Museum für Gegenwartskunst shows a new selection of works by Tim Rollins + K.O.S.

BASEL.- More than twenty years after the Museum für Gegenwartskunst first presented the art of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), the collective now shows a new selection of works. Based on Tim Rollins’s studies of art as a form of collaboration in which individual creativity becomes operative as an agent of social change, the works pay poetic homage to the community, but also represent a political reference to the potential inherent in each individual. When Rollins started teaching in a school [...]

First solo show in the UK by Swiss artist Raphael Hefti at Camden Arts Centre

LONDON.- In January Camden Arts Centre presents the first solo show in the UK by Swiss artist Raphael Hefti. For the past ten years he has been interfering with material processes, manipulating and transforming substances to create surprising images and objects. Coming from a technical background with a keen interest in how things are made and what things can do, Hefti sets-up pseudo scientific experiments which challenge industrial fabricators and ultimately divert objects from their original state. This exhibition approaches his investigations from [...]

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces The 2012 deCordova Biennial

LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces The 2012 deCordova Biennial and exhibition-related programs and performances this winter. The exhibition, on view January 22 through April 22, 2012, follows The 2010 deCordova Biennial, the first of deCordova’s revamped regional showcase, for which Curator Dina Deitsch won critical acclaim for her fresh curatorial approach. DeCordova formerly presented the twenty-year deCordova Annual exhibition program designed to feature art from across New England. The 2012 deCordova Biennial is the largest and most ambitious to [...]

LACMA presents first retrospective of more than 100 works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings, the first retrospective of the artist’s prolific print practice since the late 1980s. This exhibition coincides with the forthcoming revised and updated catalogue raisonné of Kelly’s prints, and features more than 100 works on paper, in addition to a selection of paintings from local collections. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings is organized thematically by key motifs, demonstrating the artist’s long-standing engagement with elemental form and pure [...]

Moretti Fine Art to celebrate ten years at TEFAF Maastricht presenting exceptional works of art

NEW YORK, NY.- Moretti Fine Art will mark ten years at TEFAF Maastricht with some exceptional Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Italian paintings and works of art. The fair, which is the world’s leading art and antiques event, is celebrating its Silver Jubilee and will take place at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC) from 16 to 25 March 2012. Stand 384. One of the rarities Moretti will be offering is a terracotta figure of a lion dating from around 1715 by [...]

Eclectic styles and tastes abound in Heritage Auctions’ February 7 estate event

DALLAS, TX.- Everything from fine French and Italian art, Pop and Post-Modern art and Lalique glass to ebonized cabinets, gilt bronze clocks and an antique cash register will be up for bid on Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Heritage Auctions’ The Signature® Estate Auction, being held at the company’s Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street. “We’ve again combed the finest estates in America with a Texas audience in mind,” said Ed Beardsley, Managing Director of the Department of Fine Art at Heritage. “We’ve [...]

L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980 at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

PASADENA, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art presents L.A. RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy on view from January 22, 2012 to May 20, 2012. The figurative artists, who dominated the postwar Los Angeles art scene until the late 1950s, have largely been written out of today’s art history. This exhibition, part of the Getty Foundation’s initiative “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980,” traces the distinctive aesthetic of figurative expressionism from the end [...]

Six new two-panel paintings by Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Matthew Marks presents Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles, the first exhibition in his new gallery in Los Angeles. Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles includes six new two-panel paintings, all of which are being exhibited here for the first time. The paintings are each made from a single shaped canvas featuring a dramatic curve carefully painted with many coats of a bright color (blue, green, yellow, orange, etc). These curved panels are attached to a rectangular canvas painted in a contrasting color. [...]

Brooklyn Museum presents Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-191

BROOKLYN, NY.- Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919, an exhibition of 45 objects including drawings, works on paper, documentary photographs, and stories in newsprint by the celebrated writer and early twentieth-century advocate for women’s rights Djuna Barnes (American, 1892–1982), is being presented in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art from January 20 through August 19, 2012. Among the works on view are eight illustrations Barnes composed to accompany her newspaper columns. [...]

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, announces MOCA TV: A global video channel

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art announced that it will launch MOCA TV, a new global video channel for original contemporary art and culture programming, in July 2012. MOCA TV will be part of YouTube’s new original channels initiative, announced in October 2011, to bring around one hundred new original channels, created specifically for today’s connected viewers, to its worldwide platform. MOCA is the first contemporary art museum to associate with a major media company in an online video-programming venture [...]

Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes at the Walters

BALTIMORE, MD.- “Please DO NOT touch” is the message that we are all used to seeing on signs near works of art in most museums. This is necessary to preserve the art, but we all want to touch! This focus show invites you to touch…and hold, and stroke and to think about why and how physical contact with works of art can be so satisfying. As a continuation of the Walters’ partnership with The Johns Hopkins University Brain Science Institute, this installation [...]

First U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick opens at Haunch of Venison in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison presents the first U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain’s most celebrated architect designers. The exhibition Extruding and Spinning will be open through March 3, 2012. Heatherwick’s designs engage in the spectrum of architecture, engineering and public art. He has worked on a diverse range of projects from buildings, bridges to handbags and furniture. His British pavilion won the top prize for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and he was awarded three RIBA awards [...]

Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde attracts crowds, new members to the Art Gallery of Ontario

TORONTO.- The exhibition that brought the magic, whimsy and wonder of Marc Chagall and other visionaries of Russian modernism to the Art Gallery of Ontario drew 152,637 visitors during its 13-week run, ranking as the eighth best-attended exhibition in the AGO’s history. Hailed by the Toronto Star as “a story of colour, motion and mystery” and by CBC News as a “rare treat,” Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris was on view at the AGO [...]

Exhibition at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum focuses on mathematician Alan Turing

PADERBORN.- The international scientific focus in 2012 is firmly on Alan Turing. This legendary British mathematician and computer pioneer was born in London on 23 June 1912. His 100th birthday will be marked by numerous events, primarily in his native country, but also in the USA, Brazil, China and elsewhere. Germany’s Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn pays tribute to the achievements of this equally academic and awkward scientist with an ambitious exhibition entitled “Eminent & enigmatic – 10 aspects of Alan [...]

Bonhams to sell work by Hampstead based Indian artist “with a wonderfully sour colour sense”

LONDON.- One of India’s most talented and prolific artists of the 20th century, Francis Newton Souza, spent a significant part of his career working in the UK, living for a while in Hampstead. His paintings of the area are among some of his finest from that period. Having moved to London in 1949 Souza produced some of his best work in the capital in the late 1950s and early 1960s whilst represented by Victor Musgrave’s Gallery One in Mayfair. Souza’s work, [...]