Yayoi Kusama’s flower sculptures brighten the Jardin des Tuileries for the Winter

PARIS.- The Jardins des Tuileries in Paris has been enlivened by Yayoi Kusama’s vibrantly colored Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, a series of unique largescale sculptures. This is the first time that these sculptures are seen in France. The presentation by the Musée du Louvre-which coincides with Kusama’s major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-is consistent with the museum’s ongoing initiative to integrate contemporary art into its broader historical and cultural programme. This special project has been realized with the support [...]

Sammlung Falckenberg in Hamburg opens exhibition by Ena Swanser and Robert Lucander

HAMBURG.- At the end of this year, the Sammlung Falckenberg brings together seemingly poetic-surrealist images by US painter Ena Swanser and subversive-enigmatic works by Finnish artist Robert Lucander who now lives in Berlin. The exhibition’s title of “Psycho” is a reference to the eponymous horror classic by Alfred Hitchcock and calls to mind the disturbed nature of schizophrenics, psychopaths and other psychologically disturbed persons. “Psycho” is Greek for “soul” and the term referring to insanity is derived from the notion that a human’s [...]

The Glass Ceiling Shattered, 30 Years – 3 Great American Women Artists at Alan Avery Art Company

ATLANTA, GA.- Alan Avery Art Company will celebrate their 30th anniversary with the exhibition The Glass Ceiling Shattered, 30 Years – 3 Great American Women Artists, featuring work from Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler and Kara Walker. The exhibition opened to the public December 3, 2011. The exhibition continues through Friday, February 10, 2012. For the past three decades as an art dealer, Alan Avery has strived to bring a different voice and a new perspective to Atlanta’s collecting audience by bringing artists [...]

One of the world’s most important annual photography events to be held at the Park Avenue Armory in March

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, March 29 – April 1, 2012, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. More than 70 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The AIPAD Photography [...]

MoMA PS1 pays tribute to one the most prolific and influential American filmmakers of the last half century

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.- MoMA PS1 pays tribute to George Kuchar (1942-2011), one of the most prolific and influential American filmmakers of the last half century, with a new exhibition of his film, photography, painting, and comic illustration. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey and initiated with the artist prior to his death in September, George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies includes more than thirty of Kuchar’s films, celebrating the prolific and exuberant practice of this visionary who found high drama in low [...]

Kunstverein Hamburg curates exhibition with works by American graphic designer Charley Harper

HAMBURG.- Kunstverein Hamburg goes Berlin: On invitation by the Volksbühne the Kunstverein Hamburg curates an exhibition with works of the American graphic designer Charley Harper at the pavilion at RosaLuxemburg-Platz, Berlin. The exhibition presents a collection of app. 35 works that had been shown at the Kunstverein Hamburg in Summer 2011. Charley Harper, The Name is Puffin, 1971. © Charley Harper Art Studio. Birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, fish, the artwork of wildlife artist Charley Harper (1922 –2007) is a visual ecosystem in [...]

Driven to Draw: Twentieth-century drawings and sketchbooks form the Royal Academy’s Collection

LONDON.- A new exhibition in the Tennant Gallery reveals the richness of the Academy’s rarely seen holdings of twentieth-century drawings and sketchbooks. Although drawing is a natural human activity, only in the twentieth century have artists drawn more from inner compulsion than out of practical necessity. By including a wide range of styles, techniques and modes of draughtsmanship found in works by both Royal Academicians and students alike – everything from doodles to diploma works – the exhibition aims to capture the magic [...]

After two years of extensive renovation work the Museum of European Cultures reopens in Berlin

BERLIN.- After two years of extensive renovation work, the Museum of European Cultures reopened this December and is again able to host exhibitions in Dahlem. Highlights will include: • a permanent exhibition on the theme of ‘Cultural Contacts – Life in Europe’ • a temporary exhibition entitled ‘Explorations in Europe – Visual Studies in the 19th Century’ and • a study collection, with regularly rotating displays of groups of objects from the museum’s collection. The Museum of European Cultures was called [...]

First major Canadian exhibition of works by van Gogh for more than 25 years to open at the National Gallery

OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada’s 2012 exceptional summer show, Van Gogh: Up Close, will be the first major Canadian exhibition of works by the famous Dutch artist for more than 25 years. In what promises to be a truly unique exhibition, visitors to the National Gallery will have the opportunity to discover Vincent van Gogh’s genius from an entirely new perspective by exploring the artist’s approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Opening on May 25, [...]

Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibition selected from its permanent collection

NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibitions selected from the museum’s permanent collection, exploring Pop art. The explosion of Pop art in America in the early 1960s signaled the return to representational images following the Abstract Expressionists of the preceding decades, who favored large gestural canvases and expressive colors. Other artists at this time investigated the aesthetic potential of paintings and sculpture dominated by a single color or limited to a narrow spectrum of tones. Pop Objects [...]

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to Richard Diebenkorn’

FORT WORTH, TX.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is presenting the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series. This exhibition is the most comprehensive show to date of Diebenkorn’s most celebrated body of work, the Ocean Park series. Presenting more than 75 Ocean Park paintings, prints, and drawings-the largest selection ever on view together-this unprecedented project offers visitors the opportunity to explore in-depth the complexity of Diebenkorn’s artistic and aesthetic achievements within this series. Works in the exhibition come from [...]

French connection with masters of French Realism highlight Art Gallery of Hamilton exhibitions

HAMILTON, ON.- The Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Fall 2011 exhibition season offers a closing salute to its French Connection year with a stunning display of nineteenth-century French Realist paintings alongside three intriguing exhibitions drawn from private collections. On view through January 15, 2012, Masters of French Realism showcases works by various French painters associated with the central nineteenth-century artistic movement Realism, which achieved its most coherent expression in French painting. At the centre of French Realism was Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), represented [...]

Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer opens at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- Fifty-six dramatic 1956 photographs of Elvis Presley on the brink of international superstardom – including intimate images taken in Richmond – are being shown in Elvis at 21 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The black-and-white photographs taken by Alfred Wertheimer show a baby-faced Elvis just as his career began but before he was a recognizable rock-and-roll icon. “You’ll see some extraordinary behind-the-scenes shots of Elvis just as his career was starting,” VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said. “The exhibition [...]

Winner of the 2010 Baloise Art Prize, Claire Hooper, exhibits at mumok in Vienna

VIENNA.- Claire Hooper is the winner of the 2010 Baloise Art Prize. At mumok she is presenting her prize-winning video Video Nyx (2010), as part of a trilogy which also includes two works from 2011, Aoide and Eris. In her films, the British artist (born 1978) interweaves narratives from the present with characters and concepts from Greek mythology. These become elements of a kaleidoscopic mélange of reality and fiction, in which Hooper, in the manner of a Nouveau Roman, also dispenses with the [...]

Charles M. Russell’s finest watercolors to be shown at the Amon Carter Museum in February 2012

FORT WORTH, TX.- On February 11, 2012, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents more than 100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) in the special exhibition Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell. Never before have so many of Russell’s singular depictions of the Old West been brought together. The exhibition is on view through May 13, 2012; admission is free. “Charles Russell is recognized today as a leading artist of the Old West,” says [...]