Hans P. Kraus Jr. to Show Landmark Works from the Early History of Photography at Art Basel

BASEL.- Exhibiting for the 21st year at Art Basel, Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present landmark works from the early history of photography. Signature images will be on view from such important innovators as William Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, Anna Atkins and Gustave Le Gray as well as works by early 20th century masters such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Heinrich Kühn. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) conceived of the very idea of photography during the 1830s, [...]

Artist Anita Glesta Creates CENSUS Public Art Project

NEW YORK, NY.- The Census Project, a large-scale public art project created by artist Anita Glesta for the United States General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture Program (GSA) at the United States Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland, Maryland, will be inaugurated on Monday July 12, 2010. Covering more than seven acres, the project attempts to humanize the abstraction of the census (data and numbers) as it draws attention to the history of numbers and the diversity of people in the [...]

Glastonbury Paintings by Kurt Jackson Auctioned for Charity

LONDON.- Stunning paintings of famous Glastonbury performances are being auctioned in a ground-breaking initiative to raise money for Greenpeace. The paintings by Kurt Jackson, the festival’s celebrated artist-in-residence, include one of Radiohead’s 2003 performance on the Pyramid stage, painted by Jackson during the gig. The twenty-nine works of art – including Glastonbury landscapes and paintings and sketches of Lily Allen, Massive Attack and Neil Young – will be sold in aid of the Greenpeace Environmental Trust. Fourteen are open for [...]

Christie’s Sale of Asian Contemporary and Chinese 20th Century Art Totals $39 Million

HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong completed its Evening Sale of Asian Contemporary Art and Chinese 20th Century Art on May 29th, 2010 with a remarkable 100% sell-through rate. With a sale total of HK$303 million/US$39 million that is three times over the estimate, this is the first white glove auction for any Evening Sale in Asia. The top lot was ‘String Quartet’ by Chinese 20th Century artist Chen Yifei, a work which broke a new auction record at HK$61.1 million/US$7.85 [...]

Alexandra Exter Retrospective Opens at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art

MOSCOW.- An unprecedented retrospective exhibition of works by Alexandra Exter hosted by the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is a truly remarkable event. Alexandra Exter, one of the ‘amazons’ and brightest stars of the Russian avant-garde, took part in most significant shows of the new art, including exhibitions of ‘Jack of Diamonds’ group and ‘Union of Youth’, ‘№ 4’ and ‘Tram B’, ‘Shop’, ‘5×5=25’ and so on. One cannot imagine innovative Russian art of the early 20th century without this [...]

Hamburger Bahnhof Opens First Major Exhibition of American Artist Bruce Nauman in Berlin

BERLIN.- This summer, the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting Bruce Nauman. Dream Passage, the first major exhibition of the American artist Bruce Nauman in Berlin. The exhibition is being held on the occasion of the installation of the spectacular architectural sculpture Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care from 1984, which was recently donated to the Nationalgalerie by the collector Friedrich Christian Flick. Thus the largest interior sculpture by the artist can now be exhibited [...]

Advanced Technique, RTI, Used to Decipher Maya Glyphs

MEXICO CITY.- As part of most recent studies at Tonina Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas, a technique known as RTI (Reflection Transformation Imaging) is being applied for the first time in Mexico on Maya sculptures, with the aim of documenting the ancient monuments and having more details of inscriptions. Carlos Pallan Gayol, archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), informed that the method has been applied on10 monuments. It allows manipulating light on a photographic sequence in an [...]

Museum Langmatt Celebrates Anniversary by Swiss Video Artist Pipilotti Rist

BADEN.- Swiss film and video artist Pipilotti Rist has designed a kaleidoscope of colours and poetic surprises for the 20th anniversary of the Langmatt Museum: the artist focuses on the hidden life at Villa Langmatt, built in 1900-01 by Karl Moser. She directs our attention to the now-forgotten parallel universe of the servants and creates coherent counterworlds to the pictures of the French Impressionists. Villa Langmatt, home of industrialist and collector family Sidney and Jenny Brown-Sulzer and their three sons, [...]

Whitney Announces Exhibitions of Artists Working with Performative Actions

NEW YORK, NY.- Conceived as a two-part exhibition, Off the Wall brings together thirty performative actions by artists, in works made from 1946 to the present, and seven iconic performance works by Trisha Brown. The exhibition takes place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the second-floor Mildred & Herbert Lee Galleries and the Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery, and extends beyond the Museum in the fall with Part 2’s presentation of Brown’s works, which includes the [...]

Offerings to Tlaltecuhtli to be Exhibited at Moctezuma II

MEXICO CITY.- Nearly a hundred Prehispanic objects deposited by Mexica as offerings dedicated to Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the Earth, will be displayed for the first time at the exhibition Moctezuma II. Tiempo y Destino de un Gobernante (Moctezuma II. Time and Destiny of a Ruler), to be open in the second half of June 2010 in Templo Mayor Museum. The pieces exhibited at the show organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) are part of 16 offerings [...]

New Paintings by Mark Harrington at Edward Cella Art + Architecture

SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture presents a solo exhibition of work by Bavaria based artist Mark Harrington. Entitled, Depth of Field, the exhibition presents new non-representational paintings, which are distinguished by their thickly layered surfaces organized in rhythmic bands of subtle, contrasting color. Inspired by the cinematographer’s term depth of field, that is to say the range of distance within a photograph or film image that is acceptably sharp, the exhibition presents a sequence of paintings which [...]

Candid Photographs from 1950s-1970s at the Art Gallery of South Australia

ADELAIDE.- Candid moments of Australian life from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, captured by some of Australia’s most renowned photographers, go on display in Candid Camera – a fascinating new photographic exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Curated by Julie Robinson, the Art Gallery’s Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s – 1970s includes more than 80 documentary images by photographers including Max Dupain, David Moore, Jeff Carter, Robert McFarlane, Mervyn Bishop, Rennie [...]

Exhibition Offers Unique Opportunity to Enter Mike Kelley’s Studio

LOS ANGELES, CA.- West of Rome Public Art presents A Voyage of Growth and Discovery, an immersive art experience created by artists Mike Kelley and Michael Smith. This exhibition marks the first Los Angeles exhibition for both artists in nearly a decade; Kelley has not been the subject of a solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 2001, and Smith’s work last appeared in the group exhibition “Out of Action” in 1998. A Voyage of Growth and Discovery is a mixed-media [...]

Actor, Filmmaker and Artist, Dennis Hopper Dies at 74 in California

LOS ANGELES.- Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in “Rebel Without a Cause,” an improbable smash with “Easy Rider” and a classic character role in “Blue Velvet,” has died. He was 74. Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Hopper’s manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. [...]

David Bomberg Burton-on-Trent Bomb Store Picture to Sell at Bonhams

LONDON.- A wartime oil painting, Bomb Store No.3, depicting the underground bomb store at RAF Fauld in Tutbury near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire by British artist David Bomberg (1890-1957) is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its 20th Century British Art sale on 30 June 2010. It is expected to fetch £150,000 – 200,000. Having spent three years repeatedly applying to the War Artist’s Advisory Committee (WAAC) to be a war artist, Bomberg was eventually commissioned to [...]