Jean-François Millet Pastel Allocated to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

GLASGOW.- A pastel of “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet is on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The pastel will hang in the Fragile Art space in the museum for the next four months. Glasgow Museums has been allocated the work in lieu of inheritance tax by the Government. The subject of the work is the angelus prayer which was said three times a day on hearing the toll of nearby church bells. It shows two workers saying their prayer [...]

Anime! High Art-Pop Culture at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Republic of Germany

BONN.- Anime, the specifically Japanese form of animated cartoons, has been a hugely successful fixture in Germany since the 1970s, captivating the imagination of young and old alike. An umbrella term, Anime describes a wide variety of techniques employed to make drawings come to life in film. Alongside Manga, the Japanese comic strip, Anime has developed an international pictorial language that appeals to audiences of all ages. Brightly coloured, catchy and energetic, the films and series such as Vicky the Viking, [...]

A Large Number of Prestigious International Galleries Announced at 2011 Edition of FIAC

PARIS.- FIAC 2011 will bring together 1681 galleries of modern and contemporary art, coming from 21 countries. France will be represented by 53 galleries, accounting for 33% of exhibitors, followed by the United States with 27 galleries, Germany with 21 galleries, Italy with 13 galleries, Belgium with 11 galleries, the United Kingdom with 9 galleries and Switzerland with 9 galleries. 73% of participating galleries are European. Brazil, Turkey and South Africa are represented by participating galleries for the first time this year. [...]

Art San Diego: Contemporary Art Fair Announces Exhibitors and Programming for Its 2011 Showv

SAN DIEGO, C.A.- The third edition of ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair, which will take place September 1 – 4, 2011 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, offers a blend of leading and emerging international galleries alongside focused solo-artist exhibitions by Spotlight Artists and contemporary furniture designers. ART SAN DIEGO also provides a strong focus on the city and culture of San Diego, through Art Labs. These combined events create an opportunity to showcase the diversity of San Diego’s artistic community. This [...]

Exhibition on Notable Artist Liu Kang to Commemorate Centennial Year of His Birth

SINGAPORE.- To commemorate the 100th year of the birth of Liu Kang, a highly regarded and respected Singapore artist, the a href=”http://nationalartgallery.sg/” target=”_blank”>National Art Gallery, Singapore has organised Liu Kang: A Centennial Celebration. Featuring 100 artworks, sketches, writings and artefacts, the exhibition invites art enthusiasts and visitors alike to explore the life and mind of the prolific artist known for being one of the founders of the Nanyang movement. Visitors can also learn about his artistic beliefs and his insights on [...]

The Städel Museum to Present the Exhibition “Beckmann & America” in October

FRANKFURT.- The last loans have been secured, technical and logistic preparations are in full swing: Frankfurt’s Städel Museum will present Max Beckmann’s (1884–1950) condensed late work against the background of the last years of his life and his artistic production in the USA in a major special exhibition starting on October 7, 2011. With more than 110 exhibits, including fifty paintings as well as numerous drawings, watercolors, printed graphic works, and sculptures, the show “Beckmann & America” offers a comprehensive survey of this [...]

As Curator Paula Rego Sees the Sadness in “Naked Girl with Egg” Painting by Lucian Freud

PORTO.- ”Naked Girl with Egg” by Lucian Freud is on the centre stage of My Choice, an exhibition founded on the now known and tried concept of the artist-curator, with Paula Rego. Mostly comprised of drawings and etchings, but also photography and painting, the 87 works mirror their creators’ identity. Always individualized, each work seems to have been observed and selected as a unique piece, her selection being unconcerned with the building of a body of related works. What unites each [...]

Metropolitan Museum Highlights Frans Hals Paintings from Collection in Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum—on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters. Frans Hals is one of the most familiar and accessible [...]

Gérard Seghers: Between Mannerism and Caravagism at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes

VALENCIENNES.- Gérard Seghers (on 1591 – 1651), painter of Antwerpen by big religious paintings, was subordinated for such a long time by the history to his illustrious contemporary Pierre-Paul Rubens (on 1577 – 1640). We can find tracks of the rubenian art in the painting of Seghers but no more than at the other antwerpers painters of the same generation The art of Gérard Seghers thinks in the other problems. The title of this exhibition shows well the questioning lifted by [...]

Major Collection of Frederick Kiesler Drawings and Sculptures Donated to Philadelphia Museum

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A major collection of 31 drawings and two sculptures by the architect, artist, designer, poet, and philosopher Frederick Kiesler (American, born Austria-Prussia 1890–1965) has been donated to the Museum by Ronnie L. and John E. Shore, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Shore were inspired to make this gift by the close connection of Kiesler to Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968), whose work is so well represented in the collection of thePhiladelphia Museum of Art. Ranging in date [...]

Exhibition of Flower Drawings at Fitzwilliam Museum Explores the Legacy of Redouté

CAMBRIDGE.- The ‘Raphael of flowers’, Joseph-Pierre Redouté (1759-1840), internationally famous for his prints of roses and lilies, was the finest botanical draughtsman of his age. In France he had a prestigious reputation in his own time, working for the Royal court both for Queen Marie-Antoinette and then for the Empress Joséphine following the French Revolution. Later in life his school of botanical drawing in Paris had over 80 pupils, the majority of them women, a number of whom became professional painters [...]

Prado Displays Caravaggio’s Entombment of Christ, on Loan from the Vatican Museums

MADRID.- To coincide with the celebration of World Youth Day and with Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Madrid, the Museo del Prado will be displaying. The Entombment of Christ, a major masterpiece by Caravaggio loaned from the Vatican Museums. For the first time in Spain, this monumental canvas will be exhibited for two months at the Prado thanks to sponsorship from the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado and as part of the “Invited Work” exhibition programme. This exceptional loan is also part [...]

First International Art Fair Dedicated to Old Master Paintings to be Launched in Paris

PARIS.- The first international art fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, will open to the public from Friday 4 to Tuesday 8 November 2011 at the renowned Palais de la Bourse, the former stock exchange located in the heart of the Paris art scene. This important new event was devised by ten leading Parisian paintings dealers who wish to share their passion for the field and to encourage the wider appreciation of paintings from the 14th to the mid 19th centuries. They [...]

Exhibition of Portraits from the Belle Époque on View at CaixaForum in Barcelona

BARCELONA.- Jaume Lanaspa, General Manager of “la Caixa” Foundation; Rafael Ripoll, Autonomous Secretary for Culture and Sport of the Government of Valencia; Xavier Solà, Secretary General, Ministry of Culture, Government of Catalonia, and Tomàs Llorens and Boye Llorens, curators of the exhibition, present Portraits of the Belle Époque at CaixaForum Barcelona. This presentation was also attended by Elisa Durán, Assistant General Manager of ”la Caixa” Foundation. An anthology brought together for the first time Portraits of the Belle Époque is the [...]

The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang With an Inclusion by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Arnolfini

BRISTOL.- The Sea Wall facilitates a conversation between the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Haegue Yang. Their practices’ talk of human relationships through the formation of abstract artworks, reflecting on such notions as, intimacy and activism, private and public, as well as place and people. Together, the works of these artists from different generations balance poetics and politics; they are emotionally charged, often through emphasizing the material qualities of domestic objects. Gonzalez-Torres believed that power could be created by politicising aesthetic beauty, [...]