“Stowaways” Series at New Museum features Brian Bress’s Status Report

NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announces the latest presentation in its ‘Stowaways’ series, the New York premier of Brian Bress’s Status Report (2009). In Bress’s low-tech video, humorous characters, all played by the artist, struggle with interpersonal relationships, the pursuit of intended goals, and the desire to communicate. Manipulating pictorial and sculptural conventions through fantastically hand-crafted sets and costumes that combine drawing, painting, and collage, Bress creates a disjunctive world where spaces of imagination and representation compete for equal footing. [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, announces MOCA TV: A global video channel

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that it will launch MOCA TV, a new global video channel for original contemporary art and culture programming, in July 2012. MOCA TV will be part of YouTube’s new original channels initiative, announced in October 2011, to bring around one hundred new original channels, created specifically for today’s connected viewers, to its worldwide platform. MOCA is the first contemporary art museum to associate with a major media company in an online video-programming venture [...]

LACMA presents Chris Burden’s kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Created by artist Chris Burden, Metropolis II (2010) is a complex, large-scale kinetic sculpture modeled after a fast-paced modern city. The armature of the piece is constructed of steel beams, forming an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of eighteen roadways, including a six-lane freeway, train tracks, and hundreds of buildings. 1,100 miniature toy cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour on the specially designed plastic roadways. Every hour, the equivalent of approximately [...]

Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh receives six architectural design awards

RALEIGH, N.C.- CAM Raleigh announces that it has received six architectural design awards since opening in April 2011. A partnership between the community and North Carolina State University’s (N.C. State) College of Design, to date CAM Raleigh has received a 2011 AIA Design Award (Merit), an AIA Tower Award, the 2011 Carraway Honor Award of Merit from Preservation North Carolina, the 2011 Sir Raleigh Walter Award for Community Appearance, and a Downtown Raleigh Alliance Imprint Award. Located in an early twentieth-century structure [...]

Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh Designed by LA-Based Brooks + Scarpa Opens

RALEIGH, NC.- Brooks Scarpa’s Contemporary Art Museum officially opened with a catered street festival and black tie event. The project was a result of the collaboration between local firm Clearscapes and LA-based Brooks + Scarpa. Originally a 1927 grocery supply warehouse, a railroad spur (still visible today) runs from the area around the Amtrak station to the structure where groceries were once unloaded. It later served various industrial functions, one of the most recent being a chrome bumper repair shop. Located [...]

Contemporary Art from the Claudia Gian Ferrari’s Collection on Sale at Sotheby’s Milan,12 April 2011

MILAN.- Sotheby’s announces the sale of Claudia Gian Ferrari’s Contemporary and Modern Art Collection which will be held at Palazzo Broggi on 12th April 2011. Just one year after her untimely passing, in compliance with her will, artworks from her own home and from her gallery will be sold at auction at Sotheby’s Milan. These events will fulfill Claudia’s desire – as her sisters Grazia and Paola tell us- to have her collection sold at two separate auctions, one including [...]

Christie’s Announces an Exhibition of Iconic Works by Zeng Fanzhi to Be Held in Hong Kong in May

HONG KONG.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, and the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s leading contemporary art museum, will present “BEING” (界線的共鳴), an exhibition featuring about 30 iconic works by Zeng Fanzhi (born in 1964), one of the world’s best known Chinese contemporary artists. Sponsored by the François Pinault Foundation and focusing on a theme that is close to the artist’s heart – the interaction between people and the environment – this exhibition will be held at the Hong Kong [...]

MOCA Cleveland Winter Exhibition Features Teresita Fernández Sculptural Installations

CLEVELAND, OH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland opened its winter exhibition on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, featuring the work of Teresita Fernández, internationally known for immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light and perception. Also on view are a video installation, Javier Téllez, Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See, and a new body of small-scale assemblages by Cleveland artist Lorri Ott. All three exhibitions will run through May 8, 2011. Teresita [...]

Grand Rapids Awaits ArtPrize Crowds, Back for a Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS (AP).- ArtPrize, the Grand Rapids art show and competition that surprised locals by drawing tens of thousands of visitors when it debuted in 2009, is back for a second year. And it’s expected to be even bigger this time. The southwestern Michigan city’s vibrant arts scene will get an infusion of energy from 1,713 artists displaying their works for 19 days in 192 venues, from plazas, hotels and museums, to restaurants, coffee shops and parks. One of the [...]

Christina Aguilera Lends Her Voice to Support the Arts

LOS ANGELES (AP).- Christina Aguilera is doing her part to help the arts. The Grammy-winning singer is lending her voice to a fundraiser in support of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art‘s latest project. Aguilera will perform at the Sept. 25 grand opening celebration of the museum’s Lynda and Stewart Resnick Pavilion, described by LACMA as “the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world.” The 29-year-old pop star said she’s honored to help celebrate the 45,000-square-foot [...]

Stolen Portinari Painting Recovered in Brazil

SAO PAULO (AP).- Police have recovered a painting by one of Brazil’s most famous painters two weeks after it was stolen from a museum. Authorities say Candido Portinari’s “O Enterro,” or “The Burial,” was found with a suspect in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. It was taken from the Contemporary Art Museum in the northeastern city of Olinda earlier this month. Police said in a statement they arrested a man who was in possession of the 1959 painting, which is [...]

Portinari Painting Stolen from Brazil Museum

SAO PAULO (AP).- Police say a painting by Candido Portinari, one of Brazil’s best-known painters, has been stolen from a museum. Inspector Manoel Martins says the 1959 painting “O Enterro,” or “The Burial,” is worth about 1.5 million reals ($850,000). Guards noticed it missing Wednesday from the Contemporary Art Museum in the northeastern city of Olinda. Martins said Thursday that police have no suspects. The museum, which has no internal security cameras, houses some 4,000 works of art including seven [...]

First Solo Museum Exhibition of the Work of Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS Opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

RIDGEFIELD, CT.- This first solo museum exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist and designer Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, includes his most recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as a survey of his iconic street art, apparel, product and graphic designs. KAWS’s first aesthetic influences came from skateboarding, as did his familiarity with New York City. Around 1991, he started marking his name in different areas of New Jersey and Manhattan. By the time he finished high school, he [...]

Rackstraw Downes Exhibits at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The exhibition features Rackstraw Downes’s three-part painting, Under the Westside Highway at 145th Street: The North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and the many sketches and preparatory works which were part of the process of its creation. The work depicts a space which the artist describes in his journal as “very ‘ancient Rome’; Piranesi-like … with enormous columns, and some nice curves …” Typical of Downes’s work, it is an in-between space, utilitarian and majestic; a manmade space [...]

21c Museum Hotel to Open New Property in Downtown Bentonville, Arkansas

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- 21c Museum Hotels will build a new combination boutique hotel and contemporary art museum in downtown Bentonville, announced Steve Wilson, Founder and Chairman of 21c Museum Hotels. The new hotel is being developed by 21c Museum Hotels and will be modeled on the award-winning 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, which was voted the #1 hotel in the U.S. and #6 in the world in the Condé Nast Traveler’s 2009 Readers’ Choice awards. The estimated cost of the project [...]

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