ST. PETERSBURG, FL – It was an elegantly simple but universally embraced paper container – the cone-shape Dixie Cup – that enabled millionaire inventor and philanthropist Cesare Barbieri to amass the spectacular collection of European paintings, bronzes, Asian art and Oriental rugs [Read More]
The BMW Guggenheim Lab has concluded six weeks of free programs and projects exploring the urban challenges and conditions of the city. The Lab, which was presented in collaboration with the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, operated at six sites throughout the [Read More]
Menil Collection presents Untitled (Structures). Leslie Hewitt in Collaboration with Bradford Young. A new film installation inspired by Civil Rights-era photographs in the Menil Collection, on view January 26–May 5, 2013. Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Untitled (Structures), 2012. Production [Read More]
Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia announce that artist Dénes Farkas will represent Estonia at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia with his project Evident in Advance, curated by Adam Budak, on June 1–November 24, 2013. Farkas’s post-conceptual photo-based practice [Read More]
NEW YORK Dec 7 – THROCKMORTON FINE ART (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is presenting GRACE: ELISABETH SUNDAY, a special exhibition of 30 limited edition platinum prints as well as a specially created cast bronze sculpture by the renowned photographer Elisabeth Sunday at its New York [Read More]
Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents I am also… Douglas Gordon, an exhibition on view 24 January–25 May 2013. Douglas Gordon, The End of Civilisation, 2012. Film still. © Studio lost but found / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2012 / Great North Run [Read More]
The artist residencies awarded at the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil involving artists and institutions from the North and South Hemispheres have been underway since the second half of 2012. Following the residencies undertaken by Carla Zaccagnini, Dirceu Maués, and Claudia [Read More]
Baltimore—In 2002, philanthropists Eddie and C. Sylvia Brown created The Brown Challenge Grant, donating $500,000 to the Walters Art Museum, to be matched by the museum, creating a $1 million fund for the purchase of art by 18th-, 19th- and early 20th-century [Read More]
Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents Photorealism Revisited an exhibition of 64 paintings rendered in a highly realistic, photographic style, on view from Jan. 24 through April 21. Robert Neffson (American, b.1949). 57th Street, 2011. Oil on linen, 56 x 79 in. [Read More]
Design Talks, a vibrant conversation and presentation series organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will run from March through May at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Center in Harlem in New York City. This year’s series will feature winners from the 2012 [Read More]
Badischer Kunstverein presents Jurgen Drescher dig it open 25 January–1 April 2013. Jurgen Drescher, Wedge, 2012. Photo: Wendelin Bottländer. Badischer Kunstverein is pleased to present Jürgen Drescher with his most extensive solo exhibition in Germany to date. For over three decades, Drescher [Read More]
With a calmly cool, tranquil color palette and meticulous, controlled brushstrokes, Belgian-born artist Max Werner blends realism with a mystical romanticism. Max Werner-Early Morning Round Up Planes of richly crystalline color meet detailed textures in these works, each one an image of [Read More]
Australian painter Michael Cowdroy eschews the broad vistas and minimal color palettes of many of his compatriots’ landscape paintings, but his small-town streetscapes retain the same sense of sharpness in the air and intensity of light. Michael Cowdroy-Mansell Street Working with delicate [Read More]
NEW YORK Jan 27 – – THROCKMORTON FINE ART (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is presenting an important array of international photographic talent at the 2013 AIPAD Photography Show in New York April 4 – 7. THROCKMORTON 2013 AIPAD Tina Modotti JULIO ANTONIO MELLA 1928 Gelatin [Read More]