Moderna Museet Presents Paintings from the Last Five Decades by Ed Ruscha

STOCKHOLM.- Ed Ruscha, born in 1937, is an icon of modern art and exceedingly prolific to this day. His paintings are ambiguous and provocative, recycling scraps from popular culture and redefining established genres. Is he one of the first pop artists, a trail-blazer of conceptual art, a late surrealist, a pioneer of postmodernism, or a bit of everything, all rolled into one? Ed Ruscha started out in graphic design, photography and film-making; ever since he left the Midwest for California, [...]

Exhibition of Drawings by Pablo Picasso Opens in Argentina for the First Time Since 1934

BUENOS AIRES.- The Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) presented to the public more than 60 drawings and prints by the great Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. This exhibition has been made possible by an international cultural exchange and will remain on view until September. The exhibition, titled “Picasso: The Look of Desire”, is a review of one of the most powerful drives in Picasso: the desire, more than 60 works that make up sections such as [...]

Works to Go on Display at the 37th London International Fine Art Fair at Olympia

LONDON.- The London International Fine Art Fair (LIFAF) at Olympia is the first fair of the Summer Season, presenting the most broad ranging fine art and antiques event when it opens on Friday 4 June 2010. With a 37 year history, LIFAF is London’s largest and most established fair of its kind. Bringing together more than 150 prestigious British and international dealers, private buyers, curators, interior designers and devotees from around the world, the fair reinforces London ’s role as [...]

Caravaggio’s Friends and Foes Opened at Whitfield Fine Art

LONDON.- Caravaggio was a man who made enemies easily. A quick tempered, intolerant artistic genius who was fond of a drink and prone to violence, he was frequently in trouble with the authorities and eventually fled Rome after being accused of murdering a former friend in a gang fight. This uncouth upstart also outraged the artistic establishment by by-passing traditional training methods and giving young painters the idea that all they had to do was to put brush to palette [...]

Collection of Italian Paintings Exhibited in Its Entirety for the First and Only Time

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection features some 60 paintings from one of the finest private collections of Italian art in existence. On view at the Yale University Art Gallery from May 28 through September 12, 2010, the exhibition includes major works from the 14th through the 17th century by celebrated artists such as Fra Angelico, Lorenzo Monaco, Annibale and Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino, Guercino, and Orazio Gentileschi. Organized by Laurence Kanter, the Lionel Goldfrank III [...]

The Vader Project Helmets to Be Sold at Auction

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- 100 Darth Vader helmets which have been re-imagined by some of today’s best known underground artists will be unveiled at Freeman’s Los Angeles Auction Preview, 6812 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. from June 12th through the 20th, 2010 before their sale at Freemans’ Auctioneers in Philadelphia on July 10th 2010. The Vader Project was set up by Dov Kelemer and Sarah Jo Marks of DKE toys. The concept is simple: 100 of the best underground artists and [...]

Sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art Realizes HK$44.5 Million

HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong Spring 2010 sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art marks a 33% increase over the Fall 09 sale total. More than 10 records were set for both established and emerging artists from both the modern and contemporary sections, including the top lot, Italian painter-traveler Romualdo Locatelli’s Bali picture, “Young Balinese Girl with Hibiscus”, which broke all previous records, selling for HK$6.02million (US$773,000). The extremely rare and early Fernando Cueto Amorsolo painting, “Lavenderas”, sold for [...]

Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection to Be Offered at Sotheby’s

LONDON.- The word Venice is, to many, evocative of grand canals and sleepy backwaters, lined with the facades of beautiful palazzi. What lies behind those facades, however, often remains a mystery. Sotheby’s sale, the Splendour of Venice, to be held in London on Tuesday July 6, 2010, allows a glimpse into the dazzlingly beautiful world that existed inside some of Venice’s most splendid palazzi during some of the most prosperous and charmed years of the Venetian Republic. The sale will [...]

Carefully Curated Ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to Be Offered at Sotheby’s

PARIS.- On June 16 in Paris, Sotheby’s will offer one of the most carefully curated ensembles of African & Oceanic Art to be offered on the market in recent years. The works come from a number of esteemed private collections, including the famous Friede collection, and the sale is divided equally between Oceania and Africa. The objects have been selected based on their quality and rarity, reflecting the talent of the great artists of these two continents. Oceanic Art Following [...]

New Book “Leo and His Circle” by Annie Cohen-Solal Tells the Life of Leo Castelli

NEW YORK, NY.- Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America’s most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed Sartre: A Life (“an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), recounts his incalculably influential and astonishing life in Leo and His Circle. After emigrating to New York in 1941, Castelli would not open a gallery for sixteen years, when he had reached the age of [...]

Exhibition Between IMMA and Art Alongside Opens at Wexford Arts Centre

DUBLIN.- Abode, an exhibition developed through the continued successful partnership between Art Alongside and IMMA’s National Programme, opens to the public at Wexford Arts Centre on Monday 31 May 2010. Art Alongside is a visual arts project working with children in primary schools which aims to provide a dynamic and relevant experience of the visual arts to the children and adults of County Wexford. Abode includes a selection of work from the primary school children, alongside the work of project [...]

Gothic Art Collection Back at Popular Rhode Island Mansion

NEWPORT, RI.- Marble House oozes decadence at every corner, from the 22-karat gold leaf decorations to the Corinthian columns at the front entrance to the lavish ceiling paintings of Greek gods. But for more than 80 years, the Gilded Age mansion has been without one of its most treasured features: a vast collection of more than 300 objects of Medieval and Renaissance art. The wealthy Vanderbilt family bought the works in Paris and displayed them for years on the red-silk [...]

Comic Hero Tintin Nets $1.3 Million in Auction at Drouot-Montaigne

PARIS.- A life-size bronze statue of comic book reporter Tintin and more than 200 other items linked to the diminutive globetrotter have fetched more than euro1 million ($1.3 million) at a Paris auction. The most expensive lot was two inked and water-painted original panels from the 1938 “King Ottokar’s Sceptre” album, which went for euro243,750 ($299,620). The bronze statue, showing Tintin with his hands in his pockets and dog Snowy at his side, went for euro 125,000 ($153,650) in the [...]

Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Opens One Fine Morning in May…

BREMEN.- Restrictions, mistakes, crises, anticlimax let alone failures – all these terms run contrary to our time so directed at success and productivity and, in our societal contexts, unequivocally burdened with negativity. Expectations have to be fulfilled, whether of oneself or of others. In no time at all, non-fulfilment smacks of failure or break down. A remedy seems only to be achieved via complete withdrawal or cynicism. But what if the knowledge of restrictions, erroneousness and pre-programmed failure becomes a [...]

Silver Forged Mexican History Exhibited

MEXICO CITY.- Wealth, refinement, exploitation, faith…hundreds of stories hide in the 500 pieces part of the “Plata. Forjando México” (Silver. Forging Mexico) exhibition, to be opened at the National Museum of Viceroyalty (MNA) in Tepotzotlan, Estado de Mexico in June 2010. Details of the show were announced in a press conference organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). 33 Colonial silver objects from Canary Islands and important Mexican heaps will be displayed. Cecilia Genel Velasco, director of [...]