First Solo Exhibition of New Work by Artist Ansel Krut at Stuart Shave/Modern Art

LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art present the first solo exhibition of new work by the British artist Ansel Krut. With this exhibition we are delighted to welcome this extraordinary painter to the gallery programme. There is a measured and psychedelic cast of protagonists in Krut’s paintings that revel in absurd creativity. This quality of absurdity in Krut’s images is vital, yet needn’t be overplayed, as it belies the subtlety and sophistication of his characterisation, and his sincere exercise of technique. Krut’s [...]

MKG in Hamburg Opens Exhibition of 150 Years of Nude Photography

HAMBURG.- The representation of the unclothed human body has exuded a great fascination ever since time began. The exhibition Nude Visions invites visitors to embark on a journey through a collection of depictions of the human body spanning 150 years. More than 250 original photos, books and folders with studies from the nude will be on view, including masterpieces from each period: from photographs dating from the 19th century which seek their models in Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance, up [...]

Terracotta Army to Conquer Canada from 2010 – 2012

TORONTO.- The launch of the 2010-2012 Canadian national tour of The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army was announced this morning at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). At the event, attended by media and special guests including The Honourable Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism and Culture, it was confirmed that the Government of China has named the ROM as the Canadian tour’s organizing museum, as well as its premiere venue. The national tour, marking the first time that the [...]

Victoria Miro Gallery Presents New Work by William Eggleston

LONDON.- Victoria Miro Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by William Eggleston, which is being presented concurrently by Cheim & Read in New York in January 2010. William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the last half-century. Born in 1939, Eggleston has lived and worked in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee throughout most of his sixty-year career. Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed the way [...]

Largest Moon Sculpture on Earth on View at Gasometer in Dusseldorf

DUSSELDORF.- The inside of a 380-foot tall obsolete gas holder, the Gasometer in Oberhausen, is the space for a new exhibit called “Out Of This World – Wonders of The Solar System.” It includes the largest moon sculpture in the world — an 82-foot wide replica of the moon hanging in a cathedral-like space under the holder’s 328-foot roof, as well as replicas of the sun and its planets in a space 223 feet wide. The exhibit explores scientific, cultural [...]

Art Rotterdam Opens Next Week with More than 70 Galleries Present

ROTTERDAM.- Abner Preis, Kiki van Eijck, Scholten & Baijings, Wilfried Lentz, Droog Design and D&A Lab. These are only a few of the artists, creative communities, designbureaus and galleries present at the international art fairs Art Rotterdam and Object Rotterdam from 4 to 7 February 2010. “The seventy galleries at Art Rotterdam and twenty design-, crafts and jewellery galleries at Object Rotterdam each show very diverse and special works. Among them are also a few world premières as f.e. the [...]

Overview of the Artistic Production of Alighiero e Boetti at Sprüth Magers Berlin:

BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers present the work ‘Insicuro Noncurante’ by Alighiero e Boetti in Berlin. The work has the form of a portfolio with 81 numbered sheets which provide an overview of the artistic production of Alighiero e Boetti from 1966 to 1975. It comprises various work forms such as original sketches and glued works, postcards and letters, but also copies of his large-format major works, to which the sheets manifest various relationships. Alighiero Boetti, alias Alighiero e [...]

Emerging Chicago-Based Artist Brings Largest Show to Date to the Chicago Cultural Center

CHICAGO, IL.- In his largest solo show to date, rising art star Angel Otero will share an array of new works in the exhibition Touch with Your Eyes: Recent Work by Angel Otero. Having received both his BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Otero has quickly established himself as a major artist to watch on the arts scene. The exhibition Touch with Your Eyes: Recent Work by Angel Otero will be on view in [...]

Party Leaders Back Staffordshire Hoard Campaign

LONDON.- The Art Fund announced that the three major UK political party leaders are backing the Staffordshire Hoard campaign. The Art Fund today announces that the three major UK political party leaders are backing the Staffordshire Hoard campaign. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have all pledged support for The Art Fund’s campaign to save the Staffordshire Hoard for the West Midlands. The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP said: “The Staffordshire Hoard is a wonderful example of [...]

Kandinsky Exhibition at the Guggenheim Helps Set New Attendance Record

NEW YORK, NY.- Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Over 1.3 million visitors came to the museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and Kandinsky. The numbers for the year were 22 percent greater than projected, and 16 percent higher [...]

United Kingdom Artist Ofili Ditches Elephant Dung in New Show

LONDON.- He is best known for working with elephant dung, but British artist Chris Ofili has taken a more painterly turn since his move from London to Trinidad five years ago. A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain in London covers the first two decades of the 41-year-old, Turner Prize-winning artist’s work, and one third of the 45 or so paintings on display have not been seen in Britain before. The earliest paintings date from 1993, a year after he travelled [...]

Dali Exhibit Opens in Mexico

MEXICO CITY.- The work and life of Spanish surrealism genius Salvador Dali, who died 21 years ago, is being remembered in the southeastern Mexican city of Merida with an exhibition of 93 of the artist’s engravings. “Dali en Merida. Las miradas del sueño” (Dali in Merida: Views of a Dream) will be held at Merida’s Olimpo Cultural Center, where the public will be able to enter free until March 23, municipal culture director Roger Metri told Efe. Present at the [...]

First West-Coast U.S. Gallery Exhibition for Lee Ufan at Blum & Poe

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe presents the first West-coast U.S. gallery exhibition of internationally acclaimed artist Lee Ufan. Achieving critical praise at the 52nd Venice Biennale for his exhibition, Resonance at the Palazzo Palumbo Fossati in 2007, Lee has held major retrospectives at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (2009), Yokohama Museum of Art (2005), Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole (2005), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2001), and Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1997). Lee has received [...]

Stripped, Tied and Raw: Group Exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents the works of Jorge Eielson, Donald Moffett, David Noonan, Steven Parrino and Salvatore Scarpitta. From the 1950′s to the present these artists have stripped, ripped, twisted, draped, stretched and stitched the canvas to create works that push the definition of painting. For over a century the notion of materiality has intrigued philosophers – debating the hierarchy of form over substance and vice versa. Art critics also joined this debate in the latter half [...]

Sotheby’s Americana Week Totals $15,029,329 in Two Day Sales

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 2010 Americana Week sales brought a combined total of $15,029,329, with both sales exceeding the high estimate in front of a packed salesroom. Sotheby’s two-day sale of Important Americana totaled $13,334,005 (est. $5.4/10.4 million) and was 94.1% sold by value and 80.1% sold by lot. The series continued with Chinese Export Porcelain from the Private Collection of Elinor Gordon, which brought a total of $1,695,324 (est. $850,000/1.3 million). The single-owner sale was 94.9% sold by value [...]