Daily Archives: September 20, 2009

As stories about the threat of nuclear terrorism and building additional nuclear power plants appear on our evening news, Patrick Nagatani’s Nuclear Enchantment seems eerily up to date. When Nagatani moved to Albuquerque , New Mexico in 1987, he turned his attention [Read More]

Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a tour of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs, California. The exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects. Also presented are [Read More]

Gagosian is the first retail outpost of Gagosian Gallery. Located at street level on Madison Avenue, it is an extension of world-renowned art dealer Larry Gagosian’s impeccable taste and, like the gallery, will collaborate with both established and emerging artists on exclusive [Read More]

Circle of Friends: Portraits of Artists Through November 29, 2009 For much of the history of figurative art, artists have made self-portraits and portraits of their patrons, but with the advent of modernism they began making portraits of one another with increasing [Read More]

This year the National Gallery of Australia’s annual event, The Big Draw, opens with a talk by one of Australia’s foremost living artists, John Olsen, on his attitude and approaches to drawing. The talk at 6:00 pm on Thursday 17 September is [Read More]

The photographic archive of renowned photojournalist Eddie Adams has been donated by his widow, Alyssa Adams, to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin. The archive documents Adams’s career and includes “Saigon Execution,” his Pulitzer [Read More]

Painted in Rome in 1970, Treatise on the Veil (Second Version) marks a critical period in the career of Cy Twombly. One of the American artist’s largest canvases, measuring nearly 35 feet in length, the work, which the Menil acquired in 1998, [Read More]

The closing of the exhibition “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” last weekend marked the culmination of “Louvre Atlanta,” the High Museum ’s unprecedented three-year partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris. During the course of the partnership, the High welcomed over [Read More]

Disintegrations Featuring works by: Sébastien Lapointe + Andrew Benson October 2nd – November 13th, 2009 Artist Reception Friday, October 2nd 5 – 8PM Technology sheds the discourse of forward progress in favor of exotic decay and hypnotic liquefaction. In this technological rebellion, [Read More]

The Art Institute of Chicago will display the furniture and product designs of Konstantin Grcic in the first major exhibition of his work in a U.S. museum. Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design, on view in the Abbott Galleries of the Modern Wing from [Read More]

Mary Poole, executive director of Artspace (www.artspacenc.org), has announced that the art center will launch a pilot educational program for year-round school track-outs. This program offers intensive-yet-fun, project-oriented classes for students in third through eighth grades. Sessions include painting, drawing, mosaics, mixed [Read More]

Michelle Danner Artistic Director, Edgemar Center of the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of its Fall exhibition featuring prints and paintings by notable photographer and artist Michelle Carmen Gomez this Sunday September 20th beginning at 3:00pm at the Edgemar Center [Read More]

When the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) invited the public to donate artworks for a Big Art Sale fundraiser, the response was remarkable. The museum accepted 180 objects, each valued between $250–$30,000, to auction off on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and [Read More]