Museum to Present Baroque Masterpieces, Including Two Never Before on Public View

SACRAMENTO, CA.- “Florence and the Baroque: Paintings from the Haukohl Family Collection” will bring masterworks of Italian painting and sculpture from the 16th through 18th centuries to Northern California. On view at the Crocker Art Museumfrom November 5, 2011 through February 12, 2012, this exhibition is drawn from the largest private American collection of Florentine Baroque painting and features works by key artists such as Cesare Dandini, Jacopo da Empoli, and Francesco Furini. The exhibition includes two paintings that have never [...]

Exhibition of Luminous Portraits by Artist Ray Turner on View at Long Beach Museum of Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) presents Ray Turner: Population, a solo exhibition of nearly 300 luminous portraits by American artist Ray Turner, opening Thursday, June 16, 2011. The series invites viewers to contemplate identity – individually as well as collectively. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 16th from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The exhibition will continue through Sunday, September 11, 2011. Curated by Art Critic Peter Frank and LBMA Executive Director Ron Nelson, the [...]

Rare Collage Paintings from the 1960′s by Larry Zox at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Larry Zox: Collage Paintings includes rare early collage works, including Banner, a seminal work from the late artist’s personal collection. Represented in nearly every major museum in the country, Larry Zox achieved art world prominence in 1973 as the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the catalogue to that exhibition curator James Monte writes that these earliest collage works are “extremely graphic and take advantage of spatial jumps alternately [...]

Photographers Examine the Fine Line Between Documentary and Fine Art Photography

BRUSSELS.- This latest exhibition brings together 14 photographers at the instigation of BOZAR and the photography museums of Antwerp and Charleroi. Together, they examine the fine line that now separates documentary photography and fine art photography. The fact is that, since the 1980s, photography has been permanently elevated to the rank of art, but has never been so used in the vast stock of photo-journalism. This documentary and social veneer is brought out in art photographs which enhance the supporting document. [...]

New Exhibition at Allegra LaViola Gallery Explores the Theme of the Line in Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Draw the Line, an exhibition of drawing, installation and painting that explores the theme of the line in art. In his essay “The Role of Line in Art” Wyndham Lewis speaks of the line as “the bone beneath the pulp”. This idea of the essential structure underlying the construction of a work is the starting point for Draw the Line. While Lewis was speaking specifically of drawing, this exhibition seeks to explore the [...]

Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650 at the Prado Museum in Madrid

MADRID.- Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 will be exhibited at the Museo del Prado after its showing at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition project is one of the most ambitious to be undertaken by the Prado, which has worked closely with the Musée du Louvre. Works have been loaned from fifty different sources in order to offer the most important selection of landscape of this period to be exhibited to [...]

Saddle Up! 30 Works of Art Featuring the Horse at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich

GREENWICH, CT.- While the title of the Bruce Museum’s new exhibition “Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum” may seem a bit irreverent, the approximately 30 works of art featuring the horse are more than sheer whimsy. On view in Greenwich, from July 1 through Sept. 25, the equine artworks cover several centuries and encompass a wide range of media — from a Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) tomb sculpture of a male equestrian figure to a 20th-century photograph by Garry [...]

For the First Time: Rembrandt and Degas, Two Young Artists, on View at the Rijksmuseum

AMSTERDAM.- Although it is well known that the famous French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was inspired by Rembrandt, the forthcoming exhibition is the first actually devoted to Rembrandt’s influence on Degas. This summer, the Rijksmuseum presents a series of self-portraits of the two artists when they were young. Rarely displayed together, the Degas self-portraits originate from internationally renowned collections such as those at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington and The Getty Museum [...]

Sprüth Magers London Introduces New Series of Works by Dutch Artist Marcel van Eeden

LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London introduces the work of Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden with the exhibition ‘November 22, 1948’. For this latest installment of his work van Eeden has created a new series of drawings that reveal the artist’s ongoing exploration of the concept of narration through the lives of a range of semi-fictional characters and their global exploits. Since 1993, van Eeden, a graduate of The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, has almost exclusively worked in ‘nero’ pencil [...]

MoMA Exhibition Examines the Work of Architects and Their Ideas on Urban Renewal in the U.S.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents 194X-9/11: American Architects and the City, an exhibition that examines the work of leading architects in light of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The selections trace an arc from the idealism of the World War II years through the subsequent criticisms of the 1960s and ’70s, to the threshold of today’s post-9/11 period and the debates catalyzed by the rebuilding of Ground Zero. On view from July 1, [...]