MONTREAL, May 8, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – The MURAL international public art festival and the Société de développement du boulevard Saint-Laurent (SDBSL) unveiled today at a press conference the official line-up for the 2014 event, taking place June 12 to 15 on Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal. “The festivities take place in a pedestrian zone that […]
From 11 June to 14 September 2014, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici presents the group exhibition Painting or how to get rid of it, curated by Éric de Chassey. The exhibition brings together the works of four artists of different nationalities: Italian Fabio Mauri and American Marcia Hafif – who lived and […]
NEW YORK, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Other Criteria, the arts-based publishing company founded by Damien Hirst, opened its first retail location in the US yesterday. Kicking off New York’s contemporary art week, the company announced robust business at its latest location on first day sales.The company confirmed that on opening day, it had sold […]
BIELEFELD, Germany, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — On 7 June 2014, the doors will open for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. As this year’s curator, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has selected the key theme of “Absorbing Modernity: 1914 – 2014” for the national pavilions. Germany’s contribution has been designed by Zürich-based architect duo […]
Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna will be presenting the first solo exhibition in Italy of Nick van Woert, one of the most original American voices in contemporary art today. The exhibition, which will be inaugurated on 29th May and opens on the 30th, will run until 7th September and is curated by Gianfranco Maraniello. It […]
This summer (14 June – 21 September 2014) is showing a selection from the collection of Chinese contemporary art amassed by Henk de Heus and his wife Victoria de Heus-Zomer. The couple have been travelling to China regularly since the late nineteen-nineties, buying work by leading artists. This important private collection of contemporary Chinese art […]
GLOUCESTER, Mass., May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Trident Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of exceptional and historically important oil and watercolor paintings from the estate of Zygmund Jankowski (1925-2009). Jankowski was a dedicated and innovative painter, a colorful and generous personality, and a loved and respected teacher on Cape Ann from the 1970s till […]
René Magritte, the playful and provocative Belgian Surrealist who set out to create works that would “challenge the real world” by making “everyday objects shriek out loud,” is the focus of a major exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago: Magritte, The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938. The show opens June 25, 2014 and runs […]
The Cartoon Art Museum’s latest exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This retrospective will be on display at the museum from May 3 through September 14, 2014, and will feature the original artwork from the entire first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, published by creators Kevin Eastman and Peter […]
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Goethe Institute in Moscow and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) in Stuttgart are honored to present “The Paths of German Art from 1949 to the present”, a unique exhibition project comprising painting, graphic art, photography, sculpture and installation. There are about 400 works of nearly a […]
Gagosian Rome is pleased to present Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia. This is the renowned photographer’s first major exhibition in Rome.
The Greek term scopophilia literally means “love of looking,” but also refers to the erotic pleasure derived from gazing at images of the body. Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia is both a slide-show and an ongoing photographic series, begun in 2010 when she was given private access to the Louvre Museum every Tuesday. During these privileged sojourns, she wandered and photographed freely throughout the museum’s renowned collections of painting and sculpture.
SESTO SAN GIOVANNI, Italy, April 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Campari presents the new Art Labels limited edition, a modern reinterpretation of a number of works by Fortunato Depero, one of the most representative artists of the Futurist movement who had a long association with Campari. Three collectible labels are the protagonists of the Campari limited edition […]