Exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube announces ‘The Indifferent Owl’, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard galleries. A painting by Gary Hume is [...]

New heArt CitY Gallery in Paris presents Jerome Revon’s New Yorkv

PARIS.- Presenting the last works of Jerome Revon, means offering a free trip in the heart of the Big Apple to the viewer :an urban and graphic city, always in movement. The artist is fascinated by the works of Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Franck Ghery, Richard Meyer and many others. He likes to capture the soul of big cities like Paris, London, Beijing , Brussels, … For this exhibit he focuses his works on New York City. It’s a tribute to [...]

Life of animation director Chuck Jones to be celebrated with The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus

LAS VEGAS, NEV.- For generations of animation fans there is no greater legend than Chuck Jones. The creator of the famed Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros., Tom & Jerry cartoons, the TV version of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas and many other well-known classics, Jones was a pioneer in the art of animation and a fine artist in his own right. His life and legacy will be celebrated on January 19 with the official grand [...]

First major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work opens

LONDON.- On January 21, 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Through a selection of works spanning fifty years, this new body of work will be placed in the context of Hockney’s extended exploration of and fascination with landscape. Highlights will include three groups of [...]

Chris Burden’s new work: art imitating the future

LOS ANGELES (AP).- Chris Burden’s latest kinetic sculpture, “Metropolis II,” does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years. It will be a time, Burden forecasts, when cars will race across Los Angeles’ no-longer-gridlocked freeways and streets, past a skyline of towering buildings and single-family homes, at speeds of 240 miles per hour or more. That’s just what the tiny [...]

Canadian artist Althea Thauberger presents film at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

MONTREAL.- From January 4 to February 19, 2012, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréalis presenting Zivildienst ≠ Kunstprojekt (Social Service ≠ Art Project) by the Canadian artist from Saskatoon Althea Thauberger. Screened as part of the Projections series, this eighteen-minute black-and-white film was produced with the collaboration of eight young Germans who devoted part of their civil service to the artist’s project. Thauberger, based in Vancouver for several years, studied photography at Concordia University (2000) before going on to earn an MFA [...]

Thinking people

British artist Christopher Stone is about to present  his first solo exhibition of 2012. The collection entitled ”Thinking people” is a  series of  ten paintings, all acrylic on canvas, and all 116x89cm Five paintings have been graciously  lent by their owners especially for this exhibition, non of which are for sale. The remaining five are still the property of the artist and will not be shown until later this year. The paintings which compose “Thinking people” are all executed in the same manner using [...]

Will Kurtz’s Extra F***ing Ordinary opens at the Mike Weiss Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents Extra Fucking Ordinary, Will Kurtz’s debut exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of life size figural sculptures constructed of collaged torn sheets of newspaper, wood, wire, screws, tape and everyday objects which depict the characters captured by Kurtz’s iPhone camera lens. Utilizing the observing eye of a curious urban voyeur, Kurtz spends large portions of his days combing the streets of New York for his subjects, which are later transformed into sincere and amusing [...]

Exhibition of new paintings by Denis Patrakeev at Erarta Galleries London

LONDON.- Erarta Galleries London presents an exhibition of new paintings by Denis Patrakeev. One of the youngest rising stars of the Russian art scene, Patrakeev makes bleak, powerfully unsettling work that addresses the operations of memory, and the traumas of identity and belonging within contemporary society. His ‘Game Earth’ series of paintings depict children’s playgrounds: a sort of idealized, isolated model of social interaction, a rehearsal space for future social behavior – yet also an arena, as the artist describes it, “where [...]

Group exhibition featuring seven artists at Milavec Hakimi Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Milavec Hakimi Gallery presents I See the Moon, a group exhibition featuring artists: Katelyn Alain, Dina Brodsky, Sabrina Marques, Scott Kahn, Christopher Saunders, Ryan Scully and Nicolas Touron. These seven artists display the ability to create alluring visual manifestations of their imaginations, causing viewers to suspend disbelief and dive into fantastical realms of fantasy. I See the Moon explores many worlds from post-apocalyptic landscapes to moments pulled from lifelike fairy tales. Regardless of the world you find yourself standing [...]

“Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas” displayed at the Georgia Museum of Art

ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents “Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas”, a decorative arts exhibition featuring furniture made by Athens craftsman Henry Eugene Thomas, from Jan. 14 to April 15, 2012. The exhibition features about 20 pieces of furniture made by Thomas plus related photographs and ephemera and are accompanied by a small book published by the museum. This is the first exhibition to highlight Thomas’ furniture and a career that spanned [...]

“Celebrating Our Legacy: The 20th Anniversary Exhibition of Art in the Atrium” at the Morris Museum

MORRISTOWN, NJ.- In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Art in the Atrium, New Jersey’s premier annual African-American fine art show, partnered with the Morris Museum to present the Celebrating Our Legacy exhibition and opening reception. The exhibition, which features the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Norman Lewis and twenty-nine other African-American artists, will be on view from January 13 through March 18, 2012. The guest curator for the exhibition is Tarin M. Fuller. A lecture series is also scheduled. A catalog for the [...]

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere presents Postcard from… Damien Hirst Nucleohistone

ROME.- Fondazione Pastificio Cerere inaugurated its 2012 program with the second edition of Postcard from…, a project conceived and curated by the Fondazione’s Art Director, Marcello Smarrelli, and aimed at diffusing contemporary art in urban contexts. Produced in collaboration with A.P.A. – Agenzia Pubblicità Affissioni, Postcard from… involves four artists yearly who each create a poster measuring 400×300 cm, dimensions of which reflect those used in billboard advertising. This year’s first poster, Postcard from… Damien Hirst Nucleohistone, was realized by internationally [...]

Louvre exhibition traces the birth of American landscape painting and its influences

PARIS (AP).- American tourists fill the galleries of the Louvre Museum, yet American art is surprisingly scarce. Paris’ premier museum and three U.S. art institutions are seeking to change that with an exhibit tracing the birth of American landscape painting and its influences. “As soon as I arrived at the Louvre, I noticed that American art was not displayed at the level it merits,” said Louvre director Henri Loyrette. Women look at oil paintings of English born American artist Thomas Cole [...]

Dana Schutz’s exhibition of drawings and monotypes uses images and themes from opera

NEW YORK, NY.- Acclaimed artist Dana Schutz opened Götterdämmerung, a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the final opera in Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at theArnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on January 12. Schutz is the fourth and final artist in a series of leading contemporary talents commissioned to create Ring-themed artwork for Gallery Met. Each show coincides with a new production premiere of Robert Lepage’s staging of the Ring cycle; Götterdämmerung, the final opera in the cycle, opens [...]