Exhibition in Germany Pays Homage to Private Collectors

BONN.- Curious? seeks to highlight to a broader public the pioneering role played by private collections at the beginning of the 21st century. With this exhibition the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany pays homage to the outstanding achievement of private collectors whose commitment is crucial to the breadth and diversity of our cultural landscape and often surpasses that of public museums. In the years to come the relationship between private collections and public museums will [...]

MoMA Announces a New Overview of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Panoramic Career

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art will present Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters, from April 11 through June 28, 2010. The exhibition comprises 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public, and focuses on the most productive decades of the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a [...]

New Wire Drawings by Cornelia Parker at D’Amelio Terras

NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents a series of new wire drawings by gallery artist Cornelia Parker. The artist is well known for her large-scale installations of transformed or destabilized objects that re-emerge in surprisingly beautiful forms. For years, Parker has been concerned with formalizing things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something quiet and contemplative. Here, Parker has melted lead bullets and literally drawn them to the limits of their materiality. Creating wire grids, Parker [...]

Indianapolis Museum of Art to Exhibit Recently Acquired Photographs

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art today announced it will premiere an exhibition showcasing 48 works selected from the Museum’s recent major acquisition of 210 photographs by Arthur Fellig, the father of New York Street photography better known as Weegee the Famous. Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous, on view exclusively at the IMA from April 17, 2010 to January 16, 2011, will follow Weegee’s career from 1931 to 1965, when his photography chronicled the daily [...]

From Riyadh to Berlin: Saudi Artists Launch World Tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum 2010

RIYADH.- Edge of Arabia, a groundbreaking cultural initiative, promoting and empowering contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia, launched today its world tour at the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), held in Riyadh’s iconic Kingdom Tower under the patronage of The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. Edge of Arabia’s participation at the GCF from the 23rd to 26th January represents the launch of an historic world tour that builds on landmark exhibitions in London (2008) and Venice [...]

Royal Collection Announces Exhibition of Dutch Landscapes

LONDON.- This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal Collection’s rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. The fine detail and meticulous finish of Dutch pictures appealed to British taste, and 34 of the works in the exhibition were acquired by George IV when [...]

Amon Carter Museum Acquires Rediscovered Indian Series Painting by George de Forest Brush

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum has acquired a rediscovered painting by American artist George de Forest Brush. The Potter, painted in 1889, had been in private hands since 1946, when it was sold from the collection of the Galveston financier William L. Moody III. “The acquisition of one of Brush’s ‘lost’ Indian pictures is a major addition to our collection of material relating to the American West,” says Dr. Ron Tyler, director of the Amon Carter Museum. “Now, [...]

Museum Presents Installations by Two Contemporary Artists

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The printed image lies at the heart of the work of many contemporary artists, but just as printed materials have become ubiquitous in visual culture, passing nearly unnoticed, so too have print processes become an integral part of art-making without always being acknowledged. The central role of the printed image in contemporary art is the focus of the international festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010, to be held throughout the city of Philadelphia January 29-April 11, 2010, with over 300 artists [...]

Woman Taking Class at the Met Has Accident Involving Picasso’s “The Actor”

NEW YORK, NY.- An important Picasso painting accidentally damaged by a visitor last week will be repaired in time for a large exhibition of the artist’s works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in April. “The Actor,” a painting from Picasso’s rose period, will be restored at the museum’s onsite conservation laboratory, the Met said Monday. The museum described the damage as an irregular 6-inch tear to the lower right-hand corner of the painting, Conservation and curatorial experts “fully expect” [...]

Sprüth Magers in Berlin to Show Family Portraits by George Condo

Berlin.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present an exhibition of new works by George Condo. At the opening of the gallery in Berlin in October 2008, large-format drawings by the artist were displayed in the cabinet on the upper floor; now with the exhibition ‘Family Portraits’, Condo is continuing the discourse on the figurative element in painting, which is one of the fundamental aspects in the artist’s oeuvre. George Condo, “Central Park”, 2009. Oil on linen, (198.12 x 193.04 cm) [...]

“Newspeak” Painter Ryan Mosleys First Major Solo Exhibition at Alison Jacques Gallery

LONDON.- Already acknowledged as one of the most distinctive of the ʻNewspeak’ painters, British artist Ryan Mosley’s first major solo exhibition opened at Alison Jacques Gallery. Admired for what Art Review has described as ‘hyperfigurative psychocubism’, and an approach to painting which is at once both historical and fantastical, Mosley’s work simultaneously acknowledges a profound debt to the received genres and traditions of art history and an exuberant willingness to subordinate such categories to a uniquely personal painterly vision. Ryan [...]

Titanic Bidding for Sunken Bugatti at Bonhams Retromobile Sale

PARIS.- The Bugatti Type 22 that had lain submerged 53 metres below the surface of Lake Maggiore for over 70 years had attracted much pre-sale publicity. A number of telephone bidders sparred against those in the room. The winning bidder – a European collector representing the Peter Mullin Collection in California – will show the car in its present condition in his museum, whereas the underbidder – an American – had intended to restore the car. The Andalusian Collection from [...]

Prado Museum Honors Members of Committee that Safeguarded Spanish Treasures

MADRID.- In a difficult and risky mission, a committee formed by the persons responsible of the European and American museums worked together to save Spanish Works of art during that country’s Civil War. Works of art from the Prado Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, the Escorial, the Royal Palace, National Library and those owned by the Church as well as those from prívate collections, started a journey that took them through different Spanish cities and ended [...]

New Works Produced by Art & Language Open at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new works produced by Art & Language over the past year, including the major installation Portraits and a Dream. Art & Language’s earliest works date from before 1968, when the two terms ‘Art’ and ‘Language were first adopted as the name of an artistic practice. This coming together recognised a range of intellectual concerns and artistic expedients occasioned by the collapse of authority, by the mid 1960s, of those individualistic protocols which go [...]

The Bowes Museum Displays Intriguing Painting that was Part of Altarpiece

COUNTY DURHAM.- One of the oldest and most intriguing paintings in The Bowes Museum’s collection is the focal point of a new display which opened this Saturday, 23 January. The small panel, A Miracle of the Sacrament by Sassetta, painted in Siena c1423-25, has a dramatic tale to tell. It shows a cleric, struck dead as he is offered the Host during Mass. Even more dramatically, a devil swoops down to snatch his soul as it leaves his body. Sassetta, [...]