Whitfield Fine Art Presents an Exhibition of New Work by Ilona Szalay

LONDON.- Whitfield Fine Art is keen to support emerging artists and presents an exhibition of new work by Ilona Szalay. The exhibition concentrates on series of works exploring the workings of the figure and of the flesh in the nude. For this exhibition Ilona Szalay has painted a series of women and girls naked, nude, undressed or semi-clad. Their bodies have been constructed using thick, sensual layers of oil paint which is barely contained from bursting its boundaries and flooding [...]

Causey Contemporary Features Two Solo Debut Exhibitions

BROOKLYN, NY.- This April Causey Contemporary presents two solo debut exhibitions to the gallery. Run From View will feature the unique black and white silver gelatin prints of photographer Chuck Kelton. Also on view will be Day For Night, the latest series of paintings by Shelton Walsmith. Run From View | Chuck Kelton The exhibition “Run From View” represents the newest photographic explorations of Chuck Kelton. Drawn from autobiographical experiences, the work celebrates the chaos and fragmentation of life. Kelton [...]

Venetia Dearden’s Portraits Taken at Glastonbury Festival on View in London

LONDON.- Venetia Dearden’s portraits taken at Glastonbury festival will be on display for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery in April. Since 2004, Dearden has been documenting the music festival and taking portraits in an on-site temporary studio. The 16 photographs on display will include portraits of Dame Shirley Bassey, Lily Allen, Pete Townshend, Leonard Cohen and a selection of festival goers. The portraits are all shot against a white studio backdrop removing the sitters from the context [...]

“Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage” Just Released by Norton

NEW YORK, NY.- Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage, has just been released by W. W. Norton. In it, artist and photographer Cathryn Griffith examines Havana’s most important buildings and public spaces by juxtaposing old tourist post cards with her recent photographs. She explores how the most important city in Spanish colonial America developed and changed over several centuries, as well as the important role restoration plays in the city today. This lavishly illustrated book, with a foreword by Eusebio Leal [...]

MoMA Offers Intimate Installation Featuring Sculptures by Lee Bontecou

NEW YORK, NY.- Featuring three sculptures and more than a dozen works on paper by American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), this intimate installation spans four decades of the artist’s career, from 1958 to 1998. Known for her richly evocative forms that conjure biological, geological, and technological motifs, Bontecou has described “the natural world and its wonders and horrors” as a central preoccupation of her career. Among the earliest works presented are large drawings made of velvety soot and wall-mounted [...]

Maya Lin Presents a Series of Four Videos About Mass Extinction

NEW YORK, NY.- From April 15–30, Creative Time presents multidisciplinary artist Maya Lin’s What is Missing?, a series of four videos about mass extinction precipitated by the degradation of natural habitats At 44 1/2. There will be a special, expanded schedule of screenings on April 22 for Earth Day. Maya Lin is a participant in the Creative Time Global Residency Program, for which she has traveled to diverse parts of the world to connect with disappearing species for the What [...]

Peter Fischli and David Weiss to Receive Wolfgang Hahn Prize Cologne 2010

COLOGNE.- The Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at Museum Ludwig will be awarding the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for 2010 to the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. To mark the association’s 25th anniversary, it has succeeded in purchasing a substantial group of works in collaboration with Museum Ludwig and the City of Cologne. The award ceremony and the jubilee celebrations will be held on 19 April 2010, the day before the opening of Art Cologne. “Fischli/Weiss are among the most [...]

PHotoEspaña 10 Announces Over 120 Activities for this Year’s Edition

MADRID.- PHotoEspaña 2010 is underway, for the first time culminating a year-round programme. PHotoEspaña is rounding up the path chosen since it was started as a Festival and which, over 13 years, has developed into a long term project which transcends the summer programme dates, organising activities throughout the year. In this edition there are over 120 activities including exhibitions, photography workshops, portfolio presentations, debates, master classes, guided tours, educational programmes, family workshops, projections and activities in the street. The [...]

Lombard-Freid Projects Transforms Main Gallery Space into a Cinema

NEW YORK, NY.- Lombard-Freid Projects presents the first solo exhibition of Amsterdam-based, American artist Nina Yuen. Yuen (b. 1981, Hawaii) approaches video as a tactile medium. Her seductively honest and visually striking narratives weave elements of her personal relationships with found stories and appropriated personae. For this show, the main gallery space has become a cinema showcasing a selection of Yuen’s recent videos in sequence. The artist states, “My work as a filmmaker engages with the production of false personal [...]

Kunsthalle Basel Opens an Exhibition by Lili Reynaud Dewar

BASEL.- Kunsthalle Basel presents Interpretation, a new project by the French artist Lili Reynaud Dewar (born 1975, La Rochelle, France). “Interpretation,” the title of Lili Reynaud Dewar’s exhibition, is to be understood in both specific and general terms. More specifically, it is borrowed from the title of a composition by Sun Ra, an African-American musician, composer, filmmaker, and author of typewritten pamphlets that convey his unorthodox ideas on religion, society, and politics. Born Herman Poole Blount in 1914, Sun Ra [...]

Art Museum’s Own Collections Star in Upcoming Exhibit

MYRTLE BEACH, SC.- Regular visitors to the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Museum know the facility for its revolving exhibits of artists in a variety of styles and media. But many do not know that the Museum is also an emerging collector of fine art, with works from many artists widely recognized throughout the state and region. The Art Museum’s extensive collection will star in A Sense of Time; A Sense of Place, to be displayed April 25 thru September [...]

Parks Department Plan will Bring Chaos to Union Square, Say Street Artists

NEW YORK, NY.- Street artists face a difficult choice under the Parks Department’s proposed vending rules: compete with a gang of homeless people and other vendors for one of 18 spots in the park or find a new source of income. Independent artists risk being shut out of Union Square Park under the new plan, which would allow a small group of vendors who arrive first to monopolize all 18 spaces. According to numerous street artists, a gang of homeless [...]

European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Travel to Tokyo

TOKYO.- The pictorial treasures of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are being shown in Tokyo, in a major exhibition that explores five centuries of European art made by masters such as Rembrandt, Velazquez, El Greco, Picasso and Van Gogh. The exhibition takes place at the Mori Art Center in Japan’s capital, where the visitor is greeted at the entrance by two pictures, Velasquez’ “Luis de Gongora y Argote (1622), and ” Victorine Meurent “(1862) by Edouard Manet, as evidence [...]

BBC Partners with the Victoria & Albert Museum for Modern Masters Exhibition

LONDON.- BC One and the V&A are collaborating to offer a free exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition will enable the public to learn more about Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali, who feature in a major new BBC One multi-platform television series – Modern Masters. The programme will broadcast in May, fronted by new presenter and arts writer Alastair Sooke. The four-part series traces the lives of Warhol, Matisse, Picasso and Dali on television and online through [...]

Major Survey of the Work of Gabriel Orozco Opens at Kunstmuseum Basel

BASEL.- This major survey at Kunstmuseum Basel shows installations, sculptures, photographs, paintings and drawings by Gabriel Orozco (born 1962 in Mexico), created since the early 1990s. Orozco, one of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, commutes between New York, Paris and Mexico City. The nomadic way of life typical of his generation and the principle of constant movement surface in his work in many different ways. While the earliest works on view were still made in Mexico, to which he regularly [...]