6 Times is a multi-part work by Antony Gormley which positions six life-size figures between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the sea at Edinburgh’s Leith Docks. Gormley is an internationally acclaimed British artist renowned for testing the body in […]
Daily Archives: June 23, 2010
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There is an art in discovering art. Line, color, shape, luminosity are just some of the foundation bricks on which a work of art is built, some of the ways in which we engage with it. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, […]
Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953-54 of the legendary 17th-century Imperial villa […]
The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, seeks to expand the definition of classic Pop art and re-evaluate the role of the women who worked alongside the movement’s more […]
Gain challenging insights into Arab culture through the exquisite collections of the Emirate of Sharjah: hand-coloured maps, Arabic calligraphy and modern visual art by both female and male artists. During the first exhibition weekend there will be a number of activities – […]
A London scene by English artist Christopher Wood (1901-1930), entitled Skating at Hampstead, 1929, 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 £50,000 […]
International Poster Gallery speeds into summer with the gallery’s seventeenth annual summer poster show “Full Steam Ahead!,” which features more than 50 original vintage travel, transportation and leisure posters from around the globe. The exhibition opens July 5 2010 and runs through […]