Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Brings Together Works by Kollwitz, Beckmann, Dix and Grosz

STUTTGART.- The exhibition “Kollwitz – Beckmann – Dix – Grosz. Wartime” brings together works from within theStaatsgalerie Stuttgart’s collection – immediate artistic reactions to the two devastating world wars and society in the first half of the twentieth century. Series and portfolios by these artists rarely shown in their entirety are included, as are self-portraits and other impressive individual works. The drawings and prints are complemented by a small number of paintings and sculptures.

Gilbert and George Exhibit their Works at Arndt as Part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2011

BERLIN.- Arndt presents the second solo exhibition with Gilbert & George featuring the new series The Urethra Postcard Art. In 2009, nearly four decades after their first exhibition of POSTCARD ART, and twenty years since their last group of pictures to be made in the medium of postcards, Gilbert & George returned to the form to make the epic and dazzling group of 564 new pieces that comprise The Urethra Postcard Pictures. This is the single largest group of art [...]

First Retrospective in Over Forty Years of the Work of Painter Gino Severini Opens in Paris

PARIS.- This is the first retrospective of the work of the Italian painter Gino Severini since that organised in 1967 at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris. It brings together some 70 works (original drawings, paintings…) from private collections, European museums (Triton Foundation Netherlands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, Estorick Collection in London and the Thyssen Foundation in Madrid…) and American museums including the MOMA, New York. The exhibition is on view [...]

Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro on View at Metropolitan Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist’s career to date and highlighting principal aspects [...]

Diane Arbus, Irving Penn & Christer Strömholm in See the World! at Moderna Museet

STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet is presenting the history of photography with this year’s radical rehanging of its permanent collection. 16 April was the opening day for the second instalment of Another Story: See the World!, including works by iconic photographers such as Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and Christer Strömholm. A total of 545 works are now on show from one of Europe’s finest collections of photography. Carl Johan De Geer. CJ’s Photo Booth, 1968 / 2005 © Carl Johan De Geer. [...]

Johan Thorn Prikker: from Art Nouveau to Abstraction at Museum Kunst Palast

DUSSELDORF.- Working together with the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, over 130 works are presented byMuseum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, from the multi-faceted oeuvre of Johan Thorn Prikker (The Hague 1868 to 1932 Cologne). The exhibition of this Dutch artist, who mainly became famous through his Art Nouveau works, is the first retrospective of his oeuvre in over 30 years, comprising all the genres in which this versatile artist was active: paintings, drawings, watercolours, mosaics, murals, glass windows, furniture, design objects, [...]

Rodney Graham to Receive Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts

VANCOUVER, BC.- British Columbia’s most prestigious annual awards for the visual arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and the VIVA Awards, will be presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 5, 2011 at 7pm. The 8th annual Audain Prize, awarded by the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, will go to acclaimed artist Rodney Graham. Vancouver artists Reece Terris and Althea Thauberger are the 2011 recipients of the VIVA Award prizes granted annually by [...]

San Telmo Museum Opens Its Doors with a Multi-Disciplinary View, Open to Dialogue

SAN SEBASTIAN.- The San Telmo Museum has officially reopened in San Sebastián, after 4 years of rehabilitation work on the historical building and a brand new extension, the work of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, in addition to the complete turnaround in its publishing strategy, now focussed firmly on society and citizenship from all possible angles: artistic, historical, disseminative, etc. The San Telmo Museum, inaugurated in 1902, is the oldest in the Basque Country and brings its rich intellectual and patrimonial legacy [...]

“Poppy Field in Argenteuil” by Monet Named Most Popular Oil Painting for Mother’s Day 2011

WICHITA, KANS.- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its official top five list of most popular oil paintings for Mother’s Day 2011. Topping the chart is Claude Monet’s maternal sensual masterpiece “Poppy Field in Argenteuil.” Other artists named on the 2011 Mother’s Day Top 5 Most Popular Oil Paintings for Mom list include Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. The oil paintings that made the 2011 Mother’s Day Top 5 Oil Paintings for [...]

The Linda Pace Foundation Announces Acquisition of a Sound Sculpture by Susan Philipsz

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The Linda Pace Foundation announces a major acquisition and related exhibition of sound sculpture Sunset Song, 2003, by Susan Philipsz, a Turner Prize-winning artist. The work joins the more than 500 objects in the Foundation’s diverse contemporary art collection, which was begun by the late philanthropist Linda Pace. From May 8–June 26, 2011, Sunset Song will be presented daily in CHRISpark, the one-acre park built by Pace in 2005. Scottish artist Susan Philipsz created Sunset Song as [...]

Photographers Igor Kostin, Valery Zufarov and Volodymyr Repik Recall Chernobyl’s First Days

KIEV (AP).- Wearing a lead protective suit and placing his cameras in lead boxes, photographer Igor Kostin made a terrifying and unauthorized trip to the Chernobyl danger zone just a few days after a nuclear power plant reactor exploded in the world’s worst atomic accident. He came back home with nothing to show for his determination to document the crisis — the radiation was so high that all his shots turned out black. But Kostin returned, and his work along [...]

Mick Jagger: Young in the 60s to Open at the National Portrait Gallery in London

LONDON.- Portraits of Mick Jagger taken in the 1960s will form a new display at the National Portrait Gallery from 3 May until 27 November 2011. Documenting the singer’s early rise to become one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the era, the display will coincide with the publication of Mick Jagger: The Photobook by Thames & Hudson. Mick Jagger, 1966. Photograph by Gered Mankowitz Defining images of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones from the Gallery’s Collection, shown alongside a [...]

Renowned American Artist Gary Simmons Exhibits at Simon Lee Gallery in London

LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery presents its second solo exhibition of the renowned American artist Gary Simmons. For Gary Simmons, the act of erasure has been a central theme in his work throughout his career. Referencing film, architecture, and white American popular culture, his new “erasure” drawings move away from the use of paint and canvas, and revert back to pastel and chalk on black or white paper, which is where his practice began. Gary Simmons, Twins, 2011. Photo: Courtesy Simon [...]

German Reunification Monument Designed by Milla & Partner Unites the Critics

BERLIN (REUTERS).- A planned monument to German reunification lacks technical and conceptual competency which could turn the 10-million-euro ($14.33 million) tourist attraction into a security risk, a critic said. The monument, a 55-meter-long bowl that see-saws as visitors climb on it, must have tighter security, Uwe Hameyer, a director of the Berlin Architects and Engineers Association, told Reuters. “The proper engineering is apparently finished, but it’ll be a tourist magnet and there must be enough security to make sure that [...]

Thousands March in Hong Kong to Demand the Release of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei

HONG KONG (REUTERS).- Over one thousand protesters in Hong Kong took to the streets to demand the release of detained Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei on Saturday, scuffling briefly with police. The rally — the largest in a string of protests across the city in recent weeks — has underscored Hong Kong’s growing role as a hotbed of support for Ai with local pro-democracy activists and artists ratcheting up pressure on Beijing over its heavy crackdown on [...]