Giuseppe Moccia Wins PHotoEspaña OjodePez Human Values Award

MADRID.- PHotoEspaña and OjodePez Magazine announce the winning work of the 3rd edition of the prize PHotoEspaña OjodePez Human Values Award, with which they recognize a work of documentary photography that should emphasize the values of solidarity, ethics, justice or effort. The prize consists of 6.000 Euros, a solo exhibition of the images of the winner and the publication of the winning series in the special autumn issue of OjodePez Magazine. The winner of the 3rd edition of PHotoEspaña OjodePez [...]

Exhibition Brings Together the Great Names of Belgian Contemporary Art

HORNU, BELGIUM.- “À toutes les morts, égales et cachées dans la nuit” (To all the departed equal and hidden in the night) is the major summer exhibition at the MAC‘s (the Museum of Contemporary Art). It opens its doors to the public from 20th June to 10th October 2010. Bearing the unmistakable mark of the work of Laurent Busine, the exhibition brings together the great names of Belgian and international contemporary art, as well as little known artists and even [...]

Alexey Titarenko: Black and White Saint-Petersburg at Pobeda Gallery

MOSCOW.- “The display of undeveloped” – is a special project of Pobeda gallery created to represent to moscovites the photography of an artist Alexey Titarenko, who’s works with classic technologies and modernists black and white photography are well-known all over the world. This is one of the very few cases of the international recognition of a contemporary Russian photographer. The exhibition at Pobeda gallery happens at the same time as the one in New York. Both expositions are in a [...]

Solo Exhibition with Photographs by Maura Sullivan at Kahmann Gallery

AMSTERDAM.- A solo exhibition with photographs from the New York- based artist, Maura Sullivan (1971). Sullivan makes short movies in a single photograph. You can search for the meaning, the words, the tension, to try to explain the story. But not searching for a deeper meaning will still leave you with beautiful, well styled, photography. The beauty is in the restraint: the images reveal enough to draw you in and withhold enough to make you curious. Sullivan is intrigued with [...]

Hayward Gallery Reopens with International Survey of 36 Artists

LONDON.- The New Décor is an international survey of 36 contemporary artists from 22 countries who explore interior design as a means of engaging with changes in contemporary culture that range from the impact of globalism to our shifting boundaries of public and private. What unites the artists is their ability to transform objects we associate with the everyday – a bed, a shelf, a lamp – into something uncanny, compelling, and revealing. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the [...]

Sam Francis’ Biggest Show in Europe Since 1995 Opens in Slovakia

BRATISLAVA.- 100 original works by American artist Sam Francis will be exhibited at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum from June 19 until August 29, 2010. This Sam Francis retrospective is the biggest show in Europe since 1995, made possible by two European private collectors. Sam Francis (1923-1994) was a citizen of the world who lived for art. American by birth, he spent a large part of his live in Paris, Tokyo and New York and had painting studios around the [...]

Hayward Gallery Reopens with Exhibition by Brazilian Artist Ernesto Neto

LONDON.- Considered one of the most influential artists of his generation, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has dramatically transformed the interior of the upper galleries and the three adjacent outdoor sculpture terraces of the Hayward Gallery with a series of spectacular site-specific installations. Curated by Dr Cliff Lauson, The Edges of the World is Neto’s most ambitious and diverse exhibition to date. It is a highlight of Festival Brazil, Southbank Centre’s major summer festival celebrating the dynamic culture of today’s Brazil. [...]

Lenbachhaus Presents Its First Ever Comprehensive Show of the Blauer Reiter Group

MUNICH.- With this exhibition the Lenbachhaus is presenting its first ever comprehensive show of its outstanding collection of graphic works by artists of the Blauer Reiter group, including watercolours, drawings and prints. The exhibition will include the museum’s complete holdings of graphic works by Albert Bloch, Heinrich Campendonk, Robert Delaunay, Alexei Jawlensky, Eugen von Kahler, Paul Klee, Else Lasker-Schüler, August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexander Sacharoff, Eugen Schiemann, and Marianne von Werefkin, with many of these works being presented to the [...]

Visitors will Observe Conservators Investigating Monet’s “Water Lilies”

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 will be able to observe Museum conservation specialists as they perform various scientific examinations on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The examination is made possible with an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a $1 million challenge grant. The grant’s purpose is to establish an endowment to provide additional scientific expertise for research and conservation investigation on [...]

Garber Headlines Strong Fine Paintings Sale at Freeman’s

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Led by the success of Daniel Garber’s “Old Farm in the Hills,” which realized $457,000 against an estimate of $200,000-300,000, Freeman’s June 13 sale of ‘Fine American & European Paintings and Sculpture’ was a testament to the strength and resilience of the current art market. Works by other Pennsylvania artists also fared well, as did a number of British and Continental paintings, with 87 percent of the lots offered selling (by value), for a total of $2,089,433. Two [...]

Collectors Compete for American Paintings at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- Active bidding by private collectors resulted in a strong auction of American Art and Contemporary Art at Swann Galleries on June 8. The sale’s top lots, offered in the Contemporary Art section, were Louise Nevelson’s Maquette for Monumental Sculpture II, welded black steel, 1977, which sold for $78,000*, and Willem de Kooning’s The Devil at the Keyboard, lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache, 1976, $40,800. Highlights of the American Art section included Landscape, oil on [...]

Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of 11th Annual National Design Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 11th annual National Design Awards program, now in its second decade. Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners and finalists of the 2010 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The Award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Thursday, Oct. 14, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York. First Lady Michelle Obama serves as [...]

Site-Specific Installation by Markus Linnenbrink at Number 35

NEW YORK, NY.- Number 35 presents a site-specific installation by Markus Linnenbrink. Known internationally for his brightly colored resin paintings and sculptures, here Markus Linnenbrink will create an installation that will cover the walls, ceiling and floor of the gallery. Whether employing traditional supports, building sculptures, or engaging directly with the space itself, present always is the joy Linnenbrink has in creating his works. His “drip” paintings literally ooze shiny colors which then extend from the surface edge. With his [...]

Janet Carding Appointed Royal Ontario Museum’s New Director and CEO

TORONTO.- Sal Badali, Chair of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) Board of Trustees, announced today the appointment of Janet Carding as the new Director and CEO effective September 2010. Carding will be responsible for furthering the Museum’s mission, advocating for its ongoing public and private sector support, promoting its research, programs, and collections, and overseeing the management of the Museum’s operations, which include exhibitions, programs, education, visitor services, administration and facilities management. Carding is the first woman appointed to the [...]

Buyer in North Carolina Defends Photo Thought to Show Slave Children

RALEIGH, NC.- A collector is defending his recent purchase of a century-old photo believed to depict children born as slaves after similar images found online called its rarity into question. The photo found in a North Carolina attic in April was part of a trove of pictures and documents bought by collector Keya Morgan for $50,000. Morgan and an art historian say they believe the photo depicted two children who were either slaves or just emancipated in the early 1860s. [...]