Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde on View at MCA in Denver

DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver presents Orphan Paintings: Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, a large-scale exhibition. Orphan Paintings is an exhibition that explores fundamental assumptions about art by presenting a collection of over 150 paintings of unknown origins. The works in the collection are in the style of Russian avant-garde masters of the early twentieth century, including Kasimir Malevich, Liubov Popova, and Alexander Rodchenko. These paintings came to the United States beginning in 2004 when Denver [...]

A New, Vetted Art Fair Focused on Emerging Artists and Galleries to Be Held in Washington

WASHINGTON, D.C.- (e)merge, a new, vetted art fair focused on emerging artists and galleries with emerging art, will launch September 22 – 25, 2011, at the Rubell Family’s modernist, Morris Lapidus-designed Capitol Skyline hotel in Washington, DC, adjacent to the site of the their future museum. (e)merge will feature multiple platforms: dozens of international galleries; artist, curator and collector panel discussions and tours; performances; and, exhibition opportunities for artists, currently without gallery representation, to present, free of charge, performances, installations, [...]

Salvador Dalí Exhibition in Milan has Welcomed More than 222,000 Visitors in Two Months

MILAN.- After over 50 years, Salvador Dalì’s genius is back in Milan: Palazzo Reale houses a great exhibition investigating the relationship between this Spanish artist and the landscape, the dream, the desire. The exhibition, made possible thanks to the extraordinary collaboration with Fundaciò Gala-Salvador Dalì of Figueres, counts on important loans from Italian and international museums and institutions, including the Fundaciò itself, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia of Madrid, the Dalí Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida, the [...]

13th Annual Postcards From the Edge Exhibition and Sale: International Artists Fight AIDS by Donating Artwork

NEW YORK, NY.- Visual AIDS, the country’s premiere non-profit organization uniting visual artists and HIV prevention and awareness will hold their largest benefit, Postcards From the Edge from January 7 – 9, 2011 at CRG Gallery. Known amongst art enthusiasts and collectors as an exciting and affordable way to purchase original work by established and emerging artists from around the world, Postcards From the Edge is a unique fundraiser where each of the 1,500+ postcard-sized artworks are uniformly priced at only [...]

Things Get Ugly, Sensual and Raw with “The Wild 80s” Exhibition at ARKEN in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN.- The young eighties generation of Danish artists had a bone to pick with the cool, politicizing art of the 1970s. They visualized the new thinking on “the death of the grand narrative,” the collapse of hierarchies of value, the elimination of the boundary between original and copy, the mixture of fiction and reality in the media’s stream of images and the growing individualism in society. In that sense, the works of those young artists are important documents for history. [...]

Tate Liverpool Presents One of the Most Innovative Artists of the 20th Century

LIVERPOOL.- Video artist, performance artist, composer and visionary: Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century. Tate Liverpool, in collaboration with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) present the first major retrospective since the artist’s death, and the first exhibition of Paik’s work in the UK since 1988. The exhibition celebrates Paik as the inventor of media art, presenting his artistic path and highlighting his diverse talents in experimental, musical, philosophical, spiritual, political [...]

Moscow Museum of Modern Art Presents a Solo Exhibition of Works by Andrei Monastyrski

MOSCOW.-Moscow Museum of Modern Art and VICTORIA — the Art of being Contemporary Foundation present a solo exhibition of Andrei Monastyrski, one of the most important Russian contemporary artists, a leader of Moscow conceptualist school. The aesthetic field created by Monastyrski is composed of a number of equally significant components — artworks, theoretical texts, performances, poetry, and documentations of Collective Actions group, of which he is the leader and the driving force since 1976. This first museum exhibition of Monastyrski [...]

Christiane Amanpour Talks with Photographers Elliott Erwitt and Roberto Salas

NEW YORK (CUBAN ART NEWS).- “Che did not like having his picture taken too much. About that, I have a personal theory.” Roberto Salas was on stage at The Times Center in midtown Manhattan, holding court with fellow photographer Elliott Erwitt as they recalled their experiences covering the early years of Castro’s government. Presented earlier this month in conjunction with the International Center of Photography’s exhibition Cuba in Revolution, the evening was moderated by media journalist Christiane Amanpour. Amid a [...]

Pablo Picasso Zurich Exhibition Recreates Landmark 1932 Show

ZURICH (REUTERS) .- In September 1932, already a world-famous artist, Pablo Picasso drove from Paris to Zurich for the opening of a mega-exhibition of his works that was to mark a turning point in Western cultural history. Although he curated the exhibits himself and stayed at a luxury lakeside hotel nearby for two days, hobnobbing with art connoisseurs and critics, he mysteriously never went to see the show at the city’s Kunsthaus Museum. This autumn, and to celebrate its own centenary, [...]

Forty Photographs by Photographer Jeanloup Sieff at Bernheimer Fine Art Photography

MUNICH.- Bernheimer Fine Art Photography presents in its gallery spaces on Brienner Strasse in Munich the exhibition Jeanloup Sieff: Four Decades. It features a selection of around forty photographs from four decades by the great French photographer Jeanloup Sieff. This unique selection of photographs offers a look at the themes of fashion, portrait, and nude photography from the 1960s to the late 1990s. It includes both vintage prints and later prints made during the photographer’s lifetime and authorized by him. [...]

Museum Kunst Palast Dedicates Major Solo Exhibition to the German Artist Klaus Mettig

DUSSELDORF.- Museum kunst palast dedicates a major solo exhibition to the artist Klaus Mettig (b. 1950 in Brandenburg), encompassing works from different creative periods. The show juxtaposes panorama photographs of the artist’s latest series Don’t be left behind with an earlier monumental photo wall installation, as well as four multipart slide projections dating from the 1970s and 1980s. A socio-political approach Owing to their panorama format the photographic works of the Düsseldorf-based artist open up an unusual, both critical and [...]

20th Century Financial Titan and Top Modern Art Collector Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107

NEW YORK, NY.- Roy R. Neuberger, a Wall Street investor who became one of the nation’s top modern art collectors, has died. He was 107. Neuberger died Friday at his home in Manhattan’s Pierre Hotel, said Rich Chimberg, a spokesman for the Neuberger Berman firm. Neuberger had survived Wall Street’s three major crises with enough money to build one of the largest private collections of major contemporary masterpieces. Roy R. Neuberger, one of the foremost patrons of American art, speaks [...]

New Exhibition at the Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden: Anrulf Rainer’s Visages

BADEN.- VISAGES bears witness to the artist’s lengthy and dramatic discourse with the image of his own face, his fascination with the facial expressions of death masks and, finally, his exploration of the depiction of faces in the history of art from antiquity through the end of the 19th century. This comprehensive show features over 80 individual works and outlines the various forms and techniques Arnulf Rainer has explored from the 1950s up to today.We learn how the artist has [...]

National Gallery of Denmark to Present Country’s Largest Art Collection in Three Stages for 2011

DENMARK.- Over the course of 2011 and 2012, the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark’s extensive collections of art will be restaged and presented in three separate stages. On 28 May 2011 we will open the new section on “Danish and Nordic Art 1750-1900″. On 26 November 2011 this will be followed by “European Art 1300-1800″. Finally, “Danish and International Art after 1900” will open in the spring of 2012. The new displays present new art historical readings of [...]

Provocative Portrait of Photographer Francesca Woodman, Her Artist Family, and Tragic Demise

NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of THE WOODMANS, opening Wednesday, January 19. Francesca Woodman’s haunting B&W images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman (she a ceramicist and he a painter/ photographer), Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in [...]