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Google launches new Gallery view
Date: 2 February 2011
Location: Online
Google has gone live with a new gallery viewer of a number of the worlds famous art Museums, Currently 17 are available to view, including MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC - USA, National Gallery, London - UK
and The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg - Russia. It allows the user to walk through the gallery in a type of 3D view and enables close ups of the artworks. It also allows you to watch videos and hear tours produced by the museums
View Link http://www.googleartproject.com/
Tallinn - Cultural capital of Europe during 2011
Date: 1 January 2011
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
The city of Tallinn in Estonia, will be European capital of Culture during 2011, with many artistic events taking place. If you are planning to Visit Tallinn in 2011, please visit the website http://www.culture.ee/en/ to search for events taking place during your stay.
MAXXI - New Museum Opens
Date: 31 May 2010
Location: Rome, Italy
Italy's new museum of modern art has opened in Rome. The MAXXI museum is designed to hold contemporary art. visit http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/en/ for more information.
Internet database of 'degenerate' art goes live
Date: 22 April 2010
Location: Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Free University has launched a website accessible database which helps locate the whereabouts of thousands of artworks, deemed by the Nazis to be ‘'degenerate art'’. Much of the artworks which includes works by, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann & Wassily Kandinsky, were seized from German museums in the late 1930’s. 'Degenerate Art' was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of modernist artworks accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria. The Berlin Free University website which is intended to have an English version soon is at http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/
Image: Joseph Goebbels visit. Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H02648,_M%C3%BCnchen,_Goebbels_im_Haus_der_Deutschen_Kunst.jpg
Painting damaged in the Blitz goes on public display for the first time in almost 70 years
Date: 24 November 2009
Location: London, UK
For the first time, the recently recovered masterpiece, Delaroches 'Charles I Insulted by Cromwells Soldiers, 1836 (from a private collection)., will be on display at the London National Gallery to coincide with the exhibition Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey, The painting can be viewed from 24th Feb 2010 to 23 May 2010.
Shown at the Paris Salon of 1837, the painting was commissioned by Lord Francis Egerton (1800 to 1857), the future 1st Earl of Ellesmere, at the height of Delaroches fame. For decades, the picture hung among the splendid collection of paintings at Bridgewater House in Saint James s, the London home of the Ellesmere family.
On 11 May 1941, Bridgewater House was hit by a German bombing raid. The building sustained structural damage, and a crater, ten feet (3m) deep, opened up in the street. Delaroches monumental painting, 'Charles I Insulted', then hanging in the dining room, received extensive shrapnel damage. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, remedial action began. The canvas was removed from its stretcher and paper laid down over the larger tears to consolidate the surface.
The painting was then rolled up and evacuated to a country house in the Scottish Borders, where it has remained safe and dry for almost 70 years. It was unrolled for the first time this summer (2009), with the kind permission and support of the Duke of Sutherland, at the instigation of the National Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Scotland. Conservators counted around 200 tears to the canvas, large and small, received during the bombing raid. Traces of plaster dust from shattered walls have been found on the picture surface, blown there by the force of the explosion. Despite this damage, the picture was discovered to be almost entirely legible and has lost none of its emotive intensity. The indignities heaped upon a Christ-like Charles I are as poignant now as they ever were. The painting is being cared for by conservators but is yet to be fully restored, so will retain its war wounds for visitors to examine.
'Charles I Insulted' is one of the great paintings on themes of English history for which Delaroche had become renowned. The king is shown just moments before his execution in 1649, being bullied by Cromwells defiant troops.
Visit http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
Image: Charles I Insulted by Cromwells Soldiers by Paul Delaroche
Rene Magritte painting stolen
Date: 26 September 2009
Location: Brussels, Belgium
The 1948 nude painting entitled Olympia was stolen by two unknown men. The subject is of the surrealists painters wife, Georgette, lying with a shell on her stomach.
The thiefs were armed and entered the museum located in Brussels while it was opened to take the painting, which is estimated to be worth around 1 million Euros.
Rene Magritte died in 1967.
Image: Olympia - Rene Magritte
Warhol Art Work Stolen
Date: 11 September 2009
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Art Work by Andy Warhol has been stolen from a private collection from a home in Los Angeles. The work by Warhol was produced in the 70s and is of sporting personalities, including boxing giant Muhammad Ali. The pictures stolen were silk screen works all 40 inch square in size.
