Rebecca Brewer Of Vancouver Wins National Prize In 13th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition $55,000 in total awarded to emerging Canadian artists EDMONTON, Sept. 28, 2011 /CNW/ – RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, has named Vancouver artist Rebecca Brewer the national winner of the 13th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Rebecca […]
Riccardo Baruzzi: Zugzwang
Fabio Tiboni / Sponda
23 September 2011 – 12 November 2011
Fabio Tiboni / Sponda is pleased to announce the first solo gallery show of the young Italian painter Riccardo Baruzzi.
Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting
Denver Art Museum
30 October, 2011 – 29 January, 2012
Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting, the first exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the 20th century artist who is widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting, opens October 30 at the Denver Art Museum (DAM).
Rodin: Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
3 Oct., 2011 – 3 June 3, 2012
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was arguably the most celebrated sculptor of the 19th century, and his innovative modeling technique and unconventional subject matter earned him praise as the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo. More than 40 of his powerful bronze sculptures will be exhibited in the Bloch Lobby from Oct. 1, 2011 through June 3, 2012 in Rodin: Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. Avid Rodin collectors, B. Gerald and Iris Cantor amassed more than 750 bronzes, marbles, plasters, prints, drawings and ephemera by and about the artist over the years. Their foundation includes among its aims the promotion, understanding and appreciation of Rodin’s achievements.
CLOUD STUDIES – The Scientific View of the Sky
Fotomuseum Winterthur
26.11.2011-12.02.2012
The English pharmacist and meteorologist Luke Howard wrote in 1802 in the preface to his manuscript On the Modification of Clouds: “Clouds are subject to certain distinct modifications, produced by the general causes which affect all the variations of the atmosphere; they are commonly as good visible indicators of the operation of these causes, as is the countenance of the state of a person’s mind or body.”
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Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo)
24 September – 26 December, 2011
MAMbo is proud to announce, starting September 24th, the exhibition-event Arte Povera 2011, curated by Germano Celant, which will involve several leading Italian institutions and museums between September 2011 and April 2012: MAMbo, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Turin), Triennale (Milan), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome), MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (Naples), GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Bergamo), Teatro Margherita (Bari).
Jill Mathis
Maison de la Culture, Palais Royal, Rabat
5 October – 5 November 2011
On Wednesday, October 5th, the Centro Culturale TERESA ORSOLA BUSSA DE ROSSI (Résidence des Artistes – Kalaa Kebira – Tunis) will show in the MAISON DE LA CULTURE (Palais Royal – Rabat – Maroc) the photographic corpus of the american photographer JILL MATHIS, curated by Leonida Kovač and Roberto Mastroianni (from October 5 th to November 5 th 2011).
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Mines and Mills – Industrial Landscapes
Fotomuseum Winterthur
26.11.2011-12.02.2012
For more than forty years, the photographer couple Bernd und Hilla Becher (*1931-2007/*1934) worked on creating an inventory of industrial architecture. Warehouses, shaft towers, gas tanks, blast furnaces as well as half-timbered houses are among the subjects they photographed throughout Germany, England, France, Central Europe, and the USA.
Haddon Hufford: Silversmith
Missoula Art Museum
November 4 – April 15, 2011
Missoula Art Museum is pleased to present Haddon Hufford: Silversmith. Haddon Hufford is a master silversmith practicing his craft near Frenchtown, MT. Though he has lived in the Missoula Valley since 2006, the Missoula Art Museum was unaware of this inimitable craftsman working within close proximity until Hufford submitted to the Montana Triennial in 2009.
Shozo Shimamoto. Artworks 1950-2011. East and West
Palazzo Magnani
25 september 2011 – 8 january 2012
The exhibition Shozo Shimamoto. Artworks 1950-2011. East and West, promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani aims to document the artistic career of the master, from first innovative experiments of the forties and fifties, to the performance of recent years, investigating the notion of physical movement in space in which the artist moves poetically patrolling places. The exhibition is the first and only major retrospective dedicated to Italy Shimamoto.
New Photography Book by Mariana Cook STONE WALLS: Personal Boundaries Celebrates Stone Walls from Around the World NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A new photography book Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries (Damiani, $50, 192 pages, ISBN 978-88-6208-169-6) by artist Mariana Cook examines in stunning detail one of man’s earliest and most enduring methods of […]
Ansel Adams: A Legacy
Missoula Art Museum
October 7, 2011 – April 15, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is proud to host a definitive exhibition by one of America’s most legendary photographers. The exhibition Ansel Adams: A Legacy consists of over 130 gelatin silver prints by the artist whom many consider an American master.