Dutch Museum Expansion Project Designed by Hans van Heeswijk Unveiled

THE HAGUE.- The preliminary design for the 22 million euro project ‘Mauritshuis building for the future’ was unveiled on June 22, 2010. The ambitious design links Plein 26, the art deco building opposite the Mauritshuis in The Hague which is part of the Nieuwe of Littéraire Sociëteit de Witte, with the museum by means of an underground foyer, thus doubling the square footage and increasing its potential. The project is expected to be completed by mid 2014. Eminent Dutch architect [...]

Richard Wright’s Most Complex Painting to Date Unveiled at the Dean Gallery

LONDON.- The most complex and ambitious painting to date by 2009 Turner prize-winner, Richard Wright, was unveiled today, 30 June 2010. One of three major artworks commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival with support from the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the painting is located in the west stairwell of the Dean Orphan Hospital, now the Dean Gallery, which is part of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The striking black on white design was created in an [...]

A Solo Exhibit of Michael Barletta Paintings and Drawings at Elisa Contemporary Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Akin to an improvisational jazz performance, Michael Barletta’s abstract paintings and drawings reflect a live moment in time and space. Each stroke of the brush or pen is a spontaneous gesture reflecting the artist’s visceral response to his immediate surroundings and inner emotions. “I try to capture a moment in time and space without imposing a message other than the arrangement of color and shapes that stir the emotions and engage the senses.” Michael translates the energy [...]

Owen and Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Art Donated to the Hood Museum of Art

HANOVER, NH.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College announced an important private gift of contemporary Aboriginal art. Will Owen and Harvey Wagner have gifted over three hundred works to the museum, representing the many exciting contemporary art-making practices of Aboriginal peoples across the Australian continent. These objects, in styles both traditional and contemporary, are by artists from remote Outback communities as well as major metropolitan centers, and they span six decades of creative activity. The Owen and Wagner [...]

Toledo Museum of Art Names New Director Brian P. Kennedy to Lead Museum

TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art announced today that Brian P. Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has accepted the position as the Museum’s ninth director with a start date of September 1. Board Chair Betsy Brady and George Chapman, head of the search committee, made the announcement this morning at the Museum. “The Museum conducted an international search for its next director. We were pleased to have an exemplary group of candidates presented [...]

Stunning Single Owner Collection of Asian Art for Sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh

LONDON.- A superb collection of Asian art, lovingly assembled over a decade by a single enthusiast while living and working in the Far East and South East Asia, is for sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on 7 July. Among the most fascinating pieces is a painting by the internationally celebrated Chinese artist Jiang Guo Fang who became a personal friend of the collector when he was living in Shanghai in the early 1990s. The painting, ‘Reclining Court Beauty’ shows a beautiful [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd Opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Naples. Having never visited the city before, he soon developed a relationship with it that he described as ‘akin to a drug habit’, returning again and again over the next eight years. Naples is known as the ‘Siren City’ [...]