Daily Archives: July 15, 2010

A pre-Raphaelite needlework book cover designed for The Book of Beauty: A Collection of Beautiful Portraits with Literary, Artistic and Musical Contributions by Men and Women of the Day, edited by Mrs F Harcourt Williamson and published by Hutchinson & Co in [Read More]

Graffiti NYC: Artists of the Third Rail features photographs, works on paper, paintings, sculptures, murals and live presentations by Martha Cooper, John Naar, Richard Hambleton, Snake1, Noc167, Jamestop, Stayhigh149, PNUT, Cap1, Tracy168, Futura2000, Dondi, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Phetus, among other [Read More]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Dennis Hopper Double Standard, the first comprehensive survey exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s artistic career to be mounted by a North American museum, through September 26, 2010, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Best [Read More]

Irvine Contemporary is pleased to present new works and on-site installations by gallery artist Gaia. In The Urban Romantic, Gaia will present new compositions that combine decollage, linocut prints, and painting on wood panels and new on-site street mural installations. Open June [Read More]

Irvine Contemporary presents two concurrent exhibitions Picture Planes, an exhibition of paintings, photographs, and installations by Robert Mellor and Alexa Meade, and Gaia: The Urban Romantic, an exhibition of new works on panel and installations by Gaia. In Picture Planes, Robert Mellor [Read More]

Marlborough Gallery presents a group exhibition titled Grass Grows by Itself, curated by Sima Familant, with works by Chakaia Booker, Mark Bradford, Dale Chihuly, Wade Guyton, David Hammons, Carmen Herrera, Jim Hodges, Wolfgang Laib, Cameron Martin, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Molly McIver, Virginia [Read More]

WALTER WICK: GAMES, GIZMOS AND TOYS IN THE ATTIC September 19, 2010–January 2, 2011 Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic is the first museum retrospective of award-winning author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick. Author of Can You See What [Read More]

The High Museum of Art will present the film series “Dalí: A Passion for Film” from Saturday, August 21, through Saturday, September 11. Featuring films and shorts that showcase Dalí’s fascination with cinema, the series will celebrate the artist’s influence on prolific [Read More]

National Museum Wales announced the appointment of David Anderson, Director of Learning and Interpretation at the Victoria and Albert Museum, as Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales’ new Director General. David Anderson was chosen from a selection of high calibre international candidates [Read More]

“A Revolution in Wood” celebrates the gift of 66 pieces of turned and carved wood to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the noted collectors Fleur and Charles Bresler. Open Sept. 24 – Jan. 30, 2011. The collection includes works by some [Read More]

The Wexner Center has announced a two-month extension of its exhibition Mark Bradford, the first museum survey devoted to the work of one of the leading figures in contemporary art. The show, which opened May 8, will now be on view in [Read More]

The public will have the unique opportunity of seeing world-class works of art normally on display in Venice, Italy, when the Art Gallery of Western Australia hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice (October 9, 2010 – January 31, 2011), the first [Read More]

An exhibition of works by Cecília Guimarães, Conceição Lacerda, Helena Paz and Conceição Rhodes. Red Gate Gallery presents abstract paintings by four Portuguese artists; an exhibition of diverse works ranging from the semi-figurative to the gestural, and from intense colour to delicate [Read More]