Ten 'fantasy portraits' by Giandomenico Tiepolo

For the first time, a series of paintings made during the Spanish residence of the Venetian painter, froma a private collection, are shown in Madrid

Madrid, 02/01/12 The headquarters of fundación Juan March in Madrid present an small format exhibition with ten oils by the Venetian painter, which have never been exposed. Giandomenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804) came to Madrid with his brother Lorenzo and his father Giambattista, accompanying the great master after receiving the comittment of painting the dome...
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The Prado's Gioconda, a copy by Leonardo's workshop

Experts have cleaned the black overpaint of the painting and have discovered a landscape similar to the original in the Musée du Louvre

Madrid, 02/01/12 A copy of the Mona Lisa housed in the Prado Museum was made in Leonardo's studio. At least this is the conclusion reached by the experts of the Spanish museum after restoring the work. Apparently, while the Florentine master was giving the finishing touches to his masterpiece, one of his disciples (probably Francesco Melzi) was doing the same...
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New narratives of contemporary art

Fundación "la Caixa" and the MACBA museum presents at Guggenheim Bilbao new fruits of the union agreement of their collections

Bilbao, 02/01/12 Last Monday was presented in Bilbao The inverted mirror: art from the collections of the Fundación "la Caixa" and the MACBA, with the presence of Juan Ignacio Vidarte - director of the Guggenheim Bilbao museum –, Elisa Durán -deputy director of La Caixa Foundation, Bartomeu Marí - director of the MACBA – and the curator, Álvaro Rodríguez...
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An 'Apparent Position' between Science and Art

Paloma Polo (1983) participates in the 'Fisures' program and become one of the youngest artist to exhibit his work at the Museo Reina Sofia

Madrid , 01/31/12 A new work by Paloma Polo is exhibited these days in Madrid, as part of the research project that she has been developing over the expeditions of the colonial era. Apparent position is part of the Eyes of Women Festival (MAV) and is related to the link between scientific knowledge and imperialist expansion that led out of the great European...
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An experimental landscape of the British countryside

The Royal Academy of Art presents the first major exhibition of landscapes by David Hockney

London, 01/27/12 Vivid large paintings inspired by the landscape of East Yorkshire. This is the project that David Hockney has created for the galleries of the Royal Academy of Art, and stars in the exhibition David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, along with drawings and captures that illustrate the creative process of the series. The exhibition, promised long...
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Andy Warhol’s 99 faces

Ibercaja presents a hundred portraits painted by the artist throughout his career which covers the last five decades of his life

Zaragoza, 01/27/12 Image, icon and trademark. These are the premises followed by Andrew Warhola (1928-1987) to build the controversial and transgressive figure that came to dominate the international scene with Pop Art. Obsessed with fame and the star system, he portrayed himself on numerous occasions. However, these paintings do not say much about him. His...
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The academic purism of nineteenth century

The Museo Nacional del Prado temporarily displays a new selection of its funds of the nineteenth century painting

Madrid , 01/26/12 Created to display a rotating collection of works usually unexposed, selected among its extensive collections, the "Presentation Room" - on hall 60 – present these days the exhibition Sacred Stories. The Prado Museum retrieves for the occasion a set of religious paintings made by Spanish painters established in Rome in mid-nineteenth century, a...
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Great expectations on BRAFA'12

The early appointment of the international art market in Europe is renewed for another year with new arguments

Brussels, 01/24/12 The 57th edition of BRAFA (Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair) held this week at Tour & Taxis -the jewel of the city's industrial heritage– holds many surprises for visitors and collectors. Regardless of the latest additions added to the list of over 120 exhibitors from Europe and the United States, the event has met once important pieces of...
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CPhoto Posed/ Non posed

IvoryPress, in its third edition of its collection CPhoto, covers the tension between the author and the photographical subject

Madrid , 01/23/12 The title- Posed/Not posed- reflects the content of the book well, which through the work by 13 artists, shows the tension that always exists between the autjor and his subject. "A relentless tension which remains in time"- stated Elena Foster, founder of IvoryPress and editor of the volume. "Tension between the absolute spontaneity and the...
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A 'valdés leal' visits Seville

The Museum of Fine Arts in Seville temporarily exhibits the canvas 'The Sacrifice of Isaac' by the Sevillian painter

Seville, 01/22/12 Originally in the collections of Villar Mir Cultural Fund, this masterpiece is on display until March 9 as part of the "Guest Piece" program of the museum. The sacrifice of Isaac by Sevillian artist Juan de Valdés Leal (1622-1690), depicts the scene in which, following the will of God, Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son Isaac when he is...
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The 'Pathways to Modernity' from Gerstenmaier collection

