St. Louis Arts Organizations Present the American Arts Experience

ST. LOUIS, MO.- For 17 days and nights, beginning October 1, 2010, the The American Arts Experience – St. Louis will fill concert halls, museums, theaters, universities and outdoor spaces in the St. Louis area with dozens of performances and shows by renowned American artists and companies in disciplines ranging from symphonic music to jazz and singer-songwriters, theater by American playwrights and dance by American companies to major American visual artists. The American Arts Experience – St. Louis will be [...]

Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin

BARCELONA.- In early 2009, the German company Dalí-Museum Berlin GmbH announced the opening, in February 2009 on Berlin’s Leipziger Platz, of a show entitled “DALÍ – DIE AUSSTELLUNG” (DALÍ – THE EXHIBITION) displaying graphic works and sculptures attributed to Salvador Dalí. The presentation of this eminently commercial exhibition of mainly serial works gave rise to confusion, mainly on account of the use of the definite article (“THE exhibition”) which appeared to indicate a special, unique official event. The company name [...]

Exceptional Scottish Colourists Star in Bonhams Scottish Sale

LONDON.- An exceptional late still life by Scottish Colourist, George Leslie Hunter, (est £100,000 – 150,000) is the star lot in this year’s annual Scottish sale (17-20 Aug inclusive). Entitled simply, ‘Still Life’, it showcases the full range of Hunter’s talents, and features his keynote motifs of pink roses, goblet, fruit, fabric and drapery. “The meticulous composition is carefully worked yet retains the freshness and painterly panache evident in his best work,” commented Bonhams Head of Pictures in Edinburgh, Chris [...]

Experts Work to Free Buried Ship Hull at World Trade Center Site in New York

NEW YORK (AP).- The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago — landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the mud near ground zero. A 32-foot piece of the vessel was discovered in soil 20 feet under street level, amid noisy bulldozers excavating a parking garage for the future World Trade Center. Near the site of so many [...]

Tate Liverpool Receives Freedom of the City of Liverpool

LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool was given the Freedom of the City in recognition of its two decades as a major cultural presence in the city. The high-profile art gallery, which opened at the Albert Dock in 1988, has given Liverpool people some of the very best displays from the national collection. It is an integral part of the artistic and cultural life of the city – and is the most visited modern and contemporary art gallery outside London. Since it opened [...]

Exhibition Features the Future Leaders of New York’s Design Community

NEW YORK, NY.- With its third biennial competition and exhibition, the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter is thrilled to recognize seven promising and pioneering new architecture firms working in New York. These young firms will be featured in an exhibition opening July 15 at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, and will be featured in 2011 in an exhibition in São Paolo. The New Practices New York 2010 exhibition will showcase EASTON+COMBS, which earned the [...]

Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Pledges Fortune to Philanthropy

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who has been treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, said on Thursday he is committing most of his estimated $13.5 billion fortune to philanthropy after his death. Allen follows in the footsteps of former business partner Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who have both pledged the vast majority of their wealth to philanthropy. Allen, the 37th richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Gates and [...]

MOCA Receives Additional Gift from Photographer Max Yavno’s Estate

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), announced a generous gift of $435,000 from the estate of renowned Los Angeles photographer Max Yavno, nearly 25 years after his death. Yavno, who died in 1985, was an accomplished fine art and commercial photographer known for his social documentation and sensitive depiction of urban realism. In 1989, MOCA received a substantial portion of Yavno’s estate, including 183 vintage and contemporary prints and a contribution of $500,000, which was [...]

Long Lost Charlie Chaplin Film to Debut at Virginia Festival

ARLINGTON, VA (AP).-A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges from the bushes in police uniform and that unforgettable mustache. The 1914 film, “A Thief Catcher,” was missing for so many years that everyone forgot Charlie Chaplin made a brief cameo as a buffoon Keystone cop, with all his familiar twitches and gestures. Out of nowhere, the 10-minute film turned up late last year at [...]

Photographs of Wildfires by Youngsuk Suh at Haines Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery presents Wildfires, a seasonably salient exhibition of photographs by Youngsuk Suh. In his first solo exhibition in San Francisco, Suh continues his exploration of the myths of the American wilderness, a subject previously explored in his Instant Traveler series on national parks. Photographed during the California brushfires of 2008 and 2009, and now exhibited during a time of anticipated defense against the fire season, Wildfires explores mankind’s desire to “tame the untamable” and the mediation [...]

Group Exhibition Gimme Shelter Opens at Mixed Greens

NEW YORK, NY.- Mixed Greens presents the group exhibition Gimme Shelter. While shelter is traditionally defined as a structure that provides protection, these seventeen artists present a more complex, multifaceted understanding of the concept. More specifically, the works in this show investigate the delicate balance of perception: whether a space is inviting or uninhabitable, comforting or crumbling, being constructed or consumed. Most traditional are the artists who represent a place of sanctuary or refuge. Kevin Cyr’s Camper Kart, for instance, [...]

Portinari Painting Stolen from Brazil Museum

SAO PAULO (AP).- Police say a painting by Candido Portinari, one of Brazil’s best-known painters, has been stolen from a museum. Inspector Manoel Martins says the 1959 painting “O Enterro,” or “The Burial,” is worth about 1.5 million reals ($850,000). Guards noticed it missing Wednesday from the Contemporary Art Museum in the northeastern city of Olinda. Martins said Thursday that police have no suspects. The museum, which has no internal security cameras, houses some 4,000 works of art including seven [...]

Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship 2010: Call for Entries

PITTSBURGH, Pa.- Silver Eye Center for Photography, the region’s only non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to photography, is pleased to announce Fellowship 2010, their 11th annual international photography competition. Deborah Klochko, Executive Director of the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, California, will jury the competition. The competition is open to all international photographers, as well as Silver Eye members. Two Fellowships are being awarded. The first carries a $3,500 award and is open to all eligible photographers. The second [...]

Joyriders-Photos by Ross McDonnell

In this series of photos entitled “Joyriders” Ross McDonnell, portrays the lives of young Irish people living in in the hollowed-out slum known as Ballymun. The images capture the abandonment of working class youths amidst burning cars, police sirens, and drugs abuse. Ross McDonnell is a photographer and filmmaker. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1979 he has worked as a photographer, cinematographer and director. His work has been published in The New York Times, Art in America, The Observer, The [...]

Talking about Creativity: Rodin, Cellini and Picasso

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating “from nothing” in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. [from Wikipedia] Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in [...]