The British photographer Adam Fuss stated in the Fundación Mapfre his first retrospective in Spain

Madrid – The splash that produces a drop of water falling, the movements of snakes in a tissue or how it bends the stem of a sunflower, make up most of the striking images of Adam Fuss (London, 1961). Are fifty images that make up the first retrospective in Spain of this unique artist whose work can be seen in the Madrid headquarters of the Fundación Mapfre until 27 April. With nature as a pretext, Fuss talks about such essential [...]

The “Sacra Conversazione” of Tiziano, auctioned for U.S. $ 17 million

New York (US) – Selling Antique Painting held in the auction room of Sotheby’s in New York set new record prices for 16 artists, including Tiziano, whose work Sacred Conversation: the Madonna and Child with St. Luke and St. Catherine of Alexandria was sold by $ 16.9 million to a European private collector and broke the record for the artist established 20 years ago. Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian, A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine [...]

Anti-Government Protesters in Cairo Smash Treasures and Mummies in Egyptian Museum

CAIRO (REUTERS).- Looters broke into the Cairo museum housing the world’s greatest collection of Pharaonic treasures, smashing several statues and damaging two mummies, while police battled anti-government protesters on the streets. Arabiya television showed soldiers, armed and in battle fatigues, patrolling the museum that houses tens of thousands of objects in its galleries and storerooms, including most of the King Tutankhamen collection. Display cases were shattered and several broken statues and porcelain figures lay on the floor. An Egyptian army [...]

Photographs of Native Americans by Herbert Ascherman at the Butler Institute of American Art

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Considered by many one of this nation’s foremost living portrait photographers, Herbert Ascherman has rejected modern photographic technology, returning to the the late 19th and early 20th century platinum printing process. This Cleveland, Ohio, artist utilizes an 8 x 10 inch format, cherrywood camera that he takes on location, including places like Dubai, France and India, to create his exquisite images. This exhibition features portraits of Native Americans primarily from the Three Affiliated Tribes, as well as numerous [...]

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

VENICE.- From January 29 through May 15, 2011, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, curated by Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum New York. This is the first exhibition devoted to Vorticism to be presented in Italy and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions [...]

Krannert Art Museum in Illinois Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Season with Exhibition

CHAMPAIGN, IL.- In March 1950, Look magazine published a two-page photo spread about University of Illinois’s third annual contemporary arts festival. The headline read “Corn Country Campus puts on biggest U.S.A. Arts Festival,” and the caption under pictures of abstract paintings explained that this artwork would spark “heated back-country discussion.” Despite the cultural jabs, the Look article went on to describe the event as “the biggest, most ambitious program of its kind on any U.S. campus.” One photo showed the [...]

Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman in Exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art

SAN DIEGO, CA.- The portraits of notorious society women painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are considered among the greatest portraits of the Western tradition. Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman is the first exhibition devoted to Gainsborough’s feminine portraiture and the first to focus specifically on modernity and femininity in Georgian England from the perspective of Gainsborough’s groundbreaking images of women. The San Diego Museum of Art is the second and final venue for this momentous exhibition. The exhibition brings [...]

First Retrospective of Jim Dine’s Sculpture Opens at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is the exclusive venue for the first retrospective of sculptural works by Pop Art master Jim Dine. As one of the most revered American artists, Dine has been a major force across the contemporary scene since the advent of the Pop Art movement. Celebrated for his paintings and graphic work, Dine’s equally prolific and profound efforts as a sculptor are less well-known. Jim Dine: Sculpture will be on display through May [...]

Singer Laren Restores Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker After It was Damaged When Stolen

LAREN.- Singer Laren has restored The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The work was carried out by the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw (the Rijksmuseum’s new conservation studio) in the Dutch capital. The restoration aimed to recover the external appearance of the seriously damaged sculpture. Rodin’s The Thinker, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of Singer Laren on 17 January 2007. It was recovered two days later much the [...]

Colorful and Stylish Art by Ron English

Popaganda is the website of the recognized American contemporary artist Ron English. The page is the place for you to find ‘the art and crimes’ of Ron – as the page’s tittle will inform you. Ron’s style is pretty unique and interesting, he uses a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, including comic superhero mythology and totems of art history, to create a visual language of evolution. The colors, the message, the style, everything creates a really interesting dimension where [...]

British Sculpture Survey at the Royal Academy in London Sharply Divides Critics

LONDON (REUTERS).- By replacing a traditional survey of 20th century British sculpture with a “provocative set of juxtapositions,” London’s Royal Academy has made both friends and enemies among the critics. Some welcomed what the gallery called a “fresh approach,” but others attacked it for omitting several important British and foreign sculptors. Most outspoken was Andrew Graham-Dixon, writing in the Sunday Telegraph’s Seven magazine in his no-star review: “This lamentable exhibition has no coherence, no clear purpose and fails to mention [...]

Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures by Italian Artist Marisa Merz at Gladstone Gallery

BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Marisa Merz. Born in Turin, Italy, Merz was a central figure and the only woman associated with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and 70s. Known for her unusual use of materials such as copper-wire, clay, and wax, Merz’s works reflect the poetic sensibility that delicately entwines her vision of art and life. Marisa Merz, “La danza delle ore”, January 27 – March 5, 2011. Exhibition View: Gladstone Gallery; [...]

Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. On view through August 21, 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found vintage photographs of African Americans that she collected from eBay and flea markets, Simpson undermines the assumption that archival materials are objective documents of history. Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). 1957–2009 Interiors (detail), 2009. Gelatin silver [...]

Louvre Hosts a Group of Sculptures by Leading British Contemporary Artist Tony Cragg

PARIS.- As a counterpoint to the presentation at the Louvre of the first retrospective in France devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), the museum plays host to a group of sculptures by the leading British contemporary artist Tony Cragg, to be shown in the Cour Marly and the Cour Puget. In addition, the Louvre is pleased to feature a monumental sculpture by the artist, produced especially for the exhibition and displayed under the pyramid. In 2008, [...]

Tasende Gallery Presents Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Mark di Suvero

LA JOLLA, CA.-Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, presents an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Mark di Suvero opening today, January 28, 2011 and continuing through March 12. The exhibit includes nine works on paper and six steel/stainless steel sculptures, among them the monumental Ave Delirio an 18 feet high work installed on Prospect Street, La Jolla. A fully-illustrated color catalogue with text by Robert Pincus accompanies the exhibition. Mark di Suvero, an American born in Shanghai in 1933, moved to [...]