Landmark Exhibition of Siqueiros Landscape Paintings Announced

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) joins the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. The significance of the collaboration between MOLAA and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil has been recognized by the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles who has made this exhibition an official part of its Mexico 2010 celebration [...]

Doug and Mike Starn Create Monumental Sculpture for Metropolitan Museum’

NEW YORK, NY.- American artists Mike and Doug Starn (born 1961) have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop, a monumental bamboo structure ultimately measuring 100 feet long by 50 feet wide by 50 feet high in the form [...]

Moana: Cultures of the Pacific Islands at the National Museum of Anthropology

MEXICO CITY.- From its inauguration a week ago, more than 2,200 persons have attended the exhibition Moana at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) that gathers a collection never seen before in Mexico, which accounts for the ritual life at the islands of Oceania. The heap displayed at the Temporary Exhibitions Hall shows how these islands are not isolated at all: the exchange processes between them are complex, manifesting the world developed between sea and land. The show organized by [...]

Tate Britain Announces Major Eadweard Muybridge Retrospective

LONDON.- The pioneering Anglo-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) will be the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain in autumn 2010. Bringing together over 150 works, this exhibition will demonstrate how Muybridge broke new ground in the emerging art form of photography. From his iconic images of motion to depictions of the sublime landscapes of America, the exhibition will present the full range of Muybridge’s work, exploring how he created and honed remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully. [...]

Figge Art Museum Unveils Exhibition of the Deere Art Collection

DAVENPORT, IOWA.- The Figge Art Museum opened Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection on Saturday April 24, 2010. The exhibition is the first opportunity for the general public to see works from Deere & Company’s corporate art collection. In 1965, William Hewitt, then chairman of Deere & Company, established an art collection to compliment the company’s new modernist world headquarters in Moline, Illinois, which was designed by Eero Saarinen. With significant art originating from the United States, Latin America, [...]

Artists Announced for Ambitious Exhibition of Contemporary British Art

LONDON.- The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art. Organised by Hayward Touring Exhibitions, it takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK. Now in its seventh incarnation the British Art Show opens in Nottingham, and tours for the first time in 20 years to the Hayward Gallery, followed by venues in Glasgow and Plymouth. It is curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom [...]

Insects, Antlers, and Bones Given New Life as Unforgettable Works of Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design will open Dead or Alive, an exhibition showcasing the work of more than 30 international artists who use organic and once-living materials—such as insects, feathers, shells, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and fur. “An essential part of the Museum’s mission is to connect artists with our visitors in new ways,” states Holly Hotchner, the museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director. “In our special Visitor Previews we invite the public to watch artists [...]

Art World Remembers Artist Jeanne-Claude in New York City

NEW YORK, NY.- Members of the art world gathered Monday to remember “The Gates” artist Jeanne-Claude as a passionate, uncompromising creative force who fought tirelessly to bring giant art projects to fruition. “I’ve had the honor of meeting many artists in my life, but Jeanne-Claude was perhaps the most passionate, the most meticulous and the most impervious to the word ‘no,’” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said to the crowd. “She was the kind of unique and vibrant artist who [...]

Science Museum Stages Egyptian Makeup Workshop at April Lates

LONDON.- The Science Museum will stage an Egyptian style makeup workshop at its next Lates evening on Wednesday 28 April. The workshop is one of the highlights of the programme, which celebrates the science of beauty through a series of fun and interactive workshops, talks and other activities. Visitors will also have an opportunity to view rare and beautiful items from the Wellcome collection of personal care – showing how beauty accessories and techniques have changed throughout history. Other activities [...]

Allison Gildersleeve and Erik Jeor Exhibit at Allegra LaViola Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Allison Gildersleeve and Erik Jeor, a twoperson show comprised of works on paper and canvas. To enter the worlds of Allison Gildersleeve and Erik Jeor one must abandon a sense of gravity and time. Light pours from unlikely sources, and memory cannot be trusted. The beauty that lures one into the work is chilled by an edge of darkness, and though we pause to admire the scenery, we might not want to linger [...]

Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion? at The Drawing Center

NEW YORK, NY.- The Drawing Center presents Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion? on view in the Main Gallery from April 23–July 23, 2010. The first major museum exhibition to focus on the late drawings of the American artist Leon Golub (1922–2004), this presentation features approximately 50 oil stick and ink on Bristol board and vellum drawings made between 1999 and 2004. It also includes Golub’s only existent unfinished painting—a chalk sketch of two lions— which he started [...]

Lismore Castle Arts Presents Gerard Byrne Curated by Mike Fitzpatrick

CO WATERFORD.- Lismore Castle Arts presents its 2010 annual exhibition, Gerard Byrne, which opened on April 24th and continues until September 30th 2010, at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland. Gerard Byrne’s works are primarily lens based, in film, video and photography, often presented as ambitious site related installations. Through his practice he explores the ambiguities in the historical legacy of cultural forms. He consistently references a range of sources in his work from popular magazines of the recent [...]

Group Raises $12.5M Goal for Hollywood Sign Land

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Developers won’t be building anything behind the landmark Hollywood sign. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday a final $900,000 donation by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner completed the $12.5 million fundraising drive to protect the 138 acres behind the famous sign. The governor praised the public and private partnership in raising the money to keep the property out of hands of developers. The Trust for Public Land conservation group raised $6.7 million in private funds, the state raised [...]

Amon Carter Museum Announces New Assistant Facilities Manager

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announced that Ron LaPosa has joined its staff as the assistant facilities manager. In his new position, LaPosa will assist with the oversight of the museum’s daily operations, including janitorial, engineering and general maintenance. “The museum was designed by Philip Johnson as a vibrant and elegant structure that would be capable of not only housing thousands of works of American art, but functioning as a work space for staff and gathering place for [...]

German Impressionism Presented at the MFA Houston September 2010

HOUSTON, TX.- Max Liebermann, celebrated as “the German Manet,” was the leader of a generation of German painters who were inspired by the stylistic developments in France. With colleagues Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt, he forged the way for Impressionism in Germany. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be the first American museum to devote a major exhibition to German Impressionism with German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann—Corinth—Slevogt, on view September 12—December 5, 2010. While the artists were not exclusively [...]