Spanish Ministry of Culture Organizes Meeting of Photography Collectives

MADRID.- The Spanish Ministry of Culture organizes, under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and coinciding with the bicentenary of the independence of many Latin American countries, E.CO 2010, a meeting of photo collectives for which are scheduled round tables that will discuss the problems of the photographic world, a workshop and two exhibitions, and other activities that will take place simultaneously in Madrid and Soria. For the first time in Spain, there will be reunited together 20 photography [...]

Peabody Essex Museum Opens Maya Exhibition

SALEM, MA.- Integrated by masterworks of Maya Art, the exhibition Fiery Pool: the Maya and the Mythic Sea was inaugurated at Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. The showcase based on new interpretations regarding the relevance of the ocean for the Prehispanic civilization, will be open from March 27th to July 18th 2010. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) lent 22 pieces lodged at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA); Yucatan Regional Museum “Palacio Canton”; Tabasco [...]

Cool(e)motion Spotlights Climate Change in a Unique Way

THE HAGUE.- The first of four artprojects by the Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen has been erected on an iceberg along the coast of Greenland. With the help of GPS, the journey of the two ‘dog sled riders’ can be followed live on the internet (www.coolemotion.org). Ultimately the iceberg will melt and the sculptures will disappear into the ocean. The sculptures are therefore a symbolic reminder that the local population has had to give up certain cultural practices as a direct [...]

“Linus Bill: The Greatest Hits Vol. 1″ on View at Foam in Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- Linus Bill (Switzerland, 1982), takes photographs and assembles them into a new world that is similar to ours but where regular rules do not apply. He photographs everything, all the time: people he knows, people he doesn’t know, interiors, exteriors, living things, objects, snapshots, posed scenes; anything. Through his lens colour and form are not static. Subjects are changed in scale or form and transformed into new images. Especially for Foam, Bill creates an exhibition that covers all the [...]

New Series of Paintings by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Sprovieri Gallery

LONDON.- The Kabakovs are Russia’s foremost living artists. In 2008 they launched the Garage Centre for contemporary art in Moscow, exhibiting their total installations for the first time in twenty years since they left the country, and their exhibition Incident at the Museum and Other Installations at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in 2004 was the first exhibition by living Russian artists ever to be held there. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Flying#13. Photo: Courtesy Sprovieri Gallery Ilya Kabakov [...]

Joan Jonas’s Reading Dante III at Yvon Lambert New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Yvon Lambert New York presents an installation by acclaimed American artist Joan Jonas. This show runs concurrently with an exhibition of new work by Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann. Both exhibitions will be on view until May 8, 2010. This exhibition marks Jonas’s third at Yvon Lambert. Reading Dante III draws inspiration from Dante’s fourteenth-century Divine Comedy, a reoccurring topos of Jonas’s work since 2007. Each performance and installation becomes increasingly layered as the work transforms and develops. [...]

The Royal Collection of Graphic Art Photographs on View in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN.- Over the last 30 years, the Royal Collection of Graphic Art has continuously ac-quired photographs, primarily from visual artists using photographs as an integrated part of their working practice on a level with other art on paper. This collection stretches over the last 50 years with a few occasional digressions back into the 1920s and 1940s. The profile here is markedly different from the collections of photo museums. Here you will find not a broad representation of photographic history, [...]

Sackler Gallery Presents Contemporary Chinese Artist Hai Bo

WASHINGTON, DC.- Five large-scale photographs by the Chinese artist Hai Bo will be on view March 27 through Nov. 28 at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The photographs are the latest installment in the Sackler’s contemporary series, “Perspectives,” which focuses on the work of leading contemporary artists from Asia and the Asian diaspora and bridges the gap between the traditional, often separate, roles played by Asian art museums and modern art galleries. Born in 1962 in Changchun, the capital [...]

Artium Presents the Exhibition “Desde Ayacata”, by Juan Hidalgo

VITORIA-GASTEIZ.- This artist, born in the Canary Islands, exhibits 70 photographic actions, objects and ambiences in which irony, humour and sex play a leading part. The works were created on his return to Gran Canaria in the late nineties. ARTIUM, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition by Juan Hidalgo Desde Ayacata (North Gallery, from August 29 2010), a sample of the work the last twelve years of one of the major reference models of Spanish art of the [...]

Exhibitions by Maria Friberg and Dean Kessmann at Conner Contemporary

WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art presents two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new photographs and videos by Maria Friberg, of Sweden, and Dean Kessmann, of Washington, DC. For each artist, this is the fourth solo show with the gallery. In transmission, Maria Friberg re-frames the automobile as a sign for ambivalent concepts, such as progress and environmental threat, social hierarchy and economic instability, and male power and uncertainty. In her video and photographs, Friberg presents various makes and models of cars, [...]

Suite of 127 Silkscreen Plates by Josef Albers on View at Peter Blum

NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents the exhibition “Josef Albers: Formulation : Articulation”, 1972, a suite of 127 silkscreen plates, at 99 Wooster Street, New York. Published by Harry N. Abrams and Ives and Sillman, just 4 years before Albers’ death in 1976, “Formulation : Articulation” is a collection of 127 silkscreen plates, 121 in color, organized into two portfolios, each containing 33 folders on which one, two, or four silkscreen plates are printed. The portfolio is accompanied by a [...]

Turner’s Masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino to Be Offered For Sale

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that in its Evening Sale of Old Master and Early British Paintings in London on Wednesday, 7 July 2010, it will present for sale Joseph Mallord William Turner RA’s great masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, with an estimate of £12-18 million. Painted in 1839, this breathtaking painting shows the artist at the height of his technical powers and is undoubtedly among the most important of Turner’s works ever to come to auction. The painting is further [...]

Artexpo New York Showcases Exciting, Emerging and Established Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Artexpo New York is the premier fine and popular art show for avid collectors and first time buyers. Artexpo will showcase exciting, emerging and established artists, innovative artwork, and the latest trends in the art world. Visitors can purchase paintings, drawings, sculpture, mixed media, art books, and frames from hundreds exhibitors from across the globe. More than 450 national and international established and emerging artists, galleries, and publishers from the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. [...]

Playboy Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic Bunny with Exhibition

CHICAGO, IL.- Playboy Enterprises, Inc. and The Andy Warhol Museum invited more than 20 emerging and established artists to reinterpret the iconic Playboy Bunny in a variety of mediums for “Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny”, a new exhibition that will open at the Pittsburgh museum on March 27, 2010. This new exhibition is part of Playboy’s global, year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Bunny and Playboy Clubs. Playboy will also commemorate the milestone [...]

Rihanna Picture Featured in Exhibition by Young Talent at the Walker Art Gallery

LIVERPOOL.- A striking image of pop star Rihanna by a local teenager is going on display at the Walker Art Gallery amongst paintings by famous artists like Monet and Lowry. The portrait is part of Reclaim Your Space, an exhibition of 71 works by talented young people on display at the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum from 25 March – 18 April 2010. Reclaim Your Space is giving emerging artists from local schools an extraordinary opportunity to exhibit in [...]