| | Bucerius Kunst Forum Throws New Light onto the Works Gerhard Richter Created in the 60s
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German artist Gerhard Richter (L) poses for the press during the opening of his exhibition, entitled Images of an Era, at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg,Germany, 04 February 2011. Some 50 large format paintings will be on dispaly until 15 May. EPA/ULRICH PERREY.
HAMBURG.- Gerhard Richter’s large-scale photograph paintings created in the 1960s have made art history. By categorically continuing to paint, Richter positioned himself against the “exit from the picture”. This exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum throws new light onto the works Richter created in the 1960s. Due to their relevance, they are considered images of an era. Many of these images have become inscribed onto the collective consciousness of modern German society. This applies in particular to the cycle October 18, 1977 (1988) which dealt with the death of RAF members at the Stammheim prison. It is one of Richter’s key works and represents a new type of historical painting. Curated by Uwe M. Schneede, former director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle, this exhibition brings together 50 paintings from German and international collections. By focusing for the first time on his photo paintings, and ... More |
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Privateers of Utopia: The Art of Improving the World at Weserburg Exhibition
Joseph Beuys, Dürer, ich führe persönlich Baader + Meinhof durch die Dokumenta V, 1972, © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2011, Hartfaserplatten, Holz, Filz, Fett, Latte, 200 x 200 x 40 cm. SAMMLUNG RHEINGOLD.
BREMEN.- With the exhibition "Privateers of Utopia," the Weserburg is presenting thought-provoking impulses by artists with regard to the possibility of changing the world and society. The worldwide economic crisis has vividly demonstrated how dangerous it is when politics places the structuring of society in the hands of the economy. But what is the role of art in this context? What possibilities does it have for exercising an influence? "Art doesn't liberate us from anything"—Bruce Nauman's sober assessment focuses in a special manner on the seeming impotence of art vis-à-vis the supposedly more powerful forces of politics and the economy. On the other hand, Carsten Ahrens, the director of the Weserburg, formulates the thematic core of the exhibition differently: "It is the arts—the visual arts, theater, literature, film, dance and music—which keep awake as a living dream the vision of ... More | | New Exhibition at Auburn University Museum Explores Prints by Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, Girls on the Pier, 1903, etching and aquatinit, 7 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches, courtesy Epstein Family Collection.
AUBURN, AL.- The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents a new exhibition, Prints by Edvard Munch, on view from Feb. 5–April 30 in the Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Gallery. Munch, a Norwegian artist who lived from 1863 to 1944 is world renowned for his evocative depictions of universal human emotions and experiences––love, attraction, separation and death. His widely reproduced painting, The Scream, captures in expressive brushwork the anxious psyche of modern man, overwhelmed by his perceptions of a cruel or indifferent world. Equally adept in printmaking as in paint, Munch exploited the directness of graphic media to intensify his artistic statements. Munch frequently reworked themes he explored in prior paintings and prints, simplifying forms almost to the point of abstraction and distilling his narrative to pure symbolism. His prints are often unique impressions, as Mu ... More | | Exhibition of French Drawings from Poussin to Seurat at the National Galleries in Scotland
Georges Seurat, Seated Nude: Study for 'Une Baignade', 1883. Conte crayon on cream paper: 31.70 x 24.70 cm. National Gallery of Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- An outstanding collection of French master drawings will be the focus of a new display at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh next spring. Over the last thirty years the Gallery has carefully and deliberately strengthened its holdings in this area, and is now home to one of the best collections of French drawings in the UK. Among the 60 works on show, ranging in date from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century, will be superb examples by artists such as Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin, J A D Ingres, and Georges Seurat. Highlights will include an exceptional preparatory drawing by Poussin for his great painting Dance to the Music of Time, and Seurat’s Seated Nude, a study for the central figure in his celebrated painting Bathers at Asnières. Of all the major European schools of drawing the French is one of the richest and most fertile. Its variety, as demonstrated in this exhib ... More |
 | Exhibition: "Riches of a City: Portland Collects" Celebrates Arts Patronage in Portland
Thomas Le Clair, Judith and Holofernes, c. 1860, Oil on canvas, Collection of Sue and Robert Joki.
