Abstract Art

A MUSEUM in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket. Antonio Manfredi, of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, set fire to the first painting on Tuesday.  “Our 1,000 artworks are headed for destruction anyway because of the government’s indifference,” he said. The work was by ...  

A museum in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket. Antonio Manfredi, of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, set fire to the first painting on Tuesday. "Our 1,000 artworks are headed for destruction anyway because of the government's indifference," he said.The work was by French artist Severine Bourguignon, who was in favour of the protest and...  

AN Italian museum has begun burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket. The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum near Naples held a bonfire in its ...  

CASORIA, Italy (AFP) - An Italian museum on Tuesday began burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket. The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum near ...  

An Italian museum on Tuesday began burning its collection of contemporary artworks in a singular protest against harsh budget cuts that have left many cultural institutions out of pocket. The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum near Naples held a bonfire in ...  

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Elegant lines, bold colors, artistic luminaries: all are qualities attributed to the top lots from Saturday's sale of Modern & Contemporary Art at Freeman's. Marked by the presence of modern masters Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso as ...  

Starting at the point in which Rae began referencing the changing visual language of the computer generation in her work, the Leeds Art Gallery exhibition presents a body of colourful and graphically abstract paintings. Incorporating complex typography ...  

Abstract art - some say it's the most fun to paint! Join instructor Danielle Hylen Hammond as she steps you through the process of creating this abstract flower block pattern. Use different colors, different shapes — it's totally up to you! Experience ...  

Experts from the worlds of fashion, photography and abstract art, will choose the winners in this year’s IHC Art Awards – a showcase for the talents of disabled artists. High-profile fashion designer Denise L’Estrange-Corbet, from WORLD is returning ...  

Staff Correspondent Institute of Art and Culture (IAC) in Gulshan ... London-based artist Abu Jafar's preferred style is abstract expressionism. Layers of colours and density of texture are noticeable features of his work. The artist frequently changes ...  

HCM CITY — A collection of abstract paintings by artist Vinh Phoi called Khong Gian va Tiet Dieu II (Space and Rhythm II) is on display at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition showcases 50 works in oil, aquarelle and mixed media, including one ...  

Vicente, a Spanish-born American painter, was a member of the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionists and a significant 20th century artist and teacher. Vicente participated in Meyer Schapiro and Clement Greenberg’s landmark exhibition ...  

In the current shock-worn, étonné-by numbers climate, abstract art takes us totally by surprise. With one bold stroke-or several-it sweeps away the detritus of modish art world vocabulary-Adieu, post-modern! Fare-thee-well Colportage!-and replaces it with  

ZURICH.-An outstanding private collection of modern and contemporary art is coming to the Kunsthaus Zürich, thanks to a new agreement with the Fondation Hubert Looser. Focusing on Abstract Expressionism, Minimal Art and Arte Povera, the Looser Collection ...  

a chance to view the museum’s current art exhibit “Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949-2012”; children’s art activities, and more. Food and drinks will be available from the Blue Marlin Signature Catering Mobile Kitchen. Artists will display their ...  

IF art gallery novices heed the advice of accomplished Perth abstract expressionist painter Waldemar Kolbusz, they need not be daunted. Once dubbed a “design aficionado” by Vogue Living magazine with works held in corporate and private collections ...  

While Rina Prajapati’s and Ranjan Narkar’s abstract paintings focus on a larger issue, the Gujarat-influenced motifs are evident as is the case with the rest of the artworks. From the works of these young and upcoming artists, Prashant Patel’s play ...  

Approximately 20 paintings from the 1980s and 90s by abstract artist Herman Cherry are on view at David ... A remarkable quality was Cherry’s persistent optimism and devotion to painting and art. He worked endlessly during his last years, maintaining ...  

And in his final decade, he did abstract collages. He'd sometimes recall that "Dick ... TR: He knew everybody in the world of 20th century art, it sometimes seemed, and had a story about most of them, from Picasso and Giacometti in France, Rothko and ...  

A celebration of some of Canada's and London's greatest abstract painters is the focus of an exhibition opening Friday at a city art gallery. Thielsen Gallery is hosting the exhibition, featuring works by Ray Mead, but also London's Eric Atkinson and Greg Curnoe.  

The mission of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago positions it as an innovative and compelling contemporary art center where diverse audiences can experience works and ideas of contemporary artists as well as understand the context in which the ...  

