Stephen Howes fine art, Marbella, Spain

According to fine art agent Stephen Howe’s the Costa del Sol’s art economy is booming, and he should know as he is the founder/owner of Stephen Howe’s fine art based in Malaga southern Spain, who continues to enjoy in excess of 150.000 hits on his art website, which presents work from his stable of very talented artists, of whom many live and work in Andalucia. At eighteen Stephen pioneered a transport business in Birmingham UK, and continued until he had had enough, he then sold out and moved to the Costa del Sol, living [...]

“Sam Havadtoy: Beauty is Mystery”, New Exhibition Opens at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

TEL AVIV.- Sam Havadtoy was born in London in 1952 and raised in Hungary. After travels in Europe he arrived in New York in 1972, where he worked as an interior designer; among others, he designed homes for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It was the beginning of a relationship that lasted over 20 years, first as the couple’s friend and later, from 1981, after Lennon’s murder, as Yoko Ono’s companion. In recent years, Havadtoy has been living and working in [...]

Buddhism’s Influence on Contemporary Artists Explored by the Rubin Museum of Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art presents works by five artists of different generations and ethnicities, working between 1960 and the present, whose oeuvres have been influenced by the tenets of Buddhism, including its central principles of emptiness and the fleeting nature of all things.  Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art assembles videos, paintings, photographs, and installations dating from 1961 to 2008 by Sanford Biggers (b. U.S., 1970); Theaster Gates (b. U.S.,1973); Atta Kim (b. Korea, 1956); Wolfgang Laib (b. [...]

Kim Dorland Pushes the Limits of Painting in His New Exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Mike Weiss Gallery presents New Material, Kim Dorland’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Consisting of paintings, watercolors, assemblage on paper and taxidermy animals, New Material pushes the limits of painting to visually narrate Dorland’s experience growing up in rural Canada. In his most ambitious work to date, Dorland continues his emphatic exploration of materiality through thick layering of paint, wood, feathers, fur and glitter.  Installation view at Mike Weiss Gallery. Photo Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery The Shack, among [...]

Six Rising Artists in Six Resonant Multimedia Projects, on View Inside and Out at the Wexner

COLUMBUS, OH.- Six Solos, featuring six independent exhibitions of the work of six rising international artists, will be on view inside and outside the Wexner Center November 9, 2010–February 13, 2011. The artists—working in a wide range of media, among them LED lights, stainless steel, flagging tape, plywood, paint, video, film, and fiberglass—are Erwin Redl , Megan Geckler, Tobias Putrih/MOS, Gustavo Godoy, Katy Moran, and Joel Morrison. The work of each artist will occupy its own space. Organized by the Wexner Center, Six [...]

Martin-Gropius-Bau Shows the Work of One of the Most Important Exponents of Modernism

BERLIN.- Laszlo‚ Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is one of the most important exponents of Modernism. Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bauhas mounted an exhibition of his art as represented by over 200 works: paintings, photographs (black-and-white and colour), photograms, collages, films and graphics. The show will focus on the years in which Moholy-Nagy was developing his theory of art as an art of light. This covers the period from 1922 to the end of his life and beyond, in view of the influence he exerted after his death.  [...]

New Sparsely-Colored, Figurative Paintings by Belgian Artist Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Luc Tuymans, on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street space.  Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become third-degree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly [...]

Large-Scale Recreation of William N. Copley’s 1974 Exhibition, X-RATED, at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.-Paul Kasmin Gallery presents William N. Copley X-RATED, a large-scale recreation of the artist’s 1974 exhibition in the former Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Highly original, libidinous, and unapologeticly joyful, the paintings were unlike anything being made at that time. This body of work, painted between 1972 and 1974, represents a pivotal leap in the artist’s style and is rich with irreverent yet ambitious compositions, unbridled combinations of highly-keyed colors, and generous doses of off-beat humor.  William N. [...]

Wit’s End, an Exhibition of New Work by Matthew Brannon at David Kordansky Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery presents Wit’s End, an exhibition of new work by Matthew Brannon. The exhibition opened on October 30th and will run through December 4th. Wit’s End represents a radical complication and amplification of themes present in Brannon’s practice to date. These include the subversion of language, notions of fiction and autobiography, and a conceptual re-imagination of artistic practice in the context of visual culture, commerce, and repressed desire.  In Wit’s End, Brannon puts the gallery to use [...]

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance at the Guggenheim in Bilbao

BILBAO.- From November 6, 2010, until March 13, 2011, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/ Performance, an exhibition featuring over one hundred works by sixty different artists who examine myriad ways in which photographic imagery is incorporated into recent art, with the aim of underscoring the unique power of recording technologies and documenting a widespread contemporary obsession with accessing the past, both collective and individual. The exhibition was on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in [...]

DC Moore Gallery to Represent Mark Innerst and Opens First Exhibition with the Artist

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces that it is beginning its representation of Mark Innerst with an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper inspired by New York City, Philadelphia, and the beaches of Cape May, New Jersey. A full-color catalog with an essay by Michael Duncan is available. Innerst transforms the urban landscape, investing it with a deeply resonant beauty and complexity. New York and Philadelphia appear alternately majestic, immense, and serene, as endless stretches of buildings [...]

Striking Show of 42 Works by Damien Hirst as Print Maker Opens at the Bowes Museum

DURHAM.- Following a £12m refurbishment, The Bowes Museum brings a global name to the Barnard Castle treasure house this autumn with the opening of Damien Hirst: Print Maker. This world class exhibition, curated by former Turner Prize judge Greville Worthington, will explore this foremost contemporary artist through his renowned print works. The striking show of 42 works, many unseen by the public, has been loaned by several northern collectors and is one not to miss. With the support of these [...]

New Works by Artist Raymond Pettibon on Display in “Hard in the Paint” at David Zwirner

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new works by Raymond Pettibon, on display at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street space. Raymond Pettibon’s work embraces a wide spectrum of American “high” and “low” culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality. Taking their points of departure in the Southern California punk-rock culture of the late 1970s and 1980s and the “do-it-yourself” aesthetic of album-covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines [...]

Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels by Kim MacConnel at Quint Contemporary

LA JOLLA, CA.- Quint Contemporary Art presents Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels, an exhibition to run in conjunction with MacConnel’s retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla. The retrospective, Collection Applied Design: A Kim MacConnel Retrospective, is the first for the artist in San Diego. This is Kim’s eighth exhibition at Quint Contemporary Art. Installation view of Kim MacConnel – Abracadabra: New Abstract Enamels on view at Quint Contemporary Art thru February 5th, 2011. Photo courtesy Quint [...]

First Solo Gallery Exhibition at Luhring Augustine of New Work by Artist Elad Lassry

NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine presents its first solo exhibition of new work by Elad Lassry. This exhibition features photographs as well as unique works, and also debuts a 35mm film. Throughout his oeuvre, Lassry is persistent in his exploration of the status of the picture in the 21st century. His visually complex pictures are at once present and elusive, familiar and alien. Lassry investigates the opposing pictorial realms of the analog and the digital to create a tension that [...]