Articles in Fine Art
Enchanting Exhibition of Magic, Illusion and Make-Believe Worlds Opening Sept. 19 at the Walters Art Museum
Enjoy photography and large-scale models by Walter Wick, co-creator of the popular I Spy series Baltimore – The Walters Art Museum will host the playful and interactive world of best-selling author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick in the exhibition Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic on view Sept. 19, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011. Wick is the creator of the Can You See What I See? series and co-creator, with writer Jean Marzollo, of the I Spy books for children. Wick’s ... Read More
Yadid Rubin: Plowed Color at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents Yadid Rubin: Plowed Color, open through 18 December 2010. Yadid Rubin’s paintings offer a new syntax of landscape, which does not correspond with the concepts of subjectivity, intimacy and authenticity through which Israeli art has woven its identity.This is landscape delighting in the “decorative,” the “synthetic” and the “beautiful”—terms that were unmentionable for many years in Israeli art’s inner ... Read More
Eugene Leroy Exhibition at Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum
Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum celebrates the 100th birthday of Eugène Leroy by presenting 150 masterpieces from public and private collections from around the world, open 10.10.10 – 31.03.11. Thanks to the exceptional donation made by Eugène Jean and Jean-Jacques Leroy, the MUba Fine Arts Museum, Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing bears witness to the importance of the painter today, both through the work and the personality of Eugène Leroy. The MUba has now become the global reference point for ... Read More
MoMA Presents Goran Paskaljevic Honeymoons
NEW YORK – Goran Paskaljevic’s newest film, Honeymoons (2009), will have a weeklong run at the Museum of Modern Art, from September 9 through 15, 2010. Honeymoons, the first Albanian-Serbian film co-production, follows two couples, one in Albania, the other in Serbia, who decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries’ past and their future lives together. Melinda (Mirela Naska) and ... Read More
Leonard Nimoy: Secret Selves Photographs Exhibition at MASS MoCA
Artist/actor Leonard Nimoy exhibits his recent photographic series that explores the lost or hidden self, pen through Jan 2, 2011 at at MASS MoCA. Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Nimoy’s photographs reveal his subjects’ other half. Shooting in nearby Northampton, Massachusetts, Nimoy recruited volunteers from the ... Read More
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Presents All Eyes on Kees van Dongen
A Major Exhibition of Paintings 18 September 2010 – 23 January 2011 This autumn, for the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the recently restored work A Finger on her Cheek by Kees van Dongen in its original state in All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, an exhibition that also features some sixty other key masterpieces from international collections. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a major exhibition of paintings by the internationally renowned artist Kees ... Read More
Arkansas Arts Center to Present A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910
In conjunction with a city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the Arkansas Arts Center will present the exhibition A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910 September 1 – November 21, 2010. A Century of Revolution is organized by the Arkansas Arts Center and curated by Sarah Holian. The 1910 Revolution in Mexico was the starting point in a series of struggles that brought political and social change. Each turning point in the conflict prompted a ... Read More
Nevada Museum of Art Opens Fletcher Benton: The Artist’s Studio
The Nevada Museum of Art presents Fletcher Benton: The Artist’s Studio, open August 14, 2010 – October 17, 2010, exploring the unique attitudes and methods that Benton, a world-renowned kinetic and constructivist sculptor, applies to his work. This experiential and interactive exhibition looks at the inspirations, processes, toys and tools that Benton uses to create his work, and provides profound insight into the artistic practice of one of the most important American sculptors of ... Read More
Work of Art: Abdi Farah Opens at the Brooklyn Museum
This presentation, open August 14–October 17, 2010, spotlights Abdi Farah, the winner of Work of Art, a recently concluded creative competition among contemporary artists from across the United States for a cash prize and this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The competition aired weekly as a Bravo cable television series—a reality show, much like others that have pitted aspiring chefs or fashion designers against each other. Though it may seem an unconventional presentation, contests ... Read More
Works by Rackstraw Downes at the Portland Museum
Portland, Maine – This winter, the Portland Museum of Art will feature the first major survey of paintings by contemporary artist Rackstraw Downes. Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008, on view December 16, 2010 through March 20, 2011, will feature more than 30 major works ranging from Downes’ earliest en plein air paintings executed in Maine to his later signature views of the New York City skyline and the vast panoramas near his home in Presidio, Texas.Rackstraw Downes, ... Read More
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