Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans presents “Junk Shot”: New work by Skylar Fein

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery announces the exhibition Junk Shot, new works by artist Skylar Fein. The exhibition opened on Saturday, October 1, in conjunction with the annual city-wide Art For Arts’ Sake, the official opening of the arts season. Skylar Fein’s career has been on an upward trajectory since his first solo show in 2008, followed by his installation at Prospect.1 Biennial, a solo exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art, appearances at VOLTA NY and PULSE Miami, a major [...]

David Zwirner to present works by American artist Dan Flavin at FIAC 2011 in Paris

PARIS.- David Zwirner announces the gallery’s participation in this year’s FIAC, held at the Grand Palais in Paris from October 20 to 23, 2011. For this year’s fair, the gallery (Stand B30) will present a significant installation of three related works by Dan Flavin, the American artist recognized for his pioneering installations of light and color made from commercially available fluorescent lights. The works at FIAC are from 1989 – untitled (to the citizens of the Republic of France on the 200th [...]

Exhibition by Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez opens at Faggionato Fine Art in London

LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art presents Enoc Perez: Nudes, since 2009, Enoc Perez’s nudes have undergone a transformation. This exhilarating new series takes his existing preoccupation with the classical subject of the nude – as reinterpreted through the grounding visual lexicon of pornography – and transcends it, to incorporate an expanded engagement with the idea of painting itself. In these and his previous studies of nudes, Perez paints transient images mined from amateur pornography, ‘a wasteland of imagery’, selecting fleeting visions that capture [...]

Maurice Prendergast Paris scene oil painting unearthed by art specialist at Clarke Auction

LARCHMONT, NY (PR NEWSWIRE).- While sifting through a large box lot of art dropped off at the Larchmont, NY gallery by what is known in the trade as a “picker,” Nelia Moore, Art Specialist/Auctioneer at Clarke Auction spotted a beautifully executed but very dirty painting on panel of a woman in a veil. After dusting it off and studying the painting she spotted the Prendergast Paris signature on the lower right of the panel. The quality and style of the small [...]

American International Fine Art Fair returns to Palm Beach, Florida in February 2012

PALM BEACH, FL.- Now in its 16th year, American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) is one of the premier art, antique and jewelry fair in the United States. In 2012, AIFAF will again gather prestigious galleries and distinguished collectors from around the world during its return to the Palm Beach County Convention Center February 4th-12th, 2012, with a VIP Preview on February 3rd. The carefully selected presentation will include international dealers representing disciplines of fine art from classical antiquity to contemporary, and an [...]

David LaChapelle portrait of Alexander McQueen and his ‘Muse’ Isabella Blow acquired by National Portrait Gallery

LONDON.- ‘Burning Down the House’, a portrait by David LaChapelle of the late Alexander McQueen and his ‘muse’ Isabella Blow has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. This is the first portrait by LaChapelle to enter the Gallery’s Collection and will be exhibited in the United Kingdom for the first time from Friday 14 October 2011. The double portrait of McQueen and Blow was originally published in the March 1997 ‘Swinging London’ edition of Vanity Fair. Shot at Hedingham Castle in [...]

Photographer Annie Leibovitz gets personal with exhibition at Russia’s Pushkin Museum

MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Photographer Annie Leibovitz paid homage to Russia’s rich cultural past on Tuesday when she opened a 200-piece exhibit spanning 15 years of her professional and private life. Pictures of the births of the 62-year-old Leibovitz’s three daughters were hung in Moscow’s state Pushkin Museum next to her portraits of such famous personalities as Mick Jagger, Demi Moore and others for covers of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. “Russia is definitely at a crossroads now. Coming to Moscow, it feels [...]

