Milwaukee Art Museum to Celebrate Architecture in 2011 with Ambitious Exhibition

MILWAUKEE, WI.- To celebrate the 10th anniversary of its iconic addition designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Milwaukee Art Museum has announced an ambitious exhibition and program series for 2011 that focuses on architecture. The Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion—whose moving parts are unprecedented in U.S. architecture—has resulted in a revitalized waterfront in Milwaukee, allowed for acclaimed exhibitions, and more than doubled Museum attendance. The 2011 anniversary program will present three exhibitions, Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century (February 12–May [...]

Works by Lynda Benglis, Spanning 40 Years of Creative Output, on View in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, RI.- American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years. The exhibition Lynda Benglis, at The RISD Museum is composed of more than 50 works that represent the breadth of her remarkable output, dating from the 1960s through today. The RISD Museum is the first of only two North American venues for this major survey show. Benglis’s best-known works question the rigors of Modernism and Minimalism [...]

Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum Redefines the Role of Female Pop Artists

BROOKLYN, NY.- The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, seeks to expand the definition of classic Pop art and re-evaluate the role of the women who worked alongside the movement’s more famous male practitioners. It features more than fifty works by Pop art’s most significant female artists and includes many pieces that have not been shown in nearly forty years. The exhibition will be on view in [...]

Italy’s Largest and Most Important Art Fair, Arte Fiera Art First, Celebrates its 35th Edition

BOLOGNA.- This year, Arte Fiera Art First celebrates its 35th edition from 28 to 31 January 2011 at the Bologna Exhibition Centre. One of the first of the international modern and contemporary art fairs organized in Italy and abroad in the 1970s, Arte Fiera Art First directed by Silvia Evangelisti has become Italy’s largest and most important art fair. The Selection Committee has constantly raised the quality of proposals by carefully selecting galleries and by presenting an outstanding programme of [...]

Extensive Pablo Picasso Exhibition Opens at the National Gallery of Denmark

COPENHAGEN.- One of the seminal figures from art history receives full treatment at the National Gallery of Denmark with an extensive exhibition about Pablo Picasso held at the Royal Collection of Graphic Art. Featuring about 110 works, the exhibition traces the main lines of development running through Picasso’s effervescently varied universe by looking at important highlights from his graphic work as well as carefully chosen original drawings. The Master of Modernism Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is a true beacon towering up [...]

Sotheby’s October Evening Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art Total $48.8 Million

LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Sales of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art, brought a combined total of £30.4 million/$48.8 million (Est. £22.3-30.5 million*) – substantially more than in the equivalent sales last year (£20 million). Commenting on the 20th Century Italian Art Sale results, Claudia Dwek, Co Chairman Sotheby’s Italy, said: “We are delighted with the results of this evening’s sale. The auction achieved the above-estimate sum of £17 million representing the highest ever total for a sale in [...]

Tate Modern’s “Sunflower Seed” Exhibit by Ai Weiwei Closed to Visitors as Health Risk

LONDON (AP).- An art exhibition involving 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds has been closed to visitors because it is generating dust that is a potential health hazard, the Tate Modern gallery said Friday. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei filled a giant hall at the London gallery with a 1,000 sq. meter (10,000 sq. foot) carpet of the imitation seeds, hand-crafted by thousands of artisans in China over a two-year period. Visitors were invited to walk across the surface when the show [...]

Exhibition of Titian Masterpieces Opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

ATLANTA, GA (AP).- An exhibition of works by the Italian master Titian and others is opening in Atlanta and puts two of the Renaissance artist’s finer masterpieces on U.S. display for the first time. “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” were painted between 1556 and 1559 for King Philip II of Spain. Designed as a pair, with a stream flowing from one to the other, the pieces were part of a six-painting series exploring mythological themes. The two works [...]

Works in 2, 2½ & 3 Dimensions by Acclaimed British Artist Tom Phillips at Flowers

NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers presents a survey exhibition by acclaimed British artist Tom Phillips titled Tom Phillips Works in 2, 2½ & 3 Dimensions. The show will run from October 8th through October 30th. The exhibition showcases the artist’s fascination with the definitions of and relationships between objects, text and images. Phillips uses mixed media such as mud, hair, wire, collage and orange peel to create works which reference various literary and philosophical geniuses. Tom Phillips, Wittgenstein’s Dilemma 1999. Silkscreen [...]

Exhibition Reveals How Gustave Courbet Realized the Vision of a Poetic Art of Modernity

FRANKFURT.- The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and as a revolutionary of the Paris Commune. But Courbet also had an entirely different side: he was one of the great dreamers in history. In his portraits, but also in his landscapes, drawings, and still-lifes, he depicts a world of absorption and introversion – in stark contrast to the frenzied industrialization of his age. [...]

Jean-Michel Basquiat Show at Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris Fetes His 50th Birthday

PARIS (AP).- At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, doodle-covered work in Paris. Nearly 50 years after his birth, and 22 years after his death at age 27 of a drug overdose, Basquiat’s wish has finally come true. “Basquiat,” which opened Friday at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, brings together more than 150 pieces that [...]

Artworks by Mark Fredrickson

Mark Fredrickson is one of the finest and talented Artists from Tucson, Arizona. He studied in Chattanooga and learns drawing and photography. His works shows inspirational and motivational illustration. He works as freelance illustration. He got many awards from its Exceptional and Amazing illustrations. This gallery is picked from portfolio of Mark Fredrickson.

Frieze Art Fair Features 173 of the World’s Most Exciting Contemporary Art Galleries

LONDON.- The Frieze Art Fair has now opened to the public and features 173 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries. Visitors can also take part in Frieze Projects, the fair’s unique programme of artist commissions, which this year features nine new works that all explore ideas of performativity. Frieze Film is being shown in a specially constructed cinema outside the fair’s entrance and is free to the public. Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize Winner The Frieze Art Fair [...]

Christie’s Evening Auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art and the Italian Sale Realise $61.2 Million

LONDON.- The evening auctions of Post-War and Contemporary Art and The Italian Sale realised a combined total of £38,213,050 / $61,179,093 / €43,371,811. The top price of the evening was paid for Cavaliere by Marino Marini (1901-1980) which led record-breaking Italian Sale and which sold for £4,465,250 /$7,148,865 /€5,068,059 – a world record price for the artist at auction. In total, 6 lots sold for over £1 million and 18 for over $1 million. The corresponding auctions in October 2009 [...]

First Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso at First Museum Exhibition Devoted to Pablo Picasso

ZURICH.- From 15 October 2010 until 30 January 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich will revive the first museum exhibition devoted to Pablo Picasso. Mounted at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1932, the show was a crucial moment in the history of modern art. Picasso had organized a very personal look at his work, with pieces chosen from his pink and blue periods and his Cubist and neo-classical phase as well as Surrealist creations, and the homage now on show reconstructs this subjective [...]