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Three visitors look at the sculpture titled, Figures del Davallament de Santa Maria de Tauell, displayed in the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC in Spanish), in Barcelona, central Spain. Santa Maria de Tauell is one of the Romanesque churches in the Boi Valley, which received the UNESCO World Heritage designation in 2000. EPA/MARTA PEREZ.
BARCELONA.- The MNAC's collection of Romanesque art has reopened with a new museographic discourse which as well as the mural painting showcases other remarkable techniques in Catalan Romanesque, such as painted panels and wood carvings, as well as highlighting precious metalwork and monumental sculpture. The new presentation also incorporates aspects to explain the origins of the collection and the technique for removing mural painting. Its interpretation also brings up to date the contributions made over the last 15 years thanks to research here in the Museum and by researchers in the academic world in general. This exhibition is part of a partnership with the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, taking advantage of the refurbishing work in the Romanesque Art permanent exhibition rooms, which were closed from 15 November 2010 to the beginning of summer 2011. It consists of a selection of about 60 works from the MNAC's collection chose ... More |
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The Van Herck Collection: Terracottas from the 17th and 18th Century at the Bonnefantenmuseum
Michael Rysbrack (1684 – 1770), Self-portrait (detail), terracotta, 60,5 x 50 x 26 cm. Circa 1730. Photo: King Boudewijn Foundation, coll. Charles Van Herck, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium, © P. de Formanoir.
MAASTRICHT.- There are over 50 terracotta statues on display in the exhibition The Van Herck collection - Terracottas from the 17th and 18th century in the Bonnefantenmuseum. The statues were part of the impressive collection of the Antwerp art connoisseur and collector Charles Van Herck (1884 – 1955). A small selection of his collection, which his relatives placed in the custody of the King Boudewijn Foundation in Brussels, is usually on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. As the museum is currently undergoing renovation, this summer the Bonnefantenmuseum is exhibiting a larger selection from this collection and making it accessible once again to a wide public. The exhibition is on view from July 3 through October 9 2011. Charles Van Herck came from a family of antique dealers, and on graduating as an architect from the Royal Academy ... More | | First Large-Scale U.S. Exhibition of Helmut Newton's Work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Helmut Newton, Here They Come II, Paris. From the series Big Nudes, 1981 (detail), chromogenic print. Collection of the Estate of Helmut Newton © Estate of Helmut Newton.
HOUSTON, TX (AP).- An exhibit of works by world-renowned fashion photographer Helmut Newton opening Sunday in Houston includes all of the photographs from his first three books. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston said in a news release that "Helmut Newton: White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes" is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of Newton's work. The exhibit takes its name from the titles of the first three books: "White Women" from 1976, "Sleepless Nights" from 1978 and "Big Nudes" from 1982. More than 200 photographs from the books will be on display through Sept. 25. The prints that will be displayed were made specifically for the exhibit. They're large-scale, with some as big as 8 by 8 feet. "Helmut Newton's images moved beyond the accepted standard of how females could be portrayed, and many women found their own sexuality empowered by his work," Anne Tucker, the museum's photography curator, said in a statement. "His ... More | | Museum Explores Relationship Between Two Iconic Painting Series by Monet and Lichtenstein
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, Façade, 1894. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection. Photo: © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- Claude Monet (1840–1926) painted 30 views of Rouen Cathedral from 1892 to 1895, captured at different times of the day and from various vantage points. Some 75 years later, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) approached the same subject with a fresh eye, one that reflected the bold and graphic sensibilities of another innovative style—pop art. These two visions confront each other in Monet / Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals, which opens to the public on Sunday, July 3, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition features 10 canvases—five of Monet’s Rouen Cathedral images from 1893–94 and Lichtenstein’s five-panel interpretation of the subject from 1969—in an exploration of the relationship between these two iconic series. The exhibition is on view July 3 through September 25 in the Lee Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and from ... More |
