The first showing in Ireland of the slide installation Background, 1991-94, by the internationally-acclaimed Irish artist, James Coleman, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 1 August 2008. Background is one of a trilogy of pioneering works by Coleman from the 1990s, acquired by IMMA through funding from the [...]

Gallery-going is not usually a perilous experience, unless you lose your balance near a 9ft ceramic totem called Christina. Only one thing is going to happen and it did. It smashed.
The £6,000 sculpture was part of an exhibit in a display at the Royal Academy’s summer exhibition curated by Tracey Emin, who described the work [...]

Sebastiano Luciani, later named del Piombo, is one of the lesser known, but no less outstanding artists of the Italian Renaissance. The painter, originally from Venice, was once a serious contender to Raphael when it came to winning favour with the Roman public and was also befriended with Michelangelo. In his atmospheric paintings he manages [...]

At Maccarone Gallery, works by Haim Steinbach, Julian Schnabel and Anselm Reyle.
Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer, even when the water is tepid and unsightly matter floats to the top, as is the case in “Pretty Ugly,” a jolie-laide ensemble of 75 artists split between Gavin Brown’s [...]

The exhibition comprises 12 installations made between 1973 and 2000 located in Gallery 7 and on the terrace of the IVAM. In her works she uses a variety of materials such as iron, bronze, wood, resin and textiles like nylon, sisal and burlap. Especially worth mentioning are the series Figures, formed by 80 bronze pieces, [...]

Curators at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid are conducting x-ray, infrared and other hi-tech studies of Picasso’s famed anti-war masterpiece Guernica, which has revealed severe wear and tear from its journeys around the word.
A team of 30 technicians have identified 129 changes to the painting, named after the small Basque town bombed by German [...]

Andy Warhol, Mickey Mouse. One of the works stolen from the Abergs Museum.
Two Warhols and three Lichtensteins were stolen from the Abergs Museum. Carina Aberg, an official at the Abergs Museum, stated to ArtDaily, “Early this morning, the 18th of July, burglars broke up a door in Abergs Museum, rushed in and quickly grabbed exactly [...]