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George Custer dealer Christopher Kortlander seeks return of seized artifacts
GARRYOWNE (AP).- A few miles from where George Custer made his infamous Last Stand against thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, artifacts dealer Christopher Kortlander is waging his own battle with authorities to reclaim a trove of war bonnets, medicine bags and other items seized during government raids on his privately-operated Custer museum. The... [Read full article]
The Clark explores the art of copying – “Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art” opens
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opened its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art, on January 29. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture... [Read full article]
Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman opens exhibition at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art
BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art announces an exhibition by Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman to the Berlin audience. In New Mythologies, Kuperman attempts to connect japanese elements of tradition and culture with a heroic contemporary imagery, based on the old and new testament. Ruven Kuperman, Pets, 2011. Color pencils on paper, 110 x 150 cm. Kuperman’s... [Read full article]
Celebrities and unknowns alike star in presentation of nearly forty rarely or never-seen Andy Warhol Polaroids
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archivepresents Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240. The exhibition features a selection of Warhol’s Polaroid portraits drawn from an extraordinary gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the museum. From 1970 to 1987, Warhol, armed with his Polaroid... [Read full article]
Kunsthalle Zurich announces opening date in new permanent home in the Lowenbrau art complex
ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich will re-open to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräu art complex in Zurich on 10 June 2012 with the special exhibition, Looking Back for the Future. Since it was founded in 1985, the Kunsthalle Zürich has established itself as one of Europe’s most influential art institutions, helping to define... [Read full article]
Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda presents exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof
BERLIN.- Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for theHamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title “db” (abbr. for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously... [Read full article]
Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition explores van Gogh’s deep immersion into nature
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- “I…am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his sister, Wilhemina, in July of 1889. An artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint but also in his personal life, van Gogh... [Read full article]
Newly renovated and freshly installed 19th-Century French galleries reopen at National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art reopened to the public on January 28, 2012. Among the greatest collections in the world of paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, the Gallery’s later... [Read full article]
LACMA presents first international survey of women Surrealist artists in North America
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Co-organized by LACMA and the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Mexico City, In Wonderland is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America. Past surveys of... [Read full article]
Dixon exhibit features European masterpieces including Rembrandt, Rubens and more
MEMPHIS, TN.- The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting an exhibition of more than 70 major works by master painters Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo, Gainsborough, Hogarth and others from the renowned collection of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. On view through April 15, Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting illustrates how... [Read full article]
American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and their circle opens at the Neuberger Museum
PURCHASE, NY.- From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, many of America’s most inventive and important artists, including Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Adolph Gottlieb, forged their identities, dramatically transforming conceptions of what a painting or sculpture could be. A group linked by friendship and... [Read full article]
Art Institute becomes first U.S. museum to receive grant from Government of India
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the Government of India has given a major grant to the Art Institute in support of a new professional exchange program between India and the museum. The Vivekananda Memorial Program for Museum Excellence –the first grant ever made by the Indian government to an American art museum–honors... [Read full article]
First exhibition to explore Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s legacy opens at the National Gallery of Art
WASHINGTON (AP).- An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art will showcase its rich holdings of works on paper by the Italian baroque master Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664), as well as works by his contemporaries and followers. On view in the Gallery’s West Building from January 29 to July 8, 2012, The Baroque Genius of Giovanni... [Read full article]
Academy Award-winning visual artist Eiko Ishioka has died at age 73 of pancreatic cancer
NEW YORK (AP).- Eiko Ishioka, a bold, Academy Award-winning visual artist whose surreal and sensual costumes were worn by Broadway actors, Olympic athletes, Cirque du Soleil performers and movie stars like Jennifer Lopez, has died in Tokyo. She was 73. Her studio manager, Tracy Roberts, said Thursday that the designer died of pancreatic cancer. Ishioka,... [Read full article]
Miki Kratsman presents exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Musem of Castille and Leon
LEON.- The entire body of Miki Kratsman’s work (Argentina, 1959; Israeli citizen since 1971) is centred on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and it unfolds between the vicissitudes and circumstances of the daily life of the Palestinian people, shaped by displacement, constant siege, and the systematic occupation that they have undergone for more... [Read full article]
