Articles in Fine Art
Academy Art Museum presents Mark Rothko. Selections from the National Gallery of Art
The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland presents Mark Rothko. Selections from the National Gallery of Art, an exhibition on view FEBRUARY 4 – APRIL 22, 2012. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1952, Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. Copyright © 1997 Christopher Rothko and Kate Rothko Prizel, Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986.43.161 One of the preeminent artists of his generation, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a leader of the ... Read More
Qatar Museums Authority opens Murakami – Ego Exhibition by Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami
The Qatar Museums Authority presents Murakami – Ego a new exhibition by Japanese Artist Takashi Murakami, on View February 9 – June 24, 2012 in Doha, Qatar. Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) is proud to announce a new major exhibition by Takashi Murakami, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Murakami – Ego will be on view from February 9 to June 24, 2012 in the Al-Riwaq exhibition hall, located on the grounds of the Museum of Islamic Art on Doha’s Corniche. The exhibition will immerse ... Read More
National Gallery of Art acquires Still Life with Fruit and Nuts by Robert Seldon Duncanson
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast with textured nutshells. The acquisition was made possible with funds from Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund. Robert ... Read More
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye
The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye an exhibition on view 9 February–13 May 2012. Edvard Munch (1863–1944) is acclaimed for his emotional Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. The exhibition in the Schirn, which has been prepared together with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, offers a new view of his work: Edvard Munch was a modern artist to his core—thus the hypothesis of the show that comprises about one hundred and thirty works. “Edvard Munch. ... Read More
New Museum announces Focused Survey of Work by Klara Liden
The New Museum in New York presents a Focused Survey of Work by Klara Liden, on view from May 9–July 1, 2012, featuring a selection of works in the Museum’s second floor gallery. Lidén’s exhibition at the New Museum is part of a series of focus shows that began last May with presentations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Gustav Metzger. Klara Lidén Self Portrait with the Keys to the City 2005 Digital print, framed © 2010 Klara Lidén In her practice, Lidén regularly mines the anxieties of urban space ... Read More
Centre for Fine Arts presents Per Kirkeby and the Forbidden Paintings of Kurt Schwitters
The Centre for Fine Arts presents a retrospective of the work of Per Kirkeby (born in 1938), on view Friday 10.02 – Sunday 20.05.2012 Per Kirkeby Vermisst die Welt, 1997 Oil on canvas 300 x 500 cm Folkwang Museum Essen One of the key painters of the Danish avant-garde. But just what does avant-garde mean: rupture, minimalism, abstraction, borrowings, subversion? One can find all of those in a prolific body of work that began in the 1960s in the wake of the Fluxus movement. But that is only one aspect of a ... Read More
J. Paul Getty Museum acquires A Rare Fragonard Drawing and a German Painting of the Holy Trinity from the Late Middle Ages
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced two acquisitions—The Pancake Maker, drawn in 1782, by French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, ca. 1732–1806) and The Trinity with the Virgin, Saints John the Evangelist, Stephen and Lawrence and a Donor, 1479, attributed to the famed Peter Hemmel von Andlau (ca. 1420/25–after 1501) Workshop. ”These two acquisitions, which are so unlike one another in style and medium, reflect the Museum’s desire to see that each acquisition lifts up the collection as a whole ... Read More
Gasworks presents Irene Kopelman. The Challenger’s Report
Gasworks presents Irene Kopelman. The Challenger’s Report A Solo Exhibition by Irene Kopelman on view 10 February–15 April 2012. The Challenger‘s Report is the first UK solo exhibition by Argentinian artist Irene Kopelman, which looks at how relationships to landscape and the natural world are culturally conditioned and subject to change. Kopelman’s work is rooted in drawing in situ and guided by laboured processes of copying and re-production which reveal a fascination with landscape and the act of ... Read More
Gift of Art Lecture Series Explores Humor in Western Art at the Katonah Museum of Art
(Katonah, NY) Art historian Marcy B. Freedman returns to the Katonah Museum of Art for the Gift of Art Lecture Series with What’s So Funny? An Exploration of Humor in Western Art, on Tuesdays, March 6, April 10, and May 15. Tickets for the series are $60 for members and $75 for non-members. Single lecture tickets are $25 and $10 for students. Pre-lecture refreshments will be served at 7pm followed by the lectures which begin promptly at 7:30pm. Prepaid reservations are required and may be made by calling ... Read More
Morikami Museum opens Mariko Kusumoto. Unfolding Stories
The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens opens Mariko Kusumoto. Unfolding Stories, an exhibition on view February 7, 2012 – May 6, 2012. Mariko Kusumoto The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto transforms extraordinary metal sculptures and a variety of found objects and intricate ephemera into music boxes, clocks, and other constructions with multiple doors, compartments, drawers and moving parts. Her meticulous, hand-crafted sculptural vignettes, comprising a mélange of ... Read More
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