ABC Art Berlin Contemporary “About Painting” exhibition features some 130 artists

BERLIN.- This year’s edition of abc art berlin contemporary is themed about painting and takes place in Berlin from September 7th to the 11th. The show features some 130 artists represented by 125 international galleries. Conceived as a showcase of contemporary painting, the exhibition also features installations, works on paper, video, photography and sculpture which deal thematically with painting as a medium. Alongside with prominent contemporary paintings and works by international artists dealing with the medium, abc also presents an historical timeline of [...]

Eight New Paintings by Christopher Wool at Gagosian in Rome

ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of eight new paintings by Christopher Wool. In a fugue of gestural restraint and release, Wool filters the fundaments of abstract painting through the gritty syntax of urban reality. By painting layer upon layer of whites and off-whites over silkscreened elements used in previous works — monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements of details of photographs, screens, and Polaroids of his own paintings — he accretes the surface of his pressurized paintings while apparently [...]

The Morris Museum of Art Embarks Upon Reinstallation of Its Permanent Collection

AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art has begun closing galleries in preparation for Phase I of the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection. This is a three-phase reinstallation plan, which highlights works of art that have not been exhibited for some time or have never been exhibited at all. The galleries will be opened on, Friday, March 5, 2010, for the Morris Museum’s Seventeenth Annual Gala. This is the first time since the museum opened its doors in September [...]

The Morris Museum of Art Embarks Upon Reinstallation of Its Permanent Collection

AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art has begun closing galleries in preparation for Phase I of the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection. This is a three-phase reinstallation plan, which highlights works of art that have not been exhibited for some time or have never been exhibited at all. The galleries will be opened on, Friday, March 5, 2010, for the Morris Museum’s Seventeenth Annual Gala. This is the first time since the museum opened its doors in September [...]