Video Art Premiere by Internationally Acclaimed Cleveland Institute of Art Professor Kasumi

CLEVELAND, OH.- The world debut of Quadrascope, a 21-minute video art piece created by Cleveland Institute of Art professor Kasumi was one of the major highlights in this year’s FusionFest. Quadrascope premiered in concert with Groundworks Dance Company and The Cleveland Orchestra on the Baxter Stage at The Cleveland Play House. Both visually stimulating and psychologically spellbinding, Kasumi’s work is full of highly charged commentary on world politics and social issues. Innovative, avant-garde work is coming out of Cleveland, and [...]

Georgie Hopton “Cut and Come Again” at Poppy Sebire

LONDON.- Georgie Hopton lives for part of the year in Upstate New York, in America’s Catskill Mountains. In 2005, after conquering the perennial bed, she moved on to creating a vegetable garden, which quickly became a passion and a preoccupation. In 2006 Hopton tentatively made the first photographs of herself and her garden’s wild output, beginning a series she called ‘Harvest’. Continued each summer since, 2009 was her most abundant ‘season’ to date, with vegetable prints and sculpture being added [...]

The 18th USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale to be Held in October

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Presented by the Women’s Board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the 18th USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale, the largest exposition and sale of 18th- through 21st-Century American art in the nation, will be presented October 1 – 3, 2010 at PAFA. For the first time in its 18-year history, USArtists will be moving from its longtime venue at the 33rd Street Armory to its home at PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at [...]

Britain’s Biggest Painting Prize Finds Way Round Volcanic Ash

LIVERPOOL.- Judging of Britain’s biggest painting prize took place on both sides of the Atlantic after volcanic ash grounded two of the judges. For the first time in the history of the competition judges sat thousands of miles apart as they sifted through entries. Both Sir Norman Rosenthal and Goshka Macuga found themselves stranded in America when their flights were cancelled. However it takes more than freak acts of nature to stop the Walker Art Gallery’s John Moores Painting Prize, [...]

Legendary Village, Clerkenwell, Celebrates Its Design Heritage in May

LONDON.- Clerkenwell Design Week is a brand new three-day festival celebrating design’s creative richness, social relevance and technological advancements. The event will excite, inspire, educate and entertain visitors. Come along and check out the latest design innovations and be inspired by the exhibitions and installations on display during Clerkenwell’s first ever dedicated Design Week. The Clerkenwell Design Week programme of exhibitions and installations will include high profile brands such as Tom Dixon, and MARK. Seminars, workshops and debates aim to [...]

American Artist Roni Horn Conceives Exhibition Specifically for Kunsthaus Bregenz

BREGENZ.- Roni Horn (b. 1955 in New York) has achieved international recognition as a prominent and influential contemporary artist. Since the early 1970s she has worked across artistic forms, producing sculpture, photographs, artist books, and drawings. Because she chooses not to privilege any one medium, her art defies easy categorization. Materials – used with remarkable virtuosity and sensitivity – take on metaphorical qualities and relate key themes with great visual power. One important aspect of her practice is an exploration [...]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Retrospective Opens with Copies Due to Volcanic Ash

FRANKFURT.- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), founding member of the artist association “Brücke” (Bridge) and one of the most significant artists of Expressionism, had a lasting influence on the art of classic Modernism. The oeuvre of the painter, commercial artist and sculptor is being honored by the Städel Museum with the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany for 30 years, featuring over 180 works. “I am amazed at the power of my paintings in the Städel,” Kirchner wrote in his diary on [...]

Contemporary Artist, Andreas Hofer, Exhibits at Charles Riva Collection

BRUSSELS.- Charles Riva Collection presents the exhibition about the work of Andreas Hofer, one of the leading German contemporary artists. The show will display drawings, collages, paintings, and sculptures. In his work, Andreas Hofer creates complex visual worlds based on narrative structures. His thematic and formal references defy any categorisation. His vocabulary ranges from Christian, satanist, astrological or mythological symbolism to recollections from art history He juxtaposes figures from the fifties, pop culture and comic strip with icons of modernism [...]

Nominees for New Zealand Award for Contemporary Art Announced

AUCKLAND.- The $50,000 Walters Prize is awarded for an outstanding work of contemporary New Zealand art produced and exhibited during the past two years. Previous winners were Yvonne Todd for Asthma and Eczema (2002), et al. for restricted access (2004), Francis Upritchard for Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed (2006) and Peter Robinson for ACK (2008). Named in honour of the late New Zealand artist Gordon Walters, the prize was established in 2002 by founding benefactors and principal donors Erika and Robin [...]

Regen Projects Presents New Landscape Photographs by Catherine Opie

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of new work by Catherine Opie. The exhibition presents a suite of new photographs that further the artist’s investigation into ideas of landscape. With the ocean as her backdrop, Opie explores the shifting mise en scène of light, color, movement, and the tension between boundaries and limitlessness. In the summer of 2009, Opie traveled aboard a container ship en route from Korea to Long Beach. She documented the voyage in a series [...]

Museum Announces U.S. Tour of “Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum for African Art, New York, has announced the U.S. tour of the important exhibition Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria. Devoted to the art of Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (in present-day southwestern Nigeria), Dynasty and Divinity has been co-organized by the Fundación Marcelino Botín and the Museum, in collaboration with the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments. The exhibition (with the title Kingdom of Ife: [...]

Exhibition of New Works by Lee Boroson at Sara Meltzer Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Sara Meltzer Gallery presents Universal Solvent, an exhibition of new works by Lee Boroson. This is the artist’s second solo presentation at the gallery. The exhibition is on view April 23 – May 29, 2010. In this new body of work Lee Boroson considers cultural influences on our perception of the natural world. He views landscape as a construct, a very particular point of reference to view the natural world. With a deep interest in the Hudson [...]

Ringling Museum Exhibits Elaborate Jewelry of the Turkomen Tribes

SARASOTA, FL.- Exquisite silver and gilt jewelry from the Turkomen tribes of Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan are presented in the exhibition Splendid Treasures of the Turkomen Tribes of Central Asia at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art’s Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing April 24,1010 – Jan. 30, 2011. The exhibit of more than 40 objects hand crafted by the semi-nomadic Turkomen people features headdress ornaments, bracelets, and clothing clasps with carnelian and lavish decorative elements of [...]

Isola & Norzi Revive Jacques Cousteau’s Utopian Dream at Art in General

NEW YORK, NY.- Reviving Jacques Cousteau’s utopian dream of living underwater, Isola and Norzi’s first solo U.S. exhibition, Liquid Door is an ongoing deep sea exploration that begins as a series of ephemeral and performative aquatic investigations into the exhibits at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island, Brooklyn this Spring and ultimately end at Cousteau’s original underwater structure off the coast of Sudan. Inspired by the ephemeral threshold of the liquid door– a surface between air and water created [...]

The Whitechapel Gallery Presents the First UK Exhibition of Architects, Robbrecht and Daem

LONDON.- Flemish architects Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem of Robbrecht en Daem Architecten have a poetic approach to buildings. Embracing the intimate and the modest, their projects are defined by natural materials and simplicity of colour. Sudden openings onto exhilarating views act as flowing, ephemeral presences which guide visitors through the space. Describing architecture as ‘a vehicle for understanding the world; an observatory’, their projects have range from high profile public buildings such as Bruges Concert Hall and the Boijmans [...]