The Shape of Anxiety: Henry Moore in the 1930s is a dramatic reconsideration of one of the 20th century’s most revered artists. The exhibition will be on view from October 23 through February 6, 2011 in the AGO’s Henry Moore Sculpture Centre. [Read More]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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The Courtauld Gallery presents Cézanne’s Card Players, open 21 October 2010 – 16 January 2011. Paul Cézanne’s famous paintings of peasant card players and pipe smokers have long been considered to be among his most iconic and powerful works. This landmark exhibition, [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art announced Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky as the recipient of the $20,000.00 MOCCA Award in Contemporary Art 2011. The MOCCA Award will be presented to Mr. Burtynsky at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art at a gala [Read More]
Fresco is an early form of painting on plaster that dates back to ancient Crete. Fresco painting flourished during the Renaissance, and is still a popular art form today. You can learn the skills of this art form and create your own [Read More]
The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of US-Lebanese artist, Walid Raad. Open through 2 January 2011. One of the most important artists from the Middle East, Walid Raad says his work ‘was in some ways made possible by the [Read More]
An exhibit of photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Robin Hood has opened at the State Museum, on view through November 7, 2010, in the Changing Gallery at the Tennessee State Museum. The exhibit, Historic Tennessee: Photographs by Robin Hood, is presented in [Read More]
Michelangelo’s first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, will be on view among the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum. The Kimbell Art Museum acquired the painting in May 2009. It will be featured in a focus exhibition including a [Read More]
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Born of Fire: The Valley of Work exhibition is part of Feuerländer: Regions of Vulcan, a large-scale international exhibition, to be presented at the LVR-Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, Germany open through Nov. 28, 2010, as part of [Read More]
Queensland Art Gallery will present 21st Century : Art in the First Decade, on 18 December 2010 – 25 April 2011. 21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ encompasses an exhibition, publication, blog and a series of public programs that explore the [Read More]
The Walters Art Museum presents German Drawings From The Walters Collection, open November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011. The Walters family, William, Ellen and their children, Henry and Jennie, spent the years from 1861 to 1865 in Europe. Although William Walters had begun [Read More]
Deviba Wala’s lucid abstractions, predominantly monochromatic, evoke an unambiguous rhetoric of strength in the process of accomplishing elegant but austere forms. Wala believes they are almost naïve in terms of transgressing the disquiets of mundane life. The entangled patterns and wavy lines [Read More]
To celebrate the 10 years of operation of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens a large scale exhibition titled Politics of Art is being organized from October 13, 2010 until January 30, 2011. The exhibition presents 79 works amongst which are [Read More]
The Musée Rodin has opened an exhibition of the work of English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 – 1986), this will be the first Moore retrospective in Paris for more than 30 years. In order to recreate the unique atmosphere of Moore’s studios [Read More]
The Schirn Kunsthalle presents an exhibition of works by Gustave Courbet Exhibition, open through January 30, 2011. The French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) ranks among the most fascinating nineteenth-century artists. He is regarded as the crucial pioneer of political realistic painting and [Read More]