| | Master of Abstract Painting Pierre Soulages and His Retrospective at the Martin-Gropius-Bau
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A visitor looks at a painting, entitled Peinture 202 x 327 cm, 17 janvier 1970, oil on canvas, by the French painter Pierre Soulages at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall in Berlin, Germany. The works by Soulage are on display until 17 January 2011. EPA/CHRISTINE CORNELIUS.
BERLIN.- Pierre Soulages is one of the world's foremost abstract painters of recent decades. On the occasion of his 90th birthday he is being honoured by a retrospective in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Starting on 2 October 2010 Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau will be showing this exhibition in an altered form. Over 70 pictures of all his creative periods, from the works with walnut stain (1947 to 1949) to the radically black paintings of recent years measuring up three metres high, are being shown, many of them for the first time in Germany. They illustrate the dynamic artistic development of this most famous of contemporary French artists. Born on 24 December 1919 in Rodez, a small town located to the north of and roughly equidistant from Toulouse und Montpellier, Pierre Soulages refused to train at the “Ecole nationale superieure des beaux arts” in Paris, being out of sympathy with what he saw as that insti ... More |
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Archaeologists in Egypt have Unearthed the Upper Part of a 3,400-Year-Old Granite Statue
The unearthed double limestone statue of Ahmenhotep III. AP Photo/ Supreme Council of Antiquities.
CAIRO (AP).- Archaeologists have unearthed the upper part of a double limestone statue of a powerful pharaoh who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago, Egypt's Ministry of Culture said Saturday. A ministry statement said the team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered the 4-foot (1.3-meter) by 3-foot (0.95-meter) statue of Amenhotep III in Kom el-Hittan, the site of the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor. The temple is one of the largest on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor. The statue portrays Amenhotep III wearing the double crown of Egypt, which is decorated with a uraeus, and seated on a throne next to the Theban god Amun. Amenhotep III, who was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun, ruled in the 14th century B.C. at the height of Egypt's New Kingdom and presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south to Syria in the north. The pharaoh's temple was largely destroyed, possibly by floods, and little remains of its walls. But archaeolog ... More | | Broad Survey of Abstract Expressionism Draws from MoMA's Renowned Collection
Mark Rothko, No. 5/No. 22. 1950. Oil on canvas, 297 x 272 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist.© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionist New York traces the development of Abstract Expressionism from its auspicious beginnings in the 1940s to its seasoned maturity in the 1960s. The exhibition will be on view at MoMA starting October 3, 2010. Marking the Museum’s largest and most comprehensive presentation of Abstract Expressionist art, this wide-ranging survey brings together some 250 works across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and film. Masterpieces by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, David Smith, and Joan Mitchell are joined by lesser-seen but revelatory works by artists who developed independent voices within Abstract Expressionism. In ... More | | MAXXI Museum in Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects Wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010
Interior view of the Maxxi, the new Museum of the 21st Century Arts. EPA/ALESSANDRO DI MEO.
LONDON.- MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects has won the coveted £20,000 The RIBA Stirling Prize 2010, in association with The Architects Journal and Benchmark. The presentation of the UK's premier architectural award took place at a special awards ceremony this evening (Saturday 2 October) at The Roundhouse in London, and was televised live on BBC Two’s The Culture Show at 6.30pm. Commenting on MAXXI, the judges said: ‘MAXXI is described as a building for the staging of art, and whilst provocative at many levels, this project shows a calmness that belies the complexities of its form and organisation. The nature of the project means everything has to be over-specified – throughout the design process the architects had no idea what the series of rooms would be used to hang, so walls which will bear a ton of rusting steel might be graced by miniatures. The museum, f ... More |
 | Gregory Crewdson's Latest Photographic Series "Sanctuary" at Gagosian Gallery
Gregory Crewdson, “Untitled (14)”, 2009 (detail). © Gregory Crewdson. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents "Sanctuary," Gregory Crewdson's latest photographic series. Sanctuary, a group of forty-one black-and-white photographs, is the first that Crewdson has produced outside the United States. Digitally photographed and produced with minimal reworking, it is also his first black and white series since Hover (1996-1997). Shot on location at the legendary Cinecittà studios in Rome, he has moved beyond the construction of the surreal human drama that drove previous series. Sanctuary is virtually devoid of human presence. Instead, Crewdson has made the abandoned outdoor film sets the subject of, rather than the mere setting for, his pictures. Moving through the empty streets of "Ancient Rome" at the beginning and end of the day, he has captured the palpable atmospheres of melancholy lurking at every twist and turn, cloaked in shadow or suddenly illuminated by a shaft of daylight. Although the l ... More | | Once Every Four Years, Moderna Museet Presents an Overview of Swedish Contemporary Art
Christina Ödlund, Thought-Form, 2009. Courtesy: Christine Ödlund. Photo: Christine Ödlund. Animation, video installation.
