Gallery One Twenty One, an artist co-operative gallery in Belleville Ontario, Canada recently converted their entire lighting system to Lumicrest’s LED lighting. Not only did the Gallery save over 82% on their energy consumption costs, artists and visitors reported they found the [Read More]
Daily Archives: July 28, 2010
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Subjects Include Picasso, Edith Piaf and Jean Marais A remarkable collection of drawings, pastels and ceramics by the French poet, filmmaker, playwright and novelist, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), brought together by the late business tycoon and founder of Gucci timepieces Severin Wunderman (1939-2008) [Read More]
A collection of Ansel Adams glass photographic negative plates, thought lost, have been discovered by an antique shopper Rick Norsigian, a Fresno painter, who bought the images at a Southern California garage sale in 2000, for $45. They were sold to him [Read More]
The third Le Havre contemporary art biennale will take place from 1 to 31 October 2010. The event will be dedicated to the exploration of the relations between comics and contemporary art. “We knew for a long time that literature included works [Read More]
Art in Action, a leading nonprofit K-12 art education organization, today announced a new expansion of its comprehensive, masterpiece-based online visual art program with a series of lessons covering Renaissance Art. The lessons are aimed at educating students in middle and high [Read More]
American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years. The exhibition Lynda Benglis, opening at The RISD Museum October 1, 2010, through Sunday, January 9, 2011, is composed of [Read More]
This exhibition assembles around sixty paintings from some of the best private and public collections in Europe (Art museums in Lille, Nantes, Rennes, Oxford, Liège, and more). It offers a unique view of two great artistic movements of the 17th century: Flemish [Read More]
One of the most significant collections of Japanese art in North America will pay its first visit to the Bay Area for the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s major fall 2010 exhibition, Flowers of the Four Seasons: [Read More]
On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce examines why Chinese ceramics were such prized commodities, both at home and abroad. Examples of proto-porcelain appeared in China about 3,000 years ago and hard-paste porcelain began to be [Read More]
Multi award-winning Nevada County artist Lisa Redfern of Redfern Photography is really starting to come into her own as she continues her expansion into the commercial arena. Employing the distinctive techniques she’s christened as “Transformative Art,” her imaginative visual renderings on behalf [Read More]
On view at Yvon Lambert New York is Christmas in July, a group show curated by Simon Castets. The exhibition will features work by John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Michael Brown, Heman Chong, Alex Da Corte, Elmgreen & Dragset, Douglas Gordon, Christian Holstad, [Read More]