Georges Braque: “Pioneer of Modernism” exhibition on view at Acquavella Galleries

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Acquavella Galleries presents Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism, a retrospective of seminal paintings curated by Dieter Buchhart, from October 12th through November 30th, 2011. The exhibition includes over forty major paintings and papiers collés by the artist, all on loan from prestigious international public and private collections. The exhibition marks the first major Braque retrospective in the United States since the Guggenheim Museum’s celebrated exhibition in 1988. Best known as the co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso and as [...]

Christie’s to sell property from the collection of Hollywood legends Lew and Edie Wasserman

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces it has been selected to offer Property from The Collection of Lew and Edie Wasserman as part of its major fall sales in New York City. Assembled largely in the 1950s and 60s by the “king and queen of Hollywood,” the collection includes several seldom-seen works by important artists such as Degas, Matisse, Vuillard and Soutine that have adorned the couple’s Beverly Hills home for decades. Over 30 items from this exceptional private collection will be offered [...]

Marc Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde opens at the Art Gallery of Ontario

TORONTO, ON.- The Art Gallery of Ontario brings the magic and wonder of modern painter Marc Chagall to Toronto next month with a major exhibition organized by the world-renowned contemporary art museum, Centre Pompidou. Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris is on view from Oct. 18, 2011 to Jan. 15, 2012, and includes 32 vivid and imaginative works by Marc Chagall and eight pieces by Wassily Kandinsky, alongside pieces from other visionaries of Russian modernism [...]

First exhibition on Pietro Perugino, Raphael’s Master at Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen

MUNICH.- As a highlight and to conclude the Alte Pinakothek’s 175th jubilee celebrations, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen are staging the first exhibition on Pietro Perugino – one of the most successful artists of the Italian Renaissance – to be held outside Italy. It unites more than 30 works from all phases of the master’s creative output, focussing in particular on the heyday of the artist’s career in the late 15th century. ‘The Vision of Saint Bernard’, an altarpiece completed around 1490 which King Ludwig [...]

Hundreds of collectors descend on London for the annual contemporary art frenzy

LONDON (REUTERS).- Will Chinese buyers ride to the rescue? Will the super-rich decide painting and sculpture is a better investment than volatile stocks or risky debt? Those are the big questions on the art world’s lips as hundreds of galleries and collectors descend on London for the annual post-war and contemporary frenzy centered around the October 13-16 Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park. The annual event held in a giant marquee has quickly become a key date for anyone wanting to [...]

New White Cube opens in London

LONDON.- White Cube announces the opening of a third major space in London. The building, located on Bermondsey Street in south London, will open to the public during Frieze on 12 October 2011. This will be the largest of the gallery’s three London sites, providing more than 5440 m 2 (58,000 sq ft) of interior space on a site of 1.7 acres (74,300 sq ft). The building dates from the 1970s and was primarily used as a warehouse before the current refurbishment. [...]

Guggenheim Museum presents Intervals by Brooklyn-based artist Nicola Lopez

NEW YORK, N.Y.- As part of Intervals, an ongoing series, the Guggenheim Museum presents Brooklyn-based artist Nicola López with a site-specific sculptural collage environment in the rotunda, titled Landscape X: Under Construction, on view October 11–25, 2011. Conceived to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices, Intervals invites a diverse range of artists to create new work for the interstitial spaces of the museum, in individual galleries, or beyond the physical confines of the building. This exhibition marks López’s first solo institutional [...]

An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 at the Yale Center for British Art

NEW HAVEN, CT.- Organized to complement the Center’s major fall exhibition on Johan Zoffany, who spent six productive years in India, Adapting the Eye: An Archive of the British in India, 1770–1830 will explore the complex and multifaceted networks of British and Indian professional and amateur artists, patrons, and scholars in British India in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and their drive to create and organize knowledge for both aesthetic and political purposes. Selected from the Center’s rich holdings, [...]

Select group of vintage photographs by Eugène Atget at James Hyman Photography

LONDON.- James Hyman Photography presents a select group of vintage photographs by Eugène Atget (1857 – 1927). The exhibition coincides with Anna Fox. RESORT. and Lynne Cohen. There’s Always Something. In many ways Atget was the first conceptual artist in his approach to the modern metropolis. Atget’s apparently prosaic photographs often present a dream-like ambiance and possess a strange stillness in what was otherwise a bustling urban centre. Atget often catalogued these spaces thematically and formed a valuable visual encyclopedia of the [...]

Sotheby’s New York to offer four monumental bronze sculptures by Henri Matisse

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Over the course of the next year, Sotheby’s will be offering at auction a cast of each of Henri Matisse’s spectacular bas-relief nudes, known collectively as Les Nus de dos (The Backs). The unprecedented sale of the four monumental bronze sculptures will begin with Matisse’s first incarnation of the form, Nu de dos (1er état), on offer in the 2 November Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York (est. $20/30 million*). Conceived in 1908-09 at the culmination of [...]

Sotheby’s to present Abstraction-Figuration: A private collection including works by Gerhard Richter

NEW YORK, N.Y.- This fall Sotheby’s will present Abstraction-Figuration: A Private Collection, a remarkable offering of paintings that thrive in the fertile space between abstraction and figuration. The collection is led by one of the most important groups of works by Gerhard Richter ever to appear at auction, which will be among the highlights of the Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 9 November 2011. That sale will also include works from the collection by Francis Bacon, Sigmar Polke, and Lee Krasner. The Impressionist [...]

Biennale of Sydney announces new Board Director, avid collector Paris Neilson

SYDNEY.- ‘We are pleased to announce Paris Neilson as a Board Director of the Biennale of Sydney,’ said Chairman Luca Belgiorno-Nettis. ‘An avid collector and supporter of contemporary – especially Chinese – art, Paris joins the Board as its youngest member; she will no doubt bring a new level of energy and perspective.’ Paris Neilson said: ‘I am delighted to join a groundbreaking organisation, which is vital to Sydney’s and Australia’s cultural life. I look forward to working with my fellow Board [...]

Atelier 17 and its connection to abstract expressionism and the New York School at Swann Galleries

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ October 27 auction focuses on Atelier 17, the printmaking workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, and its extraordinary influence on the fine arts in America and Europe from the mid 20th century onward. The sale, titled Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School, was a year in the making and is the first to explore the studio’s impact. The auction catalogue is organized into three sections. The first, Atelier 17: Europe and the Early [...]

Archives of American Art contributes photo collection to Wikimedia commons

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Archives of American Art has contributed 285 digitized photographs from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection to Wikimedia Commons. Most of the photographs date between 1935 and 1942, the active years of the Federal Art Project, which was part of the Work Progress Administration’s Federal Project Number One. Digitized images from the Federal Art Project’s Photographic Division Collection have been made previously available on the Archives’ website, but this is the first time that high-resolution scans have been made [...]

Exhibition of new paintings by British artist Michael Stubbs at Laurent Delaye

LONDON.- Laurent Delaye presents “Fireeye Meltdown” by Michael Stubbs. “Painting is at an interesting crossroads in relation to digital culture and the media – I try to reflect this through the painting’s chaotic visual spaces.” (Michael Stubbs). Working at the interface of abstraction and pop, Michael Stubbs combines pouring techniques with hard-edged lines and stencils to force a collision of styles and create a challenging new visual language. Michael Stubbs, Dub Steppa, 2011. Household paint and tinted floor varnish on MDF, 244 [...]