Sotheby’s New York announces 19th century European art auction in November

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s New York sale of 19th Century European Art on 4 November 2011 will present a number of rare opportunities for collectors across diverse collecting categories. The auction will be a showcase for the best of the eclectic artistic styles that flourished throughout the 19th century: Barbizon school, Academic realism, Belle Époque opulence, Victorian and Edwardian romanticism, early Impressionism and Sporting art. The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 28 October, alongside the Impressionist [...]

Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau presents more than 200 photographs of Ai Weiwei in New York

BERLIN.- For the first time in Germany, the Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing more than 220 photographs from the period 1983 to 1993 spent by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in New York. More than 10,000 photos emerged during this time. Ai acted as curator selecting what will be exhibited. For the young Ai, born in 1957, this extended period of stay in the USA was very influential on the style of his future artistic works. After being in New York, Ai first of all returned [...]

Photography exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California inspires reflection on the 1991 catastrophic fire

OAKLAND, CA- In October 1991, immediately following the catastrophic firestorm which struck the Oakland and Berkeley Hills, renowned San Francisco Bay Area photographer and long-time Berkeley resident Richard Misrach (American, b. 1949) ventured into the fire zone armed with his 8×10-inch view camera. Working alone, he roamed the devastated area, recording both stark vistas and intimate details of destroyed homes. This October to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tragic fire, the Oakland Museum of California presents 1991: Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by [...]

“Focus on the Collection: Expressionist Landscape” opens at the Saint Louis Art Museum

ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces “Focus on the Collection: Expressionist Landscape” exhibition. The exhibition brings together a dozen German Expressionist drawings and prints from the Museum’s permanent collection. Dating from 1907 to 1928, these works highlight the Expressionists’ bold new treatment of landscape in the graphic arts. In the early decades of the 20th century, the German Expressionists espoused a new approach to art that was both personal and confrontational, making a radical break from tradition. These artists were [...]

United States government returns looted Jules Breton painting to French officials

WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS).- A painting by artist Jules Breton stolen 93 years ago was turned over to French officials by U.S. authorities on Thursday, customs officials said. The painting, “Une Fille de Pecheur” (A Fisherman’s Daughter), was handed over to Ambassador Francois Delattre in a ceremony at the French Embassy, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said in a statement. “As the foremost agency investigating the plundering of cultural property, we are pleased to return a piece of French heritage [...]

Haunch of Venison presents solo exhibition by Ahmed Alsoudani in London

LONDON.- Haunch of Venison presents the first solo show in Britain by acclaimed Iraqi-born artist Ahmed Alsoudani. In this new series of paintings, Alsoudani continues his complex exploration of war and conflict, its physical atrocities and psychological consequences. Featuring deformed, almost bestial, figures twisting in vivid and surreal landscapes, these tableaux are often laced with a barbed or morbid humour in the manner of artists such as Francisco Goya and Max Beckmann among others. Imagery of devastation and violence abounds, with figures [...]

“Expressionismus & Expressionismi” exhibition opens at Pinacotheque de Paris

PARIS.- Pinacothèque de Paris‏ presents “Expressionismus & Expressionismi” this title is a neologism, in reference to the major exhibition on Futurism that was held in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 1986 which the late Pontus Hutten had entitled Futurismo & Futurismi to show the diversity of movements that made up Italian Futurism. This neologism also illustrates the diversity of German Expressionism’s origins. Often perceived as monolithic, or, at the very least, grouped together under a single name, this movement was [...]

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art and 20th Century Italian Art Sales Achieve Multiple Records

LONDON.- Tonight, Sotheby’s Evening Sales of Contemporary Art and 20th Century Italian Art, including ‘Italian Identity’ – an important private collection – brought the combined total of £39,456,950/$62,081,566/€45,048,011 against the pre-sale estimate of £34,982,000-48,338,000 – in excess of the total achieved for the equivalent sales last year (£34 million). A total of six artist records were established across both sales – for Alberto Burri, Leon Kossoff, Wim Delvoye, Francesco Lo Savio, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giuseppe Penone. The Contemporary Art Evening Sale brought a [...]