SEATTLE – On Dec. 10, photographer Dennis Biela will talk about his project to document the last shuttle flights in visually spectacular fashion. His presentation, “The Last Shuttle Project – How to Document an America [Read More]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
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Enel Contemporanea is in favour of the MACRO’s exhibition schedule in the autumn with one of the most important artists today: Carsten Höller, the winner of the 2011 Enel Contemporanea Award. Enel Contemporanea 2011. Carsten [Read More]
Students of art are encouraged to apply now for the Palmer Scholarship awarded annually by the Toledo Museum of Art. The application deadline for this art travel award is January 20, 2012. The Palmer Scholarship [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired a 1973 red convertible Eldorado Cadillac belonging to legendary rock ’n’ roll musician Chuck Berry. The car is part of Berry’s personal fleet [Read More]
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents Antonio López an exhibition on view 01.22. 2012. Usually classed as a realist painter, Antonio López (born in Tomelloso in 1936) is one of the most idiosyncratic artists at [Read More]
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of Portrait of Madame Brunet (also known as Young Woman in 1860), painted in 1860-1863, and reworked by 1867—a rare, early portrait by the modern French [Read More]
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents Kiefer an exhibition open 01.08.2012. Anselm Kiefer, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Anselm Kiefer (Donaueschingen, 1945) is the most internationally acclaimed German artist at work today. Both cultured and complex, [Read More]
Presented by the Delaware Art Museum Council, the 27th annual Holiday House Tour returns this year on Saturday, December 10th. Beginning at 10:00 a.m. and ending at 4:00 p.m., the self-guided Tour features eight spectacular [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired two life-size allegorical figure statues by the late Florentine Baroque master, Giovanni Baratta (1640–1747). The rediscovery of these sculptures, Wealth and Prudence, has been recognized as [Read More]
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain presents Wannes Goetschalckx: Toothpick, on view 8 January 2012. Wannes Goetschalckx © Andres Lejona. The starting point for Wannes Goetschalckx’s (*1978, lives and works in Belgium) project was an [Read More]
Iniva at Rivington Place presents Abdoulaye Konate Window Commission 2011 on 7 December 2011–3 January 2012. Abdoulaye Konaté, “Le dos à l’Âme (Soul Denial),” 2008. Textile, © the artist. Photo: Jeff Morgan. Artist Abdoulaye Konaté [Read More]
Dr. Patrick Wallace, Director, National Museum of Ireland, has welcomed the achievement of over 1 million visitors so far this year. This represents an increase of 10% on the total visitor numbers to the Museum [Read More]
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum presents New Topographics an exhibition on view through 01.08.2012. In 1975 the George Eastman House, New York, organized an exhibition entitled New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, which signalled [Read More]
The National Museums of Ireland have a wealth of wonderful exhibitions and events happening across three sites in Dublin and its site in Castelbar, Co Mayo over the festive period that would make for a [Read More]
The National Museum of Ireland presents Reconstructed Rooms. Four Centuries of Furnishings. Installation view of Reconstructed Rooms: Four Centuries of Furnishings Exhibition. 20th Century. ©National Museum of Ireland. This new exhibition displays some of the [Read More]
Feather Cuts and Flares is a new display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool . featuring nine original outfits from this turbulent period when extravagant modes blossomed despite social and political upheaval. Platform heels, [Read More]
The Walker Art Gallery and Museum of Liverpool Presents Lily Savage’s Costumes an exhibition on view through 19 February 2012. Image by Alistair Muir Eleven sensational costumes worn by actor Paul O’Grady’s alter ego Lily [Read More]
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey presents Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art an exhibition on view through January 7, 2012, that traces the history and evolution of the ancient [Read More]