Abelardo Morell to Give Lecture at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Renowned photographer Abelardo Morell will talk about his career and life’s work as part of a lecture series sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 25 in Atkins Auditorium at the Museum. Morell’s work has been acclaimed, exhibited, and collected world-wide. “He is renowned for his endlessly inventive interpretations of everyday things: books, water, children’s toys, a pencil and other common objects,” said Keith F [...]

James Danziger Gallery Shows Exhibition “The Year in Pictures”

NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition “The Year in Pictures” presents a selection of photographs featured in the blog “The Year in Pictures” (pictureyear.blogspot.com). Begun in 2007, the blog has been a platform for my personal enthusiasm about the medium – a place to share good and new work that is sent to me or that I see on my travels; alert readers to new exhibitions, books, and other photography events; and reflect on ideas and issues. Since it’s inception, the [...]

New Visitor Center and Reopened Rooms Give New Life to Legendary Texas Estate

HOUSTON, TX.- This September, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens—the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s historic house museum for American paintings and decorative arts—will complete significant interior renovations and debut a new building to orient visitors and greatly increase the museum’s programming, outreach and scholarship in American art. The former estate of legendary Houston philanthropist and collector Miss Ima Hogg, Bayou Bend houses one of the most distinguished collections of its kind in the world and encompasses fourteen acres of organic, [...]

‘Sphinx Alley’ Gives Egypt Large Open-Air Museum

LUXOR, EGYPT.- Luxor is set to become one of the world’s largest open-air museums when a multimillion dollar project to restore the “Sphinx Alley” is complete in March, the governor of Luxor, Samir Farag, said Sunday. The project to restore the two-mile (three-kilometer) alley that links the grand temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the River Nile in Luxor has cost $45 million. Egyptian workers in Luxor, Egypt, restore the Alley of Sphinxes, known as the [...]

Crockwell Painting of Finch Workers Now on Display at The Hyde

GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection today installed the 1934 oil painting by Douglass Crockwell (1904-1968) titled Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co.in the Museum’s Birdsall Gallery on the second floor of Hyde House. The painting was donated to the Museum last fall by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel P. Hoopes, of Bolton Landing, New York. Crockwell was a founding trustee of The Hyde Collection, acted as its first director, and was famous for his illustrative paintings created for such national [...]

Bellevue Arts Museum Announces Selected Artists for BAM Biennial

BELLEVUE, WA.- The Bellevue Arts Museum announced the artists who have been selected to participate in the inaugural edition of the BAM Biennial. The BAM Biennial is a new, juried exhibition series that brings attention and exposure to the work of contemporary artists and craftsmen in the Pacific Northwest. More than 170 proposals were submitted to this year’s contest, which is focused on the theme of clay. Submissions were reviewed by a panel of four jurors comprised of Bif Brigman, [...]

MCA Denver Presents Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made

DENVER, CO.-The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) announces the opening of Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made, six exhibitions focused on the metaphysics of the human figure. The exhibitions bring together very different types of art and artists including figurative paintings and video by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (b.1963), a video of a short play by the late Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989), abstract paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by [...]

Christie’s to Offer One of the Largest Old Master Paintings Ever at Sale This Week

NEW YORK, NY.- Following the record-breaking success of its Old Master & 19th Century Art sale in December in London, Christie’s will present its flagship New York sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors in a two-part auction on Wednesday, January 27. This extraordinary sale of over 320 works presents the best examples of European art from the 15th to the 19th century, and features master works and recent rediscoveries from Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jan [...]

Long Beach Museum of Art Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Museum’s Impressive Permanent Collection

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art announced that 2010 marks the 60th Anniversary of the Museum’s impressive permanent collection. To celebrate this exciting milestone, the Museum will present an extended exhibition series titled Celebrating Sixty, which will feature eight rotating exhibitions that respectively highlight specific elements of the rich history of the Museum’s collection. The first installment of Celebrating Sixty will offer a glimpse into the past of the Long Beach Museum of Art when they open [...]

Katrin Bellinger of Colnaghi to Show Important Drawings at Le Salon de Dessin

LONDON.- Katrin Bellinger, celebrating twenty-five years as a respected dealer in Master Drawings in Munich and at Colnaghi in London, will present an important group of drawings at Le Salon du dessin at the Palais de la Bourse, Place de la Bourse, Paris, from Tuesday, 23 to Monday, March 23, 2010. This major event attracts museum curators, collectors and lovers of drawings to Paris to meet the top dealers in the field. Katrin’s group of some thirty drawings will focus [...]

Olav Christopher Jenssen, a Contemporary Norwegian Painter, at Kiasma

HELSINKI.- The 2010 main exhibition series in Kiasma will be launched by the Berlinbased Norwegian painter Olav Christopher Jenssen’s exhibition, Panorama. Presenting the latest work by the internationally renowned and constantly innovative painter, the exhibition also demonstrates that painting remains an extremely interesting and vibrant form of contemporary art. We have the pleasure to invite a representative of your staff to meet the artist and view the exhibition from 11am on Thursday, 21 January in Kiasma. The artist will be [...]

SFMOMA Artists Gallery to Open Two New Shows in February

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The SFMOMA Artists Gallery announced two new shows opening on February 4, 2010. In Main Gallery, “Infix: The Grammar of Insertion” will be on view through March 12. Upstairs in the gallery’s loft space photographer Kirk Crippen’s new series, “Foreclosure, USA: The Great Recession” will be shown for the first time in San Francisco. Both shows are celebrated with a reception for the artists on Thursday, February 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Infix: The Grammar of [...]

Flo Peters Gallery Opens the Year with Exhibition by Three American Photographers

HAMBURG.- The Flo Peters Gallery starts into the new year with a group exhibition of the highest quality. Under the name Three! the Gallery presents the all American photographers Christopher Makos, Paul Solberg and Vera Mercer. On show will be Polaroids and Photographs by Man Ray-student and Andy Warhol-companion Christopher Makos, as well as colour photographs from Paul Solberg´s cycle Bloom, Eight and Flower on the ground floor. The Galleries first floor will be dedicated to Vera Mercer´s photographic still [...]

Walton Ford Shows Paintings in Europe for the First Time

BERLIN.- A troop of monkeys celebrate a feast, a panther wanders across a snowy Alpine landscape and a pack of white wolves surround a buffalo dripping blood in a manicured French garden. At first glance Walton Ford’s large-scale animal watercolour paintings evoke prints by French and British colonial-era illustrators from the 19th century. After closer examination however, they reveal a pictorial universe of complex and disturbing allusions. The various tigers, lions, birds and primates that populate the life-size pictures appear [...]

The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater to Open at the Katonah Museum of Art

KATONAH, NY.- What do you think of when you read the word “puppet”? The Katonah Museum of Art will challenge your thoughts and preconceptions with the presentation of The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater opening February 28 and running in all three galleries through June 13, 2010. In every culture man has created stories and myths to explain the forces surrounding him and the fears, hopes and dreams he carries within. For centuries, masks and puppets have been used to [...]