American Master David Smith Featured in Exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Whashington

WHASHINGTON, DC.- This winter, The Phillips Collection showcases the work of modern master David Smith (1906–1965). The exhibition shines a spotlight on a pivotal moment in the artist’s illustrious career, revealing the evolution of his personal aesthetic. The exhibition remains on view through May 15. David Smith is widely considered one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. He was the first American to make welded steel sculpture, infusing this industrial material with a fluidity and imaginative creativity [...]

The National Gallery Presents Roxy Paine: One Hundred Foot Line and Painting Manufacture Unit

New York.- James Cohan Gallery announce Roxy Paine’s One Hundred Foot Line (2010), a new permanent public sculpture installed at Nepean Point at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, as well as an exhibition of selected works by the artist that opened on February 12 and runs through March 27, 2011. Roxy Paine, Painting Manufacture Unit 1999-2000. Courtesy of the Artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York and Shanghai. Photo © NGC © Roxy Paine The National Gallery of Canada [...]

14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair to Open April 14-17, 2011

NEW YORK, NY.- Internationally recognized for its outstanding cutting-edge contemporary decorative arts and design, the 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory. “This year, SOFA NEW YORK welcomes a number of outstanding new international exhibitors,” said Lyman. Making their debut are contemporary Asian specialists Korean Craft and Design Foundation (Seoul) and Ippodo Gallery (New York). Gallery [...]

Gregory Thielker, Paintings Under the Rain

Gregory Thielker is simply amazing. His oil on canvas artworks depict rainy days viewed from inside a car so realistically that you can almost feel the wet and cold weather, looking at them. The realism in his work is not just in his stunning technique, but also in the way the paintings can give you the peaceful and melancholic feeling of a car trip under a pouting rain. Welcome Autumn. “The paintings themselves are compiled from hundreds of photographs taken [...]

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 Examines a Moment of Radical Experimentation in 20th Century Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 takes as its point of departure two works given to The Museum of Modern Art by Pablo Picasso in the early 1970s: Guitar, assembled from cardboard, paper, wire, glue, and string in 1912, and a second version made of sheet metal in 1914. Unexpectedly humble in subject and unprecedented in mode of execution, the two Guitar constructions resembled no artwork ever seen before. Within Picasso’s long career they bracket a remarkably brief yet [...]

New Work by Los Angeles Native Artist Laurie Frick at Edward Cella Art + Architecture

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles native artist Laurie Frick. Entitled Sleep Patterns, each of Frick’s wall-based works and a site specific installation, represent the resonant rhythms of the neural paths of the human mind. Using scientific tools to measure these, Frick desires to visually present our biological nature though a unique language of pattern. This is Frick’s debut exhibit with Edward Cella Art + Architecture, as well [...]

150 Archaeology Graduates Protest Against Egypt’s Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawass

CAIRO (AP).- The man in charge of Egyptian antiquities starred in a TV show about his exploits, sports an “Indiana Jones”-style fedora and triumphantly declared that the nation’s heritage was mostly unscathed after the revolt that toppled the president. On Monday, however, he was under siege, the target of angry protesters who want him to quit. “Get out,” a crowd of 150 archaeology graduates chanted outside the office of Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who threw in his lot with the [...]

Egypt’s Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Says Some Objects Looted from Museum Found

CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry has recovered some of the national treasures that went missing from the Egyptian Museum during an uprising which unseated Hosni Mubarak, the country’s top Egyptologist said Monday. Items including a statue of King Tutankhamun and objects from the era of the Pharaoh Akhenaten went missing when looters broke into the museum during mass protests that engulfed the streets around the museum in central Cairo. Artefacts still missing include a statue of Akhenaten’s wife Nefertiti making [...]

Venetian and Flemish Masters from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp on View in Brussels

BRUSSELS.- Following their initial collaboration in 2009, which focused on the collection of the House of Savoy, the museums of Flanders and of northern Italy are once again putting their respective schools of painting into perspective with a stunning selection of pictures. From the 15th to the 18th century, the exhibition presents four centuries of contrast between 15 masterpieces from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and some fifty paintings from the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, one of the finest collections [...]

“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt Named Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day 2011

WICHITA, KAN.- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day 2011. Topping the chart is Gustav Klimt’s sensual masterpiece “The Kiss.” Other artists named on the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. Dance in the City by” Pierre-Auguste Renoir The oil paintings that made the 2011 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil [...]

Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Presents an Exhibition Devoted to Jean-Léon Gérome

MADRID.- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid presents Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), on view from 15 February through 22 May 2011. An ambitious exhibition jointly organised with the Musée d’Orsay, the Réunion des musées nationaux and J. Paul Getty Museum. It is the first major monographic exhibition to be devoted to this French painter and sculptor since the celebrated one held in the United States thirty years ago, and the first to be devoted to the artist in Spain. The carefully selected group of oil [...]

Black and white photography by Nobuyuki Taguchi

Born in 1968 in Yokohama, Japan, Nobuyuki Taguchi first began his photography back in 1991, when he was studying Fine Art in Sculpture at University in London. After finishing his MA course in 1995, Nobuyuki soon developed a deep interest in Information Technology and he became an IT professional. In 1999 he started “Digital” photography and has been spending more time on his photography since. In 2007 he started publishing his Black and White Photography on the internet. In May 2009 Nobuyuki’s [...]

A jewel of modernist architecture falls to pieces in Argentona

Argentona (SPAIN). The Generalitat and the property does not agree to rehabilitate the summer home of the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. The degradation of the summer house of the modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch in Argentona (Maresme) has activated all the alarms. This is a building that since 1993 has the maximum protection as cultural property of national interest (BCIN), documentation similar to Ametller House, La Pedrera and the Sagrada Família. However, authorities have not been able to [...]

Tokyo Homeless by Christian Burkert

The black and white series shoot by Christian Burkert deals with the approximately 6,000 people living in the metropolitan Tokyo in public parks or along the Sumida river in tents, cardboard boxes and small huts made of wood and plastic sheeting, being excluded from the achievement-orientated society.

Lady Gaga Inspired Artworks

There’s no doubt that Lady Gaga is the most influential pop icon of our days and as an a pop icon, inspire lots of art creations. Here there are some examples of Lady Gaga’s inspired artworks: