Biennale and Other Cultural Institutions in Vancouver to Welcome Olympic Games Visitors

VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Biennale has a mandate to mount a major biannual outdoor art exhibition featuring world-class international sculptures, new media and performance art. In addition, the Vancouver Biennale produces publications, curriculum, professional symposiums and public lecture series. The objective of the Vancouver Biennale is to celebrate art in public spaces, inviting the entire community to experience the brightest new and world renown talent in contemporary art. Through a diversity of artistic mediums, aesthetic sensibilities and cultural perspectives, an [...]

Los Angeles Art Show Returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 15th Annual Los Angeles Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 20-24, 2010. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management this encyclopedic art event will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series and special events program, a sculpture garden, and special exhibit spaces. The 2010 Los Angeles Art Show debuts a Guest Country Program and welcomes Uruguay. By invitation-only and launching in 2010, the [...]

Mother Teresa, Gene Autry, Katharine Hepburn on Upcoming US Stamps

WASHINGTON, DC.- Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the Postal Service announced Wednesday. The post office releases a series of commemorative stamps every year, honoring people, places and institutions. These [...]

Unique Opportunities to Learn About Calder and Michelangelo

SEATTLE, WA.- It’s not too late for visitors to the Seattle Art Museum to get to know its two special exhibitions in unique depth. Engaging talks by some of the most respected experts on Alexander Calder and Michelangelo will reveal new information about these behemoths of the art world during lectures on January 14 and January 15, 2010, in conjunction with the exhibitions Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act and Michelangelo Public and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other [...]

Berlin Art Projects Presents Megan Olson “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”

BERLIN.- With “Beyond the Chains of Illusion”, Berlin Art Projects presents the first-ever European solo exhibition of work by American painter Megan Olson. We look forward to welcoming you at the opening on Friday, January 8, 2010 from 7 to 9pm! The artist will be in attendance. Megan Olson is best known for her sweeping, graceful abstract paintings, the unusual power of which emerges from the use of unusual, thin color layers of organic, complexly interwoven lines. Her compositions are [...]

MoMA to Present Global Lens 2010, the Seventh Annual Touring Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Global Film Initiative (GFI), presents Global Lens 2010, the seventh annual touring film exhibition conceived to encourage filmmaking in countries with developing film communities, in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters at MoMA from January 14 through 29, 2010. The selection of eight programs, each from a different country, includes films developed with seed money from GFI, and represents a concise survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where [...]

Winners of Global Design Competition Visit the Guggenheim

NEW YORK, NY.- The winners of this summer’s Design It: Shelter Competition—an online competition that asked participants to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters using Google SketchUp and Google Earth—visited the Guggenheim Museum and Google offices in New York on Thursday, December 17. As part of their competition prize, David Eltang, the Juried Prize winner, and David Mares, the People’s Prize winner, first met with Google staff at their New York offices and were given a behind-the-scenes tour [...]

Joslyn Begins 2010 with Exhibition of Contemporary Artworks

OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum begins the New Year with an exhibition of contemporary artworks devoted to the human figure. “The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection” ranges from serious to whimsical, from realistic to abstract, and includes photography, painting, and sculpture. The title refers to both the ability of the figure to reflect the human condition and to the facility of artists to depict it. “The Human Touch” opens at Joslyn Art Museum on Saturday, [...]

Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition Focuses on Six Photographers

SYDNEY.- In May 1955 a group of six Australian photographers showed some 200 photographs in an exhibition held at David Jones Gallery in Sydney. The artists were Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant and David Potts. It was a key exhibition in representing a shift away from the traditions of pictorialism to the recording of contemporary life. These photographers were not overtly politically, but primarily engaged with the documentary mode for the fresh approach and vision [...]

Artist Priest Bill Moore Finds God in Abstract Expressionism

POMONA, CA.- There’s no steeple out front, no rows of pews inside, not even so much as a crucifix on display. Still, this cramped little art studio in the middle of what, until not very long ago, was a street with as many broken dreams as it has potholes, is the closest thing to paradise Father Bill Moore has found. It’s the place where the 60-year-old Catholic priest serves God by creating abstract paintings that he sells by the hundreds. [...]

U. of Maine Museum of Art to feature Paintings by Megan Chase

Bangor, ME – Megan Chase, a painter based in Belfast, Maine, exhibits a series of expressionistic landscapes in which color is paramount. The artist states that, “color builds the images and space and is implicit in the development of meaning.” Inspiration for Chase’s paintings is derived from travel and from witnessing the play of light, color and pattern during her daily work on the family farm. In the large-scale work Untitled , 1999, golden hues dominate the composition, strong diagonals [...]

Mint Museum of Art Exhibition Explores Identity Theft in Art World . . around 1867

CHARLOTTE, NC.- Love a good mystery? A new exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art contains the elements of an art history whodunit—a carefully crafted forgery, a persistent art scholar and a painting thought to be lost for more than 100 years—while taking the viewer behind the scenes of museum life. Identity Theft centers around one of the Mint’s most important Hudson River School paintings, Indian Summer in the White Mountains by Sanford Robinson Gifford. The exhibition, Identity Theft: How [...]

Paris and the Avant-Garde: Masters from the Guggenheim Collection

New York, NY – During the first decades of the twentieth century, numerous painters and sculptors migrated to Paris, which had become the international nexus for vanguard art. Bringing with them their variegated customs, these artists absorbed and contributed to the latest artistic developments, often fusing new elements with aspects of their respective traditions in their works. On exhibition 23 January through 12 May, 2010 at the Guggenheim Museum, NY. The artists associated with the School of Paris did not [...]

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces the Exhibition Monet and Abstraction

MADRID.- This coming February, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition “Monet and Abstraction”. It offers a survey of the work of the great French Impressionist painter from an innovative perspective and one never previously employed in the context of a temporary exhibition of this scale and importance, namely the artist’s relationship with the development of abstraction in the second half of the 20th-century. From his ethereal London landscapes to the monumental depictions of his garden [...]

Police Recover Picasso’s ‘Little Guitar’ Toy Sculpture Made for Paloma Picasso

Little Guitar, a toy sculpture made by Pablo Picasso for his youngest child, Paloma, is heading for a museum after police recovered it from the home of a Roman businessman. Carabinieri police say Picasso had given the toy to his friend, Italian artist Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi. talian Carabinieri paramilitary police officers display Picasso’s “Little Guitar” toy sculpture made for the artist’s daughter Paloma, during a press conference in Rome, Tuesday Dec. 29, 2009. Police say they have recovered from a [...]