“Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935″ at the Royal Academy of Arts

LONDON.- This winter the Royal Academy of Arts will present Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935. The exhibition will examine Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935. Fired by the Constructivist art that emerged in Russia from c.1915, architects transformed this radical artistic language into three dimensions, creating structures whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state. The exhibition will juxtapose [...]

New exhibition features priceless private art collection never before displayed publicly

VANCOUVER, B.C.- Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection reveals for the first time one of the most important private art collections in Canada, a stunning group of works assembled over the past 25 years by Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa. Generously loaned to the Vancouver Art Gallery for this special exhibition, the Audains’ collection features a vast array of art – from exceptional 19th century masks by First Nations artists, to an outstanding set of paintings by Emily Carr that [...]

Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim at Abu Dhabi island hit by more delays

DUBAI (AP).- Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim art museums being built as part of an ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi could now open at least a year later than planned, the developer and an official with knowledge of the projects said Saturday. Questions about the future of the Saadiyat Island cultural district have swirled among contractors in the Gulf for months. They came into sharper focus this week when the project’s government-backed developer disclosed that it was temporarily dropping [...]

Works by Lichtenstein, Degas, Rothko, and Still lead Christie’s and Sotheby’s art auctions

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- With financial markets remaining stubbornly shaky, auction houses in New York are gearing up for critical fall auctions which feature several works each poised to fetch $30 million or more. “The financial markets have been volatile all year, yet the art market has continued to perform well,” said Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s Americas. “It’s incredibly strong.” Christie’s and Sotheby’s are both offering many works that are valued over $10 million, and each has offerings expected to fetch [...]

“Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” exhibition at the Akron Art Museum

AKRON, OH.- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, on view at the Akron Art MuseumOctober 29, 2011 – February 5, 2012, offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by leading French artists from Gustave Courbet to Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. This exquisite exhibition of more than fifty paintings will include many of the finest examples of French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum as [...]

Julie Lansom photos from Paris

Julie Lansom is a young photographer from Paris, France. Julie Lansom says, “i take photos because i have a shitty memory” – best bio ever. i love this series she did.

ASEAN art exhibition 2011 At Museum PASIFIKA

October 24, 2011 – November 23, 2011 Nusa Dua, Bali Indonesia — This month, Museum Pasifika in cooperation with Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy is holding ASEAN Art Exhibition  on the occasion of the ASEAN Heads of State’s Summit and ASEAN Fair from 24 October  – 23 November 2011.   Officially opened by the President of Republic Indonesia on 24 October 2011 as part of ASEAN FAIR,  the ASEAN Art Exhibition can be visited  up to [...]

Established figures of the 20th century to young new discoveries at Art.Fair 2011 in Cologne

COLOGNE.- From October 29 to November 1, 2011, the ninth annual ART.FAIR will celebrate its opening at the Staatenhaus am Rheinpark, Cologne. After the successful opening in the new halls in 2010, with approximately 32,000 visitors, organizers expect even more art enthusiasts this year – because there is plenty to see: the trade fair is expanding into an additional hall. A total of 16,000 m² provide a generous amount of space for even more art. The repertoire ranges from the established figures of [...]

Russia’s Bolshoi reopens after reconstruction that restored it to its original imperial splendor

MOSCOW (AP).- Russia’s Bolshoi Theater reopened Friday after a massive reconstruction effort that restored it to its original imperial splendor. The $700 million, six-year effort meticulously recreated the opulent 19th-century decor, many elements of which had been simplified or removed during communist rule. The renovation also added state-of-the art stage gear and created an additional underground hall. Russian and international celebrities, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and Italian actress Monica Bellucci, filled the [...]

Surrealist masterwork by Ed Ruscha, Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, to be offered at Christie’s

NEW YORK, N.Y.- An important Surrealist-inspired painting by Ed Ruscha is among the many highlights to be offered in Christie’s sale of Post War and Contemporary Art at Rockefeller Center on November 8. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish, painted in 1965, is estimated to fetch $3 to $4 million. Strange Catch for a Fresh Water Fish is a key work in a series of paintings Ruscha executed in the mid-1960s, in which his imagery calls to mind film noir or the [...]

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery hosts The Black List: Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

WASHINGTON, D.C (AP).- Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a show opening Friday, along with other leading black figures who may be lesser known. “The Black List” features 50 large-scale photographs from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in a project that also included a 2008 HBO film. After a conversation with his friend, the writer Toni Morrison, Greenfield-Sanders began thinking of all the successful black figures he knows — and how so many [...]

Museum collections at serious risk, a new survey by ICCROM and UNESCO shows

ROME.- Precious artifacts and national treasures hidden away in the underbelly of museums are not as safe as we think. A recent international survey on museum storage by ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) confirms that all over the world, museum collections in storage suffer from poor management, lack of maintenance, adequate space and equipment. This is particularly disturbing because on average 90% of museum objects [...]

Art Toronto 2011: Canada’s only Modern and Contemporary international art fair

TORONTO, ON.- Collectors, curators and art enthusiasts converged on Toronto to experience the twelfth edition of Art Toronto – a four-day fair which showcases exhibits by 109 leading and emerging international galleries from 13 countries. Art Toronto 2011 runs from October 28 to 31, and features alternative spaces curated by The Drake Hotel, Canadian Art magazine, the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Dealers Association of Canada. Other highlights of the fair include solo exhibitions, installations and curated projects by renowned [...]

Exhibit by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum focuses on his absence

TAIPEI (AP).- Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, currently confined to Beijing, is opening an art exhibit in Taiwan that focuses on the political significance of his inability to attend. The exhibit titled “Ai Weiwei, Absent” debuts at Taipei’s Fine Arts Museum on Saturday. In a pamphlet for the show, Ai writes that his absence “is a part of my art, my portfolio and my cultural state.” Ai was detained in April during a sweeping Chinese crackdown on activists. His detention sparked an international [...]

United States celebrates Statue of Liberty’s 125th birthday, interior will be closed for renovations

NEW YORK (AP).- Scores of people waved tiny flags after taking the oath of U.S. citizenship at the foot of the Statue of Liberty on Friday, 125 years after the iconic American symbol welcoming visitors and immigrants was dedicated. “We are a nation of diverse people,” Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said during the naturalization ceremony on Liberty Island. “And that diversity strengthens our nation.” The new Americans, 125 immigrants from 46 countries, pledged to renounce foreign power, then posed [...]