Edward Kienholz’s Renowned Installation Roxys, 1960-61 at David Zwirner
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Edward Kienholz’s (1927-1994) renowned installation Roxys, 1960-61. First exhibited at Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery in 1962, this significant large-scale assemblage...
View ArticleBen Johnson Begins to Complete One of His Paintings in Public at the National...
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artist Ben Johnson to display his work in an...
View ArticleThomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman in Exhibition at the San Diego...
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The portraits of notorious society women painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) are considered among the greatest portraits of the Western tradition. Thomas Gainsborough and the...
View ArticleGeorge Bellows and the Ashcan Painters at the National Gallery
LONDON.- The National Gallery presents a small exhibition of 12 paintings that have never been seen before in the United Kingdom. On view from March 3 through May 30, 2011. ‘An American Experiment:...
View ArticleNorwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection Announced at the...
LONDON.- This summer the National Gallery displays 51 paintings from a major private collection, most of which have never been seen in the UK before, and are rarely on public view. ‘Forests, Rocks,...
View ArticleDevotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500 at the National Gallery...
LONDON.- Altarpiece: An image-bearing structure placed upon or behind an altar in a Christian church. Usually forms the focus of devotion for worshippers and is normally decorated by painters and/or...
View ArticleHistoric Collaboration Between the National Gallery, London, and the Louvre
LONDON.- The National Gallery and the Louvre announce a unique collaboration which brings both versions of the ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ together for the very first time. The two pictures will be shown at...
View Article“Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence” opens at the Fitzwilliam Museum
CAMBRIDGE.- A new exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer will explore the mysterious appeal of the women in his paintings. Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence features 28 works...
View ArticleTitian’s Diana and Actaeon goes on tour
LONDON.- Titian’s masterpiece Diana and Actaeon which was ArtFunded in 2009 is to go on tour before returning to the National Gallery for the exhibition Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. The painting was...
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