Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Artist Francesco Clemente’s High Fever

ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents the exhibition Focus on the Collection: Francesco Clemente’s High Fever, which brings together a series of nine dark and mysterious woodcuts that explore the beauty, pleasure and pain of love by contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente. Influenced by the mysticism of India, Clemente conveys both the sensual and spiritual aspects of love, including childbirth and motherhood. Clemente exploits the natural grain of his woodblocks to dramatic effect, allowing it to become part of the [...]

Color Photographs Since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld at Museum Folkwang in Essen

ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang, Essen/Germany, is dedicating a first European retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld (*1944, New York) from 16 July 2011, with around 130 works from over three decades. Entitled Joel Sternfeld – Color Photographs since 1970 eleven projects in total are being shown. One emphasis comes with 60 photographs from his never before published early work, which extends from 1969 to the late 1970s. Sternfeld’s gaze has always been directed at his home country of America, with [...]

Select Group of Chicago’s Premier Contemporary Art Galleries Announce Gallery Weekend Chicago

CHICAGO, IL.- A select group of Chicago’s premier contemporary art galleries have come together to organize Chicago’s first ever Gallery Weekend Chicago (GWC) on September 16-18, 2011. Like the very successful Gallery Weekend Berlin, the event is designed to attract an exclusive group of national and international clientele to experience Chicago’s dynamic contemporary art scene. Viewings of new exhibitions at top contemporary art galleries and museums, access to hard-to-secure reservations at Chicago’s finest restaurants, and private VIP events will make up [...]

The Museo de Arte de Ponce Presents Its Most Important Recent Acquisition: The Battle of Treviño

PONCE, PR.- With the unveiling of The Battle of Treviño, by Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833–1917), theMuseo de Arte de Ponce celebrates the acquisition of a nineteenth-century masterpiece that has never before been exhibited publicly — a painting whose very existence, in fact, was unsuspected until just a few years ago. The work was part of a private collection that had been in the hands of a single family in Spain for over 130 years. “We are celebrating the [...]

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Presents Monet to Cézanne/Cassatt to Sargent: The Impressionist Revolution

MEMPHIS, TN.- Alive with color, flickering light, and spontaneous movement, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings are arguably the most recognizable and popular visual art of our time. Because of their familiarity and immediate appeal, it is easy to forget how these canvases first shocked and then eventually transformed the art world. The exhibition is on view at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from July 16th through October 9, 2011. Monet to Cézanne / Cassatt to Sargent: The Impressionist Revolution offers a rare chance [...]

Donald Judd: A Good Chair is a Good Chair at the International Design Museum in Munich

MUNICH.- American Donald Judd (1928-1994) is considered one of the most important 20th century artists the world over. He came to fame in the 1960s as one of the protagonists of Minimal Art but expanded his oeuvre to include the areas of architecture and design. Yet only a few people are aware that Donald Judd also applied himself intensively to furniture design. For the first time in the context of an interdisciplinary institution, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich – [...]

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Edward Hopper’s Maine

BRUNSWICK, ME.- Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Edward Hopper’s artistic production in Maine between 1914 and 1929. While there has been no shortage of exhibitions devoted to Hopper, very little attention has been paid to the fruitful summers he spent here. Indeed, Hopper summered in Maine nine times, painting and sketching in Ogunquit, Monhegan, Rockland, Cape Elizabeth, Two Lights, and Portland, among other sites. Many of these early plein-air oil paintings have rarely been exhibited. [...]

Twenty-Six-Foot Tall Sculpture of Marilyn Monroe Unveiled on Michigan Avenue in Chicago

CHICAGO, IL (AP).- Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt shows it’s possible to catch a nice breeze in the Windy City. As dozens of people watched Friday, a 26-foot-tall sculpture of Monroe in her famous pose from the film “The Seven Year Itch” was unveiled on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. In the film, a draft catches Monroe’s dress as she passes over a subway grate. Many in the crowd that descended on the plaza throughout the day — including a tuxedo-clad wedding party — wasted [...]

Police say Picasso Theft was Part of Luxury Spree at New York Galleries and Hotels

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (AP).- A string of art heists at New York galleries and hotels went unsolved until an arrest in the theft of a Picasso drawing in San Francisco led authorities to a treasure trove inside a nondescript New Jersey apartment. Police believe Mark Lugo is responsible for at least eight thefts since June totaling more than $600,000 worth of artwork, including a $350,000 drawing by French artist Fernand Leger. Pieces from seven of those thefts were recovered during a [...]

Sotheby’s to Offer a Masterpiece by Gustav Klimt from the Collection of the Late Viktor and Paula Zuckerkandl

NEW YORK. NY- Sotheby’s announced that its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November 2011 in New York will be led by one of the most accomplished and celebrated landscapes created by Gustav Klimt. Litzlberg am Attersee (Litzlberg on the Attersee) is a dramatic view of the lush environs of Lake Attersee in western Austria, painted with Klimt’s sumptuous palette and jewel-like surface. The painting, which is estimated in excess of $25 million, follows the sale of Kirche in Cassone [...]

Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Exhibition by Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei: Art and Architecture

BREGENZ, AUSTRIA.- When Ai Weiwei was invited to mount a big solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz one and a half years ago, no one could have foreseen the present situation. At the beginning of April 2011 Ai Weiwei was arrested at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Given the current situation, the museum has often been asked in recent weeks whether the exhibition will take place. In their view, it is more important than ever right now to show Ai Weiwei’s work, not [...]

Exhibition Dedicated to Innovation in 19th-Century America at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The exhibition “The Great American Hall of Wonders” examines the 19th-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation. It explores this belief through works of art, mechanical inventions and scientific discoveries, and captures the excitement of citizens who defined their nation as a “Great Experiment” sustained by the inventive energies of Americans in every walk of life. “The Great American Hall of Wonders” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art [...]

Summer Exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery Focuses on the Work of Royal Academicians

LONDON.- The Summer Exhibition, from 14 July until 12 August, will showcase a wide range of works from the stable of artists represented by the Alan Cristea Gallery, the largest dealer and publisher of 20th Century and contemporary prints in Europe. Including paintings, works on paper, ceramics, sculpture and installations, and with prices ranging from £750 to £50,000, this show will focus on the work of Royal Academicians including Gillian Ayres, Allen Jones, Ian McKeever, Lisa Milroy, Mimmo Paladino and Joe Tilson. [...]

Chinese Contemporary Warriors Stand in Formation at the Milwaukee Art Museum

MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum presents the installation Chinese Contemporary Warriors by world-renowned contemporary artist Yue Minjun, in conjunction with its Summer of CHINA series of exhibitions. This latest addition to the ambitious CHINA lineup will be on view through December 2011. “The work of Yue Minjun invites exploration into the relationship between contemporary art and current issues in modern Chinese society,” said Brady Roberts, chief curator of the Milwaukee Art Museum. “Yue provides another perspective to what currently comprises the [...]

Sotheby’s London to Sell a Group of 20th Century British Art from The Dartington Hall Trust Collection

LONDON.- Sotheby’s today announced the sale of a remarkable group of works by British artists on behalf of The Dartington Hall Trust, to be sold as part of Sotheby’s sale of 20th Century British Art on Wednesday, 16th November, 2011. The works, comprising paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics by artists including Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Winifred Nicholson and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, have been carefully selected by The Dartington Hall Trust. The Dartington Hall Trust is maintaining a substantial collection comprising works of [...]