Angela Brady Elected Next President of the RIBA

LONDON.- Angela Brady has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. Angela will become President Elect on 1 September 2010 and will take over the two-year elected presidency from Ruth Reed on 1 September 2011. Angela will be the 74th RIBA President, a position previously held by Sir G. Gilbert Scott and Sir Basil Spence among others; she will be the second woman President. Angela [...]

IVAM Opens First Exhibition in Europe by Chinese Artist Wang Xieda

VALENCIA.- The exhibition presents for the first time in a European museum this artist’s work brings together 12 sculptures and 14 drawings Xieda Wang’s calligraphy, Chinese artist who combines in his works the influence of calligraphy in the Eastern tradition and contemporary currents of Western art . This is the first exhibition of the Chinese artist Wang Xieda in an European museum. It consists of 14 drawings and 12 sculptures that shows his artistic production. This production allows us to [...]

Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts Features Acclaimed Series, The Brown Sisters

BOSTON, MA.- Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, through May 1, 2011, in the MFA’s Herb Ritts Gallery, features more than 70 black and white portrait photographs by Nicholas Nixon, one of the most celebrated American photographers of this generation. Among them are pictures [...]

Artpace San Antonio Unveils 10.2 International Artists-in-Residence Projects

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio unveiled its 10.2 International Artist-in-Residence projects. Guest curator Patrick Charpenel, independent curator from Mexico City, presented new works by Monika Sosnowska (Warsaw, Poland), Corey McCorkle (New York, New York) and Jamal Cyrus (Houston, Texas), which will be on display to the public through September 12, 2010. The Artists Monika Sosnowska is renowned for her architecturally structured installations that dramatically transform a viewer’s perception and experience of a space. She creates her works in response [...]

Vatican Reverses Itself, “The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” Not a Caravaggio

VATICAN CITY (AP).- The Vatican’s top art historian on Monday shot down a report in its own newspaper that suggested a recently discovered painting was a Caravaggio. The head of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci, wrote in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano that the work was most likely a copy of an original by a Caravaggio-influence artist. It was L’Osservatore itself that set the art world aflutter last week with a front-page article headlined “A New Caravaggio,” detailing the artistry [...]

Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium

SALEM, MA.- Libraries, archives, and museums face similar challenges. Libraries and archives affiliated with art museums have a second layer of concerns to consider in determining how they best relate to their parent institution. The Peabody Essex Museum‘s (PEM) Phillips Library will host a symposium on September 23 and 24, 2010 to explore the issues associated with this very question.Major topics to be addressed include: • The Role of the Library and Archives in an Art Museum • Data Unity [...]

Rare Crusader-Era Fresco Unveiled at Israel Museum

JERUSALEM (AP).- A rare Crusader-era fresco from Jerusalem’s Garden of Gethsemane has been unveiled to the public for the first time. The fresco depicts the Deisis, a famous Biblical scene featuring Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist praying. It was discovered by chance in 1999 as officials worked to preserve sites affected by winter flooding. Curators at the Israel Museum believe the full 12th-century fresco was about 30 feet tall. Only the bottom section, showing feet, now remains. A woman [...]

New Art Fair to Be Hosted by Christie’s During Frieze Week

LONDON.- Christie’s announced Multiplied – an exciting new fair in the field of contemporary art. The fair will be held during the week of the Frieze Art Fair, 15-18th October, providing a platform to promote emerging talent in two and three-dimensional contemporary editions. Christie’s has invited over thirty of the most exciting galleries to showcase a selection of the most challenging, cutting-edge work being produced today. Exhibiting a wide range of publishers under one roof, Christie’s aim to help them [...]

Amon Carter to Showcase a Special Documentary Photography Exhibition

FORT WORTH, TX.- On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White. This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. American Modern will be on view through January 2, 2011; admission is free. Featuring more than 140 photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971) and Walker Evans (1903–1975), American Modern was co-organized by the Amon Carter [...]

Lord Chesterfield’s Panelling Highlighted At The Bowes Museum

COUNTY DURHAM.- One of the treasures of The Bowes Museum’s sequence of period room panelling will be highlighted as the Object of the Month for August. Every Thursday at 2.30 curator Howard Coutts will reveal the story behind a segment of panelling from a London townhouse built for Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Chesterfield, best known for his letters to his [illegitimate] son, giving advice on how to behave and get on in society, was also an international [...]

Comics and Contemporary Art to Be Featured at Le Havre Contemporary Art Biennale

LE HAVRE.- The third edition of the Le Havre contemporary art biennale will take place from 1 to 31 October 2010. The event will be dedicated to the exploration of the relations between comics and contemporary art. «We knew for a long time that literature included works ranging from Winnie the pooh to Histoires d’O, and that Ben Affleck’s movies were not similar to Jean-Luc Godard’s. We just discovered that Marjane Satrapi’s Persépolis was not competing with Jean Graton’s Michel [...]

LACMA Presents First L.A. Exhibition of Thomas Eakins Since 1927

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, on view from July 25 to October 17, 2010. Organized exclusively for LACMA by Ilene Susan Fort, the museum’s Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, the exhibition celebrates the museum’s acquisition of Eakins’s last great sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899)—one of the single most important American paintings acquired in the history of LACMA. Featuring around 60 oil paintings, drawings, [...]

Rubens, Poussin and 17th Century Artists to Be Featured in Exhibition

PARIS.- This exhibition assembles around sixty paintings from some of the best private and public collections in Europe (Art museums in Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Oxford, Liège, and more). It offers a unique view of two great artistic movements of the 17th century: Flemish Baroque painting, of which Rubens is the chief protagonist, and the French Classical school led by Poussin and the influence they had on each other. The Jacquemart-André Museum has set out to write a new page in [...]

Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens an Exhibition of Works Donated to Its Collection

VALENCIA.- The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern has received a lot of artworks over the last 25 years. Out of the 10 643 works comprising the IVAM’s collection, 61 % are donations made by collectors, artists and heirs who have considered that the IVAM is the perfect museum to preserve and disseminate their creations. Thanks to the donations, the museum has increased its artistic heritage becoming a reference museum for studying the works of some artists, for example Julio González, whose [...]

Robert Ryman: Variations and Improvisations at the Phillips Collection

WASHINGTON, DC.- Robert Ryman: Variations and Improvisations, the artist’s first solo show in DC, presents twenty-five small paintings that demonstrate the diversity of Ryman’s pictorial experimentation. The exhibition consists of twenty-five small paintings (almost all are between seven- and ten-inch squares) from the last fifty-three years of the eighty-year-old painter’s career. The paintings represent a striking variety of surfaces and materials including oil on canvas, pastel graphite and charcoal on paper, vinyl polymer paint on aluminum, double-baked porcelain enamel on [...]