public art

Miami Art Museum features New Acquisitions of its Permanent Collection

MIAMI, FLORIDA - A reinstallation showcasing both “old favorites” and new acquisitions from the permanent collection of Miami Art Museum opens to the public Friday. The reinstallation will be on view in MAM’s Plaza-level gallery through November 2, 2008. In November 2004, Miami-Dade County voters overwhelmingly approved a bond that includes $100 million for the construction of a new home for MAM. MAM has selected Pritzker Prize and Royal Gold Medal-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron as...

Associazione Arte Sella is the Enemy, Flickr is the Enabler -- Public Art Wants to Be Free

I was disappointed today to receive an email from one of my Flickr contacts Davide Bedin. According to Bedin he recently received the following email message from Flickr: "We have received a Notice of Infringement from [Associazione Arte Sella] via the Yahoo! Copyright Team and have removed the photo "CRW 2322" from your photostream." Davide's crime of infringement? He took a photo of a public art installation along a public freely accessible walking path in Italy. If you can read Italian, here ...

"Kirchner and the Berlin Street" @ The Museum of Modern Art. MoMA, NY

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Potsdamer Platz. 1914. Oil on canvas. 6' 6 3/4 x 59 1/16" (200 x 150 cm). Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. (Photograph by Joerg P. Anders. © Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, New York. © Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.) (Detail) NEW YORK.- Kirchner and the Berlin Street is a focused investigation of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s (German, 1880-1938) renowned Berlin Street Scenes of 1913-1915, bringin...

Seattle Public Art Opportunity

From the Seattle Mayor's Office The Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs wants to purchase two existing pieces of 2D art from emerging Northwest artists. They will go into the Seattle Public Utilities' Portable Works Collection. The deadline for submission is August 25. For more application details, click here.

The Chinese Government Censors Two Art Exhibitions

BEIJING, CHINA - As the Chinese government attempts to control the country's image during this summer's Olympics games, censors have forced two art galleries to delay the openings of their shows, Bloomberg reports. Galleri Faurschou postponed a show of work by Andy Warhol of Olympic athletes that was set to open this weekend, because censors felt it was inappropriate to exhibit foreign artwork during China's biggest public event. Xin Beijing Art Gallery canceled a show of oil paintings by Ma Ba...

Madrid Abierto - Public Art Opportunity [Madrid]

Madrid Abierto 2009-2010 :: Call for Artists of all Nationalities :: Deadline: September 10, 2008. The Cultural Association, MADRID ABIERTO, announces the start of the presentation of projects period for the 6th edition of its international public art programme which will be held in 2009 and 2010. The programme will hold debate sessions on public [...]

New Work, New Talent, New Spaces, New Events at Edinburgh Art Festival 2008

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - The Edinburgh Art Festival may be the newcomer on the block, but as the details of its fifth edition unveiled today demonstrate, it has unquestionably become established as a major player in the capital’s summer events programme. The 2008 EAF programme brings together a diversity of talent from internationally renowned artists to upand-coming-collectives, showcasing the depth and strength of the visual arts in Edinburgh. This year sees over 50 exhibitions spanning public...

The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

NEW YORK CITY - The National Academy Museum presents its biennial non-member invitational exhibition, an exceptional selection of contemporary works by over 125 of the finest artists from across the country. This Annual consists of works by newly emerging artists and established artists, providing an exhibition of diverse ideas, mediums, and techniques. The annual invitational exhibition offers an opportunity to the public to preview new artistic directions in contemporary American art. On view...

"Soul and Body" @ the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

André Kertész [Kertész Andor]: Satirical Dancer, 1926 / printed circa 1967 (c) courtesy of the Estate of André Kertész / Hungarian Museum of Photography BUDAPEST.- The photography exhibition Soul and Body at the Museum of Fine Arts has attracted more than 30 thousand visitors since its opening in early June, which makes it the most frequented Hungarian exhibition of photographic art. More than 220 works by some 90 artists, including André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, Brassaï, Robert C...

Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum exhibits Jonathan Green

Myrtle Beach, SC - The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum will offer an in-depth tour of the works of noted South Carolina artist Jonathan Green at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 29. The tour will be led by Museum docent Chuck Lichy and is free and open to the public. Green’s works are part of the Museum’s current exhibit Jonathan Green: The Artist & The Collector, which includes 31 paintings by Mr. Green, along with 40 works from his private art collection.