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Sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka died
Vienna (dpa) - Alfred Hrdlicka, one of Austria's most important contemporary sculptors, is dead, the artist died at the age of 81 in Vienna. Hrdlicka's work contains many sculptures, drawings and diagrams that deal with war, violence and fascism....
Max Hollein stays director of Städel, Liebieghaus and Schirn
The administration of the Städel Museums has extended the contract of Max Hollein (40) for the leadership of the Städel Museums and the Liebighaus sculpture collection for 5 more years until 2015. The vote was concordant, as the chairman of the...
Penelope Curtis becomes new Tate Britain director
LONDON (Reuters) - Penelope Curtis, curator of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds since 1999, has been named as the new director of Tate Britain in London.
Curtis, 48, will take over from Stephen Deuchar, who leaves Tate Britain in December...
Benjamin Appel gets Hector Award 2009
Benjamin Appel received the Hector Prize that is awarded for the fifth time.The Hector Prize goes this year to 31 years young Benjamin Appel. Der Absolvent der Staatlichen Akademie der Künste in Karlsruhe überraschte die Jury mit seinen geometrisch...
Tobias Rehberger gets the Hector Art Award 2009
The sculptor Tobias Rehberger was awarded the newly established Hector Art Award of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.The jury consisted of Stephan Berg (Director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn), Doede Hardeman (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), Dieter Hesse...
Timm Ulrichs gets the mfi-Award
Timm Ulrichs is the the winner of the 7th Award of Real Estate Management for mfi AG Essen. Mfi-Prize for Art in the construction projects at public buildings is endowed with 50,000 ?.Ulrich has established himself with his work,...
?Lynda Benglis?at the IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
This exhibition is the first solo exhibition in Europe of the American sculptor Lynda Benglis, best known for her pioneering and challenging works which question the rigours of Modernism and Minimalism by merging content and form. Spanning 40...
?WILD THING: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill? at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (GB)
Over a period of 10 years from 1905 to 1915, three outstanding young sculptors emerged in Britain; Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill. The radical impact of their work was to transform British sculpture. This exhibition is the...
László Moholy-Nagy retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (D)
No other teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, nor nearly any other artist of the 1920s in Germany, an epoch rich in utopian designs, developed such a wide range of ideas and activities as László Moholy-Nagy, who was born in Bácsborsód in...
?Calder? at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rom (I)
The City of Rome is to devote its first ever major exhibition to Alexander Calder. The exhibition is being organized by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo to celebrate the famous US artist born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, in 1898 and who died in New York...
