Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction to be highlighted by four masterworks by Clyfford Still

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s announces that four masterworks by the celebrated American Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980) will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. The four paintings come from the Estate of Patricia Still and are being sold by the City and County of Denver. They are expected to realize a combined total in excess of $50 million, and are being sold to further support the endowment of the new Clyfford Still Museum, which is scheduled to [...]

Picasso and Braque: first exhibition to unite works from pivotal years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

SANTA BARBARA, CA.- Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912, the first exhibition to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue, went on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) on September 17. The international loan exhibition, featuring 16 paintings and 20 etchings and drypoints, is organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum, with its [...]

Cherry and Martin restages landmark 1970 exhibition “Photography into Sculpture”

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Cherry and Martin has restaged curator Peter Bunnellʼs landmark 1970 exhibition, Photography into Sculpture, at the gallery as a part of the Getty Museum citywide initiative, Pacific Standard Time. The exhibition continues through October 22, 2011. Photography into Sculpture stands as one of Peter Bunnellʼs great contributions to the history of photography. Described in the original wall text as “the first comprehensive survey of photographically formed images used in a sculptural or fully dimensional manner,” Photography into Sculpture brought [...]

Works by Roy Lichtenstein from his celebrated Entablatures series at Paula Cooper Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Roy Lichtenstein from his celebrated Entablatures series. The paintings, realized between 1971 and 1976, will be on view through October 22, 2011. Having already risen to prominence in the early 60’s with his Pop art subjects, Lichtenstein began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the Mirrors series, he started work on the subject of entablatures. The entablature is an architectural element resembling a [...]

China Institute Gallery presents Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of work by pioneering artists in China from the 1970s and 1980s, on view at China Institute Gallery through December 11, 2011, provides important clues to the development of contemporary Chinese art as we know it today. Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 offers a unique opportunity in the U.S. to witness the artwork created in China during the critical decade leading up to the Communist Party’s 1985 decision to allow modern artistic practices. The exhibition [...]

Sotheby’s to sell an important private collection of works by Alexander Benois this November

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that the forthcoming Russian Art Sale Series this November will be highlighted by an Important Private Collection of Works by Alexander Benois. The 130 lot sale features exquisite works on paper spanning the artist’s lifetime and artistic oeuvre. Fifty-two highlights from the collection will be on view at Sotheby’s Paris from the 19th to 22nd September. The auction will take place on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 and is expected to bring between £830,000-1,200,000. The collection, comprising ballet, opera set [...]

Exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor. Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Taylor was a friend of Warhol’s in the 1970s and 1980s. The personification of charisma whose highly public life charged with drama, tragedy, and romance, this iconic muse was a perfect vehicle for Warhol’s vivid silkscreen portraiture derived from press clippings, publicity shots, and film stills. From her early years as a child star [...]

National Portrait Gallery announces Lucian Freud portraits exhibition in February 2012

LONDON.- The last work of the late Lucian Freud will go on show for the first time at the most ambitious exhibition of the artist’s work for ten years, opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February 2012. The inclusion of Portrait of the Hound 2011, the unfinished nude painting of Freud’s assistant David Dawson with his dog Eli, will enable exhibition visitors for the first time to see the artist’s most important portraits from the earliest in the 1940s to [...]

Museo de Arte de Ponce announces exhibition of masterpieces from the Prado Museum

PONCE.- Museo de Arte de Ponce and Banco Santander announced the exhibit El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces from the Prado Museum, a selection of 25 paintings from the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. This prominent exhibit, which includes works by renowned artists such as Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco de Zurbarán, will be open to the public at Museo de Arte de Ponce from March 25 to July 9, 2012. The Prado’s director for conservation and research, [...]

Art Moscow welcomes over forty national and international Contemporary art galleries

MOSCOW.- From September 21 through 25, the International Art Fair ART MOSCOW which is the principal annual event on the Russian art market focusing on contemporary actual art will be held at the Central House of Artists. ART MOSCOW is renewed annually, not only presenting to the public new works, names and galleries, but also introducing vital changes, which deeply affect the development of the project. This year the number of experts in the Expert Council enlarged by entering foreign professionals from Great [...]

DeCordova presents Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art on view this fall

LINCOLN, MA.- Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art is on view at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum from September 18-December 31, 2011. This exhibition features thirteen artists and collaboratives who merge performative strategies and architectural subject matter to explore the active, unfixed nature of our built environment and the psychology of space. The group featured in Temporary Structures approaches architecture in the broadest possible terms of shelter, defined spaces, and cultural symbolism, in addition to its specific histories. Video, sculpture, installation, and [...]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude 40 Years, 12 Exhibitions opens at Annely Juda Fine Art

LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art presents a major exhibition of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, celebrating the friendship and longstanding relationship between the artists and the gallery, which has spanned over forty years. This important exhibition at the longest-standing gallery worldwide to work with Christo and Jeanne- Claude is a unique opportunity to see the work of Christo, from the earliest pieces of Wrapped Cans, Storefronts and Packages from the late 50s and 60s to the collages, drawings and models connected with [...]

UK museums to benefit as Art Fund announces details of schemes worth 1 million to boost collections

LONDON.- As part of its commitment to boost funding to museums and galleries by over 50% by 2014, the Art Fundannounces that six museums and galleries (including one partnership) have secured a share of £600,000 funding from RENEW – the scheme that will enable museums and galleries to build new collections of fine, decorative or applied art. £500,000 from the funding pot has been allocated so far with a further £100,000 still to be announced. The initiative is funded thanks to a [...]

Swann Galleries’ announces autumn auction of African-American fine art in October

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ autumn auction of African-American Fine Art on October 6 features many exciting discoveries—significant works by important artists that were previously unrecorded or never exhibited. The earliest piece in the sale is one of these recent findings, an Untitled (Landscape) oil on canvas painting by Robert S. Duncanson. This large example of the 19th-century painter’s mid-career landscapes employs many of the romantic motifs Duncanson is known for, with figures relaxing in an idyllic, park-like landscape and classical [...]

Exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville, her first in New York since “Migrants” in 2003. Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Saville remits a highly sensuous and tactile impression of surface and mass in her monumental oil paintings. In the compelling Stare paintings she renders the contours and features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes [...]