Lehmbruck Museum’s most extensive exhibition celebrates its 100th anniversary

DUISBURG.- Grace kneels in Duisburg, was forged in 1911 in a Parisian studio. For its creator Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the Kneeling Woman became a completely personal mark of creation. Affecting the art of the modern era like an impulse, with its graceful yet peculiar pose and a gesture that until that time was unique the piece has exercised an immense influence on sculpture and painting in the past hundred years. In 2011 the Kneeling Woman celebrates its anniversary, and the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg [...]

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Presents “Andy Warhol: Shadows”

WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, the Hirshhorn will present “Shadows” (1978–79), the monumental painting installation by Andy Warhol (American, b. Pittsburgh, 1928; d. New York, 1987). The Hirshhorn’s exhibition, which runs from Sept. 25 until Jan. 15, 2012, marks the first time that all 102 canvases have been shown at once. Installed edge-to-edge as the artist intended, “Shadows” will extend nearly 450 linear feet around the outer perimeter of the museum’s curved second-level galleries, offering the public a unique opportunity to view the work [...]

De La Warr Pavilion explores Andy Warhol’s beliefs, lifestyle and above all, his legacy

BEXHILL.- Warhol is Here at the De La Warr Pavilion presents and explores the work of Andy Warhol in the context of his beliefs, lifestyle and above all, his legacy for the 21st century. The Pavilion is also presenting a companion exhibition, curated and conceived by Jean Wainwright in the rooftop foyer of the Pavilion. This sound installation comprises of tape recordings of interviews taken over the course of an eleven year journey to find Warhol’s voice as told by others. The recordings, [...]

First solo show in Mexico by Darío Villalba at Luis Adelantado Gallery in Mexico City

MEXICO CITY.- Luis Adelantado Gallery presents the first solo show in Mexico, by the national prize of art, Darío Villalba(1939, San Sebastián, Spain). A man observes works of Spanish artist Dario Villalba during an exhibition inaugurated at gallery Luis Adelantado in Mexico City, Mexico, 22 September 2011. EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez. An artist that has been a part of the gallery almost from the beginning, Villalba is an inescapable reference to the understanding of art, after the Informalism generation of the fifties up until [...]

Copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe’s first photo shoot to be auctioned

LOS ANGELES (AP).- A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that photos taken in 1946 of Norma Jeane Dougherty — who went on to become the iconic Monroe — will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the photographer. Joseph Jasgur’s photos, negatives and image copyrights will be sold in December by Julien’s Auctions. The collection also includes several model-release forms Dougherty signed for Jasgur in Hollywood. Darren Julien, chief of Julien’s Auctions, said the photos have [...]

Large scale steel sculptures by Jonathan Prince at The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue

NEW YORK, NY.- The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue is presenting Jonathan Prince: Torn Steel, the first public installation of the artist’s large scale steel sculptures in New York, on view at the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue from September 15 – November 18, 2011. Jonathan Prince follows a long line of distinguished artists—Murakami, Calder, Chamberlain, Oldenburg and Judd – to take advantage of the unique surround afforded by the 590 Madison Avenue Atrium in New York. Its vast scale [...]

Arco Gallerywalk, new idea from Arco Art Fair to boost visits to art galleries in Madrid

MADRID.- ARCOmadrid is collaborating again this year with the DecorAcción festival, this time with ARCO GALLERYWalk. With this new initiative ARCOmadrid offers a series of free guided visits to galleries in the Barrio de las Letras district of Madrid. So, from 29 September to 1 October, anyone interested can take part in these walks which will introduce them to the spaces, programmes and the exhibitions with which the galleries get the new season off to a start. The visits will be led [...]

Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the collection on view at the Menil Collection

HOUSTON, TX.- Mining the Menil Collection’s archives of works on paper, Seeing Stars: Visionary Drawing from the Collection showcases rarely exhibited drawings by artists who largely had no contact with the mainstream art world. This “outsider art,” as the work came to be known, enchanted and inspired the Surrealists, who believed artists with no formal training,or those who drew in altered mental states, could more successfully access the subconscious, achieving greater clarity and authenticity of expression. The drawings highlighted in Seeing Stars (more [...]

Works by world’s preeminent contemporary artists sold at Christie’s New York to benefit Artists for Haiti

NEW YORK, NY.- With a sale total of $ 13,662,000, Christie’s, Ben Stiller and David Zwirner are delighted with the outstanding results of the Artists for Haiti charity sale. The auction included 27 works by 26 of today’s most prominent artists, many of which were created specifically for this cause. Four world auction records were obtained and 2 works of art were sold for over one million dollars, Marlene Dumas at $2,000,000 and Luc Tuymans at $1,150,000, with many lots realizing well over their [...]

Richard Serra: Two new sculptures, Junction and Cycle, on view at the Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date. Richard Serra, Junction (2011). Weatherproof steel, 13’ 1 1/2“ x 75’ ½” x 75’ ½’ x 49’ 9 15/16” (4 x 22.87 x 15.19 m). Photo: Lorenz Kienzle. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery © [...]

Exhibition of new paintings by Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Raoul De Keyser, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space. For nearly fifty years, De Keyser has created subtly evocative paintings and works on paper which appear at once straightforward and cryptic, abstract and figurative. Composed of basic but indefinable shapes and marks, his works often invoke spatial and figural illusions, though they remain elusive of any descriptive narrative. In this exhibition, De Keyser presents small-scale compositions [...]

Exhibition of paintings from the 1960s to the 80s by the late Milton Resnick at Cheim & Read

NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of paintings by the late Milton Resnick. The gallery has been the exclusive representative of the artist’s estate since 2006. Cheim & Read’s previous exhibition of Resnick’s paintings was in 2008 and focused on works from 1959-1963. This show looks to later works from the 1960s to the 80s. It is accompanied by a full color catalogue with an essay by Philip Larratt-Smith. The essay, “Play Dead,” combines art historical analysis with juxtapositions [...]

Faces of the New China: Christie’s announces the evening sale of an important private collection

HONG KONG.- Leading global auction house Christie’s presents the Autumn Evening Sale Faces of the New China: An Important Private Collection, which leads the 2011 Hong Kong Autumn season of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art sales from 26 to 27 November. Presented as a stand-alone sale within the prestigious Evening Sale and with a total estimate in excess of HK$150,000,000, this single owner collection comprises 14 iconic works by preeminent contemporary Chinese artists including Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Cai Guoqiang, Liu Ye [...]

Photographer Elliott Erwitt’s archive to be housed at University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center

AUSTIN, TX.- The archive of photographer Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928), which includes more than 50,000 signed photographic prints, will be housed at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Spanning more than six decades of Erwitt’s career, the archive covers not only his work for magazine, industrial and advertising clients but also photographs that have emerged from personal interests. Collectors and philanthropists Caryl and Israel Englander have placed the archive at the [...]

Recently rediscovered early body of work by Ad Reinhardt on view at The Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery is showing Ad Reinhardt: Works from 1935–1945, on view at 32 East 57th Street from September 15 through October 15, 2011. The exhibition is the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered early body of work by the artist, the majority of which had been in storage since Reinhardt’s death. Nearly one hundred gouaches, drawings, collages, and works on canvas are on view. Ad Reinhardt, Untitled, 1939. Gouache on board, 5-1/8″ x 12″ (13 cm x [...]