Heading Bonhams Marine Sale are Inaugural America’s Cup Scenes

LONDON.- Three 20th century paintings of the first America’s Cup sailing regatta of 1851, the oldest continuous sporting trophy in history, are highlights at The Marine Sale at Bonhams on 24th March 2010. The paintings, by Timothy Franklin Ross Thompson (British, born 1951), record three incidents in the race around the Isle of Wight: America and her rivals on the start line (estimate £25,000 – 35,000), America romping home to victory (estimate £25,000 – 35,000), and Arrow and Alarm (estimate [...]

Inka Essenhigh’s Latest Body of Work to Open at 303 Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery will present their third exhibition of new paintings by Inka Essenhigh. The artist’s latest body of work touches on notions proffered by 18th century Romanticist William Blake, who wrote, “Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.” The ostensible subject of the paintings is landscape, the natural world. The paintings’ lush backdrops (most directly drawn from her studio in coastal Maine) are rendered almost 3-dimensionally, bathed [...]

PULSE New York Announces Move to New Location for Fifth Edition

NEW YORK, NY.- Helen Allen, Executive Director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, announced today that PULSE New York is moving to a new location at 330 West Street, at the corner of the West Side Highway and West Houston Street. The new venue, a former New York Central Railroad freight train terminal housing five blocks of the original High Line, has 30-foot high ceilings with varying levels of lofted space to be used for special projects. The fifth edition of [...]

Art, Travel, and Modernity Featured in New Exhibition at the Bruce Museum

GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, demonstrates the powerful relationship between traveling and art, both in its making and collecting in Exotic Encounters: Art, Travel, and Modernity in the Collection of the Bruce Museum, a major, new exhibition drawn from highlights of its own collection on view in the Museum’s main galleries from Saturday, January 23, 2010, through Sunday, April 25, 2010. Exotic Encounters reveals a little-recognized but key aspect of modern aesthetics, featuring approximately 70 rare, rich [...]

London Based Artist Laura Wilson Presents New Works at Siobhan Davies

LONDON.- London based artist Laura Wilson presents a number of new works which respond to the building and its history. Her work lies in investigating the everyday through various media and the exhibition features two live performances alongside drawings on glass, sculpture and video. Laura Wilson, “Quite a Stranger, Aren’t You?”. Performance art events: • 19 January, 7pm and 8pm: Blind Building takes place in the tower block of the London College of Communication in Elephant and Castle, a few [...]

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Presents Never Before Seen Photos by Robert Doisneau

PARIS.- The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation opened an exhibition of approximately 100 photographs taken by Robert Doisneau. The photographs have been gatheres from the Foundations collections and other museum and private collections. The exhibition aims to show the viewer the world Doisneau wanted to prove existed. The catalog, published in French by Steidl, is accompanied by a text written by Agnès Sire and of a review made by art critic Jean-François Chevrier in 1983. “There are several photographs in this show [...]

Artist Jenness Cortez Exhibits Contemporary American Realism

NAPLES, FL.- DeBruyne Fine Art will host their ninth solo exhibition by artist Jenness Cortez. “Homage to the Creative Spirit,” January 28 through March 31, 2010. For centuries artists have been challenging their intellect and skills by paying homage to the innovators who preceded them. In her new work, Jenness Cortez becomes the 21st century’s most notable example of this genre. Her continuing fascination with creating original paintings that incorporate art within art makes her work compelling––both by the virtuosity [...]

Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture by U-Ram Choe to be Featured at Frist Center

NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will feature seven works by Korean kinetic artist U-Ram Choe in an exhibition opening to the public Feb. 19, 2010. U-Ram Choe: New Urban Species will be on view in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery through May 16, 2010. U-Ram Choe’s kinetic sculptures are made of delicately curved sections of wrought metal, joined together in movable parts that are driven by motors to expand, contract, or otherwise suggest the autonomic [...]

First Big Parisian Exhibition for Artist Paul Wallach at Galerie Jaeger Bucher

PARIS.- American artist Paul Wallach is showing some twenty recent works for his first big Parisian exhibition under the title “Falling Up”. Born in New York in 1960, Wallach studied History of Art and of Artisanry at Wisconsin and Boston University, then worked with Mark di Suvero as artist in residence in the 1990s, before moving to Paris – where he still lives – in 1994. His minimalist sculptures are exempted from narrative content. They emerge off the wall at [...]

First Solo Museum Exhibition in The Netherlands for Daniel Roth Announced

HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem will present the first solo museum exhibition in The Netherlands by the German artist Daniel Roth. The show will trace the development of the artist’s oeuvre on the basis of existing and new work, from drawings, sculptures and photographs with a narrative character to ever more frugal, autonomous images in which the relation between the human body and the landscape is central. This exhibition can be seen from March 20 through June 6, 2010. Daniel Roth [...]

Eleven Gallery Kicks Off the Year with Natasha Kissell Exhibition

LONDON.- Eleven will present Artificial Paradises, a new exhibition by Natasha Kissell. Borrowing its title from Charles Baudelaire’s eponymous book, this new show opens up multiple windows into a fanciful world. Kissell embraces an altered reality, her paintings function like psychedelic visions inviting viewers into a dream-like space. In her previous exhibition at Eleven, The Magic Hours, each work was a trigger for a particular state of mind. This new body of works is freed from any links to the [...]

Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center to Show Artist’s Close Studies of Nature

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents 75 drawings, watercolors, and small oil studies made during the 50-year career of one of America’s most famous landscape artists. The exhibition “William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University” opens June 23 and continues through September 26, 2010. “The works on view in this exhibition are highlights from a collection of nearly 250 artworks by Richards, inherited in 1905 by his youngest son and eventually [...]

New Photographic Display Celebrates the Work of Format Photography Agency

LONDON.- A new photographic display will celebrate the work of Format Photography Agency, the only solely female agency in British photographic history. The seventeen portraits on display will reflect the scope and achievement of this agency and this will be the first display devoted to Format at the National Portrait Gallery. Format was established in1983 by eight founding members: Anita Corbin, Sheila Gray, Pam Isherwood, Jenny Mathews, Maggie Murray, Joanne O’Brien, Raissa Page and Val Wilmer. During its history the [...]

Yang Jin Long Makes U.S. Debut with Contemporary Oil Paintings at Crow Collection

DALLAS, TX.- A child of China’s 1960s Cultural Revolution, internationally renowned artist Yang Jin Long will make his American museum debut with an exhibition entitled Seizing the New World, Recent Paintings by Yang Jin Long, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art. The exhibition opens Sat., Jan. 23 and runs through Sun., April 18, 2010. Yang Jin Long’s contemporary paintings reflect his experiences since moving to the United States from China in 2006. In his most recent works, Yang has [...]

Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections Opens in Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum is the final venue of a two-year tour of “Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University,” an exhibition organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University. Touted as “eye-opening” by Roberta Smith, art critic at the New York Times, the exhibition is curated at U.Va. by Dorothy Wong, associate professor of East Asian art in the McIntire Department of Art. “Standing Buddha”, [...]