King Tut Ticket Sales at the Art Gallery of Ontario Surpass 100,000

TORONTO.- Public response to the Canadian exclusive of King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs continues to be overwhelmingly positive, with more than 100,000 tickets sold since they became available just under three months ago. As a result, and to accommodate continued high demand, the Art Gallery of Ontario will continue extended evening hours through Jan. 31, 2010, on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until 9:30 p.m. (last entry is 8 p.m.). In addition, the King Tut exhibition as [...]

Metro Pictures Exhibition Features Robert Longo, David Maljkovic and John Miller

NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures “Ongoing Projects” brings together work by Robert Longo, John Miller and David Maljkovic. Longo exhibits fourteen photographs printed from the original 1970′s negatives he shot for his iconic “Men in the Cities” drawings. David Maljkovic is represented by his newest film installation, “Out of Projection,” that expands on his exploration of memories as futurist propositions. John Miller’s “Middle of the Day” project includes photographs produced over a fifteen-year period here presented on DVD with a [...]

Medieval ‘Mourners’ to Leave France for United States Tour

DALLAS, TX. – The white alabaster figures draped in cloaks show their grief in different ways: from a bent head, the face shrouded by a hood, to a hand swathed in cloth reaching up to wipe a tear. The nearly 40 “mourners” commissioned in the 15th century to adorn the tomb of John the Fearless, the second Duke of Burgundy, will be seen together for the first time outside of France when they begin a tour of seven U.S. cities [...]

Pacific Asia Museum features Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art

PASADENA, CA.- Pacific Asia Museum presents a multi-cultural exhibition that explores the idea of art as a strategy for breaking down concepts of painting/writing, legibility/illegibility, insider/outsider and Asian art/Western art. Guest curated by Collette Chattopadhyay, Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art will be on view through January 17, 2010 and includes works by artists : Apex, Chaz Bojorquez, Vince Cavallo, Cre8, Desi W.O.M.E., Duce, Fung Ming Chip, Gronk, Gu Wenda, Julianna Hernandez, Keo, Leo Limon, Man One, Minette [...]

Scream Gallery Winter Exhibition Features Hopper, Doherty & Wood

LONDON.- Scream Gallery unveiled a stellar line-up of artists from its recently launched popular culture collection including; Dennis Hopper, Russell Young, Mark Hayward, Grace Slick, Peter Dohery, R. Crumb and Ronnie Wood. The winter exhibition features images of some of the most iconic figures from contemporary culture, such as a punk-era Vivienne Westwood photographed by William English, and Andy Warhol captured by the lens of Dennis Hopper in “Andy Warhol, With Flower”, 1963. Legendary Hollywood Actor Hopper, is also a [...]

Over 1,000 Unpublished Letters and Postcards by Joan Miró See the Light of Day

BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation, in conjunction with the Fundació Lluís Carulla and Editorial Barcino, are launching the first volume of the Epistolari Català de Joan Miró (Joan Miró’s Catalan Letters). This volume contains over one thousand letters and postcards – most of them hitherto unpublished – sent to more than a hundred people connected with Miró: relatives, friends from his youth, art critics, artists, gallery owners, journalists, etc. These letters enable us to follow the course of Miró’s life [...]

Snite Museum of Art to Show Selected Drawings from Weisberg Collection

SOUTH BEND, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art announces the exhibition “Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection” on view from January 17 through February 28, 2010. This traveling exhibition features approximately fifty drawings, watercolors, and pastels selected from the superb collection of Minnesota collectors Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg. The exhibition was organized by Lisa Michaux, Ph.D, Acting Co-curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Weisbergs began collecting drawings [...]

Pop Up Exhibition on View at the Empire State Building

NEW YORK, NY.- The Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents “Art at the Top in association with Ronnette Riley Architect at The Empire State Building”. The exhibition features PHOTOGRAPHY by Tom Leighton, Lluis Barba, Boyarde Messenger & PAINTING by Klari Reis, David Gista, Cecile Chong and Geoff Stein. Featuring in the exhibition will be new series of work by Geoff Stein entitled “Irrational Exuberance” a series of portraits about the credit crunch. These works are acrylic and collage and feature newspaper cutting [...]

Ahlen Art Museum to Present a Special Exhibition “Intimacy! Bathing in Art”

BERLIN.- The Ahlen Art Museum will be presenting in this exhibit the historical developments, contextual significance, and especially the artistic reflections of the topic ‘bathing.’ In the exhibit, 140 works by 90 artists will be presented, including Pierre Bonnard, Louise Bourgeois, Gustave Caillebotte, William N. Copley, Gregory Crewdson, Edgar Degas, Albrecht Dürer, Eric Fischl, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Xenia Hausner, David Hockney, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Édouard Manet, Bettina Rheims, Norbert Tadeusz, and Bill Viola. Gustave Caillebotte, “Studie zum Mann, der [...]

Museum Exhibits Pictures Drawn by Delta Passengers

PALM SPRINGS, CA (AP).- A museum is showing artwork collected by a Delta flight attendant who started handing out crayons to passengers after the Sept. 11th attacks. The Palm Springs Air Museum is showing “Plane Art — Connecting People” through Jan. 25. Several dozen pictures are hanging at the museum, and many others are available for visitors to leaf through in folders. The pictures were collected by Delta flight attendant Jewel Van Valin. She got the idea a few months [...]

New Works on Paper Section Attracts First-Time Exhibitors to TEFAF Maastricht

HELVOIRT.- The new TEFAF on Paper section at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair, has proved a huge attraction to international specialists in Old Master and modern drawings, limited edition prints, photography, antiquarian books and manuscripts, watercolours and Japanese prints. When The European Fine Art Fair opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from March 12-21, 2010, 18 of the 19 dealers exhibiting at TEFAF on Paper will be new [...]

London to Hold Year Long Celebration of Stamps, Design and Postal Heritage

LONDON.- A year long festival of exhibitions and events celebrating stamps, their design and postal heritage kicks off in January 2010. The “London 2010: Festival of Stamps”, coordinated by The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA), will show the important role that stamps play in our lives: as a key part of a nation’s heritage they form the world’s biggest public art gallery, showcasing a diverse and striking picture of the world. A highlight of next year’s Festival includes a [...]

Second Solo Show for Oliver Laric at Seventeen Gallery

LONDON.- At the level of the image, the determinations of the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), as in so many other incidents of iconoclastic “image-breaking” leading up to the present day, were predicated on a clear-cut Manichean sense of difference. During this period, statues and images of a religious order were subjected to sustained physical attack. Those that did not square with the heterodox self-understanding of the Reformation (as an exemplary monotheistic motion) were deemed false – in other words “idolatrous” and [...]

Third Solo Exhibition for Esteban Pastorino Díaz at PDNB Gallery

DALLAS, TX.- Since his first solo show at PDNB in 2004, Argentine born, Esteban Pastorino Díaz, has been recognized as a significantly international artist. His photographs can be found in many museum collections including American institutions: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Santa Barbara Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Solo exhibitions in Boston, MA, Wellesley, MA, Woodstock, NY and Davis, CA have followed since. His playful aerial photographs, taken with [...]

$12-Million Gift from Mandel Family Goes to Israel Museum

JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today announced a $12-million gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations. This gift marks the completion of its $100-million capital campaign to support the comprehensive transformation of its 20-acre campus. The Mandel gift supports the reconstruction, reinstallation, and endowment of the Museum’s Jewish Art and Life Wing, housing the world’s preeminent collection of Judaica and Jewish Ethnography. The Wing will be named the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for [...]