Art News Archive
Exhibition of nearly 30 years of work by Kenneth Noland opens at Pace Gallery
March 26, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 History at Hunter College, has been published on the occasion of this exhibition. As William Agee writes, “By 1960, Ken Noland had become an artist of the first rank, often great, and a primary force in the development... [Full Article]
A new way of seeing and sharing art on mobile devices from the Museo del Prado
March 26, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Museums & Galleries
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 of the Museum’s masterpieces and the chance to buy the Prado’s Mona Lisa “in-app”. For the first time it will be possible to see this panel, which is fundamental for an understanding of Leonardo da Vinci’s work,... [Full Article]
Brooklyn-born artist Joyce Pensato opens debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery
March 26, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 from Hell, Pensato’s giant pastel and charcoal drawing. The artist hasl been present for the month prior to opening, painting a large-scale mural on to the gallery’s back wall, a practice she has recently returned... [Full Article]
Galería OMR in Mexico City presents two iconic works by American artist James Turrell
March 26, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 his fi rst light works in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he broke new ground by introducing a practice, which had a decisive infl uence on his generation and the further development of art. Although working in the context... [Full Article]
Marty de Cambiaire exhibits forty Neapolitan works on paper from 1550 to 1800
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 downloaded from their website: www.martydecambiaire.com). Given the scarcity of the literature on the subject, this publication provides fresh scholarship on a field still relatively unknown to the public as well as connoisseurs. There... [Full Article]
Room Service: Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden exhibits the hotel in art and culture
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Photography
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 of longing and as a backdrop for both highly intimate and politically weighty matters. Over the past two hundred years the topos of the hotel has increasingly evolved into a subject of art. Artists have not only engaged... [Full Article]
President Obama visits Rijksmuseum in first ever visit by a serving US President to the museum
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Museums & Galleries
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 of Honour in front of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting, ‘The Night Watch’, one of the greatest treasures of the collection. Wim Pijbes and Barack Obama in front of The Night Watch. Photo Erik Smits Wim Pijbes has given... [Full Article]
Contemporary artist Graham Fagen selected to represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 artists. His work mixes media and crosses continents; combining video, performance, photography, and sculpture with text, live music and even, plants. His recurring artistic themes, which include flowers, journeys and... [Full Article]
The renowned UBS Art Collection on view at Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 Moderna in Milan. The exhibition is the start of a partnership between UBS and GAM that, through various events, will develop and promote one of Milan’s most prestigious cultural institutions. Curated by Francesco Bonami,... [Full Article]
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban receives the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Design & Architecture
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 work for private clients, and uses the same inventive and resourceful design approach for his extensive humanitarian efforts. For twenty years Ban has traveled to sites of natural and man-made disasters around the world,... [Full Article]
After weathering severe damage for centuries, two restored colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
March 25, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Antiques & Archaeology
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 of the king, on the west bank of the Nile. The temple is already famous for its existing 3,400-year-old Memnon colossi — twin statues of Amenhotep III whose reign archaeologists say marked the political and cultural... [Full Article]
Celebrate spring at the New-York Historical Society with Audubon’s iconic original watercolors of birds
March 24, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 they were engraved. The second in a series of three exhibitions, New-York Historical showcases these masterpieces from its collection of Audubon’s watercolor models for the sumptuous double-elephant-folio print edition... [Full Article]
Major new multi-media installation by Richard Mosse opens at Foam in Amsterdam
March 24, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Multimedia Art
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 resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are presented. Throughout 2012, Richard Mosse and his collaborators Trevor Tweeten... [Full Article]
Exhibition displays the quality, diversity and dynamism of South African photography
March 24, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under 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 of the past brings the present into sharp focus, and vice versa. It’s a tightrope act. Being a photographer in South Africa demands a sober, articulate, and skilled approach to the country’s burden of memory, trauma,... [Full Article]
National Portrait Gallery and BBC unveil first joint painted portrait commission
March 24, 2014 by All Art News - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions
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 finished portrait goes on display at the gallery for the first time today Thursday 20 March and to coincide with the launch of the broadcast in April of a major BBC ONE behind-the-scenes television documentary presented... [Full Article]
