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]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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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]
he United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The decision affirmed United States District Judge Rya Zobel’s May 28, 2009, ruling [Read More]
The Asheville Arts Museum is to presents Present The Olmsted Project: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, open Friday, December 10, 2010 – Sunday, April 24, 2011. Lee Friedlander (1934- ) is one of this country’s preeminent photographers. Among his projects, Friedlander photographed the [Read More]
The Yale Center for British Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal (CCA), have co-produced the first ever exhibition of the archive of British architect, Yale School of Architecture professor, and Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling (1924 – 1992). The exhibition, [Read More]
A rare and beautiful example of a Nude Study by the pioneering Czech photographer, Frantisek Drtikol, celebrated for his daring and radical depiction of the female form, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its Photographs sale [Read More]
The AWARD CEREMONY takes place at the audience hall of the Federal Ministry in Vienna Minoritenplatz 5, 1010 Vienna on October 18, 2010 at 5 p.m. For the first time, the international panel of judges is awarding the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize [Read More]
Rolling meadows, majestic mountains and the ironic beauty of a retired asbestos mine were the subjects that won awards in the Views of Vermont Landscape Photography Contest. Award winners were selected from over 650 photographs. “Contestants definitely got into the spirit of [Read More]
The Shelburne Museum is closing it’s Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky : Constructed Landscapes Exhibition, on Oct 24. Constructed Landscapes is Shelburne Museum’s first exhibition of modern and contemporary photography. The exhibit features over 60 photographs by Ansel Adams (1902-1984), one of [Read More]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosted a total of 39,669 visitors during the opening celebrations of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion. More than 17,600 visitors attended LACMA’s Free Community Weekend on October 2-3, while the week prior [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, voted last week to acquire The Juniata, Evening, an exceptional painting done in 1864 by American artist Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Purchased from a private collection with funds from Max [Read More]