NEW YORK, NY.-Christie’s announced the forthcoming sale of an outstanding private American collection of Post War and Contemporary Art: The Property from the Pincus Collection. As philanthropists, humanitarians, and art patrons, David Pincus and his wife ...  

Bad news for Russian contemporary art: three of Moscow’s leading art galleries are closing. Citing plummeting sales, Aidan, Marat Guelman and XL are shuttering at the end of this month. All three galleries have an international profile and exhibit in ...  

When will we see a first-rate survey of contemporary Australian art in this country? Second-tier American artists such as George Condo are shown over here regularly, yet we only get to see terrific young Australians such as Shaun Gladwell and Callum Morton ...  

It made a change," Ghosh told IANS. An exhibition titled "Conservation on Canvas", an initiative of WWF-India and Religare Art, which opened at the Taj Palace Hotel here Tuesday, is an example of how contemporary art is playing with eco-conservation with ...  

LONDON.-Following Sotheby’s third most successful year ever (2011) for global auctions of Contemporary Art, which totalled $1.17 billion, the company presents its forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction. The sale, which will be staged in London on ...  

Experience an explosion of enjoyment at Marilyn Miller's fusion of circus, dance and theatre at CoCa. Acclaimed Australian dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher and arts administrator Marilyn Miller presents her all-new production PopWhistleCrack in Cairns ...  

Auckland needs to start planning for its own version of London's Tate Modern art gallery on the waterfront before Wellington does, says a leading arts patron. John Gow is asking the Auckland Council to include the project in its long-term budget, but ...  

A sunset-colored painting by Mark Rothko became the world's most expensive contemporary art work when it fetched $86.9 million in a stunningly lucrative auction at Christie's in New York. "Orange, red, yellow" was as hot on the Christie's block as the ...  

NEW YORK, NY.-On 9 May 2012 Sotheby’s May sale of Contemporary Art will showcase exceptionally rare and important works spanning the past six decades. The cover lot of the sale is Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl from 1964 one of the high-points of the ...  

In order for a contemporary art gallery to be successful it cannot have an overt political, religious or ideological agenda, the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg said on Friday. “I regret the divisiveness that the exhibition has caused, and reiterate that ...  

There is just one week for artists to put the finishing touches on entries into the biennial Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, an event with a rich history and even richer prize purse. Formerly the Fletcher Jones Art Prize, the event is conducted by the ...  

The FINANCIAL -- The work of New Zealand’s top emerging artists from Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland has been published in a new book. Elam Graduate Work 2011, a catalogue of Elam’s annual end-of-year Graduate Shows, gives a ...  

Volkswagen, MoMA PS1, and MoMA announce New Information: Art at the Beginning of a New Now, a major survey of international contemporary art, which will open in spring 2013. The exhibition will bring together a group of approximately 35 artists whose work ...  

Scott Billings, Jordy Hamilton, Jeremy Hof, Nicole Ondre, and Natalie Purschwitz are the five finalists for Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver’s Emerging Artist’s Prize. The finalists represent a broad range of contemporary art practices: Billings ...  

LOS ANGELES, CA.-The Museum of Contemporary Art presents The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol, on view from April 29 through August 20, 2012, at MOCA Grand Avenue. The exhibition, which explores the recent transformation of abstract painting into ...  

Volkswagen, MoMA PS1, and MoMA announce New Information: Art at the Beginning of a New Now, a major survey of international contemporary art, which will open in spring 2013. The exhibition will bring together a group of approximately 35 artists whose work ...  

SAN ANTONIO, TX.-Blue Star Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present Scale: A Gathering of Sculptors, an international conference featuring eight renowned sculptors from five countries who will present their work. This symposium offers a unique ...  

An art museum party can be an epic clash of egos and attitude. And I had a primo seat at the uber-hip Institute of Contemporary Art’s Party on the Harbor the other night. DJ Kiss and DJ M.O.S. kept the 700 guests dancing, servers floated around handing ...  

THE May exhibition at The Gallery Café Bar and Bistro in Holyrood Street, Chard, features contemporary art by Zee Jones and Elfi Edwards. In the interest of doing something different and original, experimenting and having fun, the pair took 12 different ...  

Auction prices for contemporary artwork reached dizzying heights again on Wednesday, the day after a Mark Rothko piece set the record for the highest price for contemporary piece. Sotheby’s in New York held their contemporary art auction, which featured ...  

