Since 1992, Soraida’s Verdadism has inspired self-awareness, spirituality, social consciousness, personal identity, intuition and individualism. Can art really fight prejudice and stereotyping? Learn how at a new exhibition looking at 17 years of Verdadism paintings with social commentaries. Since 1992, Soraida Martinez [Read More]
Luminescence of Nature Press is pleased to announce the release of The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro, the latest eBook by photographer and author Jason P. Odell, Ph.D. The Photographer’s Guide to Silver Efex Pro is a comprehensive PDF tutorial that guides photographers through the steps of digital black and white conversion using the […]
The High Museum of Art will present the 7th annual Film Festival of India from August 21 through September 12. This year’s festival will include 12 films, all chosen as a salute to India ’s National Film Development Corporation. The High’s curator [Read More]
The architect Richard Rogers, the general manager of “la Caixa” Foundation, Jaime Lanaspa, and the director of ”la Caixa” Foundation Culture Area, Ignasi Miró, presented the Richard Rogers + Architects. From the house to the city exhibition. The British architect has often [Read More]
The National Museum Wales is pleased to announce that it has recently acquired two eighteenth century pastel portraits of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th Baronet and his wife Charlotte Willams Wynn by the Irish artist Hugh Douglas Hamilton. The acquisition was made [Read More]
Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century, with a body of work [Read More]
On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, July 28 through November 1, 2009, Capturing Nature’s Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscape draws from the Getty’s drawings collection including some works from the Getty Research Institute, to highlight [Read More]
In conjunction with China’s appearance as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn will be showing, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard (Chin.: Shouzuyuan). This ensemble of more [Read More]
The New Jersey State Museum is currently presenting an exhibition of photographs by New Jersey artist Maria Lau. “71. Fragments of a Dream” will remain on view in the Museum’s galleries through November 24, 2009. “We are always especially proud to present [Read More]
In his most ambitious project yet, Rankin is creating a portrait of contemporary Britain, photographing 1,000 people from across the UK. Selected either for their distinct sense of style, vibrant personalities or individual life stories, from the thousands who have applied to [Read More]
Art Couture Gallery collaborated with Pappas Bros. Steakhouse with a silent auction on July 19, 2009 – benefiting Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant Rich Behm, who was paralyzed from the waist down during a severe storm in May. Three hundred fine art canvases, [Read More]
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Nordstrom is partnering for a second year with Latino Art Beat, a Chicago-based not-for-profit arts organization, to feature art from their “What Hispanic Heritage & Culture Means to Me” contest at Nordstrom stores and online at [Read More]
Paper mosaics, natural history specimens, embroidered textiles, drawings, garden designs, and live fl oral displays At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and [Read More]
The fifth annual Art of Photography Show (www.artofphotographyshow.com), an international competition and exhibition of photographic art, welcomes its judge, Charlotte Cotton, author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art, one of the most well-used introductions to the field, for a special free talk [Read More]