First major solo exhibition of Brian McCutcheon’s work opens at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art will presents the first major solo museum exhibition of the work of Brian McCutcheon. Comprised entirely of new works commissioned by the IMA, Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World will be on display in the McCormack Forefront Galleries from September 9, 2011, to March 11, 2012. An Indianapolis-based conceptual artist, McCutcheon uses video, photography, and sculpture to explore the relationships between play and masculinity. After realizing that his son is currently the same age that he [...]

Previously unseen drawings and sketches by Nigel Hall at the Royal Academy of Arts

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts Artists’ Laboratory 03 features previously unseen drawings and sketches by Nigel Hall RA. Hall is best known for his pure geometric abstract sculptures and drawings, which show a preoccupation with space and volume. This exhibition will contain over one hundred works and will reveal a less familiar side of his work and practice. The display showcases a selection of landscape sketches, inspired by his global travels including works drawn in Australia, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the USA. [...]

New York State Museum opens “New York Remembers” exhibition

ALBANY, N.Y.- The New York State Museum commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center (WTC) attack with a new multi-faceted exhibition and new additions to Museum galleries that present the many ways this monumental event has been documented and depicted a decade later. The Museum is one of 30 sites statewide that are opening “New York Remembers” exhibitions to recognize the anniversary. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the exhibitions as part of a statewide effort to “remember the day the world [...]

The Morgan Library & Museum presents seventeen master drawings by Ingres

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) is among an elite group of nineteenth-century French masters whose style is almost instantly recognizable. Arguably the greatest portraitist of his time, Ingres was a brilliant draftsman, and his drawings have long been prized along with his paintings. The Morgan Library & Museum presents sixteen superb drawings and three letters by Ingres from its collection, together with one exceptional loan, in a focused exhibition in the Clare Eddy Thaw Gallery. Running through November 27 the show spans [...]

Major exhibition poses tough questions and reasserts Fluxus attitude

NEW YORK, NY.- On view through December 3, 2011, at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life features over 100 works dating primarily from the 1960s and ’70s by artists such as George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and La Monte Young. Curated by art historian Jacquelynn Baas and organized by Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, the exhibition draws heavily on the Hood’s George [...]

Major Southern Commissions of the 1930s-1940s at D. Wigmore Fine Art in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. presents Major Southern Commission of the 1930s-1940s, on view through October 28th, 2011. Over 40 oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings show the range of commission work in the 1930s-1940s, including corporate projects, illustrations for famous literature, and studies for post office murals. The exhibition includes many works on paper from George Biddle’s 1930 visit to Charleston. Biddle (1885-1973) used these works as the basis for his illustrations for the original libretto for George Gershwin’s [...]

Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition announced at the British Museum

LONDON.- During the summer of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the British Museum will present a major exhibition on the world and works of William Shakespeare, supported by BP. Shakespeare: staging the world will be part of the World Shakespeare Festival in the London 2012 Festival. The exhibition will provide a unique insight into the emerging role of London as a world city interpreted through the innovative perspective of Shakespeare’s plays, and will be brought to life through objects, digital media [...]

Recent oil paintings by John Beerman on display at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Tibor De Nagy Gallery presents an exhibition of recent oil paintings by John Beerman. The exhibition marks the artist’s fourth with the gallery. Best known for his luminous depictions of the Hudson River Valley, the exhibition focuses on these works as well as landscapes and scenes from the artist’s native North Carolina, to where he has returned after decades living in New York. Beerman’s poetic sensibility can be felt in his treatment of his natural surroundings, whether in the [...]

Bob Dylan’s “Asia Series” art exhibition coming to New York City’s Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK (AP).- A New York City gallery will be exhibiting 18 drawings and paintings by Bob Dylan created while the musician was touring Asia. The Gagosian Gallery says Dylan’s Asia Series will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 22. The gallery says it will be the singer-songwriter’s first exhibition in New York. File photo of Bob Dylan’s works ‘Staircase’, pictured in the window of the Halcyon Gallery at Bob Dylan On Canvas exhibit at the Halcyon Gallery in London. EPA/ANDY [...]

Exhibition at DC Moore Gallery of new paintings by Eric Aho explore the idea of the covert

NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Aho’s new paintings explore the idea of the covert, a shelter or place of escape within the woods. More broadly, these paintings are also about getting lost and taking refuge in experiences such as the enjoyment of the wilderness, the act of painting, or the contemplation of art. Aho maintains a constant dialogue with the history of art in his paintings. The Goya drawing Two Figures Pointing towards a Bright Opening (Prado Museum) served as a catalyst [...]

Tate Modern to power ahead with art in oil tanks

LONDON (REUTERS).- Derelict oil tanks and forgotten industrial spaces hidden in the bowels of the Tate Modern art museum in London will open to the public in summer 2012, providing a new area to “revolutionise” the museum’s work, directors said on Thursday. The opening of the enormous and atmospheric oil tanks in the former power station on the banks of the Thames will provide flexible, subterranean “lunar” spaces and form the foundation for a further expansion of the world’s most visited modern art [...]

Jane Hammond combines painting and photography for new exhibition at Galerie Lelong

NEW YORK, NY.- To inaugurate Galerie Lelong’s fall season, multidisciplinary artist Jane Hammond presents her latest body of work, the “dazzle paintings-”—a stunning combination of painting and photography in which the artist infuses the still image with a sense of flow, interactivity, and mutability. Paired with the dazzle paintings there is also a new collection of the artist’s silver gelatin prints. Light Now: Dazzle Paintings and Photographs opened to the public on Thursday, September 8. For many years, Hammond has incorporated a [...]

ABC Art Berlin Contemporary “About Painting” exhibition features some 130 artists

BERLIN.- This year’s edition of abc art berlin contemporary is themed about painting and takes place in Berlin from September 7th to the 11th. The show features some 130 artists represented by 125 international galleries. Conceived as a showcase of contemporary painting, the exhibition also features installations, works on paper, video, photography and sculpture which deal thematically with painting as a medium. Alongside with prominent contemporary paintings and works by international artists dealing with the medium, abc also presents an historical timeline of [...]

American colorist Ronnie Landfield’s Structure and Color opens at Stephen Haller Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Ronnie Landfield: Structure and Color an exhibition of paintings by the renowned American colorist whose work is included in more than 40 museums and public collections at the Stephen Haller Gallery. Sept 8th through Oct 15th. During the nearly five decades of his career Ronnie Landfield has stayed true to his course as a painter of soaring veils of color. Louis Zona, Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, wrote: “To stand in front of a Landfield painting [...]

Museum of Desires: MUMOK exhibition places the collection’s potential in a new light

WIEN.- From classical modernism to contemporary art the exhibition combines chronological order and the confrontation of works from different generations of artists that exhibit correspondences in their subject matter. This makes art history since the beginning of modernism visible as a living dialogue between the past and the present. The focus is on art works that led to decisive changes and developments in both classical modernism and in the 1960s and 1970s. This is fundamental to an understanding of contemporary art [...]