The National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and the Alexandra Institute join forces in an international contemporary art exhibition that puts a new perspective on the climate debate. On 31 October the international [Read More]
The High Museum of Art has recently acquired more than 300 works of art for its African, American, decorative arts and design, European, folk, photography and modern and contemporary collections. Highlights include significant gifts to the modern and contemporary, American, and European [Read More]
Martin Westwood often works with mass-produced materials collected from the corporate environment – photocopies, carpet tiles, vinyl stickers and newspapers – which he transforms to form the highly crafted components for his installations. Westwood’s images and objects construct fictions that expose a strangely familiar, yet faded, human [Read More]
The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has been awarded two grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA). The museum will receive a two-year $48,000 Arts Create grant and a $2,500 Arts Respond Project-Education grant. “We are both honored and [Read More]
Painter Makoto Fujimura will pay homage to twentieth century Fauvist and Expressionist painter Georges Rouault in an exhibition of both artists’ work this fall at Dillon Gallery, one of Chelsea’s preeminent art galleries. The show will open with a reception on November [Read More]
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present its fifth gallery exhibition by internationally acclaimed American artist Bill Viola. The exhibition opens October 23rd and runs through December 19th, 2009. For over 35 years Bill Viola has been instrumental in the establishment of [Read More]
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is proud to present Passages, an exhibition of photo and video works by acclaimed Northern Ireland artist, Willie Doherty. Curated by Scott McLeod, this exhibition represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in a Canadian public art gallery [Read More]
BAIBAKOV art projects is proud to present the first solo exhibition of American artist Paul Pfeiffer in Russia. For this site-specific project, the artist develops on his critique of the spectacle, converting the unique space of the former Red October Chocolate Factory [Read More]
Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, has awarded this year‟s Prix Pictet to British based photographer Nadav Kander and the 2009 Commission to American photographer Ed Kashi at the Passage de Retz, Paris. Ed Kashi, “Nigeria, 2006”. Series: “Curse of [Read More]
The exhibition James Tissot: “The Life of Christ” includes 124 watercolors selected from a set of 350 that depict detailed scenes from the New Testament, from before the birth of Jesus through the Resurrection, in a chronological narrative. It marks the first [Read More]
Chelmsford Museum has succeeded in snaring at auction its first work by locally born painter and Slade professor Frederick Brown (1851 -1941) – after being thwarted in its attempt to acquire a similar painting by the artist that went under the hammer [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) presents an innovative exhibition that explores nontraditional methods of displaying, engaging with, and understanding African art—the first part of a long-term plan to reinstall all of the museum’s African art galleries. “iAfrica: Connecting with Sub-Saharan Art,” [Read More]
On 24 October, the monumental Wolfsburg Project lighting installation created by famous lighting artist James Turrell will be presented to the public at the Wolfsburg Art Museum. The Wolfsburg Ganzfeld Piece – as this work of art has been named – is [Read More]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced that Dave Woody of Fort Collins, Colo., has received first prize for the “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009” for a photograph titled “Laura.” First prize is a cash award of $25,000 and a separate commission from [Read More]