IVAM Announces Two Exhibitions of Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Art from Its Collection

VALENCIA.- As 2011 was chosen as the year of Russia in Spain and Spain in Russia at the Yaroslav Conference, the IVAM has organised two exhibitions to be held in Moscow and St Petersburg displaying, respectively, the masterpieces of 20th and 21st century art in the Collection of the IVAM and the history of photography in Spain with a selection of images by great Spanish photographers, also from the Collection of the IVAM. V. Kulagina, Estamos construyendo, 1929 From June [...]

Views of Venice by Canaletto and His Rivals in Landmark Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art

WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, presents 20 of Canaletto’s finest paintings of Venice with 33 by his most important contemporaries, including Gaspar Vanvitelli, Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi, in Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals, on view from February 20 through May 30, 2011, in the East Building. These dazzling cityscapes represent the best view painters of Venice—each responding to the city in his own way, and each competing in a market driven largely [...]

Philly Exhibit at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Reopens with Chinese Mummies

PHILADELPHIA (AP).- “Return of the Mummies” may sound like a horror movie, but in this case there’s a happy ending. The “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibit reopened Friday at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with a pair of show-stopping ancient mummies, now that a mysterious dispute with the Chinese government has been wrapped up. The drama has passed that had museum officials fearing their biggest exhibit in decades was doomed. But if you want your mummy, [...]

The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art at the Mississippi Museum of Art

JACKSON, MISS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art presents The Orient Expressed: Japan’s Influence on Western Art, 1854–1918, the eleventh exhibition in The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series. On view February 19 through July 17, 2011, the exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, and curated by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Established in 1989 to honor the memory of Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin, one of the Museum’s [...]

Wavelength: An Exhibition of New Work by Alyson Shotz at Derek Eller Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery presents Wavelength, an exhibition of new work by Alyson Shotz. The artist expands upon her ongoing investigation of spatial perception, cognition, and temporality, presenting works which are informed and modified by viewer interaction. At the same time, this exhibition introduces a new concern with the experience of color, an aspect unexplored in her recent shows. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Standing Wave, a twenty-five foot installation consisting of over a thousand thin, dichroic [...]

A Game of Chess: Solo Exhibition of New Work by Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents a solo exhibition of new work by Marcel Dzama, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. The exhibition features the artist’s film, A Game of Chess, alongside related drawings, sculptures, and dioramas. Dzama has become known for his prolific drawings, which are characterized by their distinctive palette of muted browns, grays, greens, and reds. In recent years, the artist has expanded his practice to encompass three-dimensional work and film and has [...]

Exhibition in Minnesota Brings to Life the Discovery of King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

ST. PAUL, MINN.- Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, an exhibition featuring more than 100 authentic treasures from the tomb of the celebrated pharaoh and other notable ancient sites, made its debut at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Friday, February 18, 2011. The exhibition marks the very first time that King Tut’s treasures have visited the region, providing visitors with the rare chance to see the boy king’s famed artifacts. It will run through September 5, 2011. The [...]

See the Beauty and Charm of The American Impressionists in the Garden at the Taft Museum of Art

CINCINNATI, OH.- Spring begins a bit early in 2011, when The American Impressionists in the Garden opened at the Taft Museum of Art. Bringing together brilliantly colored paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition features 40 pictures of European and American gardens created by American Impressionists and four bronze sculptures for gardens by American sculptors. “From Giverny to Boston and Charleston, American painters captured the sensuous pleasures to be found in gardens, ornamenting their canvases with lush [...]

Group Exhibition of New Paintings by Six Artists at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is presenting Reconfigured, a group exhibition of new paintings curated by gallery favorite Jacob Tillman. Exhibiting artists include: Gerald Davis, Mari Eastman, Bryson Gill, Todd Lanam, Allison Schulnik, and Lauren Silva. Lauren Silva, “Untitled”, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 94 inches. Photo: Courtesy Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art. The show reflects an ongoing conversation among contemporary painters working in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area addressing the contemporary experience of space. [...]

Los Angeles-Based Artist Walead Beshty’s “A Diagram of Forces” at Malmo Konsthall

MALMO.- This exhibition of the Los Angeles-based artist Walead Beshty (b. London, 1976) brings together works from the past ten years in a site-specific installation designed for The Malmö Konsthall. Walead Beshty’s works remind us how important it is to appreciate the transitory nature of daily life, especially its gaps, its pauses, and its moments of in-betweenness. This in-between time has always been central to Walead Beshty’s work. In his early works the theme of ‘in-betweenness’ is literally represented in the [...]

New Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

BUFFALO, NY.- A new exhibition of modern and contemporary work rooted in the exploration, observation, and construction of the landscape opened at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Friday, February 18, 2011. Curator Heather Pesanti’s multi-layered approach to this exhibition results in a dialogue between curator, collection, artist, and author. In addition to showing multiple new acquisitions alongside well-known works from the Gallery’s Collection, Pesanti has invited five Buffalo-based artists to both exhibit their work and make their own selections from the [...]

Ali and Elvis: Exhibition of American Icons at the James A. Michener Art Museum

DOYLESTOWN, PA.- Elvis is in the house and Ali is in the ring. Two of our nation’s most well-known icons—”the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “the Greatest”—meet at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., February 19 through May 15. Ali and Elvis: American Icons, features two photography exhibitions: the Smithsonian’s Elvis at 21 and art2art’s Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. Elvis at 21 is sponsored nationally by HISTORY™. Muhammad Ali, c. 1970, Gordon Parks, courtesy [...]

The Football Match by L.S. Lowry is Expected to Realise in Excess of £3.5 Million at Christie’s

LONDON.- Having not been seen in public for almost 20 years, The Football Match, 1949, by Laurence Stephen Lowry, R.A. (1887-1976) will be offered at auction on 26 May 2011 in Christie’s sale of 20th Century British Art. An exceptionally rare depiction of one of Britain’s most popular sports – football – by one of the country’s most iconic British artists, this painting is a modern masterpiece. The property of a Private Collector, The Football Match has an estimate of £3.5million [...]

Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents Survey of George Inness’s Italian Landscapes

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A central figure in the history of American 19th-century landscape painting, George Inness (1825–1894) made two sojourns to Italy—the first in 1851 to 1852 and the second from 1870 to 1874—during which he followed in the footsteps of the Old Masters in pursuit of a technique that would place him at the forefront of American art. This focused exhibition of 10 significant works is the first to examine the impact of Inness’s experience of Italy and how this [...]

Daria Zaytseva: Fashion and Beauty Photographs

Daria Zaytseva is a Russian photographer based in Moscow. She creates beautiful works fucusing in fashion and beauty portraits.