Exhibition of nearly 30 years of work by Kenneth Noland opens at Pace Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of nearly 30 years of work by Kenneth Noland (b. 1924, Asheville, North Carolina– d. 2010, Port Clyde, Maine) on view from March 21 through April 19, 2014 at 32 East 57th Street, New York. A fully illustrated catalogue with a new essay by William Agee, Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History at Hunter College, has been published on the occasion of this exhibition. As William Agee writes, “By 1960, Ken Noland [...]

Brooklyn-born artist Joyce Pensato opens debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Joyce Pensato paints exuberant, explosive likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. For her debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery, she will be showing new paintings featuring Batman, Donald Duck and various characters from The Simpsons. Included among them is a darkened visage of Homer Simpson crossed with Groucho Marx and Marge from Hell, Pensato’s giant pastel and charcoal drawing. The artist hasl been present for the month prior to opening, painting a large-scale mural on to the gallery’s back wall, a [...]

Galería OMR in Mexico City presents two iconic works by American artist James Turrell

MEXICO CITY.- James Turrell is one the most important artists of the International art scene. For the past 40 years he has devoted his work to experimenting with natural and artificial light, pushing the limits of perception: his installations and environments make it possible to experience light itself as an artistic medium. When Turrell devised his first light works in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he broke new ground by introducing a practice, which had a decisive influence on his [...]

Marty de Cambiaire exhibits forty Neapolitan works on paper from 1550 to 1800

PARIS.- Marty de Cambiaire’s seventh show takes place in their offices, located on 16 place Vendôme, from 25 March to 4 April 2014. It focuses on a group of forty Neapolitan and Sicilian drawings dating from the 16th to the 18th century. A bilingual exhibition catalogue has been published, similar to their previous catalogues (which can be downloaded from their website: www.martydecambiaire.com). Given the scarcity of the literature on the subject, this publication provides fresh scholarship on a field still relatively unknown [...]

Contemporary artist Graham Fagen selected to represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale

EDINBURGH.- The Scotland + Venice partnership announced that Graham Fagen has been selected to represent Scotland at the 56th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale, running from 9 May to 22 November 2015, in a solo presentation commissioned and curated by Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath. Graham Fagen is one of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists. His work mixes media and crosses continents; combining video, performance, photography, and sculpture with text, live music and even, plants. His recurring artistic themes, which include flowers, [...]

The renowned UBS Art Collection on view at Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan

MILAN.- UBS presents the first exhibition in Italy featuring works from the renowned UBS Art Collection, one of the world’s largest and most respected corporate contemporary art collections. The works are on view from Friday, March 21 to Sunday, June 21, 2014 in the splendid exhibition space on the first floor of the GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan. The exhibition is the start of a partnership between UBS and GAM that, through various events, will develop and promote one of Milan’s [...]

Celebrate spring at the New-York Historical Society with Audubon’s iconic original watercolors of birds

NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New-York Historical Society continues its acclaimed series of exhibitions celebrating John James Audubon’s legendary original watercolors. Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown (Part II of The Complete Flock) offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the evolution of Audubon’s watercolors in the order in which they were engraved. The second in a series of three exhibitions, New-York Historical showcases these masterpieces from its collection of Audubon’s watercolor models for the sumptuous double-elephant-folio print edition of The Birds of America (1827–38). [...]

National Portrait Gallery and BBC unveil first joint painted portrait commission

LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery and the BBC today unveiled their first joint painted portrait commission – of Falklands War veteran Simon Weston by artist Nicky Philipps. Weston was voted last September by viewers of BBC One’s The One Show as the public figure who most deserved to have his picture displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. The finished portrait goes on display at the gallery for the first time today Thursday 20 March and to coincide with the launch of the [...]

Decay and Revolution: Art in Vienna, 1890-1910 arrives at Museo de Arte de Ponce

PONCE, PR.- Around 40 pieces from the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, are being featured in an exhibition that brings to Puerto Rico for the first time the work of internationally renowned Austrian artists, including Gustav Klimt. The exhibition opened in Ponce on March 20, 2014, and will last only four months, closing on July 28th. Decay and Revolution: Art in Vienna, 1890-1910 (Decadencia y revolución: Arte en Viena, 1890-1910) is an overview of a [...]

Museum displays 41 works of newly acquired art featuring Keith Haring and Rafael Soriano

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art debuted 41 newly acquired art works in its latest exhibition entitled Enriching and Engaging – Selected Recent Acquisitions. The exhibition runs from March 7, 2014 – June 15, 2014. Among the artists featured in the exhibition are Keith Haring, Claire Falkenstein, and Rafael Soriano, the renowned Cuban artist whose work Añoranza Idealizada is being displayed for the first time. In addition, the Museum is the first institution in California to have a Soriano [...]

“Between the Lines: Reading Chen Linggang and Liang Weiyuan” on view at Art+ Shanghai Gallery

SHANGHAI.- Like Buddhist pilgrims who trek across vast terrain in search of enlightenment, artists Chen Linggang and Liang Weiyuan find meaningful insight through process. Between the Lines: Reading Chen Linggang and Liang Weiyuan presents contemporary works on canvas that express creation and contemplation, transcending legibility to fuel interpretation and introspection. The works contain an innate sense of inquisitive calm, marking traces of the artists’ hands and minds while inspiring viewers to participate in the reading process. To see thought is to [...]

BGL to represent Canada at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

OTTAWA.- The artists’ collective BGL, composed of Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière, will represent Canada at the prestigious 56th International Art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in Italy in 2015. The selection was announced by the National Gallery of Canadaon behalf of a jury of leading experts in contemporary Canadian art. The Venice Biennale is among the most prestigious contemporary art events in the world, and the only international visual arts exhibition to which Canada sends official representation. The Québécois [...]

Sotheby’s S/2 exhibition brings together some of Europe’s most intriguing contemporary painters

LONDON.- Sotheby’s S|2 will present This Side of Paradise curated by Jane Neal, a leading expert on the contemporary art scene in Central and Eastern Europe and a celebrated curator. Featuring some of the most important contemporary painters working in the figurative tradition, This Side of Paradise offers a privileged view of artists who rather than follow the trajectory set by American Abstraction and Pop Art that dominated the latter half of the twentieth century, have instead committed to figurative painting. Tilo [...]

“Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon: It Only Happens All of the Time” opens at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Los Angeles-based artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon works in sound, installation and sculpture. Gordon investigates sonic and architectural applications of cybernetic systems in the 20th and 21st centuries to technological design, from anechoic chambers to the military’s use of Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) speakers. Reverse engineering those implements of social control, often through the use of audio and spatial feedback systems that manipulate the visitor’s senses; the dissonant spaces she creates uncover how such systems regulate human subjectivity, [...]

Garden Party: Chagall, Hockney, Mapplethorpe, O’Keeffe, and more at the Nassau County Museum of Art

ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- The first garden was Eden —a setting of flowers and plants for the creation of our world and mankind. Ever since, we have cultivated gardens simply for their beauty or for the sustenance they provide as food. Flowers have served as inspiration for painters and poets from time immemorial. From the mundane to the exquisite, flowers enhance every facet of our lives. Their physical expression may be found in gardens and outdoor parties of every kind, from the [...]