Art Mosh: Best Young and Emerging Artists Working Today Exhibit in Paris

PARIS.- The Art Mosh landed at Door Studios in Paris with a bang. A stunning venue near the Bastille, set on three levels, Door Studios was the perfect space to showcase some of the best young and emerging artists working today. The creativity of the Nixon production team and artists, combined with the unusual venue, combined to transform this edgy venue into a one-night only art and music experience. The philosophy of Art Mosh is to showcase contemporary artists in [...]

Exhibition Presents Influential Moments in the Past Century of Performance Art

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Performa 09 present 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), an exhibition presenting influential moments in the past century of performance art history. With over 200 works including film, photography, documents, and audio, 100 years presents a wealth of information that is largely unknown and is intended as an archive for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of the history of performance art. A special presentation organized by Electronic Arts Intermix, a New [...]

Cuban-Born Artist Enrique Martínez Celaya Exhibits at the Baldwin Gallery

ASPEN, CO.- The Baldwin Gallery presents their 5th show of new work by acclaimed contemporary artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. Enrique Martínez Celaya, whose works consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose, is showing new paintings at the gallery in a show entitled “The Palace”. Martínez Celaya’s paintings directly engage with personal life experience and delve into his background in literature, philosophy, and religion, thus resonating on a subconscious societal level. Mysterious and often autobiographical figures appear in dream-like landscapes [...]

Dumbo Arts Center Announces Pixelville: An Urban Concept in Real Time

BROOKLYN, NY.- Pixelville is the collaborative project of the sculptor Nivi Alroy and new media artist Shirley Shor. As Israeli women close in age, Alroy and Shor share many experiences and observations, but discovered their common aesthetic and social purpose only recently, once both had relocated to New York. The title, Pixelville, derives in part from the responsivity of the concept to the Dumbo Arts Center exhibition gallery, a century-old space and part of a still-older complex known as “Gairville.” [...]

Epoh Beech Exhibition to Open at the Gallery in Redchurch Street

LONDON.- For Epoh Beech’s latest solo exhibition in London, the accomplished fine artist has created 45 ethereal charcoal drawings, and a hand drawn animation, inspired by Wagner’s ‘The Ring’, and Francis Beaumont’s 17th-century tome ‘The Masque of the Inner Temple’ and ‘Gray’s Inn’, ‘Gray’s Inn and The Inner Temple’: This Jacobean ‘masque’ was performed at Whitehall Palace in 1613, forming an integral part of the nuptials of the daughter of King James I to Frederick V. The pairing was a [...]

Van Abbemuseum Rounds Off a Successful Year in 2009

EINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum has rounded off a successful year in 2009. Director Charles Esche is satisfied: “2009 was a very good year for the museum. I was pleased with the reactions to our major solo exhibitions especially Sanja Iveković and Deimantas Narkevičius which showed our commitment to bringing the best international work to Eindhoven from the current artistic generation. We toured these exhibitions elsewhere in Europe and also took our 2008 group show Heartland back to the United States [...]

Toledo Museum of Art Launches Redesigned Website

TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has launched a redesigned and expanded website: www.toledomuseum.org The new, easier-to-use site provides immediate ways to explore TMA’s current and upcoming exhibitions, its programs and events, and detailed information about the Museum and its world-renowned collection. “More and more people are turning to the Internet as a primary source of news and information,” said Kelly Fritz Garrow, director of communications. “It’s essential for the Museum to have an active and vibrant online presence.” [...]

China Finds Likely Tomb of 3rd Century General Cao Cao

BEIJING.- Chinese archaeologists have found what could be the tomb of Cao Cao, a skillful general and ruler in the 3rd century who was later depicted in popular folklore as the archetypal cunning politician. Archaeological officials say Cao’s 8,000-square feet (740-square meter) tomb complex, with a 130-feet (40-meter) passage leading to an underground chamber, was found in Xigaoxue, a village near the ancient capital of Anyang in central Henan province, according to the official China Daily newspaper. Historians say Cao [...]

New York Review Caricaturist David Levine Dies at Age 83

NEW YORk, NY.- David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments. His death was confirmed by Robert Silvers, editor of The New York Review, who called Levine “the greatest caricaturist of his time.” Levine’s drawings of politicians, celebrities, writers and historical figures typically had large heads [...]

Fred Tomaselli Painting Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

RICHMOND, VA.- Two contemporary works, a painting by Fred Tomaselli and a photograph by William Wiley, have been added to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection. The Tomaselli painting, “Woodpecker,” is a 2008 work in acrylic, gouache, photo collage, and resin on wood panel measuring 6 by 6 feet. “’Woodpecker’ belongs to a series of magnificent birds that Tomaselli painted as surrogates for humans,” says John Ravenal, VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. [...]

Exhibition Invites Artists to Examine Issues of Social Justice in the Future

LOS ANGELES, CA.- An Idea Called Tomorrow is on view – now through March 7, 2010 – at two Los Angeles institutions, as part of a unique collaborative partnership between the California African American Museum (CAAM) and the Skirball Cultural Center. Co-conceived by CAAM and the Skirball and organized by CAAM, with the goal of inspiring visitors to reflect upon the active role we must all play in bringing about a more just, equitable, and peaceful future, An Idea Called [...]

Exhibition Discovers Valley’s Black Population in Slavery and Freedom

COLUMBUS, GA.- In 1860, nearly 90,000 slaves, almost half the entire population of the lower Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama, called the region home. These people tended the crops that underpinned the area’s economy, built the structures many of its citizens lived, worked and worshipped in, and affected virtually every aspect of the social structure of the era. Yet because slaves did not generate written records of their own, our understanding of their lives is extremely limited. Many [...]

Marc Camille Chaimowicz Creates an Environment at Vienna’s Secession

VIENNA.- A floorscape of carpets with floral and abstract ornamental patterns in soft pastel shades is spread out in the Secession’s light-flooded white cube. The large-format asymmetric carpets lie on bases of different heights whose vertical and horizontal surfaces are at crooked angles, calling into question the functionality of the tufted carpets at the same time as elevating them to the status of autonomous artworks. A multitude of parasols in variously patterned fabrics are arranged on and beside the carpets. [...]

First Solo Show at Lori Bookstein Fine Art for Varujan Boghosian

NEW YORK, NY.- Through January 9th, 2010, Lori Bookstein Fine Art is presenting constructions, collages and sculpture by Varujan Boghosian. This is the artist’s first solo show at Lori Bookstein, following a two-person show with Paul Resika in 2006. A lifelong collector, Boghosian’s studio is a veritable trove of old children’s toys, antiquated tools and oddball objects, a palette composed not of paint but of parts and scraps scavenged from constant trips to flea markets and antique stores. His working [...]

Von Lintel Gallery to Show “Library of Dust: Photographs by David Maisel”

NEW YORK, NY.- In its first solo exhibition in New York City, David Maisel’s “Library of Dust” will be on view at Von Lintel Gallery (520 West 23rd Street) from January 21 through February 27, 2010. The photographs in this acclaimed series depict strangely beautiful copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of an individual patient from an Oregon psychiatric hospital. The canisters are blooming with colorful secondary minerals as the copper has oxidized and undergone physical and chemical transformations. [...]