Exhibition of Recent Photographs by Roe Ethridge at Gagosian in Beverly Hills
Roe Ethridge, Red Bag with Polaroid 16, 2008-2011. C-print, 67 x 50 in. Photo: Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent photographs by Roe Ethridge. The diverse and sometimes abstruse nature of Ethridge’s imagery -- vintage movie posters, fashion models, a pink rose, a mop bucket, a concrete mixer -- originates from his direct experience of the world, which oscillates between the spontaneous and the staged with such subtlety that it is often difficult to ascertain his elected approach with regard to individual images. His oeuvre melds conceptual photography with commercial work, including out-takes from his own shoots and borrowed images already in circulation in other contexts. With this democratic attitude, Ethridge works to capture the vivid and intimate details of his shifting locales within photography’s classic genres of portrait, landscape, and still life. In this exhibition, he juxtaposes polished photographs of posed models, such as Marloes Horst (2010) a ... More | | 303 Gallery Presents a Group Exhibition "The Art of Climbing Mountains"
Adrian Ghenie, Self-Portrait (Pie Fight Study), 2011. Oil on canvas, 26 x 22 inches. Signed on verso. Photo: Courtesy 303 Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery presents "The Art of Climbing Mountains," a group exhibition inspired by an excerpt of René Daumal's " Mount Analogue" published in 1952. The works in this exhibition investigate a variety of positions and possibilities addressing the challenges of life and the way in which one addresses these challenges - surreal, metaphorical and otherwise. Daumal, the French Surrealist writer, was known for his allegorical novels and translations of sacred Buddhist texts. On view from June 29 through July 29, 2011."Shading Monument for an Artist," 2001-2011, by Cevdet Erek, works with migratory nature of the contemporary art community that moves individuals away from their homes in order to participate. Erek's sculpture comes out of the wall and functions as an awning. The awning is cut in a way that its shade reads as an adapted text from monuments for International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War built arou ... More | | Two Great Visionaries of Art and Language: Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac at the Hammer Museum
Ed Ruscha poses for a portrait at his Venice, Calif. studio. AP Photo/Hammer Museum, Gary Regester.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer the Hammer Museum presents Ed Ruscha: On the Road, on view through October 2, 2011. This exhibition, organized by Hammer chief curator Douglas Fogle, brings together two great visionaries of art and language - Ed Ruscha and Jack Kerouac. Both men revolutionized the transparent use of words to document and comment on the shifting character of the American cultural landscape. In 1951, Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the U.S. and Mexico in the late 1940s. With its publication in 1957, Kerouac was acknowledged as the leading voice of the Beat Generation, a group of writers that included Alan Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Over the last few years Ed Ruscha has continued to explore his own fascination with the shifting emblems of American life by turning his keen aesthetic sensi ... More |
Experience Berlin's Most Innovative Exhibition, The Landmark Humboldt Box
The Company Megaposter GmbH commissioned the Architect Office KSV Krueger Schuberth Vandreike with the project ‘Humboldt-Box’.
BERLIN.- Right here, in the heart of Berlin on the Museum Island, with view on the cathedral and the ‘Lustgarten’, the world of the Humboldt-Box awaits you with a vision of the future along with a highly interesting function. Until the completion of the future project ‘Humboldt-Forum’, the Humboldt-Box as a complete piece of art takes on the responsibility to trigger a certain curiosity in and extensively inform Berlin’s general public and visitors from all parts of the world about the contents of the planned Humboldt-Forum and the design of the palace site as well as the building project as such. With an area of 3,000 square meters and a height of 28 meters with five extraordinary floors, this architectural solitaire embodies an impressive focal point, an information forum, an exhibition area, an observation platform as well as a first-class event location all in one and all in the spirit of the ... More | | Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare 13th Century Chinese Carved Lacquer Box
Round box with decoration of two birds and peonies, China, late Southern Song to early Yuan dynasty, late 13th century. Carved lacquer;d: 40 cm x h: 20 cm.
