Presidio Habitats: A Year Long Exhibition in the Landscape

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- One might ask, why animal habitats? The answer is quite simple: animal habitats have a direct connection to the rich diversity of wildlife in the park as well as to the significant efforts being made in habitat restoration within the Presidio. In this way, habitat design is the creative engine for development of work specifically for the place. By including as habitat candidates species that no longer live in the park, artists had even more opportunities to [...]

“Pattern, Costume and Ornament” Explores the Meanings of Decoration in Contemporary African and African-American Art

BIRMINGHAM, AL.- “Pattern, Costume and Ornament” opened at the Birmingham Museum of Art on June 6 in the Bohourfoush Gallery. The works gathered in the exhibition were created by African and African-American artists and drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection and from local private collections. Ron Platt, The Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, organized the exhibition. “These works are united by a visual presentation that emphasizes eye-catching arrangements, attention to detail and embellishment, and often both,” says [...]

New Exhibit Illustrates U.S. Sruggle to Evict War-Time Intruders from Alaska

ANCHORAGE (AP).- Early in World War II, Kiska was a hotly contested battlefield that figured prominently in Japanese and U.S. news. Nearby, Adak supported a large military installation. In the new exhibition “Kiska and Adak: War in the Aleutians,” historic artifacts and then-and-now photographs illustrate the United States’ struggle to evict war-time intruders from Alaska. Today, these islands are home to the physical remains of the World War II era. On Kiska, U.S. bomb craters dot the tundra and Japanese [...]

Winner of 2009 PHotoEspaña Prize, Alejandra Laviada, Presents Her First Solo Exhibition

MADRID.- The young Mexican artist Alejandra Laviada took part in the portfolio presentation which took place in Mexico City in 2009, later receiving the Descubrimientos PHE (Discoveries PHE) Brugal Extra Viejo Award for her series Photo Sculptures, in which she photographs ephemeral sculptures created from discarded objects. This group of photographs alters the concept of daily objects, it registers spaces which are completely demolished or transformed and implies the stories of the people who live there. Her exhibition, houses in [...]

Paris Photo 2010 will Put the Spotlight on Central Europe

PARIS.- Held at the Carrousel du Louvre from 18th to 21st November 2010, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th Century, modern and contemporary photography will bring together 103 exhibitors including 90 galleries and 13 publishers. With 78% of foreign participation, 25 represented countries, 31 new comers, the 14th edition is rich in discoveries. This year’s edition marks the return of US galleries and a stronger showing of contemporary art galleries with Beaumontpublic (Luxemburg), Ernst Hilger (Vienne), I8 (Reykjavik), [...]

Nelson-Atkins Announces Exhibition of Vibrant Watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, will be on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection, an exhibition that opens this fall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011. Baltimore [...]

Scandinavian Home Interiors as Seen through the Eyes of Artists at Naionalmuseum

STOCKHOLM.- The exhibition shows how home interiors and design styles have changed from one era to the next, and also how the image of the home as portrayed by artists has evolved. Artists became increasingly interested in painting domestic scenes as the home took on greater importance in western culture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The home became a critical issue for every social group, and artists were there to capture the manor homes of the aristocracy, the urban [...]

Renovated Albertinum in Dresden Unites Past and Present in New Exhibition Halls

DRESDEN.- After thorough-going restoration and refurbishment, the new Albertinum now presents itself as a centre of art from the Romantic period to the present day. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings of both museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter and sculptures ranging from Rodin to the 21st century, have an outstanding worldwide reputation. Huge glass-fronted display storerooms provide visitors with unprecedented insights into the internal [...]

Trela Media Published The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol

NEW YORK, NY.- On June 30th, Trela Media will be rereleasing The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol by John Wilcock, originally published in 1971. Village Voice and Interview co-founder John Wilcock was first drawn into the milieu of Andy Warhol through filmmaker Jonas Mekas, assisting on some of Warhol’s early films, hanging out at his parties and quickly becoming a regular at the Factory. “About six months after I started hanging out at the old, silvery Factory on [...]

Art Institute of Chicago Intertwines Sound & Vision in Exhibition

CHICAGO, IL.- Even before Bowie united them in song, sound and vision had been closely intertwined in the visual and audio art recordings of the early 1970s. This focused exhibition of a dozen works in various media explores the symbiotic relationship between art and music, presenting humorous yet rigorous investigations in which the two do not connect in any synesthetic sense but rather come together via acts of transposition—balls cast aloft are made to resemble notes in a musical score, [...]

Odette England and Elaine Duigenan Exhibit at Klompching Gallery

BROOKLYN, NY.- With Micro Mundi, Elaine Duigenan continues her fascination with transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. In this intimate series of images, she has photographed the arterial wanderings of snails, as they graze upon algae, leaving behind an aftermath of claw-like patterns—caused by the rasping action of the snail’s spiky tongue. On a micro level, these rambling, chaotic and protracted patterns, attest to a seemingly plodding yet vigorous life-form. On a macro level, they’re dendritic appearance resemble earth’s estuaries [...]

Eight Photographers for Harbourfront Centre’s Major Commission for Outdoor Exhibition

TORONTO.- Harbourfront Centre presents the eight emerging Canadian photographers who have been commissioned to take part in the unique exhibition Beyond Imaginings: Eight artists encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt. From June 18, 2010 through June 2011, the photographs of Beyond Imaginings occupy Canada’s largest outdoor photography exhibition gallery, located at Harbourfront Centre on its 10-acre central waterfront Toronto site, one of the most visited public sites in all of Canada. Beyond Imaginings is free and open to all ages. The eight artists [...]

Art and Design to Raise Funds for Literacy in London

LONDON.- PRATHAM is one of the world’s leading and most respected non-profit organisations. It is known for its enduring literacy movement in India and for achieving annual donations of more than 2 million pounds to help provide quality education to underprivileged children. With six international offices chaired by the movers and shakers of India’s financial world and several awards including the CNN IBN Indian of the Year in 2009, the charity has changed the lives of 34 million children in [...]

Kick Back in Pantone Inspired Style: Pantone Hotel Opens in Brussels

BRUSSELS.- Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color, announced the opening of the PANTONE HOTELTM in Brussels. Centrally located just steps from Avenue Louise, a glamorous shopping and business district named for a king’s daughter and now a muse to modern-day designers, the boutique PANTONE HOTEL combines a chic, colorful design aesthetic with comfortable, well-appointed guest rooms. The lobby and rooftop terraces are destinations unto themselves within a bustling city center famous for its artistic, culinary [...]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Fifty Works for the First State

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Fifty Works for the First State: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, featuring art produced between 1966 and 2003 by 23 artists, on view June 19, 2010 – August 29, 2010. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel assembled one of the world’s most outstanding collections of minimal and conceptual art—over 4,000 works. They then teamed up with the National Gallery of Art, with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the [...]