Celebrations will be taking place this weekend as a new arts, culture and heritage venue for Dorset opens its doors to the public. Based in Weymouth, the newly named Old Town Hall & Crabchurch Room are two halls at the start of [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 7, 2009
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The brilliant colors and dazzling forms that characterize the tradition of Latin American art are still found in contemporary painting today. The talented artists collected here channel their zest for life, transforming it into energetic paintings that explore the individual world while [Read More]
Deimel + Wittmar have examined architectural works of the 1920s, and they have turned gazes into photographs: photographs that spring freely from one’s own desire to create correspondences, images that respond to a spiritual impulse rather than a functional one. What they [Read More]
Kandinsky, a full-scale retrospective of the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky—the visionary artist, theorist, and pioneer of abstraction— will be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from September 18, 2009, through January 13, 2010. This comprehensive survey comprising nearly 100 of Kandinsky’s [Read More]
Gallery KH is pleased to present COLOR: a vivid juxtaposition of new works by Carolyn Cole and Hans Hofmann original works on paper, opening September 11 through October 27, 2009. An opening night cocktail reception is scheduled for Friday, September 11, 2009, [Read More]
California-based artist Viola Frey (1933 – 2004) broke new ground by creating monumental figurative sculptures in clay that served to elevate the status of ceramics as an art form in the second half of the 20th century. The Gardiner Museum presents Bigger, [Read More]
Painter Menachem Shemi (1897-1951) was one of the pioneers of Israeli painting and art. The exhibition titled “Menachem Shemi – Man and Artist” which opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art September 11, 2009 follows a very long interval since his [Read More]
m97 Gallery Shanghai presents three separate solo photography exhibitions, September 5 – October 25, 2009. September 11, 2009 6-9pm – Opening Reception for the artists. Li Jun: “Impermanent Instant” In Buddhism, the fundamental concept of “impermanence” teaches that all living and non-living [Read More]
A Shadow Falls, Nick Brandt’s second major body of work, continues the photographer’s ambitious and ongoing photographic project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt’s wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of a wild Africa [Read More]
Owners of fine art – particularly rare porcelain – are being warned to be on their guard following the daring theft of a porcelain collection worth up to £1m from a country estate in Sussex. The warning comes from specialist Heritage insurance [Read More]