Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print Opens at Everson

SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art presents the long awaited exhibition, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print will open to the public on Thursday, April 29, 2010. The exhibition will remain on view through July 11, 2010. During the height of Maxfield Parrish’s popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most reproduced American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements and color reproductions, Parrish’s images occupied [...]

New Work by British Painter Nigel Cooke at Stuart Shave/Modern Art

LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art presents a solo exhibition of new work by the British painter Nigel Cooke, Night Crossing. This is Cooke’s fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art. Nigel Cooke’s paintings construct a dark and melancholic world; a deeply psychologised landscape filled with an atmosphere that articulates the trauma of creative dereliction. At its core, Cooke’s work is an allegorical conception of creativity and production, played out in a world populated by artists and philosophers. This is a place haunted [...]

Woodmere Museum Collection Brings Noteworthy Results at Bonhams

NEW YORK, NY.- New York’s April 27th sale of European Furniture & Decorative Arts was marked by several strong results. Consisting of just over 250 lots, the sale was highlighted by a spectacular group of French and Continental porcelain urns from the Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia, PA) which brought some of the strongest performances of the sale. Top lot was a pair of Monumental gilt bronze mounted Sevres style porcelain Napoleonic urns from the Woodmere collection. One depicts the marriage [...]

Sculptural Installations by Francis Upritchard at Vienna’s Secession

VIENNA.- Francis Upritchard creates sculptural installations in which human figures, painted in bright colours, inhabit a world replete with found objects and everyday items, modified to meet their needs. The inhabitants and their objects are shown on specially produced or found pieces of furniture. Paying as much attention to the furniture, to its careful refurbishment as to the figures themselves, her work gives equal weight to art, craft, and display: the design and staging within the exhibition space is an [...]

California Dealer Reaches Plea Deal in Phony Picasso Case

LOS ANGELES (AP).- A West Hollywood art and antiques dealer who allegedly sold a fake Picasso for $2 million has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges. In a plea agreement filed Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court, 70-year-old Tatiana Khan agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI and witness tampering. Khan is expected to enter her pleas next month. Prosecutors say Khan admitted she paid an artist $1,000 to duplicate a 1902 Picasso called [...]

Alexander Melamid: Oh My God, at Phillips de Pury & Company in London

London.- Russian painter and conceptual artist Alexander Melamid is to have a solo exhibition of thirty paintings at Phillips de Pury & Company in London. Including the now renowned series of life-size portraits of hip-hop stars such as Snoop Doggy Dog, 50 Cent and Kanye West, the paintings then shift from ‘fame’ to the ‘mundane’, with a further group of works from 2008 that have so far remained unseen, including portraits of priests and rabbis, Russian oligarchs, sculptures of ancient [...]

Noa Lidor: This Dark Ceiling Without a Star, at Green Cardamom

London. – Following her 2008 installation The Mammals for the Tate Modern Members Room, Noa Lidor presents a new series of works in This Dark Ceiling Without a Star at Green Cardamom. The exhibition opened this Thursday April 22th and runs until June 11th. The exhibition comprises a series of in-situ installations, sculpture and drawings that juxtapose the cosmic and the domestic, reflecting ordered systems of communication and the process of instilling meaning. In her practice Lidor often uses objects [...]

Recent Art From Indonesia: Contemporary Art Turn At SBin Art Plus

Singapore. – With the rising prominence of contemporary Indonesian art on the global art scene which has been attracting the strong interest of international art collectors, SBin Art Plus presents Recent Art From Indonesia: Contemporary Art Turn, one of the most extensive exhibitions of Indonesian art to date in Singapore. Reflecting the increased intensity of contemporary Indonesian art, the exhibition is a vivid, emotional and expressive showcase of fresh artistic perspectives by 40 of Indonesia’s most talented artists both established [...]

50 Concept Art Pictures

Concept art is a form of illustration where the main goal is to convey a visual representation of a design, idea, and/or mood for use in movies, video games, animation, or comic books before it is put into the final product. Concept art is also referred to as visual development and/or concept design. Who popularized or even invented the term Concept art in reference to preproduction design is ambiguous at best, but it may have come about as part of [...]

Unseen Sorolla Leads Spanish Section of European Paintings Sale at Sotheby’s

LONDON.- Once again Sotheby’s announced that the Spanish section of its 19th Century European Paintings sale on Wednesday, 2 June, 2010 will be headed by a rare work by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Joaquín Sorolla stands out as the period’s most prolific and renowned artist and was the subject of a major retrospective of his life and work at the Prado Museum in Madrid in 2009. Sorolla’s luminous landscapes, scenes of Spanish life and portraits are highly sought after on both [...]

Sotheby’s Amsterdam Presents Paintings of Great Historical Value

AMSTERDAM.- The Battle of Lepanto (lot 35) by Andries van Eertvelt (1590 – 1652) is one of the highlights of the Old Master paintings sale which will be held Tuesday 18 May 2010 at Sotheby’s Amsterdam. The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 in the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, and was perhaps the most significant sea battle in European history. It was fought between the forces of the Ottoman Empire, under Uluç Ali Pasha and [...]

The Art of Dance: Sculpture by Emma Rodgers at the Walker Art Gallery

LIVERPOOL.- A stunning 8ft bronze sculpture of a female dancer by local artist Emma Rodgers, takes centre stage at the Walker Art Gallery from 28 April to 6 July 2010. “The Dancer” captures a moment in mid-performance. The curve of the figure’s back and the outstretched limbs are reminders of the beauty and elegance of her movement and yet the physical strain and effort to achieve it. The high-arched feet of the sculpture mirror the distinctive shape of a dancer’s [...]

ROM Announces Largest Single Juried Display of African Canadian Art

TORONTO.- Today at news conference hosted at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) by Scotiabank Caribana Festival, the ROM announced it will present From the Soul: Caribana Art Exhibit from July 22 to August 3, 2010. On display during and after the Scotiabank Caribana Festival, the exhibition represents the largest single juried display of works of art by African Canadian artists. Curated by renowned African-Canadian artist and activist, Joan Butterfield, the exhibition is produced by the Association of African Canadian Artists, [...]

Christie’s Dubai Auction of Modern and Contemporary Art Realises 3 Times Its Estimate

DUBAI.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business is delighted to announce that its eighth auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art, estimated at $4.8 million, realized $15,122,125 / AED55,528,443, selling 96% by value and 86% by lot. This is an extraordinary result which reflects the quality of the sale and the passion of the collectors that Christie’s has helped to bring to this fascinating market during the past 3 years. It is extremely rare for a sale in any market [...]

Volker Hueller’s Hand-Coloured Etchings at Timothy Taylor Gallery

LONDON.- Timothy Taylor Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in London by Berlin-based artist Volker Hueller as part of the gallery’s The Viewing Room programme. Hueller’s hand-coloured etchings exploit all the associative power of the etched line: spidery trails mordantly tracing care-worn physiognomies and smoke-filled rooms. The atmospheric remains of a dark European history lurk within the cracks and crevices of these complex drawings, made up of interlocking fragments and planes. Jaundiced, cruel and complacent faces emerge from these jagged [...]