Contents of Josephine’s Cellar Exhibited at Chateaux de Malmaison

RUEIL-MALMAISON.- The idea for this exhibition came from the inventory drawn up after the death of the Empress Josephine which listed the contents of the cellar at Malmaison – over thirteen thousand bottles. The list of wines served to guests in the house is striking for the number of crus mentioned and the variety of the regions they came from. The best crus from Bordeaux and Burgundy stand alongside Mediterranean wine, in the sweet, syrupy taste of the eighteenth century, [...]

Pipilotti Rist Opens “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

HUMLEBAEK.- When Pipilotti Rist’s video installation “Homo Sapiens Sapiens “hits the ceiling in Louisiana’s Hall Gallery from Thursday 7 January 2010, the audience will be elevated into a colour saturated, Paradisiac universe amidst the darkness of winter. The work is viewed lying down with your eyes gazing at a sensual firmament where two naked Eve figures float innocently and lustily around. The work has been created by the popular Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and can be seen as a striking [...]

First Comprehensive Exhibition in Europe by Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel

HAMBURG.- Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents the first comprehensive exhibition in Europe by Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel. Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel count among the masters of photography. The House of Photography of Deichtorhallen Hamburg prepares the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist couple. Besides the well-known photographs, published in “Vogue” and “Harper’s Bazaar”, yet unpublished photographs of the two artists will be exposed. Paul Himmel, “Falling Snow – Boy in Window”, New York, 1952. Silbergelatine, 24.8 x 31.6 cm Today [...]

“Golasecca: Of Trade and Men in the Iron Age” at the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale

SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE.- The Celts’ trading partners in the early Iron Age were traditionally the Etruscans and the Greeks. Yet studies carried out in northern Italy since the 1970s demonstrate the dynamism of the peripheral communities which have proved to be significant intermediaries in the trade between temperate Europe and the Mediterranean, especially the “Golasecca culture”. This exhibition aims to show the specific features of this culture within the communities of the Alpine arch. The archaeological reassessment has been made possible by [...]

Luis Meléndez’s Still Lifes to Travel to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts

BOSTON, MA.- Delights of the Spanish table depicted by 18th-century painter Luis Meléndez (1715-1780) will be presented to American audiences for the first time in nearly 25 years at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 1 through May 9, 2009. In a rare opportunity to explore the artist’s working method, “Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life” will showcase 31 paintings, some of which have never been exhibited publicly, and nine examples of 18th-century kitchenware similar to those [...]

Cantor Arts Center Showing Figure Drawings by Frank Lobdell

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is presenting “Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings,” through February 14, 2010, an exhibition of approximately 60 figure drawings in ink, pencil, crayon, and wash from the 1960s and 1970s. Works are on loan from the artist and private collections and from the Cantor Arts Center’s own collection. Frank Lobdell, “Figure Drawing No. 54″, 1972. (3.11.72). Ink, ink wash and gouache, 11-3/8 x 14-1/2 inches. Courtesy: The Artist and Hackett/Mill, San Francisco “From the [...]

Bucerius Kunst Forum to Show Masterpieces of Trompe-l’oeil

HAMBURG.- Trompe-l’œil is distinguished not just by its realism – after all, still life, perspective painting and photography can all claim to be realistic – but by its wit. In the best trompe-l’œil the artist deliberately sets out to trick you, and then lets you know you have been tricked. The exhibition “Genuine Illusions: The Art of Trompe-l’œil” celebrates the charm, irony and sometimes irreverence of trompe-l’œil, from antiquity to the present day. This is epitomized by the very first [...]

The London Original Print Fair To Celebrate 25th Anniversary

LONDON.- Spring 2010 sees the return of the longest running print fair in the world, the London Original Print Fair, 29 April – 3 May 2010. The 25th Fair will take place in the main galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. It will be the largest ever, with some 60 exhibitors including new participants from America and a specialist in Japanese prints. Dealers, Print Workshops and Publishers come from France, Germany, Ireland and America as well [...]

Concept of “Desire” to be Explored by Group of Contemporary Artists

AUSTIN, TX.- This February, The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin investigates the notion of desire in an exhibition of the same name. Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Blanton curator of American and contemporary art and director of curatorial affairs, the exhibition features over fifty works from an international group of contemporary artists working in all media, including Glenn Ligon, Marilyn Minter, Petah Coyne, Bill Viola, Tracey Emin, Isaac Julien and many others. The accompanying [...]

Turner Contemporary Exhibits Poetic Artworks by Katie Paterson

MARGATE.- At any one time there are around 6000 lightning storms happening across the world, amounting to some 16 million storms each year. Such dizzying statistics are useful to hold in mind while experiencing “Streetlight Storm”, a new artwork by Katie Paterson for “Deal Pier” in Kent in which, for one month, from dusk until dawn, the pier lamps flicker in time with lightning strikes happening live in different parts of the world. Katie Paterson creates poetic artworks exploring landscape, [...]

Recent Work by Mitch Dobrowner to Open at Kopeikin Gallery

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Kopeikin Gallery presents the first California exhibition by Los Angeles based photographer Mitch Dobrowner. Titled “Troposphere” the exhibition features recent work of extreme weather throughout the Midwestern United States. The exhibition opens on January 9 and continues through March 6. A reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, January 30, from 6:00 – 8:00. Mitch Dobrowner has always loved storms; the rumble of distant thunder, the flashes of lightning, the energy and electricity in [...]

Somali Charged in Attack on Danish Cartoonist whose Work Ignited Riots

COPENHAGEN.- A Somali man was charged Saturday with two counts of attempted murder for an attack on a Danish artist whose 2005 cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ignited riots and outrage across the Muslim world, authorities said. The 28-year-old Somali — who had ties to al-Qaida — broke into Kurt Westergaard’s home in Aarhus on Friday night armed with an ax and a knife, said Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark’s PET intelligence agency. The 75-year-old artist, who has been the [...]

Astrid Svangren Exhibits Her Works at the Opening of the Moderna Museet in Malmo

MALMO.- Astrid Svangren (born in 1972) graduated from Malmö Art Academy a little more than ten years ago. Since then she has participated in a great number of solo and group exhibitions, where she has received a lot of attention for her painting and the visual worlds she creates. Today she lives and works in Copenhagen. A process is made visible in her pictures, to become a woman, to become an artist, to paint and experiment with a number of [...]

Plains Indian Artists Tell 19th-Century Stories through ‘Ledger Drawings’

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibition “Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings” in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery. The exhibition focuses on drawings developed in the late 19th-century by Northern and Southern Plains Native warriors, which provide a first-person description of history as the artists lived it. The term ‘ledger drawings’ stems from the artists’ frequent use of pages from ledgers or account books. More than 70 Northern and Southern Plains Indians from [...]

Josh Faught “While the Light Lasts” to Open at Lisa Cooley

NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Cooley presents work by Josh Faught in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, While the Light Lasts. The exhibition opens on Friday, January 8th and runs until February 14, 2010. A reception for the artist will be held on January 8th, from 6 until 8 pm. The sculptures presented in While the Light Lasts, a title borrowed from a 1924 Agatha Christie story, combine fibers, collage, sculpture, and painting. They depict a vibrant, interior, subjective [...]