Getty Museum initiative to examine Los Angeles’ modern architectural heritage from April through July 2013

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty announced Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., a collaborative celebration of one of Southern California’s most lasting contributions to post-World War II cultural life: modern architecture. Designed to continue the momentum of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980, last year’s sweeping initiative that included exhibitions and programs at 60 arts institutions across Southern California, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., will be smaller in scope, comprising eleven exhibitions and accompanying programs and [...]

Large-scale sculpture comprised of 2000 white polygonal shaped rods on view at LACMA

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Walter De Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture, a large-scale horizontal sculpture comprised of 2000 white polygonal shaped rods arranged in a herringbone patterned grid on the floor according to a meticulous logic. A pioneering figure in the development of minimal, conceptual, land art, and installation art, De Maria has made minimalist horizontal sculptures that occupy entire rooms since 1969. Measuring 10 x 50 meters (approximately 33 x 164 feet), The 2000 Sculpture [...]

Second annual Palm Springs Fine Art Fair unites 50 plus galleries and art enthusiasts

PALM SPRINGS, CA.- The Hamptons Expo Group announces the return of the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, February 15-17, 2013, at the Palm Springs Convention Center. An encore to its extremely successful first year event, the fair features more than fifty top international art galleries exhibiting and selling more than 2,000 carefully-culled works of post-war and contemporary art. With a St. Valentine’s Opening Preview Party to benefit the Palm Springs Art Museum from 6 – 9 pm on February 14, 2013, and [...]

Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong announces an exhibition of paintings by Bernard Frize

HONG KONG.- With a career which spans more than 40 years, Bernard Frize is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential painters of his time. The breadth of the formal and conceptual vocabulary he has developed, encompassing elements of process, of seriality, of colour and of the passage of time has made the influence of his work on painters of his own and later generations unsurpassed. Frize’s abstract compositions are the systematic products of carefully constructed sets of [...]

National Museum for Women in the Arts presents Fabulous! Portraits by Michele Mattei

WASHINGTON (AP).- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Fabulous! Portraits by Michele Mattei, a selection of photographs from her portrait project featuring women artists and philanthropists who have shaped contemporary culture. Among those photographed are Louise Bourgeois, Faith Ringgold, Sonia Rykiel, Betye Saar and June Wayne. The exhibition is on view through January 13, 2013. Born in France in 1952, Michele Mattei’s career began in journalism then evolved into photojournalism and later into fine arts photography. Since the beginning [...]

Museum of Arts and Design presents first museum exhibition exploring the design of perfume

NEW YORK, NY.- The Art of Scent 1889-2012 is the first museum exhibition dedicated to exploring the design and aesthetics of olfactory art through twelve pivotal fragrances, dating from 1889 to the present, which profoundly impacted the course of the medium. On view November 20, 2012, through February 24, 2013, at the Museum of Arts and Design, the exhibition examines major stylistic developments in the evolution and design of fragrance, and provides unprecedented insight into the creative visions and intricate processes of [...]

Artistic positions from five decades of photogaphy on view at Fotomuseum Winterthur

ZURICH.- Growing up is a time of self-searching. Who am I and who do I want to be? It is a time of trying to ground oneself in the world and build a relationship with one’s own persona. Each individual must perso­nally undergo the experience of transition from a protected childhood into a social system of relation­ships and responsibility, finding one’s role in group dynamics, identifying, and testing possibilities and boundaries. Artistic photography has repeatedly examined this phase of life, from [...]

Exhibition focuses on the self-portrait as a genre throughout the 20th and into the 21st century

HUMLEBAEK.- Louisiana Museum’s exhibition Self-Portrait turns the focus on the self-portrait as a genre throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, as shown by 150 works by a wide variety of international artists from early modernism until today. How does one represent oneself? And what are the connections between self-portraiture and self-representation? Can a self-portrait be an objective, neutral representation, or should it depict the complex mind, personality and life-conditions of the artist? Can a self-portrait at all portray a [...]

Praying Hitler by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan in ex-Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion

WARSAW (AP).- A statue of Adolf Hitler praying on his knees is on display in the former Warsaw Ghetto, the place where so many Jews were killed or sent to their deaths by Hitler’s regime, and it is provoking mixed reactions. The work, “HIM” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, has drawn many visitors since it was installed last month. It is visible only from a distance, and the artist doesn’t make explicit what Hitler is praying for, but the broader point, [...]

Art Rotterdam announces gallery selection 2013, all Dutch top galleries are present

ROTTERDAM.- The Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam is, from Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 February 2013, the stage of the art scene, worldwide. Over the past years Art Rotterdam, founded in 2000, has developed into an internationally renowned platform for contemporary art. The fair, that will present more than ninety well-known as well as upcoming galleries from home and abroad, shows the latest developments within contemporary art. This edition Art Rotterdam expands with a fair for video art and film: Art Rotterdam Projections. In [...]

Pakistan’s Rohtas Gallery for 30 years has defied dictatorships and fundamentalists

ISLAMABAD (AFP).- It may not seem the most obvious setting, but a squat building overlooking a slum is home to one of Pakistan’s leading galleries, which for 30 years has defied dictatorships and fundamentalists to champion cutting-edge art. Rohtas Gallery was founded in 1981, at the height of military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq’s martial law, as Pakistan was undergoing a programme of Islamisation that imposed Draconian restrictions on culture and entertainment. With all but the most insipid forms of visual art officially [...]

Hundreds of interactive paper boats by Aether & Hemera sail into Canary Wharf

LONDON.- A flotilla of 300 illuminated floating ‘paper boats’, will sail into Canary Wharf’s Middle Dock. Commissioned for Canary Wharf Group’s award-winning public art programme, the beautiful boats will be lit from within by ever-changing patterns of different colours, altered from the mobile phones of passers-by. The art installation, entitled Voyage, is a new work by Aether & Hemera: an artistic partnership between architect Claudio Benghi and lighting artist Gloria Ronchi and form a spectacular light show in the middle of [...]

National Gallery announces first major monographic exhibition, dedicated to the art of Federico Barocci

LONDON.- This Spring, the National Gallery presents the first major monographic exhibition, dedicated to the art of Federico Barocci (1535-1612). The display assembles the majority of Barocci’s greatest altarpieces and paintings, together with sequences of dazzling preparatory drawings, allowing visitors to understand how each picture evolved. ‘Barocci: Brilliance and Grace’ showcases the remarkable fertility of Barocci’s imagination and the diversity of his working methods. Highly revered by his patrons during his lifetime, Barocci combined the beauty of the High Renaissance with the dynamism [...]

Art13 London announces focus on Contemporary photography, prints and editions

LONDON.- Art13 London, sponsored by Citi Private Bank, is delighted to announce details of the Fair’s focus on contemporary photography from around the world, and commitment to showcasing Prints and Editions. The Positive View Foundation, Art13 London’s philanthropic partner will showcase selected works from their highly acclaimed ‘Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour’ exhibition. A number of leading galleries from across the globe will bring photography to Art13 London, showcasing a variety of contemporary work from international artists. Galleries presenting photography [...]

Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum among the many highlights of TEFAF Maastricht

HELVOIRT.- Rarely seen masterpieces from the collection of drawings at the Van Gogh Museum are to be loaned to TEFAF Maastricht for a special exhibition when the Fair that defines excellence in art opens at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 15 to 24 March 2013. The 15 drawings loaned by the Amsterdam museum have been specially chosen to illustrate Vincent van Gogh’s development as an artist. The European Fine Art Fair, the world’s [...]