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Luigi Gallo

National Museums of Bologna, the 2027–2030 Four-Year Plan: Restorations and Six Major Exhibitions Between the Renaissance, Baroque, and the Grand Tour

Just five months after taking office, the Director of the National Museums of Bologna and the Regional Directorate of National Museums in Emilia-Romagna, Luigi Gallo, has outlined the strategic guidelines for his 2027–2030 four-year term. It is an ambitious plan that combines heritage preservation, scientific research, and cultural enhancement, placing the National Gallery of Bologna […]

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Lino Tagliapietra, Venice panel, 2015

Heller Gallery: Lino Tagliapietra

Lino Tagliapietra, Venice panel, 2015Heller Gallery presents an exhibition by the octogenarian Italian maestro Lino Tagliapietra,  who announced his retirement from the furnace last month.  The exhibition, on view from October 8-November 6, 2021, focuses on prime examples of new and archived works and honors the unprecedented 75 years Tagliapietra, who just celebrated his 87th birthday,  has spent practicing […]

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Frank Stella, Hiraqla Variation II, 1968

Frank Stella: Experiment and Change @nsuartmuseum

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is pleased to present Frank Stella: Experiment and Change, an exhibition that spans the artist’s 60-year career from the late 1950’s to the present. The exhibition, composed of approximately 300 paintings, relief sculpture and drawings will offer insight into his trajectory from minimalism (e.g. the geometry of the black paintings) […]

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Sandra Muss, Portals

Portals by Sandra Muss @kreegermuseum

Portals, a site-specific, permanent installation by artist Sandra Muss will inaugurate the woods portion of the Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden on May 18, 2017. The Kreeger’s expansion of its outdoor exhibition space will afford visitors additional opportunities to experience art in a natural setting. Muss’s installation, which encourages interaction, creates a lyrical environment in the […]

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Alf Lechner

German Sculptor Alf Lechner 1925-2017

Alf Lechner, one of Germany’s most important contemporary sculptors, died suddenly at his home in Bavaria on February 25th, 2017. Lechner was 91 years old. Best known for his massive steel sculptures, Lechner connected steel, space, geometry, physics and architecture. The starting point for his work was geometric shapes such as the circle, square, rectangle […]

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Cosmo Whyte - Golden Kicks (2016), Charcoal and gold leaf on Paper

Jamaica Biennial by the National Gallery of Jamaica

Open to the public from Tuesday, February 28 to Sunday, May 28, 2017, the 2017 Jamaica Biennial is organized by the National Gallery of Jamaica (NGJ), the largest and oldest public art museum in the Anglophone Caribbean. With a focus on Jamaica and Jamaica Diaspora artists with specially invited artists from other Caribbean nations, the […]

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George Platt Lynes

Protected Beauty @WEAM #Miami

The Kinsey Institute and the World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) present “Protected Beauty,” an examination of controversial ideas about masculine beauty and sexuality in art, on view at WEAM in Miami Beach, Florida through March 1st, 2017. Co-curated by Rebecca Fasman, Kinsey Institute manager of traveling exhibitions, and WEAM Director Helmut Schuster, the exhibition features […]

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The Venetian Las Vegas presents LOVE by Laura Kimpton

The Venetian Las Vegas presents LOVE, a larger than life installation in the Waterfall Atrium. Created by celebrated artist Laura Kimpton as part of her Monumental Word Series, the installation, perforated with bird-shaped stamps, spells LOVE in steel Ruby red letters that rise 12 feet tall and collectively span 36 feet across. “The LOVE installation […]

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