Details Announced for 5th FORMAT International Photography Festival at QUAD Derby

DERBY.- Programme details have been announced for the 5th FORMAT International Photography Festival, by Louise Clements, which will run in QUAD and venues around Derby from 4th March until 3rd April 2011. Entitled ‘Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the Public Realm’ this years’ festival has been curated around the theme of street photography through a wide variety of approaches. The festival celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography and is an opportunity to see an incredible range of new [...]

Classic Images, Desirable Portraits, Contemporary Art Among Top Lots at Swann Galleries’ Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- On December 9, Swann Galleries conducted an auction devoted to Important Photographs & Photobooks, and top prices were achieved for classic photos by well-known artists, early examples of the emerging art form, and cutting-edge contemporary works. The sale’s top lot was the Brett Weston portfolio Twenty Photographs 1970-1977, silver prints, 1970-77, printed 1978, one of an edition of 35, which sold for $33,600*. Also by Weston was the transcendent Mendenhall Glacier, silver print, 1973, $10,200, and a lot [...]

German Artist Manfred Pernice Develops Sculpturama Show Especially for the Secession

VIENNA.- Berlin-based German artist Manfred Pernice developed the sculpturama show especially for the Hauptraum at theSecession. His sculptural works are built or assembled out of simple, sometime painted or sprayed materials including cardboard, chipboard, concrete, and metal, supplemented with text, maps or photographs. Starting from his observations of the urban environment, he highlights its failings and subjects the ordering system of modernity to a fundamental critique. His works set up an interplay between autonomous form and an installation-based, narrative and [...]

Architect and Engineer Dov Karmi Featured in Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- Dov Karmi (1905–1962) immigrated to Eretz-Israel from Zhvanets, Ukraine, aged 16, studied architecture and engineering in Ghent, Belgium (1925–1929), and established an architecture office in Tel Aviv (1932); he then worked in several partnerships, the last one with his son Ram Carmi and Zvi Melzer. He worked intensively in Tel Aviv, until his death, aged 57. Dov Karmi and the Hever Architects Collaborative. The Histadrut Headquarters (the General Federation of Labor in Israel), 91-93 Arlozoroff Street, Tel Aviv, [...]

Thematic and Chronological Survey of Nan Goldin’s Work in Berlin at the State Museum of Modern Art

BERLIN.- Nan Goldin’s photographs are pictures of her life. Their unending wealth and shimmering colours show Goldin’s “family” – her friends, acquaintances, lovers. After leaving her parents’ house at the age of 14, she became part of a subcultural scene of drag queens, transvestites and homosexuals, first in Boston and then in New York’s Lower East Side from 1978 onwards. In 1991 she came to Berlin for one year on a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and [...]

Exhibition Dedicated Exclusively to Contemporary Cutouts at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- Scherenschnitte, or “paper cuts,” have reemerged as a highly relevant trend in contemporary art in recent years. What is interesting are the different ways in which artists deal with form and content within the “cutout” medium: Many experiment with unusual techniques and materials, using them to conquer three-dimensional space. They emancipate cutouts from the pure, flat surface, rendering them a spatial or sculptural object. Cut. Scherenschnitte 1970-2010 is the Kunsthalle’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to contemporary cutouts. Rupprecht Matthies (1959), [...]

In Time for the Holidays, Art Gallery of Ontario Opens Family-Friendly Exhibitions for Holidays

TORONTO.- Just in time for the holidays, the AGO has opened a group of intimate exhibitions that feature the work of two remarkable storytellers – Aesop and Walter Trier. Animal Tales: Beasts, Toys, and Fables from the AGO Collection opened December 24 and comprises four installations: Walter Trier: The Animals’ Conference; Aesop and Other Fables; Savage and Sublime: Animal Prints from the 1700s; and Walter Trier’s Toyland. The installations feature brightly coloured illustrations that celebrate the timeless appeal of picture books [...]

New Abstract Works by New York Painter John Zinsser at Graham Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of new abstract works by New York painter John Zinsser is on view at Graham Gallery through January 4th, 2011. Zinsser’s current exhibition follows his installation of drawings in the main gallery last season, Art Dealer Archipelagoes, which charted the history of New York’s post-war gallery development through a series of “maps.” These new works on canvas again source that history, but through strictly formalist and quotational terms. As Zinsser describes, “Early attempts, with my own [...]

Thieves Try to Sell 800,000 Euro Eduardo Chillida Sculpture for 30 Euros to Scrap Metal Yard

MADRID.- Police have recovered in good condition 34 of the 35 works of art that were stolen from a truck three weeks ago in Getafe (Madrid) and which are worth about five million euros. The same sources acknowledged yesterday that, for now, they failed to apprehend the perpetrators of the robbery. The vehicle, whose keys were kept in the glove compartment, was abandoned in Alcorcón to confuse the officers. Spanish police agents carrying an artpiece, part of a project called [...]

Modern Realist Paintings by Duytter

Duytter is a french painter born in 1963 in Lille. He currently exposes his art in several art galleries in France and also at Rome where currently resides. All these artworks are available at Duytter’s Deviantart website.

Portraits by Laurent Auxietre

Laurent Auxietre is a Paris based professional photographer who specializes in ethnic portraits. You can see more about this talented photographer and his fantastic artworks by visiting his official web site.

Police Searching for the Thief Who Tunneled into a NYC Home and Stole Art

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Police are looking for the person who tunneled through a wall into a New York City apartment while the owner was away around Thanksgiving and made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of artworks by Andy Warhol and other notable artists. They say the thief broke through a hallway wall into the Manhattan apartment and stole limited-edition artworks, watches and other jewelry worth a total of about $750,000. A video recorder connected to surveillance [...]

Jasper Johns Awarded the Julio González Prize by the Government of Valencia in Spain

VALENCIA.- The Government of Valencia has awarded the U.S. artist Jasper Johns with the Julio González Prize, an artist considered along with Robert Rauschenberg as the forerunners of American Pop Art. The Julio González Prize awarded by the Generalitat Valenciana, is granted to a distinguished artist who in his own right-has has helped to highlight artistic creation internationally. This year´s edition, has seen fit to propose the granting of the award to artist Jasper Johns, in recognition of his work [...]

Hyperrealist Paintings by Istvan Sandorfi

Istvan Sandorfi was born in Budapest in 1948 and died in 2007. His father was director of the American company, IBM, in Hungary. Because of this association he served five years in Stalinist prisons during the Communist regime and his family was deported to an isolated Hungarian village. At the time of the 1956 uprising the Sandorfi family fled the country and became expatriates, first in Germany, then in France. Greatly affected by the violence of the revolution and by [...]

In Its Inaugural Year, artMRKT San Francisco, Aims to Be a Premiere International Art Fair

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- artMRKT San Francisco will be a premiere International Art Fair devoted to the presentation of important artwork from the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on San Francisco galleries and artists. In its inaugural year, the show will combine a selection of leading galleries with a thoughtful program of art events and exhibitions at the fair venue and throughout the city. Showcasing new artists alongside historical material, artMRKT will create an ideal context for the discovery, [...]