Menil Selects Chef Greg Martin as Owner-Operator of Café Designed by Stern and Bucek Architects; Inaugurates Public Contest to Name Café [1_L][2_R] HOUSTON, TX, October 10, 2013 — The Menil Collection today unveiled the vision for how it will welcome visitors into its 30-acre campus in the heart of Houston, […]
October 10, 2013 – December 8, 2013 Organized by the Norton Museum of Art The exhibition will focus on the recent gift of The Fishermen (1746), a spectacularly beautiful painting of an idyllic Roman campagna scene by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), the leading 18th-century French painter in Rome. One of eight […]
“Joel Besmar – one of the most reflexive, focused and agonized painters of contemporary Cuban art – has made the book a major thematic axis of his current body of work. In fact, it might better be said that this artist has succeeded in making us rediscover the mysterious meaning […]
Lee Waisler is a Los Angeles-based artist who paints arresting portraits of iconic figures using a rich variety of materials. For this exhibition, Waisler presents a global group of individuals from diverse disciplines, eras and origins. Among his subjects are renowned artists, literary giants and Hollywood luminaries such as Frida […]
To commemorate the first anniversary of the artist’s death, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Antoni T àpies. From Object to Sculpture (1964-2009), the first comprehensive, in-depth survey of a fascinating facet of an artist who marked the second half of the 20th century. Sponsored by Iberdrola, the exhibition features nearly […]
NEW YORK – The Armory Show is pleased to announce that Xu Zhen has been chosen as the commissioned artist for the 2014 edition. Xu Zhen, a “chameleon of concept,” has built an extensive body of work that includes video, installation, performance, and photography. From theatrical merry pranks to quieter […]
Synthesizing a thorough understanding of Western modernism and traditional Japanese artistry, ten monumental paintings offer an unabashed glimpse of female figures behind closed doors – ninhibited, disrobed, and mid-gesture. Intermingling silkscreened kimono patterns, sumi calligraphy, rich acrylics, and graphite tracing, an eloquent portrait of hybrid identity emerges which unravels the […]
One of the finest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever created will be displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 1. The rare 15th-century handwritten copy of the Mishneh Torah by the renowned medieval scholar Moses Maimonides will be shown in New York for the first time since it was […]