Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to Richard Diebenkorn’

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. This exhibition is the most comprehensive show to date of Diebenkorn’s most celebrated body of work, the Ocean Park series. Presenting more than 75 Ocean Park paintings, prints, and drawings-the largest selection ever on view together-this unprecedented project offers visitors the opportunity to explore in-depth the complexity of Diebenkorn’s artistic and aesthetic achievements within this series. Works in the exhibition come from [...]

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the work of Brooklyn-based artist KAWS

FORT WORTH, TX.- The FOCUS series is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worthand Curator Andrea Karnes for the Museum’s Director’s Council, a group that supports acquisitions at the Museum. Each FOCUS exhibition presents work by an emerging contemporary artist. FOCUS exhibitions are open to the public and are included in general Museum admission: $10 for adults; $4 for seniors (60+) and students with identification; free for children 12 and under; free for Modern members. The work of Brooklyn-based artist [...]

Tel Aviv Museum of Art doubles size with $55 million addition by Preston Scott Cohen

TEL AVIV (AP).- Israel’s main modern art museum is unveiling a striking new wing Wednesday that provides a permanent home for hundreds of works by Israeli artists, a space lacking until now. The $55 million addition, which doubles the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s previous space, will present dozens of rotating exhibits every year but still will not suffice to permanently showcase one of the world’s largest collections of Israeli art, mostly held in storage. “Today Israeli artists are known around [...]

Tate Modern to power ahead with art in oil tanks

LONDON (REUTERS).- Derelict oil tanks and forgotten industrial spaces hidden in the bowels of the Tate Modern art museum in London will open to the public in summer 2012, providing a new area to “revolutionise” the museum’s work, directors said on Thursday. The opening of the enormous and atmospheric oil tanks in the former power station on the banks of the Thames will provide flexible, subterranean “lunar” spaces and form the foundation for a further expansion of the world’s most visited modern art [...]

Ruven Afanador returns to Colombia for exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá

BOGOTA.- After twenty years of strong presence in international publications, Colombian photographer Ruven Afanador returns to his homeland to show his essence at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá: eighty portraits of figures like Hillary Clinton, the Duchess of Alba and Courtney Love, among others. Until October 9, on the walls of this museum in Bogotá, known as MamBo, will hang a selection of images chosen by the artist called “I’ll be your mirror, Ruven Afanador: 80 Portraits,” which he [...]

Cy Twombly, Known for His Large-Scale, Freely Scribbled, Calligraphic Style, Dies at 83

ROME (AP).- Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and unusual materials fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83. Twombly, who had cancer, died in Rome, said Eric Mezil, director of the Lambert Collection in Avignon, France, where the artist opened a show in June. Twombly had mostly lived in Italy since 1959. “A great American painter who deeply loved old Europe has just left us,” French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said in a statement. [...]

Austrian Nazi Victim’s Heir to Get Klimt Painting from Salzburg’s Modern Art Museum

VIENNA (AP).- An Austrian museum plans to return a precious Gustav Klimt painting to the heir of its rightful owner after researchers discovered it was confiscated by Nazis during World War II, officials said Thursday. The painting, “Litzlberg am Attersee,” currently owned by Salzburg’s modern art museum, MdM Salzburg, is estimated to be worth as much as euro30 million ($44 million). Research by various experts tasked with tracing the origin of the work showed that the Nazis seized the now [...]

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 [...]

Images Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s Admitted Love of Driving at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX.- Since Ruscha’s first road trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles in 1956, the artist has continued to engage the images he has encountered along the roads of the western United States. Consisting of approximately 75 works, spanning the artist’s entire career, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested tracks key images inspired by his admitted love of driving. The exhibition is on view until April 17, 2011 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. “I like being in the [...]

SFMOMA Announces 2010 SECA Award Winners

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton are the 2010 artists selected for its biennial SECA Art Award. Administered by SECA (Society for the Encouragement o f Contemporary Art), one of the museum’s auxiliaries, the signature award honors Bay Area artists who are working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not yet received substantial recognition. The four award winners [...]

Jean-Michel Basquiat Show at Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris Fetes His 50th Birthday

PARIS (AP).- At the end of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s short life, the explosively talented but troubled New York artist had a dream — to stage a major exhibit of his eyepopping, doodle-covered work in Paris. Nearly 50 years after his birth, and 22 years after his death at age 27 of a drug overdose, Basquiat’s wish has finally come true. “Basquiat,” which opened Friday at the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, brings together more than 150 pieces that [...]

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism

FORT WORTH, TX.- Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Museum’s chief curator, Michael Auping. The exhibition will be on view from September 25, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Marla Price, the director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, announces the forthcoming exhibition Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism. The exhibition, including approximately 35 works, is a survey of paintings, sculptures, and installations spanning the late 1970s to the present, including [...]

Centre Pompidou Stages a Major Retrospective of the Work of Nouveaux Réaliste Arman

PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is to stage a retrospective devoted to Arman, one of the major figures of post-War art. The exhibition will bring together almost 120 works from leading museums and private collections to offer a new and distinctive take on Arman’s work, from the second half of the 1950s to the last years of the 20th century. A founder member of the Nouveaux Réalistes, a group that championed “new perceptual approaches to the real,” Arman developed a body [...]

Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand Visits New Museum of Modern Art of Lille Métropole

VILLENEUVE d´ASCQ.- After more than four years of renovation and extension work, the Museum of Modern Art of Lille Métropole (Villeneuve d’Ascq) will be reopening to the public on 25 September 2010 under a new name: the LaM, Lille Métropole Museé d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (museum of modern, contemporary and outsider art). Its two fine architectural complexes, surrounded by a sculpture park (Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Eugène Dodeigne, etc.), will henceforth house three prestigious collections of the [...]

Egyptian Minister, Farouk Hosni, Questioned in Van Gogh Theft

CAIRO (AP).-Egyptian prosecutors questioned the culture minister for three hours over the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting that has put him on the defensive over the state of museum security around the country. Farouk Hosni said he sought in Sunday night’s session to dispel accusations he failed to respond adequately to calls for increased security at Egyptian museums, including the one from where the van Gogh was stolen. No alarms and only seven of 43 security cameras were [...]

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