WHEN: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:00am: Media check-in and refreshments 10:30am: Remarks by newly appointed MOCA Director Philippe Vergne MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson Exhibition curator and former Director, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Ann Goldstein Executive Director, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Mary Clare Stevens 11:00am-1:00pm Exhibition preview, photography and interviews WHERE: The Geffen Contemporary […]
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The State Museum of Pennsylvania will open the special exhibit “A Fondness for Birds: Pennsylvania’s Alexander Wilson,” to the public on Friday, May 16, 2014. Hailed as the first artist-writer to scientifically capture and document American birds from life in naturalistic poses, Wilson’s published work preceded John James […]
ATLANTA, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen is getting ready for the return to Le Mans with a comprehensive special exhibition from March 26 to July 13, 2014. Porsche is taking a look back, not only to its multiple previous successes at the French endurance race, but to the present-day Le Mans […]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — A selection of 72 stunning artworks drawn from the collections of the Asian Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) challenges visitors to confront the extremes and the ambiguities of beauty in the special exhibition Gorgeous. On view June 20 through Sept. 14, 2014, at […]
LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Saatchi Art today officially announced Jonathan Gabb as the winner of its “In Glorious Colour” Showdown competition, presented in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery and Winsor & Newton. The prize, which attracted a record-breaking 6,440 entries in a period of just 12 days, is the most highly-submitted art prize […]
TORONTO, March 19, 2014 /CNW/ – The tortured British painter Francis Bacon, whose triptych recently set a new record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, makes his Canadian debut this spring at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) alongside rarely-seen works by the British sculptor Henry Moore in the exhibition Francis Bacon & Henry […]
LOS ANGELES, March 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Saatchi Art today announced a new group exhibition, “Continental Shift: Emerging Artists From Saatchi Art,” which will open at the Saatchi Gallery in London in April. This is the first show for Saatchi Art at the Saatchi Gallery, and is part of the online gallery’s off-line approach to connecting […]
— No Country: Contemporary Art For South And Southeast Asia Curated By Singaporean June Yap NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — From May 10 to July 20, 2014, Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), a national research center of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), will host the exhibition No Country: Contemporary Art […]
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield, c. 1656, an exceptional work by one of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Jacob van Ruisdael. As the leading exponent of the Dutch landscape tradition in the 17th century, Ruisdael […]
LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Annenberg Space for Photography today announced its next exhibition, Country: Portraits of an American Sound. This exhibit presents images of the pioneers, poets and icons of country music, and will be offered free to the public May 31 through September 28, 2014. Guest curators for this exhibit are Shannon […]
VENICE, Calif., March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — This exhibit brings together artists who have been involved in, or influenced by, the Venice beach art scene from the 1950s through today. James Evans and Daniel Samakov of James’ Beach are thrilled to host this fundraising event to benefit A Window Between Worlds (AWBW), a Venice-based nonprofit arts […]
VANCOUVER, Feb. 26, 2014 /CNW/ – Chali-Rosso Art Gallery announces the debut of “Definitely Dalí”, which will open Friday, March 7, 2014 to the public and run through May, 12, 2014. Salvador Dalí was one of the most iconic artists of the twentieth century, with a range of imaginative, striking surrealist works. Dalí is known […]