NEW YORK, NY.-A Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Retrospective of Painting, a comprehensive exhibition of more than 50 paintings, including many large-scale works from all phases of the artist's development, will open to the public on Sunday, May 13, 2012.  

The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. Contemporary art is becoming the gold of the new rich. This week’s strong auction sales in New York brought record bids for Rothko, Klein, Lichtenstein and several other ...  

Elisa Contemporary Art presents Strength and Grace, a 2012 Summer Olympic Tribute. The exhibit opens May 11th, 2012. It will run through late August. Strength and Grace honors the athletic prowess and beauty of two Summer Olympic sports – Swimming and ...  

Less than a week after Edvard Munch’s The Scream went for a record $119.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York, a piece by the late Mark Rothko set the record for a work of contemporary art. Orange, red, yellow, a 1961 piece by the master color field ...  

Members of the media are invited to an exhibition preview of Rebel, an interrogative ode to Nicholas Rayʼs masterpiece Rebel Without A Cause (1955), conceived by James Franco with Douglas Gordon, Harmony Korine, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Terry ...  

"It was something unprecedented." "The market really responded," said Brett Gorvy, Christie's international head of post-war and contemporary art. "It's a very knowledgeable market, a very sophisticated market," he said, adding that "complete global market ...  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-The Asian Art Museum, long known for its superb collection of historic Asian art treasures, celebrates the arrival of its first large-scale contemporary art exhibition. Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past—which opened ...  

by Suzanna Caldwell / scaldwell@newsminer.com Fairbanks Daily News Miner FAIRBANKS - Certain images always come to mind when thinking of Alaska art. Sweeping landscapes, snowcapped peaks, rugged sourdoughs. A new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum seeks to ...  

NEW YORK, NY.-On May 9, Doyle New York held a series of three successful sales – American Art, European Art, and Modern & Contemporary Art. The day’s total surpassed $5 million amid strong international bidding. Highlighting the American Art was an ...  

This city has all the qualities of a large city but not the small town atmoshpere of Sacramento. It does have several musuems worth considering for those traveling here on business or otherwise from the Central Valley. First though, similiar to San ...  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-The Period Art & Design auction at Bonhams, June 24, will present special selections of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art and photography, aimed toward both introductory and seasoned collectors. Offerings from such artists as ...  

by Suzanna Caldwell / scaldwell@newsminer.com Fairbanks Daily News Miner FAIRBANKS - Certain images always come to mind when thinking of Alaska art. Sweeping landscapes, snowcapped peaks, rugged sourdoughs. A new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum seeks to ...  

Hours: Winter Hours: Thurs - Sat 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun. 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. In 1952, a group of artists came together in the beautiful harbor village of Rockport, Maine to put on a small summer art exhibition. Originally called Maine Coast Artists, their ...  

Barcelona has unveiled its new kits for the 2012-13 campaign at an event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). The club's new home jersey will be in the classic blue along each side of the shirt and red colors with merging stripes down the middle.  

That's the nature of abstract art, of course, and all these works are abstract. But it seemed at times a shortcoming these dance makers might want to overcome. Some fared better than others, naturally. Molly Grimm-Leasure's "Primary Blends" is a ...  

Forget history. Forget (if you ever knew it) that red in ancient Egypt colored the hostility god Sutech and the evil serpent Apophus. Forget, too, all the usual associations with red – blood, fire, Hell. Because this writing is prompted by “Reds ...  

When: Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday (April 16 to June 9); Gallery Aferro, Newark, noon to 6 p.m. Thursday to Saturday (May 5 to June ...  

New York-based art critic Donald Kuspit will speak on Monday, May 7 about persisting distinctions in art criticism through the 19th and 20th centuries. His lecture, "Critical Consciousness of the Arts," will explore the divisions between realism ...  

Frieze, a British mag dedicated to contemporary art and culture, held its first fest across the Atlantic in 2003, drawing 28,000 visitors. It has since grown to 60,000 spectators in London each year. New York galleries have been working to bring ...  

He's about as "meta" as it gets. Now Franco has brought his knack for melding pop culture and fine art in unorthodox ways to a new exhibition for Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art. "Rebel," which opens Tuesday, is a high-concept group show ...  

It is just an abstract organism? Jan Tichy, the creator of the artwork, says it is any of those, all of those, none of those. "The composition is open enough that a person can read it in different ways," Tichy says. The art installation sits in ...  

