Tate Modern presents the first major survey in the UK of the work of the Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938). The exhibition will explore the exceptional diversity of Kirkeby’s career spanning four decades. Focusing on key moments in the artist’s oeuvre, [Read More]
The next time you turn on the faucet to get a drink, just imagine all the species, mammoth or microscopic, that this single resource sustains. Water is life-giving, yet finite. In parts of the world water is taken for granted; in others, [Read More]
The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting Miró – Dupin. Art and Poetry, an exhibition to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Joan Miró that examines the artist’s close relationship and affinity with Jacques Dupin. Joan Mrió, The diamond smiles at [Read More]
Balloon Rabbit Wall Relief (Magenta) on view June 23 The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the installation of artist Jeff Koons’ Balloon Rabbit Wall Relief (Magenta) in Sculpture Hall. On view beginning June 23, visitors can take in Koons’ 9-foot-6-inch tall wall [Read More]
The Montgomery Mall and the Lansdale Center for the Performing Arts have teamed up to offer a “Rhythm and Arts Summer Concert Series.” Beginning on June 26, 2009, performers from the Center will come to the mall weekly and feature their talents [Read More]
In appreciation for a group of paintings that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is lending next year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is reciprocating with paintings from the Hudson River School. The Hudson River School is one of the [Read More]
New Photography 2009 is a thematic presentation of significant recent work in photography that examines and expands the conventional definitions of the medium. Although the six artists represent diverse points of view, working methods, and pictorial modes ranging from abstract to representational, [Read More]
Lower Belvedere 9 June to 11 October 2009 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 – 1865) was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Whether it was the conquest of the landscape and thus the convincing rendering of closeness or [Read More]
The Polish Connection 16 June – 27 September 2009 In 1790 the last King of Poland, Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski, commissioned two art dealers, who later became the Founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, to buy a collection of paintings as Poland’s national collection. [Read More]
Resident Brittany Jackson, honored as the grand prize illustrator winner at the 2008 annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards, is using part of her $5,000 winnings to continue her undergraduate studies at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies and is also working on [Read More]
200 photographs by 70 renowned photographers Estimates from $1,000 to $20,000 From June 15-25 artnet Auctions will feature Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits, a special sale of 200 original fine art photographs of legendary figures including The Beatles, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, President [Read More]
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, Spaced: Gallery of Architecture is featuring rare lithographs and limited edition reproduction prints that document Frank Lloyd Wright’s early achievements experiments with rounded structures of the later years. “Wright Before the [Read More]
Bonhams next sale of Old Master paintings on July 8th in New Bond Street, offers stunning views of some of the highlights of The Grand Tour by some of the masters of the time. Today, when the capturing of images by cameras, [Read More]
Sotheby’s forthcoming sales of Old Master Paintings and Drawings to take place in London on Wednesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 9, 2009 will bring to the market a superb selection of rare works by renowned French, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Italian and [Read More]