Exhibit in Philadelphia Explores Legacy of Women in Pop

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- As radical social changes rocked 1960s America, the contemporary art world remained largely a boys’ club that largely ignored female Pop artists as their male counterparts grew to become icons of the era, according to a new exhibit. “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968,” an exhibit at the University of the Arts from Friday until March 15, focuses exclusively on the forgotten women of Pop Art and shows about 50 works — some not seen publicly in 40 [...]

Moderna Museet Director, Lars Nittve, to Retire in October

STOCKHOLM.- On 31 October, 2010, the contract for the Director of Moderna Museet, Lars Nittve, ends. Mr Nittve will resign from the post in accordance with the regulations for all senior civil service posts in Sweden. Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet director 2001-2010 2001-2010, when Mr Nittve was Director, has been an extraordinarily eventful – and successful – period in the museum’s 52 years. Besides some 150 large and small exhibitions covering the entire 20th century, including highlights such as Paul [...]

A Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Peter Tillou Collections at Christie’s

NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of his 50-year career, antiques dealer Peter Tillou has helped to build some of the finest private collections of art and antiques in the U.S. Admired for his deep passion and relentless pursuit of knowledge about the items he sells, Mr. Tillou is a sought-after expert on an array of collecting categories, from coins and antique guns, to fine art, furniture, and decorative objects. On January 28, Christie’s will offer A Cabinet of Curiosities: [...]

New Paintings and Sculpture by Damien Hirst Announced at Gagosian

NEW YORk, NY.- Gagosian Gallery will present “End of an Era”, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Damien Hirst. The exhibition takes its title from the central sculpture in the exhibition, a severed bull’s head with golden horns and crowned with a solid gold disc. Suspended in formaldehyde and encased in a golden vitrine, this totemic sculpture acts as a powerful coda to The Golden Calf (2008). End of an Era proffers a sacrificial head, here dismembered from [...]

Infamous (and Anonymous) Banksy’s “Exit” to Premiere at Sundance

NEW YORK, NY.- The infamous (and anonymous) graffiti artist Banksy is pulling what may be his biggest prank ever at the Sundance Film Festival — with the help of fellow Brit Rhys Ifans. The guerrilla pseudo-documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” billed as “A Banksy Film” and narrated by Ifans, will have its world premiere Sunday night. Hopes are that an adventurous distributor will pony up as many millions for the film as Banksy earns for the “street art” he [...]

Friedrich Petzel Gallery Shows Interim in Three Rounds, Round 3

NEW YORk, NY.- This last exhibition of three is concerned with dislocation. We are not only talking about the dislocation of the artwork itself, pulled from a greater group of likewise works and orphaned from its reference points; but artworks that have recorded a certain unspecific time and place. These spaces resonate through both the redundancy of a mechanical loop (of, for instance the video or MP3) and that of our familiarity to the subject. Through this they play mnemonically, [...]

Indianapolis Museum of Art Announces 2009 Acquisitions

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it acquired 783 objects in eight curatorial departments in 2009. The acquisitions span a broad range of cultures and time periods, further enhancing the depth and breadth of the Museum’s representation of the world’s art. Juan Careno de Miranda, “Crucifix”, 1658. Oil on wood, 19 x 12 1/2 inches. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg by exchange Highlights among the year’s acquisitions include: • The landmark Miller House & [...]

Georgia Art Museums Collaborate to Share Resources and Collections Across the State

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with four Georgia museums, has established the Georgia Art Museum Partnership initiative—the first of its kind in the state that will allow for the sharing of resources and collections among museums in Georgia and the Southeast. The five partnering museums are the High Museum of Art, the Albany Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum , the Telfair Museum of Art ( Savannah ) and the Georgia Museum of Art ( Athens [...]

Vermont Man’s Vintage Snowflake Photos for Sale in New York City

NEW YORK, NY .- Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes — no two alike. Bentley, also known as The Snowflake Man, was fascinated with snowflakes, and his observations and experimentation made him the first person to capture a single snowflake with a camera. Starting Thursday, 26 of his images are for sale at the four-day American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art Museum [...]

Special Installation Showcases Unique “Visual Language” Depicting Timeless Philosophical Messages

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery presents a special installation of images by Jane Davis Doggett, m.f.a. 1956. Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics features the work of Doggett, a pioneer in the field of architectural and environmental design. She is best known for her career in creating graphic identities and wayfinding systems for massive public spaces, including cultural institutions and forty international airports. Jane Davis Doggett, “IconoChrome(tm)”, image from “Talking Graphics”, Exartis Publishers, 2007 Doggett recently invented the [...]

Getty Announces Debut of First Major Exhibition of Gérome in Nearly Forty Years

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) enjoyed the heights of artistic and commercial success in the second half of the 19th-century as a powerful academician and respected professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; however, with the eventual triumph of Impressionism, post-Impressionism, and the modernist avant-garde-which defined itself against establishment figures like Gérôme-his reputation suffered greatly in the early 20th-century. Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in association with the Thyssen-Bornemisza [...]

Picasso and Renoir, Unseen for Over 40 Years, Go on Public Display at Christie’s

LONDON.- From 20 January 2010, Christie’s will host a public exhibition showing masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Natalia Gonchorova that have been unseen in public for nearly 40 years, as well as an outstanding masterpiece by Yves Klein and important works by Henri Matisse, Peter Doig, Rene Magritte, Frank Auerbach, Kees van Dongen and Martin Kippenberger. A Christie’s employee looks at a 1963 painting entitled “Tete de femme (Jacqueline)” by Pablo Picasso on display at the auction house [...]

Matisse’s Most Experimental Works to be Examined at the Art Institute of Chicago

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) have co-organized an ambitious exhibition that presents, for the first time, a seminal investigation of a pivotal point in the career of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), one of the 20th century’s greatest artists. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 will premiere at the Art Institute March 20 through June 20, 2010, and then travel to MoMA, where it will be on view from July 18 through October [...]

“Africa Now” Exhibition at Bonhams Wins Support from Alicia Keys Charity

NEW YORK, NY.- Alicia Keys, the singer, songwriter, actress, author and philanthropist with a keen interest in Africa, has agreed that her charity ‘Keep a Child Alive’ will partner Bonhams VIP reception for the groundbreaking `Africa Now’ exhibition in New York on 9th March 2010. The event is being sponsored by Afren plc, the African focused independent oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in Nigeria, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d`Ivoire, Ghana and the Joint Development Zone of [...]

Galerie Ludorff Presents Important Paintings by Expressionist Emil Nolde

DUSSELDORF.- Galerie Ludorff presents an exhibition of important paintings, watercolours and prints by expressionist icon Emil Nolde. The exhibition comprises more than thirty paintings, watercolours and some of his most important prints. It brings together some of his very early prints, some of his most important works from the Brücke years and the winters spent in Berlin from 1905 to the 1920’s. Emil Nolde, “Gartenblumen mit violetten und gelben Blüten”, ca. 1950, signed. Watercolour on Japan paper, 16.6 x 20.1 [...]