Exhibition of Prints by Artist Wayne Thiebaud at Greenfield Sacks Gallery

SANTA MONICA, CA.- Greenfield Sacks Gallery presents an exhibition of prints by celebrated California artist Wayne Thiebaud (b.1920). The exhibition will include 16 works in both color and black and white dating from 1965 thru 2006. Wayne Thiebaud started his career as a graphic artist. From 1938 to 1949, he worked as a sign painter, an illustrator, a cartoonist, and as an artist for Hollywood film studios. This experience as a commercial artist strongly influenced his works. Thiebaud’s iconic images [...]

Center for Fine Arts in Brussels Announces El Greco Exhibition

BRUSSELS.- Regarded today as one of the founders of the Spanish School of painting, El Greco has not, however, always enjoyed that lofty status. At the time of his death in Toledo in 1614, Europe was wildly enthusiastic about the then fashionable naturalism of the Caravaggesque style, poles apart from his own brilliant Mannerism. El Greco’s work soon went out of fashion and remained relatively neglected down the centuries – until 1908, when the art historian Manuel Bartolomé Cossío devoted [...]

Yale University Says Suit Over Vincent Van Gogh’s Work Imperils Other Art

NEW HAVEN, CT.- The ownership of tens of billions of dollars of art and other goods could be thrown into doubt if a lawsuit seeking the return of a famous Vincent Van Gogh painting is successful, according to a court filing by Yale University. The Ivy League university sued in federal court in March to assert its ownership rights over “The Night Cafe” and to block a descendant of the original owner from claiming it. Pierre Konowaloff is the purported [...]

Getty Museum to Exhibit Photographs by Frederick H. Evans

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Through a deep understanding of his subject and a delicate handling of light, mass, and volume, Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943) created photographs of medieval cathedrals that capture the innate spirituality of each stone building. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 2–June 6, 2010, “A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans” explores the artist’s images of medieval cathedrals in England and France, rarely seen landscapes of the English [...]

Extensive Solo Exhibition by Artist Elke Krystufek at kestnergesellschaft

HANNOVER.- From December 2009 to February 2010, the kestnergesellschaft is presenting an extensive solo exhibition by the Austrian-German artist Elke Krystufek. Elke Krystufek, who represented Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2009 along with Dorit Margreiter and Franziska and Lois Weinberger, stands in the tradition of feminist artists such as Carolee Schneemann and VALIE EXPORT, but also in the tradition of artists without a specific political program such as Picabia, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Francesca Woodman and Duncan Grant. The artist [...]

Fúcares Gallery in Madrid Presents Latest Works by Carlos Schwartz

MADRID.- Fúcares Gallery presents in its Madrid headquarters an exhibition of the latest works by Carlos Schwartz. It is made up of a group of pieces – sculptures, photographs and assembled objects. Light is still their common element, linking meaning and intent. Light places these pieces on an unfamiliar and unreal plane from which they question the viewer. Stairs that go up to nowhere, ramps and footbridges that end on the wall, all ask us about their value as transit [...]

Transient Wonders and Everyday Bliss by Rinko Kawauchi to be Shown at Argos

BRUSSELS.- In her still and subdued works, Rinko Kawauchi (1972), one of the most celebrated Japanese photographers of her generation – tries to capture the brief and transient beauty of the everyday things we often overlook. Playing on such themes as the family and our interaction with the cycle of nature and life, this artist looks for wonder in details. It is astonishing that her sensitive yet forceful way of observing the world around her and of catching fleeting moments [...]

Ambika P3 Announces Exhibition of the Most Significant British Artists

LONDON.- A major exhibition bringing together early and recent work by some of the most significant British artists of our time opens this March in the vast subterranean gallery of Ambika P3 in London. Curated by the hugely influential teacher Peter Kardia, From Floor to Sky runs from 5 March until 4 April 2010. Peter Kardia is widely recognised for his work as a radical and pioneering teacher at both Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art during the [...]

First Solo Exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake for Florian Slotawa

BERLIN.- Galerie Nordenhake presents its first solo exhibition with Florian Slotawa. Instead of bringing new objects into the world, the artist recontextualises and rearranges what already exists and frequently develops his works through an intensive dialogue with the places in which they are presented. His fascination for shifts in meaning and the temporary reassignment of function is an important point of departure for this exhibition, which brings together photographs of his studio with a sculptural intervention. Florian Slotawa, “Studio” (Room [...]

Florence Griswold Museum Announces Tula Telfair’s Landscapes in Counterpoint

OLD LYME, CT.- From April 24 through June 27, 2010 the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut presents Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint. The exhibition pairs nine new monumental paintings by the artist with her selection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century paintings from the museum’s collection. Telfair’s choices, which include works by Thomas Cole and Frederic E. Church, establish the visual foundation for, as well as a counterpoint to, her own large-scale landscapes—paintings that are informed by both tradition [...]

Gallery Application for 16th Edition of Art-Athina Ends on January 10

ATHENS.- Following the widely acclaimed success of the 15th edition of ART-ATHINA last May (which showcased the work of more than 300 artists represented by 58 galleries from 12 countries and attracted 12,000 visitors), the International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens is back with its 16th edition, which will take place on 13 – 16 May 2010. The application form submission procedure for 2010 has already started and the galleries can apply online the latest by 10 January 2010 via [...]

Italian Fine Art Photographer Marco Sanges to Show “Big Scenes”

LONDON.- Hackney Empire presents the visionary world of the Italian photographer Marco Sanges. Preview night: 11th of February from 6:30. Every sequence tells a unique, multi-layered story, creating a highly personal, imaginary cinema. This body work takes shape in this truly vintage exhibition called Big Scenes. Marco Sanges’s works are narrative based, always evoking a feeling of mystery and the sense of a sensual, uncanny world just out of grasp. On the 11th of February, the preview night will unveil [...]

Steven Holl Architects Presents New Book Urbanisms: Working With Doubt

NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Holl Architects announced the release of a new book, Urbanisms: Working with Doubt. Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams, maps, and graphs to convey the rational, statistical point of view of the professional urban planner. This volume suggests that just as modern medicine has recognized the power of the irrational psyche, urban planners need to realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely rationalized and must be studied subjectively. [...]

Baltimore Museum Announces Exhibition to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on American artists at the beginning of the 20th-century. Along with the BMA’s two great Cézanne paintings, “Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry” and “Bathers”, the exhibition showcases outstanding [...]

Moderna Museet’s New Venue in Malmo Opens to the Public at Renovated Power Station

MALMO.- The Art map of Malmö will get an important addition: on December 26, 2009 Moderna Museet Malmö will open John Smedberg’s electricity plant on Gasverksgatan 22 to the public. At the inauguration three opening exhibitions will be presented. Firstly Luc Tuymans from Belgium, who is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists of today. Secondly an exhibition with a selection of Moderna Museet’s collection with a focus on the 60s, and finally Astrid Svangren who is based in [...]