Horror Portraits by Jenn Violetta

A Beauty of Horror by Jenn Violetta: works filled with horror, depression, youth and a dark beauty. I don’t really know anything about the artist, just check her works.

Native American influences on 20th century art at Peter Blum Gallery in Soho

NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Soho presents the exhibition Kindred Spirits, Native American Influences on 20th Century Art on view October 29, 2011 through January 14, 2012. The exhibition features works of indigenous peoples from the Southwest region of the United States of America that illustrate their strong and often neglected influence on Modern and Contemporary art. Funerary vessels, paintings, pottery, weavings, and baskets from fourteen tribes including the Apache, Hopi, Mimbres, Navajo, and Zuni are exhibited alongside Modern and Contemporary works [...]

Major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger at The Fruitmarket Gallery

EDINBURGH.- The Fruitmarket Gallery presents this major exhibition of the work of American artist Bill Bollinger (1939–1988), one of the most important artists of the 1960s. A work of art historical rediscovery as well as an exhibition of great power and beauty, it brings an artist once mentioned in the same breath as Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse and Fred Sandback back for serious reconsideration. Bollinger’s work is characterised by his sensitive use of the idiosyncrasies and possibilities offered by technical and [...]

Sotheby’s London to sell Waiting to Cross by Albert Moore in Victorian & Edwardian art sale

LONDON.- Sotheby’s Victorian & Edwardian art sale on Tuesday, 15 November 2011 will be headlined by Waiting to Cross by Albert Moore (1841-1893). Estimated at £300,000-500,000, the painting was the artist’s only contribution to the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition of 1888. It comes to auction following the success of the exhibition The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1890 at the Victorian & Albert Museum in London earlier this year and currently on view at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The Aesthetic Movement [...]

N.C. Museum of Art presents largest collection of authentic Rembrandts for U.S. audience

RALEIGH, NC- A groundbreaking new exhibition brings together the largest number of authentic Rembrandt paintings from American collections ever before assembled. Organized and presented by the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Rembrandt in America is the first major exhibition to explore how the desire for Rembrandt paintings by American collectors in turn fueled critical connoisseurship and research about the artist’s work. Rembrandt in America premieres at the North Carolina Museum of [...]

Hammer Galleries in New York presents Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- Modern Masters: Paris and Beyond, features over twenty exceptional paintings by Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Kees van Dongen, as well as significant sculptures by Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse and Alexander Calder. Including important works from the “années folles” or “crazy years” of 1920’s Paris through the decades following the Second World War, Paris and Beyond traces the development of these artists from their initial avant-garde beginnings through later decades [...]

Discover the grandeur and mystery of China at the Denver Art Museum this Fall

DENVER, CO.- This fall, visitors to the Denver Art Museum will get a rare look inside China’s artistic history through two special exhibitions. Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting and Threads of Heaven: Silken Legacy of China’s Last Dynasty explore this mysterious and ceremonial country during two time periods—the latter years of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), and the subsequent formation of the Republic of China during the early to middle 20th century. Xu Beihong offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the full [...]

The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37 at the National Gallery of Victoria

MELBOURNE.- This summer the National Gallery of Victoria presents the first exhibition in Australia to explore the radical avant-garde art movements that emerged in Germany during one of the most important and chaotic periods of the twentieth century. The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910–37 brings together an experimental, provocative and utterly compelling collection of over 200 paintings, photographs, prints, films, sculptures and decorative arts pieces with loans from museums and private collections around the world. Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said: [...]

Inspiration Creative by Markku Lahdesmaki

Photographer Markku Lahdesmaki started his photographic journey around his hometown, Tempere, known as “Finland’s Manchester”. This peaceful industrial city filled him with inspiration and passion to pursue his career. With his camera at hand and armed with creative forces, Markku started to gather his own world of cities. Today, he is well-known for his collages and digital art manipulations and is working towards his own particular interests, as well as for marketing campaigns. After travelling through the most varied corners [...]

Series from Durer to Lichtenstein showcases 500 years of serial printmaking

BALTIMORE, MD.- Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein is an epic exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. On view October 30, 2011 through March 25, 2012, the exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in complete sets—revealing the true vision of the artist, print by print. Also represented are [...]

Rare early sculpture and important new paintings by Rebecca Horn at Sean Kelly Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly Gallery opened Rebecca Horn’s new exhibition, Ravens Gold Rush. Ravens Gold Rush includes a rare early sculpture, important new paintings on paper and a new large-scale sculptural installation. The title of the exhibition refers to Horn’s 1986 New York show, The Gold Rush, which took place in a time of international financial uncertainty. The eponymously titled sculpture from this exhibition has been installed in the first gallery; it is comprised of a small hammer that repeatedly chips [...]

A selection from The Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst Collection on view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

VADUZ.- Domiciled in Liechtenstein, the “Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst” collection is devoted primarily to international, contemporary art. Bearing the stamp of the extreme care and personal commitment of collector Hanny Frick, it has grown continuously over the past few decades. Hanny Frick relies on direct contact with artists and their works of art. Her approach has led, over the years, to a collection that places the collector on equal footing with the international art world. The holdings range from paintings, drawings, [...]

Remarkable group of new works by Uta Barth at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents a remarkable group of new works by Uta Barth. As the artist’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, this show brings together two of Barth’s latest series of color photographs within the main floor exhibition spaces. Furthering her exploration of the atmospheric and incidental, Barth conceived her latest major body of work, … and to draw a bright white line with light, on the occasion of her 2011 solo exhibition at the Art Institute of [...]

Mark A. Magleby named new Director for Brigham Young University Museum of Art

PROVO, UT.- Mark A. Magleby, a BYU art history faculty member since 1997, has been appointed as the new director of the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Stephen M. Jones, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications announced Wednesday. Magleby will officially begin in his new role Jan. 1, 2012. Prior to his employment at BYU, Magleby was an art history faculty member at both The Ohio State University and Denison University. Magleby received his M.A. and Ph.D. in [...]

“Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk” by Chinese artist Hung Liu at Walter Maciel Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery presents a solo show of new work by internationally known artist Hung Liu. This is Liu’s third solo gallery exhibition appropriately titled Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk which references the idea of remembering one’s youth, possibly from an elder’s perspective. The show is presented concurrently with Pacific Standard Time celebrating the art in Southern California from 1945 though the early 80s. Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948 and immigrated to the US In 1984 [...]