Museum Shows Photographs by Former President of Yugoslavia

BELGRADE.- The public life of Josip “Tito” Broz is all too familiar to us. But despite the efforts of the propagandists of the day to depict for us his other, private life, this still eludes us. The material now before you provides an extremely valuable insight into this: the people Tito associated with in his free time, where and how he spent that time and, of course, the way he saw all this through the magic extension of the human [...]

Gold foetus sculpture stolen

An £8,000 gold-plated cast of an illegally aborted foetus has been stolen from a London gallery. Two thieves smashed into the Orel Art UK gallery in Victoria in what is thought to be a pro-life protest. If Jesus Had Been An Abortion How Happy Would We Be by American artist Stephen J Shanabrook is a bronze cast of a foetus from the Sixties, plated in 24-carat gold. Gallery owner Julian Farrow said no other exhibits were touched: “It will be [...]

Tutankhamun’s Funeral Exhibition at the Met will Explore Materials and Rituals

NEW YORK, NY.- In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The Metropolitan Museum [...]

Smithsonian American Art Museum to Present Exhibition That Celebrates “Running Fence”

WASHINGTON, DC.- The most lyrical of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s epic projects was the “Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76.” The ambitious scope and enormous size of this monumental temporary artwork are hard to imagine even today. The exhibition “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the ‘Running Fence,’” on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum April 2 through Sept. 26, captures the elaborate process of planning the work and the magnitude of its scale. It is organized by George Gurney, [...]

MoMA Presents Major Survey Premiering William Kentridge’s Most Recent Work

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the artist’s career, featuring more than 120 works in a range of mediums—animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, and books—on view from February 24 to May 17, 2010. Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) has earned international acclaim for his interdisciplinary practice, which mingles the fields of visual art, film, and theater. Known for engaging with the social and political landscape of his homeland, [...]

Galerie Sherin Najjar Opens in Potsdamer Platz with Group Exhibition

BERLIN.- The new gallery space Galerie Sherin Najjar has opened its doors at the Potsdamer Platz. The focus of the gallery program lies on young and established artists working on the interface between language and image. With this emphasis it is the goal of the gallery to win its own profile and to develop a thematically aligned platform of this dedicated form of contemporary art. Galerie Sherin Najjar presents their first show A Man is not a Tree. This group [...]

Studio 8: A Space Dedicated to Young People at Irish Museum of Modern Art

DUBLIN.- The new season of Studio 8 kicks off on Saturday 6 March with Irish artist Claire Halpin and Studio 8 Coordinator, Lynn McGrane, with a workshop that explores the IMMA Collection exhibition What happens next is a secret. This experimental exhibition examines notions of collection and curation, in response Studio 8 participants will develop ideas in the studio, working on creative concepts and making working drawings. They will discuss various aspects of curation, such as how the placing and [...]

Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art Explored at Istanbul Modern

ISTANBUL.- İstanbul Modern’s new Exhibition, “From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art”, will open in February 2010. Focusing on the relationship between art and the traditional, the Exhibition seeks to show how artists employ history in their construction of modernism. Curated by İstanbul Modern’s chief Curator Levent Çalıkoğlu, “From Traditional to Contemporary: Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art“ will be a exhibition in which modern and contemporary artists will take part. These are the artists who reinterpret [...]

Leading Baroque Masters Together at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.- On Thursday 25 February, the Rubens & van Dyck exhibition opens at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. From then until May 23rd, visitors will be able to see works by two of the 17th century’s leading painters and some of their disciples. The exhibition brings together works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck, two of the leading painters of the 17th-century Baroque, highlighting the relationship between them and their unparalleled influence on Flemish painting in their day. In all, [...]

Frantisek Kupka: Art Works from the Pompidou Collection at Picasso Museum

MALAGA.- František Kupka took painting to its essential elements: the plane, line and dot. Over the course of his career he developed a highly distinctive and unique style that still defies any attempt to classify it due to its focus on science, philosophy and mysticism. In addition, Kupka’s work suggests new approaches to interpreting the birth and evolution of modern art. The exhibition held at the Museo Picasso Málaga brings together around 90 works, including oil paintings, drawings, gouaches and [...]

Oscar Winning Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins Exhibits New Collection of His Artwork

LONDON.- Like many of the iconic, two sided characters which he has played, one of the greatest actors of all time, Sir Anthony Hopkins, is revealing another side to himself in his beautiful, recently completed artwork. This magnificent art collection will be unveiled in the UK at Gallery 27, Cork St, London 16th to 20th February, and in The Dome, Edinburgh 2nd to 6th March. Sir Anthony showcases another talent from his legendary acting in artistry and further embraces his [...]

Famous Trumpeter, Herb Alpert, Exhibits Totems at Ace Gallery

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Totems have pan-cultural associations throughout diverse cultures around the world, and these vertical forms have been used throughout history as tribal talismans representative of the spirit world and genealogies, ancestors and documenting societies. Herb Alpert, in his Black Totem series, has focused on this language of sculpture for the past 20 years and addresses this geneaology in his Black Totem sculptures. Alpert’s process for creating these sculptures is manually intensive. He works with wet clay first, molding [...]

Twenty-One Hand-Built Bicycles to Be Showcased at Museum of Arts and Design

NEW YORK; NY.- Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, presented by the Museum of Arts and Design from May 11 through mid-August 2010, will display the designs of six internationally renowned bicycle builders whose work in metal, as well as graphics and artifacts, elucidate this refined, intricate and deeply individual craft. Organized by Michael Maharam, owner of the eponymous textile company and an avid bicycle collector, along with master builder Sacha White of Vanilla Bicycles in Portland, Oregon, this survey is presented [...]

Tests Show King Tutankhamen Died from Malaria Infection, Study Says

CHICAGO.- King Tutankhamen, the teen-aged pharaoh whose Egyptian tomb yielded dazzling treasures, limped around on tender bones and a club foot and probably died from malaria, researchers said on Tuesday. There has been speculation about the fate of the boy king, who died sometime around 1324 BC probably at age 19, since the 1922 discovery of his intact tomb in Egypt’s Valley of Kings. Women look at one of the coffins of King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, [...]

More than 14,000 Objects Belonging to Juan and Evita Peron to be Auctioned

BUENOS AIRES.- More than 14,000 objects belonging to the late Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron and his second wife, Evita, are to be auctioned off beginning Monday in order to collect more than $20 million for humanitarian causes. A book by historian Felix Luna dedicated to the general and corrected throughout by Peron, and a Limoges porcelain jewelry box that was a gift of dancer Josephine Baker, are a couple of the pieces to be auctioned during the coming months [...]