Never Before Seen Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition Opens in Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX.- The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame presents the never before seen Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image exhibition, which will be displayed in Fort Worth, Texas, from February 12th through September 6th. The exhibition, a collaboration between the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, explores the relationship that artist and Cowgirl Hall of Fame Honoree O’Keeffe had with nature through her camping experiences and [...]

Artist Nasser Azam Prepares for Antarctic Painting Expedition in Fish Market Freezer

LONDON.- At -20°C in the 800 tonne freezer unit at Billingsgate Market in London’s East End, painter and sculptor Nasser Azam today (Monday 15 February) tested out artistic materials developed for use in the freezing conditions of the Antarctic. From 20 – 25 February the artist will complete a major series of nine paintings on the continent. The artistic trial was the final stage in extensive preparations for the painting expedition in the Antarctic tundra. Billingsgate Market, the largest fish [...]

ART FAIR TOKYO Announces Details for Its Fifth Edition

TOKYO.- ART FAIR TOKYO, the largest fair of its kind in Japan, began in 2005. This year it celebrates its fifth anniversary. ART FAIR TOKYO features a wide range of genres and periods of art, such as antiques, Asian art, nihonga, modern art, and contemporary art. ART FAIR TOKYO is where art enthusiasts, art collectors, journalists, and curators come together to seek artworks and confirm the latest trends of the art world. ART FAIR TOKYO 2010 will feature 139 top [...]

Art Madrid Reinforces Commitment to Contemporary Art and Young Artists

MADRID.- The Spanish International Contemporary Art Fair, Art Madrid celebrates its fifth year from 17 to 21 February 2010, in the Pabellón de Cristal at the Casa de Campo in Madrid, with the presence of 65 galleries, selected from among the most prestigious national and international scene. The fair reinforces on this edition their commitment to contemporary Spanish art and renews its support for emerging artists and young galleries. Art Madrid is a fair aimed specifically to contemporary art collectors [...]

Classic Examples of the Livre d’Artiste at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens the first show of the “World Masterpieces of Livre d’Artistes” exhibition program. Classic examples of the livre d’artiste are almost not represented even in the largest Russian museums. However, this synthetic form of art is one of the links connecting visual art and literature, artists, publishers, and writers from all over the world. The exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art focuses on Russian-French literary and artistic connections. They can be [...]

Luxury Antiques Weekend at Linden Hall in March

NORTHUMBERLAND.- The Luxury Antiques Weekend at Linden Hall returns to the Macdonald Linden Hall in Longhorsley, near Morpeth in Northumberland from Friday 12 until Sunday 14 March 2010. The third of seven fairs being organised by The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited around England, it is the most northerly. The first of the exclusive boutique-style fine art and antiques fairs launched by Ingrid Nilson of The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited in 2008, it set the bar high for her future events. [...]

Artformz Presents Fragmentary Memories, Works by Anja Marais & Guillermo Portieles

MIAMI, FL.- Artformz presents the two-person show featuring the most recent work of artists Anja Marais and Guillermo Portieles. The two artists offer each their own artistic expression of the power and impact of memory on the formation of identity and creative production. Guillermo Portieles grew up studying art in Cuba from the I.S.A Institute of Superior Fine Arts to the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana. He continued his intellectual pursuits exhibiting his work and as a [...]

Paintings by Berlin Artist Max Diel at Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin

BERLIN.- Cain Schulte Gallery Berlin presents the exhibition ‘American Beauty’ with paintings by Berlin artist Max Diel. The show will open with a reception on the 19th of February at 7pm and is on view until the 20th of March, 2010. Figurative scenes from the daily grind dominate the paintings of Max Diel. He finds his motives on ongoing excursions through cities, small and big, and various landscapes. The exhibition American Beauty shows works capturing memories and impressions of a [...]

Museum of Latin American Art Shows Latin American Photography (1990-2005)

LONG BEACH, CA.- Curated and organized by MOLAA, “Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005)” is the first survey exhibition to be presented in the Los Angeles area of Latin American photography and photo-based art generated between 1990 and 2005. Organized around four themes of investigation—Subliminal Structures, Embodied Identities, Staged Irony and The Individual & Social Violence—the exhibition explores the artist’s personally-charged response to local and global issues grounded in the contemporary Latin American experience. Over 75 works created by [...]

Looking for the American Dream: Andrew Borowiec’s Ohio Photographs

AKRON, OH.- Carrying on the tradition of showing local artists’ work, the Akron Art Museum presents the photography of University of Akron Distinguished Professor Andrew Borowiec in Looking for the American Dream: Andrew Borowiec’s Ohio Photographs, on view February 20 – May 30, 2010. Borowiec has been photographing the social landscape of Middle America for over a quarter century. Looking for the American Dream, which focuses on the artist’s images of Ohio, contrasts his traditional gelatin silver photography from his [...]

Artists Play on Such Themes as Chaos, Innovation and Utopia at Netwerk Center of Contemporary Art

AALST.- In CHIPKA artists play on such themes as chaos, innovation and utopia. The title is taken from the name of the industrial island next to the historic centre of Aalst, created by the straightening of the Dender, to accommodate the extensive industrialisation of the region. At that time, the late-nineteenth century, ‘Chipka’ was a model for a future that was mainly tinted with nightmarish visions of totalitarian angst. The name was borrowed from a treacherous Bulgarian mountain pass, where [...]

Butter Sculptures: art with food

Butter Sculptures: A Brief History Tibetan Buddhists were first to bestow upon us the butter sculpture. Covering monastery altars and family shrines for years, the intricate offerings are still sacred today. Monk artists work in extremely cold conditions to avoid the inevitable melting issue. During the 19th century, the tradition spread to North America where butter sculpting has become a standard at state fairs. One of the most recognizable and beloved is Butter Cow, first created at the Iowa State [...]

Strikingly realistic paintings by Alyssa Monks

Monks’s work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between abstraction and realism in the same work, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body. Monks’s work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between abstraction and realism in the same work, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body. The islands of steam and water droplets on the glass distort the illusion of the face or figure as the [...]

30 Unbelievable and Brilliant Photographs

One of the growing areas in photography is taking photographs that are so brilliant that the viewer will initially conclude that they must have been significantly altered or manipulated in Photoshop. There are entire blogs devoted to showcasing these images, and the photographers who take them. A combination of perfect composition, lighting, color and timing are required to capture these brilliant photographs at the perfect moment. These photographers are masters of exposure and composition, and you might have a hard [...]

Extraordinary LED Light Paintings by /*synack*/

Part urban explorer and part photographer, the artist named “/*synack*/” is among the elite when it comes to painting with light. Part of the Melbourne City Drain Painters (MCDP), /*synack*/’s photographs have an eerie and silent sense to them only possible through urban exploration. Part of the group’s covenant is to have the “utmost respect for the locations that we visit to explore and photograph.” Light painters pride themselves on achieving their effects without manipulation in Photoshop. [imagebrowser id=1]