Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy at the Denver Art Museum

DENVER. CO.- Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy invites visitors to explore more than 50 paintings, textiles and decorative arts that defined the style that became known as the Italian Renaissance. The artworks and sumptuously designed settings create a “passport to travel” to Italy during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Visitors have the chance to experience the distinctive creative contribution of each featured city to the birth of the Renaissance style. Coming from the museum’s own [...]

The Ukrainian Museum Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Chornobyl Disaster with Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. Following an explosion in one of the plant’s reactors, a plume of radioactive fallout contaminated a huge area surrounding the plant and drifted across parts of the western Soviet Union and nearly all of Europe. After the accident, nearby towns and villages were evacuated and later abandoned. Some 350,000 people lost their homes. In the subsequent clean-up, 850,000 [...]

Exhibition of One of Australia’s Most Renowned and Eminent Landscape Artists Opens in Melobourne

MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria opened Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, a superb exhibition which takes an in depth look, for the first time in over 30 years, at one of Australia’s most renowned and eminent landscape artists, Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901). Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said: “Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed is a star feature of the NGV’s 150th anniversary year and it’s a great honour to have present von Guérard’s great, great granddaughter, Dr Harriet Buckley, [...]

The Frans Hals Museum Receives a Historic Gift of Art Worth More than €100 Million

HAARLEM.- The official handover of the largest gift in the museum’s recent history took place today in the Frans Hals Museum. The Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund is donating eleven works of art from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to the City of Haarlem and the Frans Hals Museum. Among the works there is a large and rare group portrait by Frans Hals. The total value of the gift is at least €100 million. The works can be seen in the [...]

Turner Contemporary Designed by David Chipperfield Aims to Transform Town of Margate

MARGATE, ENGLAND (AP).- In a town that has seen better days, this is a red-letter day. For years in the English seaside town of Margate, things have shut down — shops, hotels, the Dreamland amusement park that used to draw crowds of visitors to this brash resort. Saturday, however, saw an opening, the launch of a 17 million pound ($28 million) art gallery that Margate hopes will restore fortunes which have declined since Britons abandoned bracing beach holidays for flights [...]

First Large Scale Show in Britain to Celebrate the Still Life Paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour

COUNTY DURHAM.- Flower power is the theme running through an exhibition at The Bowes Museum; the first large scale show in Britain to celebrate the still life paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour. Although the artist’s name might not be the first to trip off everyone’s tongue when reflecting on 19th Century greats, he was nevertheless up there with the finest, including Manet, who was a witness at his wedding, and Whistler, who introduced him to London’s artistic and intellectual society. Painting Flowers: [...]

Only Connect: Unconventional New Display at the National Portrait Gallery in London

LONDON.- Opening this weekend, Only Connect is an unconventional new display at the National Portrait Gallery presenting a web of portraits connecting sitters across three centuries. Comprising paintings, sculpture, photographs, engravings, drawings, miniatures and works in other media from the National Portrait Gallery’s holdings, the display uses musical connections to explore new ways of looking at the Collection. Eric William Fenby Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin by Unknown photographer 1970s. © National Portrait Gallery, London. The display proposes a network of threads [...]

Over 300 Photographs by Artist Roni Horn on View at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- On the occasion of the 5th Triennale of Photographie in Hamburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle shows the exhibition Roni Horn. Photographic Works. New Yorker Roni Horn (*1955) is one of the world’s most renowned artists. Living alternately in New York and in Iceland she has been exhibiting internationally for over 30 years. Following her big solo exhibitions in 2009 at Tate Modern, London, and at Whitney Museum, New York, the Hamburg show presents her photographs for the first time in [...]

Woodcuts: Collection from Albrecht Dürer to Tal R at the National Gallery of Denmark

COPENHAGEN.- While the world is experiencing an ever-increasing influx of new media, the Royal Collection of Graphic Art directs attention to one of the oldest mediums around. A medium, moreover, which remains very much alive and continues to attract the attention of the most innovative strata of contemporary art. The spring exhibition at the Royal Collection of Graphic Art at the National Gallery of Denmark provides a comprehensive introduction to the technique and functions of woodcut. Woodcut is the oldest known [...]

Four Legends of Texas Photography Exhibit at Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery

DALLAS, TX.- Four Legends of Texas who have greatly impacted the photography scene in Texas are featured together in one show. Peter Brown • Keith Carter • Earlie Hudnall • George Krause This show also celebrates the gallery’s 16th anniversary since they opened as Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery April 1995. All four photographers have been recognized internationally and have their photographs in major museum collections. They have each had solo exhibitions at PDNB Gallery throughout our last 16 years. Peter [...]

First U.S. Solo Show of Jo Ractliffe Inaugurates New Chelsea Venue for Walther Family

NEW YORK, NY.- The first U.S. solo exhibition of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe inaugurated the Walther Family Foundation’s new exhibition space in the landmark West Chelsea Arts Building in New York City on April 15, 2011. As Terras do Fim do Mundo (The Lands of the End of the World) showcases nearly 60 of Ractliffe’s evocative black-and-white landscapes, presenting haunting images that reflect past tragedies in the sweeping landscapes of present-day Angola. On view at the Walther Collection Project Space [...]

Renewed Lincoln Center Named the “Best In Show” in the 2011 AIANY Design Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- This week, the Center for Architecture in New York City opened its exhibition of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter 2011 Design Award winners, which featured 38 projects selected out of 433 by a jury of twelve eminent architects, educators, critics and planners. The Center also opened its “Best in Show” showcase exhibition, which featured three of those 38 winners: the Hypar Pavilion Lawn and Restaurant, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE (Architecture, [...]

Boston’s ICA Opens The Record, First Museum Show to Explore Influence of Vinyl on Visual Art

BOSTON, MA.- This spring, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record’s transformative power from the 1960s to the present. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with [...]

Art Gallery of New South Wales Announces Ben Quilty’s Portrait Wins Archibald Prize 2011

SIDNEY.- This year, the 90th year of Archibald, there were 798 entries for Archibald, 810 for the Wynne and 633 entries for the Sulman. The Archibald and Wynne prizes are judged by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The judge for the Sulman Prize was Richard Bell. WINNER OF THE 2011 ARCHIBALD PRIZE Ben Quilty Margaret Olley WINNER OF THE 2011 WYNNE PRIZE Richard Goodwin Co-isolated slave The Trustees’ Watercolour Prize Graham Fransella Tree WINNER OF THE 2011 [...]

The Pace Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Sculptures from 1982 to 2008 by John Chamberlain

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of sculptures by John Chamberlain from 1982 to 2008, on view from April 15 through June 11, 2011. Chamberlain has been the subject of thirteen solo exhibitions at The Pace Gallery since 1963, as well as the seminal exhibition De Kooning and Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation, which explored the affinities between the muscular and gestural styles of the two Abstract Expressionists working across generations and mediums. Critics, curators, and artists including [...]