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Exhibition of 27 American artists opens at Marlborough Gallery in Madrid Exhibition of 27 American artists opens at Marlborough Gallery in Madrid

October 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


MADRID.- The Galeria Marlborough Madrid announced an exhibition of 27 American artists working in painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media, titled EAGLES. This exhibition has been curated by Marlborough Chelsea, New York. Comprising both established and emerging artists, EAGLES is a cross-section of dynamic and impactful work that is garnering both critical attention and broad popular appeal in the U.S. There is something distinctly American about the works included, which unifies these selections in unexpected ways and curious configurations. The scale and... [Full Article]

Boca Museum first to host innovative “The Art of Video Games” exhibition from the Smithsonian Boca Museum first to host innovative “The Art of Video Games” exhibition from the Smithsonian

October 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Multimedia Art


BOCA RATON, FL.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art is the first museum in the nation to host the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition, The Art of Video Games, following its enormously successful presentation in Washington, D.C. Running from October 24, 2012 through January 13, 2013, the Boca Raton exhibition explores the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, focusing on striking graphics, creative storytelling, and player interactivity. During its stay in South Florida, the Boca Raton Museum of Art offers a variety of associated... [Full Article]

Annie Leibovitz photography exhibition features Gettysburg and other historic American sites Annie Leibovitz photography exhibition features Gettysburg and other historic American sites

October 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Photography


GETTYSBURG, PA.- A selection of photographs from renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage project featuring images of significant historic American sites are on display through January 20, 2013 at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. The exhibition features more than 70 photographs, includes 2 images from Gettysburg. “From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, this project was an exercise in renewal,” said Leibovitz. “It taught me to see again.” The pictures, although there... [Full Article]

The IVAM and the Fine Arts Museum of San Pio V presents a double exhibition of Ignacio Pinazo The IVAM and the Fine Arts Museum of San Pio V presents a double exhibition of Ignacio Pinazo

October 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


VALENCIA.- A series of monographic exhibitions dedicated to Valencian painter Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench have taken place throughout these past few years with the aim of studying and spreading the important and huge work of who was once, during his time, one of the most solid pillars of Spanish modern painting, so, besides the greater or lesser impact of his teaching, he can not be evaluated from a merely local framework, although he was an artist who mainly found inspiration in the sphere and environment of his home town. The current exhibition held at the IVAM and... [Full Article]

Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest

October 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


BUDAPEST.- The large-scale show titled Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity which recently opened at the Museum of Fine Arts seeks to display a novel perspective of Cézanne’s modern oeuvre that has thus far not been presented at any single exhibition. The aim of the exhibition, displaying almost 100 works by the French Post-impressionist artist is to provide an insight into the painter’s links to the old masters interconnected with the role he played in the revival of the classical fine arts. To facilitate this some 40 works are included by artists... [Full Article]

Photography by Peter Coulson Photography by Peter Coulson

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Reviews, Featured


Peter Coulson is an Australian photographer particularly strong in fashion and advertising. Recently he win the 2010 Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year and for that he talked about himself. “Winning the 2010 Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year award, as well as the Commercial category, was massive for me and entirely unexpected. To me, winning this award is equivalent to winning a gold Logie; it is the best award I could win in Australia and without a doubt a career highlight. To be judged by photographers I admire... [Full Article]

The Andy Warhol Museum opens mid-career retrospective of the work by Deborah Kass The Andy Warhol Museum opens mid-career retrospective of the work by Deborah Kass

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a major mid-career retrospective of paintings, photographs and sculpture by New York artist Deborah Kass. The exhibition, featuring approximately 75 works, showcases Kass’ achievements over the course of her three-decade career. After a successful decade of showing landscapes and abstract paintings during the 1980s, Kass startled the art world by appropriating the work of Andy Warhol. Beginning in 1992, Kass presented this grouping of Warhol’s well-known celebrity paintings... [Full Article]

First U.S. museum solo project of Scottish artist Karla Black opens at the Dallas Museum of Art First U.S. museum solo project of Scottish artist Karla Black opens at the Dallas Museum of Art

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


DALLAS, TX.- Scottish artist Karla Black created two sculptures specifically for the Dallas Museum of Art to exhibit in her first solo project at a U.S. museum. Karla Black: Concentrations 55, on view from October 19, 2012, through March 17, 2013, is part of the Concentrations series of project-based solo exhibitions by international emerging artists. The series began in 1981 as part of the DMA’s commitment to the work of living artists, with the goal of making the work of contemporary artists accessible to DMA audiences while preserving the excitement of the work. “We... [Full Article]

