VISUAL ARTS NEWS COVERAGE

The Largest Creative Industry Mixer Opens Today with Over 800 Guests - All Proceeds Benefit ALS

Rain or shine, in addition to the main studio we have 10 hospitality tents by Apex Event Production and plenty of free off street parking! (more...)

Bay Area's Maker Faire 2013 Hosts New Attractions and Over 900 Makers

Maker Faire, the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth, announces that over 900 makers will be exhibiting their projects, hobbies, innovations, products, and creativity at the event to be held today, May 18 and the 19th at the San Mateo County Event Center. (more...)

Art Gallery Tours New York Hosts Upper East Side Gallery Tour Today

'Art Gallery Tours New York' announces an Upper East Side gallery tour for today, May 18 at 1:30 PM. Meet at 5 E. 82nd St. near 5th Ave. Cost of the tour is $25. (more...)

Scion Hosts Cult Fashion Label 'Hood By Air' Beg. Today

Scion has announced today that their lifestyle gallery and retail space on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, called the Scion A/V Installation, will host cult fashion label Hood By Air for a month long installation opening today, May 18. (more...)

Roharik Productions Presents Columbus Creative Industry Mixer Today

The Columbus Creative Industry Mixer is Central Ohio's largest creative networking event, bringing together the who's-who of the creative arena on one highly anticipated night. Roharik Productions, commercial photography and video production studio, is hosting the 5th annual Mixer today, May 18th at 9PM. (more...)

George Catlin's American Buffalo Exhibition Debuts at National Museum of Wildlife Art Today

Jackson Hole travelers can supplement always popular bison viewing in Yellowstone National Park this summer with a rare chance to see what the herds looked like in the early 19th century thanks to a special May - August exhibition opening at the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Taking a fresh look at the famous works of 19th-century painter George Catlin through the lens of his representation of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans, the new exhibition, 'George Catlin's American Buffalo,' will debut at the museum in Jackson Hole, Wyo., today, May 18, 2013. (more...)

Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Opens New Exhibition GEORGIA O'KEEFFE IN NEW MEXICO Today

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum announces the opening of the exhibition 'Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land.' The exhibition, which opens today, May 17, 2013 at the museum in Santa Fe, highlights O'Keeffe's paintings of New Mexico's churches, crosses, folk art and Native American subjects, created between 1929 and 1953. Examples include the paintings 'Ranchos Church No. I' (1929), 'Kachina' (1934), and 'Ghost Ranch Landscape' (1935). (more...)

David Richard Gallery Opens Beverly Fishman's WAVELENGTH Today

David Richard Gallery will present 'Wavelength,' the gallery's second solo exhibition for artist Beverly Fishman. Brightly colored and optically active, the new paintings on stainless steel challenge both the viewer's visual perception and susceptibility to the seduction of contemporary advertising. The exhibition will be presented from May 10-June 15, 2013 with an artist reception tonight, May 17 from 5:00-7:00 PM at the gallery located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District. (more...)

Summer Art Festival Returns to Downtown Kansas City Today

Signature Summer Art Festival Returns to Downtown Kansas City This Weekend (more...)

Loyola University Students Craft Recycled Signs for MID-CITY BAYOU BOOGALOO, Now thru 5/19

Art and Design students at Loyola University New Orleans are going green this spring as they help to create recycled signage for the annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo, today, May 17-19. (more...)

ArtCenter/South Florida to Open UNPREDICTABLE PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR, 6/5

ArtCenter/South Florida's new exhibition 'Unpredictable Patterns of Behavior' opens June 5th at both its Richard Shack Gallery (800 Lincoln Road) and at Project 924 (located upstairs at 924 Lincoln Road) and will be on view from June 1-July 28, 2013. The opening reception is open to the public on Wednesday evening, June 5th from 6:00-10:00 p.m. (this is the first time ArtCenter has utilized both Lincoln Road spaces simultaneously). (more...)

Bea Arthur Nude Sells For Nearly $2 Million At Auction

Legendary Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Bea Arthur may be best remembered by fans around the globe for her unforgettable performances onstage and onscreen in MAME, MAUDE and GOLDEN GIRLS, yet to an annonymous bidder at an auction at famed Christie's auction house last night Bea Arthur in the altogether was worth nearly $2 million. (more...)

Film Chronicling the 1911 Theft of the Mona Lisa Planned

Leonardo DiCaprio may have opened the Cannes Film Festival this week with his latest movie, 'The Great Gatsby,' but it has been Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, that has stolen the show. In the middle of this battle of the two Leonardos is veteran Hollywood producer, Larry A. Thompson, who announced that the mystery of the greatest art heist in history, the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), is about to be a major motion picture titled 'Missing Mona Lisa.' (more...)

Parrish Hosts Alice Aycock's SOME STORIES ARE WORTH REPEATING Exhibition thru 7/13

The Parrish Art Museum's Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating, an exhibition in two venues, in partnership with the Grey Art Gallery, New York University's fine-arts museum, is the first comprehensive exploration of this vital aspect of the renowned sculptor's creative process. The exhibition has been organized by Parrish Art Museum Adjunct Curator Jonathan Fineberg, Gutgsell Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. The exhibition traces Aycock's career from 1971 to the present, highlighting the major themes that have overned her artistic practice. (more...)

