Oct 17, 2012
Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions. Read more.
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Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions. Read more.
Take a trip through the more than hundred-year history of Philippine art at the Ateneo Art Gallery with its Philippine Art Lecture Series. Taught by experts in the fields of colonial, academic, modern and contemporary art, the series will give participants an overview of the development of Philippine art from the 19th century all the way up to today’s lively art scene. Read more.
On March 1, 1978, the Philippines’s first Executive Secretary Jorge B. Vargas donated his collection of art, stamps and coins, library, and archives to his alma mater, the University of the Philippines. The Vargas Art Collection comprises works by Filipino artists from the late 19th century, the American and Japanese occupation, and the postwar years. Read more.
The Brooklyn Museum just released figures pertaining to this past weekend’s “GO Brooklyn” initiative, two days of borough-wide open studios in which members of the public were invited to vote for their favorite artists after visiting their work spaces, with the top 10 vote-getters eligible to be included in a group show at the museum in December. The impressive stats prove that many, many people did actually go to “GO Brooklyn.” Read more.
What better way to store and display some of the world’s greatest artwork than in a structure as well-designed and beautiful as the art itself? Read more.
“He stands tall in Philippine nonrepresentational art with his highly consistent espousal of the idiom when most of the younger artists around him have gone figurative and commentative, installative, if not performative,” writes Rubén D.F. Defeo, who curates the exhibition and wrote the program, to be launched on opening night. Read more.
Headless figures and wild horses, roiling in chaos, seemed to express the human condition with violent directness. Titled “U-Turn,” this monochromatic mural, an allusion to the Apocalypse, became a turning point for artist Antonio “Tony” Leaño. It won him first prize in the first Metrobank Foundation National Painting Competition in 1988... When art patron and gallery owner Dr. Joven Cuanang saw the obra, he was drawn by the convulsive representational figures and the powerful symbolic references. Read more.
Given that new buildings and renovations are a rare occasion, what’s another way for 21st-century museums to get a brand boost? They might choose to redesign that other gallery space — their Web site. Read more.