The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet at the International Center of Photography

NEW YORK, NY.- The Loving Story: Photographs by Grey Villet, on view at the International Center of Photography through May 6, 2012, presents a series of intimate photographs showing the love and unguarded emotions shared by Richard and Mildred Loving, a shy, non-political married couple whose landmark United States Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia overturned the country’s anti-miscegenation laws. The exhibition, organized by Assistant Curator of Collections Erin Barnett, includes some twenty vintage prints by Grey Villet drawn from Villet’s estate and [...]

Bucerius Kunstforum opens exhibition with works by Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet

HAMBURG.- Artistic friendships have always been an exciting mixture of friendship and rivalry. For the first time, an exhibition is being dedicated to the artistic interaction between Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) and Cuno Amiet (1868–1961). These were the two artists who shaped the Europewide advent of the modern art movement in Switzerland. The exhibition focuses on the period after 1893 when the two artists encountered each other both in person and in the awareness of each other’s work. Although their relationship was [...]

Exhibition at Turner Contemporary shows how JMW Turner revolutionised landscape painting

MARGATE.- Eighty-eight works by Britain’s best-loved painter, JMW Turner, many from Tate’s collection, will go on show in the major exhibition Turner and the Elements at Turner Contemporary in Margate from 28 January –13 May 2012. The exhibition, including a number of works featuring Margate and the north Kent coast, illustrates how his painting technique and the influence of the latest scientific and technological developments of his time, revolutionised landscape painting. JMW Turner was a frequent visitor to Margate spending time there as [...]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returns Pissarro painting stolen from French museum in 1981

WASHINGTON, DC.- An art piece stolen from a French museum more than 30 years ago is finally on its way home to France. On Wednesday, U.S. officials repatriated “Le Marché aux Poissons” (The Fish Market), a monotype by Camille Pissarro, to French Ambassador François Delattre. Officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY); and Interpol Washington, U.S. National Central Bureau; attended a ceremony on Jan. 25 at The Kreeger Museum in [...]

Exhibition of Magnum contact sheets on view at the International Center of Photograpy

NEW YORK, NY.- Often compared to an artist’s sketchbook, a contact sheet is the photographer’s first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into the working process. It gives a behind-the-scenes sense of walking alongside photographers and seeing through their eyes. Through May 6, 2012, Magnum Contact Sheets are on view at the International Center of Photograpy, revealing how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the [...]

Galerie Jaeger Bucher in Paris opens exhibition by the Portuguese artist Miguel Branco

PARIS.- From 28 January to 31 March, 2012, the gallery presents an exhibition of the artist Miguel Branco entitled Deserto. Born in Castelo Branco, Portugal in 1963, Miguel Branco studied at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts and has been the director since 1998 of the Painting Department of AR.CO. (Centre of Art and Visual Communication of Lisbon). His works have been shown at international institutions such as the MUDAM in Luxemburg, the CAM—Centre of Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [...]

Paper does not blush: A group exhibition opens at Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin

BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen announces Paper does not blush, a group exhibition with artists of the gallery program. The exhibition focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated books, and selected drawings, that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper itself. On view are works by Yoshitaka Amano, Gianfranco Baruchello, Meg Cranston, Lili Dujourie, Monique van Genderen, Emil Holmer, Christof Mascher, Christoph Steinmeyer, Shaan Syed, Joris Van de Moortel and Mario Ybarra Jr. Yoshitaka Amano gained fame in the 1970’s creating anime, [...]

Tampa Museum of Art celebrates 20th century masters with Spring exhibitions

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art announces its spring 2012 exhibition schedule that honors the work of three modern masters, Romare Bearden, Don ZanFagna and John Cage. In solo exhibitions dedicated to each of the three pioneers, the Museum takes the opportunity to understand the long shadows these artists have left. “With this suite of exhibitions,” according to Todd D. Smith, the Museum’s executive director,” the Museum continues to tell the traditional and emerging histories of the art of the modern [...]

Kit Schulte Contemporary Art introduces young, Italian talent Matteo Bergamasco to Berlin audience

BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art introduces the young, Italian talent Matteo Bergamasco to the Berlin audience. In the exhibition ‘END’ Italian artist Matteo Bergamasco presents a series of visionary drawings about the apocalypse. Bergamasco says: “For about two years I have been frequently dreaming about the end of the world. Each time it happens in a different way, for different reasons, in the most diverse settings… but always in a grandiose fashion!” Regardless of any prophetic or anecdotal reflection, the heart of [...]

Sotheby’s Old Masters Week sales bring a strong total of $73.1 million

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s annual Old Masters Week auctions in New York concluded today with a strong cumulative total of $73,052,668. Thursday’s sale of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture brought $62,081,477, and was highlighted by five remarkable pictures that achieved prices over $4 million – led by Canaletto’s View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo… from the Estate of Lady Forte that sold for $5,682,500 (est. $5/7 million*), and Lucas Cranach the Elder’s portrait Lucretia that brought $5,122,500 [...]

Snap Galleries presents the first UK exhibition for Los Angeles based photographer Neal Preston

LONDON.- Renowned LA based photographer Neal Preston has chosen Snap Galleries in St James to host his first exhibition of photographs in London in January 2012. The exhibition will feature around 50 of Preston’s most important rock & roll photographs. With a career that has already spanned four decades, Preston sees no reason not to aim for a fifth. It all started in high school, as he recalls: “Some kids get behind the wheel of a car when they are 14 or 15, [...]

High Museum to bring Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” to the Southeast for the first time

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art in collaboration with the Mauritshuis, The Hague, will present a major exhibition of Dutch masterworks in 2013, including Johannes Vermeer’s iconic “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” which has not been on view in the United States for more than 15 years and has never been seen in the Southeast. Drawn from the Mauritshuis’s collection, “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis” will highlight the artistic genius of Dutch Golden Age painters, including [...]

Saffronart breaks new ground in western art with its inaugural auction of Impressionist and Modern art

MUMBAI.- Saffronart, India’s leading auction house announces its entry into Western art with its Inaugural Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art. As part of its long-term commitment to provide art connoisseurs in India and across the globe with access to the finest art works, Saffronart now introduces this landmark auction of Western art, a first for India. The auction offers a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire significant works by the legends of the art world including Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, [...]

NY federal court finds for Art International in Edelman Arts’ suit over multimillion-dollar Mondrian painting

NEW YORK, NY.- One of the art world’s most acquisitive and controversial collectors has been dealt a noteworthy setback this week by a New York federal judge. In a closely watched case, European art broker Anne Faggionato, former Director of Art International and current CEO of BlueLabel, won a favorable decision in a long-running dispute over the purchase and subsequent sale of “The Composition,” a 1923 painting by renowned Dutch artist Piet Mondrian that has been valued as high as $7 [...]

Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition at the National Gallery of Art

WASHINGTON, DC.- Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was the greatest draftsman of the 20th century, exploring every technique from a single line to explosions of color. Through some 60 works, Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition presents the dazzling development of the artist as a draftsman during the first 30 years of his career, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth to his radical innovations of cubism and collage. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from January 29 through May 6, [...]