Photos by Tseng Kwong Chi with Keith Haring at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring. Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of of Tseng and Haring’s deaths, these striking large-format photographs celebrate the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980′s and will be on display at 511 W. 27th Street from February 11 to [...]

Wind Powered Art: Sculptors and Sculptures that Harness Nature

As the battle over climate change is waged, there’s a group of sculptors who are leaping ahead of the crowd and utilizing wind power already. Artists create wind powered sculptures to make a statement about the combination between nature and art, or just because wind is a plentiful power source. Whether sculptures are kinetic or static, gritty and down to earth, or large and exotic, wind powered sculptures bridge the boundaries between man and nature. (Images via chadvonnau, nounsafterverbs, cyanatrendland) [...]

Largest Picasso Exhibit on Russian Soil in Over 50 Years Opens at the Pushkin Museum

MOSCOW.- Russia’s influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement. Picasso paintings of bulging-eyed women and sculptures bearing his trademark triangular noses feature in a 240-piece collection of works by one of most prolific and dominant artists of the 20th century. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s wife Svetlana, left, attends the opening of the exhibition of works by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in the Pushkin Fine Arts [...]

Sale of 19th Century European Art Features Recently Discovered Work

NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, Sotheby’s will bring to the market a superb work by iconic French Academic painter William Bouguereau. L’Amour et Psyché, dated 1899, is estimated at $1.8/2.2 million and will be featured in the 23 April sale of 19th Century European Art. Sold from a Distinguished Private Collection, the painting has been off the market for almost half a century. Its last known public exhibition was at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Throughout his career, Bouguereau [...]

Titian’s Monumental “Diana” Paintings to Travel to U.S. for First Time

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States . The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the [...]

Leading Artists at Christie’s Sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art

NEW YORK, NY.- On March 23, Christie’s South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will feature 91 works from the leading 20th and 21st century artists from South Asia, including artists from India and Pakistan. The sale will focus on prime examples of many different movements and styles, with highlights including works by modern masters Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Maqbool Fida Husain, Akbar Padamsee, Syed Haider Raza, Francis Newton Souza, as well as works from leading contemporary artists Atul Dodiya and [...]

Fondation Beyeler Founder Ernst Beyeler Dies at 88 in Basel

GENEVA.- Ernst Beyeler, whose early eye for undervalued Picassos and Impressionists helped him assemble one of Europe’s most famous art collections, has died, his Beyeler Foundation said Friday. He was 88. Beyeler died Thursday evening at his home near Basel, said the museum, which he created 13 years ago out of his sprawling gallery of masterpieces. Beyeler, the son of a Swiss railway employee, became a widely respected art patron after World War II by acquiring hundreds of works by [...]

Refurbished Dundee Gallery Lights Up with Spectacular New Commission

DUNDEE.- A stunning, luminously coloured new sculpture has been installed in its new home at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, to mark the building’s £12 million refurbishment. Commissioned directly from the artist, “Waldella, Dundee”, by David Batchelor was partly funded by independent charity The Art Fund with a grant of £27,740. The work, specifically designed for The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum and never publicly displayed before, is the largest and most ambitious contemporary work ever to [...]

Mark Rothko’s Black Paintings Unveiled at The National Gallery Of Art

WASHINGTON, DC.- A new exhibition featuring seven of the enigmatic black paintings made in 1964 by American artist Mark Rothko (1903–1970) is the second in a series of shows installed in the National Gallery of Art‘s Tower Gallery, East Building, that center on developments in art since midcentury. On view February 21, 2010 through January 2, 2011, “In the Tower: Mark Rothko” includes works drawn largely from the Gallery’s own vast collection of Rothko’s oeuvre and features a short film [...]

Lorenz Eitner Memorial Acquisitions Fund Established at Cantor Arts Center

STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center announces the establishment of a memorial fund to honor the late Lorenz Eitner, director of the Stanford Museum and chair of the Department of Art from 1964 to 1989. Professor Eitner did extraordinary work to develop Stanford’s art department and had a crucial role in reviving the art museum. In a very real sense, he was the museum’s second founder and his legacy therefore lives on at Stanford. To commemorate his importance for the [...]

Chicago’s “Aqua” Selected as 2009 Skyscraper of the Year

FRANKFURT.- The jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award has announced Aqua, an 81-story residential and hotel tower in Chicago, as the winner of the 2009 Skyscraper of the Year. The award, now celebrating its tenth year, is given annually to a building at least 100 meters tall and completed within the award year. The second place winner is O14 in Dubai. Third place goes to The Met in Bangkok. All winners were selected from 305 eligible buildings completed worldwide in [...]

Nick Patterson is the New Director of Communications at Birmingham Museum

BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art welcomes a new communications director. Nick Patterson, a Birmingham native, assumed responsibility for internal and external communications, including public relations and marketing at BMA January 27. Prior to arriving at the museum, Patterson was an associate editor at Southern Living Magazine, where he wrote feature and travel articles for nine years. Before that, he worked as a Media Relations Specialist for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He began his career as a [...]

250,000 and Counting! Masterpieces from Paris Breaks National Gallery of Australia Attendance Record

CANBERRA.- Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and beyond today welcomed its 250 000th visitor, breaking the National Gallery of Australia’s previous exhibition visitation record of 241,770 set by the Rubens and the Italian Renaissance exhibition in 1992. “We are thrilled to have achieved our visitation target for Masterpieces from Paris. We have seen an average of 3000 people a day experience the exhibition,” said Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery. “With 6 weeks remaining until the [...]

White House Announces 2009 National Medal of Arts Recipients

WASHINGTON, DC.- President Barack Obama presented the National Medal of Arts to ten recipients for their outstanding achievements and support of the arts. (Twelve medalists were announced; however two were not able to attend the ceremony. Their medals will be presented at another time.) The medals were presented by the president and Mrs. Michele Obama in an East Room ceremony at the White House. The National Medal of Arts is a White House initiative managed by the National Endowment for [...]

Parallel Exhibitions by Sarah Ortmeyer and Florian Huttner at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst

BREMEN.- With these parallel exhibitions of works by Sarah Ortmeyer and Florian Hüttner the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst presents two artistic positions with fundamentally different approaches. Sarah Ortmeyer wrests individual persons and situations from their historical contexts and reassembles them in unfamiliar and thought-provoking constellations. Established historical fact forms the basis for an idiosyncratic and subjective perspective which extends its fictions into the present day. The associations evoked by her films, installations, and objects enrich our encounter with the [...]