From Manhattan to the Bauhaus: First Lyonel Feininger retrospective in North America is exclusive to Montreal

MONTREAL.- Through May 13, 2012, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been strangely forgotten since he spent most of his life in Germany. A celebrated cartoonist, a leading figure of Expressionism alongside Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, a professor at the avant-garde Bauhaus School, from its founding in Weimar [...]

Five works from the collection of Albert Murray on view at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis selected from the collection of Albert Murray (b. 1916), the well-known novelist, social and cultural critic, and jazz historian. The exhibition, on view in our Project Gallery, celebrates the cultural contributions of these three important figures and friends. In the late spring of 1950, Murray traveled to Paris, where he first befriended Romare Bearden (1911–1988), who was also studying via the G.I. Bill. The [...]

David Smith Cubi XXI gifted to Storm King Art Center and Whitney Museum of American Art

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y.- Storm King Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced the acquisition of Cubi XXI, a 1964 sculpture by preeminent American artist David Smith (1906–1965). A key work from the artist’s celebrated Cubi series (1961–1965), the large-scale, burnished stainless-steel sculpture is a gift to the two institutions from the Lipman Family Foundation. The late Howard Lipman, a trustee of both Storm King and the Whitney, and his wife, the late Jean Lipman (editor of Art in America [...]

Houston’s DiverseWorks announces Elizabeth Dunbar as new Executive Director

HOUSTON, TX.- The Board of Directors of DiverseWorks ArtSpace announces the appointment of Elizabeth Dunbar as the new Executive Director of the visionary arts organization, taking over from Interim Executive Director William Betts. Most recently, Dunbar served as Associate Director and Curator at Arthouse, a non-collecting experimental art space in Austin. “I am thrilled to be joining DiverseWorks at this important time in its evolution,” says Dunbar. “I look forward to working with the Board, staff, and many committed supporters in realizing its [...]

Artists announced for New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial 2012

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from March 1 through May 27, 2012. This is the 76th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. Curator Jay Sanders Photo David Armstrong The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which we gauge the current state [...]

Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works by American artist Mark di Suvero

NEW YORK. N.Y.- The Paula Cooper Gallery presents new works, including a painting and a monumental steel sculpture, by the preeminent American artist Mark di Suvero, at its 534 West 21st Street space. Mark di Suvero continues to test the limits of large-scale sculpture, engaging space through seemingly weightless compositions of colossal steel beams, torqued metal and kinetic elements. The never-before-seen Paula’s Pleasure, a soaring construction measuring approximately twenty feet in height, is an assemblage of intersecting I-beams tied around a central steel [...]

Recent paintings inspired by Jane Wilson’s childhood home at DC Moore Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Wilson: Recent Paintings features work inspired by the landscape of the East End of Long Island and the artist’s childhood home in Iowa. The catalog accompanying the exhibition presents an overview of Wilson’s sixty-year career and features a compilation of writing about her art by such figures as John Canaday, Fairfield Porter, James Schuyler, and Stephen Westfall. Wilson’s ethereal new paintings are sensitive investigations of color, documents of fleeting hours, and experiential understandings of seasons. The artist [...]

The Whitney presents “Real/Surreal”, exploring two of the strongest currents in twentieth-century American art

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The permeable boundary between the real and the imagined is the subject of Real/Surreal, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A close look at the interconnection between two of the strongest currents in twentieth-century American art, the exhibition includes eighty paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints made in the years before, during, and immediately after the Second World War by such artists as Paul Cadmus, Federico Castellón, Ralston Crawford, Mabel Dwight, Jared French, Louis Guglielmi, Edward Hopper, Man Ray, [...]

Frans Hals Museum confronts contemporary arts with master paintings of the Golden Age

HAARLEM.- From 7 October 2011 to 8 January 2012, the Frans Hals Museum is presenting paintings by John Currin (1962) in an encounter with the work of Cornelis van Haarlem (1562 – 1638). The American artist John Currin is well known for his realistic paintings in which commonplace scenes alternate with explicitly erotic images. Solo exhibitions of Currin’s work have been staged in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in [...]

The Whitney Museum of American Art presents David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

NEW YORK, N.Y.- David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy examines the abiding importance of geometric form in the work of American sculptor David Smith (1906-1965) from his earliest small works through the monumental late masterpieces that he created in the final years of his life. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it debuted earlier this year, the exhibition brings together approximately 60 works, including the largest grouping of Smith’s Cubis and Zigs assembled in more than two decades. [...]

Artspace.com releases its first commissioned limited edition multiple with Lawrence Weiner

NEW YORK, NY.- Artspace.com, the leading online platform for contemporary art, is pleased to announce the release of its first multiple commission with renowned conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner. STARS DONT STAND STILL IN THE SKY is an exclusive limited edition sculptural multiple. Whimsical and bold, it employs the bright colors of Pop art and Weiner’s signature use of language and directions. The blue arrow, red star, and yellow tags that make up the work playfully depict a kind of navigational sign. [...]

Crowds at Bowdoin museum for Edward Hopper’s Maine

BRUNSWICK, ME (AP).- An exhibit of Edward Hopper’s paintings of Maine is breaking attendance records at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, but it’s just one of three top-notch shows at museums around Maine this summer and fall. Combine a trip to see all three — the others are an Andrew Wyeth show at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland and a 1930s photography exhibit at Colby College in Waterville — with shopping in Freeport, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in [...]

The Latino List: Exhibition of Photographs of Prominent Latino Americans Opens in Brooklyn

NEW YORK, N.Y.- A new exhibition of large-format, full-color photographic portraits, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from August 19 through December 11, 2011, exploring the personal stories of some of today’s most influential Latino Americans from the fields of culture, politics, business, and sports. America Ferrera, Gloria Estefan, Pitbull, Eva Longoria, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Chi-Chi Rodríguez are among the twenty-five subjects featured. The exhibition will include excerpts from an accompanying documentary film, also called [...]

Galerie Richard Opening with Paul Henry Ramirez’s First Solo Exhibit in NYC in Four Years

PARIS.- Galerie Richard in Paris announce the opening of their second gallery in Chelsea, NYC this coming September at the ground floor of 514 West 24 Street. The inaugural solo exhibition of Paul Henry Ramirez entitled PLAYCONICS opens on September 8, 2011. Donald Kuspit, noted curator and writer, will be writing an essay for the exhibition catalog. Jean-Luc Richard, owner and director says of the expansion –“I mainly support emerging and mid-career artists that I want to see accepted as major established [...]

DC Moore Gallery Celebrates the Life and Work of George Tooker in Exhibition

NEW YORK, NY.- George Tooker: Reality Returns as a Dream celebrates the life and art of a painter whose powerful imagery and technical mastery made him one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation. For over sixty years, Tooker (1920-2011) has been highly regarded for his luminous and often enigmatic paintings. His themes range from alienation and the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary society to personal meditations on the human condition. Over the course of his long career, he created [...]

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