A New iPhone App, Which Recognizes Art, Set to Transform the Art Fair Experience

NEW YORK, NY.- From Thursday, March 3, to Sunday, March 6, 2011, iPhone-toting visitors to Pulse, SCOPE, VOLTA NY, Fountain, and Moving Image will experience the New York art fairs in a new way thanks to a “next-gen” mobile technology that recognizes artworks. The art fair visitor equipped with the Collectrium mobile app will be able to point her iPhone at any registered artwork exhibited at the fair and: • instantly receive extensive information on the artist and the piece; [...]

Artist Joel Shapiro Creates an Installation of New Works for the Museum Ludwig

COLOGNE.- American sculptor Joel Shapiro (b. 1941) created an installation of new and preexisting works for the Museum Ludwig‘s large sky-lighted gallery, interweaving the pieces into a new structure in the space. He will arrange free-hanging, colored wooden beams according to a sophisticated plan, shaping a new sense for space and the possibilities of sculpture. Exhibition view, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 26 February – 25 September 2011. Foto: Lothar Schnepf © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011. Shapiro’s works, which freely float from barely [...]

Exhibition of the Work of Thornton Dial Premieres at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The most extensive exhibition ever mounted of Thornton Dial’s painting and sculpture premiered at theIndianapolis Museum of Art, on view from February 25, 2011, to May 15, 2011. Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist’s significant contribution to the field of American art and show how Dial’s work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time—including the War in Iraq, 9/11, and social issues like racism and homelessness. The exhibition presents 70 of Dial’s [...]

Magnificent Early Renoir and an Extraordinary Story of Jealousy at TEFAF Maastricht

HELVOIRT.- A major work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from the pioneering early days of Impressionism is to be offered for sale for US$15 million by the leading international gallery Dickinson at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s most influential art and antiques fair. Femme cueillant des Fleurs (Woman picking flowers) depicts Camille Monet, the first wife of Renoir’s fellow Impressionist Claude Monet, who died tragically young. It is being sold through Dickinson by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in the United [...]

Hundreds of Egyptian College Students Rally at Iconic Pyramids for Return of Tourists

CAIRO (AP).- As hundreds of Egyptian college students rallied at the iconic pyramids of Giza Friday to promote tourism, camel guide Salah Shabani stood to the side and looked on with sadness. It’s been two weeks since a popular uprising forced President Hosni Mubarak from power, but there has been no return of the crowds of foreigners who come to gaze at the pyramids and get their picture on a camel. Egyptian tourist guides and security sit near the Pyramids, [...]

Turner Prize Winner Susan Philipsz Opens Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art

CHICAGO, IL.- Susan Philipsz, recent winner of the prestigious 2010 Turner Prize, presents a newly commissioned sound installation, We Shall Be All, along with The Internationale at an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, from February 26 to June 5, 2011. Philipsz’s performative sound works echo the history, literature, and music of their sites. For her exhibition, strategically placed audio speakers project her voice singing The Internationale (1999) in the atrium, and We Shall Be All in the [...]

Gagosian Gallery Presents an Exhibition by Gus Van Sant and James Franco

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- “Unfinished” features two films, Endless Idaho and My Own Private River, which are collaborations between Van Sant and Franco. After casting Franco in the award-winning film Milk (2008), Van Sant showed him the dailies and other footage that he had shot many years before for My Own Private Idaho (1991), which starred River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as street hustlers in Portland, Oregon. Much of this material did not make it into the final cut, and so [...]

“Gauguin Maker of Myth” Sheds New Light on Artist and Career at National Gallery of Ar

WASHINGTON, DC.- Paul Gauguin’s (1848–1903) sumptuous, colorful images of Brittany and the islands of the South Seas, some of the most beloved in modern art, are among 100 works by the artist in the first major exhibition of his career in the United States in some 20 years. On view from February 27 through June 5, 2011, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington—the sole U.S. venue—the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth, along with its accompanying catalogue, examines the role that [...]

New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University Plans Museum of the White Mountains

PLYMOUTH, NH (AP).- A hydrologist and a historian may seem like odd choices to co-author an art exhibition catalog, but it makes perfect sense at Plymouth State University. Professors Mark Green and Marcia Schmidt Blaine researched and wrote the explanatory text for “As Time Passes Over the Land,” a collection of 29 paintings of New Hampshire’s White Mountains on temporary display at the university’s Karl Drerup Art Gallery. Their collaboration reflects the university’s approach to not just the exhibit but [...]

Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful at Foundation Foto Colectania in Barcelona

BARCELONA.- Foundation Foto Colectania presents for the first time in Barcelona the famous series Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand. A visitor looks at pictures by US photographer Garry Winogrand during the opening of an exhibition, entitled Garry Winogrand. Women Are Beautiful, at the Foundation Foto Colectania in Barcelona. The exhibition presenting 85 photographs from a series on women and their social transformation between the 1960s and 1970s runs until 04 June. EPA/ALBERTO ESTEVEZ. Garry Winogrand is considered one of [...]

Nude Women Paintings by Aaron Nagel

Aaron Nagel was born in 1980 in San Francisco, CA.  He is a figurative oil painter who resides in Oakland, CA.  Having received no formal training, he is entirely self-taught; a fact at odds with his classical approach to surrealism. In his current work, he explores specific themes of guilt and power, always associated with his views on the perils of organized religion and theism.            

Marc Chagall in Paris During the Early 20th Century at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- As a center of cosmopolitan culture and a symbol of modernity, Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from Eastern Europe during the early decades of the 20th century. Most painters and sculptors settled around Montparnasse, which was sprinkled with cafes, and art galleries. It was here that Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Margit Pogany, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine established studios and discovered each other’s work. [...]

The IVAM shows Pang Xunqin traditional Chinese design

VALENCIA (Spain) – The IVAM prsent, from 28 February to 17 April, the exhibition Pang Xunqin. Chinese decorative figures. The exposition, the result of a collaboration agreement with Changshu Art Museum and curated by its director, Wu Wenxiong, a review for the aesthetics and thinking Xunqin through eighty-four pieces made in 1939 and represents a laboratory for study and analysis of trends that arose in China more than seventy years. In the group of works made in paper and small [...]

Exceptional Collection of Artwork by Swiss Artist Albert Anker to Sell at Hôtel des Ventes

GENEVA.-The estate of Albert Anker’s family will finally go under the hammer at the Geneva-based auctioneers on 9th March without reserve prices. This ensemble of over 55 never-before-seen drawings, sketches and watercolours by Albert Anker was recently discovered in a safe in Geneva. The collection will be sold alongside furniture and personal items and has been valued at 200’000 to 300’000 Swiss francs. According to the owner’s last wishes, all sale proceeds will be donated to charitable organisations. Representatives of [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell One of the Greatest Venetian View Paintings Ever Executed

LONDON.- On July 6, 2011, Sotheby’s London will sell one of the greatest masterpieces of Venetian view painting ever executed. Estimated in the region of £20 million (US$30 million), Francesco Guardi’s Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon is monumental in scale. Measuring 115 by 199.5cm (45¼ by 78½ in.), it is one of four works that Guardi painted on this grand scale, all executed at around the same time in the late 1760s, [...]