief desc…
Cultural Identity and Pattern Collide in Exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art examines the concept of artists using pattern and dress to express their cultural identities in the exhibition Pattern ID, on view January 28–May 8, 2011 at the Kemper Museum. The fifteen fea…
Cincinnati Art Museum Partners with 21c Museum Hotel
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum and 21c Museum share a mission: making art accessible and relevant to the everyday. That passion for bringing people and art together has ignited a first of its kind partnership with the exhibit, The Way We Ar…
Bronzino & Portraits of Power Exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi Attracts 230,000
FLORENCE.- Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, the first ever exhibition devoted to the paintings of this major 16th century artist, closed at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, on 23 January 2011 having attracted over 140,000 visitors since …
Milwaukee Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art Wager Masterpiece on Super Bowl XLV
MILWAUKEE, WI.- In keeping with the tradition of friendly wagers, Carnegie Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum are venturing temporary loans of major works of art, based on the outcome of Super Bowl XLV between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green…
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Debut Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at Auction
LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2010) for sales of Contemporary Art, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011. The sale will fea…
Sotheby’s Forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Debut Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at Auction
LONDON.- In the wake of Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2010) for sales of Contemporary Art, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction, which will take place on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011. The sale will fea…
Falmouth Art Gallery to Display Newly Acquired Tacita Dean Works
CORNWALL.- Falmouth Art Gallery has acquired its first set of works by internationally acclaimed artist and Falmouth graduate Tacita Dean. The works are to go on public display for the first time in the UK next month. Entitled A sequence of stones: &#…
New Library Collection Make Birmingham Museum of Art a Draw for International Study
BIRMINGHAM, AL .- Significant new collections acquired by the Clarence B. Hanson, Jr. Library at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA) deepen the Library’s resources for national and international scholars. The combined Buten Museum Wedgwood Library …