CLEVELAND, OH.- A late 13th-century Chinese carved lacquer box, one of the most significant and exquisite examples of its type, has been approved by the Collections Committee of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. The Chinese lacquer box further enhances the museum’s renowned Asian art collection, as the museum moves toward the completion of its transformational building expansion and Asian collection reinstallation which will be completed in 2013. Adding such a rare object to the collection will allow scholars to develop new interpretations of the artistic achievements of Chinese culture. The Round Box with Decoration of Two Birds and Peonies is of great art-historical significance since it offers new insights into the development of early Chinese carved lacquer. This lacquer box is unique in combining both naturalistic and abstract approaches to the decoration of carved lacquer, incorporating a ge ... More | | National Park Service Reveals Architectural Drawings of First Phase of Flight 93 Memorial
A view of the first phase of the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa. AP Photo/ National Parks Service, Aleksander (Olek) Novak-Zemplinski,
SHANKSVILLE, PA (AP).- The National Park Service on Monday released new architectural drawings of the first phase of the Flight 93 memorial, which is to be dedicated in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks this fall. One rendering shows a pair of white marble walls framing a ceremonial gateway that provides an entrance to a walkway tracing the path the airplane followed before crashing into the rural field. The other shows a separate memorial gateway — an open-air, concrete structure. A smaller glass enclosure will help provide shelter during bad weather. Only relatives of the 40 passengers and crew who died will be allowed to enter the actual crash site, but the public will be able to view it. There will be 40 vertical marble slabs along one side of the flight path walkway, each with a name of one of the victims on it. The Families of Flight 93 say about $50 million in public and private money has been ... More |
New Jersey Fossil Dig Endangered by Low Cost Housing and Retail Development Plan
Jason Schein, Assistant Curator of Natural History, New Jersey State Museum, shows a fossil of the belly plate of an ancient sea turtle. REUTERS/Tom Mihalek.
By: Ronda Kaysen
MANTUA TOWNSHIP (REUTERS).- Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara is looking deep in a New Jersey silt mine for the exact moment, 65 million years ago, when all dinosaurs perished. That secret could be harder to uncover if the fossils here can no longer be unearthed after a housing and retail development is built on this open pit. Lacovara, an associate professor of biology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, looks at this 40-foot deep hole at the end of a dirt road and sees a line in the sand where the Cretaceous period begins and ends. Below that line are dinosaurs, above it, not a single one. He thinks that the creatures his team has been uncovering here all died en masse when a meteor struck the earth and changed the course of geologic history. If his theory proves correct, it would be the only burial ground of its kind and provide scientists with a living laboratory to study how the dinosaurs became extinct. New Jersey is the birthplace of dinosaur paleontolog ... More | | 50 Years of Women's Lithographs from Tamarind Exhibited by the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Ynez Johnston, Untitled (The Black Pagoda III), 1966. Lithograph, 30 x 22 in. Credit: University of New Mexico Art Museum. Image courtesy of Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Women's Lithographs from Tamarind brings together extraordinary works of art by women who, over the past 50 years, have helped re-energize and re-organize the artistic medium of lithography. Featuring 75 original prints by 42 artists, Pressing Ideas celebrates the diversity, innovation and collaborative nature of lithography. The exhibition is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts June 17, 2011, through October 2, 2011. The Tamarind Institute, founded by artist June Wayne in 1960, has revived the art of lithography, which had lain dormant (particularly in the United States) for decades. Challenged to work outside their preferred mediums, artists work collaboratively with master printers during their stay at the Institute. Most artists invited to Tamarind have been well established in their careers such as, Elaine de Kooning, Louise Nevelson, Margo Humphrey, Jaune Qui ... More | | Exclusive Costume Exhibition from Oscar Award-Winning Films Opens at the Ulster Museum
Kim Mawhinney, Head of Art at National Museums Northern Ireland, puts the finishing touches to a display featuring a costume worn by Minne Driver in the film Phantom of the Opera.
