Canadian Museum Mounts Major Angela Grauerholz Exhibition

OTTAWA.- Born in Germany, artist Angela Grauerholz has been living in Montreal since the mid-1970s. She has long been interested in feminism, conceptual art, and a range of theoretical perspectives on photography, influences that have shaped her art over the last 25 years. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography is mounting a major exhibition comprised of some 40 works created over the course of her career. Presented by Pratt & Whitney Canada at the NGC, Angela Grauerholz: The inexhaustible image [...]

Sir Michael Caine Opens the New Galleries of Modern London

LONDON.- On Friday 28 May 2010 the Museum of London unveiled the Galleries of Modern London, a spectacular £20 million redevelopment of the Museum’s galleries, which will tell the story of London and its inhabitants from the Great Fire of London in 1666 to the present day. Supported by an £11.5 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant, the new galleries provide an inspiring vision of the world’s greatest city, and place the Museum at the heart of London ahead of the [...]

Spencer Museum of Art Taps I.M. Pei Firm to Produce Expansion Plan

LAWRENCE, KS.- The internationally renowned architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (formerly I. M. Pei & Partners) has been contracted to produce a phased master planning document for the future expansion of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. “A planning document developed by this highly respected firm will articulate the new evolving vision of the Spencer Museum of Art,” said Saralyn Reece Hardy, museum director. “The Spencer is a leader among university art museums [...]

AOL Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Chuck Close’s Project on Creativity

NEW YORK, NY.- Last night, May 26, AOL celebrated its 25th Anniversary as the company kicked off its Project on Creativity with legendary American artist Chuck Close at the New Museum. With over 600 guests in attendance, the worlds of art, media, and technology converged en masse to celebrate the pioneering internet brand’s historic birthday. Guests including Andy Spade, Kate Spade, Bettina Zilkha, Lisa Anastos, Genevieve Jones, Nejima Beard, Francesca Bodini, Simon Hammerstein, Jennifer Missoni, Luca Bonetti, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Will [...]

Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

HAMBURG.- In view of the advancing climate change, the exhibition “Climate Capsules: Means of Surviving Disaster” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg poses the question: “How do we want to live in the future?” and draws attention to the socio-political consequences of coexistence under new climatic conditions. In view of the fact that the politicians are hesitant to enforce strict measures for climate protection and the citizens very sluggish about changing their habits, the change appears inevitable. The [...]

Exhibition of Masterpiece Prints by Albrecht Dürer Opens at Lade Lever Gallery

LIVERPOOL.- Masterpiece prints by Albrecht Dürer, one of the great Renaissance artists, are featured in an exhibition highlighting the influence of his work. Dürer (1471 – 1528) was the first great artist to achieve fame through prints – he established his reputation throughout Europe while still in his 20s. “Dürer and Italy” 28 May – 26 September 2010 has engraved classics by the Nuremberg artist alongside Italian works by Dürer’s contemporaries. The combination illustrates a surprising cultural exchange that took [...]

When You Wish Upon a Tsar – Romanov Photos at Bonhams Book Sale

LONDON.- A collection of 19th century photographic portraits of Russian Royalty goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale on 8 June in London (estimate £2,000 – 4,000). Many of the portraits are of the family of Tsar Nicholas I who reigned from 1825 to 1855 and of the family of his successor Alexander II (also known as ‘The Tsar Liberator’) who ruled from 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Among the most notable items are [...]

An Impressive Gold Coin from the Reign of Napoleon III was Discovered

JERUSALEM.- In an archaeological excavation, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, which was conducted on Koifman Street in north Yafo, prior to infrastructure work by NTA – Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd, an impressive gold coin from the reign of Napoleon III was uncovered. The ten franc coin was minted in Paris in 1856, at the time of the Second French Empire, and is made of almost completely pure gold (93%). The image appearing on the obverse is that [...]

Aga Khan to Launch New Museum in Toronto, Canada

TORONTO.- On Friday, May 28, 2010, His Highness the Aga Khan will participate in the Foundation Ceremony to mark the beginning of the development of the Ismaili Centre, the first-ever Aga Khan Museum for Islamic Art and Culture, and their Park, in Toronto’s Don Mills area. The development of these projects, an initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, seeks to foster [...]

Six Million Pounds of Victorian Paintings to Be Offered at Christie’s

LONDON.- The vitality of the market for Victorian & British Pictures including Drawings & Watercolours continues to gain notable momentum, as demonstrated by the multiple world auction records set at the December 2009 sale where ‘spirited bidding from buyers swept up with Victorian values’ was reported in the press. The summer 2010 sale at Christie’s London, on Wednesday 16 June, will meet the renewed vigor of demand with one of the strongest sales of its type to be offered on [...]

Georg Baselitz Visits His New Exhibition Space at Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden

DRESDEN.- Painter Georg Baselitz will have a separate room in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden in the new Albertinum. Twelve works by the artist will be there for visitors to see starting June 2010. In a separate hall between the rooms dedicated to AR Penck and Gerhard Richter, eleven paintings and a wooden sculpture, as specified by the artist, will be set up. Besides some loans, including two works that are owned by the State Art Collections in Dresden, [...]

Exhibition of New Paintings by Medrie MacPhee at Von Lintel Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel presents an exhibition of new paintings by Medrie MacPhee. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show with Von Lintel Gallery and her seventh one-person show in New York. Over the years MacPhee’s subject matter has taken various forms—industrial sites, floating synthetic worlds, darkly humorous future hybrid species, abandoned survivors’ encampments. These landscapes explored notions of physical and psychological dislocation. In these new large-scale paintings, the forms float, collide and hover free of gravity and [...]

Oldest Unpublished Votive Painting Exhibited in Coyoacan

MEXICO CITY.- A collection of 122 votive paintings dated from 18th century to our days –among them, the one that is possibly the oldest in Latin America, is exhibited for the first time in the show Los relatos pintados: La otra historia, Exvotos mexicanos (Painted tales: Mexican Ex votos, the Other History), recently inaugurated at National Museum of Interventions. The exhibition organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), registers the popular history of the Independence and Revolution [...]

Whitney to Break Ground on New Downtown Building in 2011

NEW YORK, NY.- In an historic decision for the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to break ground on a new museum building in downtown Manhattan in May 2011. Located in the Meatpacking District on Gansevoort Street between West Street and the High Line, the six-floor, 195,000-square-foot building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, will provide the Whitney with essential new space for its collection, exhibitions, and education and performing arts programs in [...]

Yale Showcases a Century of Exceptional Poster Art from the London Underground

NEW HAVEN.- London Transport has produced some of the world’s most recognizable images: the iconic roundel logo, the schematic Tube map, and a host of memorable posters as part of one of the most ambitious publicity campaigns in history. An exhibition exploring the evolution of transport posters in twentieth-century Britain will premiere at the Yale Center for British Art on May 27. Art for All: British Posters for Transport will feature more than one hundred posters designed for the Underground [...]