Have you ever found yourself viewing a world-renowned painting and thought to yourself, “What is all the fuss about?” Or perhaps you appreciate works of art but can’t help but wonder “What does this have to do with my life?” In Why We Look at Art, What Happens When We Do, author and art historian […]
Daily Archives: June 26, 2009
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India Art Summit™ will take place for the 2nd year running this August in New Delhi. Following the landmark success of India Art Summit™ 2008, which attracted over 10,000 art enthusiasts from India and overseas and saw about 50% of the artworks […]
On Wednesday, July 1, at 6:30 p.m., the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will kick off the exhibition Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs with a free outdoor karaoke party. The event celebrates the exhibition’s opening and the Boston premiere of Queen (A […]
Museum-goers embarked on a global journey this morning as the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) opened its doors to the North American premiere of Treasures: The World’s Cultures from the British Museum. The exhibition, at the RBCM until Sept. 30, 2009, brings together […]
The Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum have collaborated on a major exhibition that showcases the rarely seen masterpieces of Japanese screens from both museums’ permanent collections. Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago […]
The most important retrospective exhibition ever devoted to New York artist Thomas Nozkowski recently opened at the National Gallery of Canada. Until September 20, some 60 works painted since 1980 by the internationally renowned artist will be on view in the Gallery’s […]
Imaginary Geometries a Visual Art Event – Chelsea Gallery – from 29th of June to 11th of July 2009 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and […]
Artfully Unforgotten’s production titled “ARTISTS for GISIMBA” will be featured at Hello Living’s Dakota Building. Live music performances by Mamarazzi and Ashley Jones, with accompanying visual material. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the orphanage, as well as support […]
Iridescence, Color & Form, The Paintings of Timothy Orikri opens at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Friday, June 26, 2009. The exhibition will run through September 13, 2009. An Artist’s Reception will be held on Friday, July […]
The Amon Carter Museum presents Masterworks of American Photography: Moments in Time, on view through January 3, 2010. Journey through photography’s history in an exhibition of works from the medium’s early years to the present day. Taken together, these images from the […]
Museu Berardo – Modern and Contemporary Art – Lisbon, presents Pancho Guedes – Vitruvius Mozambicanus. Autobiography is, in architecture, a difficult art. It is not by chance that Pancho Guedes (b. 1925, Lisbon) placed his own attempt to describe his art under […]
“It was an outstanding auction, an exhilarating auction,” was the comment made by auctioneer Robert Ketterer on the auctions he held on 19/20 June to officially inaugurate the new Ketterer Kunst headquarters. “The sales quotient by lot numbers was comparable to the […]
The world has lost a great artist. His musical and performing genius will live on. Thriller was a mini-film masterpiece. Thriller, released in 1982, is the biggest-selling album of all time, selling 65million copies, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
A major photographic exhibition Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed opens at the National Portrait Gallery, to herald the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the 1960s in 2010. Celebrating the leading pop music personalities and groups who helped create “Swinging London” […]