Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection explores various approaches to painting represented in the MCA Collection — from the 1940s to the present — that focus on how painting communicates ideas about life and art. On view from July 25 to October [Read More]
Daily Archives: August 14, 2009
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This “One Life” exhibition will be located in a single gallery devoted to Thomas Paine (1737–1809). Two hundred years ago, on June 8, 1809, Paine, scorned by his old associates and fallen from popularity, died in poverty. However, 33 years earlier, Paine’s [Read More]
A three-part collaborative exhibition featuring the work of Colorado artist Allen Tupper True, presented by the Denver Art Museum’s Petrie Institute of Western American Art (DAM), the Denver Public Library’s Western History and Genealogy Department (DPL) and the Colorado History Museum (CHM), [Read More]
Christie’s, in collaboration with Pierre Bergé and Associates, announced the second sale of the Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection that will take place in Paris on 17th, 18th and 19th November 2009. Proceeds of the sale will benefit H.I.V research and [Read More]
Kari Huhtamo has, as the first Finnish artist, been invited to hold an exhibition in the national gallery highly respected by Russians. This exhibition, which is sponsored by Ruukki, features the sculptor’s works and graphic prints over a period of nearly 30 [Read More]
Swiss internet portal VernissageTV announced today the broadcasting of its art news video content via the Art Channel on cable, IPTV and satellite networks across Europe. A respective agreement has been signed between VernissageTV’s rights holder onmedia ag and the Art Channel [Read More]
American painter Jason Shawn Alexander is a self-taught artist: never having attended formal art school, art language and “isms” mean nothing to him. The things that matter in his work are honesty and emotion, and while it is his aim to make [Read More]
On Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, the Erie Art Museum will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian magazine. A celebration of culture, learning and the dissemination of knowledge, Smithsonian’s Museum Day reflects the spirit of the magazine, and emulates [Read More]
The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first major exhibition to explore the interaction of painting and photography in Canada and the United States from the time of the U.S. Civil War through the end of World War I. Expanding Horizons: Painting [Read More]
Visionary and nonconformist William Blake (1757–1827) is a singular figure in the history of Western art and literature: a poet, painter, and printmaker. Ambitiously creative, Blake had an abiding interest in theology and philosophy, which, during the age of revolution, inspired thoroughly [Read More]