Pulse New York Announces List of International Exhibitors

NEW YORK, NY.- Executive Director Helen Allen announced today the list of exhibitors for the 2010 New York edition of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair. Having entered its fifth season with a successful and critically-acclaimed run in Miami last December, PULSE will host over 50 exhibitors from around the world at their New York Fair this year. Approximately half of the internationally-diverse roster of exhibitors hail from the U.S. and the rest from abroad, together representing 18 countries and four continents. [...]

Biennale di Venezia Presents Kazuyo Sejima as Director of Architecture

VENICE.- The Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, today presented Kazuyo Sejima as Director of the Architecture Sector, with specific responsibility for curating the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in Venice between 29th August and 21st November 2010 (vernissage on 26th, 27th and 28th August). Kazuyo Sejima is the first woman to direct the Architecture Sector of the Biennale. Born in Japan, in the prefecture of Ibaraki in 1956, Kazuyo Sejima is [...]

Tracey Emin’s Chess Set Acquired by the Whitworth Art Gallery

LONDON.- The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester has acquired an original new work by British artist Tracey Emin with help from The Art Fund, the UK’s leading independent art charity. Tracey Emin’s Travelling Chess Set (2008) was acquired for £25,000, of which The Art Fund contributed £9,375. The work was placed on public display in the gallery on 15 January, presented in its own antique-style ‘museum’ vitrine. Tracey Emin’s “Travelling Chess Set” (2008) was acquired for £25,000 The [...]

Group Exhibition “Vertically Integrated Manufacturing” at Murray Guy

NEW YORK, NY.- Murray Guy presents the exhibition “Vertically Integrated Manufacturing,” including works by Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Fia Backström, Bernd & Hilla Becher, DAS INSTITUT, Dexter Sinister, Douglas Huebler, Allan McCollum, and Stephen Prina, as well as a CD by Seth Price. Taking as its starting point Jacques Rancière’s observation that “artistic practice is not the outside of work, but rather its displaced form of visibility,” the works in this show put their own conditions of production on display, [...]

A Look at Architect Michael Arad’s 9/11 Memorial Waterfalls

NEW YORK, NY.- The waterfalls meant to evoke memories of the Sept. 11 dead stand three stories high in a field in Brooklyn, spilling down into a pool. Four large American flags poke through the grass to mark off each corner of a World Trade Center tower footprint. For more than three weeks, builders of the Sept. 11 memorial have been tinkering with details like water flow and year-round heating with a mock-up of the cascades, part of Michael Arad’s [...]

Early Works by Joel Shapiro on View at Paula Cooper Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of early works by Joel Shapiro. The exhibition will be on view at 521 West 21st Street through February 13 and will include a selection of sculpture from 1969 through 1979. Joel Shapiro began working in the late 1960s at a time when traditional notions of sculpture were being radically redefined by Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Shapiro’s first one-person shows, at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 1970 and 1972 and [...]

MoMA and P.S. 1 Select Winner of 11th Annual Young Architects Program

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center announce the winner of the 2010 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program: the architectural firm Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL). Celebrating its eleventh year, the program continues its commitment to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects. After a successful first decade, the Young Architects Program will now focus on designs which address sustainability, recycling, and reuse. The five finalists selected [...]

First Show in New York to Focus on Late Renaissance Drawing in Rome

NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1500s, Rome’s majesty was a distant memory: its marble temples and palaces had been ransacked; its population was a fraction of what it had been in antiquity. Yet, over the course of the next hundred years, the Eternal City would experience an amazing rebirth, as a series of popes rebuilt and revitalized Rome and its population doubled. At the center of this metamorphosis was an unprecedented influx of artistic talent and creative exchange. It [...]

Columbia Museum of Art Sets Attendance Record on Final Day of Ansel Adams Exhibition

COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art set a daily attendance record of 2,006 visitors from noon until 5:00 p.m. last Sunday, January 17, which was a free admission day courtesy BlueCross BlueShield of SC. Sunday was the last day for the popular exhibition, Ansel Adams: Masterworks, which opened October 23, 2009 and featured many of Adams’ most famous and best-loved photographs that encompass the full scope of his work. The exhibition attracted many people from outside the greater Columbia [...]

LACMA Appoints Joshua S. Friedman and Steven F. Roth to Its Board

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today the election of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Joshua S. Friedman, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based asset management firm, and Steven F. Roth, Executive Vice President of World Oil Corporation, a family-owned oil company. “It has been impressive to watch the continued growth of our board,” said LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan. “We welcome [...]

Americans for the Arts reports Troubling Picture for Arts Organizations

Washington, DC – While the number of arts organizations increased rapidly over a recent 10-year span, the percentage of people attending arts events declined, a new national survey by the nonprofit group Americans for the Arts reported January 20th. This issue of supply and demand in the arts world is a troubling one, said the authors of the National Arts Index, because many groups have financial troubles and people of all ages are discovering new ways to experience the arts, [...]

Cars by Warhol, Fleury, Longo, Szarek from the Chrysler Collection Opens at Albertina

VIENNA.- CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car. The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings of Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) series CARS, which employ eight selected types of Mercedes to document the history of the automobile. This important late series by Warhol remained unfinished and after [...]

MCA Sydney Unveils New Series of Artist’s Impressions of the New Building

SYDNEY.- Following the announcement last year that the Museum of Contemporary Art had received planning approval for its $50 million redevelopment, the Museum unveiled this new series of artist’s impressions of the new building. As the images illustrate, plans for the new museum are taking shape at a rapid rate under the guidance of Sydney architect Sam Marshall, and the Government Architect’s office. These images showcase how the redevelopment will create a contemporary northern wing with education as a continuing [...]

Artist Tony Fitzpatrick Holds Third Solo Exhibition at Pierogi

BROOKLYN, NY.- “We first met Tony Fitzpatrick at Pierogi twelve years ago and seven years later had his first one-person exhibition. Tony was full of energy and his enthusiasm was infectious. If you’ve ever met Tony you know that he doesn’t leave his opinions by the door and that he is an incredible storyteller. We were honored to show his work then and are thrilled to present this new group of works entitled “Drawings for Crazy Horse.” In these new [...]

Works by More than 70 Artists to be Auctioned for Charity at Gagosian

NEW YORK, NY.- An art auction of works by more than seventy eminent contemporary artists to benefit The Family Resource Center, a program of the New York City-based Partnership for the Homeless, will be held at Gagoian Gallery on January 29, 2010. Following a festive cocktail reception and silent auction, there will be a special performance by world-renowned opera artist Jessye Norman, national spokesperson for The Partnership for the Homeless. Ms Norman will present songs by American masters including Leonard [...]