Christie’s Previews Lots from Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sales in Hong Kong

HONG KONG.- Christie’s presented in Hong Kong one of George Stubbs’ most important works at the Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on 5 July 2011 in London. Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey by George Stubbs (1724-1806) is a true masterpiece of both British art and sporting painting, portraying Gimcrack, one of the most popular and admired of all 18th century racehorses. It is offered from the Woolavington Collection, one of the [...]

Art 42 Basel Announces an Array of High-Calibre Works for this Year’s Art Parcours

BASEL.- This year’s Art Parcours sector for Art 42 Basel will present artworks at various historical locations in the city of Basel. After the introduction of Art Parcours in 2010 on the Münsterhügel, the 2011 edition will use different venues in the St. Alban Tal area along the Rhine. From Wednesday, June 15 until Sunday, June 19, ten locations will be transformed by site-specific artworks and performances created by a number of renowned international artists. This array of high-calibre works, [...]

Journeyings: Recent Works on Paper by Frank Bowling RA at the Royal Academy

LONDON.- An exhibition exploring recent works on paper by the painter Frank Bowling RA is on view from May 27 through October 23, 2011 at the Royal Academy of Arts. Bowling’s art reflects his travels, actual and aesthetic, between his birthplace of British Guiana (now Guyana) and his homes and studios in London and New York; between the tradition of English landscape painting and the legacy of American Abstract Expressionism. Frank Bowling RA (b. 1936), Greenacross I, 2009. Acrylic paint [...]

Art Gallery of Ontario Presents Abstract Expressionist Exhibition from MoMA

TORONTO.- Jackson Pollock. Mark Rothko. Robert Motherwell. Joan Mitchell. Franz Kline. Lee Krasner. Willem de Kooning. These are just a few of the legendary 20th-century artists whose artwork is now on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in an unprecedented international exclusive. Abstract Expressionist New York: Masterpieces from The Museum of Modern Art, on view until September 4, features more than 100 works from the unparalleled collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by the legendary artists [...]

Christie’s Hong Kong Spring 2011 Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art Achieves New Milestone

HONG KONG.- Christie’s concluded its Hong Kong Spring Evening and Day sales of Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art on 29 May, 2011, totaling HK$761,514,250/ US$97,854,581. The sales were 82% sold by lot and 94% sold by value. Five lots sold in excess of HK$30,000,000 /US$3,855,000 and seventeen lots over HK$10,000,000 /US$1,285,000. Eighteen world auction records were achieved for a broad range of works, including twelve lots by Chinese artists, three by Japanese artists, two by Koreans and one Indian [...]

Museu Coleccao Berardo in Lisbon Opens PHotoEspaña 2011 with a Show by Alfredo Jaar

LISBON.- The exhibition by Alfredo Jarr was presented in a press conference at Museu Colecção Berardo at Lisbon. The exhibition is under the Official Section of PHotoEspaña 2011 Interfaces, Portraiture and Communication. A Hundred Times Nguyen, focused in the girl Nguyen whom the artist met at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, is the protagonist of an installation in which the image of her face is repeated over and over again. The work purports to reflect on the distant effect [...]

Successful ‘Picasso in Paris’ Exhibition Attracts 471,168 Visitors at Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition provided the first opportunity in the Netherlands to see a major overview of how Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881-1973) developed from a young unknown artist in the culturally bustling city of Paris into the leader of the avant-garde. The exhibition included more than seventy works of art, including such masterpieces as Self-portrait with a pallet and Moulin de la Galette and important works from private collections and museums such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan [...]

Artist Neo Rauch Opens Summer Exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden

BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY.- The grand summer exhibition 2011 at the Museum Frieder Burda is dedicated to Neo Rauch. Around 40 main works by the artist from Leipzig from the past 20 years are shown from 28 May to 18 September 2011. Many of these works are publicly exhibited for the first time. They reflect the abundance of imagination and topics covered by the artist. There is a boundless force within the picturesque world of the painter Neo Rauch. His subjects seem [...]

American Artist Wade Guyton Shows Small-Format Works at the Secession in Vienna

VIENNA.- In his exhibition Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer (Drawings For A Small Room) at the Secession, American artist Wade Guyton shows small-format works characterized by a minimalist formal vocabulary. As his support medium, he uses pages from old art, architecture and lifestyle magazines which he prints over with an inkjet printer. The abstract idiom devised by the artist on the computer using standard word processing software and the results of this work process are imposed by the fluctuating quality [...]

“Waves at Matsushima” at the Sackler Gallery Honor’s Japan’s Beloved Pine Islands

WASHINGTON.- Long revered as one of Japan’s most beautiful sites, Matsushima Bay endured the unleashing of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan March 11. Despite its proximity to the epicenter of the underwater earthquake, the site is one of the few places along the Sanriku coast that sustained less damage, mostly due to the buffering effect of the bay’s 260 pine-studded islands that lend the area its name. “Waves at Matsushima,” on view at the Arthur M. Sackler [...]

Fotomuseum Winterthur Opens Major Exhibition of Photographs and Videos by Ai Weiwei

WINTERTHUR.- Ai Weiwei – Interlacing is the first major exhibition of photographs and videos by Ai Weiwei. It foregrounds Ai Weiwei the communicator – the documenting, analyzing, interweaving artist who communicates via many channels. Ai Weiwei already used photography in his New York years, but especially since his return to Beijing, he has incessantly documented the everyday urban and social realities in China, discussing it over blogs and Twitter. Photographs of radical urban transformation, of the search for earthquake victims, [...]

The Shape of Things to Come: Exhibition of New Sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery

LONDON.- On 27 May, the Saatchi Gallery opened The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, an exhibition of 20 leading and emerging international artists working in sculpture today. This is the first time that the gallery space has been devoted entirely to three-dimensional works. The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture provides an unprecedented look at some of the most exciting sculptural works created in recent years. From granite monoliths to neon structures, buckled cars to stuffed horse [...]

Only Canadian Presentation of Major Warhol Exhibition Opens at the Art Gallery of Alberta

EDMONTON.- The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) kicks of an exciting summer season with the opening of ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured and SARAH FULLER: My Banff on Saturday, May 28. ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured reveals the complex personality of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the “father of Pop”, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928–February 22, 1987). The exhibition explores Warhol’s interest in American consumer culture, mass production, celebrity and the invention of personas and realities, taking visitors beyond [...]

Exhibition of Danish and Nordic Art 1750-1900 on View at The National Gallery of Denmark

COPENHAGEN.- From the birth of Danish painting through the famous Golden Age of Danish art to the dawn of Modernism. All the major trends and movements within 150 years of Danish and Nordic art unfold themselves in a new, comprehensive display of the collections housed at the National Gallery of Denmark. “Danish and Nordic Art 1750-1900″ shows more than 400 works in 24 freshly renovated exhibition rooms. This tour de force of art involves many different aspects; it includes a [...]

The MFA Houston Selects Three Architecture Firms to Submit Design Proposals for an Expanded MFAH

HOUSTON, TX.- Cornelia Long, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced at yesterday’s annual meeting of the board that the MFAH has selected three architecture firms—Morphosis, Snøhetta and Steven Holl Architects—to submit conceptual design proposals for an expanded MFAH. The project entails the construction of a building intended primarily for post-1900 art, a parking garage and the integration of surrounding MFAH buildings and public spaces. The decision follows several years of focused internal [...]