Telefónica renews commitment to the Prado, coinciding with the start of the new 7-days-a-week opening hours

MADRID.- José Ignacio Wert, the Minister of Education, Sport and Culture, presided over the signing of an agreement through which Telefónica is renewing its sponsorship of the Museo del Prado for another four years. On his arrival at the Museum and before the signing took place, the new Minister made a brief tour of some of the galleries on the principal floor, which were open to the public today for the first time on a Monday. He was accompanied by Plácido Arango, President [...]

PAFA to mount definitive exhibition on African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the only two known sculptures that Tanner completed. The exhibition also includes Tanner’s famed Resurrection of Lazarus, from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, a career-making canvas [...]

Olympian world of the Greek gods is recreated at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne

COLOGNE.- Even today, the world of the ancient Greek gods has lost none of its fascination. Accounts of the deeds of mighty Zeus, his jealous wife Hera, the twins Apollo and Artemis, beautiful Aph-rodite, and Dionysos the god of wine, are as enthralling as ever after more than 2000 years. Greek poets and artists conveyed a vivid picture of the world of these gods. Their work set creative precedents and were a source of inspiration; they also furnished models and a [...]

Largest and most colourful lithographs ever made by David Hockney at Alan Cristea Gallery

LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery, Cork Street W1, will today unveil an exhibition of David Hockney’s largest and most colourful lithographs in an exhibition entitled ‘Moving Focus. A focal point of this free exhibition will be two views of the ‘Hotel Acatlán’ which the artist discovered when car trouble forced him to stop in the midst of a journey to Mexico City. Taking place from19 January until 18 February 2012 in the gallery’s space at No. 34 Cork Street, the exhibition [...]

Tate appoints José Roca as Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art

LONDON.- Tate announced the appointment of Colombian curator José Roca (b.1962) as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art. The post, which reflects Tate’s continuing commitment to broadening the geographical scope of the Collection, is for a period of three years from 2012 to 2015. José Roca began working in the post on 9 January 2012. He will take a leading role in developing Tate’s holdings of art from Latin America and will work closely with Tate’s Latin American [...]

Breach: An exhibition at Rod Barton Gallery in London focuses on four young artists

LONDON.- Rod Barton Gallery presents Breach, an exhibition focusing on four young artists who embrace photography’s plasticity and it’s ability to exist in multiple contexts. Taking advantage of the medium’s inherent instability, they further explore and challenge our understanding of the medium. The title refers to both a breach of traditional photographic conventions and a rupture between real and virtual space. A photograph is paradoxical by nature: there is always a confliction between what it depicts and it’s physical existence as an [...]

America’s leading art galleries to exhibit 30 solo-artist booths and 42 thematic installations

NEW YORK, NY.- The 24th edition of The Art Show, the nation’s foremost and longest running fine art fair will present museum-quality exhibitions of solo artist and group installations. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, The Art Show takes place March 7 through March 11, 2012 in New York City. The fair presents the nation’s leading art dealers and galleries showcasing a range of artwork from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to masterpieces from the [...]

Exhibition of photographs by Paul Strand and Henri Cartier-Bresson opens in Paris

PARIS.- Bringing together such different works by two great masters in the history of photography is not self-evident. There are many points of convergence, but their styles are profoundly different. The American’s immobility contrasts with Frenchman’s fluidity. They both travelled to Mexico during the same period and they crossed paths in New York in 1935 when they joined the political filmmakers’ group Nykino (which later became Frontier Films) in order to explore filmmaking at a critical point in their respective careers. [...]

Hotel in Australia offers its guests the chance to try and steal a work of art by Banksy

MELBOURNE.- Crime Stoppers is to become the beneficiary of a valuable piece of art that inept thieves have failed to steal despite multiple attempts. Art Series Hotels in Melbourne offered its guests over summer the chance to try and steal a work of art by notorious street artist Banksy. If people could get away with the theft they got to keep the art, if they got caught, then back on the wall it went. With two paintings to be stolen, after one [...]

Exhibition of recent work by Spanish artist Juan Genovés at Marlborough Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of recent work by Juan Genovés until February 11, 2012 at Marlborough Gallery. This exhibition, the artist’s ninth solo show with Marlborough Gallery in New York, is comprised of approximately twenty acrylic paintings. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés is one of Spain’s bestknown contemporary artists. Recognized for his aesthetic style rooted in Social Realism and political art, Genovés strongly criticized Franco’s fascist regime. Genovés was sent to jail because the opposition made a [...]

Sotheby’s to offer 13 works from the Forbes Collection depicting the Franco-Prussian War

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 27 January 2012 sale of Old Master & 19th Century European Art will feature a group of 13 works from The Forbes Collection that depict the Battle of Champigny, one of the final engagements of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The group comprises Édouard Detaille’s celebrated composition Champigny; décembre 1870 (est. $70/100,00); a total of four preparatory works – two each by Detaille and Alphonse de Neuville – for the popular Panorama de Champigny that opened Paris’s Panorama [...]

A selection of treasures from the Khalili Collection to be shown at the British Museum

LONDON.- The earliest known accurate panoramic view of Mecca is one of over forty-five important objects to be loaned by the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art to the British Museum for the exhibition Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam which will be on view in the Round Reading Room from 26 January to 15 April 2012. The Khalili Collection is the biggest single lender to this landmark exhibition, the first devoted to the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca [...]

Artpace in San Antonio announces curator Regine Basha as new Executive Director

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced that Regine Basha has been appointed Executive Director. A search committee headed by Board of Directors Chairperson J. Travis Capps, Jr. announced that Basha will assume her post by March 1, 2012. “Regine brings a unique vision to Artpace that will be invaluable to the organization,” says Capps “Her combined experience in the Texas and international art world are a perfect fit for Artpace’s internationally acclaimed residency program.” Basha brings nearly 20 years of experience [...]

Valencian Institute of Modern Art opens exhibition of the sculpture of Arturo Berned

VALENCIA.- The show starts with four large works installed outside the museum as a prologue to the exhibition features 60 works selected for the occasion.As part of the exhibition space has been defined as ‘studio area’, which has enabled the study itself to appreciate the artist and the current evolution of his creative activity with the exhibition of the latest pieces made to be incorporated in this space , as its completion, in lieu of those discussed above. Accompanying the sculptures, [...]

A seductive collection of portraits and nudes from the iconic Herb Ritts to be published by The Getty

NEW YORK, NY.- Considered one of the most important photographers to emerge from the1980s, Herb Ritts (1952-2002) possessed a distinctive sense of style. He had the ability to seamlessly switch gears between his personal work that helped revive the male nude genre, and his commercial photography incorporating fashion and portraiture. His work is infused with the overriding elegance that is a distinguishing mark of his pictures. Herb Ritts: L.A. Style (Getty Publications, April 2012) traces the life and career of the [...]