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Exhibition of nearly 30 years of work by Kenneth Noland opens at Pace Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of nearly 30 years of work by Kenneth Noland (b. 1924, Asheville, North Carolina– d. 2010, Port Clyde, Maine) on view from March 21 through April 19, 2014 at 32 East 57th Street, New York. A fully illustrated catalogue with a new essay by William Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art... [Read full article]
A new way of seeing and sharing art on mobile devices from the Museo del Prado
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado and Madpixel today presented Second Canvas Museo del Prado, an app that combines knowledge of the Museum with interactive capacity in order to expand the experience of the Prado, either in preparation for a visit, out of curiosity or cultural interests or as an educational tool. Second Canvas Museo del Prado includes 14... [Read full article]
Brooklyn-born artist Joyce Pensato opens debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery
LONDON.- Joyce Pensato paints exuberant, explosive likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. For her debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery, she will be showing new paintings featuring Batman, Donald Duck and various characters from The Simpsons. Included among them is a darkened visage of Homer Simpson crossed with Groucho Marx and Marge... [Read full article]
Galería OMR in Mexico City presents two iconic works by American artist James Turrell
MEXICO CITY.- James Turrell is one the most important artists of the International art scene. For the past 40 years he has devoted his work to experimenting with natural and arti ficial light, pushing the limits of perception: his installations and environments make it possible to experience light itself as an artistic medium. When Turrell devised... [Read full article]
Marty de Cambiaire exhibits forty Neapolitan works on paper from 1550 to 1800
PARIS.- Marty de Cambiaire’s seventh show takes place in their offices, located on 16 place Vendôme, from 25 March to 4 April 2014. It focuses on a group of forty Neapolitan and Sicilian drawings dating from the 16th to the 18th century. A bilingual exhibition catalogue has been published, similar to their previous catalogues (which can be... [Read full article]
Room Service: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibits the hotel in art and culture
BADEN-BADEN.- The hotel holds a particular fascination as a topos in the history of art and culture — especially in the city Baden-Baden, a spa and cultural center that has been shaped by tourism. Its history is closely interwoven with that of its many visitors. Numerous myths surround the hotel as a semi-public place. It serves as a mirror for motives... [Read full article]
President Obama visits Rijksmuseum in first ever visit by a serving US President to the museum
AMSTERDAM.- On the occasion of his official visit to the Netherlands for the Nuclear Security Summit on 24 and 25 March, President Obama of the United States visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam today, the first ever visit by a serving US President to the museum. He is pictured here with the museum’s General Director, Wim Pijbes, in the Gallery... [Read full article]
Contemporary artist Graham Fagen selected to represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale
EDINBURGH.- The Scotland + Venice partnership announced that Graham Fagen has been selected to represent Scotland at the 56th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale, running from 9 May to 22 November 2015, in a solo presentation commissioned and curated by Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath. Graham Fagen is one of the UK’s foremost contemporary... [Read full article]
The renowned UBS Art Collection on view at Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan
MILAN.- UBS presents the first exhibition in Italy featuring works from the renowned UBS Art Collection, one of the world’s largest and most respected corporate contemporary art collections. The works are on view from Friday, March 21 to Sunday, June 21, 2014 in the splendid exhibition space on the first floor of the GAM – Galleria d’Arte... [Read full article]
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban receives the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize
CHICAGO, IL.- Shigeru Ban will receive the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prize, made the announcement today. Shigeru Ban, a Tokyo-born, 56-year-old architect with offices in Tokyo, Paris and New York, is rare in the field of architecture. He designs elegant, innovative... [Read full article]
After weathering severe damage for centuries, two restored colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
LUXOR (AFP).- Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt’s famed temple city of Luxor, adding to an existing pair of world-renowned tourist attractions. The two monoliths in red quartzite were raised at what European and Egyptian archaeologists said were their original sites in the funerary temple... [Read full article]
Celebrate spring at the New-York Historical Society with Audubon’s iconic original watercolors of birds
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New-York Historical Society continues its acclaimed series of exhibitions celebrating John James Audubon’s legendary original watercolors. Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown (Part II of The Complete Flock) offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the evolution of Audubon’s watercolors in the order in which... [Read full article]
Major new multi-media installation by Richard Mosse opens at Foam in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Foam presents The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major new multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. The installation consists of six large screens which represent the conflict situation in Congo, shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection... [Read full article]
Exhibition displays the quality, diversity and dynamism of South African photography
AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition Apartheid & After reveals how powerfully the recent past can colour our perception of the present; this theme runs through the work of all twelve participating photographers after 1990. However powerful the individual images may be, this is photography with a hidden agenda – in a positive sense of the word. Knowledge... [Read full article]
National Portrait Gallery and BBC unveil first joint painted portrait commission
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery and the BBC today unveiled their first joint painted portrait commission – of Falklands War veteran Simon Weston by artist Nicky Philipps. Weston was voted last September by viewers of BBC One’s The One Show as the public figure who most deserved to have his picture displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. The... [Read full article]