BELFAST.- A touch of good old-fashioned Hollywood glamour descended on the Ulster Museum this summer, when an exclusive costume exhibition opened Friday. The fashion exhibition, entitled STARSTRUCK, features 50 of the world’s most filmed and photographed costumes worn by famous stars of television and the big screen. Spectacular highlights include many of the costumes from BAFTA and Oscar award-winning films and television dramas such as The King’s Speech, Downton Abbey, Shakespeare in Love, The Duchess, Evita and Dangerous Liaisons. The dazzling costumes on display were worn by international film stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Mirren, Daniel Craig, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and Tom Cruise. Kim Mawhinney, Head of Art for National Museums Northern Ireland, said: “The star quality of the clothes cannot be underestimated. Costume plays a critical role in the success of any period drama or film. ... More |
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 New York's Fort Ticonderoga Shows Off Its Artistic Side TICONDEROGA, NY (AP).- Plenty of cannon, muskets, bayonets, swords and other 18th-century military hardware are on display at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York. Officials claim to have one of the most extensive collections of military artifacts from the 1700s, rivaling those at the Smithsonian Institution and the Tower of London. But there's more to see this summer and early fall at the historic site on Lake Champlain than relics from the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. The fort's extensive art collection is getting equal billing with the weaponry on display. For the first time since the fort was rebuilt as a tourist attraction 102 years ago, 50 of Fort Ticonderoga's most important artworks are on display in a single exhibit. They include a painting by Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, engraved powder horns circa 1759, and a portrait of George Washington by Charles Peale Polk. "You don't have to go ... More Harn Museum of Art Presents First Retrospective of Jerry Uelsmann's WorkGAINESVILLE, FL.- The first critical retrospective of American photographer Jerry Uelsmann’s work opened at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida on June 14, 2011. Uelsmann, known for his iconic, surreal style and his innovative composite printing techniques, has spent more than 50 years challenging and advocating for the acceptance of photography as an experimental art form. The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts features 89 works from every phase of the artist’s wide-ranging career, including a selection of rare pieces that have never before been on public view. Additional works from the artist’s collection are on view only during this leg of the exhibition, open through September 11, 2011. “The Harn Museum of Art is delighted to welcome this important exhibition of photographic works by the University ... More Smithsonian Folklife Festival Opens on Mall in DCBy: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Artists from remote sections of Colombia, Peace Corps volunteers and performers sharing the history of rhythm and blues music opened the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall on Thursday. The free festival, which often draws more than a million visitors each year, runs through July 4 and again July 6-11. Each day includes performances and demonstrations on the mall, as well as evening concerts. To present the many facets of Colombia, more than 100 artists and performers traveled to Washington. Colombian Ambassador Gabriel Silva Lujan called it a "dream come true" for them to present their arts, culture and food in the U.S. capital. "They came from very, very far. Many of them had to travel days through rivers, jungles, plains, deserts to be here," ... More Cranbrook Academy of Art Artists Sweep Kresge AwardsBLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- Three celebrated members of the Academy's faculty and three Detroit Metro-based alumni of the Academy each received a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from The Kresge Foundation. The Academy's Head of Photography, Liz Cohen; Head of Sculpture, Heather McGill; and Head of Fiber, Mark Newport (all residents of Bloomfield Hills) join a class of 12 Kresge fellows that also includes Academy alumni Corrie Baldauf (Fiber '09), Laith Karmo (Ceramics '06, West Bloomfield resident), and Gina Reichert (Architecture '03). The Kresge grants are designed to reward artistic excellence, nurture metro Detroit's artists, and raise public awareness of the artistic talent in the city. This sweep by six Academy artists of these prestigious awards, which rank among the country's most lucrative -- $25,000 apiece, no strings attached -- further recognizes the enormous depth of talent and creativity of Cranbrook's artists. The Troy-based Kresge foundation received more than 450 appli ... MoreQueensland Art Gallery Presents a Major Exhibition of Contemporary Torres Strait QUEENSLAND.- Elaborate dance machines and headdresses, an intricate six-metre long linocut and a tall sail emblazoned with totemic symbols are among the diverse artworks that will make up the largest ever exhibition of contemporary art from the Torres Strait Islands, is on view at the Gallery of Modern Art from July 1 until October 9. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Land, Sea and Sky: Contemporary Art of the Torres Strait Islands’ would form part of the South Bank Cultural Centre’s major collaborative project The Torres Strait Islands: A Celebration, being launched on July 2. Mr Ellwood said ‘Land, Sea and Sky’ spanned GoMA’s Level 3 galleries, and included over 200 works by more than 40 artists including painting, drawing, weaving, dance objects, prints, film, video, textiles, ceramics and installations from the Queensland Art Gallery’s collection, as well as major new com ... More Soul Train Items Donated to National Museum of African American History and CultureWASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired a variety of set props and artifacts from the legendary Soul Train franchise. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Soul Train has donated a collection of iconic signs to be displayed in the museum’s music and popular culture exhibitions when it opens to the public in 2015. Throughout its rich history, spanning from 1971 to 2006, Soul Train featured performances by the most recognized names in R&B, soul and hip-hop. The show’s legacy also includes an important cross-cultural influence on American music, fashion and dance trends. The museum’s acquisition includes several iconic objects: two 10-feet-wide neon signs used on the series between 1993 and 2006—one featuring the program’s signature dancing Soul Train and the other displaying the television show’s name. Also in the collection i ... More |
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