“Persistence of Memory” to Join Dalí Exhibition at the High

ATLANTA, GA.- On November 16 Salvador Dalí’s iconic Surrealist painting “The Persistence of Memory” from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, will join the highly successful exhibition “Salvador Dalí: The Late Work.” The exhibition brings together many works from Dalí’s later career as well as several works of art not seen in the United States since the 1950s. The exhibition will be on view through January 9, 2010. “‘The Persistence of Memory’ represents Dalí in ways few paintings have [...]

“Show of the Year” at Tate Modern is UK’s First on French Painter Paul Gauguin in 50 Years

LONDON (REUTERS).- French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. Two newspapers have given the show five stars, including the Times’ Rachel Campbell-Johnston who described “Gauguin: Maker of Myth” at London’s Tate Modern gallery “the show of the year.” Organizers say they have come up with a “fresh and compelling” look at the master of modern art, concentrating on his approach to [...]

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Sets a New Attendance Record

GLASGOW.- Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880-1900 at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened on 9 April 2010 and ran until 27 September 2010, attracting over 120,000 visitors as well as wide critical acclaim. The exhibition has set a new record for the number of visitors to an art exhibition at Kelvingrove, smashing the previous record of 103,000 visits to a display of work by Van Gogh in 1948. E.A. (Edward Arthur) Walton, Seaside Cottages with Dovecote, c. 1883. Watercolour, [...]

Virginia Museum Announces Important Picasso Exhibition

RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the most important exhibition in its history, Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. VMFA is the exclusive East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view from February 19 through May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Tickets are available now. Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in [...]

Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens

LONDON.- A major exhibition of large scale outdoor sculptures in Kensington Gardens by acclaimed London-based artist Anish Kapoor, presented jointly by The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery, opens today. The free exhibition showcases a series of major recent works never before shown together in London. Constructed from highly reflective stainless steel, the giant curved mirror surfaces will create illusory distortions of the surroundings and will be visible across large distances, creating new vistas in this famous and much-loved setting. [...]

Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am at The Hayward Gallery Project Space

LONDON.- This autumn, the Hayward Gallery Project Space presents an exhibition of work by Canadian artist, Ron Terada. Terada is a well known figure in his home country with a wide ranging conceptual practice that includes painting, signage, photography, interventions, books and music. His work often draws from past art historical figures and popular culture to evoke nostalgic and sometimes familiar narratives while ruminating on aspiration and failure. This exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Terada’s work in London. [...]

Victoria & Albert Museum at Dundee Designs Unveiled

DUNDEE.- Six stunning designs for the V&A at Dundee project will be unveiled at an exhibition in Abertay University library this Wednesday (29 September). The ‘V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen’ exhibition features work from the six shortlisted teams of world-class architects and designers who have put forward outstanding ideas for a landmark building that will house the V&A at Dundee and dominate Dundee’s waterfront. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects were formed 15 years ago and are based in Vienna [...]

Yinka Shonibare Creates a Work for the Campaign Against Cuts

LONDON.- A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government’s proposed funding cuts of the arts. The artist’s work shows a slash across a piece of brightly coloured African fabric with the caption: Stop Cutting. Each week the work of a different artist, created in response to the campaign, will be released Yinka Shonibare MBE has become well known for work [...]

Masterworks by Fontana and De Chirico Lead Sotheby’s Auction

LONDON.- On Friday, October 15, 2010 Sotheby’s annual 20th Century Italian Art Sale will showcase the work of many of Italy’s foremost Modern, Post-War and Contemporary artists, including Marino Marini, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Alberto Burri. Sotheby’s, the only auction house to have staged a dedicated sale in this category each year since pioneering auctions in this collecting field in 1999, has achieved sell-through rates by lot of 88.5% and 90.9% respectively for its 2008 and [...]

Photos of Gandhi on Momentous Day in Indian History for Sale at Bonhams

LONDON.- Photographs of Mahatma Gandhi taken on 7 August 1942, one of the most momentous days for Indian Independence, are for sale at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October 2010. It was on 7 August that Gandhi addressed the opening day of the historic All India Congress Committee at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai (then known as Bombay) and launched his call for non violent protest against British rule. “I stick to the principle of [...]

Getty Museum Head of Preparation Bruce Metro Retires Following 30-plus Year Career

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bruce Metro, Head of Preparation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will retire at the end of September following 31 years at the Getty. Metro joined the Getty Museum in 1979 and, over the course of his career, has been responsible for the realization of over 400 exhibitions at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa, as well as countless permanent collection gallery installations and reinstallations. Metro, who began his career at the original Getty Museum in [...]

Kohl’s Donates More than $2.7 Million to Milwaukee Art Museum

MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS.- Today Kohl’s Department Stores announced a more than $2.7 million donation over three years to the Milwaukee Art Museum that will continue the successful Kohl’s Art Generation program launched in 2008 as well as create new programs for kids and families. Building on the $1 million contribution from Kohl’s in 2008, this donation is the largest gift to an education initiative in the Museum’s history. The donation comes from the Kohl’s Cares(R) cause merchandise program, which sells [...]

Painting in Water by Mark Mawson

Mark Mawson is a photographer from Sydney Australia, by dropping paint in water and capturing it, Mark is able to create these amazing photos!

Josef Albers Museum Opens Exhibition of the Last Paintings Made by Ad Reinhardt

BOTTROP.- Last Paintings. Ad Reinhardt is the first European exhibition of the American artist for more than 25 years. ‘In the Beginning is the End’ was for him at once a programmatic statement and equally a rejection of the traditional understanding of painting. With his so-called ‘black’ paintings which he himself describes as the ‘ultimate paintings that can be made’, he takes up an extreme position which has been a challenge to painting ever since. Painted with supreme skill, and [...]

Maurizio Cattelan shows a finger in Milan

MILAN (REUTERS).- A marble sculpture of a cut-off hand with the middle finger stuck up has gone on display in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, provoking a lively debate in Italy’s financial capital. The 11-meter high installation, called “L.O.V.E.” and unveiled for the first time in Milan, is part of a retrospective dedicated to the Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose provocative works include a sculpture of Pope John Paul being hit by a meteorite. “(Cattelan’s works) call our [...]