Davis Museum at Wellesley College to Open Three New Exhibitions

WELLESLEY, MA.- In the spring of 2010, we will present “Something Like Fireworks” A New Installation by Stephen Vitiello and two complementary Indian art exhibits: Seeing God in Prints: Indian Lithographs from the Collection of Mark Baron and Elisa Boisante and Painted Songs and Stories: Contemporary Pardhan Gond Art from India. Two installations currently at the Davis – Christine Hiebert’s Reconnaissance: Three Wall Drawings; and Michael Singer’s Ritual Series/Retelling – will remain on view through June 6, 2010. Stephen Vitiello, [...]

Irish Museum of Modern Art Presents Survey Exhibition of Key Works by Anne Tallentire

DUBLIN.- A survey exhibition of key works by Irish artist Anne Tallentire, created over the last ten years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 17 February 2010. This, and other things, 1999-2010 brings together two of Tallentire’s earlier works as well as four of her most recent pieces, created in response to the environment at IMMA. Nowhere else, The Readers, Document and Drift: diagram xi, working with architect Dominic Stevens (all 2010), are [...]

Asian Art Dealers of New York Launch Asia Week in March

NEW YORK, NY.- The Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) will launch Asia Week New York with thirty special exhibitions opening concurrently at galleries throughout Manhattan, commencing on March 20-21, 2010. This is the first time a group of dealers, acting as a unified entity, has staged an event of this magnitude. International dealers will travel to New York from England, France, Italy and Japan to join their American colleagues in presenting rare works of art to collectors, curators, and [...]

Pietro Masturzo Wins World Press Photo Premier Award

AMSTERDAM.- The international jury of the 53rd annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a photo by the Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo as the World Press Photo of the Year 2009. The picture depicts women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran on 24 June. The winning photograph is part of a story depicting the nights following the contested presidential elections in Iran, when people shouted their dissent from roofs and balconies, after daytime protests in the streets. The [...]

The Guggenheim in Bilbao Exhibits 60 Metal Sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg

BILBAO.- Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist. Almost two years after the death of Robert Rauschenberg, May 12, 2008, the Guggenheim [...]

Spanish Researchers Publish Work on Mayan Pictographs

GUATEMALA CITY.- Spanish researchers from Valencia University presented in Guatemala a book analyzing the meaning of drawings and incisions on a Mayan architectural decoration in the form of a mask dating back to between 300 and 600 A.D. The publication “Los Grafitos Mayas” (Mayan Pictographs) has been prepared by the team of Spanish and Guatemalan researchers who last January announced the discovery of a stucco mask at the La Blanca archaeological project in the province of Peten in northern Guatemala. [...]

Jeff Koons Selects Artists for Joannou Collection Show at New Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announced details of “Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection,” its much-anticipated exhibition curated by artist Jeff Koons. “Skin Fruit” will be the first exhibition in the United States of the Athens-based Dakis Joannou Collection, renowned as one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. This will also be the first exhibition curated by Koons, whose early work inspired the evolution of the Joannou collection. “Skin Fruit” will be on [...]

Innovative New Haughton Art and Antiques Fair Launches in June

LONDON.- Art Antiques London, the innovative new Haughton art and antiques fair, will launch this summer with a glittering “First Night” Gala on June 9th for The Bush Theatre, London’s most celebrated experimental theatre. Located in Shepherd’s Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, it is considered one of the country’s leading and most prestigious new writing venues. Established in 1972, the theatre’s aim is to discover, produce and promote the most innovative and exciting new playwrights of [...]

First Retrospective Exhibition in the Nordic Region of Lee Lozano at Moderna Museet

STOCKHOLM.- This is the first retrospective exhibition in the Nordic region of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), the American artist whose original and challenging work is still largely unknown, especially in Europe. Lozano was part of the 1960s art scene in New York, an artists’ artist in the midst of the avant-garde of the time. On the border between minimalism and conceptual art, she created a powerful and individualistic body of work in a completely male-dominated environment. Some sixty paintings and hundreds [...]

Montreal Artist Nicolas Baier Attempts to Capture the Invisible

OTTAWA.- Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon. The term is used to describe how the human mind sees familiar objects in abstract forms, such as animals in clouds or the man in the moon. It is also an intriguing title for the recent work of Montreal artist Nicolas Baier, whose subjects include antique mirrors, the surface of polished stone, and water-stained paper. Presented by Pratt & Whitney Canada, “Nicolas Baier: Pareidolias” is on view in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography [...]

New Installation by Banks Violette at Gladstone Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery, in collaboration with Team Gallery, presents a new installation by Banks Violette. Violette’s work ranges from haunting yet exquisitely rendered graphite drawings to sculptural installations composed of cast salt, light, and sound. Throughout his practice, he plumbs the simultaneous degradation and accretion of meaning through the process of mythology, often embodied in forms strongly associated with sub-cultural communities, personal memorials, or historical obscurities. The black and white spectacle of his stark compositions belies the uneasy [...]

Carlos Amorales’ Urban Gothic Dream World Comes to Cornerhouse

MANCHESTER.- Cornerhouse will present a solo show by one of Mexico’s leading contemporary artists, Carlos Amorales, featuring two of his most recent works Psicofonias, and Discarded Spider, both from 2008. Flooding Gallery 1 will be the soundtrack from Psicofonias, 2008, a large-scale two-screen video installation Carlos Amorales created along with musician Julián Lede and digital programmer André Pahl. This realtime-animation or ‘virtual pianola,’ translates Amorales’ digitized graphic drawings, into musical notes, which trigger two synthesizers as they scroll down the [...]

Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo Presents Exhibition of Matta-Clark

SAO PAULO.- After its opening at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes do Chile, it is the turn of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo to receive the Gordon Matta-Clark: Undoing Space exhibit, the first comprehensive retrospective of the provocative, irreverent artist to travel through South America. The opening at MAM is scheduled for February 11 (Thursday) from 8 pm, closing on April 4th. The exhibit is organized by the Museo de Arte de Lima in collaboration with [...]

Exhibition Introduces Historical and Contemporary Photographic Masterpieces

ALBANY, NY.- Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from George Eastman House Collection opens February 12 at the New York State Museum as the next exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series. On view through May 9 in the Museum’s West Gallery, the exhibition is the 22nd installment of the Bank of America Great Art Exhibition and Education Program, which brings art from New York State’s leading art museums and collections to the State Museum. Seeing Ourselves introduces [...]

Rare Set of Ornate 19th Century Porcelain Plates Bought for Nottingham City Museums

LONDON.- Independent charity The Art Fund announced that Nottingham City Museums and Galleries in Nottinghamshire has bought a rare set of ornate 19th century porcelain plates at auction in New York, which will be displayed across three heritage sites; Newstead Abbey, Wollaton Hall and Nottingham Castle. Acquired with a grant of £2,195 from The Art Fund towards the hammer price of £3,519, the plates will now return to their former home at the Abbey. The ten plates were painted between [...]