Exhibition at Moderna Museet focuses on non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1

STOCKHOLM.- Following this spring’s events and magazine projects on the 1980s, Moderna Museet moves on in Swedish art history to the 1990s, with the exhibition Moment – Ynglingagatan 1. The non-commercial gallery Ynglingagatan 1 was a vital forum for Swedish contemporary art in the 1990s, featuring international artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Takashi Murakami and M/M (Paris), decades before their works were recognised by critics and major institutions all over the world. With modest means and fuelled by a feeling of [...]

Sotheby’s Beyond Limits 2011: New works by Hirst, Quinn and Kusama at Chatsworth selling exhibition

LONDON.- Sotheby’s London will unveil the line-up for Beyond Limits, its annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture, to be staged within the historic grounds of the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth from 16th September to 30th October 2011. This magnificent location provides a unique opportunity for the presentation and sale of monumental sculpture. The juxtaposition of works by artists as diverse as René Magritte and Takashi Murakami makes this year’s show an exciting destination exhibition for collectors and [...]

Christie’s New York announces the auction of a major selection of the remarkable Peter Norton Collection

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie‘s announces the auction of a major selection of the remarkable Peter Norton Collection of contemporary art, assembled over more than two decades by one of the world‘s most pioneering collectors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. A Single Owner grouping of 60 lots will be offered throughout the Evening and the Day Sales, November 8th and 9th, and is expected to achieve in excess of $25 million. Many of the works represent the leading artists of the contemporary art world that [...]

Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Takashi Murakami at Gagosian in London

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents recent paintings and sculptures by Takashi Murakami. In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs highly refined, traditional Japanese painting techniques and formats to depict a charged mix of historical subject matter, Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding field of aesthetic issues and cultural inspirations. Parallel to his distinctive toonish formulations of utopian and dystopian themes, he has recollected and revitalized religious and secular narratives of transcendence [...]

Christie’s New York Announces Post-War and Contemporary Day Sale May 12

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces the auction of a finely honed private collection of important Contemporary art, with works from marquee artists such as Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami. The Private European Collection represents work from each major artist’s response to centuries of tradition, underscored with themes of loss, longing and desire. Comprised exclusively of cornerstone works from the 1960s to the present, the collection will be offered in afternoon session of Christie’s May 12 Day [...]

125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play

NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned website. From among more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial. A curatorial team from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York [...]

A Solo Exhibit of Michael Barletta Paintings and Drawings at Elisa Contemporary Art

NEW YORK, NY.- Akin to an improvisational jazz performance, Michael Barletta’s abstract paintings and drawings reflect a live moment in time and space. Each stroke of the brush or pen is a spontaneous gesture reflecting the artist’s visceral response to his immediate surroundings and inner emotions. “I try to capture a moment in time and space without imposing a message other than the arrangement of color and shapes that stir the emotions and engage the senses.” Michael translates the energy [...]

Pop Life at Hamburger Kunsthalle Proves that Good Business is the Best Art

HAMBURG.- The exhibition Pop Life takes Andy Warhol’s famously provocative claim that “good business is the best art” as the starting point for a completely new interpretation of the legacy of Pop art and the influence of its chief protagonists. Pop Life shows the various ways in which artists since the 1980s have engaged with the mass media, often involving the deliberate creation and cultivation of an artistic persona as a ‘brand’. The exhibition features works by Andy Warhol alongside [...]

Over 2 Million Dollars Raised at Art Auction Benefiting Homeless Children

NEW YORK, NY.- A special benefit including a performance by world-renowned opera artist Jessye Norman and an auction of works donated by eminent contemporary artists has raised more than $2,075,000 for The Family Resource Center, a program of the New York City-based Partnership for the Homeless. The benefit and auction were made possible by the generosity of 82 artists, who were inspired by event co-chairs Richard Serra and Clara Serra to donate work for the auction; Ms. Norman, who is [...]

Brigham Young University Museum of Art shows “Mirror, Mirror on the Gallery Wall”

PROVO, UT.- Portraits reflect more than a person’s mirror image. They reveal—and sometimes conceal—certain aspects of a person’s identity. While portrait artists play a role in creating that identity for some, many contemporary artists hold up a mirror to the process of identity creation itself—examining how people shape their identities and how they seek to change other people’s perceptions about themselves. This exhibition will be on view in the Conway A. Ashton & Carl E. Jackman Gallery on the museum’s [...]

Tate Modern’s Pop Life to Travel to Hamburger Kunsthalle in February

HAMBURG.- The exhibition Pop Life takes Andy Warhol’s famously provocative claim that “good business is the best art” as the starting point for a completely new interpretation of the legacy of Pop art and the influence of its chief protagonists. Pop Life shows the various ways in which artists since the 1980s have engaged with the mass media, often involving the deliberate creation and cultivation of an artistic persona as a ‘brand’. The exhibition features works by Andy Warhol alongside [...]

New Prize Created by Victor Pinchuk Honors Artists Age 35 and UnderNew Prize Created by Victor Pinchuk Honors Artists Age 35 and Under

NEW YORK, NY.- A new prize recognizing artists age 35 and under would provide the winner with $100,000 and help from mentors like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, the prize’s creator announced Tuesday. The Future Generation Art Prize is the creation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, whose namesake is a Ukrainian billionaire and art collector. Artists in the age group will apply online for the prize, which will be awarded every two years. A group of 100 art professionals from [...]