Andy Warhol was a key figure in the pop art movement and has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and documentary films. He coined the expression "15 minutes of fame". reffering to the fleeting condition of celebrity of which the topics of a lot of his art work considered. He died in 1987 at the age of 58 in New York.
Image: Marilyn Monroe - Andy Warhol
Play Me
Date: 15 August 2009
Location: Bristol, UK
A number of pianos are to be dotted outside around the city of Bristol, UK for anyone to play from early September. The Pianos will be chained and protected from the elements, and the idea of Mr Jerram who has also introduced it in other locations such as Australia, is to create a canvas for creativity.
Image: Piano
Louvre Database in English
Date: 30 July 2009
Location: Paris, France
The Louvre in Paris intends to make a English version of its artwork database available via its website. The database will have images and information of many of the artworks available to view at the Louvre. The information database of works previously available in just French, means details of works for study etc will now be more accessible to a larger audience.
Further details can be found on the museum website at http://www.louvre.fr/
Image: The Lauvre, Paris
The new Acropolis Museum
Date: 20 June 2009
Location: Athens, Greece
The new Acropolis Museum in Athens is due to be opened on the 20th June 2009
The modern looking building which makes much use of glass will be at the foot of the ancient Acropolis in the historic area of Makryianni and will include inside sculptures from the Athenian democracy. The Museum stands some 300 meters (980 feet) southeast of the Parthenon. The top floor (Parthenon Gallery) offers a 360-degree panoramic view of the Acropolis and modern Athens.
Further details can be found on the museum website at http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/ which is also available in English.
Image: The new Acropolis Museum, Athens
Theft of Pablo Picasso drawings
Date: 10 June 2009
Location: Paris, France
32 Drawings in a sketchbook by Pablo Picasso have been stolen in Paris from the Musée national Picasso museum. The sketchbook is estimated to be worth 8 million euros. The museum was closed at the time of the theft, but no alarm was sounded and no obvious signs of a break-in were shown. The theft appears to have been made from a unlocked display case.
Pablo Picasso, born 25 October 1881 was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work, he died in 1973.
Image Pablo Picasso.
The Venice Biennale opens
Date: 7 June 2009
Location: Venice, Italy
The Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition is opening its doors to the public from 7th June to The Venice Biennale was founded in 1895 and due to many countries wishing to take part, 77 this year, now covers a large area of the city offering viewers the chance to see many different forms of Contemporary art from around the globe.
For more information please visit http://www.labiennale.org/it/Home.html
Image of Venice - Art Engagement.com
Rene Magritte Museum opens
Date: 2 June 2009
Location: Brussels, Belgium
On June 2 2009, the Magritte Museum opens its doors to the public on the
Place Royale in Brussels. The first museum of this scope devoted to one of
the best known artists of the 20th century, presents for the first time the
largest collection of Magritte works in the world.
Painter, illustrator, engraver, sculptor, photographer, film-maker, René Magritte
(1898-1967) was one of the most eminent artists of the Surrealist movement. He is
considered as the most important Belgian painter of the 20th century. Celebrated for
his slyly subversive analysis of language and its conceptualization of image, René
Magritte is "the man who transformed poetic images into plastic poems," according to
Michel Draguet, Director of the Royal Fine Arts Museums of Belgium.
The museum Address is 3 Rue de la Rénce - 1000 Brussels
For further information please see website http://www.musee-magritte-museum.be/
image: La Magie Noire - René Magritte
The Magritte Museum
EXHIBITION OF INDIGENOUS ARTWORK, PHOTOGRAPHS OPENS
Date: 19 May 2009
Location: UNITED NATIONS, New York, USA
ON 19 MAY AT UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS
An art and photographic exhibition created by indigenous people from around the world will open with a formal ceremony and reception on Tuesday, 19 May, at 6:15 p.m. in the Main Gallery of the Visitors’ Lobby. It will remain on display until 30 June.
The joint exhibit, "Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Cultures" presented in conjunction with the eighth session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, consists of artworks, tapestries, paintings, photographs and handicrafts created by contemporary indigenous artists, with a focus on the Arctic region.
The exhibit will be opened by Jean-Pierre Gonnot, Acting Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the Department of Social and Economic Affairs, and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. This will be followed by a cultural event featuring performances by indigenous artists from Australia, Canada, Russian Federation and the United States.
Also on display are winning photographs in the National Geographic All Roads Film and Photography Festival, which this year features the work of photographers from Afghanistan, Argentina, Azerbaijan and Bangladesh.
The joint exhibition is organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Tribal Link Foundation and the NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
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