Art Dubai Projects to Feature New Work by More than 75 Artists in 2011 Edition

DUBAI.- This March Art Dubai Projects, a programme of films, talks, radio dispatches and performances, will feature the work of more than 75 artists commissioned to create interactive works in response to the fair. Presented by Art Dubai and featuring collaborations with regional and international organisations including Bidoun Projects and The Island, Art Dubai Projects 2011 will be the fair’s largest and most dynamic series of curated programming yet. “We are delighted to collaborate with leading cultural organisations to present [...]

The Wrinkles of the City by JR

Start from Shanghai the new project entitled “The Wrinkles of the City” by the French street artist/photographer JR. Shanghai, the last century has been full of ups and downs : from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of the foreign concessions, the victory of Mao Zedong over the General Tchang Kaï-Chek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution ecc. This series of large portraits of elderly people are the witnesses of all the [...]

Early Pioneers of Abstraction Explored in Gallery’s Remarkable Collection

BUFFALO, NY.- The work of four modernist masters and early twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction: —Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay—are explored in a new exhibition which opened at the The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, on January 21, 2011. The exhibition, organized by Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti and Curatorial Assistant Ilana Chlebowski and drawn from the Gallery’s Collection, features more than seventy objects in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning decades of each [...]

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Names Harry Philbrick as Director of Museum

PHILADELPHIA, PA .- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announced that Harry Philbrick has been named The Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Academy Museum , effective March 1, 2011. Since 1996, Harry Philbrick has been the Director of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Under his leadership at The Aldrich Museum, attendance tripled and the quality of the programs increased dramatically. Philbrick successfully spearheaded a $9 million capital campaign and a major museum campus expansion [...]

Agony and Ecstasy: A Rediscovered Masterpiece on View at Moretti Fine Art, NY

NEW YORK, NY.- Once again, Andrew Butterfield and Fabrizio Moretti, the renowned Re- naissance and Baroque specialists, will collaborate to present Agony, Ecstasy, Ivory: The Saint Sebastian of Agnesius, A Rediscovered Masterpiece, at Moretti Fine Art/Adam Williams Fine Art 24 East 80th Street, January 21–February 4, 2011. Coinciding with the Old Master Drawings Week and the auction house sales, this rare sculpture accompanies an exhibition of significant Italian and other European Old Master paintings, including works by Bicci de Lorenzo, [...]

New Salvador Dali Museum is the Centerpiece of Arts-Filled Tampa Bay Area

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (AP).- Dali, Chihuly and Degas? It’s possible to see all three in one weekend in the Tampa Bay area — and still have time to savor the beach. The opening of the new Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg this January is the latest in a string of splashy arts venues on Florida’s west coast. The $33 million Tampa Museum of Art — soon to host a Degas show — opened in February of 2010. And the [...]

Royal Academy Opens Exhibition that Examines British Sculpture of the 20th Century

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts will be presenting the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the twentieth century. The show will represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring what we mean by the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of strongly themed galleries, each making its own visual argument. The exhibition will take a fresh approach, replacing the traditional survey with a provocative set [...]

Dialogue between the Sculptors Julio González and David Smith at IVAM in Valencia

VALENCIA.- This exhibition, Julio Gonzalez and David Smith. A dialogue about sculpture which has benefited from the inestimable collaboration of the David Smith Estate, sets out to explore the curious cluster of convergences and affinities, borrowings and discrepancies that marked a fruitful and unexpected artistic conversation at a difficult time, when there were already signs of the decisive change of course that was to lead to contemporary sculpture: the work of art set in opposition – not without sharp frictions [...]

Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Exhibition by the South Korean Artist Haegue Yang

BREGENZ, AUSTRIA- The artist Haegue Yang, born in 1971 in Seoul, surprised visitors to the 53rd Venice Biennale at two separate exhibition locations. As part of the large-scale thematic group show »Fare Mondi« in the Arsenale she presented seven sculptures from her work Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Domestics of Community, consisting of metal stands, from which electric cables in differing diameters and colors along with various kinds of objects and light bulbs opulently cascaded. In their vertical orientation these [...]

Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

SANTA MONICA, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Al Taylor: Wire Instruments and Pet Stains, the first American museum survey of work by this important and prolific artist. Through his drawings and constructions, Taylor (1948–1999) offers audiences new ways of seeing the world, and this landmark exhibition offers a similar discovery: A rare opportunity to explore the dialogue between his 2-D and 3-D works, and among works in each series, which was the artist’s main concern. Taylor died [...]

National Gallery of Art to Remove and Reinstall East Building Facade Veneer through 2014

WASHINGTON, DC.- The planned removal and reinstallation of the marble veneer of the 33-year-old East Building of the The National Gallery of Art will begin in early March 2011; the project is expected to be completed by spring 2014. While the East Building will remain open to the public during the entire period, the project will necessitate the following developments: · The north parking lane of Madison Drive between 3rd and 4thStreets NW will be closed to all vehicles, effective [...]

130 Belgian and International Exhibitors at this Year’s Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair

BRUSSELS.- A tradition that goes back more than 50 years – each January Brussels hosts the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair (BRAFA) and for a highly anticipated ten day period becomes the European capital of the arts. From 21st to 30th January, Belgian’s finest galleries are joined by a selection of top international dealers to take their place in the magnificent setting of the Tour & Taxis exhibition yard, vying in elegance and beauty to present their most outstanding [...]

Camera Work in Berlin Exhibits the Photographs of Nadav Kander and Robert Polidori

BERLIN.- Camera Work exhibits “Yangtze – The Long River” by Nadav Kander and “Pripyat and Chernobyl“ by Robert Polidori, certainly two of the most impressive series of recent photographic history. The photographs of both artists are striking reminders of the impact of mankind’s intervention in its environment. Nadav Kander’s Photo Series, awarded with the prestigious Prix Pictet in 2009, uniquely documents the rapid structural change along the Chinese Yangtze River. A current catalogue, published by HATJE CANTZ, with a foreword [...]

Exhibition of Superlative British Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Romantics to Moderns: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of BNY Mellon features approximately 70 works on paper by 49 of Britain’s most gifted artists from the mid-1700s through 1935. The exhibition will be on view at the MFA through May 1, 2011. Represented artists include John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Palmer, John Ruskin, Walter Sickert, and J. M. W. Turner. The exhibition provides a nigh comprehensive history of 200 years of British watercolors and drawings—a [...]

Catalan bishops call for return to Aragon works of religious art in “La Franja”

Lleida.- The Catalan bishops have called for this Friday in a statement that they comply with the Vatican about the litigation that keep Catalunya and Aragon over the ownership of the works of sacred art from the Fringe (La Franja), which would return parts found in Lleida. The bishops “call for to fulfill the decisions of the Holy See ” and therefore that the works be returned to the Bishopric of Barbastro, which has already asked the Vatican in February [...]