First major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work opens

LONDON.- On January 21, 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney’s landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Through a selection of works spanning fifty years, this new body of work will be placed in the context of Hockney’s extended exploration of and fascination with landscape. Highlights will include three groups of [...]

Chrono Cubism Photography

“Photography only lets you capture instants (even long exposures are only blurred instants). So, I hacked the idea of photography, mixing together many photos of the same scene into a single one, slicing and dicing the images and putting them back together, chronologically. I call the grammar behind it ‘chrono cubism.” – Diego Kuffer In his latest photography project “In Transit,” Diego Kuffer took multiple photographs of stationary scenes and merged them together to create a surreal “chrono cubist” view [...]

Posters for London 2012 Olympic Games by leading British artists unveiled

LONDON (AP).- A nude Paralympic cyclist, an abstract take on Big Ben and two birds kissing. Olympic officials on Friday unveiled the posters for the London 2012 games, which highlight 12 different takes on how to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic games. Leading British artists including the controversial Tracey Emin and Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed designed the posters, joining a tradition that dates back to 1912 and has showcased the works of others such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney. Emin, [...]

Hockney in Los Angeles: Iconic prints from the 70′s and 80′s at Leslie Sacks Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- This exhibition at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, highlights a select group of David Hockney’s prints made in Los Angeles during the 1970′s and 1980′s. Hockney’s rise to fame took place after he moved to the U.S. from England, ensconced himself in Los Angeles and became the L.A. art scene’s favorite adopted son. This period of time, the 1970′s and 1980′s, was concurrent with the print revival that began in L.A. before his arrival with June Wayne’s founding of [...]

Celia, the Most Beautiful Boy in the World (and Percy) Star in Bonhams Hockney Sale

LONDON.- A rare signed proof copy of David Hockney’s lithograph ‘An Image of Celia’ in the original frame hand painted by the artist is the star item in sale dedicated to Hockney’s work at Bonhams on 20 April. Dating from the mid-1980s, the Picasso-like image of Hockney’s close friend, the textile designer Celia Birtwell, is estimated at between £60,000- 80,000. It leads a sale which covers the whole spectrum of Hockney’s output and techniques from the early ‘Fires of Furious Desire [...]

Exhibition of Work by New York-Based Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders at Haunch of Venison

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Haunch of Venison presents The Ocean Between an exhibition of work by New York based artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders from March 11th through April 23rd. Work in the exhibition includes selections from a ten-year period including works from Greenfield-Sanders’ solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver entitled Light Leaks. New, large-format beach paintings are also a part of the exhibition alongside earlier works on loan from private collections in the New York region. Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Focus [...]

20/21 International Art Fair at the Royal College of Art: Accessible Prices, Quality and Variety

LONDON.- The 20|21 International Art Fair will take place at the Royal College of Art, in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 17 – 20 February 2011. The fair features modern and contemporary art from the UK but has a significant number of dealers who specialise in work from China, India, Japan, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine. Gregory Volkov, Man with a white bird, 1980. 60 x 45 cm., acrylic on cardboard However, art from a whole host of other countries [...]

A Journey Through British Art from World War II to the Late Sixties at Fundació Joan Miró

BARCELONA.- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Let Us Face the Future, a journey through British art from the end of the Second World War to the late sixties. The exhibition has been organized by the Fundació Joan Miró and the British Council and sponsored by Fundación BBVA. Let Us Face the Future, curated by Andrew Dempsey and Richard Riley, shows, for the first time in Spain, eighty-eight works by British artists from 1945-1968, on loan from the collections of British [...]

Nottingham Contemporary’s First Year a Complete Success with Record Visitor Figures

NOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary will celebrate its first anniversary on Sunday 14 November 2010. Nottingham Contemporary is widely regarded as one of the most exciting galleries in the country, in or out of London – with a large local audience and a strong involvement with the concerns of its home city. Nearly 300,000 people – 290,000 – have visited the gallery in its first year, a 45% increase on the projected figure of 200,000. There have been over 36,000 participants in [...]

Fifty Auctions Later, Los Angeles Modern Auctions is Still Going Strong, Sale Totals $1.55 Million

VAN NUYS, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) October 17, 2010 Modern Art & Design auction, LAMA’s 50th auction since 1992, totaled $1.55 million (including buyer’s premium) selling 65% of the 509 lots offered. Over 250 people registered for the auction, including in-house participants who filled the gallery to standing room only. Several buyers came from Italy, Japan, France, as well as an overwhelming amount of clients from California and New York. Andy Warhol, Flowers, 1970. Screenprint. Signed in ballpoint [...]

Forget the Canvas: David Hockney’s New Paris Exhibition

PARIS (AP).- Canvas is just so 20th century. That’s the message of David Hockney’s new Paris exhibition, where glowing iPads and iPhones — their screens a changing medley of still lives and landscapes created by the celebrated British artist on the “Brushes” application — replace traditional canvases. Dozens of the apparatuses are bolted onto the walls, their flat screens aglow with drawings of jagged mountains, somber interiors and bouquets of flowers in eyepopping colors. British artist David Hockney shows friends [...]

Phillips de Pury & Co. Announces Highlights from Contemporary Art Sale

LONDON.- Phillips de Pury & Company, announced the highlights from its October Contemporary Art auctions featuring 56 lots in the Evening sale and 148 lots in the Day sale with a total low estimate of £8,543,500/$13,387,664 and a high estimate of £12,266,500 / $19,221,605. Included in the Evening sale are important works by David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Maurizio Cattelan and Ed Ruscha. Also included are highlights from the KIT Finance Collection; a selection of 13 works from the Adam Lindemann [...]

20th Century Master Prints from the Dreier LLP Collection at Phillips de Pury & Co.

NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced highlights from the sale of the Dreier LLP collection as part of the November Modern and Contemporary Editions auction. The Dreier LLP collection of 20th Century Master Prints places emphasis on blue chip artists of the 1970’s and 1980’s and will feature over 40 lots in the single owner section of the catalogue. “The Dreier LLC collection was professionally curated and shows a striking array of some of the best examples [...]

Emin Scrawls and Perry Shocks at Royal Academy’s Summer Show

LONDON (REUTERS).- Artist Tracy Emin provided the kind of emotional drama she is famous for, but it was cross-dressing ceramicist Grayson Perry who delivered the shock blow at the opening day of the British Royal Academy‘s summer art exhibition show in London on Monday. Emin had four works and Perry only one on display in the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition held every summer at the Academy’s imposing 17th century building in London’s luxurious Mayfair neighborhood. Emin and [...]

British Artist David Hockney Hails iPad as New Art Tool

LONDON (REUTERS).- British painter David Hockney has embraced the new Apple iPad as a boon to art. The artist, whose most famous work is a series of pool paintings set in Los Angeles and who has experimented with iPhone photographs in his work, said the new Apple touchscreen computer tablet will have a transformative effect on art. “The iPad is many things, but one is a very useful new visual tool,” Hockney told Britain’s Times newspaper in an interview on [...]

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