Walker Art Center Invites Audience to Select Artworks for Exhibition

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center’s audience will share the spotlight with the museum’s curators when they jointly select the artworks for the upcoming exhibition 50/50: Audience and Experts Curate the Paper Collection. Visit the kiosk in Benches & Binoculars or vote online at walkerart.org/5050. A mobile version of the Web site will also be available. Voting runs August 1–September 15. Several lucky voters will be selected at random for a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition with the curator. 50/50 [...]

Rarely Viewed Russian Photographs at Michael Hoppen Gallery

LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery presents a unique selection of rarely viewed Russian photographs: Boris Savelev was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He is a graduate of the Institute of Aeronautics and joined the Moscow photography club Novator in 1970. He became a full time photographer since 1982and has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is one of the best-knownphotographers working in Russia today. Savelev’s work is about light and form-not people, but his images [...]

Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice at the J. Paul Getty Museum

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Italian Renaissance drawings form the core of the Getty Museum’s celebrated drawings collection. On view from July 20–October 10, 2010, at the Getty Center, From Line to Light: Renaissance Drawing in Florence and Venice brings together spectacular drawings from the Museum’s extensive holdings to explore influential trends in Italian drawing before 1550. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to examine more than 40 works on paper executed by Italy’s greatest practitioners of drawing, with Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), [...]

Optical Installation by Morgane Tschiember Unveiled at Design Center

DANIA BEACH, FL.- Stars and Stripes, a three story, site specific installation by French artist Morgane Tschiember, was unveiled on July 15, 2010 in the newly renovated Atrium A of the DCOTA (Design Center of the Americas) in Dania Beach. The unveiling coincided with the launch of the DCOTA’s International Design Series July 15-August 14. Stars and Stripes, commissioned by Charles S. Cohen of Cohen Design Centers, owners of the DCOTA, and curated by Helen Varola, Cohen Design Center curator, [...]

Art Production Fund Set to Present “White Ghost” by Yoshitomo Nara on Park Avenue

NEW YORK, NY.- Art Production Fund will present “White Ghost” by Yoshitomo Nara in two locations on Park Avenue. “We are thrilled to be working with Nara to introduce his first public sculptures in New York City” says Co-founders of Art Production Fund, Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen. This public art installation will coincide with the first Nara retrospective “Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool” opening at Asia Society in early September 2010. During August of 2010 the Park Avenue Armory [...]

Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces Exhibition of Photographs by Mario Testino

MADRID.- For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in his work, fashion and the nude. These concepts are present both in his better known activities as a fashion photographer, including the images that he has created for Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face, as well as in [...]

Painting by Spanish Baroque Master Francisco Ribalta Restored After Being Hidden in Church

VALENCIA.- The old Church of San Esteban, on Colón de Valencia Street, had been its hiding place for centuries. The piece, which was completely blackened, had gone unnoticed for many years. The weather had harmed the painting, in fact, 40% of the paint was gone. For seven months, three conservators from the Fundación La Luz de las Imágenes fixed their eyes and hands on the work. After the cleaning, stucco and chromatic reintegration, technicians found a work of “high quality” [...]

Photographs by Group f/64 on View this Fall at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- In the 1930s, a small group of California photographers challenged the painterly, soft-focus Pictorialist style of the day. They argued that photography could only advance as an art if its practitioners exploited characteristics inherent to the camera’s mechanical nature. This small association of innovators created Group f/64, named after the camera aperture which produces great depth of field and sharp focus. Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64, on view September 30 through December 5, 2010, at [...]

Agnew’s to Open New Premises at Albemarle Street in Early September

LONDON.- Agnew’s, one of London ’s leading international art dealers, has confirmed that its new premises at 35 Albemarle Street will open in early September. Founded in 1817, the UK ’s oldest family-owned art dealership has created a gallery which clearly states that modern and contemporary art will play a very significant role in its future, but at the same time acknowledges their long-established position as dealers in Old Master paintings and drawings and British paintings and watercolours. The gallery [...]

DeCordova Announces Installation of Roy Lichtenstein’s Five Brushstrokes

LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced the arrival of Roy Lichtenstein’s Five Brushstrokes, a monumental addition to the Sculpture Park on Thursday, July 22.. The 2010 fabrication of Lichtenstein’s iconic Five Brushstrokes showcases his bold, colorful graphics and humorous portrayal of the brushstroke, an integral yet uncommon subject in art. Rising 20 feet high, Five Brushstrokes pays homage to Lichtenstein’s position as a central figure of the 1960’s Pop Art movement. Lichtenstein’s dynamic, stylized brushstrokes will enliven deCordova’s [...]

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Shows Works by Photographer David LaChapelle

TEL AVIV.- A selection from the works of provocative photographer David LaChapelle (b. Connecticut, 1963) is exhibited in Israel for the first time, giving a comprehensive view of his unique and daring style of the past twenty years. Alongside familiar subversive photographs originally commissioned for fashion and celebrity editorials, the show explores LaChapelle’s personal projects, created recently as part of his artistic and critical expression. Here he seeks to juxtapose contrasting concepts through their visual representation: hope and despair, growth [...]

Three-Person Exhibition Opens at Thierry Goldberg Projects

NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Projects presents Here We Aren’t So Quickly, a three-person exhibition with paintings by Guy Ben-Ari, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, and Hiroyuki Nakamura. The title of the show, taken from a Jonathan Safran Foer story, points to questions of authenticity and subjectivity explored in the work of all three artists. Whether through figuration or abstraction, each artist plays with the limits of representation in an attempt to knock up against something more real, and perhaps more permanent. While [...]

Exhibition Offers Unprecedented Reassessment of Pivotal Moment in Henri Matisse’s Career

NEW YORK, NY.- Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, a large-scale investigation into a pivotal moment in the career of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), presents an important reassessment of the artist’s work between 1913 and 1917, revealing this period to be one of the most significant chapters in Matisse’s evolution as an artist. On view from July 18 through October 11, 2010, at The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition examines paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by the artist between his return [...]

Cosima von Bonin’s The Fatigue Empire Opens at Kunsthaus Bregenz

BREGENZ.- Cosima von Bonin is one of the most well-known artists of her generation. Especially since her participation in the last documenta, at which a large number of the works was spread over the entire course of the show, she is no longer an insider-tip and so-called artist’s artist. Nevertheless it is not easy to classify her artistic production. Even though in some of her works references to historical Conceptual Art and Minimal Art can be noticed, and critics like [...]

Zhang Huan’s Hope Tunnel Opens at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

BEIJING.- Zhang Huan is one of China’s best-known performance and conceptual artists. He is also known for his shocking and absurd photographs and images. For his solo show at the UCCA, Zhang Huan will exhibit remains of the train which crashed during the 5.12 Earthquake in Sichuan and stretch it over the whole Big Hall exhibition space. “This exhibition is a way of showing the victims of the Sichuan earthquake that they haven’t been forgotten. It’s a curated social project, [...]