First N.Y. Exhibition of a Founder of Soviet Photo Reportage at Nailya Alexander Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents “Arkady Shaikhet: Selected Photographs 1920s-1930s,” the first New York exhibition of one of the founders of Soviet photo reportage. Shaikhet [pronounced shai-HET] was an innovator, who helped create a new aesthetic to match the needs of the newly established Soviet State. The exhibition, featuring some forty vintage photographs from the family estate and a few private collections, runs through 15 January 2011 at the Nailya Alexander Gallery, in the Fuller Building at 41 [...]

Exhibition at the Museo Picasso in Malaga Explores the Toys of the Avant-Garde

MALAGA.- Toys of the Avant-Garde will illustrate at the Museo Picasso Malaga early 20th-century interest in making children familiar with the shapes and ideas of modern art. Pablo Picasso, Giacomo Balla, Alexander Calder, Fortunato Depero, Alexandra Exter, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Joan Miró, Alexander Rodchenko, Oskar Schlemmer, Edward Steichen, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Joaquín Torres-García are among the numerous artists and authors whose work will be shown. With nearly six hundred objects on show, play serves as the narrative thread for [...]

Galerie Gmurzynska Presents Exhibition by Award-Winning Architect Zaha Hadid

ZURICH.- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize winning architect, has curated and designed her latest exhibition entitled ‘Zaha Hadid and Suprematism’ for the famed Galerie Gmurzynska on the historic Paradeplatz in Zurich. Recently named one of the 100 Most Influential of People of 2010 by TIME Magazine, Hadid’s exhibition will be the first to directly explore the connection between her works and those of the Russian Suprematist artists of the early twentieth century, the link between which has spanned her entire career. [...]

Canadian Museum Mounts Major Angela Grauerholz Exhibition

OTTAWA.- Born in Germany, artist Angela Grauerholz has been living in Montreal since the mid-1970s. She has long been interested in feminism, conceptual art, and a range of theoretical perspectives on photography, influences that have shaped her art over the last 25 years. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography is mounting a major exhibition comprised of some 40 works created over the course of her career. Presented by Pratt & Whitney Canada at the NGC, Angela Grauerholz: The inexhaustible image [...]