STOCKHOLM.- On 2 October, Moderna Museet opened the new edition of The Moderna Exhibition, its recurring inventory of the most interesting recent developments in Swedish contemporary art. The Moderna Exhibition 2010 features 54 artists, 28 women and 26 men, who have made a strong impact on the Swedish art scene. Most of the works have never been exhibited to Swedish audiences, and more than half of the works have been produced specifically for this exhibition. The Moderna Exhibition is held every four years and is intended as an overview of Swedish contemporary art. The 2010 edition acknowledges that the heterogeneity of our era is also reflected in art. Consequently, The Moderna Exhibition 2010 does not have one single theme, nor does it propose that there is any technique or style that defines the current art scene. Instead, the exhibition highlights mutually enhancing disparities and gives viewers examples of what releva ... More | | Some 70 Art Galleries from the UK and Around the World to Exhibit at the 12th Annual Art London
Camille Pissarro, Le Pré avec Cheval Gris, Êragny. Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm (21 ¼ x 25 ½ inches) Signed and dated lower right C.Pissarro 93.
LONDON.- Some 70 art galleries from the UK and around the world are exhibiting at the 12th annual Art London, which opens in the special marquee at the Royal Hospital in London’s fashionable Chelsea from Thursday 7 until Monday 11 October 2010. The eclectic mix of art on sale offers visitors works by internationally renowned names, as well as accomplished emerging artists. The art comes in many forms and media, including: paintings, drawings, glass works, sculpture and photography. These all sell from a few hundred pounds to six figures sums. Art London 2010 sees a number of new international contemporary galleries exhibiting including Comodaa (Australia), Dea Orh (Czech Republic) and Villa Del Arte (Spain) as well as other galleries from France, Argentina and Belgium. Returning exhibitors include Whitford Fine Art and the John Martin Gallery. New galleries include Waterhouse & Dodd, Rountree Fine Art and Arthur Ackerma ... More |
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Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Explores the Role of Contemporary Architecture
Elemental. Quinta Monroy Housing Project. Iquique, Chile. 2003-05. Image: Cristobal Palma.
NEW YORK, NY.- Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, explores contemporary architecture as a powerful means for improving social conditions, focusing on 11 noteworthy built or under-construction projects in underserved communities around the world. The exhibition is on view from October 3, 2010, through January 3, 2011. Concentrating on a group of architects who confront inequality using the tools of design, Small Scale, Big Change examines the ways these architects engage with social, economic, and political circumstances to develop positive architectural interventions that begin with an understanding of and deference to a community. Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement is organized by Andres Lepik, Curator, and Margot Weller, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art. Without sacrificing aesthet ... More | | Take a Look Behind the Scenes, Behind the Canvas and Behind the Paint at the Currier Museum of Art
Registrar Karen Papineau inspects a panel painting (Self Portrait, Jan Gossaert aka Mabuse, circa 1515-1520, oil on panel), before it is loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
MANCHESTER, NH.- On October 2 the Currier Museum of Art launched The Secret Life of Art: Mysteries of the Museum Revealed, an exploration of the life of an art museum. The exhibition gives a glimpse into the world of museums, unlocking secrets from the Currier’s own collection of art along the way. Imagine following the journey of a painting beginning from its first showing at a gallery in the 1930’s, as it travels around the country to its final home at the Currier. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Cross by the Sea, 1932, has 22 paper labels attached to back of the painting that document its exhibition and ownership history from its first presentation at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery An American Place in 1935. The labels serve as a visual record of the painting’s growing acceptance as a major work by one of America’s most important modernist artists. The painting will be mounted so that both front and back wil ... More | | Hammer Museum Presents Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences / Documented Assignments