A ruined Soviet-era restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park is to become the unlikely new home for one of Russia's hippest contemporary arts centres: the Garage, founded four years ago by the Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova. Zhukova and the architect ...  

She began collecting art in the 1970s and has amassed one of the largest and most respected collections of contemporary art in the world. In 2002, she established the Cisneros Fontanal Art Foundation. CIFO regularly presents contemporary art at ...  

The winners of both awards were lively and colourful contemporary paintings. The winner of the 2012 Calleen Art Award is Canberra based artist G.W. Both for her artwork Glyphs: Tree of Life 2012 created in watercolour and graphite on colombe paper.  

The trustees of the Contemporary Museum announced Monday that they have ... The museum, which has presented a broad range of cutting-edge art projects for 23 years, started out in nomadic fashion, presenting exhibits at various locations before ...  

After being without a contemporary art curator since 2004, Joslyn Art Museum has hired someone new. Karin Campbell comes to the Joslyn after working as an independent curator since 2009. She will arrive in Omaha on June 1. Joslyn Director Jack ...  

After being without a contemporary art curator since 2004, Joslyn Art Museum has hired someone new. Karin Campbell comes to the Joslyn after working as an independent curator since 2009. She will arrive in Omaha on June 1. Joslyn Director Jack ...  

That question sums up the dissenting opinion on Virginia Commonwealth University's plan to build its Institute for Contemporary Art at Broad and Belvidere streets. A Hess gas station sits across the street from the site, now a surface parking lot.  

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Annie Leibovitz has photographed practically every celebrity, rock star and politician over the past four decades, but when she was honored by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, she showed a photograph of Niagara ...  

In January, it kicked off construction with the West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre, a temporary structure housing five days of Cantonese opera, contemporary art and classic Hong Kong movies. The district’s first permanent venues are slated to open in ...  

creating a contemporary motif from the traditional design of a buoy," states artist, Deedee Morrison. "I hope, Safe Harbor will make a meaningful addition to the current Public Art along the riverfront that is highly trafficked by tourists and ...  

7 pm. Contact for details. Information: www.artmuseumgr.org. Gerhard Richter: Painting (Film), Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Contact for details. Information: www.uica.org. Greg Miller (Community), Mangiamo!. 7-10 pm. Contact for details.  

The discipline of conventional history has attempted over the years to classify the trajectory of the art world into neatly constructed movements and cleanly articulated themes. But in reality, the advancement of art has been multidirectional ...  

It is from that artist's perspective -- from whatever season they create their art -- that we're given another form of beauty: nature as abstract art on canvass. That is how I see Mary Hinkle's original abstract art in pastel, watercolors and ...  

The first NOADA event since Bill Clinton was president will kick off Friday at the former Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland location, 8501 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, with a reception and live music from 5 to 9 p.m. “We wanted to make people ...  

Even the grumpiest among us are jolted into a state of joy and wonder at the sight of a rainbow. (Just refer to the "Double Rainbow" guy, if you haven't watched this video a thousand times already.) Rainbows give us the magical high we try to ...  

When: Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday (until June 9); Gallery Aferro, Newark, noon to 6 p.m. Thursday to Saturday (May 5 to June 1 ...  

Not literally of course, but these abstract paintings seduce. They undulate, simmer, and glow; they seem to inhale and pull you in. They are gorgeous. Her show “Interstellar,” now at the Worcester Art Museum, is actually loaded with concepts ...  

A visitor strolls by canvasses by Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- Out behind a small farmhouse on a Long Island country road sits an old gray barn ...  

W. Eugene Smith’s “Thelonius Monk and his Town Hall Band in rehearsal” It’s cliché, but whatever: Good art’s always a reaction to something. Three San Diego art exhibitions—two current and one opening May 19—prove this: W. Eugene Smith was a ...  

Image creation using oils, wax, digital painting, and calligraphy form the artistic foundation for the group show coming to Gallery 625 in May. The exhibition is titled "Abstractions: Outside the Lines" and offers an exploration of creative ...  

Virginia Commonwealth University’s new Institute for Contemporary Art will have two fronts – one opening toward the busy Broad and Belvidere intersection and the other to a sculpture garden facing campus. The "double-fronted" design signals ...  

But here’s an exception: on Friday, the Carnegie Museum of Art announced that an endowment had been created for the position of curator of contemporary art. Lynn Zelevansky also announced the appointment of the museum’s Associate Curator of ...  

