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Art Museum Partnership announces program for 2011 Directors Forum conference Art Museum Partnership announces program for 2011 Directors Forum conference

August 25, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Art Museum Partnership has just released the program for The 2011 Directors Forum conference. Leaders of art museums from across the nation will gather in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for an extraordinary program. The 2011 Directors Forum Conference This fall museums leaders from across the nation will meet in New York City on Sunday, October 23 – Tuesday, October 25 for the 2011 Directors Forum. Art. No other professional conference offers this singular opportunity. Prominent speakers will delve into a variety... [Full Article]

As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, Bulgaria opens museum of socialist art As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, Bulgaria opens museum of socialist art

August 25, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


SOFIA (AP).- Giant statues of Soviet dictators Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. Paintings of enthusiastic socialist laborers. A huge red star that graced Communist Party headquarters. As Europe marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this nation that’s still shaking off its troubled communist legacy is opening a museum dedicated to the totalitarian past. A debate’s raging on whether the museum romanticizes the Soviet era or teaches new generations about its horrors. Other former communist countries like the Czech Republic and Hungary have long... [Full Article]

119 objects of Kentucky Art donated to Speed Art Museum 119 objects of Kentucky Art donated to Speed Art Museum

August 25, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced one of the most important gifts in the history of the Museum and the largest donation of Kentucky art ever received by the Speed. Given by Robert and Norma Noe, this extensive collection includes 119 examples of early Kentucky furniture, paintings, silhouettes, textiles, ceramics, and silver. Artworks from the Noe Collection are currently on view in the exhibition Kentucky Antiques from the Noe Collection: A Gift to the Commonwealth. Dr. Charles L. Venable, Speed Director and CEO remarks, “The gift of the Noe Collection... [Full Article]

Efrén Ordóñez, “the painter of the divine”, dies at 84 leaving behind his legacy for future generations Efrén Ordóñez, “the painter of the divine”, dies at 84 leaving behind his legacy for future generations

August 25, 2011 by   - Filed under Artists & People


MEXICO CITY.- With a legacy of paintings, sculptures and stained glass, focusing on the religious sphere, the general director of National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Teresa Vicencio Alvarez, highlighted the life and work of artist Efrén Ordóñez, who died on 21 August. In a statement, the INBA recalled the career of this artist, who left most of his work at the Seminary of Monterrey and the Institute itself. This last preservation of collection of works include: “Yesterday and Tomorrow ‘(1992),’ Red Gray Space ‘(1968),” Red Bridge... [Full Article]

American Institute of Architects selects three projects for National Healthcare Design Awards American Institute of Architects selects three projects for National Healthcare Design Awards

August 24, 2011 by   - Filed under Design & Architecture


WASHINGTON, D.C.- The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) has selected the recipients of the AIA National Healthcare Design Awards program. The AIA Healthcare Awards program showcases the best of healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects exhibit conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital. Jurors for the 2011 National Healthcare Design Awards include: Larry Speck, FAIA (Chair),... [Full Article]

BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum announce major new year-long partnership BBC and Victoria & Albert Museum announce major new year-long partnership

August 24, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


LONDON.- The BBC and V&A today announce Handmade in Britain, a year-long season of programming that will be the most wide-ranging and ambitious exploration of decorative arts ever to be undertaken on British Television. Furthering the BBC’s commitment to building partnerships with the arts sector that go beyond broadcast, from sharing expertise to widening public engagement in UK arts, from autumn 2011 to autumn 2012, Handmade in Britain will present three, three-part series and a selection of individual hour-long films, focusing on a wide variety of art and... [Full Article]

The secret life of Cuba’s creative class: photographer Michael Dweck’s allegorical narrative of seduction The secret life of Cuba’s creative class: photographer Michael Dweck’s allegorical narrative of seduction

August 24, 2011 by   - Filed under Featured, Photography


NEW YORK, N.Y.- Almost immediately upon his arrival in Cuba for the first time, American photographer Michael Dweck was swept up in a cultural bohemia reminiscent of 1930’s Paris salons. His unprecedented (and unrestricted) access to this hidden society of keenly observant artists, writers, musicians and glamorous models had never before been experienced by anyone in the West and is still not acknowledged within Cuba itself. Dweck’s personal exploration of this creative class existing in a classless society, a compelling aspect of Cuba’s contradictory status... [Full Article]

Lisette Blumenfeld Georges, 89, succumbs to complications of Crohn’s Disease Lisette Blumenfeld Georges, 89, succumbs to complications of Crohn’s Disease

