Groundbreaking perspective on Camille Pissarro opens at the Legion of Honor this Fall

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Pissarro’s People brings us face to face with one of the most complex and captivating members of the Impressionist group, a man whose life was as quietly revolutionary as his art. The exhibition, on view October 22, 2011, to January 22, 2012, offers a groundbreaking perspective on Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), the painter and printmaker best known for his large body of landscapes and urban views. This is the first exhibition to focus on Pissarro’s personal ties and social [...]

Miro’s, Monets, Modiglianis from The Nahmad Collection go public at Kunsthaus Zurich

ZURICH (REUTERS).- Over the past half-century the Nahmad family’s primary relationship with art was how much money they could make by dealing in the works of Picasso, Monet and Dali. Now a new exhibition, “Miro, Monet, Matisse – The Nahmad Collection” reveals for the first time the world-class works they stashed away, almost forgotten in a warehouse. Their story began in the early 1960s, when brothers Ezra and David began buying art in Paris and transporting it back to Milan to [...]

Memory: Contemporary international sculpture by nine artists on view at Rosenfeld Porcini

LONDON.- Rosenfeld Porcini present MEMORY, an exhibition of nine international artists working in sculpture today MEMORY brings together seven European artists and one each from the UK and America: Steve Goddard (UK), Andreas Blank (Germany), Leonardo Drew (US), Nicola Samori (Italy), Roberto Almagno (Italy), Spazio Visivo (Italy), Kaarina Kaikkonen (Finland), Rossana Zaera (Spain), and Mar Arza (Spain). From Roberto Almagnoʼs beautifully-crafted abstract forms made from wood, to the visceral approach of Steve Goddardʼs pieces made of pigment, horsehair and clay, the exhibition [...]

Peggy Guggenheim Museum offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collection

VENICE.- From October 15 2011 to January 1 2012, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Themes&Variations. First conceived in 2002 by Luca Massimo Barbero, this is the third edition of an innovative but now proven exhibition formula that offers visitors fresh perceptions of the museum’s collections, whether known or less known, by means of a dialogue with works by more contemporary artists from other collections, thus opening up new, multiple possible interpretations. Works from the early 20th c. avant-garde connect thematically in a confrontation [...]

International Fine Art Expositions joins together with Chartis for the 2012 fair season

NAPLES, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions, organizers of leading prestigious international art fairs around the world, today announced a strategic alliance with Mark Edward Partners, insurance brokers, and the Chartis insurers, leading property-casualty and general insurance providers, to serve as the exclusive insurance brokers and underwriters, respectively, for IFAE’s upcoming 2012 fair schedule. “We are excited about the value this new relationship with Mark Edward Partners and Chartis will add to IFAE and Expoships, LLLP, to our fairs, and for the [...]

Grimmuseum and Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde present a text spaced exhibition

BERLIN.- Never odd or even is a text-spaced exhibition that unfolds in mental and architectural chapters through perspectives created by textual artworks. The artworks presented derive from Concrete Poetry, Dadaist and Futurist Manifestos, as well as techniques of mind mapping. The exhibition is shaped as a book, formatted in spatial chapters that invite the visitors to become the co-authors. Imaginary space is rendered tangible through text and movement. Artworks appear as wall texts, projections, spoken, enacted and filmed prose, activating the [...]

Photography exhibition reveals life in India’s coal belt at London’s Gallery S O.

LONDON (REUTERS).- In a filthy pit, straining his body as he hacks ash from the ground, the image of a man captured in a black and white photograph represents the working conditions of many laborers in coal-rich northeast India. The picture is one of several being exhibited in London this month by photographer Srinivas Kuruganti, illustrating life in Jharkland state, where underground fires sparked by coal mining have raged for nearly a century and displaced communities. Kuruganti’s fascination with the impacts [...]

Getty Research Institute presents “Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950–1980, on view at the Getty Research Institute from October 1, 2011 – February 5, 2012, surveys the emergence of a community of artists who developed innovative strategies for reaching out to, and even creating, diverse and varied publics. Drawn from the Getty Research Institute’s extensive archives of Los Angeles art, this exhibition features over 200 objects including photographs, ephemera, correspondence, and artwork—many on view for the first time. Part of Pacific [...]

First-ever retrospective of Richard Serra’s drawings on view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Richard Serra’s large-scale steel sculptures have made him a crucial figure in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking, lesser-known form: drawing. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from October 15, 2011, through January 16, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective is the first-ever critical overview of Serra’s drawings, offering new insight into both the artist’s practice and the possibilities of the medium. This landmark traveling exhibition [...]

Milwaukee Art Museum premieres groundbreaking Impressionism exhibition

MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Closing out the year-long anniversary celebration of the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper premiered at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Friday, October 14. Organized by the Museum in partnership with the Albertina in Vienna, the exhibition presents more than one hundred drawings, watercolors, and pastels by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Some of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art, including Manet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec, created works on paper [...]

High develops new smartphone application for “Picasso to Warhol” exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, working with award-winning Second Story Interactive Studios, has developed a new Smartphone application called ArtClix, which brings together photo-recognition software and social media to create a new kind of museum app that moves beyond traditional audio tours. The app has been created in its initial iteration to be used in conjunction with the High’s exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters,” which opened to the public on Saturday, October 15. ArtClix is free and [...]

Major exhibition of Norwegian pioneer of modern art Edvard Munch at Kunsthalle Bremen

BREMEN.- An exceptional discovery is the starting point for this major exhibition of the Norwegian pioneer of modern art: In 2005, during an examination of Munch’s painting “Child and Death” (1899), a second canvas was found, displaying a previously unknown painting by the artist: “Girl and Three Male Heads” (1895-98). In 1918, the Kunsthalle’s Director Emil Waldmann purchased the aforementioned work for 20.000 marks. It was the first painting by the Norwegian artist to be acquired by a German museum and [...]

Tate and BMW announce major new international partnership: BMW Tate Live

LONDON.- Tate and BMW announced a major new international partnership, BMW Tate Live which will focus on performance, interdisciplinary art and curating digital space. The four-year programme will be launched with a series of artist performances created specifically to be broadcast ‘live’ online. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room is the first artistic programme created purely for live web broadcast. The BMW Tate Live: Performance Room series will include five commissions in 2012. The French choreographer, Jérôme Bel, will create the first commission [...]

Gobekli Tepe: The world’s oldest temple under conservation by the Global Heritage Fund

SANLIURFA, TURKEY.- Accidentally discovered by a shepherd 17 years ago, Göbekli Tepe is an 11,600-year-old temple site in southeastern Turkey that predates Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years. Excavations that immediately followed have revealed monolithic T-shaped pillars erected by prehistoric people that, as far as we know, had not yet developed writing, metal tools or even pottery. The elaborately-carved stones, believed to be anthropomorphic symbols of human beings containing graphic details of animals, symbols and scenes, are systematically arranged in circles throughout [...]

Alex Mann joins the Chrysler as the Joan and Macon Brock curator of American art

NORFOLK, VA.- Crawford Alexander Mann III has joined the Chrysler Museum of Art as the Joan and Macon Brock curator of American art. The new position within the curatorial department is fully endowed and made possible by a generous contribution from the Brocks. Macon Brock currently serves as the chairman of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. Mann, a specialist in 19th-century American art, will use his knowledge and experience to build and reinterpret the Museum’s exceptional collection of pre-1945 American art. “The Museum [...]