The Latvian Embassy in Washington, D.C. is hosting an exciting contemporary art exhibition featuring a selection of evocative paintings from nine Latvian artists. The contemporary artists are talented and promising painters.  The exhibition ...  

The Sculpture Garden has some interesting pieces, but if you're not a fan of blunt, inhuman, abstract slabs you'll think the screens of trees were erected to shield your eyes from the art. All that metal, all that rust: It might be the only ...  

The board of directors of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Latest from The Business Journals Follow this company said today that Lisa Melandri was appointed as the museum's new director. The decision ...  

The commercial corridor is booming. One of those leases was countersigned by Rebekah Jacob, whose contemporary art gallery just relocated from 169 to 502 King St. The move made sense, Jacob says. “We’ve always been called a pioneer in the ...  

Annie Leibovitz has photographed practically every celebrity, rock star and politician over the past four decades, but when she was honored by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, she showed a photograph of Niagara Falls. Leibovitz ...  

There are enormous benefits from a strong art education. Art fosters creativity, critical thinking, and curiosity. Contemporary art promotes "big ideas" and therefore naturally integrates other subject areas such as science, language arts ...  

What many casual observers of abstract art don't understand is that abstraction doesn't mean a jumble or confusion or haphazard swiping of paint on a surface. The essential trait is an underlying structure that lends even the headiest or ...  

"This is an enormous loss to Inuit art and to Canadian culture generally," Judy Kardosh ... She helped establish a "distinctive school of sculptural expression that was more abstract and elemental than Inuit sculpture from other areas of ...  

Families can explore abstract art as they create with color, line, shape and space at the San Bernardino County Museum on Sunday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This Family Fun Day, “Art Expressions,” is made possible by a grant from the ...  

The Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis (CAM) is beginning a new film festival later this movie.  Called Concrete Cinema, the event--which will take place in CAM's courtyard-- will screen films with St. Louis connections. The first film ...  

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian billionaires are famous for being big buyers of contemporary art, bolstering sales in capitals across the West, but at home it's a different story. Dejected by Vladimir Putin's return to power, many of Russia's ...  

NORMAN — Two duck sculptures destined for installation at the city's splash pads will be displayed first at the MAINSITE Contemporary Art gallery at 122 E Main St. The art gallery is home base for the Norman Arts Council. The ducks were ...  

I’ve never cared for the term “abstract art,” but it thoroughly encapsulates the feel of what genius choreographer Mark Morris does with dance. That every member of the audience left the theater with a unique viewpoint of what they had ...  

Hoekstra is influenced by abstract expressionism, pop art and post-modernism. 865-7166, www.burlingtoncityarts.org. • 6-9 p.m., FlynnDog on Flynn Avenue on the South End of Burlington hosts “The 3rd Floor Show” featuring new work from ...  

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art already is showing "Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939," and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Arts will open "Lois Dodd: Catching the Light" on May 18. I got an ...  

Opening reception for Judy Caruso, 5:30-7 p.m., April 20. Jupiter Town Hall Gallery Of Art: 210 Military Trail, Jupiter. Abstract art by Joshua Banks, nonspeaking autistic young man. Lyric Theatre: 59 SW Flager Ave., Stuart. 772-220-1942.  

From May 12-July 28, 2012, IKON Limited Contemporary Art in Santa Monica will show a mixture of Damian Hirst's work. Some spot paintings, some spin paintings and some butterfly paintings will be on view. The artist, will most likely, not.  

Included are displays on the many phases of Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's career, from advertising work to political cartoons to the "secret," more abstract art that he did away from children's illustrations. The pieces on display are ...  

NORTH ADAMS — Denise Markonish grew up in Brockton and still lives in Massachusetts. She is a curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. She is, in other words, a local. But Markonish has a treacherous heart.  

Rose: The last name that speaks volumes. Crutches: Unfortunately, Rose suffered a devastating injury in Game 1 of the playoffs. MVP & ROY: Rose won Most Valuable Player last season and NBA Rookie Of the Year in 2008-09 -- just a few ...  

The aim of SWAB Barcelona is to offer an insight into the latest trends in contemporary art through a careful selection of the exhibiting galleries. The galleries participating in SWAB Barcelona are a benchmark for the emerging art ...  

On May 17, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in downtown Newark, will hold the 2012 Aljira Fine Art Auction, its annual fundraising gala. The auction will share space with “Tom Broadbent: A Still-Life,” a show of trompe l’oeil ...