Daily Archives: July 13, 2009

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Design Awards with free public programs that explore the intersection between design and the world around us. Several of the National Design Award winners will be part of [Read More]

From July 11th to September 27th a new way of seeing, living and hearing Tabakalera will be open. An exhibition-tour will take the visitor through sound installations, sculptures, interactive audiovisual pieces… proposing a new way of discovering the building guided by the [Read More]

The South Bay Area and Peninsula Chapters of the Women’s Caucus for Art in conjunction with SOMArts Cultural Center present an exhibition titled “CONTROL”, curated by Karen Gutfreund, displaying the work of California women artists. The exhibition will be held August 6 [Read More]

The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) presents Cezanne and American Modernism, the first exhibition to examine fully the influence of Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) upon modern American artists from 1907 to 1930. From September 13, 2009 – January 3, 2010, the exhibition will explore [Read More]

Hundreds of artists will converge on downtown Aspen for the 7th Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival on July 18 – 19, 2009, as Wagner Park is transformed into a first-class outdoor art gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. The [Read More]

Teresa Brutcher`s paintings show individuals, faces, eyes, hands, painted with a technique which has come to be known as Hyperrealism as it exalts detail to its maximum degree as though everything were seen through a magnifying glass. Her works tell a story [Read More]

Kunstraum Richard Sorge is proud to present the first large overview in Germany of Dutch artist Gert-Jan Akerboom’s ink drawings on paper. The artist executed several large murals, turning the presentation into an immersive experience. Eschewing easily interpretable statements in his work, [Read More]

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces “From Their Studios,” September 16, 2009 through January 3, 2010, highlighting the creative work of 13 artists who teach studio art at Stanford University. This exhibition features a wide variety of visual art, including film, [Read More]

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to present Desert Secrets: Photography From the Permanent Collection, a provocative new exhibition that explores the Southwestern desert as a place of strangeness and the unknown. On view through December 13, 2009, the installation [Read More]

Antony Gormley is one of Britain’s leading contemporary sculptors focusing on the human body as site. The exhibition at KUB brings together four major work series from Gormley’s oeuvre: the Expansion works, Allotment, Critical Mass, and Clearing. Embedded in the context of [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), continues to highlight its outstanding permanent collection with a new exhibition at its MOCA Grand Avenue location. Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, focusing on works added to the collection during the past five years, [Read More]

The DePaul University Art Museum will host the Chicago premiere screening of “Freedom on the Fence,” a film documenting the brilliant and paradoxical art of Polish poster design, starting with a reception at 5 p.m. July 28 at the DePaul University Art [Read More]

Gottfried Keller’s enthusiasm for what he sees before him is the motto for the exhibition on the 19th-century image of Switzerland from the Kunstmuseum Bern collection. The museum presents not only works that are strange or have hardly yet been seen, or [Read More]

Sotheby’s London sales of Old Master Paintings and Renaissance & Baroque Masterworks from the Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson brought a combined total of £36,022,625/ $57,917,177/ €41,645,761, a strong figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations for the evening of £29,222,500-42,470.000. The Old [Read More]