Solo exhibition of new work by Linda Karshan at Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cain Schulte Contemporary Art presents a solo exhibition of new work by Linda Karshan. For this third solo show with the gallery, Karshan has created two new bodies of work, both extremely coherent, with more complexity and more division in their forms than in the past. In them, the viewer can share her sense of time and space, and witness the act of creating space by defining the breadth of one’s essence. Linda Karshan’s reputation as a highly original [...]

Exhibition by artist Tomas Saraceno opens at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlinb

BERLIN.- Tomás Saraceno’s installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and [...]

MoMA presents first major retrospective devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning (American, b. the Netherlands, 1904–1997), widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century, from September 18, 2011, to January 9, 2012. de Kooning: A Retrospective, which will be seen only at MoMA, provides an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic [...]

Peter Saul Print Retrospective, 1966-2010 opens at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI, OH.- Scorching social commentary, cartoon-like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul. In organizing the first retrospective of his prints, Carl Solway Gallery highlights his parallel involvement with printmaking, featuring work created from 1966 to the present. The prints engage cultural topics ranging from the Vietnam War and decades of American policies to more personal issues involving sexual politics and consumerism. Public figures from Ronald Reagan, to Angela Davis, to Donald Duck and Superman appear. In a quote [...]

Artspace.com releases its first commissioned limited edition multiple with Lawrence Weiner

NEW YORK, NY.- Artspace.com, the leading online platform for contemporary art, is pleased to announce the release of its first multiple commission with renowned conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner. STARS DONT STAND STILL IN THE SKY is an exclusive limited edition sculptural multiple. Whimsical and bold, it employs the bright colors of Pop art and Weiner’s signature use of language and directions. The blue arrow, red star, and yellow tags that make up the work playfully depict a kind of navigational sign. [...]

The British Museum is the first UK arts organisation to publish its collection semantically

LONDON.- The British Museum has now released a Semantic Web version of the database complementing the Collection Online search facility. The Museum is the first UK arts organisation to instigate a Semantic Web version of its collection data. The new service brings the British Museum into the ‘linked data’ world and will allow software developers to produce their own applications that can directly manipulate and reuse the data. It will also allow researchers and scholars a way to search and find data [...]

Ellsworth Kelly shines in new Boston Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary Art wing

BOSTON, MA (REUTERS).- Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opens a large new contemporary art wing this weekend in what curators say reflects a more forward-looking tilt to the city’s arts scene. Anchoring the launch is the temporary exhibit, “Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture,” surveying four decades of works by the famous American minimalist painter and sculptor. The Linde Family Wing of Contemporary Art, which includes more than 21,000 square feet of gallery space, is housed in the MFA’s 1981 I.M. Pei expansion. More [...]

Fine American paintings, drawings and sculpture at Christie’s New York this September

NEW YORK, NY.- On September 27, Christie’s will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $120,000. Highlights include exceptional works by Norman Rockwell, George Inness, John Marin and Samuel Johnson Woolf, as well as a rare group of bronze sculptures from the Labor series by Max Kalish, consigned directly by the artist’s family. All genres of American art are represented, including Hudson River [...]

Dutch Royal House criticized for ‘racist’ painting on Queen Beatrix’s iconic gold-trimmed carriage

AMSTERDAM (AP).- Critics urged the Dutch royal family Friday to get rid of a painting they say is an offensive reminder of wrongs from the Netherlands’ colonial past, but the Royal House defended the 19th-century work as an important part of the country’s history. “Homage of the Colonies” decorates one side of Queen Beatrix’s iconic gold-trimmed carriage, and depicts half-naked, brown-skinned women and men in servile poses bearing gifts to an enthroned white woman. Thousands of fans will line the streets [...]

Kunsthaus Zurich presents a selection of acquisitions of ‘Young Art’ from its collection

ZURICH.- From 16 September to 27 November, the Kunsthaus Zürich is showing an exhibition of works from its collection entitled ‘Young Art,’ featuring a selection of acquisitions by the ‘Gruppe Junge Kunst’ (Young Art Group). Divided into three chapters, the show presents some of the most recent additions: works by Latifa Echakhch, Haris Epaminonda, Keren Cytter, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Mark Manders and Lucy Skaer. The Group began acquiring art in 1970. The Gruppe Junge Kunst is part of the Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde (VZK), [...]

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents an exhibition of European drawings

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College will present an exhibition of the finest early collection of European drawings in the United States this fall from September 16 through December 11, 2011. On Friday, September 16, at 6pm in Taylor Hall (room 203), William Breazeale, Curator of the Crocker Art Museum, will deliver a lecture entitled “Fragonard on the Frontier: The Crocker Collection of Old Master Drawings.” This will be followed by an opening reception at the Art Center. [...]

Exhibition of work by Agnes Martin from the 1980s on view at the Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Agnes Martin from the 1980s. The ‘80s: Grey Paintings includes a group of six canvases that were part of an important exhibition at Pace’s Soho gallery in 1990 that represented a radical departure from Martin’s previous work. Pace’s exhibition ushers in an important year for Martin: 2012 marks the centennial anniversary of her birth; Yale University Press, in conjunction with the Dia Art Foundation, and Phaidon will release new publications [...]

New exhibition by British artist Graham Nickson at the Knoedler & Company Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Graham Nickson: Paintings 1972–2011—Paths of the Sun brings together three distinct but related bodies of work. The first, a group of early oils composed with frames hand painted by the artist, most created in the environs of Rome, was begun shortly after Nickson’s arrival there as a recipient of the 1972 Rome Prize. It was in Italy that sunrises and sunsets first became major themes in his work, and the small format landand skyscapes he painted, some of [...]

Brooklyn Museum to Present Keith Haring: 1978-1982 on view in April 2012

BROOKLYN, NY.- Keith Haring: 1978–1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known of American twentieth-century artists, will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012. Tracing the development of the artist’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs. “We are delighted to have this exceptional opportunity to [...]

Unknown portrait discovered under Goya’s masterpiece in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

AMSTERDAM.- An innovative method for examining paintings has revealed a hitherto unknown painting beneath Goya’s Portrait of Don Ramón Satué, one of his most celebrated masterpieces and the only painting by this famous Spanish artist in The Netherlands. The hidden portrait, which is almost certainly also by Goya himself, was brought to light using Scanning Macro X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry a new technique developed by the University of Antwerp and the Delft University of Technology. From the scans it can clearly be [...]