“Sam Havadtoy: Beauty is Mystery”, New Exhibition Opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- Sam Havadtoy was born in London in 1952 and raised in Hungary. After travels in Europe he arrived in New York in 1972, where he worked as an interior designer; among others, he designed homes for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was the beginning of a relationship that lasted over 20 years, first as the couple’s friend and later, from 1981, after Lennon’s murder, as Yoko Ono’s companion. In recent years, Havadtoy has been living and working in [...]

Buddhism’s Influence on Contemporary Artists Explored by the Rubin Museum of Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art presents works by five artists of different generations and ethnicities, working between 1960 and the present, whose oeuvres have been influenced by the tenets of Buddhism, including its central principles of emptiness and the fleeting nature of all things.  Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art assembles videos, paintings, photographs, and installations dating from 1961 to 2008 by Sanford Biggers (b. U.S., 1970); Theaster Gates (b. U.S.,1973); Atta Kim (b. Korea, 1956); Wolfgang Laib (b. [...]

Kim Dorland Pushes the Limits of Painting in His New Exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents New Material, Kim Dorland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada. In his most ambitious work to date, Dorland continues his emphatic exploration of materiality through thick layering of paint, wood, feathers, fur and glitter.  Installation view at Mike Weiss Gallery. Photo Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery The Shack, among [...]

Six Rising Artists in Six Resonant Multimedia Projects, on View Inside and Out at the Wexner

COLUMBUS, OH.- Six Solos, featuring six independent exhibitions of the work of six rising international artists, will be on view inside and outside the Wexner Center November 9, 2010–February 13, 2011. The artists—working in a wide range of media, among them LED lights, stainless steel, flagging tape, plywood, paint, video, film, and fiberglass—are Erwin Redl , Megan Geckler, Tobias Putrih/MOS, Gustavo Godoy, Katy Moran, and Joel Morrison. The work of each artist will occupy its own space. Organized by the Wexner Center, Six [...]

Martin-Gropius-Bau Shows the Work of One of the Most Important Exponents of Modernism

BERLIN.- Laszlo‚ Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is one of the most important exponents of Modernism. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bauhas mounted an exhibition of his art as represented by over 200 works: paintings, photographs (black-and-white and colour), photograms, collages, films and graphics. The show will focus on the years in which Moholy-Nagy was developing his theory of art as an art of light. This covers the period from 1922 to the end of his life and beyond, in view of the influence he exerted after his death.  [...]

New Sparsely-Colored, Figurative Paintings by Belgian Artist Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space.  Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become third-degree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly [...]

First Solo Exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman’s Work Opens at Soledad Senlle Gallery

AMSTERDAM.- Soledad Senlle Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman (Amsterdam, 1980).  Thresholds and transitions within and between people form a perpetual theme uniting the photography and video work shown in A Wordless Whisper; the child on the threshold of the adult world and the thresholds between individuals.  Jana and Feby, February 2010. © Sarah Mei Herman Herman’s intimate portraits explore closeness within the family with a special interest in sibling-relationships. In her photographs and video’s, family members seem [...]

Artist’s Jewels From Modernisme to the Avant-Garde at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

BARCELONA.- Artist’s jewels. From Modernisme to the avant-garde explores the approach to the world of jewellery by leading artists of the main art movements in the first decades of the fertile 20th century. The exhibition gathers almost 350 works, chiefly jewels, that strike a dialogue with paintings, sculptures, photographs, fabrics and objets d’art, showing how jewellery made up the little universe of great artists.  Artist’s jewels. From Modernisme to the avant-garde reveals the relations between jewellery and the work of [...]

Large-Scale Recreation of William N. Copley’s 1974 Exhibition, X-RATED, at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.-Paul Kasmin Gallery presents William N. Copley X-RATED, a large-scale recreation of the artist’s 1974 exhibition in the former Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Highly original, libidinous, and unapologeticly joyful, the paintings were unlike anything being made at that time. This body of work, painted between 1972 and 1974, represents a pivotal leap in the artist’s style and is rich with irreverent yet ambitious compositions, unbridled combinations of highly-keyed colors, and generous doses of off-beat humor.  William N. [...]

Wit’s End, an Exhibition of New Work by Matthew Brannon at David Kordansky Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents Wit’s End, an exhibition of new work by Matthew Brannon. The exhibition opened on October 30th and will run through December 4th. Wit’s End represents a radical complication and amplification of themes present in Brannon’s practice to date. These include the subversion of language, notions of fiction and autobiography, and a conceptual re-imagination of artistic practice in the context of visual culture, commerce, and repressed desire.  In Wit’s End, Brannon puts the gallery to use [...]

Sales of Russian Art at Sotheby’s Total $14.4 Million, Important Russian Enamels and Fabergé Sold

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s autumn 2010 auctions of Russian Art in New York brought a total of $14,397,064. The day began with an inaugural sale of Important Russian Paintings that achieved $10.6 million and set several new auction records. The highlight of the sale was a monumental canvas by the Socialist Realist painter Yuri Pimenov that sold for $1,538,500, more than double the high estimate and a record for the artist at auction. The paintings auction was followed by a [...]

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in [...]

DC Moore Gallery to Represent Mark Innerst and Opens First Exhibition with the Artist

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces that it is beginning its representation of Mark Innerst with an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper inspired by New York City, Philadelphia, and the beaches of Cape May, New Jersey. A full-color catalog with an essay by Michael Duncan is available. Innerst transforms the urban landscape, investing it with a deeply resonant beauty and complexity. New York and Philadelphia appear alternately majestic, immense, and serene, as endless stretches of buildings [...]

Striking Show of 42 Works by Damien Hirst as Print Maker Opens at the Bowes Museum

DURHAM.- Following a £12m refurbishment, The Bowes Museum brings a global name to the Barnard Castle treasure house this autumn with the opening of Damien Hirst: Print Maker. This world class exhibition, curated by former Turner Prize judge Greville Worthington, will explore this foremost contemporary artist through his renowned print works. The striking show of 42 works, many unseen by the public, has been loaned by several northern collectors and is one not to miss. With the support of these [...]

New Works by Artist Raymond Pettibon on Display in “Hard in the Paint” at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Raymond Pettibon, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album-covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines [...]