The Music Division in the Library of Congress has acquired archival materials from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publisher (ASCAP) Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of the world’s largest performing-rights organization, representing more than 275,000 creators.The ASCAP Collection has been established [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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The Pinakothek der Moderne is staging the American artist’s first retrospective. The focus is being placed on Zoe Leonard’s photographic work of the past twenty years, their subtle, visual look at the relationship between the sexes, the ambivalence between culture and nature, [Read More]
Tom Slick (1916–1962) is an important figure in San Antonio’s history. A legendary explorer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, he founded the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, the Southwest Research Institute, and the Mind Science Foundation, among many well-known accomplishments in his short [Read More]
The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the June 12 opening of Ansel Adams in Yosemite, a presentation of nine images taken by Adams in Yosemite between 1933 and 1958. Ansel Adams, one of the best-known photographers of the American West, generated some [Read More]
This summer, the Saint Louis Art Museum will transform one of its main level galleries into a painting conservation lab for Reviving Antiquity: Restoring Hubert Robert’s Views of Ancient Ruins. Beginning June 10, Paintings Conservator Mark Bockrath of West Chester, Pa., will [Read More]
Agora Gallery is pleased to present The French Perspective, an exhilarating survey of contemporary art from France. There is a remarkable variety of styles represented in this exhibition, truly profound works that delve into humanity’s deepest creative roots. Some of these talented [Read More]
In line with the Kingdom’s Independence Day festivities and in conjunction with the City’s Centennial celebrations, the City streets will host, for the first time, the Street Exhibition for Visual Arts. The exhibition which was launched on June 4, 2009 features works [Read More]
Guide by Cell, the world’s leading mobile technology company for cultural institutions, announced today that the National Portrait Gallery in London is implementing its mobile technology products at the museum renowned for its portrait collection. Specifically, the museum is using mobile touring [Read More]
The Museum of Modern Art presents Looking at Music: Side 2, a survey of over 120 photographs, music videos, drawings, audio recordings, publications, Super 8 films, and ephemera that look at New York City from the early 1970s to the early 1980s [Read More]
The 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the city of Basel, Switzerland, from June 10 through June 14, 2009. This year, more than 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the globe were selected from a record number of more than [Read More]
Doors previously closed to the world were swiftly unbarred following the Romanian Revolution almost two decades ago. One of Central Europe’s great cultural centres, Bucharest, certainly gained a new lease on life. The city’s ‘George Enescu’ International Festival and Competition became a [Read More]
The Yale University Art Gallery has announced its purchase of important preparatory drawings by American artist Edward Hopper for two of his celebrated paintings, Rooms by the Sea (1951) and Western Motel (1957), both in the Gallery’s collection. Edward Hopper, Rooms by [Read More]
The current episodes on VernissageTV Art TV focus on the art scene in Cologne and Art Cologne 2009. Apart from reports from the international art fair Art Cologne 2009 VernissageTV covered three exhibitions at Museum Ludwig, which currently presents paintings by Christopher [Read More]
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a weekend event with Canadian art duo Seripop from Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August. Seripop artists Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau have joined forces with guest curator Sophie Brown to bring an event of [Read More]