SOFA WEST Partners with Museum of New Mexico Foundation on Opening Night

CHICAGO, IL.- Mark Lyman, President, The Art Fair Company, announced an expansion of The Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s participation in the Opening Night Preview of the second annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA WEST 2010 in Santa Fe, NM, Lyman says, “After the tremendous turnout of over 2000 persons at our first SOFA WEST preview gala last year, the Foundation plans an intimate, private Opening Night preview for its highest level supporters, inviting its Circles membership and [...]

A Collectors Menagerie Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World

LONDON.- Ever since I first drew on the walls of his cave, man has had the desire to depict the creatures around him. The Sladmore Gallery, 57 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London, animal is renowned for exhibiting sculpture from the last 200 years, and has now invited Rupert Wace Ancient Art to introduce collectors to a veritable menagerie from the ancient world, spanning a period of some 2.400 years. A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient Worldwill be on [...]

CaixaForum Presents the Diverse and Provocative Experience of Miquel Barceló

MADRID.- “My life resembles the surface of my paintings”. To understand the mysterious, diverse and provocative creative experience of Miquel Barceló (Felanitx, Majorca, 1957) is the raison d’être of this exhibition. Organised by ”la Caixa” Social and Cultural Outreach Projects, the display offers more than 180 pieces, from the huge canvasses created from 1983 onwards to his most recent works. One of the latest, the monumental sculpture Gran Elefant dret (2009), invites the visitor from its site in the public [...]

World Record at Auction Expected for a Turkish Contemporary Work of Art

ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S., the leading auction house in Turkey, will offer the masterpiece by Erol Akyavaş (1932-1999) ever to have appeared on the market. Estimated at USD 1-1.5 million the painting will be the masterpiece of Antik A.S.’s forthcoming Sale of Contemporary Art in Istanbul. One of the masters of the Turkish Contemporary Art, Erol Akyavaş painted “Siege” painting (266×385 cm.) in 1982. “Siege” exhibited in Überse Museum, Bremen, Germany, 1982, Instutute of Contemporary Art, London, 1988, Turkish Artists Exhibition, [...]

Artists Raqs Media Collective to Present Work Commissioned by Baltic

GATESHEAD.- Raqs Media Collective presents The Things That Happen When Falling in Love, a new commission for BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art from Friday 2 April. Based in New Delhi , Raqs comprises Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Working collaboratively as artists, writers, curators and researchers, their work spans many media and explores the relationship between contemporary art, historical enquiry and philosophical speculation. The Things That Happen When Falling in Love was inspired by the Collective’s visit to [...]

Overview of Ed Ruscha’s Paintings from the Last Five Decades at Haus der Kunst in Munich

MUNICH.- The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of Ruscha’s paintings from the last five decades. The focus the selection of works share is the constants in Ruscha’s artistic endeavors: the attention he pays to words and word-paintings. Also apparent is his analytical approach to painting, which, time and again, results in a revision of his formal methods. And finally, by omitting additional artistic forms of expressions that Ed Ruscha also employs, the exhibition demonstrates how his experience with drawing, photograph [...]

Artists Imagine Dream Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited scores of artists, architects and designers to imagine their dream interventions in [...]

The Art of Hatch Show Print on View at the Austin Museum of Art

AUSTIN, TX.- “Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms.” —The Hatch Brothers This sentiment was certainly true in 1879 when brothers Herbert H. and Charles R. Hatch opened Hatch Show Print, a printing shop in Nashville. Their handcrafted posters screamed slogans such as “More Power, More Pep,” “So Many Girls You Can’t Count Them All,” and “Always Clean, Always Good.” Now 130 years later, Hatch posters hold their own as a stirring and refreshingly tactile contrast to the digital [...]

First Exhibition in the U.S. to Explore the World of Confucius and his Descendants

NEW YORK, NY.- A landmark exhibition on the extraordinary philosopher, statesman and teacher known as Confucius (551- 479 BCE ) will be on view at China Institute Gallery from February 11 though June 13, 2010. “Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” will focus on the teachings and continuing influence of Confucius, who has become increasingly synonymous with Chinese culture. Nearly 100 objects from the world of Confucius and his ennobled descendants will be on exhibition, including hanging scrolls, album [...]

Kenny Hunter’s I Goat Wins 45,000 Spitalfields Sculpture Prize

LONDON.- Kenny Hunter is the winner of the inaugural Spitalfields Sculpture Prize. Hunter beat seven other shortlisted designs to win the £45,000 commission and his work – I Goat – will be sited in Bishops Square, Spitalfields from October 2010. Scottish sculptor Hunter is known for his monumental sculptures and his works have been exhibited worldwide. I Goat shows a hand-sculpted goat standing atop a stack of packing crates. Hunter was inspired by Spitalfields’ rich, ongoing, social history. The goat [...]

Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens “Mean Streets” Exhibition

VALENCIA.- The exhibition project MALAS CALLES presents a global and interdisciplinary view of how public space and city streets and squares have been represented during the last century. Streets are some of the most important elements in the urban fabric; the changes they undertake, the events that take place in them and the structure they have are all basic points to understand essential aspects of city life. If one knows about the modifications and changes that have taken place in [...]

Exhibition of Erotic Depictions of Men and Women Opens in Sydney

SYDNEY.- Whether depictions of high-ranked courtesans, diligent housewives, affectionate mothers or passionate lovers, the prints of Japanese artist, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806) have delighted audiences for over 200 years. An exhibition of his work will be in Australia for the first time. Featuring over 80 prints from the collection of the Asian Art Museum, National Museums in Berlin, this exhibition showcases the art of Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the most well-known Japanese artists in the Western world. Utamaro revolutionised the way [...]

Daido Moriyama Presents First Exhibition at Luhring Augustine

NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine presents its first exhibition featuring the work of Daido Moriyama, one of Japan ‘s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed postwar Japan , his photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that persist within modern society. Providing a harsh, crude vision of city life and the chaos of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, his work occupies the space between the objective and the subjective, [...]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Photographs by Harold Edgerton

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Faster than the Eye Can See: Photographs by Harold Edgerton, featuring 18 photographs produced at ultra high-speed, on view February 13, 2010 – April 25, 2010. Dr. Harold “Doc” Edgerton redefined the limits of vision, showing things invisible to the unaided eye by stopping time and making it possible to witness split seconds. Produced with a strobe light, which he invented, Edgerton’s exposures could be as brief as 1/1,000,000 of a second, allowing [...]

Steven Holl Architects Wins Two 2010 “Good Design Is Good Business” China Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Holl Architects has received “Good Design Is Good Business” Awards for Linked Hybrid in Beijing and the Horizontal Skyscraper/Vanke Center in Shenzhen. The awards, administered by Architectural Record and McGraw-Hill Construction, recognize a total of 17 projects in six categories. Linked Hybrid, completed in 2009, won a Best Residential Project Award for “breaking with the usual developer formula of gated communities.” The Jury stated, “this complex of apartment towers, hotel, and multiplex cinema invites the entire [...]