Exhibition at Museo Fondazione Roma covers Emperor of India Akbar’s entire reign Exhibition at Museo Fondazione Roma covers Emperor of India Akbar’s entire reign

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Antiques & Archaeology


ROME.- The Fondazione Roma presents to the public an exhibition devoted to the Emperor of India, Akbar (Umarkot, 1542 – Agra, 1605) one of the greatest sovereigns in history. This exhibition has never been held before in Italy and, due to the number of works and historical completeness, is unique in the world since it covers the Emperorʼs entire reign. The last exhibition on this theme was held in New York by the Asia Society in 1984-86, showing around eighty works relating to 1571-1585. The Exhibition entitled Akbar. The Great Emperor of India has been promoted... [Full Article]

Legendary set of Gothic Pastrana tapestries on view at Peabody Essex Museum Legendary set of Gothic Pastrana tapestries on view at Peabody Essex Museum

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Artifacts & Decorative Arts


SALEM, MASS.- Monumental in scale and meticulous in construction, the Pastrana Tapestries are among the finest surviving Gothic textiles in existence. Each measuring nearly 36-feet-long, these renowned Belgian tapestries are on view at the Peabody Essex Museum as part of a rare North American exhibition tour. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries unfurls a vibrant tableau of Portugal’s 15th-century military victories woven in glorious hues... [Full Article]

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei goes ‘Gangnam Style’ with handcuffs in new video Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei goes ‘Gangnam Style’ with handcuffs in new video

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Arts Policy


BEIJING (AP).- Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is the latest to go “Gangnam Style” — but in a trademark act of irreverence, he’s thrown in a pair of handcuffs and a poke at Chinese censors. In a video posted on YouTube, Ai sports a neon-pink T-shirt, black jacket and dark sunglasses and energetically mimics rodeo-style dance moves made famous by South Korean rapper PSY, whose original video became an Internet sensation. Ai said he and several friends made the video Wednesday and uploaded it overnight. In one scene, he swings two pairs of handcuffs... [Full Article]

Large-scale photographs by Laura Letinsky blur the line of reality at the Denver Art Museum Large-scale photographs by Laura Letinsky blur the line of reality at the Denver Art Museum

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Photography


DENVER, CO.- Laura Letinsky’s photography has evolved from studies in melancholy and absence to subtle, yet surprising, explorations of perception, color and space. The Denver Art Museum, in collaboration with the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, present Laura Letinsky: Still Life Photographs, 1997–2012, on view October 28, 2012, through March 24, 2013, in the Anthony and Delisa Mayer Photography Gallery. Wavering between flatness and volume, story and metaphor, the selection of 17 photographs contain mysteries that challenge viewers to keep looking... [Full Article]

Exhibition of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus opens at Foam in Amsterdam Exhibition of two hundred photographs by Diane Arbus opens at Foam in Amsterdam

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Photography


AMSTERDAM.- Diane Arbus (1923-1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land, photographing people she discovered during the... [Full Article]

A collection of photographs from the 1970s by Gordon Matta-Clark on view at Galerie Natalie Seroussi A collection of photographs from the 1970s by Gordon Matta-Clark on view at Galerie Natalie Seroussi

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Photography


PARIS.- From October 19th through December 19th, Natalie Seroussi presents an exceptional collection of photographs from the 1970s by the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978). GORDON MATTA-CLARK The son of Surrealist artist Roberto Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark graduated from Cornell University in 1968 with a degree in architecture. This American artist is well known for his site-specific artworks of the 1970s. He is also famous for his “building cuts“, a series of works he created within the confines of abandoned buildings through the systematic removal... [Full Article]

Florian Pumhösl presents a new series of works titled “Spatial Sequence” at Kunsthaus Bregenz Florian Pumhösl presents a new series of works titled “Spatial Sequence” at Kunsthaus Bregenz

October 28, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


BREGENZ.- Florian Pumhösl (born 1971, lives in Vienna) is a rarity in his generation of Austrian artists in having rigorously and cogently developed an independent abstract formal and pictorial language. For all its rigor of expression this language wields a highly impressive range of contemporary references and has immense visual potential. His international career began at a young age—at the time of his participation in the legendary group exhibition Backstage at the Hamburg Kunstverein together with Dorit Margreiter and Mathias Poledna in 1993, Florian Pumhösl... [Full Article]