Cecily Brown’s First Ever Solo Exhibition in the Netherlands at GEM Museum of Contemporary Art

THE HAGUE.- The new work of New York-based artist Cecily Brown (b.1969) features a medley of grey, red, orange and earth colours applied with vigorous gestures to canvases of many different sizes. Initially, the explicitly sexual content of her pictures attracted attention; more recently, she has increasingly reduced the image to its essentials. Shifting between figuration and abstraction, she uses each approach to reinforce the other, viewing them not as two separate worlds, but as closely interrelated facets of the [...]

Excellent Visitor Figures, Strong Sales and Positive Feedback at London Art Fair

LONDON.- The 22nd edition of the annual London Art Fair closed on Sunday 17th January 2010, reporting excellent visitor figures, strong sales and positive feedback. The show drew 23,219 visitors and 250 media representatives from the UK and around the world. On the first night, 3731 people attended. VIPs who visited the Fair included Sir Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Vic Reeves, Nicholas Serrota [Director of Tate], Matthew Collings, [Broadcaster and British Art Critic]. Celebrities such as Johnny Borrell [Frontman [...]

Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center to Show Artist’s Close Studies of Nature

STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents 75 drawings, watercolors, and small oil studies made during the 50-year career of one of America’s most famous landscape artists. The exhibition “William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University” opens June 23 and continues through September 26, 2010. “The works on view in this exhibition are highlights from a collection of nearly 250 artworks by Richards, inherited in 1905 by his youngest son and eventually [...]