Survey Exhibition of Important Paintings by Peter Saul at Haunch of Venison in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison Gallery is showing a survey exhibition of paintings by Peter Saul curated by Chris Byrne through January 8 2011. Twenty important paintings from the span of the artist’s career are exhibited alongside a selection of new works made especially for the exhibition. Early sketchbooks and a collection of the artist’s correspondences and personal artifacts are also exhibited. A catalogue with introductory essay by Eric Fischl accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition features significant works from [...]

Martin Scorsese Produces Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies

NEW YORK, NY.- Produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut and directed by Arne Glimcher, Picasso and Braque go to the Movies is a cinematic tour through the effects of the technological revolution, specifically the invention of aviation, the creation of cinema and their interdependent influence on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. With narration by Scorsese, and interviews with art scholars and artists including Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, the film looks at the collision between film [...]

First Ever Solo Exhibition in a Spanish Museum by Eric Fischl

MALAGA.- CAC Málaga – the city of Malaga’s Centre for Contemporary Art – is presenting the first ever solo exhibition in a Spanish museum by Eric Fischl who, along with Alex Katz, is one of the most eminent American figurative painters of the second half of the 20th century. On show there will be large-format paintings and watercolours forming part of this New York artist’s first art of bullfighting, created after he attended Ronda’s Goyesque bullfight in 2007. “Corrida in [...]