Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne Acquires Charlie Chaplin Photographic Archive

LAUSANNE.- The Musée de l’Elysée announced a major event: the arrival of the Chaplin Photographic Archive, a large collection consisting of approximately 10,000 photographs documenting the whole career of Charlie Chaplin. “I am thrilled that the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne will take care of my father’s archive. My siblings and myself totally trust that the museum will preserve this heritage which is so dear to us.” – Joséphine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin Sam Stourdze, director of the Elysee [...]

Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Refuses to Return Nefertiti Bust to Egypt

BERLIN (REUTERS).- A German foundation rejected Monday an Egyptian request to return the 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, a sculpture which draws over one million viewers annually to a Berlin museum. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) sent the request to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which runs the Neues Museum in the German capital where the bust is kept. File photo of the statue of Queen Nefertiti (Nofretete) is pictured during a press preview at the ‘Neues Museum’ (New [...]

Exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s Exchanges of Artwork with Various Artists Opens at MASS MoCA

NORTH ADAMS, MA.- Although celebrated for the revolutionary role he played in the development of both Conceptualism and Minimalism, Sol LeWitt was also renowned for his exchanges of artwork with various artists throughout his lifetime. For LeWitt, the act of exchange seemed to be not only a personal gesture, but also an integral part of his conceptual practice. In addition to encouraging the circulation of artworks through a gift economy that challenged the art world’s dominant economic model, LeWitt’s exchanges [...]

Beijing Voice: Together or Isolated, Contemporary Chinese Art at Pace Gallery in Beijing

BEIJING.- Last year Pace Beijing launched an annual project titled Beijing Voice. Beijing Voice: Together or Isolated discusses some phenomena and questions existing in Chinese contemporary art in the form of a group exhibition. Beijing Voice: Together or Isolated is on view at Pace Beijing until February 28th, 2011. Participating artists include: Hu Xiaoyuan, Huang Ran, Liang Yuanwei, Qiu Xiaofei, Shi Jinsong, Song Dong, Su Wenxiang, Wang Guangle, Wang Jin, and Yuan Yuan. Installation view at Pace Gallery in Beijing In [...]

Van Gogh, Other Artistic Masterpieces on Display at Radford University Art Museum

RADFORD, VA.- Community leaders and officials from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Radford University gathered on Thursday evening, Jan. 20, for a preview event celebrating the opening of “Van Gogh, Lichtenstein, Whistler: Masterpieces of World Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” an exhibition commemorating the museum’s 75th anniversary. Supported by Altria Group, the special exhibition is open to the public and is featured in the Radford University Art Museum, located in the Covington Center for Visual [...]

Landmark Exhibition of John Marin’s Revolutionary Watercolors in Major Art Institute Exhibition

CHICAGO, IL.- In 1948, a nationwide survey pronounced John Marin (1870–1953) “America’s Number 1 artist.” Marin’s exuberant and improvisational paintings are recognized today as critical to the evolution of American modernism. Less well known, though, is the extent to which Marin pushed the limits of the watercolor medium, establishing for a new generation of artists its inherent suitability to avant-garde expression. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized a major exhibition that is the first to explore this idea through close [...]

Clark Art Institute Investigates European Portraiture in the Exhibition Eye to Eye

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A special exhibition of European portrait painting, featuring works by master artists from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century, is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from January 23 through March 27, 2011, in the exhibition Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850. Representing the range of styles and themes in Old Master portraiture as practiced in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and France, the twenty-nine paintings and one sculpture in the [...]

Drawings and Photographs from the Collection of Designer Kasper at the Morgan Library

NEW YORK, NY.- The art collection assembled by American fashion designer Herbert Kasper—known simply as Kasper—is exceptional for its distinctive character and superb quality. The Morgan Library & Museum presents the collection to the public for the very first time, offering visitors a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary group of drawings and photographs. Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs is on view through May 1, 2011. The exhibition features over one hundred works, including old master [...]

Mary McCartney Opens First Solo Show in Germany at Contributed, Studio for the Arts

BERLIN.- Mary McCartney (b 1969) started her career as a photographer in 1995. Her work is reflection not only of Marys personal world, but of the unique relationships she establishes with the people she photographs, like Kate Moss, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tracey Emin, Stella McCartney or Paul McCartney. Her first book – From Where I Stand – combines those images with places and events as seen through Marys eyes: the intimacy of backstage preparations amoung the corps de ballet [...]

International Center of Photography Opens Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide

NEW YORK, NY.- Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide, a solo exhibition by one of China’s most innovative contemporary artists, is on view at the International Center of Photography through May 8, 2011. Featuring a dozen large-scale photographs and three video works, it is the most extensive U.S. showing to date of the work of this leading Chinese artist. Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang Qingsong (pronounced “wahng ching sahng”) has created compelling works that [...]

Solo Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings by Jun Kaneko Opens in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, OH.- Carl Solway Gallery presents a solo exhibition of sculptures, paintings and drawings by internationally acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko. He is best known for free-standing, monumental ceramic sculptures utilizing simple shapes and elaborate surface design. His Dangos (Japanese for rounded form) may stand as high as thirteen feet. His abstract paintings are also large in scale, while his drawings are more intimate in nature. Jun Kaneko, Untitled-Dango, 2009. Glazed creamics, 65.5 x 80.75 x 19.5 inches. Photo: Courtesy Carl [...]

Retrospective of 40 Years of Richard Deacon’s Work Opens at the Sprengel Museum

HANOVER.- Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon is internationally recognized as one of contemporary sculpture’s most influential figures. He quickly emerged as an exceptional fabricator of forms, the creator of an artistic universe fluidly embracing the living. The Missing Part exhibition, designed in close collaboration with the artist, is a retrospective of 40 years of his work shown here for the first time as an assemblage of approximately forty sculptures and some 120 drawings, engravings and photographs. Two gallery [...]

Images Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s Admitted Love of Driving at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX.- Since Ruscha’s first road trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles in 1956, the artist has continued to engage the images he has encountered along the roads of the western United States. Consisting of approximately 75 works, spanning the artist’s entire career, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested tracks key images inspired by his admitted love of driving. The exhibition is on view until April 17, 2011 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. “I like being in the [...]

Art Lovers Queue through Night for Glimpse of Monet at the Grand Palais in Paris

PARIS (REUTERS).- Thousands of art lovers queued in freezing temperatures on Saturday night for a final glimpse of a major retrospective on French Impressionist Claude Monet, after Paris’ Grand Palais opened round the clock to cope with demand. Wrapped in scarves and heavy coats, people queued for more than three hours to see the nearly 200 works by the 19th century master before the historic exhibition, the biggest one on Monet in decades, closes on Monday evening. Visitors look at the [...]

Exhibition by William Eggleston Transforms Ordinary Moments into Indelible Images

NASHVILLE, TN.- William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked, an exhibition bringing together recent works and iconic photographs by one of today’s most renowned photographers, William Eggleston, opens in the Upper Level Gallery of theFrist Center for the Visual Arts remains on view through May 1, 2011. The exhibition, originated by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, includes 50 photographs by the Memphis, Tenn., resident who is one of the most influential artists of his generation. Included in the exhibition are [...]