Giambattista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) was a key figure in the formation of eighteenth-century taste and style, yet his work defies categories of style and technique. the Arts of Piranesi: architect, etcher, antiquarian, vedutista, designer , which opened in Venice in 2010 to rave reviews, is an innovative interactive exhibition that highlights the diverse artistic skills and the influential role of this eclectic visionary artist. Designed by world-renowned architect Michele De Lucchi, the exhibition includes more than three hundred original etchings from the collection of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. Central to this exhibition are a virtual reality installation based on Piranesi’s Prison etchings, the Caffè degli Inglesi as a full-scale evocation and a touch-screen browser to interact with the artist’s sketchbooks. Also included are objects recreated from Piranesi’s original designs using the most advanced digital technologies and 3D printing.

 

For the first time in its 50-year history the Beaverbrook Art Gallery of New Brunswick, Canada, is sending to the U.S. 75 of its finest paintings and drawings from its masterworks collection. Exhibits Development Group is partnering with the Gallery to commemorate its 50th anniversary by bringing the best of the Beaverbrook to the U.S.

The traveling exhibition reflects the museum’s principal holdings of British, international and Canadian art. From Lucas Cranach’s Lucretia through Salvador Dali’s Santiago El Grande, American museums will be able to host the collection as it was conceived by William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), who founded the museum and filled it with unsurpassed works by Hogarth, Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Romney, Copley, Turner, Constable, Delacroix, Burne-Jones, Sisley, Sargent, Sickert, Matisse, Carr, Spencer, Sutherland, Freud and members of the Group of Seven. There will be 60 artists represented in all.

The art and artifacts of ancient Italy will enjoy an exclusive engagement at National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C., starting June 10, 2011.

The rare objects included in The Etruscans: An Ancient Italian Civilization are on loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Florence, and the rarely-seen Collezione Cambi, Chiusi. They include a 7th-century B.C.E. carriage found in the Tomb of Carriages at the Necropolis of San Carbone, Populonia; a late 6th-century B.C.E. clay amphora from Argilla; a 4th-century B.C.E. three-foot high alabaster urn from Perugia; a 4th-century B.C.E. gold diadem; and a late 2nd-century B.C.E. terracotta sarcophagus.

The exhibition will be a highlight of La Dolce DC, a celebration of the city of Washington’s Italian connections, and of ITALY@150, a series of events organized by the Embassy of Italy to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Italy’s Unity.

 

Click here to learn more about The Etruscans: An Ancient Italian Civilization.

 

CUT! Costume and the Cinema opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL on January 17. The exhibition will be on display at Boca Raton Museum of Art until April 17, when it leaves Florida for Louisiana, to open at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge, LA, on May 5, 2011.

The Newcomb Art Gallery, at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA opened Reflections on Water in American Painting on January 27, and will host the exhibition until April 24, 2011.

The R. W. Norton Gallery of Art will host Great Masters of Cuban Art (1800-1958) from March 6 through June 5, 2011 

EDG plans to develop and tour an exhibition from The Liberace Foundation, starting as early as 2012. For more information on this tour, or other EDG projects, please contact us at info@exhibitsdevelopment.com, (651) 222 1121.

MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition
Copley, Delacroix, Dali and Others: Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
The Etruscans: An Ancient Italian Civilization
Judy Chicago: Dauntless
Expressions of Arctic Tradition: Contemporary Inuit Art
Reflections on Water in American Painting
Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier
Treasures of NAPOLEON
America the Beautiful: The Monumental Landscape of Clyde Butcher
CUT! Costume and the Cinema
Leonardo da Vinci: Man-Inventor-Genius/Man-Artist-Genius
Great Masters of Cuban Art: 1800 - 1958

Liberace: King of Bling
Eco House: Living in Green & Blue
A Story of Islamic Embroidery in Nomadic and Urban Traditions
Napoleon’s Women: Wives, Lovers, Sisters, Mother
Sherlock Holmes: The Deduction of Science