August 24, 2011 by   - Filed under Photography


NEW YORK, NY.- Lisette was the first born child of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld from Berlin and Lena Citroen of Amsterdam , cousin of Paul Citroen: Blumenfeld’s best friend. since age 6. Upon her birth Lisette became Blumenfeld’s most photographed model and muse. They lived in Zandvoort on the Zee and then in Ardenhout. Lisette was model and assistant in her youth recalling time spent in an early ‘darkroom’ closet under the staircase. Fantastic chemical experiments took place in the middle of the living room floor during the early years. In 1937 Lisette aged... [Full Article]

Norfolk’s past illustrated through Kenneth Harris exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk’s past illustrated through Kenneth Harris exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art

August 24, 2011 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases a snapshot of historic Norfolk in Portraits of a City: Views of Norfolk by Kenneth Harris. The exhibition is on view August 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012. Admission is free. A selection of 30 of Harris’s beautifully crafted watercolors from the Chrysler Collection provides a nostalgic glance at the bustling seaport in the 1950s. In 1949 Norfolk became the first city in the United States to take part in the newly enacted federal Housing Act, which was designed to replace decaying urban buildings with new construction.... [Full Article]

The fantastic museum of Karsten Klingbeil to be offered at auction in Brussels and Munich The fantastic museum of Karsten Klingbeil to be offered at auction in Brussels and Munich

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


MUNICH.- The private museum of the famous Berlin sculptor, philanthropist and former construction mogul Karsten Klingbeil is going to be offered in two parts. The first auction will take place in December 2011 at Pierre Bergé & Associés in Brussels, the second half of the collection is going to be offered for bidding in June 2012 at Hermann Historica oHG in Munich. Those dates provide the unique opportunity to buy a total number of 600 significant objects that have been collected over fifty years with a lot of passion, commitment and expertise to compile this... [Full Article]

Temporary art commissions launched in celebration of new Auckland Art Gallery Temporary art commissions launched in celebration of new Auckland Art Gallery

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


AUCKLAND.- Three commissioned contemporary artworks will be launched on 19 August as the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki prepares to deliver New Zealand’s largest visual arts experience. Large-scale sculptural works by Choi Jeong Hwa of South Korea, Jeppe Hein of Denmark and New Zealander Kate Newby are bound to become firm public favourites when the newly restored and expanded Gallery opens to the public on 3 September. Art Gallery Director Chris Saines is thrilled with the result of the commissions. “Choi Jeong Hwa’s playfully monumental work has had... [Full Article]

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents exhibition by five emerging Austrian artists The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents exhibition by five emerging Austrian artists

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


NEW YORK, NY.- Fünf Räume presents five emerging artists who have been given the opportunity to transform a distinct space within the gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York by creating new, site-specific installations. Rather than attempting to create a specific, and potentially narrow, theme for these works to conform to, these selected artists are given the freedom to display their work with few limitations. Thus, Fünf Räume (German for ‘Five Rooms’) allows viewers to experience something unique and original while at the same time providing a... [Full Article]

Israel Museum welcomes one millionth visitor since inauguration of renewed campus Israel Museum welcomes one millionth visitor since inauguration of renewed campus

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


JERUSALEM.- In an unprecedented achievement for an Israeli cultural institution, the Israel Museum is proud to announce that it has welcomed one million people to its renewed campus since its inauguration one year ago. During this time, visitors have enjoyed the Museum’s renewed galleries, new architecture and rich program of exhibitions, events and activities. Programming highlights included the inaugural exhibition Artists’ Choices: Zvi Goldstein, Susan Hiller, Yinka Shonibare, a three-part presentation that juxtaposed works from all three of the Museum’s... [Full Article]

Diana Thater’s Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, on view at the Wexner Center Diana Thater’s Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, on view at the Wexner Center

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Multimedia Art


COLUMBUS, OH.- Diana Thater’s Peonies, a nine-monitor videowall, is now on view through December 30 in the Wexner Center’s lower lobby. Quietly panning over pink and yellow peony blooms, the video initially appears to be a straightforward account of several flowers scattered across a watery surface. But as in most of Thater’s video projects, the technical aspects of Peonies and the artist’s investigations of duration and figure/ground relationships are as compelling as the work’s visual and aesthetic elements. Running nearly six minutes, Peonies was shot... [Full Article]

Solid sales and crowds at 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair Solid sales and crowds at 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair

August 23, 2011 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


SANTA FE, N.M.- The 3rd annual Western edition of the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair; SOFA WEST: Santa Fe and its new Spotlight Presentation of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art enjoyed a successful run August 4 – 7 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Mark Lyman, President of The Art Fair Company and Founder/Director of SOFA fairs in New York, Chicago, and Santa Fe, said, “It was a very upbeat fair despite the country’s political and economic turmoil. Dealers reported the right crowd and significant sales were achieved.”... [Full Article]