Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick, at Nassau County Museum of Art’s

ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Sculptural work by Rona Pondick, fusing human and natural forms in provocative ways, will be on view in Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick, at Nassau County Museum of Art’s (NCMA) Contemporary Gallery from March 13 to May 23.

Rona Pondick Muskrat, 2002-05 Stainless steel, ed. of 3 + 1 AP 10 1Ž2 x 12 1Ž2 x 4 5/8 inches

Rona Pondick blends traditional sculptural methods with the latest 3-D computer technology to produce powerful sculptural objects that morph human, animal and [...]

Jupiter Artland Announces Four New Sculpture Commissions

EDINBURGH.- Jupiter Artland announced four major site specific commissions to be unveiled in May 2010. New works by Turner Prize short-listed artists Cornelia Parker, Nathan Coley and Jim Lambie as well as young British sculptor Peter Liversidge, will be displayed in the 80-acre woodland grounds of Bonnington House on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Since opening in May 2009, Jupiter Artland has quickly established itself as an exciting new addition to the UK art scene, offering visitors a unique opportunity to explore [...]

The Ducks are Back! Duckomenta II-New Works and Finds

NEWHARDENBERG.- Despite all of the quacking going on about demographic decline: the ducks – all those Daisys and Donalds – are mulptiplying and Duckburg, at least, has grown considerably.
Following the Neuhardenberg exhibition in 2003, they travelled the world, were celebrated wherever they went and have now returned to their place of departure to show and astound their many new colleagues at Neuhardenberg with the many sensational things they found along the way. Did you know, for example, that Carl Spitzweg’s [...]

Works by Degas, Delacroix to Visit AGO in North American Exclusive

TORONTO.- Lust. Passion. Murder. Many of the greatest artists of the 19th century shared a profound fascination with the theatre and its themes of triumph and destruction, love and despair. This summer, the Art Gallery of Ontario gives centre stage to key artworks by these artists in a major international exhibition titled “Drama and Desire: Artists and the Theatre”, opening June 19 and continuing through September 26.
Conceived by Guy Cogeval, president of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the exhibition includes [...]

State Historical Museum Opens “The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin”

MOSCOW.- The State Historical Museum opened the exhibition “The Year 1812 in the paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin”, a gift given to the museum in 1812 by Emperor Nicholas II. Prior to the celebraton of the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 the State Historical Museum has organized this exhibition of paintings made by the famous Russian painter of battle scenes, Vasily Vereshchagin.
Twenty grandiose picturesque paintings chronicle the events from the Battle of Borodino to the flight of Napoleon [...]

New Works by Mel Bochner in Exhibition at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents an exhibition by Mel Bochner.
One of the preeminent figures in the history of conceptual art, Mel Bochner has used verbal, mathematical and geometric systems to influence the content of his work since the mid-1960’s. His “thesaurus paintings,” which debuted at the Whitney Biennial in 2004, are characterized by experimentation and commentary on language. Each begins with an initial word followed by an array of synonyms ranging from the tame to the perversely [...]

MoMA Opens “The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times”

NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout history, humankind has sought to make sense of their world through myths. These stories, often taking visual forms, have been both preserved and transformed over the years as they have been repictured and retold. Artists have long considered mythology part of their aesthetic language, a tradition continued by modern and contemporary artists who address and reinterpret mythologies in their works. “The Modern Myth” features works on paper from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art [...]

Art of the Islamic and Indian World at Christie’s South Kensington

LONDON.- A broad variety of works of art, paintings, manuscripts and an intricate and jewel-like panelled room will be offered at Christie’s sale of Islamic and Indian Art on 13 April 2010.
The painted and gilt carved room (estimate: £200,000-300,000) recreates the splendour and beauty of Damascus in the late 18th/early 19th century. The fashion for richly decorated interiors gained popularity in the capital of Ottoman Syria during this period of the late 18th and 19th centuries. Hidden behind plain walls, [...]

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Presents “ColorForms”

WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents “ColorForms,” an exhibition devoted to the exploration of color and abstract form through a variety of media, March 11 through winter 2011. Organized by associate curator Evelyn Hankins and located in the lower-level galleries, the exhibition highlights artworks from the Hirshhorn’s collection that date from 1949 to the present, including two major recent acquisitions: Paul Sharits’ four-projector film installation, “Shutter Interface” (1975) and Fred Sandback’s linear yarn sculpture “Untitled (Sculptural Study, Twelve-Part Vertical [...]

Multifaceted Artist Beat Takeshi Kitano Exhbits at Fondation Cartier

PARIS.- Funny yet touching, unpredictable yet brilliant, Beat Takeshi Kitano is a multifaceted and prolific artist that has captivated the Japanese public. Comedian and host of nine TV shows ranging from the highly comical to the very serious, he is one of the most popular entertainers in his own country. Abroad, Takeshi Kitano is a widely acclaimed author and actor, and has directed ‘Sonatine’ (1993), ‘Hana-Bi’ (1997, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival) and ‘Zatôichi’ (2003), among [...]

Curators Claim “Lost” Emperor Portrait is Largest Mughal Painting Ever Seen

LONDON.- Curators of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 – which opens tomorrow – will reveal a six-foot, seventeenth-century life-size portrait of the Emperor Jahangir which they claim is the largest painting to come from the Mughal empire.
Jahangir holding a globe, dating from 1617, is opulently painted in gold and watercolour on cotton and includes relief jewellery. Apart from its appearance in an auction-house catalogue in 1995, the epic portrait now on view at the Gallery’s [...]

Annie Leibovitz Agrees Loan Deal with Colony Capital: Report

LONDON.- Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm to sort out her debts, the Financial Times reported in its Tuesday edition.
The paper said Leibovitz, who has photographed everyone from Michelle Obama to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, has lined up real estate investment firm Colony Capital as a sole creditor to help manage her finances and market her work.
“We will be partners in managing her assets and her business so that Annie can spend her time [...]

Winslow Homer Exhibition this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND, ME.- This summer the Portland Museum of Art will present Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, on view June 5 through September 6, 2010. In honor of the centennial of Homer’s death in September, this exhibition will showcase 20 works from the Museum’s collection of Homer watercolors and oils on canvas. Based upon the extraordinary gift of 17 works by Charles Shipman Payson to the Museum in 1976, the exhibition will feature paintings understood to be national treasures, [...]

Centre Pompidou Shows Fifty Large-Format Paintings in Tribute to Lucian Freud

PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is to pay tribute to Lucian Freud, one of the greatest of contemporary painters. Now 88 years old, he is one of the world’s most important living artists. He has not shown in France since the Centre’s last major retrospective of his work nearly a quarter of a century ago, in 1987, though his fame has since then only grown and his place in the history of art become ever more assured.
The exhibition will present an [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell Single-Owner Collection of British Watercolours and Drawings

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, it will present for sale, in its New Bond Street galleries in London, An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection. The single-owner sale of some 250 lots will have at its heart an exquisite group of 18th and 19th century British Watercolours and Drawings and Portrait Miniatures, which ranks as one of the finest collections of its kind to have come to the market in recent memory. Magnificent Regency furniture will [...]