Spencer Sweeney’s “Egyptian Diving Board” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

NEW YORK, NY.- The Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents the second part of Spencer Sweeney’s unprecedented exhibition “Egyptian Diving Board”. Sweeney is a seminal figure in the culture of 21st century New York. In a city where all creativity must be packaged and branded and then protected against risk, Sweeney has consistently avoided category. What he is matters less than what he does. In our opinion he has carried the standard for a city of the imagination – a city that [...]

Matisse Museum Shows Paintings by Robert De Niro, Sr.

NICE.- The The Matisse Museum has chosen to display the works of the American painter Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), to answer its vocation of making known the works of Matisse, master of the 20th century, through different angles and, on this occasion, as a source of inspiration. The paintings and drawings of Robert De Niro, Sr. show a relationship to the works of Matisse through the creation of certain compositions, graphic assertion of certain drawings, use of the same [...]

Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings

MUNICH.- For more than six decades, in her paintings and drawings Maria Lassnig has explored perceptions and representations of the inner sensations of the body. Lassnig, who was born in 1919 in Carinthia, Austria, already gave her early 1940s work the programmatic title of “bodyconsciousness drawings”. Soon thereafter she visited Paris and came into contact with surrealism and art informel. Though her non-figurative geometrical work she quickly became the most important protagonist in abstract art in post-war Austria, but even [...]

New Works Produced by Art & Language Open at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents an exhibition of new works produced by Art & Language over the past year, including the major installation Portraits and a Dream. Art & Language’s earliest works date from before 1968, when the two terms ‘Art’ and ‘Language were first adopted as the name of an artistic practice. This coming together recognised a range of intellectual concerns and artistic expedients occasioned by the collapse of authority, by the mid 1960s, of those individualistic protocols which go [...]

Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine, featuring paintings and drawings by two of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Though from different backgrounds – Lawrence (1917-2000) grew up in Harlem and Levine (b. 1915) in Boston’s South End – their lives parallel each other in several ways, from the arc of their careers to their lifelong dedication to unique artistic visions. The exhibitions, which continue through February 6, are timed to coincide [...]

Howard Fonda Debuts New Paintings and Drawings at Mixed Greens

NEW YORK, NY.- Mixed Greens presents Howard Fonda’s fourth solo show with the gallery. In Squonk’s Tears, he will debut new paintings and drawings. The legend of the Squonk began long ago in the rich Hemlock forests of Pennsylvania. A mythical beast covered with warts and blemishes, the Squonk is judged by mankind to be grotesque despite its innate desire for acceptance. Misunderstood, it spends its days hiding and weeping, trapped in its ill-fitting skin. For as long as the [...]

Australia Accused of Censorship over North Korean Art

SYDNEY.- Australia was accused of censorship Tuesday after it denied visas to North Korean artists invited to a rare international exhibition of their work, saying their studio is a propaganda tool of their country’s communist government. The co-curator of the exhibition said the works were nonpolitical, and that letting them be displayed while banning their creators from entering the country so they could talk about them did not make sense. Five artists from the Mansudae Art Studio were invited to [...]

Frantisek Kupka Exhibition at Fundación Miró Explores His Influence on Abstract Art

BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting František Kupka, an exhibition curated by Brigitte Léal, Assistant Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, and sponsored by BBVA. The exhibition will show for the first time in Spain a selection of around 80 paintings and drawings by the Czech artist, all from the Centre Georges Pompidou, and documents from the collection of Pierre Brullé, a leading expert on Kupka, who was considered the first painter to explore [...]

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