Martin-Gropius-Bau Presents Photographs by Actress Margarita Broich

BERLIN.- As an actress Margarita Broich is one of the big names, but it may come as a surprise to many that she is also a photographer. For the first time the Martin-Gropius-Bau is showing an exhibition of her work consisting of over 60 portraits of her fellow artists, including Ben Becker, Kate Winslet, Veronika Ferres, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christoph Schlingensief, Thomas Quasthoff and many more. Margarita Broich has captured those fleeting moments when the actor sheds the role in [...]

James Cohan Gallery Presents the First Solo Exhibition of Alex Katz’ Work in Mainland China

SHANGHAI.- James Cohan Gallery Shanghai presents Alex Katz, the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in mainland China. The exhibition focuses on five recent portrait paintings from 2008 to 2010, along with a selection of prints that feature the artist’s lifelong interest in the landscape. Alex Katz (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1927) has been a defining, preeminent and influential artist for the past fifty years. Graduating in 1949 from The Cooper Union Art School in Manhattan he was then [...]

The United Kingdom’s Premier National Art and Antiques Fair to Be Held March 23-29

LONDON.- Visitors to The 19th BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, the UK’s premier national art and antiques Fair and showcase for more than 100 members of the prestigious British Antique Dealers’ Association, can expect to see these twenty highlights, plus much more, from 23-29 March 2011. Situated in one of London’s most affluent areas, the Duke of York Square, off Sloane Square, surrounded by luxury shops and restaurants, makes it the ideal location for visitors travelling from far and [...]

Dutch Drawings from the Pushkin Museum on View at the Bonnefanten Museum

MAASTRICHT.- The Moscow based State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts stages a major exhibition of Dutch drawings in the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. This is the first time that the Pushkin Museum sent such a large number of Dutch drawings abroad. There are ninety items on show until June 19th 2011. The exhibition opened on the same day as TEFAF 2011. Most of the drawings date from the period when seventeenth-century Dutch art was at its peak, and were made [...]

Modern Art Masters from the Smithsonian Opens at Cheekwood Art & Gardens

NASHVILLE, TN.- Modern Masters examines the complex and varied nature of American abstract art in the mid-20th century through three broadly conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius – “Significant Gestures,” “Optics and Order” and “New Images of Man.” The decades following World War II were stimulating times for American Art. While some vanguard artists began to paint or sculpt in the 1930s as beneficiaries of WPA-era government support, other immigrant artists fled to the United States as [...]

Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

HAMBURG.- The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned artists and thus offers a fresh and comprehensive overview over protest and opposition movements in the course of the past 60 years. At the same time it highlights the tensions between utopia, the wish for participation and political history – looking at the newly reviewed protests this subject is highly topical. Artists’ posters tell the story of protest, commitment to freedom and human rights, the fight [...]

Two Works About Children and Art by Dutch Artist Rineke Dijkstra at Bonniers Konsthall

STOCKHOLM.- Bonniers Konsthall presents I See a Woman Crying—two works about children and art by Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. One of the two films in Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition I See A Woman Crying shows a group of children from a primary school who interpret Picasso’s painting Weeping Woman from 1937. Together, the children devise stories about the woman in the image; how she feels, where she has been and where she is going. We never get to see the painting, [...]

The MFA Houston Announces Landmark Acquisition of a Dozen Works by James Turrell

HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), builds on its longstanding commitment to the work of James Turrell with the recent acquisition of a dozen light-based works by the renowned American artist. Turrell titled the grouping Vertical Vintage; the retrospective selection reflects the full arc of Turrell’s engagement with artificial light, ranging from his first mid-1960s projections to his most recent Tall Glass series. “Vertical Vintage is part of an on-going partnership established by the MFAH and James [...]

Groundbreaking Seattle Performance Company Degenerate Art Ensemble Celebrated at Frye Art Museum

SEATTLE, WA.- An array of warrior princesses, ninjas waging epic battles, hungry ghosts, birds and beasts—shape shifters all—will greet visitors at the Frye Art Museum from March 19 to June 19, 2011 when the groundbreaking Seattle performance company Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) will be celebrated for the first time in a museum exhibition. DAE’s dynamic, event-based sensorial extravaganzas will be showcased through music, sculpture, props, costumes, musical instruments, animated films, photo and video documentation, and video projections. Included are signature [...]

N.C. Museum of Art Presents Work by Leading Contemporary African American Artists

RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art presents 30 Americans, an exhibition of work by many significant contemporary African American artists, in its Meymandi Exhibition Gallery in East Building, March 19 through September 4, 2011. Organized by the internationally known Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition features 75 works of art from the last three decades and includes painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed-media installations. 30 Americans brings together both established and emerging artists whose work explores issues of [...]

Experts from the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts Discover Rare Van Dyck

MADRID.- “The Virgin and Child with Repentant Sinners” was not a copy of Van Dyck and did not deserve to be in the basement of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. This is a genuine Van Dyck from 1625, the institution took it out of storage today after many years. The work was included in the 1964 inventory of the Academy as “an old copy of Van Dyck. “Once the painting was cleaned and restored, the [...]

Robert De Niro Testifies in Gallery Owner Lawrence Salander-Related Art Fraud Trial

NEW YORK (AP).- It’s a role that moviegoers might not know Robert De Niro plays: overseeing his painter father’s estate. The Academy Award-winning actor served as a star witness Friday in an art-fraud trial, testifying against a former gallery director accused of selling some of the late Robert De Niro Sr.’s works without paying his family its share. Seeming as self-assured on the witness stand as his characters are on screen, De Niro told jurors about his family’s dealings with [...]

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Presents Jeff Koons: Artist Rooms Exhibition

EDINBURGH.- One of the most highly acclaimed and internationally successful artists working today is the focus of a new display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this spring. ARTIST ROOMS: Jeff Koons brings together a selection of 18 major works charting the American artist’s career from the early 1980s until 2003. The works on display will be taken from ARTIST ROOMS, a collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the [...]

Walker Art Center Acquires Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center and Cunningham Dance Foundation (CDF) announce the Walker’s acquisition of a comprehensive collection of artist-made set pieces, costumes, painted drops, and props, created for the internationally renowned Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) redefined the visual and performing arts through pioneering collaborations with leading artists, designers, and musicians. More than 150 objects created by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, John [...]

Art in Motion: Sonia Delaunay Textiles On View at Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors could be used to create a sense of movement and rhythm in art. Sonia, who was intent on merging art and everyday life, applied this principle of “simultaneity” (color suggesting motion) to clothing, which naturally moves and flows with the body. She says she realized the potential of fabric in [...]