Cajastur Cultural Center in Gijón presents a selection of Spanish paintings from the collection of Hans Rudolf Gerstenmaier

Gijón, 01/22/12 The exhibition Paths to Modernity in the collection Gerstenmaier presented these days in Gijón, takes us back to a time marked by the artistic tradition of Spanish painting and the influence of the new echoes that come from Europe in the nineteenth century. This itinerary starts in neoclassical painting with the disciples of Jacques Louis...
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The 'Golden Age' of Catalonian drawing

The exhibition 'Drawing in the Golden Age: Catalonian artists around 1900' opens in Artur Ramon Art gallery

Barcelona, 01/20/12 The gallery presents a selection of 125 drawings by great masters of Catalonian art from 1850-1950, such as Ricard Canals, Isidro Nonell, Ramón Casas, Mariano Fortuny, Manolo Hugué or Santiago Rusiñol, in an exhibition that gives continuity to the project "L'edat d'Or Catalonian painting" which has occupied the rooms of the gallery in...
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Antoni Tàpies. 60's and 70's

The works on view are, for the most part, large in format,  of mixed technique and on different types of support 

Madrid , 01/18/12   10 works by Antoni Tápies comprise the exhibition the gallery Elvira González has dedicated to the artist Antoni Tàpies. They have been carefully selected among the works he executed during the 70's and 60's. They are large format works, of mixed technique and on different supports. This period has been chosen precisely because it marks the...
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El Prado and Telefónica: 'Open 7 days a week'

The telecommunications company renews the agreement with the national museum that will allow for its daily opening starting today

Madrid , 01/17/12 Coinciding with the new opening hours of the museum and the chairmanship of the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, José Ignacio Wert, Telefónica has renewed in Madrid its commitment as a benefactor of the Prado Museum until 2016. The signing ceremony took place in the Cloister of the Jeronimos, with the assistance of Plácido Arango,...
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Francesc Ruiz: 'The Paper Trail'

The Suñol Foundation presents the new graphic journey of the Catalan artist contextualized in Cairo

Barcelona, 01/17/12 ACTE 21: Francesc Ruiz. The Paper Trail is the new work of Francesc Ruiz. A project that uses the comic, the press and its distribution channels and media to draw a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cairo and thinks about the past and the future of the country. The artist explores the political and religious complexity of a country in the months...
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Magritte and the eloquent symbol in Vienna

The Albertina Museum presents a tribute to the artist with the presence of works such as The Murderer Threatened, Secret Player, Eternal evidence or The Empire of Light

Vienna, 01/16/12 Magritte was, primarily, a painter of ideas, a conceptual artist with a grammar of his own with which to build an overwhelming visual poetry. His anti-modern vision of the art methods juxtaposed to the Avantgardes, has given art history many provocative and openly confusing motives during the last century . The objects he painted, always...
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An El Greco Rediscovered

An outlier among Marion Koogler McNay’s collection, El Greco’s 'Head of Christ' was an unusual purchase for a collector focused on modern art

San Antonio, Texas, 01/13/12 More than likely, this acquisition reflects Mrs. McNay’s awareness of works assembled by Marjorie and Duncan Phillips, which became Washington, DC’s famed Phillips Collection. They also acquired an El Greco as their unique old master painting for an otherwise modern collection. Over the years since the McNay opened in 1954, scholarship on the...
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BRAFA'12, a key event in Brussels

From January 21 to 29 in Tour & Taxis, Brussels, will be held the new edition of the early-morning fair of the year

Brussels, 01/12/12 This year the first international event of the art market, BRAFA (Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair), will feature 122 exhibitors from 11 countries reaching an exhibition space of 14,000 m2. Antiquarian galleries of Belgium (54) and France (45) – the main contingent –, Germany (6), Switzerland (4), Britain (4), Spain (2), Italy (2), Monaco...
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The SAM announces the acquisition of a Zurbarán

Two paintings by seventeenth-century European masters have been presented as a representative part of the Baroque painting collection

Seattle, 01/10/12 The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has announced the acquisition of two seventeenth-century paintings destined for its collection of European art. These are The Visitation by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) andThe Flight into Egypt by Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), which was covered in our magazine by Odile Delenda (Ars Magazine, No. 5 ,...
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Guercino in honor of Sir Denis Mahon

The exhibition 'Capolavore di Cento e Roma' in the Palazzo Barberini is dedicated to the memory of the English scholar and collector who died last April

