WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and countless other pop and contemporary artists revered the late Dorothy Blau, a visionary Miami art dealer whose estate collection will be auctioned on March 30th. Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches will conduct the sale at their West Palm Beach gallery, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. More than 325 lots will be auctioned, with additional consignments of fine art and antiques from South Florida and the Palm Beaches.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center of Carnegie Mellon University announce the launch of the inaugural Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, scheduled for this weekend, March 26-29, 2015. The Festival will take place throughout Pittsburgh's Cultural District and neighboring locales.
On Monday, April 20, 2015 at 7:30PM, Venezuelan singer, songwriter and storyteller Migguel Anggelo returns to Joe's Pub at The Public (425 Lafayette, NYC) to celebrate the release of his new album La Casa Azul (April 21) and debuting a brand new show, under the direction of Obie Award-winner David Drake. Tickets are ($20) available online, via phone (212.967.7555) or in person at The Public's Box Office (425 Lafayette, NYC).
Acclaimed comedy trio Unitard returns to New York City with HOUSE OF TARDS. Made up of the combined talents of Mike Albo (former New York Times columnist and author of The Underminer as well as established solo performer), Nora Burns (of the comedy group The Nellie Olesons), and David Ilku (member of the Dueling Bankheads), UNITARD brings HOUSE OF TARDS, its first new show in over two years, back to the Stonewall Inn, where it premiered last October (the sold out series of performances were extended through December 2014). HOUSE OF TARDS will once again be performed at the Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village) for four weekly performances beginning tonight, March 19th (March 19th and 26th; April 2nd and 9th at 8 pm).
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the downtown New York film scene captured the spirit of punk music and crossed the lines between the worlds of visual art and avant-garde film. Museum of the Moving Image will look at this vivid moment in time with a weekend of rare screenings and personal appearances on March 28 and 29, 2015.
A selection of rarely seen abstract paintings by the important British artist Jack Smith has gone on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in the Gallery's first display to focus on entirely non-figurative portraits, it was announced today.
This year, from March 18 to September 14, the Museo Reina Sofía is offering the public an unrepeatable opportunity to admire a major selection of modern and contemporary art, one part of which comes from the public collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the other from two of the most important of the private collections also housed in the Swiss museum, the Rudolf Staechelin Collection and the Im Obersteg Collection. A total of 168 works will be on view, of which only 12 have been exhibited in Spain before
The Museum of Modern Art has announced its film exhibitions for April 2015. All films and events take place in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, unless otherwise noted. Details below!
Richard Avedon: Family Affairs-an exhibition featuring more than seventy portraits by the renowned photographer-opens at its exclusive U.S. venue, the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Philadelphia, PA, on April 1.
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, the first exhibition to explore how avant-garde art influenced the look and content of network television in its formative years, will be on view at the Jewish Museum from May 1, 2015 through September 20, 2015.
In conjunction with the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, Learning from/in Latin America will expand on the exhibition's curatorial framework and further explore key positions, debates, and architectural activity arising from Mexico to Cuba and the Southern Cone over three decades of development between 1955 and the early 1980s.
The Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, presented by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) recently announced the winners of its 2015 program distinguishing Massachusetts's top student artists and writers. These nearly 2,000 young writers and artists, whose work was selected from over 15,000 other submissions, will be recognized in The Boston Globe and the Gold Key winning works will be featured as part of a special exhibition hosted by the 808 Gallery at Boston University.
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center of Carnegie Mellon University announce the launch of the inaugural Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, scheduled for March 26-29, 2015. The Festival will take place throughout Pittsburgh's Cultural District and neighboring locales.