Berlin-Based Artist Andy Hope 1930 Opens “On Time” at Metro Pictures

NEW YORK, NY.- For his season opening exhibition at Metro Pictures, the Berlin-based artist Andy Hope 1930 presents ON TIME, an exhibition of painting and three-dimensional forms that channel the evidence of art as a ghostly manifestation in a paranormal time and space. Central to the exhibition are the “Time Tubes” that are seen as minimal sculptures, two boxes that support a tapered horizontal box with one open end. A picture frame is mounted on one end of the tube, [...]

New Photographic Series by Taryn Simon at Gagosian

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Contraband,” a new photographic series by Taryn Simon. Simon’s photographs chronicle contradictory aspects of American identity while exposing the veiled mechanisms of society. Contraband expands on the earlier series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007), which explored the covert intersection between private and public domains. For five days in November 2009, Simon lived at John F Kennedy International Airport, which processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United [...]

Exhibition at Kahmann Gallery Highlights 10 Years of Martien Mulder’s Work

AMSTERDAM.- The work of New York based fine art photographer Martien Mulder (1971, NL) will be represented by Kahmann Gallery from September 2010. The exhibition “From Blue To Blue” highlights 10 years of personal work. Martien Mulder, Trees (Mist), 2005. Photo: Martien Mulder courtesy Kahmann Gallery Mulder’s colorpalette is very specific, and some of her photographs could be considered monotones. This gives them a quiet strength. She is a minimalist, but her images are sober in a warm and accessible [...]

Almost Unknown Perspective of Pablo Picasso Explored in New Exhibition at Albertina

VIENNA.- The exhibition Picasso: Peace and Freedom shows the twentieth century’s most important painter from a hitherto almost unknown perspective: in cooperation with Tate Liverpool, the Albertina presents Pablo Picasso as a politically and socially committed artist, thereby questioning the common image of this genius of a century. Assembling some two hundred exhibits from more than sixty international collections, the exhibition illustrates within a historical review and in chronological order how Picasso responded to the war and its atrocities in [...]

Exhibition on Fashion and Photography of the 1990s at MMK

FRANKFURT.- Not in Fashion. Fashion and Photography of the 90s is the title of the new special exhibition at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst. As the title already indicates the focus here is not on the glamorous fashion world of the rich and the beautiful. On the contrary, the show at MMK presents an anti-movement that in the 1990s consciously ran counter to the images of prêt-àporter, haute couture and the mainstream fashion magazines. Especially in the first half of [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Presents “Encountering Space”

DALLAS, TX.- On September 25, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Encountering Space, an exhibition exploring how artists shape and define space in their work, in its acclaimed Center for Creative Connections (C3). Featuring 11 key works drawn exclusively from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections—ranging from an ancient Peruvian clay vessel to Alberto Giacometti’s modern sculpture Three Men Walking—Encountering Space invites visitors of all ages to think about their own experiences in space and about how art defines space in both [...]

New Book Shows More than 100 Unpublished Marilyn Monroe Photos

NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A collection of more than 100 previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe can be seen for the first time in a new book “Marilyn: August 1953.” The book, published this week by Calla Editions, features digitally restored black and white images taken during the summer of 1953 of a then 27-year-old Monroe. The photos were shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine in Alberta, Canada, where Monroe was filming “River of No Return” with Robert [...]

Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper Open at the Taubman Museum of Art

ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art announced that its new fall exhibitions, Jane Hammond: Fallen and Jae Ko: Paper, open to the public yesterday. Jane Hammond: Fallen September 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011 Fallen is a large scale contemporary war memorial that recognizes the American troops killed in the Iraq war and occupation. Hammond honors each solider killed by inscribing their name on an individual and unique photograph of a leaf. Hammond worked meticulously to perfect the shape, [...]

The Norton Simon Museum Presents an Artwork by John Cage

PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents an installation of Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, an artwork by American composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992). Created in 1969 as a tribute to artist Marcel Duchamp, Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel is a multiple comprised of five components: four Plexigrams and one lithograph, all with randomly placed text and images. This innovative work, with its captivating construction and endless interpretation by the viewer, has not been on [...]

James Turrell at Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

BRUSSELS.- For the first time, Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels is presenting a solo exhibition by James Turrell. Born in Los Angeles in 1943, James Turrell lives and works in Arizona. From 1967 he presented his first “Projection Pieces” at the Pasadena Art Museum. These pieces are “revolutionary” and have been received as such in this time, sparking controversy. They are the first works that use light as a material in itself to be understood and “sculpted.” These works lay [...]

Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth at the Hudson River Museum

YONKERS, NY.- The fall landscape and paintings of its trees in full glory is often regarded as uniquely American. On September 25, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, opens Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, which includes nearly 100 paintings from major museums and private collections and examines the narrative of the American artist’s fascination with autumn. It was the Hudson River School painters who began the tradition of seasonal landscape painting, developing the notion of an American terrain [...]

Superb Selection of Drawings by Edgar Degas at the Morgan

NEW YORK, NY.- Edgar Degas (1834–1917), founding member of the Impressionist group who was distinguished by his Realist tendencies, is renowned for his vigorous images of dancers, performers, and theater scenes in paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Throughout his career, he used drawing in dynamic and varied ways to explore these recurring subjects. The exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum opened September 24, 2010, and features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, [...]

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism

FORT WORTH, TX.- Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Museum’s chief curator, Michael Auping. The exhibition will be on view from September 25, 2010 through January 2, 2011. Marla Price, the director of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, announces the forthcoming exhibition Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism. The exhibition, including approximately 35 works, is a survey of paintings, sculptures, and installations spanning the late 1970s to the present, including [...]

Multiple Record Prices at Swann Galleries’ Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Seven of the top 10 lots in Swann Galleries’ September 16 auction Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York 1900 – 2000 were by Martin Lewis, and all of them set auction records. Lewis’s Shadow Dance, drypoint, 1930, depicting a bevy of lovely young women in cloche hats, walking down the street lit from behind so that the outlines of their figures show through their sheer dresses, sold for $50,400—an auction record for [...]

Case closed on ‘da Vinci’ art mystery?

A Santa Fe art historian says he has solved an international art mystery by identifying the actual artist whose drawing has been falsely attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. La Bella Principessa (The Pretty Princess), a 13- by 9.5-inch ink-and-colored-chalk-on-vellum drawing, depicts a young woman in profile, her reddish-blond hair braided and bound behind her. Santa Fe art historian Fred Kline believes the same model who posed for Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Half-Nude Female is the model for La Bella Principessa [...]