'Aphrodite and the Gods of Love'
Boston, 12/29/11 For the first time the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston presents an exhibition exclusively dedicated to Aphrodite and his kingdom. The devotees of the goddess will no longer have to travel to Mount Olympus in Athens or Cyprus temples, to pay homage to the goddess, whose image was the first female nude in Western art history. Boston is closer,...
Antico, master of the Renaissance Bronze
Washington, 12/29/11 Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455–1528), transformed the art of bronze sculpture. His contributions are celebrated in Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, the first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to the Italian sculptor and goldsmith. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the...
Shanghai will house four new museums
Shanghai, China, 12/27/11 The economic capital of the Asian Giant wants to compete with New York and Paris in the cultural scene. If the Metropolitan Museum and the Mussee d'Orsay are reference points in their respective cities, Shanghai aspires to do the same with the future China Art Palace. This new center will be accompanied by the creation of three other museums:...
The 'crisis of the stone' in a remote corner of China
Dangcheng, 12/22/11 Dangcheng, a city of 20,000 inhabitants located 240 km southwest of Beijing, is now a ghost town because of the risks posed by the European crisis for China's exports. A few weeks ago, Reuters agency – in a report edited by Jonathan Buckley Chris Thatcher -published the mutilation of this thriving business, which has been forced to close or...
A narrative in pictures of Japanese tales
New York, 12/19/11 Japan has a long and rich history of pairing narrative texts with elaborate illustrations—a tradition that continues to this day with manga and other popular forms of animation. Featuring more than sixty works of art in a range of mediums and formats, this exhibition invites you to explore myriad subjects that have preoccupied the Japanese...
'Judaism. A World of Stories'
Amsterdam, 12/19/11 With more than 500 objects on display, this exhibition will tell the fascinating story of three thousand years of Jewish religion, culture, art and history, the chronicle of a world religion that takes diverse international forms but has always held onto its identity. The works will come from internationally renowned museums and private...
'The persistence of geometry' at CaixaForum
Madrid, 12/15/11 Throughout the twentieth century, geometry was leading several artistic practices of avant-garde art. The persistence of geometry. Works from the collections of the Fundación "la Caixa" and MACBA is intended to present to the viewer its presence in the art of recent decades –the essential forms, minimalism and geometric intersections of art in...
Transforming the ordinary
Madrid, 12/14/11 After filling with balloons the MARCO Vigo museum a few months ago, the 2001 Turner Prize winner, Martin Creed (Wakefield, 1968), presents in Madrid a new project with a set of murals created for the occasion. Along with these, are some of his best known pieces -such as Work No. 88 A sheet of A4 paper crumpled Into a ball (1995) or the video...
A Tribute to the Great Master of the 'rejected'
Paris, 12/13/11 If 1863 was the year of the scandal with Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Manet – the main character of the " Salon des Refusés " -, this date should also be remembered as the year of death of the great master of that generation of painters: Eugène Delacroix. Henri Fantin-Latour, impressed and excited after visiting the moribund master, and encouraged...
The Borghese collection returns to Rome
Rome, 12/09/11 The Galleria Borghese, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, presents the exhibition I Borghese e l'Antico with the most representative masterpieces of the collection begun by Scipione Borghese, which are now part of the Cabinet of Antiquities at the Louvre. This is the first time in 200 years that these pieces – a total of 60 works which...
Emilio Ambasz. Inventions: Architecture and Design
Madrid, 12/07/11 Integrating nature and architectural designs in a project is the most important goal for Emilio Ambasz. His most important task is to reconcile our "artificial nature with the organic nature granted to us." In short, cast and landscape architecture. The works included in this exhibition confirm his words. Organized by the Reina Sofia Museum to...
Another 'rembrandt' revealed
Amsterdam, 12/05/11 Painted circa 1630, the Portrait of a bearded old man is now on loan from a private collector at Rembrandthuis. The research process, which has reattributed the panel to the Dutch master, is directed by Ernst van de Wetering – Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Amsterdam and head of "Project Rembrandt" - in collaboration...
El Corte Inglés open its own art gallery
Madrid, 12/02/11 El Corte Inglés now has its own art gallery. The most important Spanish deparment store also becames a "great store" of artistic pieces, thanks to the space designed to house contemporary works, organize exhibitions and show the creative process of prints and drawings. Alberto Corazón, 1,980 euros. Blanca Muñoz, 8850 euros. Alberto Bañuelos,...
A visual story of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Madrid, 12/01/11 Founded in 1430 by Felipe el Bueno, duke of Burgundy, to preserve the ideals of chivalry from the threat of impairment, the Order of the Golden Fleece is named after the Greek myth of the fleece gifted by the gods as a source of prosperity. A story That finds its heroic formula in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts, thus becoming a symbol of...