High Museum to Offer Half-Price Tickets for Dalí Exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- Beginning next Tuesday, August 17, the High will offer half-price adult tickets ($9), all day, for walk-up visitors only on Tuesdays through August 31. Visitors purchasing a new museum membership on these Tuesdays will also receive a free gift. Groups of 10 or more will receive two additional free tickets when booking for these Tuesdays by calling 404-733-4550. Beginning September 7 through October 29, the High will offer half-price tickets ($9) every weekday (Tuesday–Friday) from 11 a.m. until [...]

In September, All Eyes will Be on Kees van Dongen Exhibition

ROTTERDAM.- This autumn, for the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the recently restored work A Finger on her Cheek by Kees van Dongen in its original state in All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, an exhibition that also features some sixty other key masterpieces from international collections. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a major exhibition of paintings by the internationally renowned artist Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). The thoughtful selection of eighty works -around sixty [...]

Arkansas Arts Center to Present Exhibition of Mexican Art Since 1910

LITTLE ROCK, AR.- In conjunction with a city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the Arkansas Arts Center will present the exhibition A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910 September 1 – November 21, 2010. A Century of Revolution is organized by the Arkansas Arts Center and curated by Sarah Holian. The 1910 Revolution in Mexico was the starting point in a series of struggles that brought political and social change. Each turning point in the [...]

Josef Koudelka’s Testimony of the Prague Invasion Opens in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES.- Fundacion OSDE opened the exhibition, Invasion 68 Prague. The show is comprised of images personally selected by Josef Koudelka from his extensive archive, and is co-produced with Magnum Photos. Conceived as an installation it features large-scale, ink-jet prints as well as related texts. In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater and the lives of gypsies, but he had never [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Announces “The Art Auction”

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Auction, the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s (MCA) Chicago’s most important fundraiser, is being held for the first time ever in the galleries of the museum. This year, the auction features works by the most recognized contemporary artists working today, including Olafur Eliasson, Louise Nevelson, Ed Ruscha, Mark Bradford, Kiki Smith, Lari Pittman, Julie Mehretu, Luc Tuymans, William Wegman, Lorna Simpson, and Christopher Wool, along with works by promising emerging artists. The event is co-chaired by Leslie [...]

Winner of Bravo’s Work of Art, Abdi Farah, at the Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, NY.- Work of Art: Abdi Farah, an exhibition of work by the winner of Work of Art, Bravo’s hour-long creative competition 10-part television series among contemporary artists will open to the public on Saturday August 14. This exhibition, which will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum through October 17, 2010, highlights ten artworks recently created in a variety of media by Abdi Farah. Libation is the centerpiece of the exhibition. A life-size sculpture of two young men sprawled [...]

London Show Explores Skin as Human Body’s Frontier

LONDON (REUTERS).- “Visitors may find some images in this exhibition disturbing,” reads a sign at the entrance to the Wellcome Collection‘s latest exhibition: “Skin.” “Skin” tracks attitudes toward the human body’s largest organ since the 15th century from scientific, artistic and historical perspectives. The exhibition is divided into four parts: objects, marks, impressions, and after-life. There is also a Skin Lab, which looks at recent developments in skin science. A black and white photograph of a patient in a Parisian [...]

Romantics Display Opens at Tate Britain Following Major Re-Hang of the Clore Galleries

LONDON.- This week Tate Britain’s Clore Galleries have re-opened to the public following a major re-hang. Romantics, part of the BP British Art Displays, features over 170 key paintings, prints and photographs spread over nine thematic rooms exploring the origins, inspirations and legacies of British Romantic art. Highlights of the new display are eight spectacular hand-coloured etchings by William Blake (1757-1827) which were acquired by Tate for the nation last year. Found hidden in a railway timetable amongst a box [...]

Works by Rackstraw Downes on View this Winter at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- This winter, the Portland Museum of Art will feature the first major survey of paintings by contemporary artist Rackstraw Downes. Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, on view December 16, 2010 through March 20, 2011, will feature more than 30 major works ranging from Downes’ earliest en plein air paintings executed in Maine to his later signature views of the New York City skyline and the vast panoramas near his home in Presidio, Texas. Organized by the Parrish Art [...]

Renowned International Artists to Display New Works at Beyond/In Western New York

BUFFALO, NY.- The vibrant and diverse arts organizations in Buffalo will present a dynamic line-up of exhibitions and programs this fall, with the multi-venue art exhibition Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, a classical and pop concert series by the Grammy-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and public invitations to an array of landmark architectural sites with Doors Open Niagara. Home to some of America’s greatest architectural treasures, one of the best museums of modern and contemporary art, and celebrated music [...]

Fundació Antoni Tàpies Presents a New Selection of Works from the Collection

BARCELONA.- The Fundació Antoni Tàpies presents a new selection of works from the Collection that takes as its starting point the work entitled Fusta pintada i rascada (Painted and Scraped Wood), 1960. The work, which is part of the artist’s own Collection, has been lent to the Fundació and will be publicly shown for the first time. Together with the other works in the present selection, the work will demonstrate the importance of materials for the artist. Tàpies often chooses [...]

Christina Aguilera Lends Her Voice to Support the Arts

LOS ANGELES (AP).- Christina Aguilera is doing her part to help the arts. The Grammy-winning singer is lending her voice to a fundraiser in support of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s latest project. Aguilera will perform at the Sept. 25 grand opening celebration of the museum’s Lynda and Stewart Resnick Pavilion, described by LACMA as “the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world.” The 29-year-old pop star said she’s honored to help celebrate the 45,000-square-foot [...]

Sotheby’s Hong Kong to Offer Lots Estimated in Excess of $205 Million

HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2010 will be held at Hall 3, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 2 to 8 October 2010. The sale series will offer over 3,200 lots of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, traditional Chinese paintings, fine Chinese ceramics and works of art as well as jewellery, watches and wine with a total estimate in excess of HK$1.6 billion / US$205 million. Selected highlights will be showcased in travelling exhibitions in Jakarta (27–29/8), [...]

Museum Wiesbaden Restitutes Painting by Dutch Baroque Painter Pieter de Grebber

WIESBADEN.- On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled “Double Portrait of a young couple” to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The Museum Wiesbaden follows this restitution to the principles of the Washington Declaration of 3 December 1998 and to the declaration of the Federal Government, state and community associations to locate and return of Nazi confiscated art, especially from Jewish property, in December [...]

New Exhibit by Ritsue Mishima Puts Aberdeen Art Gallery in a Spin

ABERDEEN.- A beautiful glass object created by one of the world’s leading makers went on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Tuesday, 10 August, after it was acquired through our Art Fund Collect scheme in May. Spin by Japanese artist Ritsue Mishima is an outstanding example of contemporary glassware. It was won for Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums by curator Kate Gillespie. This is the second time Kate has won a piece on behalf of the Gallery through Art Fund [...]