For more than 50 years, Los Angeles artist Ken Price, who died on February 24, 2012 at the age of 77, made innovative works that helped redefine contemporary sculpture by advancing the medium of clay well beyond its traditionally assigned roles. Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—a long overdue major exhibition showcasing the artist’s unique and groundbreaking approach to sculpture—is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in New York. By assembling the full range of Price’s innovative work, with 62 sculptures dating from 1959 to 2012 along with 11 late works on paper, the exhibition aims to situate his art beyond the realm of craft and into the larger

An exquisite selection of drawings by Victorian artist Edward Burne-Jones opened at the Lady Lever Art Gallery on 14 June 2013 and runs to 12 January 2014. Composed of around 30 delicate drawings and watercolours, The Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones: A Pre-Raphaelite Master is an exploration of the method and skills behind some of his best-known works. Works too delicate for long-term display have been brought out of storage, including the stunning watercolour, Sponsa de Libano. At more than three meters tall, the spectacular piece is one of Burne-Jones’s most ambitious watercolours, and has not been on public display for almost two decades. Assistant Curator of Fine Art, Lucy Gardner said: “Burne-Jones was one of the most significant British artists of the 19th century. This exhibition explores his passion for drawing and the painstaking commitment he had to his work. “Drawn entirely from National Museum

Hamiltons Gallery presents ‘Cranium Architecture’, an exhibition of photographs by legendary photographer Irving Penn. The largest exposition of this series for over two decades, the show offers the viewer a rare chance to see these extraordinary images en masse. Cranium Architecture’ sees Penn create a beautiful, absorbing study of animal skulls from the collection of the Narodni National Museum in Prague. From gorilla to giraffe, the photographer treats each subject with fastidious equality – zooming in or moving away to ensure that all the skulls are the same size and placing them in a simple white background. Abstracting the objects so is disorientating and challenges the viewer to look at them in a different way. As the series’ title suggests we are encouraged to view each skull as a unique but familiar construction, created by the powerful yet sensitive hand of nature, to house the most preciou

The birthplace of the Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) opened in Tulln on June 15, 2013. For the first time, the redesigned living quarters of the Schiele family offer an opportunity of authentic insights into Egon Schiele’s childhood. The son of the railway station inspector Adolf Schiele, Egon Schiele spent the first eleven years of his life, starting on June 12, 1890, in the apartment at the train station that formed part of his father’s employment. This time period amounts to more than a third of the lifespan of the artist, who died at the age of 28, and influenced Schiele profoundly. Both the experiences of his childhood, the social and family framework, and the new phenomenon of mobility as exemplified by the Tulln train station, had a decisive influence on Schiele and form an important foundation for his entire artistic output. The Schiele family lived at the Tulln train station for almost 17 years (January 1887 to the autumn of 1904). This period could be enti

The National Gallery of Art explores the continuities in Frederick Sommer’s varied body of work and demonstrates the influence of his friendships with fellow artists in the exhibition A World of Bonds: Frederick Sommer’s Photography and Friendships, on view in the East Building from June 16 to August 4, 2013. Drawn from the Gallery’s significant holdings, which include a major 1995 gift from the artist himself, the exhibition showcases 27 works by Sommer, Edward Weston, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, and Charles Sheeler, including three pieces on loan from other museums and private collections. “The Gallery is privileged to display this influential body of work, which illuminates Frederick Sommer’s interactions with his fellow artists,� said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. “In addition to photographs drawn from our permanent collection, we