San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Showcases Works by Paul Klee

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, the exhibition features 21 works. SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum in 1946. At that time, Klee’s [...]

France’s Most Prestigious Art Fair will Bring Together 194 Galleries of Art

PARIS.- The 37th edition of FIAC will be held from 21st to 24th October 2010 at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée du Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries, outstanding sites that are emblematic of Paris, imbued with its history and cultural life. Because of the high standards it sets and constantly renews and the synergies it has developed with the major Parisian institutions, FIAC occupies a position as one of the not-to-be-missed international events relating to artistic creativity. Devised [...]

Joslyn Art Museum Celebrates a Contemporary American Sculptor

OMAHA, NE.- Opening August 7 in Joslyn Art Museum’s contemporary galleries is an exhibition celebrating Albert Paley’s diverse and significant body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and dedication of Odyssey, Paley’s gateway into Iowa on Interstate 80 at S. 24th Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near the Missouri River border with neighboring Omaha. Odyssey was commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation as part of their nationally acclaimed Public Art Initiative. Albert Paley: Celebrating a [...]

ICC to Present World Premiere Retrospective of Ghanaian Artist

TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the world premiere of El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, a career retrospective of Ghanaian visual artist El Anatsui. Presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM, this exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in Canada. Featuring 63 works in various media drawn from public and private collections internationally, El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa will be on display in the [...]

National Gallery of Victoria Celebrates the Work Artist John Davis

MELBOURNE.- This August, the National Gallery of Victoria celebrates the work of influential Australian artist, John Davis (1936–1999). John Davis: Presence draws together over 40 works by the artist including sculpture, photography and installations. David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art, NGV, said this important survey charts Davis’s development as an artist, from his early works, produced during the 1960s, through to his critically acclaimed sculptures and installation works leading into the nineties. “At the core of his practice, particularly evident in [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Carrie Gundersdorf

CHICAGO, IL.- Artist Carrie Gundersdorf explores abstraction through the use of astronomical imagery. Her six large-scale featured drawings consist of bars of color against atmospheric backdrops. They express not only what is seen, but also what can be imagined through color, line, space, and form, and are on view at the next UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago. The exhibition opened Friday, August 6 and runs through August 29, 2010. Carrie [...]

Richard Misrach: After Katrina Marks Gift of Katrina Photographs Series to MFAH

HOUSTON, TX.- American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) gave 69 Katrina photographs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in May 2010, which will be on view for the first time this summer. Focusing on the graffiti left by New Orleans evacuees, Richard Misrach: After Katrina reveals a range of individual reactions, giving a human face to the wreckage. Misrach shot the Katrina photographs between October and December 2005 with a 4 MP pocket camera. Richard Misrach: After Katrina, on [...]

Whitney Museum Extends John Jonas Gruen Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Located in the Museum’s Lower Gallery, this exhibition of John Jonas Gruen’s portraits of notable artists, all of whom are represented in the Whitney’s collection, has been extended to September 5, 2010. The exhibition is curated by Elisabeth Sussman. Writing in the volume of photographs from which this exhibition takes its title, art historian Justin Spring notes: “John Jonas Gruen has made it his business to be in the right place at the right time. During his [...]

Valentino Retrospective Showing Exclusively in Brisbane

BRISBANE.- A major retrospective exhibition of the House of Valentino is being shown exclusively at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane from August 7 until November 14, 2010. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future’ incorporated a stunning array of Valentino Garavani’s haute couture designs from the late 1950s through to his final collection in January 2008, as well as recent creations by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli – appointed in October 2008 Creative [...]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture

WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Modern Morphism: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, on view August 7, 2010 – October 3, 2010. Part of the Museum’s Outlooks Exhibition Series, this exhibition encourages viewers to explore the interconnectedness of art and nature. Clay was sculpted into forms based in nature, and then further transformed by the artists’ imagination into something unreal. The works can be organized into the following groups: anthropomorphism (imbuing the form of an animal or inanimate object with human [...]

MFA Houston Commissions Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Create Gunpowder Drawing

HOUSTON, TX.- Artist Cai Guo-Qiang has long been known internationally for his prolific and multi-disciplinary body of work that fuses the mythic and the everyday. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has commissioned Cai to create his first permanent, site-specific installation in a U.S. museum, in an event that will be open to the public: a monumental ethereal landscape that will line the four walls of the MFAH´s Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Arts of China Gallery, which opens [...]

Whitney Announces First Major U.S. Retrospective of the Work of Paul Thek

NEW YORK, NY.- An artist who defies classification, Paul Thek (1933-1988), the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early 70s, then nearly eclipsed within his own short lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the legendary American [...]

Now Reopened, Israel Museum has New Look at History of Holy Land

JERUSALEM (REUTERS).- A new Jerusalem exhibit displaying a million years of history in the Holy Land offers Bible buffs and skeptics alike a chance to say: “I told you so!” The Israel Museum, fresh-faced after a three-year, $100 million upgrade, offers an unparalleled look into the development of monotheistic religions, while leaving plenty of room for both science and faith. The museum’s more devout visitors may feel vindicated by a collection of three-thousand-year-old weapons used by ancient warriors in the [...]

BALTIC Announces a Major Exhibition of the Work of Anselm Kiefer

GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announces a major exhibition of the work of Anselm Kiefer, one of the foremost figures of European post-war painting. The exhibition includes a diverse body of work, offering a selection that spans four decades and ranges from early paintings to monumental installations. Presented over two floors of BALTIC’s galleries, the exhibition is Kiefer’s largest in the UK for many years and has been made possible by ARTIST ROOMS on Tour with the Art Fund. [...]

Guggenheim – Hugo Boss Prize Nominees Garner Accolades

NEW YORK, NY.- In October 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and HUGO BOSS announced the six artists short-listed for THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010. Since then, each of the nominees has garnered further accolades and been featured in institutional exhibitions around the world. One year old Bennet is learning to walk with his mother Astrid Masuch in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Bennet’s learning to walk is the [...]