Google Offers Virtual Tours of 17 of the Top Museums Using Street View Technology

LONDON (REUTERS).- Google aims to bring the world’s great art galleries into the home with a new website that offers virtual tours using Street View technology, the ability to build private collections and ultra-high resolution images. While most big galleries have been busy making their works accessible online for years, experts told a launch at London’s Tate Britain gallery on Tuesday that Google’s site was looking to take the online art experience to a new level. “It could be the [...]

Efren Alvarez at the Reina Sofia

Madrid – Economics, the project of the artist Efren Alvarez (Barcelona, 1980) produced specifically for the program Fissures of the Reina Sofia Museum, draws an overview of the current economy as autocaricaturiza discipline. Forty drawings and texts by various authors are relations systems in which the apparent intention of the project teaching translates into an approach to the unproductive, corrupt matter of alienation and relationships through work and consumption. Bank. Pencil on paper (2011) Efren Alvarez drawings take on a [...]

Tate Britain Provides a Timely Focus on a Selection of Key Works by Susan Hiller

LONDON.- Susan Hiller (b. 1940) is one of the most influential artists of her generation. This major survey exhibition at Tate Britain provides a timely focus on a selection of her key works, including many of the pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections for which she is best known. It will be the largest presentation of her work to date, providing a unique opportunity to follow her exploration of dreams, memories and supernatural phenomena across a career of almost four [...]

Thirty-Six Splendid, Virtuoso Ivory Carvings on View at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung

FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- Ivory has been one of the most popular materials since ancient times. Its origins in unknown faraway lands and its rarity account for its costliness. It was particularly the Baroque era that had an extraordinarily high demand for ivory. In the seventeenth century, ivory work reached its culmination in Vienna in the days of Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein and Emperor Leopold I. The shimmering appearance of the polished material served princely-imperial claims to prestige, as its [...]

MOCA Cleveland Winter Exhibition Features Teresita Fernández Sculptural Installations

CLEVELAND, OH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland opened its winter exhibition on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, featuring the work of Teresita Fernández, internationally known for immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light and perception. Also on view are a video installation, Javier Téllez, Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See, and a new body of small-scale assemblages by Cleveland artist Lorri Ott. All three exhibitions will run through May 8, 2011. Teresita [...]