Photographs of Nocturnal Landscapes by Robert Adams at Matthew Marks Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks Gallery presents “Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking”. The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains. Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, [...]

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2010 on View at the Photographers Gallery

LONDON.- Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber and Donovan Wylie have been nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010. The selection this year again highlights the diversity of contemporary photography, incorporating both conceptual practice as well as approaches which fall within a more conventional photographic vein. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2010 is presented by The Photographers’ Gallery, London. The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in [...]

Sotheby’s to Auction The Collection of Patricia Kluge at her Virginia Home

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s announced that it will hold an auction of fine and decorative arts from the contents of Albemarle House, the magnificent home of vintner and philanthropist, Patricia Kluge. The two-day auction, which will take place on June 8 and 9, will be held on the premises, located outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. Albemarle House, a 45-room English country manor, was conceived by Mrs. Kluge and renowned designer David Easton and is regarded as one of the most important [...]

Gauguin’s Nevermore Wins Accolade of Most Romantic Artwork in Art Fund Poll

LONDON.- Nevermore, which is on display at The Courtauld Gallery, was chosen by artist and broadcaster Matthew Collings, and was selected from a list of five works chosen by well known public figures. The other selected artworks were Titian’s “Bacchus and Ariadne”, selected by writer and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon; Jan Van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait”, chosen by artist Grayson Perry; Nicolas Poussin’s “Rinaldo and Armida”, chosen by writer, critic and professor of literature at University of Essex, Marina Warner; and [...]

Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting at the San Jose Museum of Art

SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Museum of Art presents “Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting,” a survey of more than one hundred twenty works drawn from the oeuvre of the celebrated painter. Thiebaud is best known for his vibrantly colored paintings of bakeries and delicatessens and has also specialized in Northern California landscapes, San Francisco cityscapes, and colorful beach scenes. A variety of these paintings will be on display along with prominent drawings and rarely seen figurative works spanning [...]

aster Ink Painters in 20th-Century China at the Cantor Arts Center

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents an exhibition that brings to the United States a rare and important group of 20th-century paintings by four Chinese modern masters. The exhibition “Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in 20th-Century China” presents more than 110 works, in two rotations, February 17 through July 4, 2010. Admission is free. “This landmark exhibition illuminates a turning point in the development of Chinese ink painting during the 20th-century,” explained Dr. [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art Presents First Exhibition to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art

BALTIMORE, MD.- Discover how Cézanne transformed American art at the beginning of the 20th century. Cézanne and American Modernism, on view February 16 – May 23, 2010, brings together 16 of the French master’s paintings and watercolors with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray. Along with the Baltimore Museum of Art’s two great Cézanne paintings, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry and Bathers, the exhibition showcases outstanding [...]

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Shows a Selection of Works of Art from Its Own Collection

BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection , the first in a cycle scheduled to take place over the next three years and organized to offer an in-depth perspective of the most significant works in the Collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao by placing them in context and thereby facilitating a comprehensive vision of the Collection’s focus. Curated by Petra Joos, Director of Museum Activities at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, this exhibition illustrates major [...]

Caravaggio’s Friends & Foes Announced at Whitfield Fine Art

LONDON.- Caravaggio always attracted controversy and by the time of his death aged only 38 in 1610 was hailed as an artistic genius by his supporters but regarded as an abrasive upstart with the blood of a murder on his hands by his enemies. His decisive break with artistic tradition and dramatic use of light inspired a generation of Caravaggesque artists. Whitfield Fine Art, a leading international specialist in Old Master paintings, is marking the 400th anniversary of his death [...]

New Work by Franz Ackermann Transforms White Cube’s Ground-Floor

LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard presents an exhibition of new work by Franz Ackermann, his third with the gallery. Ackermann has transformed the ground-floor gallery with an installation entitled ‘Wait’, while the lower-level gallery features a group of interconnected but standalone paintings that continue to explore his themes of borders, travel and globalisation. Franz Ackermann, “Wait”, 2010. Mixed media installation. Dimensions variable. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography The anchoring presence in the installation ‘Wait’ is a large painting titled Citizen that [...]

Unknown Sargent Revealed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will feature more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings of seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of the pre-eminent late-19th-century American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent (1856—1925), from February 14 to May 23, 2010. Following a presentation at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this fall, Houston´s showing is the final stop in the United States before the exhibition travels to London´s Royal Academy. Dr. Emily Ballew Neff, [...]

Major Solo Exhibition by Artist, Musician and Writer Billy Childish at London’s ICA

LONDON.- The ICA presents a major solo exhibition by artist, musician and writer Billy Childish. The artist was born in 1959 in Chatham in Kent, where he still lives, and his prodigious range of activities can best be understood as a total work of art – one which centres on his own extraordinary persona. Childish is a cult figure, and one who has gained an international following, but this exhibition is the first occasion on which a public institution has [...]

First Major Exhibition of Works by Edward Hopper Opens at Fondazione Roma

ROME.- For the first time in Italy, Rome, is set to pay tribute to the entire career of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the 20th century’s most popular and best known American artist, with a major anthological exhibition that is the first of its kind in this country. The exhibition presents more than 160 works, including famous masterpieces such as “Summer Interior” (1909), “Pennsylvania Coal Town” (1947), “Morning Sun” (1952), “Second Story Sunlight” (1960), “A Woman in the Sun” (1961) and various [...]

Artemundi Global Fund Offers a New Approach to Investing in Art

MADRID.- With inspiration stemming from Javier Lumbreras’ long standing passion for fine art and strong track record of investing within the industry, fine art since 1988. Their credo is that success in the fine art market depends on accumulated qualitative and quantitative methods, global market arbitrage combined with the ability to identify, interpret and capitalize on specific art transaction opportunities. They also posses multinational expertise in the areas of logistics, safekeeping, restoration, cataloguing, conservation, taxation and duties giving them an [...]

Hope Alswang Named Executive Director of the Norton Museum of Art

WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Hope Alswang has been appointed Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Norton Museum of Art, the Museum’s Board of Trustees announced today. She will assume her duties on April 15, 2010. Before joining the Norton Museum, for the past four years, Ms. Alswang was President and Chief Executive Officer of The Museum of Art at the highly-regarded Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to that, she was executive director of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, [...]