Anthropological Trophy, 2010. Iron, brass, wood, painted epoxy, painted hair, painted canvas, 103.5 x 105.5 x 169.3 in. (263 x 268 x 430 cm) Courtesy of the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery , New York ; and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Image courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The first major North American exhibition of work by acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders, Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments, opened at the Hammer Museum and features a body of new sculptures and works on paper created specifically for this exhibit. Organized by Douglas Fogle, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chief Curator at the Hammer, and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Director, Aspen Art Museum, this exhibition includes roughly 15 new sculptural works and 3 loaned works, including a piece from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition is accompanied by a full catalogue and following its debut at the Hammer, it will travel to the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado and the Walker ... More |
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Recent Oil Paintings by Los Angeles Artist Josh Dov on View at Brian Gross Fine Art
Josh Dov, Frelon Brun, 2010, 60 x 72 inches, Photo: Courtesy Brian Gross Fine Art.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art presents Filles de Kilimanjaro, an exhibition of recent oil paintings by Los Angeles artist Josh Dov. Departing from the structured grid paintings for which he is known, Dov continues his exploration of color and line through ethereal horizontal stripes in varied palettes. The exhibition continues through November 19. In the works on view, the graphic, linear nature of Dov’s previous work is replaced by a soft, painterly quality, influenced by the artist’s use of oil paint rather than acrylic. Through this medium, the artist explores the ways in which edges meet rather than how lines intersect. The repetition of colors and variation in line quality create rhythmic vibrations, while the choice of colors in each work gives each painting its own unique atmosphere. For example, in Filles de Kilimanjaro, bold blues, greens, and purples of varying intensity create a dark, ... More | | Exhibition of Major Works by Belgian Artist Marcel Broodthaers at Michael Werner Gallery
Marcel Broodthaers, “MB MB MB”, 1968. Oil, enamel on canvas, 25 ½ x 45 ¼ inches, 65 x 115 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of major works by Marcel Broodthaers, one of the most important artists of the last century. Born in Brussels in 1924, Broodthaers began writing poetry at an early age and was associated with the surrealist movement in his native Belgium. For nearly two decades he continued to write, struggling in poverty and obscurity, before turning to the visual arts at the age of forty; he explained in the catalog for his first exhibition, in 1964: "I, too, reflected whether I might not sell something and find some success in life..." His first artwork, Pense-Bête, consisted of several copies of his final volume of poems embedded in a mound of plaster. Embodied in this dramatic gesture are the concerns that would fascinate Broodthaers for the rest of his artistic career: an unending interest in wit and wordplay, coupled with an affectionate critique of the conventions of co ... More | | SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne Presents 160 Works of Art Made by Joachim Brohm
Joachim Brohm, o. T., aus "Ruhrstadt", 1988–92 © Joachim Brohm, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010.
