The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix Arrives in Montreal

MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting ROUGE CABARET: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, the first North American exhibition devoted to Otto Dix (1891-1969), one of the twentieth century’s most important German painters. A keen observer of the world, which he viewed as “terrifying and beautiful,” Otto Dix leaves no one indifferent. Some 220 works, including about forty rare and fragile paintings, many of them painted in tempera on wood panels, large watercolours and powerful [...]

Hauser & Wirth Opens an Exhibition of Works by Subodh Gupta

ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth opened its new Zurich space with an exhibition of works by Subodh Gupta, including monumental new sculptures and the ‘Cosmos’ paintings, first shown at PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine. Gupta’s ideas take shape in a variety of different media, such as steel, bronze, marble and paint. Materials are encountered for their aesthetic properties and as conceptual signifiers carrying a wealth of connotations. The mass-produced utensils that have played such a prominent role in Gupta’s art offer an ambiguous [...]

Exhibition of Works on Paper at Marianne Boesky Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Barnaby Furnas, Jim Nutt and Eduardo Paolozzi. This grouping of works highlights the artists’ intricate processes of mark making, lines, patterning, fragmentation, and at times vibrant use of color. Each artist imbues his work with themes borrowed from popular culture of their respective times, as well as influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Pop. Eduardo Paolozzi is best known as a pioneer of the Pop Art movement [...]

Exhibition of Works from the Collection of the MMK Opens

FRANKFURT.- MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt possesses one of the largest collections of international contemporary photography world-wide. Since its foundation in 1991, MMK has collected photography, according it an equal status to painting, sculpture, drawing, film and video installations. The Collection strategy has always focused on the image itself, not only in connection with the respective artist’s oeuvre as a whole, but also in regards to the specific image’s exemplary qualities and photographic expression. The presentation from the [...]

“I Speak As I Please” New Sculpture By David Buckingham

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents “I Speak As I Please”, new sculpture by Los Angeles artist David Buckingham in his first solo exhibition in New Orleans. As a native New Orleanian, Buckingham will explore the profound effect that growing up in the city can have on both its citizens and on those whom – for various misfortunes – it has lost. David Buckingham will bring his unique brand of metal sculpture to New Orleans for the annual Art [...]

New Paintings by Matt Magee at Knoedler Project Space

NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler Project Space presents Matt Magee: New Paintings, an exhibition of abstract oil paintings created in 2009–2010, including a number of works from On a Clear Day, 2010, a series of 7 x 5 inch oils (painted on announcement cards for a 2005 exhibition of a 1973 series of screenprints by that title by Agnes Martin), in which the artist executes variations on the “theme” of Martin’s underlying grid. While this series points out a lineage between [...]

Asian Art Week at Christie’s London in November

LONDON.- The continuing international appeal of Asian Art was further illustrated in the September sales in New York which realised $70.7 million; re-confirming Christie’s continued position as market leader for the category with 72 % market share. This autumn, Christie’s London Asian Art Week will run from 9 – 12 November 2010, featuring important, rare and beautiful examples with excellent provenance. The sales include: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 9 November at King Street; Interiors – Juxtaposing [...]

29th Sao Paulo Biennial Opens in Brazil

SAO PAULO.- Organized by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the 29th edition of the São Paulo Biennial is rooted in the idea that it is impossible to separate art from politics. By procedures and means that are distinctive to it, art constantly questions and interrupts the sensorial coordinates by which one perceives and inhabits the world, thus inserting themes, subjects and attitudes that did not fit there before. This curatorial platform takes into account two related facts. Firstly, the evidence [...]

Ballpen drawings by Juan Francisco Casas

Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz, born in September 21 1976, Jaén, Andalusia is a Spanish artist who paints large size oil canvases and ballpen drawings where he reproduces images he takes with his camera, youthful and spontaneous domestic photographs of fleeting moments of nighttime fun. He is considered one of the more influential painters in Spain. Have a look at his Gallery, Myspace, Artnet.

Vibrant Watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller Capture Spirit of the Early American West

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, is on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection, an exhibition that opens this fall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011. Baltimore native [...]

Works by “New Topographics” Pioneer on View at the Art Institute

CHICAGO, IL.- Lewis Baltz (b.1945) is one of the most prominent representatives of the “New Topographics” movement, which changed the direction of American photography in the 1970s and has had a formative impact on every generation since. However, Baltz’s innovations began already in the 1960s. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the first survey ever of Lewis Baltz’s inaugural body of work, the Prototypes (c. 1967-1973). The exhibition also puts on view for the first time in 12 years [...]

MFA Houston Announces First Carlos Cruz-Diez Retrospective

HOUSTON, TX.- Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist´s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. For more than five decades Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) has intensively experimented with the origins and optics of color. His wide-ranging body of work includes unconventional color structures, light environments, street interventions, architectural integration projects and experimental works that engage the response of [...]

First Retrospective in Germany of Paul Graham at Deichtorhallen

HAMBURG.- The House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg is presenting in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang the first retrospective in Germany of the British photographer Paul Graham (b. 1956) with 11 major work complexes produced since 1981. With about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography, which was founded by Bill Brandt in England after the second world war and continued by photographers such as Chris [...]

Autry National Center Presents Siqueiros in LA: Censorship Defied

LOS ANGELES, CA- The Autry National Center sheds new light on one of the world’s most influential artistic developments of the 20th century—and bring attention to a critical but little-known moment in the growth of the Los Angeles cultural scene—when it presents the new exhibition Siqueiros in Los Angeles: Censorship Defied from September 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011. Organized by the Autry National Center in partnership with Legacy & Legend Productions, with loans of artworks and materials from major [...]

Sotheby’s Sale of Lehman Brothers Collection Totals $12.3 Million

LONDON.- Sotheby’s sale of selected works from the distinguished Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers Corporate Art Collections brought a total of $12,277,751 today, reaching the high estimate ($8/12 million). Seventeen auction records were set for artists including Julie Mehretu and Glenn Ligon, and the sale was 83% sold by lot with more than half of those works bringing prices above their high estimates. “This collection was put together with great care and foresight,” said Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s Worldwide Head of [...]