Six new two-panel paintings by Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Matthew Marks presents Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles, the first exhibition in his new gallery in Los Angeles. Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles includes six new two-panel paintings, all of which are being exhibited here for the first time. The paintings are each made from a single shaped canvas featuring a dramatic curve carefully painted with many coats of a bright color (blue, green, yellow, orange, etc). These curved panels are attached to a rectangular canvas painted in a contrasting color. [...]

Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibition selected from its permanent collection

NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents a focused exhibitions selected from the museum’s permanent collection, exploring Pop art. The explosion of Pop art in America in the early 1960s signaled the return to representational images following the Abstract Expressionists of the preceding decades, who favored large gestural canvases and expressive colors. Other artists at this time investigated the aesthetic potential of paintings and sculpture dominated by a single color or limited to a narrow spectrum of tones. Pop Objects [...]

Guggenheim announces retrospective devoted to the sixty-year career of John Chamberlain

NEW YORK, NY.- From February 24 to May 13, 2012, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museumpresents John Chamberlain: Choices, a major retrospective comprising approximately ninety-five works by the important American artist and the first U.S. museum presentation of his work since 1986. The exhibition examines Chamberlain’s development over his sixty-year career, exploring the shifts in scale, materials, and techniques informed by the assemblage, or collage, process that has been central to his working method. Taking as a point of departure his 1971 Guggenheim [...]

Rare early sculpture and important new paintings by Rebecca Horn at Sean Kelly Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly Gallery opened Rebecca Horn’s new exhibition, Ravens Gold Rush. Ravens Gold Rush includes a rare early sculpture, important new paintings on paper and a new large-scale sculptural installation. The title of the exhibition refers to Horn’s 1986 New York show, The Gold Rush, which took place in a time of international financial uncertainty. The eponymously titled sculpture from this exhibition has been installed in the first gallery; it is comprised of a small hammer that repeatedly chips [...]

Guggenheim Museum presents Intervals by Brooklyn-based artist Nicola Lopez

NEW YORK, N.Y.- As part of Intervals, an ongoing series, the Guggenheim Museum presents Brooklyn-based artist Nicola López with a site-specific sculptural collage environment in the rotunda, titled Landscape X: Under Construction, on view October 11–25, 2011. Conceived to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative practices, Intervals invites a diverse range of artists to create new work for the interstitial spaces of the museum, in individual galleries, or beyond the physical confines of the building. This exhibition marks López’s first solo institutional [...]

Saint Louis Art Museum Presents Artist Francesco Clemente’s High Fever

ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents the exhibition Focus on the Collection: Francesco Clemente’s High Fever, which brings together a series of nine dark and mysterious woodcuts that explore the beauty, pleasure and pain of love by contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente. Influenced by the mysticism of India, Clemente conveys both the sensual and spiritual aspects of love, including childbirth and motherhood. Clemente exploits the natural grain of his woodblocks to dramatic effect, allowing it to become part of the [...]

Phillips Collection Features Works by Pioneering Abstract Artist Wassily Kandinsky

WASHINGTON, DC.- After a visit to his native Moscow in 1912, Wassily Kandinsky (1866−1944) sought to record the “extremely powerful impressions” that lingered in his memory. Working tirelessly through numerous drawings, watercolors, and oil studies over a five-month period, Kandinsky eventually arrived at his 1913 masterpiece, Painting with White Border. This exhibition, co-organized with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, reunites Painting with White Border with 11 preparatory studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil from international collections. By examining this [...]

The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

VENICE.- From January 29 through May 15, 2011, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918, curated by Mark Antliff, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum New York. This is the first exhibition devoted to Vorticism to be presented in Italy and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions [...]

Late Night Opening for James Turrell Show this Thursday at Gagosian Gallery in London

LONDON.- As the result of overwhelming popular demand, the exhibition of light installations by leading American artist, James Turrell at Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street will open until midnight on Thursday 9 December 2010, marking the final week of the exhibition. The immersive work, Bindu Shards, 2010 which has been fully booked since the first day of the exhibition, will be open for visitors to experience on a first come, first served basis. No booking required. The major light installation, Dhatu, [...]

Selection of Unique Representative Works of Color Field Painting at Deutsche Guggenheim

BERLIN.- With Color Fields the Deutsche Guggenheim presents a selection of unique representatives of Color Field painting drawn largely from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curated by Richard Armstrong, Director Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum, the exhibition features work by Gene Davis, Paul Feeley, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Alfred Jensen, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Raymond Parker, Larry Poons, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, and Larry Zox on display at the Berlin exhibition space. [...]

125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play

NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher brow on the popular Google Inc.-owned website. From among more than 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, 125 videos were shortlisted for the inaugural biennial. A curatorial team from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York [...]

Adolph Gottlieb Retrospective Opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

VENICE.- From September 4 to January 9, 2011 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Adolph Gottlieb. A Retrospective, the first retrospective exhibition of this great American Abstract Expressionist painter to be shown in Italy. Like those previously dedicated to William Baziotes and Richard Pousette-Dart at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, this exhibition brings to Italy a better understanding of a generation of New York artists that in the 1950s came to form American Abstract Expressionism. The origins of this movement in the [...]

Hammer Museum Opens Tom Marioni’s First One-Person Exhibition in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA.- For his first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles, Tom Marioni will present his on-going artwork The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, first realized in 1970. Along with a bar-like installation and remains from each of the five gatherings he will host as part of the piece, the exhibition will feature a video, ephemera, and drawings, including two wall drawings created on site. For over forty years, Tom Marioni has been [...]

Marlo Pascual and Sergej Jensen Open Solo Exhibitions at Aspen Art Museum

ASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum’s third Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence is New York-based artist Marlo Pascual. Pascual combines glamorous photographs of women from the 1940s and 50s with found objects and light sources to create brooding, psychologically charged work. Pascual’s elegant installations and theatrical lighting—varying from old lamps and candlelight to fluorescents and colored theater gels—animate the women in the photographs, enacting the dramatic potential frozen in the still frames of a bygone era. The [...]

World Record Price for a Modigliani Sculpture Sold at Auction at Christie’s in Paris

PARIS (AP).- A sculpted stone head by artist Amedeo Modigliani sold at Christie’s in Paris on Monday for euro 43.18 million ($52.8 million), breaking the record for a work by the Italian artist, the auction house said. It was also the highest-priced work sold at an auction in France, Christie’s said. An anonymous buyer bid for the piece by telephone. The piece, sculpted between 1910 and 1912, depicts an elongated head with almond-shaped eyes and flowing hair, and it is [...]

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