Dana Schutz’s exhibition of drawings and monotypes uses images and themes from opera

NEW YORK, NY.- Acclaimed artist Dana Schutz opened Götterdämmerung, a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the final opera in Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at theArnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on January 12. Schutz is the fourth and final artist in a series of leading contemporary talents commissioned to create Ring-themed artwork for Gallery Met. Each show coincides with a new production premiere of Robert Lepage’s staging of the Ring cycle; Götterdämmerung, the final opera in the cycle, opens [...]

A Large Number of Prestigious International Galleries Announced at 2011 Edition of FIAC

PARIS.- FIAC 2011 will bring together 1681 galleries of modern and contemporary art, coming from 21 countries. France will be represented by 53 galleries, accounting for 33% of exhibitors, followed by the United States with 27 galleries, Germany with 21 galleries, Italy with 13 galleries, Belgium with 11 galleries, the United Kingdom with 9 galleries and Switzerland with 9 galleries. 73% of participating galleries are European. Brazil, Turkey and South Africa are represented by participating galleries for the first time this year. [...]

The Tampa Museum of Art Presents Syntax: Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher Collection

TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art presents Syntax, an exhibition that examines the current generation of artists’ interest in text, symbolism, and means of information transference. Drawn from the Hadley Martin Fisher collection in Miami, this project is the first opportunity to experience the depth of this fascinating new collection of contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from July 9 through September 25, 2011. The 20th century began with the inclusion of written text within the collages of Pablo Picasso and [...]

Exhibition by Christian Jankowski at Friedrich Petzel Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents Strip the Auctioneer, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of Berlin based Christian Jankowski. The art of the auction is center to Jankowski’s installation Strip the Auctioneer. The gallery space, set in auction-house colors, contains sculpture, photographs and a video connected to a live auction that was orchestrated by Jankowski in May of 2009. The action takes place at Christie’s auction house in Amsterdam and incorporates the auctioneer, Amo Verkade. Verkade bids [...]

Friedrich Petzel Gallery Shows Interim in Three Rounds, Round 3

NEW YORk, NY.- This last exhibition of three is concerned with dislocation. We are not only talking about the dislocation of the artwork itself, pulled from a greater group of likewise works and orphaned from its reference points; but artworks that have recorded a certain unspecific time and place. These spaces resonate through both the redundancy of a mechanical loop (of, for instance the video or MP3) and that of our familiarity to the subject. Through this they play mnemonically, [...]