Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced

LONDON.- Two exceptional museum buildings in Oxford and Berlin, a striking new art gallery in Rome, a skilful live/work development in Shoreditch and two schools: one an inventive and uplifting new build in London, the other a clever extension in Guildford, form the shortlist for the prestigious £20,000 RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark. Now in its fifteenth year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new European building [...]

Exhibition of New Work by Paula Rego at Marlborough Fine Art

LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art presents an exhibition of new work by Paula Rego through 20th August. This is her first solo exhibition in London since 2006. The exhibition has three separate strands: the first is the Oratorio, a mixed media Triptych with a central panel and two wings which Paula created for her recent joint exhibition with Tracey Emin and Matt Collishaw at the Foundling Museum earlier this year. In addition to the Oratorio, there are six large conté works [...]

Artist Robert Therrien Donates Two Sculptures to Artist Rooms Collection

EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland and Tate announced that the internationally renowned American artist, Robert Therrien has very generously given two major sculptures to the ARTIST ROOMS collection. These two seminal pieces, No Title (Beard Cart) 2004 and No Title (Stacked Plates) 2010 will significantly enhance the group of five important works by the artist already featured in the ARTIST ROOMS collection that was created by the collector Anthony d’Offay in 2008. The addition of these two gifts establishes [...]

Guggenheim Museum and YouTube Announce Jury for YouTube Play

NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and YouTube, the world’s largest online video community, today announced the distinguished jury for YouTube Play, a biennial of creative video presented in collaboration with HP and Intel and conceived to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. The jury includes performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson; music group Animal Collective, featuring Deakin (Josh Dibb), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox); filmmaker [...]

Lynette Roth Appointed as Harvard Art Museums’ Associate Curator

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums announced the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined and innovative work in the academy and in the museum has distinguished her early in her career. “I am happy to welcome Lynette to our staff,” said Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. “Her academic [...]

Chautauqua, Kodak and Eastman House Present Week on Photography

CHAUTAUQUA, NY.- Chautauqua Institution is partnering with Eastman Kodak Company and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film for a week unlike any other offered in the Institution’s history — exploring the world of photography with world-renowned speakers, interactive exhibits and activities, and an onsite social media center designed to share the experience with the world. Week Five of Chautauqua’s nine-week 2010 Season, taking place July 25 through 31, is themed “Picture This: Photography” and will examine photography [...]

Group Exhibition “The Mass Ornament” on View at Gladstone Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents The Mass Ornament, an exhibition curated by John Rasmussen. This group exhibition takes its title from a collection of essays by the German writer and cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer that were originally published in the 1920s and 1930s in the feuilleton section of the Frankfurter Zeitung. These essays focused on many topics including dance, religion, film, photography, arcades, and boredom—subjects that characterized the public’s rapidly shifting relationship to the city, mass culture, and politics [...]

Philbrook Museum of Art Names Catherine Whitney as Chief Curator

TULSA, OK.- Catherine Whitney joined Philbrook as Chief Curator and Curator of American Art on July 12. Whitney will oversee the curatorial department’s ambitious and expanding special exhibition programs, and research, interpret, install and further develop Philbrook’s collection of American Art. Whitney’s comes to Tulsa via Washington, DC and Santa Fe, NM where she has worked in various museum and gallery positions. A graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine (BA in Studio Art and Art History) and University of Maryland [...]

Van Gogh Museum Announces Naturalism in Art with the Exhibition Illusions of Reality

AMSTERDAM.- From 8 October 2010 to 16 January 2011, the Van Gogh Museum will be presenting Illusions of reality: Naturalist painting, photography and cinema, 1875-1918. The exhibition, curated by guest curator Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, gives an overview of Naturalist painting in relation to photography and film, with work by artists including Léon Lhermitte and Jules Bastien-Lepage (France), Albert Edelfelt (Finland), Károly Ferenczy (Hungary), Anders Zorn (Sweden), and Thomas Anschutz (United States). [...]

Britain’s Finest Literary Talents Pictured in Southampton

SOUTHAMPTON.- Portraits of Britain’s finest literary talents from the National Portrait Gallery will be on display At Southampton City Art Gallery from this July. Writers of Influence: Shakespeare to JK Rowling features 61 of the most important British writers and lyricists of all time. The exhibition includes portraits of William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, John Lennon and Jarvis Cocker. One of the National Portrait Gallery’s most important possessions – the ‘Chandos’ [...]

Cronkite School Wins International Architecture Award

PHOENIX, AZ.- The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication building at Arizona State University has been awarded an International Architecture Award. The International Architecture Awards are conferred on the world’s most significant new buildings and urban or landscape developments by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in conjunction with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The Cronkite building was one of 95 buildings and urban planning projects from 38 nations, and one [...]

National Gallery Announces Most Complete Display of Leonardo’s Work

LONDON.- ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. This unprecedented exhibition – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – brings together sensational international loans never before seen in the UK, including ‘La Belle Ferronière’ (Musée du Louvre, Paris), the ‘Madonna Litta’ (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg) and ‘Saint Jerome’ (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome). While numerous exhibitions have looked at Leonardo da Vinci as an inventor, scientist [...]

Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris Exhibition Arrives at Its Final Destination

ADELAIDE.- After enchanting audiences in Sydney and Melbourne, the sumptuous exhibition Rupert Bunny: artist in Paris arrives at its final destination, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Around a hundred lavishly beautiful works of art are on show from 23 July until 4 October, in celebration of Rupert Bunny (1864-1947), Australia’s most successful expatriate artist. Melbourne-born Rupert Bunny led a fascinating life and spent more than four decades living and working in France at the turn of last century. [...]

‘Conan’ Painting by Late Artist Frank Frazetta Goes for $1.5 Million

PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A 1971 painting by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta has sold for $1.5 million, two months after the Pennsylvania artist’s death. Frazetta’s managers said this week that a private collector bought “Conan the Destroyer” from a family trust. Managers Robert Pistella and Stephen Ferzoco call it the price the highest ever for a work by Frazetta. In this undated photo provided by Frazetta Properties LLC, the painting “Conan the Destroyer” by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta is shown. The 1971 [...]

708,000 Persons have Visited the PHotoEspaña 2010 Exhibitions

MADRID.- The final results of PHotoEspaña 2010 were made public yesterday morning in Madrid at a press conference given by Claude Bussac, director of PHotoEspaña. At the gathering, the press was provided with general statistics on attendance and participation in the 13th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, which will come to a close on Sunday, 25 July. Claude Bussac highlighted the interest and enthusiasm that both experts and the general public have shown in the festival’s activities and [...]