New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio Join Forces for Nueva York

NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio this week announced details of their major upcoming collaboration, Nueva York—the first exhibition to explore how New York’s long and deep involvement with Spain and Latin America has affected virtually every aspect of the city’s development, from commerce, manufacturing and transportation to communications, entertainment and the arts. Organized by the two institutions, Nueva York will be on view from September 17, 2010, through January 9, 2011, at El [...]

National Photographic Portrait Commission 2010 Works on Show

CARDIFF.- Winners of this year’s National Photographic Portrait Commission have produced striking new portraits of Steve Jones – one of Britain ’s leading, popular scientists, and Welsh indie rock band – The Super Furry Animals known for their bilingual innovative and experimental song-writing. Both works go on display at National Museum Cardiff and the National Portrait Gallery until July 2010. The portrait of Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London, has also been chosen as the National Portrait [...]

Drawings for Esquire Magazine Made by George Grosz at Moeller Fine Art Berlin

BERLIN.- Moeller Fine Art Berlin presents an exhibition of works of art made by George Grosz, Esq., on view from 20 April to 26 June 2010. Between September 1936 and January 1939, Esquire: The Magazine for Men commissioned George Grosz (1893-1959) to create illustrations for articles and short stories. Moeller Fine Art Berlin exhibits 50 of these rare and never-before-seen drawings alongside the accompanying stories, highlighting a vital, though little-known aspect of the artist’s oeuvre. In George Grosz: An Autobiography [...]

Nathan Oliveira: Drawings 1960 – 2010 at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Nathan Oliveira has been exploring the theme of the solitary figure since the late 1950s. In his watercolors, paintings, monotypes, and sculpture he has consistently created distinctive variations of the abstracted human figure in ambiguous, often mysterious space. This exhibition features a diverse selection of his vibrant watercolors and drawings from 1960 to 2010. Oliveira’s watercolors and drawings are about immediacy, about an intuitive response to the poses of a model in his studio. He works rapidly [...]

Chateau de Versailles Marks the 300th Anniversary of the Royal Chapel with Exhibition

VERSAILLES.- To mark the tercentenary of the Royal Chapel, the Château de Versailless is devoting an exhibition that presents the genesis of this building and the highlights of its history. Among the works exhibited, the liturgical furniture donated by Louis XIV to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem will be exceptionally on view to the public. The work was undertaken by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in 1687 and completed in 1710 by Robert de Cotte, and the Royal Chapel of [...]

Martin Schwenk’s The Secret Life of Plants Opens at Number 35

NEW YORK, NY.- Number 35 presents new sculptures by Düsseldorf-based artist Martin Schwenk. This is his second exhibition with the gallery. In “The Language of Flowers” of 1929, Georges Bataille assesses that the language of flowers is contradictory: the above ground part of the plant distinguishes itself through purity and beauty, the opposite expresses itself in the root, its ugly dirtiness and proliferation. Bataille points out that because only the plant’s upper part would be included in civilization, its materiality [...]

Survey of Stephan von Huene’s Work on View at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- The artist Stephan von Huene (1932–2000) famous for his construction of intriguing sound sculptures, was also an exceptionally draughtsman. The exhibition The Song of the Line for the first time offers a survey of the entire oeuvre of his drawings. Drawings in pen and pencil that von Huene produced in California in the 1960s are evidence of the artist’s familiarity with the work of Pablo Picasso as well as with the sculptures of the native North American Kwakiutl tribes [...]

Tim Bavington Uses Pop and Rock Music as His Source for New Exhibition

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Mark Moore Gallery presents its fifth solo exhibition of new work by painter Tim Bavington. Marking Bavington’s tenth year of representation by the gallery, “Decade” features a distinctive new body of work in addition to his iconic striped paintings and variations thereof. Utilizing pop and rock music as his source material, Bavington acts as a translator between the aural and visual. Guitar solos of the Rolling Stones, Elvis and Oasis become vibrant bands of color – a [...]

Exhibition Series “Saw it, Loved it: A Look at Private Collecting” at Ludwig Museum

COLOGNE.- When people discover art for themselves love has usually had a hand in it. And when they dedicate themselves seriously to art, the result is a collection that is shaped by that person’s own eye, by their aesthetic sensibilities and personal background. This passion for art and this personal interest in collecting led to the founding of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst. Twenty-five years ago – in 1985 – a group of Rhenish collectors founded the association to help [...]

The Intriguing Story of Muralist Pablo O’Higgins Told in New Book

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Becoming Pablo O’Higgins tells the intriguing story of how a blond-haired, blue-eyed Presbyterian from Salt Lake City, Utah, became a celebrated Mexican muralist. Born Paul Higgins in 1904 into a conservative Republican family of Mayflower English and Protestant Scots-Irish ancestry, O’Higgins, at age 20, boldly traveled to Mexico City at a time when Mexico was still reeling from its violent 10-year revolution. He went to see the mural renaissance involving Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David [...]

Colorful, Ethereal Sculptures by David Altmejd at Xavier Hufkens

BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens presents the exhibition Le guide of David Altmejd. The artist is showing colorful, ethereal sculptures that are covered by and mounted in boxes of plexiglass. The sculptures come across as transient apparitions but, when you look closer, materialise as solid, organic structures. Le guide is the second exhibition of Altmejd at the gallery. David Altmejd is known for his large humanoid figures, fashioned from plasticine or mirrors. But until a few years ago he made complex display [...]

Wesleyan University Presents Bearing Witness: Stories from the Front Lines

MIDDLETOWN, CT.- From 2005 through 2008, painter and printmaker Daniel Heyman accompanied a team of human rights attorneys to Istanbul and Amman, where he sat in on dozens of interviews of formerly detained Iraqis. Closer to home, in 2008 and 2009 Heyman began painting another group of people with few opportunities to tell their stories: poor, recently incarcerated African-American men in Philadelphia, all of whom are fathers. Bearing Witness: Stories from the Front Lines is an exhibition of Heyman’s portraits [...]

Multiple Canvases Configured to Read as a Whole by Wendy White at Leo Koenig Inc.

NEW YORK, NY.- Leo Koenig Inc. presents a solo exhibition by Wendy White entitled Up w/Briquette. In her second show at the gallery, the artist incorporates many techniques familiar to her work, such as multiple canvases configured to read as a whole, aggressive line work, acrid colors, and a generous helping of black paint. Added to the mix are outlines of letters and sculptural attachments which mimic written language. White comments on the title: ”The phrase ’Up w/Briquette’ champions the [...]

The RISD Museum of Art Presents Siebren Versteeg: In Advance of Another Thing

PROVIDENCE RI.- The RISD Museum presents Siebren Versteeg: In Advance of Another Thing in the Spalter New Media Gallery. Versteeg (American, b. 1971) uses online mass media to explore themes of contemporary life. Organized by Judith Tannenbaum, the Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, the show features Versteeg’s 2007 work Boom (Fresher Acconci) from the Museum’s collection, along with New York Window (2008), Flag (2008), and Triptych (2009). Versteeg writes computer programs that pull imagery from the Internet based [...]

New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures at Ogden Museum of Southern Art

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans presents Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures. This exhibition celebrates the founders, architects, and players in New Orleans hip-hop and the uniquely regional rap known as bounce music, a phenomenon that evolved from the city’s housing projects. Photographs, oral histories, and video footage compiled by photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock document the passing of seminal beats from New Orleans music [...]