Indianapolis Museum of Art receives major painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- A major European painting acquisition is now on display at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Dream of Spring by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, one of the most successful late 19th-century French artists, has been added to the museum’s permanent collection as a charitable gift. The painting was promised to the IMA by philanthropists Melvin and Bren Simon in celebration of the Museum’s 125th anniversary in 2008. Bren Simon completed the gift this spring. Bouguereau’s Dream of Spring depicts a young woman seated [...]

Exhibition at Punta della Dogana presents 80 works from the last 50 years

VENICE.- A new exhibition, Prima Materia, will be on view in Venice from May 30, 2013, to December 31, 2014, at Punta della Dogana. François Pinault has appointed Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan as the curators. Prima Materia brings together almost 80 works from the last 50 years by approximately thirty artists from the Pinault Collection. The exhibition establishes a dialogue between important historical movements, such as Mono-Ha and Arte Povera, as well as in-depth monographic presentations of works by artists such [...]

Gagosian Gallery in London presents a group of four tapestries by Gerhard Richter

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents a group of four tapestries entitled Abdu, Iblan, Musa, and Yusuf (all 2009) by Gerhard Richter. These works are based on Abstract Painting (724-4) (1990), a key example of Richter’s distinctive approach to non-representational painting. The visual effect of the tapestries is a Rorschach-like multiplying of the forms and colors of the original canvas. Woven on a mechanical jacquard loom, each tapestry repeats four times the image of one quadrant of the painting. Somewhat surprisingly, the painterly, stochastic [...]

First United States one-man show by Spanish artist Miguel Angel Garcia opens at Laurence Miller Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery presents “In-dependencias,” the first United States one-man show by Spanish artist Miguel Angel Garcia. The ten large-scale color photographs selected from the series “In-dependencias,” produced between 2009 and 2012, are based on panoramic photographs taken by Garcia from culturally symbolic watchtowers that overlook the twenty-seven capitals of the European Union, such as the Pompidou Centre in Paris (above), the Acropolis in Athens, and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London (below). Garcia then digitally paints the images, initially [...]

Harn Museum explores the creation, meaning and importance of portraits

GAINESVILLE, FL.- The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida presents a new exhibition that explores the creation, meaning and importance of portraits. Spanning multiple mediums, time periods and places, Much Ado About Portraits includes more than 100 works of sculpture, paintings, ceramics, bronzes, photography, prints, drawings and film, dating from before the Common Era to the present day. Notable modern and contemporary artists featured in the exhibition, include: Umberto Boccioni, Diego Rivera, Isamu Noguchi, Maggie Taylor and [...]

Four contemporary Alaska Native artists exhibit at The Craft & Folk Art Museum

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft & Folk Art Museum in collaboration with the Anchorage Museum presents This Is Not A Silent Movie: Four Contemporary Alaska Native Artists, an exhibition centered around four acclaimed Alaska Native artists whose groundbreaking contemporary works question institutional methods of identifying Native heritage, examine their own mixed-race identities, and challenge perceptions and stereotypes about indigenous peoples. It will be on view through Sunday, September 8, 2013. Through the language of contemporary visual art, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Susie Silook, Da-ka-xeen [...]

A solo show of works by the renowned British artist Marc Quinn opens at The Giorgio Cini Foundation

VENICE.- The Giorgio Cini Foundation announces Marc Quinn, a major exhibition which opened on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore on 29 May 2013 in tandem with the inauguration of the 55th Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. Curated by Germano Celant, the solo show includes sculptures, paintings and other art objects by one of the original Young British Artists. Admission to the exhibition is free and it runs until 29 September 2013. Consisting of more than 50 works, including the public debut [...]

First solo exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian painter Paulo Laport opens at Edelman Arts

NEW YORK, NY.- Edelman Arts announces the solo debut in the United States of noted Brazilian painter Paulo Laport, a major presence in numerous private and public collections in Latin American and Europe. A figure in the forefront of Contemporary Brazilian painting, Laport had his first solo show in 1981 at the Galeria Gravura Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro. Renowned for his exquisite touch and luminous light effects, Laport offers a meticulous dialogue between edge and color negotiated by means of both [...]

The polka dot queen of avant-garde art, Yayoi Kusama opens first-ever exhibition in Vietnam

HANOI.- In celebration of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam presents the best of Japanese contemporary art exhibition “YAYOI KUSAMA: Obsessions” from Saturday 25 May to Sunday 28 July 2013 in Hanoi. Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist, has received the National Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2006 but is still, or even more, hyperactive to create new art works. In her over 7 decades-career as an artist, Kusama [...]

Remarkable Dutch Mannerist cabinet picture on extended loan to the Frick Collection

NEW YORK, NY.- The story of Adam and Eve is one of the most enduring in the history of art. With its momentous subject—the creation of humankind—and riveting themes of seduction, deceit, punishment, and redemption, it has long captivated the imaginations of countless artists. Dutch painter Joachim Wtewael recounts the tale in an exquisite oil on copper, executed between 1610 and 1615 that is now on loan to The Frick Collection from a private collector. This cabinet picture is displayed in the Octagon [...]

Tala Madani’s biggest solo exhibition to date opens at Moderna Museet in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM.- Tala Madani is currently on everyone’s lips and is in the midst of making a major international breakthrough. The exhibition Rip Image is her biggest solo exhibition to date and the first opportunity for the public to study her oeuvre in depth. Tala Madani works with painting and animation, and her work examines political subjects such as power structures, masculinity and group dynamics. The viewer is invited into a visual world populated exclusively by middle-aged men engaged in ambiguous and [...]

Earthly delights abound in Getty Museum exhibition on Renaissance gardens

LOS ANGELES, CA.- During the Renaissance, gardens and their flora were used as religious symbols in art, as signs of social status, or simply enjoyed for their aesthetic value. Whether part of a grandiose villa or a feature of a common kitchen yard, gardens were planted and treasured by people at all social levels. In a variety of texts, manuscript artists depicted gardens, and their illustrations attest to the Renaissance spirit for the careful study of the natural world. In Gardens [...]

New anthological exhibition of Cildo Meireles opens at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia presents in the Palacio Velazquez – Parque de El Retiro (Madrid), a new anthological exhibition of Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1948). The exhibition is a co-production with the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto, Portugal) and HangarBicocca (Milan, Italy). João Fernandes, who is the Deputy Director of Museo Reina Sofia, is the curator of this exhibition. Since the late 1960s, Cildo Meireles has been working on new possibilities for the redefinition of [...]

Portraits of the finest quality from the ROM’s Chinese collection displayed in new exhibition

TORONTO.- The tradition of hosting highly visual exhibitions in the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum continues with Faces to Remember: Chinese Portraits of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911). On display at the ROM from May 18, 2013 to February 23, 2014, Faces to Remember features Chinese portraits created during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and comes from the renowned collections of the Museum’s Far Eastern section. Showcasing a culturally important, but often-overlooked aspect of Chinese art [...]

The Zabludowicz Collection offers a unique opportunity for artists without commercial gallery representation

LONDON.- The Zabludowicz Collection announced the fourth exhibition in the 2013 Invites programme. Launched in 2012, Invites is a unique opportunity for artists without commercial gallery representation to produce a solo show in a dedicated project space at Zabludowicz Collection, London. Artists have been selected as a result of extensive studio visits and all shows will run for six weeks. Ellen Mara De Wachter, Curator, Zabludowicz Collection says: ‘The Invites offers emerging artists a unique and highly visible presence at an important [...]