Parrish Art Museum to Open Michelle Stuart's DRAWN FROM NATURE Exhibition, 7/21

Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature, an exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist known for a rich body of work inspired by her lifelong interest in the earth and the cosmos, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum from July 21 through October 27, 2013. Since the 1960s, Stuart has produced and exhibited monumentally scaled works on paper, site-specific earth art, multimedia installations, paintings, sculpture, and photographic works, pursuing a subtle and responsive dialogue with the natural world. (more...)

“The Civil War and American Art” to Open at the Met Museum, May 27

Because the American Civil War threatened both the founding principles and the viability of the republic, the nation's entire population was deeply affected by the fact of the conflict and its outcome. The major loan exhibition The Civil War and American Art, which will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning May 27, will consider how American artists responded to the Civil War and its aftermath. Landscapes and genre scenes-more than traditional history paintings-captured the war's impact on the American psyche. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the conflict: unease as war became inevitable, optimism that a single battle might end the struggle, growing realization that fighting would be prolonged, enthusiasm and worries alike surrounding emancipation, and concerns about how to reunify the nation after a period of grievous division. The exhibition proposes significant new readings of many familiar masterworks-some 60 paintings and 18 photographs created between 1852 and 1877-including landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church and Sanford Robinson Gifford, paintings of life on the battlefront and the home front by Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson, and photographs by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and George N. Barnard. (more...)

Joe Maddalena Presents the Auction of the Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector Part II, 5/30

After the six million dollar sale of part I, Profiles in History, run by Joe Maddalena, is proud to announce the auction of The Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector Part II on May 30th. This collection of letters and manuscripts is one of the greatest collections ever amassed. In the first sale a letter by Vincent van Gogh sold for $336,000 and a Thomas Jefferson letter sold for $300,000, Part II promises to be even bigger. (more...)

FRAN BULL: Sound & Color Reception Set for 5/24

The Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater presents FRAN BULL: Sound & Color, an exhibit of opera portraits on paper inspired by Japanese woodblock prints of Kabuki actors, with an opening reception on Friday, May 24 from 5 - 7 pm. (more...)

Metropolitan Museum's Main Building and Cloisters Observe Memorial Day as Final 'Met Holiday Monday'

After ten years of opening to the public on the Mondays of holiday weekends, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters museum and gardens will observe the final 'Met Holiday Monday' on Memorial Day (May 27). The Museum's main building and The Cloisters, which is located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, have traditionally been closed on Mondays. BeginningJuly 1, both locations will be open to the public seven days a week. (more...)

Tiffen Photo fx Ultra Wins 'Best Mobile Photo App of 2013'

The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of award-winning accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture and broadcast markets, announced its iPad app, Tiffen Photo fx Ultra v5, has been named "Best Mobile Photo App of 2013" by the prestigious Technical Image Press Association (TIPA). According to the TIPA website, editors of the member-magazines (full list can be found here) evaluate products introduced to the market in the past 12 months and base judgments on "innovation, the use of leading-edge technology, design and ergonomics, ease-of-use, as well as price/performance ratio." (more...)

Fotodiox Presents High-Intensity LED Strobe-Style Lights for Still and Video Lighting

Fotodiox (http://www.fotodioxpro.com) announces the LED100WA high-intensity LED lights, a constant light source modeled after a familiar strobe form. Available in 5600K (Daylight) or 3200K (Tungsten) color temperatures, these new lights allow the use of standard strobe accessories like soft boxes, snoots, grids, and more. They emit powerful light and are easily transportable, making them ideal for both still and video lighting. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Whitney Museum's DeFeo Exhibit a Ton Worth Seeing

Whitney Museum's DeFeo Exhibit (more...)

PDN Announces 2013 Photo Annual Award Winners

PDN is proud to announce the award winners for this year's Photo Annual competition, which recognizes the best photography from 2012. Now in its 13th year, the PDN Photography Annual issue features an extensive portfolio of photography in ten different categories, ranging from editorial assignments, photojournalism, portraiture and advertising to photo books, student work and fine art. Additionally, six awards are presented to photographers who are selected to be in the Photo Annual, including the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture and the Marty Forscher Fellowship, which recognize photographers following in the footsteps of two photo industry legends. The PDN Photo Annual has become an annual celebration of innovative photography and talented photographers, with collaborative support from industry leaders including Sony, Parsons The New School for Design, Adobe, Epson, Maine Media Workshops and ASMP. (more...)

Tommy Hilfiger Launches Surf Shack Summer Program with Art Production Fund

The Tommy Hilfiger Group, which is wholly owned by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], celebrated the launch of its limited edition Surf Shack capsule collection and collaboration with Art Production Fund (APF) - an ongoing partner of the Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation - at No. 8 in New York City. The event also announced the cross-continent Surf Shack bus tour starting in San Diego in June. The customized Surf Shack bus will travel to cities across North America, opening up as a mobile pop-up shop to sell the capsule collection, the artist-designed surf boards and other specialty product. (more...)

Utah Cultural Celebration Center Presents Free Vietnam Exhibit, Now thru 6/26

This Spring the Utah Cultural Celebration Center presents Seeing and Hearing Vietnam art exhibit highlighting the art and artifacts of Vietnam. The free opening reception is tonight, May 16, 6 - 8 p.m. The exhibit is open May 16 - June 26, Monday through Thursday, 9- 6p.m, Friday and Saturday by arrangement. (more...)