Art Show by Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood Starts Up in Ohio

YOUNGSTOWN (AP).- Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood says he’s pleased to see his art on the walls of an Ohio gallery instead of in his crowded studio. Wood says in the studio his paintings, pen and pencil drawings and mixed-media drawings look “like postage stamps” compared to the display that opened Tuesday at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. Over the years Wood’s work has been widely exhibited The Butler Institute says the exhibition is the first for [...]

Wallace Collection Presents French Drawings from Poussin to Seurat

LONDON.- An outstanding collection of French drawings, which includes works by Poussin, Boucher, Ingres, Corot, Pissarro and Seurat; important works by lesser-known masters – Jeaurat, Lancrenon, Hesse and Dulac – and artist-writers Eugène Fromentin and George Sand, is at the Wallace Collection from 23 September. Over the last thirty years the National Gallery of Scotland has carefully and deliberately strengthened its holdings of French drawings to rival its holdings of French paintings. This quiet but ongoing acquisitions programme began when [...]

Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from Contemporary Art Sale

LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announced the highlights from its October Contemporary Art auctions featuring 56 lots in the Evening sale and 148 lots in the Day sale with a total low estimate of £8,543,500/$13,387,664 and a high estimate of £12,266,500 / $19,221,605. Included in the Evening sale are important works by David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Maurizio Cattelan and Ed Ruscha. Also included are highlights from the KIT Finance Collection; a selection of 13 works from the Adam Lindemann [...]

Norton’s Monet in Major Exhibition at the Grand Palais, Gauguin Goes to Tate

WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The Norton Museum of Art announced its participation in the first major exhibition of Claude Monet’s work in over 30 years, taking place at the Grand Palais in Paris from September 22, 2010 to January 24, 2011. The extensive exhibition will display over 200 paintings from international museums, including the Norton’s revered Monet, The Moreno Gardens at Bordighera. In December of 1883, Monet traveled to France’s Mediterranean coast with Pierre Auguste Renoir and visited Paul Cézanne [...]

Museo del Prado Identifies an Unknown Work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

MADRID.- The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day (glue-size tempera on linen, 148 x 270.5cm, ca.1565-1568) is a previously unknown work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the key figure within 16th-century Flemish painting. It has been attributed to the artist by the Museo del Prado following several months of study and the restoration of the painting at the Museum. The Museum now has an advantageous option to purchase the painting and benefits from the support provided by the favourable reports issued [...]

Sotheby’s Presents Sale of Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that its strongest Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Sale ever staged by the company, will take place in London on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. In terms of the quality and range of works of art on offer, the 83 lots include major works by the leading Modern masters such as Sohrab Sepehri, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar and Mahmoud Said, as well as key pieces by some of the foremost Contemporary artists, such as Farhad Moshiri and [...]

Bonhams to Sell Meissen Teapot Once Owned by Mother of George I for £200,000

LONDON.- A teapot once in the collection of the mother of King George I is the highlight of the concluding part of the auction of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain’. Part III of the sale will take place on 24th November 2010 at 101 New Bond Street, London. This follows on from the great success of Part I of the sale which made £1,097,100 in November 2009, and Part II which made £1,076,460 in May 2010. Sophie of Hanover [...]

Natalia Fabia: Painting Hookers

Natalia Fabia is of Polish descent and was raised in Southern California where she graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, Fabia is fascinated with “hookers”, which fuels her paintings of sultry women. Her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions including Thinkspace Gallery, M Modern and The Shooting Gallery. She has been featured in Angeleno, Juxtapoz, and New York Arts magazine as well as appearances [...]

Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective Opens Sperone Westwater’s New Building

NEW YORK, NY.- For its inaugural exhibition at 257 Bowery, Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Kuitca. This is Kuitca’s eighth solo show with Sperone Westwater. Kuitca’s new paintings developed from a series he first showed in 2007, when he represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale. While the subject of the canvases in Venice was by and large abstraction itself, in this new group Kuitca mixes the abstract with compositional motifs of his own past series. [...]

The Pace Gallery Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary with Retrospective Shows

NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its 50th anniversary, The Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective of the gallery’s history highlighting the many artists, exhibitions, people, literature and ideals that have influenced its narrative over the past five decades. 50 Years at Pace brings together some of the key masterpieces that have passed through Pace’s doors, featuring loans from important public and private collections worldwide. With works spanning more than a century and a selection of rare archival materials, 50 [...]

Stockholm Based Artist Cecilia Edefalk Exhibits at Gladstone Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents their first exhibition with Stockholm based artist Cecilia Edefalk. Through her somber combinations of painting, light projection, video, and cast bronze sculpture, Edefalk’s poetic logic provides a network of repetitions, reproductions, and doubling, that probes the uncertain nature of historical memory, time, and the signifying power of light. Often remarking upon her own process-oriented practice, Edefalk’s scenarios carve out haunting exchanges between past and present, where unexpected connections unfold with sudden clarity. Elegantly asserting [...]

New York’s Frick Museum Director, Anne L. Poulet, to Retire Next Year

NEW YORK, NY.- Margot Bogert, Chairman of The The Frick Collection, announces that Director Anne L. Poulet will retire in the fall of 2011, following a remarkable tenure. “The Board of Trustees is deeply indebted to Anne Poulet for her leadership of The Frick Collection and accepts her retirement with enormous regret. Having served the institution with great distinction, commitment, and wisdom, Anne leaves the Frick—both the museum and the library—with a brilliant and multi-faceted legacy and a glowing and [...]

An Exhibition of Works on Paper by 8 Contemporary Artists at Jill Newhouse

NEW YORK, NY.- Karen Wilkin is a well-known curator and critic specializing in modernism. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and the New Criterion, she is Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and the author of monographs on Giorgio Morandi, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Helen Frankenthaler. Ms. Wilkin has organized numerous exhibitions internationally. She teaches in the MFA program of the New York Studio School. “The eight artists in this exhibition [...]

Doris Lee Celebrates Life’s Small Pleasures at D. Wigmore Fine Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Doris Lee (1905-1983) Celebrates Life’s Small Pleasures highlights the artist’s career from 1936 through the 1950s with 42 works. Visitors to the exhibition will see a full range of Doris Lee’s subjects – landscapes, genre scenes, still lifes, portraits – in oil, gouache, pastel, and collage. Lee’s style developed through a unique fusing of Regionalism, folk art, and abstraction. Her subjects came from everyday small pleasures experienced in New York City, Woodstock, Florida, and her travels through [...]

Exhibition of New Sculptures by Franz West at Gagosian in Rome

ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Franz West. Belonging to the generation of artists exposed to Actionist and Performance Art of the 1960s and 70s, West instinctively rejected the traditionally passive nature of the relationship between artwork and viewer. In the seventies, he began making a series of small, portable, mixed media sculptures called Adaptives (Passstücke). These “ergonomically inclined” objects become complete as artworks only when the viewer holds, wears, carries or performs with them. West [...]