Sculptor Christopher Stone

Christopher Stone is about to take part in two collective exhibitions in Southern Spain. The first will be held at “The Casa de Cultura” in Fuengirola, Malagá on 3rd February,through to the 23rd, with the inauguration on the 3rd at 20.30. entitled “Assured growth value, Invest in Art” The second will be held at the Marbella casino with the opening at 20.30 on the 31st March running through April until May 2nd, “A million euros of art” is the title [...]

Red Dot Art Fair Announce its Return to New York City in Newly Renovated Event Space

NEW YORK, NY.- Red Dot Art Fair announce its return to New York City, March 3 – 6, 2011. Red Dot’s new venue is a newly renovated event space in the heart of SoHo, located at 82 Mercer Street. Red Dot will partner with the Korean Art Show, a project organized by the Galleries Association of Korea. Twenty Korean Art Show galleries will share the space with Red Dot exhibitors, giving visitors the opportunity to visit both renowned fairs in [...]

Second Annual Collectors Evening Secures Six New Acquisitions for the High

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its second annual Collectors Evening on Friday, January 28. Participants voted to secure four new acquisitions for the Museum: Vik Muniz’s “Leda and the Swan, after Leonardo da Vinci” (2009); an African “Elephant Headress” (19th century); Spencer Finch’s “Bright Star (Sirius)” (2010); and Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Vinchon’s “Portrait of Nency Destouches” (1829). Additionally, after the formal voting, an attendee offered up four Delta Air Lines worldwide business-class tickets for bidding. The money raised through [...]

Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010 at the Zimmerli Art Museum

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- Dancing with the Dark: Prints by Joan Snyder 1963-2010, the first retrospective of the artist’s prints, displays the extraordinary range of Joan Snyder’s distinctive graphic achievement. A Rutgers alumna, nationally-noted painter, and 2007 MacArthur Fellow, Snyder has developed a powerful body of work that explores aspects of nature, humanity and identity. A pioneering feminist artist who was championed early in her career, Snyder has infused her works with physical energy and vibrant color to express deeply personal [...]

Erin O’Connor Unveils New Rankin Photographs at National Portrait Gallery’s Fashion Friday Late Opening

LONDON.- On Friday 11 February, as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s programme of late openings, Late Shift, in partnership with FTI Consulting, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk will unveil the new Rankin portraits as part of their latest campaign to broaden the range of body and beauty ideals in our media. The images will be displayed as part of a tour running throughout the Gallery with each sitter wearing designs by British greats: Dame Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and [...]

Egypt: Military Detain 50 Men Trying to Break into at Egyptian National Museum

CAIRO (AP).- Soldiers detained about 50 men trying to break into the Egyptian National Museum in a fresh attempt to loot some of the country’s archaeological treasures, the military said Monday. Snipers were stationed on the roof of the building, and dozens of troops patrolled the grounds of the famed antiquities museum amid fears that the chaos sweeping Cairo could engulf the nation’s heritage. Some of the most intense anti-government protests in the past week happened near the museum. On [...]

Specific Objects without Specific Form by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at MMK in Frankfurt

FRANKFURT.- The MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hosts the final leg of the traveling retrospective, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Specific Objects without Specific Form”, previously shown at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Including both rarely seen and more known paintings, sculptures, photographic works, and public projects, this major exhibition reflects the full scope of the Gonzalez-Torres’s short but prolific career. Born in Cuba, Gonzalez-Torres settled in New York in the late 1970s, [...]

New Work by Richard Phillips for His Third Exhibition at White Cube Hoxton Square

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents ‘Most Wanted’, an exhibition of new work by Richard Phillips(on view until Mar 5 2011), his third with the gallery. Phillips’ strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality. He translates these images into drawings before executing large-scale oil paintings through a traditional process. He thus examines the iconic nature of pictures, which the media and art world use [...]

Bonhams Launch Modern and Contemporary Israeli Art Sale in London in May

LONDON.- Bonhams will hold their inaugural sale of modern and contemporary Israeli Art and Judaica in their New Bond Street saleroom on May 24, the only auction of its kind in the UK. Giles Peppiatt, Head of Israeli Art at Bonhams, comments: “The market for modern and contemporary Israeli & Judaica Art has shown exceptional growth and strength in recent years. The sale will provide an impressive showcase of works of the highest quality. Interest from both private collectors and [...]

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Exhibition Features Early Computer-Generated Art

LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents and exhibition that director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and former deCordova curator of New Media, George Fifield, curated of the earliest computer drawings, prints, and animations by the field’s innovators. Curated from the Providence-based collection of Anne and Michael Spalter, Drawing with Code is one of the first American museum exhibitions to document broadly this early period of new media art. The exhibition will be on view through April 24, 2011 [...]

Louvre Presents First Exhibition of Austrian Sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

PARIS.- For the first time in France, the Louvre presents a monographic exhibition devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, active in Vienna and Pressburg (now Bratislava) in the late 18th century. As a court sculptor, Messerschmidt executed portraits of members of the imperial family as well as notable intellectuals of his time, but is most celebrated for his series of violently expressive, bizarre and fascinating “character heads”, whose originality and verve still captivate viewers today. The exhibition [...]

Thorburn Partridges Soar to £192,000 at Bonhams 19th Century Paintings Sale

LONDON.- An Archibald Thorburn painting of The Covey at Daybreak – Partridges made £192,000 (27.1.11) at Bonhamsauction of 19th Century Paintings – the third highest price ever paid for a Thorburn at auction. The painting was an exceptionally stunning and unusually large work for the Scottish artist, who had a life-long love of birds and was admired for his skill at producing accurate renderings of British wildlife. He gained a strong reputation among the great sportsmen of the day, including the [...]

Velázquez Loan Marks Second Month of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary

LONDON.- Every month during Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. February sees the arrival of El bufón Don Sebastián de Morra by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 -1660). Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the two founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery, believed that they owned a portrait of King Phillip IV of Spain by Velázquez, painted at the time of the Battle of Fraga in 1644. [...]

Cultural Identity and Pattern Collide in Exhibition at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art examines the concept of artists using pattern and dress to express their cultural identities in the exhibition Pattern ID, on view January 28–May 8, 2011 at the Kemper Museum. The fifteen featured artists use photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and video to address themes of gender, race, culture, sexuality, and ethnicity. Pattern ID, organized by the Akron Art Museum, brings together forty works of art by fifteen artists from around the [...]

Auctioned the collection of Pinto Coelho, the first great decorator of Spain

An extraordinary collection of more than 800 lots, from both the house in Madrid and the Palace of Trujillo’s legendary interior designer Duarte Pinto Coelho will be auctioned at Christie’s London on 20 and 21 July. Madrid- Portuguese by birth, particularly in Cascais, Pinto Coelho spent much of his youth in Paris, where he became friends with figures such as Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Wallis Simpson and Salvador Dali. After moving to Spain in the 50′s, chose Madrid as his [...]