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“Hand of God” at The State Hermitage Museum
“Hand of God” is the name of Lorenzo Quinn’s sculpture that was selected to be exhibited at The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is a 4 meters long and 400 kg piece, cast in aluminum from a mould using the sand cast process. It forms part of part of a worldwide program …
MOCA breaks exhibition attendance record
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles reached a new assistance record this week with the exhibition “Art in the Streets”. After 32 years of existence, the Californian space achieved 201,352 visitors from April 17–August 8, 2011, marking the highest exhibition attendance in the museum’s history. Previous attendance records were set with the museum’s …
Lights in arts festivals in Slovenia
In cooperation with Light Art Biennial from Austria, Ptuj will host light objects by artists such as Manfred Kielnhofer and Alexandre Marucci. The Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi is the special guest of the event, who will exhibit her light drawings.
The activity will take part of the 9th International Festival of Contemporary Art, Art Stays 2011, …
1024 Architecture in Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian arts event that already has three editions, VideoAtaq, has a pocket edition or a ‘petit édition’, as it goes in French, this July 26th, which will bring to Rio de Janeiro the French duo 1024 Architecture.
This company was created by Pierre Schneider and Francois Wunschel with the desire to make images, sounds and …
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork.
This exhibition will present thirteen paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by …
Bang! Bang! Exhibition
Bad guys, gangsters, intrigue, easy money, dead bodies, murder weapons… Bang! Bang!
Crime, usually approached in terms of narratives, occupies an ever-increasing role as the subject matter of popular culture and political discourse. Its escalating presence in books, movies, newspapers, tabloids, television programming and politician’s speeches clearly shows that crime is more than ever a bestseller.
To …
Performance returns to MoMA
Musicians, performance-art scholars, sound artists, filmmakers, writers, and friends, are some of the guests of the New York-based artist collective Grand Openings in the performance they are presenting at MoMA since July 20th. It is a multifaceted live program that relates to the history of performance art in general as well as MoMA’s particular institutional …
Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions
The exhibition Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions investigates how a number of significant contemporary artists working with film and video have been affected by, and redeploy in their own practices, cinematic strategies found in the work of major 20th-century filmmakers.
Many of the works in Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions analyze the manner in which meaning, narrative, …
“Wanna See My Portfolio?”
Duane Michals Rene Magritte in Bowler Hat (Multiple Exposure), 1965
“Wanna See My Portfolio?” plays with the phrase commonly heard by museum and gallery professionals from aspiring artists. The exhibition, however, consists of six portfolios produced by some of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century: Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Robert …
At the Water’s Edge
From baptisms to beach getaways, the water’s edge is a site for transformations. With this threshold as its inspiration, Robert Mann Gallery’s summer exhibition “At the Water’s Edge” includes both historical and contemporary images engaged with those recurrent summer traditions of flocking to the water, either manmade or natural, for a much needed respite. It …