Etched Leather Artwork by Mark Evans

The artist Mark Evans creates portraits of famous faces, all hand-etched into leather hides. He creates artwork using knives as his ‘paintbrushes’. These leather works of art are incredible and impressively detailed. > markevansart.com

A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010 at Centre for Fine Arts

BRUSSELS.- Forming part of the Summer of Photography 2010, the exhibition entitled A Useful Dream celebrates fifty years of African photography and the building of collective identities in post-colonial Africa . It gives a general picture of present-day photography in Africa . Up to the late 20th century, the West had a monopoly in Africa on the view and hence definition of the world. The images from the colonial period deliberately focused on reducing this other part of humanity, in [...]

Uffizi Virtuale, A new experience with art at Shangai Art Museum

Shanghai.- The masterpieces of Italian art arrive at Shanghai Art Museum from the world-famous Uffizi Gallery. Uffizi Virtuale suggests an interactive itinerary within the Uffizi Gallery Collection. Uffizi Virtuale, A new experience with art Nine multimedia installations, each with large format touch screen interface, will be showing one masterpiece after another. By touching the screen, visitors will be able to examine every particular and zoom in to see the most hidden detail up to the point of perceiving the artist’s [...]

Caravaggio’s Judas Kiss stolen in Odessa two years ago likely found in Germany

Odessa.– A painting by Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio The Taking of Christ or Judas Kiss stolen in Odessa is likely found in Germany. On June 25, three Ukrainian residents were detained there with the stolen painting. Today, the question of their extradition and the painting’s return to the museum is being settled, Ukrainian media told on Sunday evening with the reference to sources in the regional Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile, the Ministry’s regional administration and Odessa museum have [...]

Steve McCurry Launches New Exhibition at Birmingham Museum

BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery presents the first and only UK exhibition of critically acclaimed photojournalist Steve McCurry, in association with Magnum Photos. The exhibition includes over eighty striking images that span a remarkable twenty year career, including his world renowned portrait “Afghan Girl”. Steve McCurry is recognised as one of the world’s finest photographers and during his career he has covered many international and civil conflicts, particularly within the regions of Asia and the Middle East. McCurry made [...]

Wall Drawings by David Tremlett for the Gallery of Contemporary Art

HAMBURG.- With Drawing Rooms the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents the first comprehensive show of the artist David Tremlett in a German museum since 1992. For this exhibition, David Tremlett has taken over the entire third floor of the Gallery of Contemporary Art with new site-specific wall drawings, which where drafted especially for this place. In addition, drawings, sketches, artist books and photographs from the late sixties until today give an insight into his work. Tremlett (*1945) is one of the most [...]

Contemporary Cuban Art Opens at the Katonah Museum of Art

KATONAH, NY.- Very few of us have had the opportunity to experience the rich culture of Cuba by visiting the island nation. The Katonah Museum of Art will bring some of that culture to us when it opens Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection, on June 27. This riveting exhibition, which runs through September 19, features some of the most important art to come out of Cuba in the past two decades. The Museum is located at [...]

Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

OAKVILLE< ON.- Oakville Galleries presents the only Ontario stop of the National Gallery of Canadaʼs touring exhibition Real Life, featuring artists Ron Mueck (on view at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square) and Guy Ben-Ner (on view at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens). This exhibition will be on view at Oakville Galleries from June 26 until September 5, 2010. Real Life showcases the work of two important figures in contemporary art: internationally renowned sculptor Ron Mueck, and the Berlin-based video artist [...]

Light and Language by Brigitte Kowanz in Retrospective Opening at MUMOK in Vienna

VIENNA.- The Brigitte Kowanz retrospective is a part of a series of exhibitions that the MUMOK is putting on dealing with internationally successful Austrian artists. With the consistent depiction of light and language Kowanz’s work is an exception, in both a local and international context. This is the first time that her varied and complex oeuvre from 1984 up to the present has been honoured to this extent with a presentation of representative wall pieces, installations, and interventions in architectonic [...]

Paths to Abstraction Opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

SYDNEY.- One of the most ambitious exhibitions the Art Gallery of New South Wales has ever undertaken, Paths to abstraction will include more than 150 pivotal works by some of the most influential pioneers of modernism, spanning 50 years when paintings, drawings and prints edged their way by degrees towards purely non-representational images. Curator Terence Maloon has secured representative works of more than 40 of the leading artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries including Whistler, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, [...]

Definitive Collection of Collage Series by Mark Bradford Published in New Book

NEW YORK, NY.- Since 2006, acclaimed Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford has been erasing, obscuring and reconfiguring the text and graphics of advertising posters he collects from the South Central neighborhood where he was raised. His Merchant Poster series reveals narratives of economic struggle and cultural discord as they are telegraphed by the street advertisements of an underground economy. The signs themselves are ubiquitous in LA, printed ad hoc and pasted or stapled onto whatever surfaces are in reach: walls, [...]

Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses’ Airborne at One Post Street

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art presents Airborne, an exhibition of works by renowned California painter Ed Moses. On view will be selected works from a 2007 series that explores atmosphere and abstraction. Lush applications of paint in light, airy hues lend the paintings an ephemeral quality suggestive of mountain air and meteorological phenomena. Seen as a group, they describe a dynamic, vaporous, and sensually charged environment. Ed Moses was born in Long Beach, California, in 1926 and received [...]

IVAM Celebrates Formula 1 Grand Prix with Installation by Lorenzo Quinn

VALENCIA.- The work entitled Vroom Vroom by the sculptor Lorenzo Quinn has been installed in the leveled area of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) on the occasion of the Formula 1 Telefónica Grand Prix of Europe in Valencia Street Circuit. The sculpture will remain on display until next July. Vroom Vroom is a vintage Fiat 500, the first car that the sculptor has, handled by a child’s hand build under the references of the author’s son. The work [...]

Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin Statue Removed in Georgian Home Town

GORI, GEORGIA (REUTERS).- Authorities removed a towering statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin from the central square of his native city in the dead of the night on Friday, carting away the monument to Georgia’s most famous native. The 6-meter-high bronze statue will be replaced by a monument to victims of Georgia’s 2008 war with Russia and of Stalin’s repression, officials said — a rebuke to Moscow. In an unannounced operation that began after midnight and was over before dawn, [...]

Rackstraw Downes Exhibits at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The exhibition features Rackstraw Downes’s three-part painting, Under the Westside Highway at 145th Street: The North River Water Pollution Control Plant, and the many sketches and preparatory works which were part of the process of its creation. The work depicts a space which the artist describes in his journal as “very ‘ancient Rome’; Piranesi-like … with enormous columns, and some nice curves …” Typical of Downes’s work, it is an in-between space, utilitarian and majestic; a manmade space [...]