Special contributions allow Knoxville Museum of Art to acquire masterpiece by Catherine Wiley

KNOXVILLE, TN.- Thanks to an outpouring of generosity from the community, the Knoxville Museum of Art has acquired a landmark 1913 Impressionist painting by East Tennessee native Anna Catherine Wiley (1879-1958). The colorful scene of a woman and child in a sun-dappled meadow was purchased at auction at Case Antiques in Knoxville on January 28, 2012. “Catherine Wiley was not prolific, and her paintings rarely come on the market,” says KMA Curator Stephen Wicks. “This is one of her greatest works, from her [...]

Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol exhibition traveling throughout Asia

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announced its latest traveling exhibition Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal, opening March 17, 2012 at the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal is the largest retrospective of Warhol’s artwork to travel to Asia, spanning his career from the 1940s to 1980s. The exhibition is arranged by decade and features more than 300 paintings, photographs, screen prints, drawings, and sculptures. Iconic works in the exhibition include Jackie (1964), Marilyn Monroe (1967), [...]

Extensive survey show of works by the Cuban painter Carmen Herrera at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery announces an extensive survey show of works by the Cuban painter Carmen Herrera. One of her most comprehensive exhibitions to date, this will include historic paintings from the 1940s through to the present day. Born in 1915 Herrera continues to draw and paint every day from her home in New York City. Recognition came late for Herrera; a story not uncommon among women of her generation. After seven decades of painting, her work was finally revealed to a wider [...]

Ten fantasy portraits by Tiepolo shown publicly for the first time at Fundación Juan March

MADRID.- With the aim of offering, together with our larger exhibitions dedicated to specific artists and movements, select smaller–scale shows, the Fundación Juan March presents Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727–1804). Giandomenico was the brother of Lorenzo Tiepolo, and both were the sons of Giambattista Tiepolo, the patriarch of their artistic dynasty, the “Tiepolo factory”, in the words of Andrés Úbeda. The three artists had moved to Madrid in 1762, where their principal task was the creation of decorative frescoes on various ceilings in the Royal [...]

New exhibition sheds new light on the rarely shown collection of the Fondation de l’Hermitage

LAUSANNE.- With over a hundred works, Au fil des collections, from Tiepolo to Degas sheds new light on the rarely shown collection of the Fondation de l’Hermitage. Focusing on the museum’s masterpieces (including Tiepolo, Bocion, Sisley, Degas, Vuillard, Vallotton, Valadon, Braque and Magritte), the exhibition brings these works face to face, in an innovative dialogue, with other gems from public and private Swiss collections, often being exhibited for the first time. The display begins with a room devoted to the Tiepolo [...]