Rome, 01/09/12 The Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico and Polo di Roma Museale inaugurate a new exhibition space in the Palazzo Barberini with a large exhibition devoted to Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (1591-1666), in homage to the art historian Sir Denis Mahon (1910-2011). Curated by Rossella Vodret and Fausto Gozzi, the array consists of a...
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Focus-Abengoa exhibits the selection of works running for its painting prize

There are 34 in total, among the finalists and teh prized artists, which will go on to become part of their Contemporary art collection

Seville , 01/09/12   Of the 586 works which were presented in this XXVII edition, the jury has selected 34, "all of them of great quality and excellent technique", as it was announced in the broadcast. They have gone on to cover the walls of the exhibition hall of the Hospital de los Venerables, in Seville, where the foundation is based. The president, José B....
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Premiére_, a call for life in museums

The gallery Raquel Ponce reeled yesterday, 4th of January, Premiére_, a manifestation of the visitor in the museum space

Madrid , 01/05/12   Three of the four walls of the downtown madrid gallery take the shape of the future Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Córdoba. The bodies of the dancers Inés Pereira and Allan Falieri humanize the space and personalize the arquitecture of the incomplete cultural centre in this groundbreaking projection. Their extremities, bodies and heads...
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The 'bare' lyricism of Edgar Degas

The Museum of Fine Arts offers an overview of the nude human figure in the career of French master

Boston, 01/04/12 The first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the extraordinary range of nudes by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), – tracing their evolution from the artist’s early years, through the private and public images of brothels and bathers in the 1870s and 1880s, to the post-Impressionist nudes of the end of his career – is presented by the Museum of...
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Hannah Collins. 'The fragile feast'

A curious exhibition presented by Ivorypress Art Space, which blends the art of photography with the culinary arts

Madrid, 01/04/12 The idea is distributed in equal parts between the London photographer Hannah Collins and Ferran Adrià, creator of the famous restaurant El Bulli. "When you look at a plate-states to justify it, we look at the composition, techniques, even in the mix of products, but rarely in history behind any of them." And so after choosing 30 highest...
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Klimt & Hoffmann, the Viennese modernism pioneers

The Belvedere opens the schedule of Klimt Year 2012 with the exhibition dedicated to the protagonists of the new century art

Vienna, 01/03/12 With Gustav Klimt / Josef Hoffmann, the Belvedere pays tribute to two pioneers of Modernism in a comprehensive exhibition that simultaneously introduces the Klimt Year 2012. The painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and the architect and product and interior designer Josef Hoffmann shared a common vision of an art that was meant to touch all spheres...
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'Missing' on the edge of the museum

The MARCO museum in Vigo introduces the new Amaya González Reyes proposal for the project 'Enter the work'

Vigo, 01/02/12 Amaya González Reyes (Sanxenxo, 1979) is responsible for the fifth proposal of MARCO Vigo in the Enter the work cycle, which has been developing for several months with the previous involvement of Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Wilfredo Prieto, Rubén Grilo and Karmelo Bermejo. Under this statement, taken from the work of Giovanni Anselmo, the museum...
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Antico, master of the Renaissance Bronze

Bronze Renaissance Sculpture Goes on View at National Gallery of Art in Washington

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...
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'Aphrodite and the Gods of Love'

Dedicated to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, the exhibition present 160 works, some of them on loan for the first time

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,...
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Shanghai will house four new museums

The city will use the infrastructure of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai to build a herietage center which aspires to comepete with the Met

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:...
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The 'crisis of the stone' in a remote corner of China

The sculpture workshops that supply the demand of Europe and EE.UU. suffer the consequences of the crisis in the euro area

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...
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A narrative in pictures of Japanese tales

The Metmuseum presents an exhibition on the emaki in classic japanese literature

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...
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'Judaism. A World of Stories'

De Nieuwe Kerk and the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present an exhibition about Judaism

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...
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'The persistence of geometry' at CaixaForum

An exhibition on the use of geometry in sculpture in the collections of the Fundación "la Caixa" and the MACBA museum

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...
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Transforming the ordinary

Sala Alcalá 31 of Comunidad Madrid organizes the first great individual exhibition in Spain of British artist Martin Creed

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...
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A Tribute to the Great Master of the 'rejected'

The Musée national Eugène Delacroix recalls the pictorial manifest by Henri Fantin-Latour in honor of the deceased great master

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...
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The Borghese collection returns to Rome

The exhibition 'I Borghese e l'Antico' returns, for four months, 60 masterpieces of classical sculpture to its historical location

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...
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Emilio Ambasz. Inventions: Architecture and Design

The architect has been recognized as a pioneer of 'Green Architecture' for his designs of hospitals, skyscrapers, houses and offices 

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...
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