Monthly Archives: July 2009

The National Stadium in Beijing – nicknamed ‘the bird’s nest’ – by Herzog & de Meuron, with the China Architectural Design and research Group, Arup Sport and Ove Arup and Partners Hong Kong, and artist Ai Wei Wei, has scooped the Royal [Read More]

“RECORD > AGAIN! – 40yearsvideoart.de – Part 2” is dedicated to the history of German video art from its beginnings in the 1960s and 1970s through to the early twenty-first century. Shown will be numerous discoveries, unavailable for viewing for decades. Many [Read More]

Noted artist Scott Stearman of Colorado supervised the installation of his new sculpture, “The Blind Man rising from the Pool of Siloam” on Wednesday morning, July 15, 2009 in front of the new “Janice and Charles Drake Library” at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. [Read More]

The Burlington House Commodes are the only known surviving pieces of furniture from the early history of Burlington House in Piccadilly, once one of the grandest private houses in London and home to the Royal Academy of Arts since 1866. Their provenance, [Read More]

Inaugurating the J. Paul Getty Museum’s partnership with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence, The Chimaera of Arezzo, on view from July 16, 2009–February 8, 2010, at the Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, features a masterpiece of Etruscan bronzework known as [Read More]

This exhibition of remarkable Antarctic photography by Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley marks the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole. Ponting’s extraordinary images record Scott’s Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, which led to the tragic death [Read More]

In a spectacular display of archaeological finds, The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani, on view from July 16 through October 5, 2009, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, presents more than 140 objects from one of the most [Read More]

As a farewell to Ronald de Leeuw as general director of the Rijksmuseum in 2008, the Van Gogh Museum has inaugurated the ‘Ronald de Leeuw Research Grant’. This year the research grant worth €5000, will be awarded for the first time to [Read More]

This is the first solo exhibition of Luc Tuymans in Brussels. The artist will present, in world premiere, twenty new paintings. The works are the third and last part of a triptych that began with the series Les Revenants about the power [Read More]

The Charterhouse auction on Friday 31st July has a broad selection of pictures from the 18th century through to more modern and contemporary artists. “Pictures are very personal, and beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder.” Commented Richard Bromell. “That [Read More]

Cézanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection is an intimate installation that highlights a group of nine exceptional early modern European paintings that have been promised over the years to The Museum of Modern Art by David and [Read More]

Neue Galerie New York has opened two exhibitions: “Focus: Oskar Kokoschka” and “Selections from the Permanent Collection.” The “Focus” exhibition presents Kokoschka paintings and drawings from the Neue Galerie collection. The permanent collection show highlights several works that portray the social upheaval [Read More]

Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host a new exhibition titled “Heroes of Horticulture” July 31 through September 27, 2009 in the museum’s Babcock Wing gallery. The exhibition, organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in collaboration [Read More]

The Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, a collaborative of 24 arts, science and cultural institutions in Balboa Park, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paige Simpson as the director of the Partnership’s new Balboa Park Learning Institute. The Learning Institute is a [Read More]