Exhibition of Works from the Zabludowicz Collection Guest Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers

LONDON.- 176 / Zabludowicz Collection present an exhibition of works from the Zabludowicz Collection guest curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers. As part of 176 / Zabludowicz Collection’s curatorial residency, Anna-Catharina Gebbers was given complete freedom to create an exhibition from the over 2,000 works in the Zabludowicz Collection. The result is a dramatic contrast to former presentations of works from the Collection. With over 200 works exhibited, The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place will be the largest [...]

The Work of Zurich Painter and Poet Salomon Gessner Presented at Kunsthaus Zürich

ZURICH.- In an exhibition entitled ‘Idyll in an Obstructed Landscape’, to run from 26 February until 16 May 2010, the Kunsthaus Zürich presents the work of Zurich painter and poet Salomon Gessner. The show reconstructs Gessner’s cabinet, which comprises 20 gouaches and watercolours and laid the cornerstone for the Kunsthaus collection in the first half of the 19th century. An additional 50 pieces from the museum’s own collection and on loan from owners domestic and foreign round out the survey [...]

Crystal Bridges Acquires Contemporary Works

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Works of art by two contemporary artists using mixed media to weave ambiguous suburban stories are the latest acquisitions announced by “Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art: Kerry James Marshall’s Our Town” (1995) and Mary McCleary’s “The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer” (2008). “Both Marshall and McCleary are creating compelling works that speak to contemporary life in late 20th/early 21st century America,” said Chris Crosman, chief curator. “The idea of home is a recurring motif in American art [...]

Jonathan LeVine Gallery to Celebrate Fifth Anniversary with a Commemorative Group Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan LeVine Gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a commemorative group exhibition featuring exceptional and exemplary new works by forty artists who are either currently represented by the gallery or who have exhibited at the gallery in the past five years. The exhibition will be on view from February 27—March 27, 2010, and there will be an opening reception on Saturday, February 27, from 7—9pm. Since 2005, Jonathan LeVine Gallery has been an important venue for [...]

After London and Before Madrid, the Grand Palais in Paris Welcomes Turner and the Masters

PARIS.- The British landscapist J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) was highly unusual in that he responded to the works of the old Masters and his contemporaries throughout his lengthy career. This often anxious, pernickety, deliberately competitive but always fertile exchange was an integral part of his work as a painter. Turner emerged in the mid-1790s as a particularly gifted and ambitious watercolourist, rivalling his greatest contemporaries (including his friend Thomas Girton (1775-1802)) but also eager to improve his painting technique by studying [...]

Museum of London Opens New Gallery Exploring a Tumultuous Century

LONDON.- War, Plague and Fire, a new gallery exploring the tumultuous century from the accession of Elizabeth 1 in 1558 to the Great Fire of 1666 opens this week at the Museum of London. Bringing alive one of the most turbulent periods in London’s history, the gallery is full of treasures from the Museum’s unique collections, including printing plates from London’s earliest map, rare delftware pottery, exquisite Jacobean jewels, Oliver Cromwell’s death mask, and archaeology from the fire that nearly [...]

Christie’s Announces Impressionist and Modern Art Sale for March 10

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on March 10 presents an exciting opportunity for collectors to purchase superb works by the great masters Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Tamara de Lempicka, and Henry Moore and to explore a wealth of drawings, sculpture and works on paper by lesser-known artists of the Impressionist and Modern periods. Prices begin at $1,200 and range up to $80,000. With over 160 works, the sale is expected to realize in excess of [...]

New Work by Dutch Artist Jacco Olivier at Marianne Boesky Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. This is the artist’s third solo show at the gallery. Fusing painting and filmmaking, Jacco Olivier continually reworks his canvases, photographing each iteration and brushstroke, and finally combining the various stages with their liquid color into films. The subject matter of Olivier’s new work represents a notable shift, as the artist frees the films from the loose narrative framework he had previously employed, [...]

Two Intriguing Artworks, One Believed to be a Rare Honore Daumier, Up for Auction

FALLS CHURCH, VA.- The area around Washington, D.C., has always been a sweet spot for European art discoveries because so many high-ranking diplomats and government officials live there. Traditionally, these are sophisticated people who’ve traveled extensively and returned home to the nation’s capital with art and antiques acquired during their overseas stints. Matthew Quinn, partner in Quinn’s Auction Galleries, is accustomed to dealing with consignments and estate contents from D.C.’s diplomats and high society, so it takes something rather special [...]

Philbrook Museum of Art Opens Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950

TULSA, OK.- Hans Hofmann created an extraordinary body of work for the architect Josep Sert’s 1950 Peruvian city plan called the Chimbote Project. The nine painting studies Hofmann produced for the series of murals in this Peruvian city form a concise and inspired example of the depth of Hofmann’s strengths as an abstract painter and modernist visionary, and form the core of this exhibition, along with other major works from this important year in Hofmann’s career. 1950 was a singularly [...]

Sotheby’s Announces Sale of the Rosenthal Collection of Oceanic Art

PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of the Rosenthal Collection of Oceanic Art in Paris on 24 March 2010. The collection’s origins date back over 40 years: Monsieur Rosenthal, who grew surrounded by works of art, settled in French Polynesia in 1967 and spent the next two decades there. He fell in love with the history and culture of the Pacific Islands, initially targeting works of art from New Guinea, then developing a passionate interest in the art of Oceania as [...]

National Gallery Opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Delaroche

LONDON.- The exhibition features seven major international loans of paintings by Delaroche including ‘The Princes in the Tower’, 1830 and ‘Young Christian Martyr’, 1854–5 (both Louvre), and ‘Strafford on his way to Execution,’ 1835 (private collection). Displayed alongside are Delaroche’s expressive preparatory drawings for Lady Jane and a selection of comparative paintings and prints by his contemporaries, including Eugène Lami, Claude Jacquand and François-Marius Granet. Monumental in scale, poignant in subject matter and uncanny in its realism, Delaroche’s depiction of [...]

Exhibition Re-Asserts Henry Moore’s Position at the Forefront of Sculpture

LONDON.- Radical, experimental and avant garde, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. This major exhibition will re-assert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his works for a generation. Henry Moore will present over 150 significant works including stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings. Henry Moore will reveal the range and quality of Moore’s art in new ways – sometimes uncovering a dark and erotically charged dimension [...]

Important Works from George Rickey’s Estate at Marlborough

NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery presents a major exhibition of works by George Rickey through March 20, 2010. Twenty-four important indoor and outdoor works from Rickey’s personal collection and now held by the George Rickey Estate will be exhibited in the first floor gallery. George Rickey is internationally regarded as among the most inventive and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. His iconic kinetic works were the outgrowth of experiments with wire and metal that began during his service in [...]

Prospect 2 New Orleans Postponed One Year Due to Economic Conditions

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- U.S. Biennial, Inc., the organization that produces Prospect New Orleans, announced today the new dates for the biennial, which was previously scheduled to open in November 2010. Due in large part to the current economic conditions and decreases in funding for the arts nationally, U.S. Biennial has elected to postpone Prospect.2, the second iteration of one of the United States’ largest biennials of international contemporary art, by one year. The biennial is now scheduled to be on [...]