ROMA: The Road to Contemporary Art Offers 8,000 Square Meters of Art

ROME.- Mr. Umberto Croppi, Councilor to the Cultural Policies and Communication of the Municipality or Rome, Mr. Roberto Casiraghi, Director of ROMA – The Road to Contemporary Art and Mr. Achille Bonito Oliva, curator of the third edition of exhibition Cose mai viste (Things You Never Saw), are presenting the international fair ROMA – The Road to Contemporary Art In the new unique venue of Macro Testaccio, which is hosting in the space of over 8,000 square meters, articulated in [...]

Sabine Breitwieser is New Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA

NEW YORK, NY.- Independent curator, author, and lecturer Sabine Breitwieser has been appointed Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, it was announced today by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry. Ms. Breitwieser, who from 1988 to 2007 served as founding Director and Curator of the Generali Foundation, a public contemporary art museum in Vienna, succeeds Klaus Biesenbach, who last year was appointed Director of MoMA PS1, the Museum’s affiliate in Long [...]

Fall Focus on Spanish Art through Two Frick Presentations

NEW YORK, NY.- The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century—Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them—created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically “Spanish manner,” will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection in the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than fifty of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeast, among them The Metropolitan Museum of [...]

Christie’s to Offer Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection in London

LONDON.- Christie’s announced that they will offer Syd Levethan – The Longridge Collection in London on 10 and 11 June 2010. One of the most prominent and distinguished collectors of British and Northern European decorative arts, the late Syd Levethan assembled the Longridge Collection over a period of 30 years and was dedicated to acquiring only the best works of art available to him. He created one of the most comprehensive collections of English delftware, slipware, textiles, medieval bronzes, metalwork, [...]

Crystal Bridges Announces Work by Leading Landscape, Pop Artists

BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has announced two distinctive contemporary works. Enassamishhinjijweian (2009), a tour-de-force landscape by Tom Uttech, builds on the collection’s strength in American landscapes, supplementing Asher B. Durand’s Kindred Spirits, Thomas Moran’s Autumn Landscape and Marsden Hartley’s Hall of the Mountain King, among other works. The second announced painting is Wayne Thiebaud’s Supine Woman (1963), a psychologically ambiguous portrait of a tense, prone woman. This work joins the museum’s growing body of works representing [...]

Richard Hamilton Curates an Exhibition of His Own Work at Alan Cristea Gallery

LONDON.- Richard Hamilton returns to his ‘scatalogical period’ to curate Shit and Flowers, an exhibition of his own work from the 1970s at the Alan Cristea Gallery from 27 May. The selected works in the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, collages, etchings, lithographs, collotypes, stage proofs and trial proofs loaned from the artist’s own collection. A set of vintage postcards depicting some locals squatting, with their trousers down, in the Pyrenees countryside was the starting point for Hamilton to create [...]

Morris Museum Executive Director Steven H. Miller to Retire

MORRISTOWN, NJ.- Steven H. Miller, executive director of the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, will be retiring from the museum effective July 1, 2010. He will remain associated with the museum in an advisory capacity and is assisting with the search for a replacement. Miller began as executive director at the Morris Museum in 2001. He has led the museum through several transformations. Upon arrival, the first order of business was to strengthen the professionalism of operations, stabilize budgets and [...]

Corcoran Gallery of Art Director Paul Greenhalgh Resigns

WASHINGTON, DC.- At a meeting on Tuesday, the Board of Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design accepted the resignation of Dr. Paul Greenhalgh from the position of director and president, effective June 1, 2010. Greenhalgh announced the news to the Corcoran community today, stating that he has accepted a position as director of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England, and will assume [...]

“Revealing Culture” Exhibition Opens at Smithsonian’s Ripley Center

Washington, D.C.- “Revealing Culture,” an exhibition highlighting the works of contemporary artists with disabilities, opens at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center on June 8, and runs through Aug. 29. The multisensory exhibition features more than 130 works of art in a broad range of media― installations, video, performance, painting, sculpture and printmaking―from emerging and eminent artists with disabilities in the United States and abroad. The exhibition was designed by Michael Graves & Associates/Michael Graves Design Group. This juried international [...]

Holland’s Largest Contemporary Art Fair, Art Amsterdam, Opens

AMSTERDAM.- The 26th edition of Art Amsterdam, Holland’s largest contemporary art exhibition, will take place from 26 to 30 May 2010. In addition to the leading Dutch galleries, Art Amsterdam will welcome exhibitors from countries such as Belgium, Germany, France, the UK, Denmark and South Korea. Art Amsterdam 2010 will take place in the Park Hall of Amsterdam RAI. Art Amsterdam will have a new look & feel as Edo Dijksterhuis takes on the role of director for the first [...]

Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s in Paris

PARIS.- Works from the André Level Collection, devoted mainly to Picasso, will be offered by Sotheby’s in Paris on June 3. The name, taste and career of André Level (1863-1946) enjoy immense prestige among Picasso specialists, and are considered of legendary significance by Modern Art aficionados. Level was a collector and financier, who in 1904 founded the first Modern Art investment fund, La Peau de l’Ours. The fund’s policy was to make joint purchases of works by young painters, keep [...]

Exhibition of 100 Masterpieces from the Collections of the Musée d’Orsay Opens in Tokyo

TOKYO.- The National Art Center in Tokyo present “Post Impressionism:115 Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay”, an exhibition that brings together nearly 100 masterpiece paintings from the legendary collections of the Musée d’ Orsay. France in the late 19th century was home to a diverse array of painters whose fertile genius was shaped by the artistic innovations wrought by the Impressionists. Throughout the later 1880s and the 1890s, these painters— Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Seurat, among others —used their own [...]

Long-Unseen Rivera, Kahlo Works at Latin American Art Sales

NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A work blending surrealism and the Cuban variant of voodoo tops this week’s Latin American art auctions, which also feature long-unseen paintings by Mexican artist Diego Rivera and wife Frida Kahlo. The Christie’s sale Wednesday and Thursday and Sotheby’s Thursday and Friday auctions each have high estimates of $25.2 million, sums reminiscent of strong demand in 2008. “People are starting to enjoy their money again, not keeping it,” said Sotheby’s Latin American art chief Carmen Melian. [...]

John Zurier, Jason Fox, and Richard Allen Morris at Peter Blum Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum presents the exhibition John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris, running through July 30, 2010. The exhibition “John Zurier, Jason Fox, Richard Allen Morris” brings together 3 different painting positions. “John Zurier: White Paintings and Night Paintings” occupies the two main galleries. The White Paintings reference the qualities of light, weather, and surface, but without ever turning to pictorial or figurative language. These paintings probe the material surface and can be read as an intimation [...]

Rare and Beautiful Treasures at Christie’s Sale this June

LONDON.- This summer Christie’s presents the first of its bi-annual Centuries of Style sales, a reflection of the finest examples of silver, European ceramics, portrait miniatures and gold boxes from the early sixteenth century to the twentieth century. The sale on 10 June in London will offer collectors the chance to purchase rare and beautiful treasures from this exciting group of categories, featuring massive sliver candelabras through to jewellery adorned with miniature portraits and including works of royal provenance. Silver [...]