COLOGNE.- The exhibition Joachim Brohm. COLOR features a total of around 160 exhibits from different sequences of photographs created in Germany, France, the United States, Portugal and Japan between 1980 and 2010. Among the works on show are a significant number of photographs that were realized alongside the artist's major groups of works but are now being displayed and published for the first time. Included in the presentation are the only surviving early prints of Joachim Brohm's photographs of allotments in the Ruhr region (1980) as well as selected images from the groups Ruhr (1980—1983), Küste (1981/82), Paradis (1982), Ruhrstadt (1988—1992), Ohio (1983—1984), Areal (1992—2002), Japan (2006) and Culatra (2008—). Based for many years in Leipzig, where he teaches at and is director of the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts), ... More |
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Sean Branagan Adopts LCD Screens for New Show at Gooden Gallery
LONDON.- Sean Branagan’s work has a hint of the impossible, but nearly graspable about it. He doesn’t describe the world we know - i.e. he doesn’t focus on the scaffolding, in which we communally invest, through language and social order to run our lives - an approach that delivers the comforting satisfaction of affirmation and recognition. Instead he attempts to breach ‘The Real’ [1] – something that differentiates itself from what could be called ‘artificial’ to be more total, but which is certainly discernible from the imaginary and fanciful. As a vehicle for ‘time’, ‘light’ and ‘movement’ (elements as valid to his practice as more conventional ones in painting like line, form and colour) the role of the projector has been variously considered in past work. For example, it was built inside the work in the LIGHT FORMS series, it was suspended closely overhead on clamps in works like 'Peep Show' and 'Where th ... More
Museum of Fine Arts Celebrates Arte2010 with Exhibition from the Collection
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Magic Eye (1989), a large-scale etching and aquatint by the Cuban-born artist Julio Larraz from the Museum’s collection, inspired Dreams and Realities: Latin American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors, 1950-1991. Part of ARTE 2010: Tampa Bay’s Festival of the Americas, Sueños y Realidades: Grabados, Dibujos, y Acuarelas latinoamericanos, 1950-1991 is on view from October 2, 2010-February 6, 2011. The St. Petersburg Times is the media sponsor. Larraz transforms the ordinary objects in the composition, from the oversized melons to the expressive lighting and palette, to create a mood of intense drama. The more than 30 works in Dreams and Realities offer a fascinating introduction to the themes and styles in post-1950 Latin American art. Influences are complex and multilayered: Cubism, Surrealism, indigenous cultures, the tradition of caricature and social commentary, and magic realism. Amon ... More
George Sherwood's Wind Orchid Ushers in Kinetic Waves of Energy at the Katonah Museum of Art
KATONAH, NY.- The Katonah Museum of Art puts a positive spin on this windy season as it presents George Sherwood’s Wind Orchid (slant leaf variation) on the South Lawn. The steel sculpture’s sheer unpredictability will delight Museum visitors from October 3, 2010 through May 22, 2011. “Wind Orchid is a beautiful addition to the KMA landscape,” says Ellen Keiter, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum. “Whatever the weather, it casts a mesmerizing spell. It welcomes visitors to the Museum’s front entrance, while its large scale ensures that the sculpture can be enjoyed by passers-by as well.” Wind Orchid is a 24-foot-tall kinetic sculpture that gracefully responds to the changing environment outside the Museum. The wind choreographs the speed and rotation of the tendrils while stainless steel leaves reflect glimpses of sun and sky. “At times they rotate in a slow and measured manne ... More
Comic Book Collector Learns Fine Art of Letting Go
By: Martha Irvine, AP National Writer
NEW YORK, NY.- Jose Alaniz spent about a week sorting and packing each comic book — carefully, lovingly. There were 12 boxes of them, comics he'd collected since his mother bought him his first one at age 6. He took time to look through them all. The Defenders. The Incredible Hulk. The Mighty Thor. Spider-Man. Each of them, even the bad ones, meant something to him. And now here he was, preparing to let them go to the special collections at the University of Washington libraries. Alaniz knows some would consider it silly that a 42-year-old man should be so attached to bits of paper and ink, books never really meant to last that long. A professor at the university, he sounds a bit apologetic for what he can only describe as his own sappiness (not an easy thing for a serious, somewhat nerdy academic to embrace). Still, though he would soften the blow by keeping 10 of his most prized comic books, it would not be easy to let go. Those he ... More
Cassatt, Picasso and Munch Highlighting Christie's October Prints & Multiples Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s presents the Prints & Multiples Sale taking place October 26-27, 2010. The two day sale features 454 lots and is expected to realize in excess of $9 million. Works included in the sale span the 19th through the 21st century, with a large portion devoted to the Post-War and Contemporary categories. This exciting selection of prints and multiples showcases works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha among others. The 19th Century Print section includes 12 works by Mary Cassatt, featuring six of her extremely rare color prints. Cassatt’s Woman Bathing (La Toilette), circa 1891 (estimate: $200,000-300,000), holds the world auction record for a Cassatt print when an impression of this subject achieved $376,500 in November 1999. This work distinctively combines the influence of Japanese printmaking with Cassat ... More
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