ARCOmadrid_2010 was Officially Presented at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- ARCOmadrid_2010 was officially presented in public at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. The act was chaired by Luis Eduardo Cortés, President of IFEMA’s Executive Committee; Fermín Lucas, Director General of IFEMA and Lourdes Fernández, Director of ARCOmadrid. Feria de Madrid is holding the 29th International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid_2010, from February 17th to 21st, making it once again the opening event in the international art fair calendar. This year the fair is hosting a total [...]

Vaclava Spala Gallery in Prague Shows “Symbio: a Digital Heartbeat”

PRAGUE.- Technology is influencing the way we conduct our everyday routines. Digital developments methodically build and redefine technology’s existence in our cultural identity. Digital media constructs an abstract version of our reality into complex recreations that can be viewed on a monitor. The exploration of our world in virtual reality, as opposed to a world that can be touched, is how new media is changing traditional forms of art. With the progression of the new digital age, artistic expressions and [...]

Zabludowicz Collection Anounces Largest Ever Showcase of Works from its Collection

LONDON.- 176 / Zabludowicz Collection will present an exhibition of works from the Zabludowicz Collection guest curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers. As part of 176 / Zabludowicz Collection’s curatorial residency, Anna-Catharina Gebbers was given complete freedom to create an exhibition from the over 2,000 works in the Zabludowicz Collection. The result is a dramatic contrast to former presentations of works from the Collection. Oskar Schmidt, “Girl with Book”, 2005. C-print, framed 100 x 128 cm. ©The artist. Courtesy: Zabludowicz Collection With [...]

Franz Ackermann Fills the Rooms of the Kunstmuseum Bonn with Colorful Paintings

BONN.- Franz Ackermann who was born in Neumarkt St. Veit (Bavaria) in 1963 is one of the most innovative painters of the past ten years. Since 2001 this internationally acclaimed artist has also been employed as a professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Time and time again, he manages to make an impression with his room filling and extremely colourful pictures, drawings and installations which effortlessly combine elements of globalised society with apparently purely pictorial aspects. Franz [...]

Milestones to Celebrate South Carolina Artists Age 70 and Beyond

MYRTLE BEACH, SC.- Milestones are those momentous occasions that mark our lives, from birth to death and all the important events in between. Milestones: Celebrating 70 and Beyond, an exhibition opening at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum Sunday afternoon, January 17, 2010, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., recognizes a significant milestone 27 of South Carolina’s most distinguished artists have reached—their 70th year—along with their long and illustrious careers that have contributed to the cultural richness of the [...]

IVAM Opens Exhibition which Tells a Story in Five Rooms

VALENCIA.- The exhibition La maleta de mi madre (My Mother’s Suitcase), which tells a story in five rooms, describes the relationship between mother and daughter as an interplay between experience and a new beginning. At a certain age all children experience the responsibility that is passed on to them by the mother. In El sueño de vivir (The Dream of Living) one is surrounded by the mother’s objects, which convey an intense feeling of well-being, warmth, security and trust. In [...]

Camden Arts Centre Announces Exhibition by Anna Maria Maiolino

LONDON.- Italian-born, Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Her new exhibition at Camden Arts Centre will include a site-specific installation and a selection of film works made over the last 30 years. In a career that spans five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums including clay, ink, film and performance, Anna Maria Maiolino’s work retains a fundamental concern with creative and destructive processes and with identity; from the [...]

MoMA Adds Evening Hours on the First Thursday of Each Month

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art will remain open until 8:45 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month, from January through June 2010, providing visitors with extended hours to view MoMA’s collection and special exhibitions. Regular Museum admission applies. MoMA Nights will include music by DJs and a cash bar featuring a specialty cocktail. A prix fixe dinner created by Chef Lynn Bound will be available in Cafe 2. Gallery talks will be offered at 5:30, 6:30, [...]

Green Cardamom to Show New Work by Pakistani Artist Bani Abidi

LONDON.- Bani Abidi is one of the leading figures from a generation of Pakistani artists who trained during the 1990s and began exploring social contradictions through their artistic practice. Green Cardamom presents two key works by Abidi at this exhibition – Karachi Series 1 (2009), a photographic investigation into, and a lament, of the loss of Pakistan’s diverse cultural character in the face of the Islamisation of the nation’s society that began in the 1980s. This work was shown for [...]

Vassar College to Celebrate the Arts with 8th Annual Modfest

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The eighth annual Modfest, a celebration of new music, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and the visual arts at Vassar College, will feature 30 events at various locations across the Poughkeepsie campus from January 21 through February 7, 2010. Programs and events will be open to the public without charge. “The events this year have been devised to explore all aspects of the creative process,” noted Modfest founders and directors Richard Wilson and Adene Wilson ’69. This year’s [...]

Significant Watercolours and Shields Secured for Ayrshire

LONDON.- With help from The Art Fund and other funding bodies, East Ayrshire Council has successfully raised the £85,100 needed to buy a nationally significant set of watercolours which will go on display at Dean Castle, Kilmarnock, early next year. The Eglinton Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding significance for the study of Scottish social history and of the Gothic Revival in 19th century Britain. The accompanying historic shields, which were used to furnish the [...]

Savannah College of Art and Design Presents “Caught Captive” by Erick Swenson

ATLANTA, GA.- The Savannah College of Art and Design presents “Caught Captive” by acclaimed artist Erick Swenson. The exhibition will be on display at the Trois Gallery, 1600 Peachtree St., Dec. 7-Jan. 24. A reception will be held Jan. 14, 6 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. “Caught Captive” is an exhibition of naturalistic cast resin sculpture that showcases Swenson’s hyper-realistic hybrid creatures frozen in moments of dramatic tension or austere isolation. Situated between [...]

MOCA Elects Trustees Peter M. Brant, Steven T. Mnuchin, and Victor Pinchuk

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced it has elected Peter M. Brant, Steven T. Mnuchin, and Victor Pinchuk to its Board of Trustees, further boosting the institution’s national and international preeminence and marking a continued swell of support during the museum’s turnaround year in 2009. With these three new trustees, MOCA has added 10 trustees to its board this year, naming among the most new board members of any arts institution in America. The announcement of [...]

Leading Russian and Eastern European Artists to Exhibit at Calvert 22

LONDON.- Calvert22 will present Photo I, Photo You, the fourth exhibition at the contemporary art space in Shoreditch. Curated by Iara Boubnova, the exhibition will present works by leading Russian and Eastern European artists who invite the viewer to reconsider, revisit and rediscover what they think they know through a series of mixed media works. What is known as Eastern Europe, the countries that made up the old Soviet Union together with the former Yugoslavia and East Germany, is no [...]

Michael Schulhof Elected to Board of Trustees of Guggenheim Foundation

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael P. Schulhof, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GTI Group, was elected to the board of trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation at the December 16 meeting of the board. The announcement was made by William L. Mack, Chairman of the Board of the Guggenheim Foundation, who commented, “Michael’s business acumen and commitment to contemporary art will be a critical asset to the Guggenheim’s board of trustees. His parents, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof, [...]