Compelling New Pictures of Familiar Territories by Wolfgang Tillmans at Regen Projects

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of new work by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans. For his sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Tillmans presents compelling new pictures of his familiar territories (London, Berlin, and New York) intermixed with images from his recent world travels. As in his first exhibition at Regen Projects, the color prints and large inkjet prints will be unframed and taped or clipped to the wall in a primarily linear, non-hierarchical installation. This is the [...]

French Artist Jean-Antoine Watteau Features in Two Rival London Exhibitions

LONDON (REUTERS).- Whether by coincidence or design, French 18th century artist Jean-Antoine Watteau has two major London shows dedicated to him, both opened on Saturday. The Royal Academy‘s show “Watteau: The Drawings” focuses on the artist as draughtsman, an important element of his work which acquaintances said he preferred to painting. At the nearby Wallace Collection, the museum has re-displayed its extensive Watteau canvases including examples of the “fete galante” — an elegant social gathering in parkland setting — for [...]

Drawings from The Museum of Modern Art on View at Martin-Gropius-Bau

BERLIN.- “Compass” presents an extensive selection from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, an extraordinary treasure trove of nearly 2.600 works on paper by over 600 artists, acquired by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in may 2005. The collection was amassed between 2003 and 2005 with the intention to give a broad overview over the medium of drawing in all its material manifestations at that time. It includes studies and sketches as well as monumental finished works; works [...]

Exhibition Showcases New Work by John Frame: Stop-Motion Animation and Still Photography

SAN MARINO, CA.- Some three dozen intricately carved sculptures by Southern California artist John Frame take center stage in a new exhibition that brings together a body of work carefully assembled over the past five years, featuring sculpture, still photography, and stop-motion animation. “Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame” will be presented from March 12 to June 20 in the MaryLou and George Boone Gallery. Frame has been creating figurative sculpture examining the human [...]

Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

FLORENCE.- The exhibition Picasso, Miró, Dalí. Angry Young Men: the Birth of Modernity brings together over sixty early works of three young artists: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí, as well as over one hundred of Picasso’s sketches. All three were raised in Catalonia, but came to fame in France where two of them chose to live and to build up their careers, whereas Salvador Dalí stayed largely in Spain. On view at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from 11 [...]

Exhibition Featuring Works from the Bischofberger Collection Opens at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

BIELEFELD.- On Sunday, March 13, 2011, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld will open its newest exhibition, The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection II. This show marks the apex of our two-part presentation of works by the most important painters of the 1980s, on loan from the private collection of Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger.While the first part focused mainly on works by young German and Italian artists, the second part concentrates on major figures from the New York art scene. Andy Warhol is [...]

Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht Opens “Madame Realism”

MAASTRICHT.- As part of the program on the Avantgarde, Marres presents Madame Realism, a group exhibition where the interior once again takes a central place. Madame Realism presents works of exclusively female artists in the historical and domestic rooms of Marres. The presentation refers to both the private domain of the interior and the public space of an exhibition. In Madame Realism, several themes will be addressed: the female dandy, visible and invisible gender roles, the political implications of design and [...]

Group Exhibition Addresses Ideas of Scale through Physical and Conceptual Explorations

SAN JOSE, CA.- Size matters insofar as it tells us something about an object’s dimensions in relationship to other things. We understand the difference between what is small versus what is big due to a comparison between them. While our understanding of size is intrinsically tied to human scale, science and technology have opened new perspectives into the cosmic and infinitesimal, dramatically altering the way we understand ourselves in relation to an expansive universe. In organizing Size Matters we selected [...]

LACMA to Host Exhibition of Vija Celmins’s Work Created in Los Angeles Between 1964 and 1966

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964-1966, exploring an essential yet often overlooked period of the artist’s work. Throughout much of her career, Vija Celmins has been internationally recognized for her meticulously executed paintings and drawings using a monochrome palette of black and gray, depicting starry night skies, ocean waves, barren desert floors, and fragile spider webs. But the images that first grounded her interest as a young artist in [...]

Celebrating the Genius of an Undiscovered Photographer: Vivian Maier

CHICAGO (AP).- She scoured the streets day and night, venturing into strange and sometimes dicey neighborhoods. She wore a hat, sturdy shoes and a camera, always a camera, around her neck and at the ready. A woman in a white fur stole and evening dress drifting in the darkness toward a ’56 two-tone Chevy. Click. A curious little boy, undaunted by his size, using an empty window frame as a ladder so he can peek into a giant box. Click. [...]

Totems Photos by Alain Delorme

Alain Delorme, photographer from Paris, captures fascinating photos of bicycle carriers in Shanghai, China. The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market [...]

Sotheby’s to Auction Very Rare Secrétaire with Sevres Porcelain Plaques Stamped A. Weisweiler

PARIS.- The sale of Important Furniture, Sculpture & Objets d’Art at Sotheby’s Paris on 6 April comprises an exceptional ensemble of 230 precious items from a variety of European collections, including a rare Italian Renaissance bronze and a group of French 18th and early 19th century terracottas. Highlight of the sale is sure to be an extremely rare Louis XV Secrétaire en Cabinet in citronnier, sycamore and amaranth veneer, adorned with ormolu mounts and Sèvres porcelain plaques, stamped four times [...]

Christie’s Announces an Exhibition of Iconic Works by Zeng Fanzhi to Be Held in Hong Kong in May

HONG KONG.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, and the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s leading contemporary art museum, will present “BEING” (界線的共鳴), an exhibition featuring about 30 iconic works by Zeng Fanzhi (born in 1964), one of the world’s best known Chinese contemporary artists. Sponsored by the François Pinault Foundation and focusing on a theme that is close to the artist’s heart – the interaction between people and the environment – this exhibition will be held at the Hong Kong [...]

Degas: Form, Movement, and the Antique Exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art

TAMPA, FL.- The exhibition which will open to the public on March 12, 2011 will include 47 works by the French Impressionist master Edgar Degas (1834-1917). The museum will complement the exhibition of works by Degas with selections from its pre-eminent collections of antiquities and historical photographs. Together, the works in the exhibition will examine how Degas drew inspiration from the contemporary and ancient worlds. “The Tampa Museum of Art is pleased to welcome loans from over 30 different lenders. [...]

The Artangel Collection Brings the Moving Image to Audiences Across the UK and Beyond

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Artangel announced The Artangel Collection, a new initiative to bring 21 outstanding film and video works, commissioned and produced by Artangel over the past 20 years, to galleries and museums across the UK, and to commission new works in collaboration with Ikon, Birmingham and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. The Artangel Collection comprises film and video installations by contemporary artists such as Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Deller, Atom Egoyan, Douglas Gordon, Tony Oursler, Paul Pfeiffer and Gregor Schneider. [...]