Artpace in San Antonio announces curator Regine Basha as new Executive Director

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced that Regine Basha has been appointed Executive Director. A search committee headed by Board of Directors Chairperson J. Travis Capps, Jr. announced that Basha will assume her post by March 1, 2012. “Regine brings a unique vision to Artpace that will be invaluable to the organization,” says Capps “Her combined experience in the Texas and international art world are a perfect fit for Artpace’s internationally acclaimed residency program.” Basha brings nearly 20 years of experience [...]

Art Dubai to launch 2012 edition with its most innovative and dynamic programme to date

DUBAI.- Art Dubai goes into its sixth year with a dynamic, curated programme, consolidating its position as the key point at which the international art world meets the art scenes of the Middle East and South Asia. After welcoming over 20,000 visitors in 2011, the region’s leading fair features its biggest programme to date, expanding the Global Art Forum, launching artists’ and curators’ residencies, and establishing a year-round education programme. Art Dubai (March 21-24, 2012), held in partnership with Abraaj Capital and [...]

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents Roundabout: Face to Face

TEL AVIV.- Roundabout is an international collection of contemporary art that includes artists from Asia, Australia and New Zealand , as well as from the United States , Israel , Russia and Britain . The exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art features 60 works by 50 artists, whose art reflects a wide range of cultural, ideological, religious, and political conflicts. The presentation of these works one alongside another constitutes an attempt to foster dialogue between these different artists, and between the [...]

A selection from The Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst Collection on view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

VADUZ.- Domiciled in Liechtenstein, the “Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst” collection is devoted primarily to international, contemporary art. Bearing the stamp of the extreme care and personal commitment of collector Hanny Frick, it has grown continuously over the past few decades. Hanny Frick relies on direct contact with artists and their works of art. Her approach has led, over the years, to a collection that places the collector on equal footing with the international art world. The holdings range from paintings, drawings, [...]

Art Gallery of Ontario Presents Abstract Expressionist Exhibition from MoMA

TORONTO.- Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Franz Kline. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork is now on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in an unprecedented international exclusive. Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art, on view until September 4, features more than 100 works from the unparalleled collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by the legendary artists [...]

Contemporary Art from the Claudia Gian Ferrari’s Collection on Sale at Sotheby’s Milan,12 April 2011

MILAN.- Sotheby’s announces the sale of Claudia Gian Ferrari’s Contemporary and Modern Art Collection which will be held at Palazzo Broggi on 12th April 2011. Just one year after her untimely passing, in compliance with her will, artworks from her own home and from her gallery will be sold at auction at Sotheby’s Milan. These events will fulfill Claudia’s desire – as her sisters Grazia and Paola tell us- to have her collection sold at two separate auctions, one including [...]

Jean-Marc Bustamante’s ‘Dead Calm’ Exhibition On Display The Fruitmarket Gallery

LONDON.- Jean-Marc Bustamante is one of France’s senior artists and a major figure in the international art world. His clear, direct vision manifests itself in an almost bewildering array of materials and media – first photography, then sculpture, painting, architectural projects, installation. His work is unified and characterised by its calm intelligence and a kind of extraordinary ordinariness that helps us see its subject, the world around us, in a new way. Jean-Marc Bustamante’s ‘Dead Calm’ exhibition is on display [...]

Saatchi Gallery Present More than 60 Works from Its Contemporary Art Collection

LILLE.- In the autumn of 2010 and for the first time in France, the London based Saatchi Gallery will present more than 60 works from its famous contemporary art collection, assembled for the exhibition entitled “La Route de la Soie” (The Silk Road). The event is organised by lille3000 and will take place at the Tri Postal, from October 20th to the January 16th 2011. The Saatchi Gallery, founded by Charles Saatchi in 1985, now occupies the Duke of York’s [...]

Sotheby’s Hits Contemporary, Italian Art Targets with Combined Sales of $48.8 Million

LONDON (REUTERS).- Contemporary and Italian art sales in London last week largely underlined the sense that stability was gradually returning to a market that saw values soar in 2007 and 2008 before tumbling dramatically in 2009. Sotheby’s raised a combined 30.4 million pounds ($48.8 million) from its contemporary and Italian 20th century art sales on Friday, and added a further 9.7 million pounds from its contemporary day auction on Saturday. The overall tally of 40.1 million pounds was toward the [...]

New Work by Fernando Botero at Tasende Gallery

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- New work by Fernando Botero is the subject of the exhibit Botero in LA presented by Tasende Gallery, 8808 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, September 15 through October 30, 2010. The nine paintings, six drawings and four sculptures comprising the show were created during the last few years. They include family portraits, circus themes, women, horses, and still lifes. Fernando Botero, Fin de Fiesta, 2009. Oil on canvas, 65 3/4 by 82 inches. Photo: Courtesy Tasende Gallery. Early [...]

Imagine Peace: Thai Exhibit on Political Crisis

BANGKOK (AP).- On one wall hangs a giant Thai flag torn in half but stitched up with a zipper. Nearby is a poster-sized news photograph of smoke mushrooming out of a Bangkok shopping mall, the gray cloud outlined by a skull. Out of Thailand’s bloody political turmoil that ended in mid-May, an art exhibit has emerged called “Imagine Peace.” Eighty artists have contributed works that include a rendition of the anti-government protesters’ rubber tire barricade — which sealed off parts [...]

A Real Van Gogh: How the Art World Struggles with Truth

AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Gogh’s paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art world struggles to separate the real Van Goghs from the fake ones, and the key question addressed in this book is what may happen to art experts when they publicly voice their opinions on a particular Van Gogh (or not). The story starts with art expert J.B. de la Faille who discovered [...]

Chris Dercon Leaves Haus der Kunst for Tate Modern

MUNICH.- In spring 2011 Chris Dercon, director of the Haus der Kunst, will leave for London, where he will take over as director of the Tate Modern. He will continue to work with the Haus der Kunst supervising the exhibition, “Carlo Mollino, Rigorously Eclectic,” planned for fall 2011. His successor, to be named by the Ministry, will take up the post in fall 2011. Dercon’s first exhibition at the Haus der Kunst was a surprise for the international art world: [...]

MoMA Announces Exhibition of Abstract Expressionist Works

NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, The Museum of Modern Art will undertake a complete reinstallation of its fourth floor galleries for painting and sculpture, as well as its collection galleries for drawings and prints, to present Abstract Expressionist New York, a major exhibition tracing the development of Abstract Expressionism from its auspicious beginnings in the 1940s to its seasoned maturity in the 1960s. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s vast holdings of Abstract Expressionist art—a collection whose breadth and depth is [...]

Hong Kong Affirmed as Asia’s Art Hub as Region’s Collectors Assemble at ART HK 10

HONG KONG.- Million dollar sales of artworks by Zhang Xiaogang and Damien Hirst, plus high-priced sales of works by Anish Kapoor and Yoshitomo Nara, reconfirmed ART HK’s status as Asia’s premier art fair. The 4-day art fair, which ran from 27-30 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), attracted 155 galleries from 29 countries presenting works by more than 1,000 artists – with total visitors at 46,115, up 65 percent on 2009. Major sales to Asian based [...]

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