This exhibition explores the variety of ways in which 19th-century artists approached the art of illustration. It features seldom-seen drawings, watercolors and books from the permanent collection of the Walters Art Museum, including drawings for Gustave Doré’s Holy Bible (1866) and Paul Gavarni’s lively sketches of the London underworld. French, American and British artists’ responses […]
Austrian art collector Rudolf Leopold, who has been credited with putting the works of Egon Schiele on the map, died Tuesday in Vienna at the age of 85, his museum confirmed. The trained ophthalmologist amassed a collection that was valued at 574 million euros (698 million dollars) in the mid-1990s. His Leopold Museum in central […]
The Brigitte Kowanz retrospective is a part of a series of exhibitions that the MUMOK is putting on dealing with internationally successful Austrian artists. With the consistent depiction of light and language Kowanz’s work is an exception, in both a local and international context. This is the first time that her varied and complex oeuvre […]
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is the sole UK venue for a retrospective of the work of American photo-journalist Steve McCurry, the man who is responsible for some of the world’s most famous photographs. Compelling, unforgettable and moving, McCurry’s images are unique: un-stylized and unopposed snapshots of people that reveal the universality of human emotion. […]
The Long Beach Museum of Art is presenting the grand finale of its 60th Anniversary celebration with A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women. The Celebrating Sixty exhibition series will continue this summer with a special tribute to female artists opening on the first floor of the Museum pavilion on June […]
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to survey the achievement of the great Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) during the last three decades before his death. Open through September 6, some 80 of the artist’s paintings, sculpture, and drawings will be on view, accompanied by a selection of works by Henri […]
The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from contrivances and from intervention in […]
A portrait by British artist Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893-1964) of his three children, entitled Design for a Portrait Group, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It has been estimated at £40,000 – 60,000. The picture was painted in […]
American artist Emily Clare never dreamed that her contemporary art would find its way to the American Turkish community and then to Istanbul, where her depictions of images to ward off the evil eye have been so enthusiastically received that she has sold a number of the expensive drawings. The evil eye is a common […]
One of the most independent voices in painting today, Buenos Aires-based Guillermo Kuitca has long operated outside the traditional spheres of the medium, incorporating influences from sculpture, architecture, theater, film, and literature. The exhibition Guillermo Kuitca: Everything—Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008, on a four-city tour, travels to the Walker Art Center June 26–September 19. […]
The Fondation Maeght is presenting an exceptional retrospective of the work of Alberto Giacometti. Open through 31 October 2010. Giacometti & Maeght 1946-1966 will assemble the artist’s best-known masterpieces, including the bronze sculptures Walking Man, Dog and Cat. The exhibition will also include paintings, plaster casts and drawings on loan from major French and international […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), taped a special episode of ABC’s Emmy Award–winning daytime drama General Hospital on the occasion of the return of character Franco the artist, played by artist and actor James Franco, on the Pacific Design Plaza next to MOCA Pacific Design Center. Conceived by James Franco as part […]
