Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo Opens Exhibition on Dandyism

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.- Sur le dandysme aujourd’hui attempts to show how many of the concepts and strategies developed by nineteenth-century dandies can be found in the work and attitudes of certain contemporary artists, and how the iconography and themes of the literature of dandyism are still significant. To do so it takes three landmarks in the unusual history of dandyism—George Bryan Brummell, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde, with allusions to Jules Amadée Barbey d’Aurevilly, the Countess of Castiglione and Joris [...]

Feldman Gallery Show Includes Two Remarkable Motorized Sculptures

NEW YORK, NY.- Now we are on the crest of a wave of computer and scientific development that has spawned a generation of artists to employ the tools of our time…in order to “observe and investigate” the world that we are creating for ourselves. Joe Ketner, Foster Chair in Contemporary Art at Emerson College. With its exhibition, One Part Human, The Feldman Gallery brings together artists who explore the tension between human and technological capabilities in today’s scientific society. The [...]

Saatchi Gallery to Open Tribute to American Soldiers Killed in Wars

LONDON.- Emily Prince’s American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (but not Including the Wounded, nor the Iraqis nor the Afghans) is a tribute to every American soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2004. Comprising of 5,158 drawings – one for every fallen soldier to date – this ongoing memorial project brings attention to the human cost of war, turning statistics back into portraits of real lives sacrificed on the field. Emily Prince’s American Servicemen [...]

Dutch Secret Service Take Custody of Jill Magid’s Art

LONDON.- It’s not often that the end of an exhibition at Tate Modern ends with a dramatic twist but that’s exactly what happened today, Monday Jan 4 2010, when two representatives from the Dutch Ministry of Interior took permanent custody of the exhibits on behalf of the Dutch Secret Service who had originally commissioned the artworks. The show entitled ‘Authority To Remove’ became a showdown between the artist Jill Magid and her commissioners, the AIVD (Dutch Secret Service), who didn’t [...]

Detroit Institute of Arts Looks at 1950s Detroit through the Eyes of Robert Frank

DETROIT, MI.- Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955 showcases more than 50 rare and many never-before-seen black-and-white photographs taken in Detroit by legendary artist Robert Frank. The exhibition will be on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) March 3–July 4, 2010. The exhibition is free with museum admission. In 1955 and 1956 Robert Frank traveled the U.S. taking photographs for his groundbreaking book The Americans, published in 1958. With funding from a prestigious Guggenheim grant, he set out [...]

Ireland’s High-Tech Industry Explored in Exhibition at DePaul

CHICAGO, IL.- An exhibition of Mark Curran’s photographs and videos examining the aesthetics of the high-tech “clean room” industry will open Jan. 14 at the DePaul University Art Museum, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago. An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 14 at the museum. Both are free and open to the public. “The Breathing Factory,” which runs through March 19, probes the cascading effects of globalization and economic swings in a Hewlett-Packard (HP) plant [...]

Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Awarded $600,000 Grant

NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has received a $600,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to develop its groundbreaking 2007 “Design for the Other 90%” exhibition into an ongoing series that will continue to focus on design solutions that address 90 percent of the world’s population not traditionally serviced by the professional design community. In fall 2011, Cooper-Hewitt will present the first in a series of exhibitions examining the complex issues arising from the unprecedented rate of population growth [...]

Art Fund Welcomes Stephen Deuchar as New Director

LONDON.- Dr. Deuchar stepped down as director of Tate Britain last December and brings a wealth of experience with him. He directed the creation of Tate Britain in 2000 at Millbank, home of the original Tate Gallery. During his time at Tate, Stephen Deuchar oversaw the realisation of a wealth of ambitious exhibitions, including major retrospectives of William Blake (2000) and Lucian Freud (2002), as well as the hugely popular group shows, Turner Whistler Monet (2005) and, most recently, the [...]

Installation by Architects and Walead Beshty to Open at Italian Cultural Institute

LOS ANGELES, CA.- LATER LAYER, a site-specific installation designed by architects Johnston Marklee and artist Walead Beshty, will be on view at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles from January 16-February 28, 2010. The installation will feature architectural models of Johnston Marklee’s work in Italy and Beshty’s photograms in the DEPART Foundation Collection. Presented as two connected projects, Johnston Marklee’s architectural models and Beshty’s photograms will be displayed throughout the gallery in a field of modular nesting boxes [...]

Ateneum Transforms Third Floor into Picasso’s Living Room

HELSINKI.- An exhibition space on the third floor of Ateneum has been transformed into Picasso’s Living Room, which was created by the Company design office of Helsinki, consisting of the designer couple Aamu Song and Johan Olin. This interactive space invites you into the world of the master – Picasso was always an inspiration for this space and the objects placed in it. Try out the furniture, read the newspapers and magazines, be happy and inspired. Pablo Picasso, “Le baiser” [...]

Most Extensive Exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s Work Announced at Martin Gropius Bau

BERLIN.- The year 2007 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the artist Frida Kahlo. She attained cult status through an art that combined the colourful, cheerful culture of Mexico with the traumatic experiences of her own life. Although this made her the most famous female artist of the first half of the 20th century, in Germany her work was very seldom to be seen in the original. The over 120 paintings and drawings on display in the Martin-Gropius-Bau [...]

Phillips Collection to Examine Georgia O’Keeffe from a Fresh Perspective

WASHINGTON, DC.- The artistic achievement of Georgia O’Keeffe is examined from a fresh perspective in Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, a landmark exhibition debuting this winter at The Phillips Collection. While O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been recognized as one of the central figures in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she created throughout her long career has remained less well-known than her representational art. By surveying her abstractions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction repositions O’Keeffe as one of America’s first and most daring abstract [...]

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art Introduces an Important Collection to an American Audience

CHARLOTTE, NC.- The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the only museum dedicated to the exhibition of mid 20th-century European modern art in the southeast, opened to the public Saturday, January 2, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The building, designed by world renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta, is destined to become an iconic structure with its boldly cantilevered fourth floor exhibition gallery, soaring glass and steel atrium and terra cotta exterior. Bechtler Museum of Modern Art The museum is named after [...]

ZKM Museum Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Exhibition

KARLSRUHE.- The large scale anniversary exhibition “just what is it …” celebrates ten-years of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the bays 1 and 2 of the Hallenbau of the ZKM presenting works from Cézanne and the expressionists through to Picasso, from Baumeister to Wols, from Pollock to Rothko, from Warhol and Beuys to Baselitz, Kiefer, Kippenberger, and Rehberger, so extensively laid out and of such high international renown. On 4 December 1999, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened at [...]

Venice Pays Homage to Zoran Music with Exhibition at Palazzo Franchetti

VENICE.- Venice pays homage to Zoran Music (Gorizia 1909 – Venice 2005) with a major, highly refined exhibition commemorating the centenary of the artist’s birth. An artist of international standing, viewed as one of the key figures of the twentieth century, Zoran Music hailed from Dalmatia, becoming Venetian by adoption. As a place of fusion between east and west, the city on the lagoon proved to be a source of inspiration and constant point of reference for the artist throughout [...]