Hirshhorn Museum in Washington Presents Major Guillermo Kuitca Retrospective

WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: painting. “Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008,” on view Oct. 21–Jan. 16, 2011, presents over 45 canvases and 25 works on paper, spanning the artist’s career. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in the [...]

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale to Be Led by a Major Mark Rothko Painting

NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 November 2010 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be led by a major 1955 Untitled painting by Mark Rothko which has been off the market for over 40 years (est. $20/30 million). The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. All the works will be on view from 5 November with [...]

After 23,358 Submissions, Mediums Collide at YouTube’s Guggenheim Exhibit

NEW YORK (AP).- After 23,358 submissions and countless double-clicks, the results are in for YouTube’s “biennial of creative video.” On Thursday night, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Google Inc.-owned video website presented “YouTube Play,” an exhibit of 25 videos selected by a jury including the filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and the music group Animal Collective. The videos, which are gathered online at YouTube.com/play and will be on view at the Guggenheim through Sunday, display a curious collision of mediums. [...]

Sotheby’s Presents Inaugural Selling Exhibition of Impressionist and Modern Art in Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- In response to the increasing interest throughout Asia and especially within China in the field of Impressionist and Modern art, Sotheby’s announced a major selling exhibition to be held this autumn. Modern Masters: Impressionism and Early 20th Century Art will comprise approximately 20 works representing many of the most important artists active in Europe from the late 19th and early 20th century and who left an indelible impression on art history, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, [...]

Special Installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris During the Week of FIAC 2010

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery and Colette present ‘En Grève’ (On Strike), a special installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris during the week of FIAC 2010. At Colette, ‘En Grève’ is Colen’s use of the ubiquitous velibs of Paris. Applying pressure to the mass availability and implicit trust embedded in the system of public transportation, Colen has realized an absurd, vaudevillian gesture which functions both as sculpture and event. This site-specific work will occupy the space for seven days, after [...]

Canadian Artist Rodney Graham’s Through the Forest at Hamburger Kunsthalle

HAMBURG.- Canadian artist Rodney Graham’s (*1949) exhibition entitled Through the Forest provides insight into the development of his complex body of work. The exhibition brings together close to 100 works, dating between 1978 and 2010. They come from important private and public collections in Europe and North America. Graham’s interdisciplinary work embraces a variety of media: books, video, sculpture, painting, installation and music. His use of appropriation allows him to pay tribute to some important artists, writers, philosophers and pop [...]

First Major United States Retrospective of the Work of Paul Thek Opens at the Whitney

NEW YORK, NY.- An artist who defies classification, Paul Thek (1933-1988), the sculptor, painter, and creator of radical installations who was hailed for his work in the 1960s and early 70s, then nearly eclipsed within his own short lifetime, is the subject of an upcoming retrospective co-organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Museum of Art. Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of the legendary American [...]

Spanish Minister of Culture Confirms Acquisition of Painting by Bruegel the Elder for the Prado

MADRID.- The Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, today presided over a plenary session of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo del Prado in which it was unanimously decided to exercise the option to purchase The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day, an autograph work by Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day will join the Museum’s collections once the purchase option has been formalised for the sum of 7 million Euros at which it has been [...]

Kenneth Reed Announces His Significant Bequest to the Art Gallery of New South Wales

SYDNEY.- Kenneth Reed today announced his intention to bequeath to the Art Gallery of New South Wales a substantial collection of old master paintings, Italian Maiolica and European 18th-century porcelain. Numbering over 70 items in total the Ken Reed bequest will represent a most significant addition to the gallery’s European collection said Edmund Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Abraham Bloemaert, Cimon and Iphigenia, late 1620s. Oil on panel, 36.9 x 52.1 cm Mr Reed, a Sydney-based retired [...]

Frieze Art Fair 2010: High-Quality Gallery Presentations Attract Strong Sales

LONDON.- At the close of the eighth edition of Frieze Art Fair, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, several galleries reported their strongest sales since the fair’s inception in 2003. Fair directors, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover were delighted with reports of significant sales from both established galleries and from the newer galleries in the Frame section and beyond. 173 galleries exhibited over 1,000 artists at Frieze Art Fair 2010 – the largest in the fair’s history. 29 different countries were represented. [...]

Scultura III Presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art at The Otto Naumann Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- A tender depiction of the Madonna and Child with the young St John the Baptist by Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497) is among the major pieces of European sculpture presented by Tomasso Brothers Fine Art in their third annual New York exhibition, Scultura III, at Otto Naumann, 22 East 80th Street, from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 October 2010. This beautifully preserved stucco relief not only retains most of its original polychrome decoration but is also in its [...]

Harvard Art Museums Announce Traveling Exhibitions of Works by Lyonel Feininger

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums present two traveling exhibitions devoted to underexplored aspects of the work of Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), one of the major figures of European modernism. Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors from the William S. Lieberman Bequest to the Busch-Reisinger Museum highlights an important recent acquisition of a stunning group of drawings and watercolors from the collection of the legendary curator. Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939, assembled primarily from Harvard University’s Houghton Library, is the first to explore [...]

Museums Escape the Worst in Spending Review at UK

LONDON (REUTERS).- Museums breathed a sigh of relief after escaping the worst of the government spending cuts announced on Wednesday, but reductions in funding for other sectors of the arts were significantly higher. Chancellor George Osborne said museums would face a 15 percent funding cut over the next four years, and, crucially to the sector, free admission to museums and galleries would be preserved. Planned extensions to the Tate Gallery and British Museum in London were also safe. “The outcome [...]

Christopher Stone at “Turning the world upside down”

We had 4 days, just 4 days in which to include the wishes of 6 people, so what with eating, shopping, and doing the sights I eventually managed 2 out of 3 of my desires, I never managed “Gauguin” at the tate modern, but I shall. SOON What I did manage was, “Turning the world upside down” an exhibition in Kensington palace gardens by Anish Kapoor, what can I say ? except wonderful, and Thank you! There are 4 of [...]

Rare and Exceptional Works Lead Christie’s Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings Sale

HONG KONG.- Christie’s Hong Kong will hold its Fall sales of Fine Chinese Modern Paintings and Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy on 30 November at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. These sales will showcase over 350 rare and exceptional works from the Chinese masters, valued in excess of HK$260 million (US$34 million). Chinese calligraphy and paintings are among the most culturally rich and meaningful art forms and encapsulate the history of Chinese culture. The Fine Chinese Classical [...]