PORTLAND, OR.- Organized by the Portland Art Museum, the exhibition Riches of a City: Portland Collects celebrates arts patronage in Portland and the influence these collections have on the Museum. Opening on February 5, the exhibition features more than 230 objects from some 80 private collections in the city. The exhibition title references a quote from C.E.S. Wood, a founder of the Museum and arts patron: “Good citizens are the riches of a city.” For nearly a year, four of the Museum’s curators have been exploring local collections of photography, prints, drawings, silver, Asian art, European art, and modern and contemporary art, uncovering exceptional objects including works by Degas, Picasso, Lautrec, Miro, and Warhol. The curators visited with more than 150 collectors and considered hundreds of objects. The works in the exhibition reveal a variety of collecting interests and passions and give the pub ... More | | American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White at the Art Institute of Chicago
Walker Evans (1903–1975). Posed Portraits, New York, 1932. Gelatin silver print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, 1962.169. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CHICAGO, IL.- A special exhibition that explores the evolution of documentary images through the work of three of the foremost photographers of the 20th century will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from February 5 through May 15, 2011. American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White presents more than 140 iconic images by Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Walker Evans (1903–1975), and Margaret Bourke-White (1906–1971)—all taken between the years of 1929, when the stock market crashed, and 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed. This exhibition not only shows, for the first time, the photographs of Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White in relation to one another, but it also chronicles how documentary photography had a hand in transforming modern art in America. It was during this period, the 1930s, that ... More | | Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh Presents Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective
Paul Thek, Untitled (Chair with Crow and Meat), 1968. Wood, wax, paint, leather, and taxidermic crow. Kolumba, Cologne © The Estate of George Paul Thek; courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York. Photo: © Kolumba, Köln/Lothar Schepf.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the critically acclaimed first major exhibition to explore the work of the legendary artist. Defying classification, Paul Thek (1933–1988)—the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early ’70s—is the subject of an upcoming retrospective opening at Carnegie Museum of Art on February 5, 2011, and co-organized by Carnegie Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition debuted at the Whitney, where critics from the New York Times called it “a ragged, moving and much-anticipated retrospective”; the New Yorker called the exhibition “remarkable . . . [Thek] is too little known, and his ... More |
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Charif Benhelima's First Exhibition in Berlin Opens at Galerie Michael Janssen
Charif Benhelima, W. 148th St., Harlem, from the series Harlem on my mind: I was, I am, Digital Prestige Brilliant-Abzug hinter Acrylglas / Numerique. Prestige Brilliant print behind acrylic glass (from Polariod 600). Courtesy Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin.
BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents for the first time Belgian photographer Charif Benhelima with the exhibition Harlem on my Mind: I was, I am. Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the real estate market of Manhattan, it was a metaphor for African American culture at its richest. Benhelima’s passion for Jazz as well as his desire to experience African American culture at its source prompted him to move to Harlem, where he lived and worked from 1999 to 2003, undertaking the difficult task of photographing a place that was only known to him through legend and through its music. The title of the project is a reference to the controversial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in 1969. The black and white and red photographic series ... More | | Exhibition of Four Centuries of French Drawings Opens at the Frick Art & Historical Center
Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694–1752), France Thanking Heaven for the Recovery of Louis XV, 1744. Black and white chalks with brush and gray wash and touches of red chalk on crea, 11 15⁄16 x 7 ⅞ inches.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art opens at the Frick Art & Historical Center on February 5, 2011. Composed of 56 drawings made between 1500 and 1900, this exhibition chronicles the full range of artistic uses of the medium, from quick sketches to finished compositional studies, to drawing as an end in itself. The Blanton Museum at The University of Texas at Austin has organized the exhibition from their permanent collection, which was supplemented a bit more than a decade ago by a large gift of drawings. The French drawings from this gift had not received systematic academic study, nor had most of them been published. The exhibition will remain on view at the Frick through April 17, 2011. Especially rich in 17th- and 18th-century drawings, ... More | | Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection in Minneapolis
Antonio Montauti, Diana the Huntress, Bronze, 1720-1740.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- An important international exhibition, “Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection” opens at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) February 6 and runs through May 15. Additionally, the MIA is presenting “Lost Wax, Found Sculpture,” an exhibition that explains the technique of making bronze sculpture according to the historically popular technique of lost-wax casting. “Beauty and Power” is selected from Marino’s unparalleled private collection of 16th- to 18th- century Italian and French bronzes, and contains many pieces never publicly displayed before the show debuted in early 2010 at the Wallace Collection in London. It comes to the MIA from its only other U.S. venue, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. “The MIA is fortunate to be able to show more about thirty bronzes statue ... More |
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Toledo Museum of Art Acquires Glass Sculptures by Two Leading Artists for Its Collection
Laura Donefer (Canadian/American, born 1955), Blizzard Amulet Basket. Colorless and opaque white glass, blown, tooled, applied, flameworked, assembled; found organic objects (sea shells, bleached roots), 18 x 18 in., 2007. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 2010.8. Photo by Richard Goodbody. Gallery 5, Glass Pavilion®.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has added two new glass sculptures to its collection. Pyramid by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche can be seen in Gallery 1 of the main Museum building. Blizzard Amulet Basket by Canadian artist Laura Donefer has been installed in Gallery 5 of the Glass Pavilion®. “Both of these sculptures are made in a clear or white palette, and both are composite sculptures, assembled of many smaller intricate elements,” said Museum Director Brian Kennedy. “These monochromatic objects distill their creators’ artistic intents and sensitivities to glass as the chosen medium.” Gasch-Muche has experimented with different materials ... More | | The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art at the Hudson River Museum
Sam Gilliam. Fine as a Cobweb, 1989.
YONKERS, NY.- The Chemistry of Color titles a bold and vibrant collection of paintings from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), which opens at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, on February 5.Works by African - American artists from a key period in American art — the 1970s through the 90s― show artists in the forefront of changes that began a decade before with the Civil Rights Movement. The Hudson River Museum is the only venue for this exhibition in the tristate region. Among the 41 artists in The Chemistry of Color who found inspiration in a poem, a photograph, texture, a pattern, or an object are Benny Andrews, Sam Gilliam, Edward Hughes, Alvin Loving, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, and Raymond Saunders. Their works show their experimentation with color, narrative, and materials, and traced their expression of new American ideals forged in the last few decades of the 20th century. In t ... More | | Three Solo Exhibitions by Artists Ruth Claxton, Amy Cutler, and Runa Islam at SITE Santa Fe
Ruth Claxton, Synthetic Worlds (detail), 2010-–2011, mixed media, courtesy of the artist, photo: Annik Wetter.
