First ever overview of painted partying in the Golden Age at the Frans Hals Museum

HAARLEM.- This winter it is party time in the Frans Hals Museum. Celebrating in the Golden Age showcases a highly popular subject in seventeenth-century art. Painters like Jan Steen and Frans Hals portrayed countless merry-making folk and lively companies, from peasant fairs and carnival celebrations to lavish al fresco parties, processions and civic guard banquets. The exhibition in the Frans Hals Museum circas 45 paintings, including masterpieces from its own collection and loans from such leading institutions as the Metropolitan Museum (New [...]

London based artist Oliver Rafferty’s Moonate on view at the Rod Barton Gallery

LONDON.- The show seems to be about meaning as a thing-in-itself – how we read things and come to understand things. It is the broader conversation that keeps cropping up in my thoughts about the work included: How does meaning arrive? Why do we assign certain meanings to certain things? What constitutes a meaning? Does everything have meaning? Can anything be a meaning? Why are some meanings more valid than others? Meanings seem to be thrust upon us. It feels like [...]

Allan Sekula’s photographic and filmic mappings of modern life at Stills in Edinburgh

EDINBURGH.- Stills’ Social Documents programme continues with Allan Sekula’s photographic and filmic mappings of modern life. Whether documenting labour conditions, the material flow of goods or protest movements, economic themes have dominated Sekula’s work since the early 1970s. Informed by both conceptual art and the history of social documentary photography his ‘critical realist’ approach brings together text and images to examine the complex social realities produced by the globalisation of economic structures. In 1995 Tramway presented Sekula’s epic photographic installation Fish Story [...]

Green Art Gallery Dubai presents a solo exhibition for Syrian painter Ziad Dalloul

DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery announces the first solo exhibition in the UAE for renowned Syrian painter Ziad Dalloul. Organized in collaboration with Atassi Gallery, Damascus, the exhibition opened on November 13th and will be on view until January 5th 2012. A reception was held on the 13th of November from 7 – 9 pm in the presence of the artist. Ziad Dalloul, Celebrations of the Absent 3, 2010. Oil on canvas_Triptych, each 195 x 130 cm. overall size 195 x 390 cm. [...]

Tuxedo Park: A solo show of paintings by artist Annika Connor at Bungalow 5 in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary Romantic painter Annika Connor is showing pieces from her latest collections at the Bungalow 5 from November 9th to December 9th, 2011. The exhibition titled Tuxedo Park brings together the decadent interiors of an era gone by with sumptuous landscapes from an imagined garden. Playing off the name of the local Orange County village, Tuxedo Park harkens back to an idealized world while showcasing Connor’s interpretation of whimsical romanticism. Displayed in Bungalow 5’s opulent urban setting, this exhibition couples [...]

Cindy Sherman: The Early Works 1975 – 1977 catalogue Raisonné and exhibition announced

VIENNA.- Cindy Sherman began studying painting in 1972, at the age of eighteen, at the State University of New York, Buffalo. In 1975, she changed her major from painting to photography. She graduated in 1976 and left Buffalo the following year to move to New York City. Contrary to previous assumption, the famous Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) were not Sherman’s first works. In fact, during the time from 1975 to 1977 in Buffalo, she produced an extensive body of early work [...]

The fashion world of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk at Dallas Museum of Art

DALLAS, TX.- From November 13, 2011 to February 12, 2012, the Dallas Museum of Art will host The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first exhibition devoted to the celebrated French couturier. The DMA is the first of two U.S. venues to host this critically acclaimed international exhibition after its premier at the organizing institution, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition also marks the first time that the DMA will present an exhibition dedicated [...]

Exhibition of new work by Bob & Roberta Smith at Pierogi Gallery’s The Boiler

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- The Pierogi Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Bob & Roberta Smith at The Boiler, featuring his Gotham Golem, conjured by the artist to launch The Art Party and to serve to protect the creative arts. Smith’s work covers a range of genres and media including painting, performance, music, and radio broadcasts, all with a dry, biting humor and a strong DIY spirit. “By combining such diverse media with the language styles of alternative protest movements, folk and punk, [...]

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao shows Georg Baselitz’ “Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale”

BILBAO.- Visitors to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao have the opportunity to see Georg Baselitz’s work Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale, 2008, considered by critics to be one of his finest achievements and a masterwork of European painting. Installed in gallery 103 and part of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection since 2010, this work is currently on view within the exhibition Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection II, which will open to the public on November 15. One of the most prominent artists [...]

New Orleans Museum of Art celebrates 100th anniversary with 110 new acquisitions

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- ”NOMA 100″ is the culmination of a five-year acquisition project, celebrating the museum’s 100th anniversary with the exhibition of 110 newly acquired objects, ranging from a laminated color C-print by American artist Matthew Barney to a seven-foot long shark headdress from Nigeria. The exhibition, conceived by Director Emeritus John Bullard and trustee Anne Milling and on view from November 13, 2011 through January 22, 2012, reaffirms the museum’s commitment to collecting outstanding works and highlights the dedicated support [...]

Ancient Chinese bronzes exhibited at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens this Fall

SAN MARINO, CA.- An important collection of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors spanning three thousand years make its first public appearance this fall in an exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. “Ancient Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection” will be on view from Nov. 12, 2011, through May 14, 2012, in the Chandler Wing of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. The exhibition includessome 80 highly decorative early bronze mirrors, ranging in date from the [...]

Upcoming features of the American International Fine Art Fair 2012 announced

PALM BEACH, FL.- The past meets the present as International Fine Art Expositions hosts an array of exhibits for the 16th annual American International Fine Art Fair from February 3rd through 12th, 2012. Providing a “break from convention in a world-class destination,” the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida will house the exhibits that span time around the world. Under the guidance of legendary artist-jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé’s grandchildren, Tatiana and Sarah Fabergé, Fabergé’s Creative and Managing Director Katharina [...]

Group exhibition with sculptures beyond the conventional at Galerie Michael Janssen

BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen is presenting …there is a crack in everything, a group exhibition with sculptures and objects by artists whose practices refer to, expand or go beyond the conventional notion of sculpture and its parameters. On view are works by Vanessa Billy, Valentin Carron, Liz Larner, Dan Peterman and Joris Van de Moortel. Viewers customarily use volume, density and mass to make their initial judgments about what an object or sculpture might be and where it is situated; both in [...]

A selection of new Contemporary art acquisitions on view at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM.- A new exhibition at the Israel Museum presents a selection of 18 recent acquisitions and gifts of international and Israeli contemporary art, on display for the first time at the Museum. Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art brings together works in a range of mediums by an international cadre of artists, including Vahram Aghasyan, Ilit Azoulay, Luis Camnitzer, Isaac Julien, Jonathan Monk, Adrian Paci, Anila Rubiku, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, Jan Tichy and Maya Zak, among others, all of which explore [...]

Artist Ted Harrison scatters 5,000 poppies under the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral

LONDON.- Over 5,000 poppies were scattered under the dome of St Paul’s in an art installation on Remembrance Day, Friday 11th November 2011. From ground level the poppies appear to have fallen randomly, but when viewed from the Whispering Gallery the poppies form an image of three child soldiers; one from the First World War and two from more recent conflicts. The 30 foot wide installation created by artist Ted Harrison highlights the involvement of children in war. Although declared illegal by the [...]