Selected works from the collection of Peter Voulkos’ daughter on view at Frank Lloyd Gallery

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Peter Voulkos was, by all accounts, one of the most influential artists in L.A. history. He crossed every boundary, and though he is best remembered for his breakthrough work in ceramics, he was also a painter, bronze sculptor, and highly influential teacher. He knew artists ranging from Ed Kienholz and Robert Irwin to Billy Al Bengston, and worked with John Mason, Ken Price, Paul Soldner, Henry Takemoto and others. In a counterpart to the Pacific Standard Time project, [...]

Sixteen galleries and dealers gather for a two-day photography fair at Helms Daylight Studio

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Helms Daylight Studio, located in the heart of the Helms Bakery District, is the site for a two-day photography fair featuring sixteen internationally known dealers exhibiting 19th and 20th century European and American photography. Works by Ansel Adams, William Garnett, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Hiromu Kira, Helen Levitt, Margrethe Mather, Eadweard Muybridge, Richard Misrach, LeRoy Robbins, Edward Steichen, Josef Sudek, Carleton Watkins, Weegee, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Minor White, Garry Winogrand and Max Yavno in addition to [...]

First solo exhibition of Tian Xiaolei in the United States opens at Meulensteen

NEW YORK, NY.- Meulensteen announces the first solo exhibition of Tian Xiaolei in the United States. Based in Beijing, he creates surreal animated videos and images that engage with the history of Chinese art and the rapidly evolving social, economic, and political realities of contemporary China. The exhibition features Song of Joy, an ambitious computer-animated film through which Tian explores the relationship between pretended joy and real pain, and addresses hidden truths regarding the era of consumption and desire. This boisterous and [...]

Japanese artist Nobu Fukui’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery presents an exhibition of dynamic new work by Nobu Fukui, collage paintings vibrant with invention Fukui’s work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on closer observation intrigues with surprising imagery that suggests narrative. The eye plays across the surface of his work as if watching a video game in giddy visual delight. Paint, collage, three-dimensional beads: these are some of the ingredients of this exciting work. Benjamin Genocchio in the New York Times wrote: [...]

New paintings and performative photographs by Dorte Jelstrup at Galeri Lars Olsen

COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition “There must be an angel playing with my heart” presents a series of new paintings and performative photographs that thematizes subjective mental states of longing, desire, dream and remembrance. The paintings and photographs establish a link to the art historical modernism, primarily early avant-garde movements of the twentieth century such as Constructivism and Surrealism in a critical reflection upon the marginalization of modernism of a personal based world of experience and a feminine artist subject. The paintings come [...]

Concurrent solo exhibitions by Dan Flavin and Lionel Estève at Galerie Perrotin

PARIS.- Galerie Perrotin presents the exhibition Dan Flavin “An Installation”, in collaboration with L&M Arts, from 14 January to 3 March 2012. Dan Flavin began making three-dimensional monochromes with mounted or barred fluorescent tubes or light bulbs in 1961 that he referred to as “Icons,” even though he contested any mystical or religious reference in his approach. In a constant dialogue with painting, sculpture and architecture, he inaugurated in 1963 the work “the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi),” an [...]

Santa Monica Museum of Art presents NY/LA: A new, annual project room exhibition series

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Santa Monica Museum of Art presents NY/LA, an innovative program initiative that diversifies SMMoA’s curatorial voice through an all-new, annual exhibition series. Developed by New York-based independent curator Jeffrey Uslip and SMMoA Deputy Director and curator Lisa Melandri, NY/LA connects emerging contemporary artists on the East and West coasts. NY/LA debuts at SMMoA with two exhibitions on view from January 14 through February 25, 2012: Adam Berg: Endangered Spaces (LA) in Project Room 1 and Georgi Tushev: Strange Attractor [...]

Exhibition of marble sculpture from 350 B.C. to last week at Sperone Westwater in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents an exhibition of white marble sculptures dating from 350 B.C. to the present day. This survey includes Greek and Roman antiquities, Neoclassical sculptures, and works by modern and contemporary European and American artists. Marble is one of the oldest and most fundamental materials of sculpture with wide-ranging use in the fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture. Among the works from Greek and Roman antiquity in Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to Last Week is an Ionian [...]

Bruce Silverstein’s fourth annual invitational exhibition opens in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein announces this year’s curatorial nominees and their corresponding selection of artists for the Silverstein Annual, Bruce Silverstein’s fourth annual invitational exhibition. As part of the gallery’s ongoing effort to provide exposure to emerging artists, Bruce Silverstein with the guidance of curatorial advisor Nathan Lyons, annually invites ten prominent curators to each nominate one artist whom they feel deserves the opportunity for further exposure within New York’s cultural milieu. This year, the gallery has broadened the group of [...]

The work of legendary artist Yoko Ono exhibited for the first time in India at Vadehra Art Gallery

NEW DELHI.- Audiences in Delhi will experience the best of avant-garde international art asVadehra Art Gallery features, for the first time in India, the work of the legendary Yoko Ono. Her role as an artist, musician and filmmaker, connected to the internationally active Fluxus movement of the sixties, is of great significance to the art world. Vadehra Art Gallery is committed to showcasing the best of international art in India and has held exhibitions of artists Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud [...]

Large survey exhibition of multifaceted artist Niki de Saint Phalle at the Max-Ernst-Museum

BRUEHL.- The Max-Ernst-Museum is showing the wide-ranging œuvre of the multifaceted artist Niki de Saint Phalle, undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the 20th century, in a large survey exhibition. Through her paintings, assemblages, shooting paintings (tirs), sculptures and installations, this artist created a unique cosmos which established her international reputation. Niki de Saint Phalle, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1930 and died in San Diego, California, in 2002, had a defining influence on the art of her day, feminine features [...]

Irish Museum of Modern Art announces appointment of Sarah Glennie as new Director

DUBLIN.- The Chairperson and Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art today (13 January 2012) announced the appointment of Sarah Glennie, currently Director of the Irish Film Institute, as the new Director of IMMA, where she previously held the post of Curator from 1997 to 2001. Sarah Glennie has been working professionally in the cultural realm for sixteen years and has extensive experience of directing and working in a number of public cultural institutions in Ireland and Britain. Prior to joining the [...]

The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby at the Walker Art Gallery

LIVERPOOL.- From 13 January until 15 April 2012 the Walker Art Gallery hosts the first retrospective of work by the Liverpool born artist John Kirby. The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby explores the themes of gender, religion, sexuality and race and Kirby’s complex relationship with each of them. Comprising over 50 paintings and 10 sculptures The Living and the Dead: Paintings and sculpture by John Kirby brings together a group of work spanning over three decades, from early [...]

First major Alberto Burri retrospective in the Uk opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Alberto Burri (1915-1995) revolutionised the artistic vocabulary of the post-war art world. During the 1950s his celebration of humble materials such as sacking and tar created a new aesthetic, rich in expressive power, that was later to prove decisive for artists associated with the Arte Povera movement. Despite his importance, this exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work to be held in the United Kingdom. It offers a comprehensive overview of Burri’s achievement through works spanning four [...]

Mid-career survey devoted to Zoe Strauss examines everyday life and the role of art in the modern city

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Zoe Strauss, a Philadelphia photographer with a growing international reputation, is the subject of a major exhibition that opens on January 14 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of this acclaimed artist’s work, representing the first critical assessment of her decade-long project to exhibit annually in a public space beneath Interstate-95 (I-95) in South Philadelphia. The exhibition will include 170 prints and a selection of artist-created slideshows, one of which will be [...]