From 12 November 2016 to 13 March 2017 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition My Weapon against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. TANCREDI. A Retrospective This is a long-awaited return to Venice and to Peggy Guggenheim’s museum of Tancredi Parmeggiani (1926-1964), among the most original and passionate Italian painters of third […]
OTTAWA, Sept. 1, 2016 /CNW/ – Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), is widely regarded as the best portrait painter of the eighteenth century and among the most important of all women artists, for her masterful use of colour and her new approach to portraiture. Despite her artistic achievements, she is only now getting her […]
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most acclaimed artists working today. Since the 1950s, she has created art that is as personal as it is universal. Like few other artists she moves freely between painting, sculpture and installations, between art and design, and between East and West. In summer 2016, Moderna Museet and ArkDes are […]
Six finalists have been selected for the Hugo Boss Prize 2016, the biennial award established in 1996 to recognize artists whose work is among the most innovative and influential of our time. Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and chair of the jury, today announced the […]
Works by the celebrated British artist Anish Kapoor will go on show in the Gallery of Honour at the Rijksmuseum from 27 November 2015 to 6 March 2016. The three painted reliefs created from layers of red and white resin and silicone evoke images of bloody, sinewy lumps of meat. At the Rijksmuseum these extraodinary […]
The Carinthian painter Hans Bischoffshausen, born in Feld am See in 1927, was one of the leading representatives of the Austrian post-war avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. His exhibitions in Venice, Milan, and Paris permitted Bischoffshausen to gain first experiences with the ZERO movement and monochrome painting. Along the lines of ZERO art’s purism, his initially gloomy, material-based […]
Thanks to Fabrizio Moretti and David Zwirner gallery, Jeff Koons arrives in Florence, for a meeting between Florentine Renaissance spaces and works and the artistic protagonists of our time. From 26 September – 28 December 2015 two works of art by Jeff Koons are exhibited in Palazzo Vecchio. Pluto and Proserpina on the Arengario of […]
Edvard Munch. Archetypes 06.10.2015 – 17.01.2016 The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is hosting Edvard Munch. Archetypes, the first exhibition to be held on the Norwegian artist in Madrid since 1984. Organised with the generous collaboration of the Munch-Museet in Oslo, the show brings together a selection of eighty works by the artist, who is hailed today as […]
Dedicated to Mina Gregori, the exhibition is curated by Sandro Bellesi and Anna Bisceglia, who also edited the richly illustrated catalogue published by Sillabe with contributions from illustrious students of Florentine 17th century painting. Thanks to this scholarship, much of which explores areas of Dolci’s art overlooked until now, it has been possible to reconstruct […]
Piero di Cosimo 1462 – 1522 An eccentric “Florentine” painter from the Renaissance to the Modern Manner Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy 23 June – 27 September 2015 The credit must go to Serena Padovani, a former director of the Galleria Palatina in Florence, for first suggesting that an exhibition be devoted to the work […]
BARCELONA, April 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — The Museum of Illusions, which has gained popularity and the love of the residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg, is expanding across Europe! The new museum in Barcelona offers visitors the opportunity to not only admire the paintings of Picasso, Dali and Goya, but also to become a part of the famous paintings. Ride aboard the […]
Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan design receives 2011 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence Design for Saskatoon’s New Gallery by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects in association with Smith Carter Architects and Engineers wins prestigious national architecture award TORONTO, Dec. 16, 2011 /CNW/ – With the announcement of a 2011 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, the […]