Miami’s Original and Longest Running Contemporary Art Fair Returns for Its 21st Edition

MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami , Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair, will once again electrify the city from December 1 – December 5, 2010. As the anchor art fair to the city of Miami, the fair will return with a compelling array of modern and contemporary artwork from over 100 international galleries and prominent art institutions. Art Miami will be held in a state-of-the-art 100,000 square foot pavilion in Midtown Miami’s burgeoning Wynwood Arts District. Now in its 21st year, [...]

Selection of Unique Representative Works of Color Field Painting at Deutsche Guggenheim

BERLIN.- With Color Fields the Deutsche Guggenheim presents a selection of unique representatives of Color Field painting drawn largely from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curated by Richard Armstrong, Director Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, the exhibition features work by Gene Davis, Paul Feeley, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Alfred Jensen, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Raymond Parker, Larry Poons, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Larry Zox on display at the Berlin exhibition space. [...]

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Announces Partnership to Preserve Historic Watts Towers

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced a collaboration with the City of Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs, toward the day-to-day preservation of the Watts Towers in a one-year agreement. LACMA will provide staff-time and expertise to identify repairs to the Towers, preserving the unique outdoor public landmark, and the City will provide $150,000 in funds towards this effort. LACMA will reach out to other local institutions including the Getty, the California African [...]

Photo Miami: The Premiere Fair for Contemporary Photography, and Video Returns for Its 5th Edition

MIAMI, FL.- Photo Miami, the premiere fair for contemporary photography, video and new media, will return for its 5th edition December 1-5, 2010, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach. With a strong emphasis on global diversity, the critically curated fair will present work by hundreds of artists represented by galleries from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. There will be an exclusive VIP opening on Tuesday, November 30, with a Press Preview from 4–6 PM and Opening Night Reception [...]

Exhibition Features 70 Images by Julia Margaret Cameron

PITTSBURGH, PA.- On October 23, 2010, the exhibition For my best beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron opened at the Frick Art & Historical Center. Now considered to be one of photography’s early masters, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) is one of the best-known photographers of the Victorian era. From the time she received her first camera as a gift when she was 48 years old, she worked to develop the medium and her personal artistic [...]

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea Opens Exhibition of Works by Jane and Louise Wilson

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.- Suspending Time, the exhibition by Jane & Louise Wilson that the The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea presents, is the most complete look at the work of these two creators held in Spain, curated by Isabel Carlos. It includes their most recent work, except for Hypnotic Suggestion 505, from 1993, a piece in which the artists allow themselves to be hypnotised before a camera. It became a benchmark for some of the elements in their creative concerns: [...]

The Art Institute of Chicago Delves into Richard Hawkins’s Third Mind for Major Retrospective

CHICAGO, IL.- The first U.S. survey exhibition of artist Richard Hawkins (b. 1961)—whose works are making a crucial contribution to contemporary art—will premiere at the Art Institute of Chicago this fall. Richard Hawkins: Third Mind, on view October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, consists of more than 80 objects, including books, collages, drawings, paintings, and sculptures that span his twenty-year career. The exhibition is installed in two spaces in the museum: the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G182–184) as well [...]

Exhibition of Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland Delights 100,000 Visitors

EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that the blockbuster exhibition Impressionist Gardens has ended its hugely successful run on a high note, with total visitor figures of nearly 100,000. Extended opening hours allowed almost 17,000 people to see the exhibition in its final week at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh, and the show attracted an average daily attendance of 1,250 over its 78-day run, from 31 July to 17 October. In total, there were 99,509 ticketed visitors to [...]

Hugh Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg

JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hundreds of CDs featuring Tracey’s recordings are on exhibition in South Africa along with traditional instruments he collected from across the continent, from Malawian gourd resonators to ingalaba drums played in Uganda. The Hugh Tracey archives are a valuable resource that [...]

First Solo Museum Show Devoted to Kurt Schwitters Since 1985 Opens at the Menil Collection

HOUSTON, TX.- The new Menil exhibition, KURT SCHWITTERS: Color and Collage, examines one of the 20th century’s most enduring figures of the international avant‐garde. Schwitters (1887‐1948) worked at the edges of Germany’s revolutionary art and intellectual movements in the tumultuous wake of the First World War. In the summer of 1919 he created the term “Merz” to describe his unique process of dismantling the established boundaries and hierarchies that existed between the fine arts. Employing equal parts philosophy and artistic [...]

Brooklyn Museum Inaugurates Purchase Fund for Acquisition of pre-1945 African American Art

BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum is inaugurating a new collecting initiative that will focus on the acquisition of works by African American artists that were created between the mid-nineteenth century and 1945. In the first three years, the Museum is seeking to raise a minimum of $500,000 for this ongoing dedicated purchase fund, together with gifts of works of art. The project has already received $100,000, with an additional $100,000 to be given as a matching grant, from Museum Trustee [...]

High Receives Gift of 90 19th-Century American Paintings and Sculptures from West Foundation

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced that it has received a major gift of 90 paintings and sculptures from the Atlanta-based West Foundation’s nineteenth-century American collection. The donated works include 49 paintings and 41 sculptures, establishing the High as a major resource for nineteenth-century American art. The gift enriches the High’s collection of American Art with important works including landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church and Jasper Cropsey, portraits by Rembrandt Peale and William Sydney Mount, and sculptures [...]

FIAC 2010 Brings Together 195 Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries from 24 Countries

PARIS.- The 37th edition of FIAC takes place from October 21st through October 24th at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée du Louvre and the Tuileries Garden. Located in Paris’ most prestigious and emblematic sites, infused with its history and cultural life, FIAC’s continuous commitment to the highest standards of quality and the synergies it has developed with Paris’ prestigious art institutions, have made it one of the art world’s premier international events of the autumn calendar. In a spirit [...]

Art student damages Guggenheim painting in knife attack

Bilbao, Spain – A 25-year-old art student Friday attacked a painting by 17th Century Dutch artist Jan Victor with a knife before a guard managed to subdue him, police said in Bilbao. The attack at the Guggenheim museum in the northern Spanish city was on the painting titled ‘Boas Assumes the Legacy of Elimelech,’ one of 130 works by Dutch and Flemish artists in the museum’s collection. Jan Victors (before 1619, Amsterdam-after 1676, East Indies) Boas Assumes the Legacy of [...]

ARCOmadrid_2011 Committee Selects a Total of 141 Galleries for Its 40th Edition

MADRID.- During the meeting held on October 4th and 5th last, the ARCOmadrid Organising Committee selected a total of 141 galleries for its General Programme and ARCO 40. These will be joined by a further 38 galleries who will be featuring in the various curated sections—Focus Russia, Solo Projects: Focus Latin America, and Opening: New European Galleries. On Thursday November 18th, following the meeting of the Appeal Committee scheduled for the beginning of the month at which the list will [...]