Serial Pursuits: David Mabb, Dayanita Singh, Manisha Parekh, Audiobombing Crew at Nature Morte

BERLIN.- Nature Morte announces “Serial Pursuits,” a group exhibition in which recent works in various media by David Mabb, Manisha Parekh, Dayanita Singh and Audiobombing Crew will be brought together to present an exploration of art works created as sets or in sequences. The highlight of the opening night will be a performance by Audiobombing Crew. Founded by Markus Zull and Stephan Ebersthäuser in 2003, the sound art collective creates serial sound loops, which are collaged together from analogue sources. The duo [...]

Sotheby’s London presents its strongest ever sale of 20th century Italian art

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announces that its forthcoming 20th Century Italian Art Sale on Thursday, October 13, 2011 will be the company’s strongest ever, both in number of lots offered and the quality of works featured. Expected to realise between £15,872,000 and £21,718,000, it is also the highest estimated sale in this collecting category ever staged by an auction house. The sale, which is highlighted by two important private collections ‘Italian Identity’ and Property from an Important New York Collection, features works by Alberto [...]

Faces of the New China: Christie’s announces the evening sale of an important private collection

HONG KONG.- Leading global auction house Christie’s presents the Autumn Evening Sale Faces of the New China: An Important Private Collection, which leads the 2011 Hong Kong Autumn season of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art sales from 26 to 27 November. Presented as a stand-alone sale within the prestigious Evening Sale and with a total estimate in excess of HK$150,000,000, this single owner collection comprises 14 iconic works by preeminent contemporary Chinese artists including Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Cai Guoqiang, Liu Ye [...]

MFA Houston Presents Private Collection of the Czech Avant-Garde Art and Glass

HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), presents New Formations: Czech Avant-Garde Art and Modern Glass from the Roy and Mary Cullen Collection November 6, 2011-February 5, 2012, shedding light on a still under-known chapter of 20th-century art. The exhibition features more than 150 Czech avant-garde works amassed by Houston philanthropists Roy and Mary Cullen, including outstanding examples from the flowering of Czech Surrealism; rare artists‘ books and avant-garde periodicals; and exquisitely molded and blown modern glass. The exhibition is curated [...]

Benrimon Contemporary Presents “Last One” by Russian Artist Dimitri Kozyrev

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Benrimon Contemporary presents Last One, Dimitri Kozyrev’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition is on view from March 10 and runs until April 1, 2011. “Now, however, I maintain that just as the concept of the military avant-garde has been ‘lost,’ because of changes in methods of warfare, the avant-garde in the contemporary art world, has also lost its edge.” — Dimitri Kozyrev Dimitri Kozyrev, Lost Edge 21, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 46 x 48 [...]

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Showcases Works by Paul Klee

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, the exhibition features 21 works. SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum in 1946. At that time, Klee’s [...]

SFMOMA Announces Exhibition that Re-creates 1946 Paul Klee Show of Prints

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA assistant curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, the exhibition features 21 works. SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the museum in 1946. At that time, Klee’s [...]

MACBA Devotes Exhibition to Essential Artist of the Late-20th Century

BARCELONA.- He invented the “mégapneumie”, poems of breath and pure sound, which he belched out at his legendary recitals in Paris. Also ‘Scotch art’, in which he mutilated and spoiled artworks in order to imbue them with new signs and meanings. He was a journalist, a revolutionary, a ship’s captain, a drug trafficker, a lorry driver, a barman and… an artist. In his own words, “Gil J Wolman, born in 1929, met a few people, took part in a few [...]

Contemporary Art Museum Designed by Iraqi-Born Architect Zaha Hadid Opens in Rome

ROME (AP).- A huge museum for contemporary arts and architecture opens in Rome this weekend in a bid to draw avant-garde art lovers to a city defined by its ancient monuments and Baroque fountains. The MAXXI museum designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid is the latest and most ambitious project to try to refresh the Italian capital’s image of a decadent city bent on its glorious past. “My work just really stems from the fact that we can make new [...]

Private Collections Soar at Sotheby’s Russian Art Sale

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Spring 2010 Russian Art sale concluded today in New York achieving a total of $13,572,252, well within the $10.7/15 million estimate and 81% sold by value. The highlights of the sale were a series of private collections that all achieved strong prices. A record for a work at auction by Pavel Tchelitchew was set when Portrait of Ruth Ford sold for $986,500 – over $400,000 more than the previous record price. A new auction record was [...]

MoMA Exhibition Illuminates the Legacy of Visionary Experimental Filmmaker Maya

NEW YORK, NY.- The legacy of Maya Deren, considered America’s first prominent avant-garde filmmaker, film theorist, and visionary of experimental cinema, is explored in the exhibition Maya Deren’s Legacy: Women and Experimental Film, a five-month film series and video installation in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and lobby galleries, from May 14 through October 4, 2010. Deren’s innovations—performing in front of the camera, using semi-autobiographical content, and meshing literary, psychological, and ethnographic approaches with rigorous technique—laid the groundwork for [...]

Kunsthalle Basel Opens an Exhibition by Lili Reynaud Dewar

BASEL.- Kunsthalle Basel presents Interpretation, a new project by the French artist Lili Reynaud Dewar (born 1975, La Rochelle, France). “Interpretation,” the title of Lili Reynaud Dewar’s exhibition, is to be understood in both specific and general terms. More specifically, it is borrowed from the title of a composition by Sun Ra, an African-American musician, composer, filmmaker, and author of typewritten pamphlets that convey his unorthodox ideas on religion, society, and politics. Born Herman Poole Blount in 1914, Sun Ra [...]

Art in Hamburg in the 1920s Opens at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- As part of the festival “Himmel auf Zeit” – die 20er Jahre in Hamburg (“A Temporary Heaven” – the 1920s in Hamburg), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is highlighting the diversity of the city’s art scene in the period after the First World War. In the years between the foundation of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, Hamburg’s avant-garde art scene was dominated by four different movements: one was a style strongly oriented towards contemporary French painting, [...]

Americas Society Showing Work by Argentine Artist Marta Minujín

NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs, an exhibition that revisits an earlier project by Argentine artist Marta Minujín, held in 1968 at the Americas Society, known then as the Center for Inter American Relations (CIAR). The project, called Minucode, explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion and politics. Minujín collected social data through a series of cocktail parties attended by people who responded to a series of questionnaires the artist [...]

Saskatoon-Born Artist Luanne Martineau Exhibits at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

MONTREAL.- Saskatoon-born artist Luanne Martineau has made a name for herself with her virtually indescribable hybrid felt and wool sculptures. Human, animal and organic, all at once, they produce an experience that wavers between fascination and repulsion, the microscopic and the macroscopic. The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal presents the exhibition Luanne Martineau from February 4 to April 25, 2010. Form Fantasy, 2009, for example, made of industrial felt, needle-felted wool and thread, looks like a soft industrial chair set [...]

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