SANTA FE, NM.- SITE Santa Fe presents three solo exhibitions by the artists Ruth Claxton, Amy Cutler, and Runa Islam from February 5 - May 15, 2011. Each of these artists, Ruth Claxton, Amy Cutler, and Runa Islam, creates precisely rendered, yet enigmatic compositions that exhibit a self-conscious awareness of the formal structures of their respective mediums of sculpture, painting and film. Although the exhibitions were developed to be distinct, the juxtaposition of these artists’ works reveals a strong visual resonance. Their shared interest in form, color, line, phenomenological engagement, and, in some cases, the employment of similar motifs, creates a suggestive visual conversation. Ruth Claxton creates dynamic sculptural environments that employ a diverse range of tactics to question perception. Claxton assembles large, elaborate, multi- ... More |
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Smithsonian Scientists Discover Seven New Species of Fish
WASHINGTON, DC.- Things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish—something scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and the Ocean Science Foundation are finding out. Using modern genetic analysis, combined with traditional examination of morphology, the scientists discovered that what were once thought to be three species of blenny in the genus Starksia are actually 10 distinct species. The team’s findings are published in the scientific journal ZooKeys, Feb. 3. Starksia blennies, small (less than 2 inches) fish with elongated bodies, generally native to shallow to moderately deep rock and coral reefs in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans, have been well-studied for more than 100 years. It would have been reasonable to assume that there was little about the group left to discover. Modern DNA barcoding techniques, however, suggested otherwise. While trying to match larval stages of coral reef fish ... More
U.S. Art Critics Association Selects Dead or Alive as a Top Architecture and Design Show
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design announced that Chief Curator David McFadden and Curator Lowery Stokes Sims will be honored by the United States branch of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) for their work on the exhibition Dead or Alive. The exhibition was selected from over 100 finalists as an award winner in the category of Best Architecture and Design Shows. The AICA will award McFadden and Sims, as well as winners in 11 other categories, in a ceremony at Cooper Union on March 14, 2011. For more than 25 years, the AICA has recognized the ambitious and creative endeavors of artists, curators, museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions through their annual awards ceremony. Awardees are nominated and selected by a panel of 400 active AICA-USA members for their work in conceptualizing and executing some of the most cutting-edge and thought-provoking exhibitions of the previous seaso ... More
Artwork with Confederate Flag Removed in Georgia
OAKWOOD, GA (AP).- A college president in Georgia says she ordered an instructor's painting that featured a Confederate flag removed from a faculty art exhibit. The Athens Banner-Herald reports the flag was superimposed on images including a hanged black man and a hooded Ku Klux Klansman. Gainesville State College President Martha Nesbitt says she had to consider the impact on the health and reputation of the institution. Athens artist Stan Bermudez says his painting was ordered removed around the same time a retired air force major objected to it on a website devoted to Southern heritage. The major says he hates to see the flag of Southern soldiers maligned, but Bermudez says the painting represents some of the feelings he associates with it. ... More
14th Annual Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The country’s most important Western art show, the Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale, opens at the Autry National Center on Saturday, February 5, 2011. This prestigious exhibition challenges nationally recognized artists to exhibit their very best work. The juried exhibition and sale features 75 artists whose work is stylistically and thematically diverse. Masters artists participate in opening-weekend activities such as a special artists’ dinner and gallery tours. Most are on hand for the Saturday chuck wagon luncheon, where the awards are presented, followed by the evening cocktail reception featuring the official sale of the new works and a silent-bid process for the most sought-after works. Patrons attending the Saturday events are able to view the works and meet the artists. Entering its 14th year, the Masters show has featured the best artists from across the country, with ... More
Westmont Museum of Art to Organize Symposium to Attract Art Collectors
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- “The Discerning Eye: An Art Collector’s Symposium” gathers art critics, dealers and collectors from across the country for an all-day educational event at the Westmont Museum of Art on Saturday, March 12. The event is open to the public and offers practical insight for both novice and experienced art collectors. The symposium, which begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 4:30 p.m., will be held in Porter Theatre adjacent to the Adams Center for the Visual Arts. Event tickets are $100 and include museum membership ($50 for current members), and are available by calling (805) 565-6162. Gregory S. Hedberg, director of European paintings and sculpture at Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, will open the day with a talk about collecting European art. After a distinguished museum career at The Frick Collection, New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Hedberg founded and was the first director ... More
Phillips de Pury & Company Announce Highlights from Under the Influence Auction in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announce highlights from the forthcoming Under the Influence auction. Timed to capture the audience of the Armory Arts Week in New York, the highly anticipated sale will present a selection of 288 works including contemporary art, photographs and design. Portrait 5, Stephen(s), 2009 - 2010, a noted work of portraiture attributed to Stephen Colbert, enhanced by the artistic contributions of Shepard Fairey who spray-painted it, Andres Serrano, who Sharpie’d it, and Franke Stella who glanced at it, will be offered as the first lot in the sale. The work debuted on the December 8, 2010 episode of “The Colbert Report” as part of an interview with Steve Martin to discuss the release of his new book An Object of Beauty. The portrait is being sold to benefit school arts projects through DonorsChose.org, an onl ... More
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