Articles in Museum News
Centre for Fine Arts opens Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010
The Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels opens Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010 an exhibition on view 01.02-> Sunday 29.04.2012. Cy Twombly, Lemon, Gaeta Dryprint on cardboard, 2008 (detail). 43,1 x 27,9 cm © Schirmer/Mosel Verlag – Nicola Del Roscio Foundation. The exhibition presents more than 100 dry prints, generated from Polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on July 5th, 2011. Cy Twombly’s photographs have been a rather recent ... Read More
Mint Museum announces partners with Google
The Mint Museum has announced a partnership with Google Offers. Google Offers, which launched in Charlotte in recent days and is now live in 38 cities across the U.S., sought out a partnership with The Mint Museum because of its strategic importance as one of the largest art museums in the Southeast. Starting today through February 3, the Mint is offering two admission tickets for the price of one – a $20 value for $10. Each person may purchase up to five of the offers, or 10 tickets total. “Google Offers ... Read More
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The MUDAM) presents I’ve Dreamt About. Collection Mudam
The Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (The MUDAM) presents I’ve Dreamt About. Collection Mudam an exhibition on view through 04/03/2012. Vue de l’exposition. Avant-plant : Michel Paysant : Nusquam, 2007, Composition sonore de Muadhib. Arrière-plan, droite : Tomás Saraceno : Space Elevator II (working title), 2009 & 1MW/Air-Port-City, 2007. Collection Mudam Luxembourg © Photo : Andrés Lejona The societies we live in are the outcome of thinking; they take form, they are re-formed, they are ... Read More
Portland Art Museum acquires pointillist painting by Theo Van Rysselberghe
The Portland Art Museum announce the recent acquisition of an important painting by Théo Van Rysselberghe (Belgium, 1862 – 1926). Plage à marée basse à Ambleteuse, le soir (Beach at Low Tide, Ambleteuse, Evening) is now on display on the first floor of the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. Theo Van Rysselberghe (Belgium, 1862–1926). Plage à marée basse à Ambleteuse, le soir (Beach at Low Tide, Ambleteuse, Evening). Portland Art Museum The 1900 canvas is the first pointillist painting ... Read More
Courtauld Gallery to Collaborate on Conservation with Georgia
Building on 15 years of collaboration with Georgian colleagues in training and other conservation activities, The Courtauld is now planning its first-ever conservation project in Georgia in partnership with the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Starting in 2012, this project will be undertaken on wall paintings at the famous rock-cut monastery of Vardzia in southern Georgia. Dating from 1184-86, the paintings feature a wide range of subjects ... Read More
Christian Marclay The Clock Jointly Acquired by the Israel Museum, Centre Pompidou and Tate
The Israel Museum announce the joint acquisition of Christian Marclay’s video work The Clock (2010), together with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and London’s Tate. This internationally acclaimed masterwork of video art, which was on view at the Israel Museum from August through October 2011, is composed of thousands of film excerpts illuminating the passage of time by means of time-related references, among them images of clocks, watches, or announcements identifying specific times of the day. Marclay ... Read More
House-museum Giorgio e Isa de Chirico presents De Chirico. The Sentiment of Architecture
House-museum Giorgio e Isa de Chirico presents De Chirico. The Sentiment of Architecture an exhibition of works from the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico Collection on view 20 September 2012. Fundação Iberê Camargo, Casa Fiat de Cultura and Museu de Arte de São Paulo presents an exhibition dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico, the illustrious founder of Metaphysical Art. The show will travel to these three venues and is curated by Maddalena D’Alfonso. Organised in collaboration with Fondazione Giorgio e Isa ... Read More
ArtScience Museum presents Titanic. The Artifact Exhibition
The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore presents Titanic. The Artifact Exhibition on view through 29 April 2012. Step on board RMS Titanic for the first time in Southeast Asia, and experience the majestic and dramatic maiden voyage of the iconic Ship almost 100 years after it set sail in 1912. The Exhibition takes visitors through the Ship’s conception, construction, sailing day, life on board, the famous iceberg, Titanic’s sinking, the discovery of the wreck, while all throughout ... Read More
Fondation de l’Hermitage presents AU FIL DES COLLECTIONS from Tiepolo to Degas
The Fondation de l’Hermitage presents AU FIL DES COLLECTIONS from Tiepolo to Degas, an exhibition on view May 20, 2012. With over a hundred works, Au fil des collections, de Tiepolo à Degas sheds new light on the rarely shown collection of the Fondation de l’Hermitage. Focusing on the museum’s masterpieces (including Tiepolo, Bocion, Sisley, Degas, Vuillard, Vallotton, Valadon, Braque and Magritte), the exhibition brings these works face to face, in an innovative dialogue, with other gems from ... Read More
National Gallery of Victoria announces Fred Kruger. Intimate Landscapes
The National Gallery of Victoria presents Fred Kruger. Intimate Landscapes an exhibition on view 04 FEB 2012 – 27 MAY 2012. This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the work of Fred Kruger (1831–88), a German migrant to Victoria with a highly distinctive command of photographic language. Kruger’s detailed and compelling images draw us into an intimate experience of the landscape and are achieved through his orchestration of people within natural environments. Kruger’s photographs are complex ... Read More
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