Unseen Egon Schiele Work to be Unveiled at the New Richard Nagy Gallery in UK

LONDON.- More than forty-five extraordinary works by Austrian artist Egon Schiele, previously unseen in the UK, will be unveiled at Richard Nagy’s new gallery on Old Bond Street from 07 February – 04 March 2011. Much of the four thousand works Schiele produced during his short lifetime can only be seen in Vienna; at the Belvedere, the Albertina and the Leopold Museum, or New York, primarily at the Neue Galerie. While Schiele is recognised as one of the greatest draftsmen of the 20th [...]

Scots Who Shook Up Victorian Art on Show in London at the Royal Academy of Arts

LONDON (REUTERS).- A group of talented and ambitious young artists join forces, determined to stir up the art establishment which they see as sentimental, stodgy and distant from reality. The artists in question are not the French Impressionists, but an iconoclastic group that emerged in the Scottish city of Glasgow in the late 1870s to become the most daring and original painters in Britain at the time. Sir James Guthrie, Hard at It, 1883. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Copyright [...]

Kimbell Art Museum Presents First Major U.S. Exhibition Devoted to Salvator Rosa

FORT WORTH, TX.- Kimbell Art Museum presents the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the work of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), one of the boldest artists and personalities of 17th-century Italy, December 12, 2010 – March 27, 2011. Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic surveys Rosa’s career with 36 of his best paintings, on loan from museums and private collections in Europe and North America. The history of art has known many rebels, but none quite like Salvator Rosa. Fiercely independent [...]

Hamburger Kunsthalle Opens First Major Philipp Otto Runge Retrospective in Thirty Years

HAMBURG.- Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting the first major retrospective exhibition in over thirty years dedicated to Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810). Runge, who grew up in Wolgast, then lived in Copenhagen, Dresden and finally Hamburg, is considered one of the most versatile artists of the nineteenth century. Together with Caspar David Friedrich, he is the leading founder of German Romanticism. The exhibition Runge’s Cosmos pays tribute to this short-lived genius and his innovative artistic [...]

Von Lintel Gallery Present an Exhibition of Paintings by Chinese Artist and Philosopher Zou Cao

NEW YORK , NY.- Von Lintel Gallery present Everlasting Classic, the first United States solo exhibition of paintings by Chinese artist and philosopher Zou Cao. Some say the rising tide of globalization threatens to drown individuality in a sea of sameness. Zou Cao resists this possibility by using his own fingerprint as a motif, asserting his unique identity, and by extension, the importance of all individuals. In past works, Cao used actual fingerprints as a drawing technique to render politically [...]

LACMA Debuts First International Exhibition Focused on Art in India’s Fabled City of Lucknow

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow —the first major international exhibition devoted to the cosmopolitan culture of the northern Indian court of Lucknow, and the refined artistic production of the city’s multiethnic residents and artists. On view from December 12, 2010 through February 27, 2011, the exhibition includes almost 200 artworks: European oil paintings, watercolors, and prints; Indian opaque watercolor paintings generally made for albums, vintage photography, [...]

Paul Kasmin Gallery Opens New Space in Istanbul with Exhibition by David La Chapelle

ISTANBUL.- One of New York’s leading art galleries, “Paul Kasmin Gallery is now in Istanbul after New York. David LaChapelle will be hosted as the first guest with an exhibition as assertive as the gallery itself. “Documents of Desire & Disaster” exhibition can be seen between 10th December 2010 – 29th January 2011 at Paul Kasmin Gallery -Akaretler Sıraevler, consisting the selected frames of LaChapelle, who is well-known for the photography works he does with the world’s most famous names.” [...]

18 Cross-Generational Artists will Be Featured in MoMA PS 1′s Presentation of The Talent Show

NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA PS1 presents The Talent Show, featuring works by 18 artists in the First Floor Main Galleries beginning on December 12, 2010. The exhibition is curated by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey. In recent years, television’s reality shows and talent competitions have offered participants a chance at fame, while various kinds of Web-based social media have pioneered new forms of communication that increasingly allow us to present our private lives as public theater. During the same period, [...]

Museum für Moderne Kunst Presents New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages

FRANKFURT-RHIEN-MAIN.- Frankfurt-Rhein-Main is home to many artists, and as a region with a wealth of museums, exhibition spaces, and art sponsors, not to mention the renowned Staedelschule, it is a place of importance in the international art scene. “New Frankfurt Internationals”—a project comprising an exhibition, a performance series, and artistic interventions in the Rhein-Main edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung—seeks to recognize the artistic potential of the region and focuses on works by artists who live in Frankfurt and surrounding [...]

First Solo Show in South America of Works by Georg Baselitz Opens in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO.- The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is presenting the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Pinturas Recentes [Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings]. The first solo show of the artist’s works in South America, it features a set of 30 paintings produced over the last 12 years – a period in which the artist has revisited and given a new face to the human types he made in the 1970s and ’80s, which constitute the central theme of his oeuvre. Accompanying and [...]

Columbia Museum of Art Announces Exhibition of Collection of Hudson River School

COLUMBIA, SC.- Forty-five magnificent paintings from the rich collection of the New-York Historical Society will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art next fall, beginning November 17, 2011, in a major traveling exhibition Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters. Though individual works are very seldom loaned, these iconic works of 19th-century landscape painting are traveling on a national tour for the first time and are circulating to four museums around the [...]

Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie Displays Eighteen Works Returned in the Past Ten Years

BERLIN (AP).- A painting of the Florence skyline that hung in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin apartment throughout World War II and was missing for decades went on show Thursday in an exhibition of works returned to the collection of a major German museum. The exhibition centers on 18 works returned to the Alte Nationalgalerie over the past decade, more than half a century since they were removed from its premises. It also uses official shipment and loan lists, photographs and other [...]

A Significant Exhibition of Gustave Moreau Opens at the National Gallery of Victoria

MELBOURNE.- Be seduced by femmes fatales, goddesses and temptresses of history and legend at the NGV this summer in Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine, the first significant exhibition of Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) to be seen in Australia. From 10 December, the superb craftsmanship of Gustave Moreau will be celebrated with over 100 paintings, watercolours and drawings from the unique and acclaimed Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV said this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Australians to [...]

Scream Gallery Presents a Christmas Exhibition with a Seasonal Sprinkling of Diamond Dust

LONDON.- The Scream Gallery presents a Christmas exhibition with a seasonal sprinkling of diamond dust featuring; Peter Blake, Gavin Turk, James Unsworth, Andy Warhol and Russell Young. ‘Diamonds are Forever’ features some of the most memorable images and iconic figures of recent history, captured Ad Infinitum as silkscreen prints. The exhibition features the Love series produced by The Godfather of British Pop Art, Peter Blake, who shot to fame in the 1960’s as a figurehead of Pop Art in the [...]

Exhibition of Works by Painter Amedeo Modigliani Opens at the Municipal House in Prague

PRAGUE.- The Municipal House opens a unique exhibition of the works of the world-renowned early 20th-century Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), which will run from December 9 to February 28, 2011 at the elegant venue of the Municipal House in Prague. The organisers chose the artist’s own magically sounding name as the exhibition’s title. The exhibition aims to acquaint the public not just with Modigliani’s work, but also with the man himself and his life. To complement the [...]