Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has unveiled a dynamic 2010 exhibition program including an extensive contribution to the 17th Biennale of Sydney, as well as major solo exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists Sylvie Blocher and Runa Islam. 2010 also promises to [Read More]
Pursuing its exploration of world-famous collections, the Fondation de l’Hermitage is privileged to present an exceptional selection of 100 masterpieces from the prestigious Städel Museum in Frankfurt, one of the oldest art museums in Germany founded in 1815 by merchant and banker [Read More]
San Francisco, CA -In May 2010, San Francisco will welcome the city’s first international Fine Art Fair in nearly a decade. This first edition of the SF Fine Art Fair, taking place May 21st – May 23rd at Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion, [Read More]
The 2010 edition of Documentary Fortnight, MoMA‘s ninth annual festival of international nonfiction film, includes 20 feature and 23 mid-length and short documentaries that represent the wide range of creative categories that extend the idea of the documentary form. Established in 2001, [Read More]
Eight Arts Corps students and their two teaching artists – the creative force behind the Frye Art Museum’s exhibition I Wish I Knew Who I Was Before I Was Me – have been invited to attend the White House historic concert and [Read More]
Washington, D.C.—Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is widely celebrated for her iconic paintings of flowers, animal bones, and stark New Mexican cliffs. While she has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she made throughout her career [Read More]
The exhibition has been conceived not as a retrospective, but rather as a condensed pres-entation of outstanding works. This selection highlights what concerned, and indeed still concerns the artist in the course of an oeuvre that covers a period of 50 years. [Read More]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. —Five evenings this spring, the Harn Museum of Art is hosting RISK Cinema, an ongoing experimental film series that will also feature lectures by three of the featured films’ directors. Titled “Crossing Over,” this season is presented as a counterpart [Read More]
In Etienne Zack’s innovative and vibrant paintings, the viewer’s eye is led every which way over the canvas. Like a modern-day maze, each of his works draws us into a multilayered labyrinth. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Etienne [Read More]
At Sotheby’s, Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) sold for £65,001,250 / $104,327,006 /€74,185,983 becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The sale of that work was swiftly followed by that of Gustav Klimt’s Kirche [Read More]
Avisca Fine Art Gallery of Marietta, GA celebrates Black History Month in New York City with a group art exhibition featuring work by 15 emerging and mid-career black artists of the South and New York City. The three-day exhibition opens with a [Read More]
Wyndham Lewis could be described as a “single-handed avant-garde movement”. An accomplished artist, Lewis found An accomplished ed Vorticism, the only English avant-garde movement, and was the author of more than 50 books. In addition he issued manifestoes, edited and published journals [Read More]
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage. Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of [Read More]