Balenciaga and Spain Exhibition Opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- You can feel the pulse of Spain beat in every garment in Balenciaga and Spain. A dress ruffle inspired by the flourish of a flamenco dancer’s bata de cola skirt; paillette-studded embroidery that glitters on a bolero jacket conjuring a nineteenth-century traje de luces (suit of lights) worn by a matador; clean, simple, and technically perfect lines that extrapolate the minimalist rhythms and volumes of the vestments of Spanish nuns and priests; a velvet-trimmed evening gown aesthetically [...]

8th Annual “Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art” Kicks off During Asian Contemporary Art Week

NEW YORK, NY.- The Indo-American Arts Council’s 8th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora features work by 43 artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian subcontinent. This group of multinational and intergenerational artists, chosen by curator Vijay Kumar, reflects a broad range of life experiences and aesthetic values. The artists interpret diverse subject matter—figurative, abstract and conceptual—in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and installation. The resulting works [...]

Photographs by Leonie Hampton at Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia in Milan

MILAN.- Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, opened the exhibition In the shadow of things. Photographs by Leonie Hampton. Leonie has always worked on the concept of family, carrying out stories and photographic essays among the most diverse family units: in Cuba, in the Parisian banlieuex, in London, Rome… In the shadow of things, the exhibition presented at Forma, gathers intimate shots taken inside the household. This time around though, the family unit portrayed is that of the author herself. According [...]

World Famous Portraits of 20th Century’s Greatest Poets for Sale at Bonhams

LONDON.- Portraits of some of finest 20th century poets in the English language are at the heart of the Roy Davids collection of Papers and Portraits at Bonhams on 29 March. Roy Davids, himself a poet inspired to write by his close friendship with Ted Hughes, has assembled a collection of stunning portraits of the biggest names in literature from Auden to Eliot, Frost to Graves, Larkin to Heaney and naturally, Hughes. Eliot and Auden. Photo: Bonhams The fine and [...]

Joan Mirviss Reports Overwhelming Response to “Birds of Dawn” Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Since its opening on March 16 for Asia Week New York 2011, “Birds of Dawn: Pioneers of Japan’s Sôdeisha Ceramic Movement,” the exhibition currently on view at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. at 39 East 78th Street, has been attracting tremendous attention from collectors, curators, the media and the public-at-large. The show focuses on the three seminal founders of the extremely influential Sôdeisha ceramic movement: Yagi Kazuo (1918-79), Suzuki Osamu (1926-2001), and Yamada Hikaru (1923-2001). They drew their [...]

Monique van Genderen Explores Elements of Narrative at Galerie Michael Janssen

BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents its second solo exhibition by L.A.-based artist Monique van Genderen. Entitled The Gentle Art of Making Enemies the exhibition alludes to the book of the same name by James Abbot McNeill Whistler. First published in 1892 it is an account of personal revenges between Whistler and the art critic John Ruskin who criticized Whistler‘s painting Nocturne in Black and Gold, exhibited in the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1877, as „unfinished“ and as „a pot [...]

Exhibition Highlights Catalytic Role of Printmaking in the German Expressionistic Movement

NEW YORK, NY.- German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse focuses on the explosive production of graphic art—prints, drawings, posters, illustrated books, and periodicals—associated with Expressionism, the broad modernist movement that developed in Germany and Austria during the early decades of the 20th century. The movement encompasses a host of individuals and groups with varying stylistic approaches who shared a commitment to intense, personal expression and the desire to achieve a heightened awareness of what it is to be human. A confluence [...]

Centennial Solo Exhibition of Works by Romare Bearden at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988). Romare Bearden: Collage, A Centennial Exhibition will be on view from March 26 to May 21, 2011. This is the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s second solo show of Bearden’s work and the first to focus exclusively on collage, the medium through which Bearden arrived at his mature style. Created between 1964 and 1983, the twenty-one works in the exhibition exemplify Bearden’s exceptional talent for [...]

Indian Artist Zarina Hashmi’s First Solo Show in Paris Opens at Jaeger Bucher Gallery

PARIS.- First presented as part of the inaugurated exhibition in our new space in the Marais in October 2008, Zarina Hasmi was subsequently exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2008. From 26 March to 21 May 2011, the Jaeger Bucher Gallery presents an exhibition entitled Noor, Zarina Hashmi’s first solo show in Paris with works on paper, recent installations and historic papier mâché sculptures from the 80s. Zarina Hashmi is one of the artists selected to exhibit [...]

Solid Sales throughout the Week at TEFAF Maastricht Boost Market Confidence

MAASTRICHT.- Following a very strong start to TEFAF Maastricht, which takes place at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the city of Maastricht in the Southern Netherlands between March 18-27, 2011, sales continued throughout the first week with visitor numbers remaining high and dealer confidence strong. The Fair is regarded as a unique and essential opportunity to view some of the finest works of both fine and decorative arts available on the market and is therefore an important [...]

First Major U.S. Overview of Kurt Schwitters’ Work at Princeton University Art Museum

PRINCETON, NJ.- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was an integral part of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. He is one of the most enduring figures of the 20th century international avant-garde, and has been cited as a profound influence by artists ranging from Robert Rauschenberg to Damian Hirst. Widely acknowledged as a great master of collage, Schwitters’ diverse body of work cut across boundaries, hierarchies and media to include painting, sculpture, typography, [...]

Exhibition of New Works by Gonzalo Papantonakis at gallery nine5

NEW YORK, NY.- gallery nine5 presents an exhibition of new works by Gonzalo Papantonakis. Gonzalo Papantonakis weaves the written word, disparate objects and abstract images together in energetic installations that re‐imagine pictorial surfaces. Papantonakis’ innovative approach to composition and assemblage continues from that of the Neo‐Dadaists, particularly Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Forging a new visual language, the artist’s powerful, multi‐dimensional installations are comprised of a staggering range of media and frequently extend onto multiple canvases and panels. Gonzalo Papantonakis, [...]

Rarely Shown Works by Heinz Mack on View at Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf

DUSSELDORF.- Heinz Mack became famous as an artist and co-founder of the internationally influential artist group ZERO primarily through his light reliefs and light installations. Less known is his extensive graphic oeuvre on which he himself comments, ‘For me, graphic art is a language without words, a perfect poetic language with its own syntax, intonation and rhythm. Pure visual poetry, as it contains no rational meaning.’ The medium of drawing grants the artist a high degree of spontaneity; at the [...]

Bulgarian Mogul Vasil Bozhkov Exhibits His Thracian Collection at the National History Museum in Bulgaria

SOFIA (REUTERS).- Bulgarian mogul Vasil Bozhkov is opening up his private collection of rare Thracian artefacts, offering a glimpse of a little-known ancient civilization which has left no written records. “Thrace and the Ancient World” runs until June 21 and shows over 200 artefacts including objects of Greek classical art, some of which are being displayed in public for the first time. The oldest article in the exhibition dates back to the 15th century B.C. A 5th century B.C. gold-plated [...]

LACMA Launches Image Library Expanding Online Access to Museum’s Collection

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce that it will provide access to free high-resolution images of the museum’s rich encyclopedic collection through its newly created Image Library. Visitors to the library can download the images free of charge and without any restrictions on use. The Image Library opens with 2,000 public domain images (with more to be added), representing a broad range of LACMA’s collections, including Egyptian, Decorative Arts and Design, Latin American, Chinese [...]